From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CFAB6B01EF for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:26:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BCCD8BD.1020307@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:27:09 +0900 From: Tejun Heo MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] change alloc function in pcpu_alloc_pages References: <9918f566ab0259356cded31fd1dd80da6cae0c2b.1271171877.git.minchan.kim@gmail.com> <4BC65237.5080408@kernel.org> <4BC6BE78.1030503@kernel.org> <4BC6CB30.7030308@kernel.org> <4BC6E581.1000604@kernel.org> <4BC6FBC8.9090204@kernel.org> <1271606079.2100.159.camel@barrios-desktop> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Minchan Kim , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Bob Liu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hello, Christoph. On 04/20/2010 02:38 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > alloc_pages_exact_node results in more confusion because it does suggest > that fallback to other nodes is not allowed. I can't see why alloc_pages_exact_node() exists at all. It's in the mainline and if you look at the difference between alloc_pages_node() and alloc_pages_exact_node(), it's almost silly. :-( -- tejun -- 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