From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
"David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>,
Dave Chinner <dgc@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] RDMA/umem: ib_umem_get(): use kmalloc() to allocate page array
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 22:36:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aka9vZSViFlzBrwW@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260702125516.GO7525@ziepe.ca>
On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 09:55:16AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 02:46:46PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> > I think this should be discussed more broadly and not block this
> > change.
>
> Currently all of these get_free_pages ones in this series are this
> special need, so I'd like to not loose that marking somehow. Maybe a
> comment or maybe a inline wrapper function.
Comment is easy :)
As for an inline wrapper, is there an appropriate rdma header to put it?
I don't think it belongs to slab.h.
> Jason
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-03 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-30 10:52 [PATCH 0/5] RDMA, IB: replace __get_free_pages() with kmalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-06-30 10:52 ` [PATCH 1/5] RDMA/umem: ib_umem_get(): use kmalloc() to allocate page array Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-06-30 12:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-06-30 15:00 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-06-30 15:01 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-06-30 15:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <9cc11eeb-372a-49fb-ba89-486333ac71c4@kernel.org>
[not found] ` <20260702125516.GO7525@ziepe.ca>
2026-07-02 19:36 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2026-06-30 10:52 ` [PATCH 2/5] RDMA/mlx5: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-06-30 10:52 ` [PATCH 3/5] IB/mthca: mthca_reg_user_mr(): use kmalloc() to allocate addresses array Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-06-30 10:52 ` [PATCH 4/5] IB/mthca: allocate mthca_array memory with kzalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-06-30 10:52 ` [PATCH 5/5] IB/rdmavt: use kzalloc() to allocate QPN-map pages Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
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