From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 18:06:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] Early kmalloc/kfree In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050708203807.GG27544@localhost.localdomain.suse.lists.linux.kernel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Bob Picco , linux-mm@kvack.org, manfred@colorfullife.com, alex.williamson@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org List-ID: On Fri, 9 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > I think that is a really really bad idea. slab is already complex enough > and adding scary hacks like this will probably make it collapse > under its own weight at some point. Seconded. Maybe we can solve this by bringing the system up in a limited configuration and then discover additional capabilities during ACPI discovery and reconfigure. -- 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: aart@kvack.org