Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes

Matt Mackall
2009-05-25T15:04:19Z

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 14:44 +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> > > > The bootmem allocations of course are required because some hashes may
> > > > need to be larger than MAX_ORDER without using vmalloc.
> > > >
> > > > kmem_cache_init (and mem_init, partially) sets up the kernel memory
> > > > allocators...
> > >
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 02:37:59PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > Which comment are you talking about? The "setup kernel memory
> > > allocators" one? Yeah, I should probably move it couple of lines down.
>
> On Mon, 25 May 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Yes, just that one.
>
> Here's an updated patch that does that. Thanks!

If we're gonna do that, we probably ought to have a comment.

/* These use large bootmem allocations and must precede kmem_cache_init
*/

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