From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39526B005A for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:07:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence From: Pekka Enberg In-Reply-To: <1244796837.7172.95.camel@pasglop> References: <200906111959.n5BJxFj9021205@hera.kernel.org> <1244770230.7172.4.camel@pasglop> <1244779009.7172.52.camel@pasglop> <1244780756.7172.58.camel@pasglop> <1244783235.7172.61.camel@pasglop> <1244792079.7172.74.camel@pasglop> <1244792745.30512.13.camel@penberg-laptop> <1244796045.7172.82.camel@pasglop> <1244796211.30512.32.camel@penberg-laptop> <1244796837.7172.95.camel@pasglop> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:07:39 +0300 Message-Id: <1244797659.30512.37.camel@penberg-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel list , linux-mm , mingo@elte.hu, cl@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@suse.de List-ID: Hi Ben, On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 18:53 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Yes, you're obviously right. I overlooked the fact that arch code have > > their own special slab_is_available() heuristics (yikes!). > > > > But are you happy with the two patches I posted so I can push them to > > Linus? > > I won't be able to test them until tomorrow. However, I think the first > one becomes unnecessary with the second one applied (provided you didn't > miss a case), no ? OK, I am dropping the slub/slab patch from the queue for now. Here's what I am going to push to Linus: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=topic/slab/earlyboot So I am sending the GFP_NOWAIT conversion for boot code even though you didn't seem to like it (but didn't explicitly NAK) as it fixes problems on x86. Pekka -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org