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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/18] block: allow specifying size for extra
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:12:54 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:15:55PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> +static void *alloc_request_size(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *data)
> 
> I like alloc_request_simple() but alloc_request_size() seems a bit
> contrived. _reserve? _extra? _special? Don't have any good suggestions,
> I'm afraid.

Not that I'm a fan of _size, but I like the other suggestions even less.