Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence

Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12T08:04:35Z

Hi Nick,

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:02 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Fair enough, but this can be done right down in the synchronous
> reclaim path in the page allocator. This will catch more cases
> of code using the page allocator directly, and should be not
> as hot as the slab allocator.

So you want to push the local_irq_enable() to the page allocator too? We
can certainly do that but I think we ought to wait for Andrew to merge
Mel's patches to mainline first, OK?

Pekka