From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH] Add alloc_pages_exact() and free_pages_exact()
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:25:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48625571.9060201@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806251139.51142.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 June 2008 06:57, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> I'm applying this.
>
> Fine. And IIRC there are one or two places around the kernel that
> could be converted to use it. Why not just have a node id
> argument and call it alloc_pages_node_exact? so Christoph doesn't
> have to do it himself ;)
Since I don't know anything nodes, I can't say whether this is a good idea or
not, or even how to implement it. Sorry.
> Maybe you could also say that __GFP_COMPOUND cannot be used, and
> that the returned pages are "split" (work the same way as N
> indivudually allocated order-0 pages WRT refcounting).
Is this a suggestion for the function comments?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-25 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-24 20:57 Fw: [PATCH] Add alloc_pages_exact() and free_pages_exact() Andrew Morton
2008-06-25 1:39 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-25 14:25 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2008-07-07 6:42 ` Nick Piggin
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