Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758366AbZFPPNR (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:13:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756196AbZFPPND (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:13:03 -0400 Received: from smtp3.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.175.254]:38123 "EHLO smtp.ultrahosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755051AbZFPPNC (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:13:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:12:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org To: Nick Piggin cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Hugh Dickins , Pekka Enberg , Heiko Carstens , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, mingo@elte.hu, yinghai@kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31 In-Reply-To: <20090616053609.GB2924@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <84144f020906150210w7fa29042xc12efb4a087e3d26@mail.gmail.com> <20090615094148.GC1314@wotan.suse.de> <1245059476.12400.7.camel@pasglop> <1245059859.23207.16.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090615102737.GA20461@wotan.suse.de> <1245062727.12400.23.camel@pasglop> <20090615112355.GB6012@wotan.suse.de> <20090616045704.GC28596@wotan.suse.de> <1245130087.12400.82.camel@pasglop> <20090616053609.GB2924@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 16 On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Nick Piggin wrote: > There aren't too many significant code simplifications AFAIKS. The code simplification comes from the ability to run the same code during boot that is also running when the full system is operational. I thought the intend of this whole exercise was to avoid special casing as much as possible and reduce the amount of code specifically duplicated for boot situations? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/