Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754180Ab0DMXz3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:55:29 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.44.51]:9517 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753789Ab0DMXz1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:55:27 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=date:from:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id: references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-system-of-record; b=Y+Go4O9bos1l0EjjrzFDVW9KYVybs069LHwqqQZjebR432rEa38/UXLuLfKE8PMrs Ztt3IGdzOTY8s9bn/6lTg== Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:55:18 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Minchan Kim cc: Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Bob Liu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] change alloc function in alloc_slab_page In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <9918f566ab0259356cded31fd1dd80da6cae0c2b.1271171877.git.minchan.kim@gmail.com> <8b348d9cc1ea4960488b193b7e8378876918c0d4.1271171877.git.minchan.kim@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 19 On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Minchan Kim wrote: > This changlog is bad. > I will change it with following as when I send v2. > > "alloc_slab_page always checks nid == -1, so alloc_page_node can't be > called with -1. > It means node's validity check in alloc_pages_node is unnecessary. > So we can use alloc_pages_exact_node instead of alloc_pages_node. > It could avoid comparison and branch as 6484eb3e2a81807722 tried." > Each patch in this series seems to be independent and can be applied seperately, so it's probably not necessary to make them incremental. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/