From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A456B0022 for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 19:38:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 16:38:35 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add alloc_pages_exact_nid() Message-Id: <20110509163835.a7d4bf7b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20110509230446.GB6008@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1304716637-19556-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <20110509151745.476767e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110509230446.GB6008@one.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen , Dave Hansen On Tue, 10 May 2011 01:04:46 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:17:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 6 May 2011 14:17:16 -0700 > > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > Add a alloc_pages_exact_nid() that allocates on a specific node. > > > > This conflicts in, I suspect, a more-than-textual manner with Dave's > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-make-new-alloc_pages_exact.patch > > > > Can you please take a look at that and work out what we should do? > > > > As your [patch 2/2] fixes a regression, the answer might be "drop > > Dave's patch". > > It should be relatively simple to rebase Dave's patch on top of mine. > > I think that's the right order: first regression fix, then cleanup. > Sorry Dave for the additional work. > (I agree the cleanup is very valuable in itself) > I started repairing Dave's stuff but then things got complex. Probably we should rename your new alloc_pages_exact_nid() to get_free_pages_exact_nid(). -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org