Re: [PATCH] alloc_memory_early() routines

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed May 10 2006 - 03:11:42 EST


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.

Does slab not available mean that bootmem can be used?

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