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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hi@d06av22.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: 
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:34:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1534314887-9202-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)

As Vlastimil mentioned at [1], it would be nice to have some guide about
memory allocation. I've drafted an initial version that tries to summarize
"best practices" for allocation functions and GFP usage.

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg55542.html

             reply	other threads:[~2018-08-15  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-15  6:34 Mike Rapoport [this message]
2018-08-15  6:36 ` [RFC PATCH] docs/core-api: add memory allocation guide Mike Rapoport
2018-08-15  8:15   ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-15  9:04     ` Mike Rapoport
2018-08-15  9:30       ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-15 17:14 ` Randy Dunlap

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