From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f176.google.com (mail-wi0-f176.google.com [209.85.212.176]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 731A49003C7 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:15:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wibxm9 with SMTP id xm9so249308977wib.0 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gum.cmpxchg.org (gum.cmpxchg.org. [85.214.110.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id kb7si2374465wjc.205.2015.07.30.08.15.27 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:15:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:14:48 -0400 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/4] mm: make alloc_pages_exact_node pass __GFP_THISNODE Message-ID: <20150730151448.GA14488@cmpxchg.org> References: <1437749126-25867-1-git-send-email-vbabka@suse.cz> <20150729133043.GE19352@techsingularity.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150729133043.GE19352@techsingularity.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Vlastimil Babka , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , David Rientjes , Greg Thelen , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Joonsoo Kim , Naoya Horiguchi On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 02:30:43PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > The change of what we have now is a good idea. What you have is a solid > improvement in my view but I see there are a few different suggestions > in the thread. Based on that I think it makes sense to just destroy > alloc_pages_exact_node. In the future "exact" in the allocator API will > mean "exactly this number of pages". Use your __alloc_pages_node helper > and specify __GFP_THISNODE if the caller requires that specific node. +1 -- 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