From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC9BD6B01EF for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:49:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BCB5448.3010209@cs.helsinki.fi> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:49:44 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] change alloc function in alloc_slab_page References: <9918f566ab0259356cded31fd1dd80da6cae0c2b.1271171877.git.minchan.kim@gmail.com> <8b348d9cc1ea4960488b193b7e8378876918c0d4.1271171877.git.minchan.kim@gmail.com> <20100414091825.0bacfe48.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Christoph Lameter Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Minchan Kim , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Bob Liu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote: > >> Minchan, care to send a v2 with proper changelog and reviewed-by attributions? > > Still wondering what the big deal about alloc_pages_node_exact is. Its not > exact since we can fall back to another node. It is better to clarify the > API for alloc_pages_node and forbid / clarify the use of -1. Minchan's patch is a continuation of this patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6484eb3e2a81807722 -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org