Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752986Ab0DSW1r (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:27:47 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:48049 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752950Ab0DSW1o (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:27:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4BCCD8BD.1020307@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:27:09 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Minchan Kim , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Bob Liu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org 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 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:27:11 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 640 Lines: 17 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 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/