Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:16:48 +0300 (EEST)
From: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
cc: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alloc_memory_early() routines
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On Wed, 10 May 2006, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > +void * __init alloc_memory_early_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
> > > +{
> > > +       if (g_cpucache_up == FULL)
> > > +               return kmalloc_node(size, flags, node);
> > > +       else
> > > +               return alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(node), size);
> > > +}
> > 
> > I'd prefer you put this in mm/bootmem.c and added a
> > 
> > int slab_is_available(void)
> > {
> >       return g_cpucache_up == FULL;
> > }
> > 
> > to mm/slab.c instead.

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Does slab not available mean that bootmem can be used? 

Yes.

					Pekka
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