On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 12:06 +0100, David Howells wrote:
Yuck. I hate having to expose more APIs. Also the problem with that is
means callers have to know. So we need to propagate up all call chains
etc... (ie, radix_tree_init_early(), etc...)
This is pretty much exactly the discussion we had when moving sl*b
early, and back then, the final word from Linus (heh, for once he agreed
with me :-) was that this made no sense.
We can bury logic inside kmem_cache_create() though, it's not -that- a
hot path.
Cheers,
Ben.
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