Re: [PATCH]: Clean up of __alloc_pages

Nick Piggin
2005-11-05T00:00:06Z

Rohit Seth wrote:

>
> Nick, sorry for not responding earlier.
>

That's OK.

> I agree that it is slight change in behavior from original. I doubt
> though it will impact any one in any negative way (may be for some
> higher order allocations if at all). On a little positive side, less
> frequent calls to kswapd for some cases and clear up the code a little
> bit.
>

I really don't want a change of behaviour going in with this,
especially not one which I would want to revert anyway. But
don't get hung up with it - when you post your latest patch
I will make a patch for the changes I would like to see for it
and synch things up.

> But I really don't want to get stuck here. The pcp traversal and
> flushing is where I want to go next.
>

Sure, hope it goes well!

Nick

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