Re: [PATCH] alloc_memory_early() routines

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

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?