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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Andi Kleen" <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"Shaohua Li" <shli@kernel.org>, "Rik van Riel" <riel@redhat.com>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Tim Chen" <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	"Mel Gorman" <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>,
	"Aaron Lu" <aaron.lu@intel.com>,
	"Hugh Dickins" <hughd@google.com>,
	"Minchan Kim" <minchan@kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm, swap: Try kzalloc before vzalloc
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:47:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170317114732.GF26298@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170317064635.12792-4-ying.huang@intel.com>

On Fri 17-03-17 14:46:22, Huang, Ying wrote:
> +void *swap_kvzalloc(size_t size)
> +{
> +	void *p;
> +
> +	p = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
> +	if (!p)
> +		p = vzalloc(size);
> +
> +	return p;
> +}

please do not invent your own kvmalloc implementation when we already
have on in mmotm tree.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-17 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-17  6:46 [PATCH 1/5] mm, swap: Fix comment in __read_swap_cache_async Huang, Ying
2017-03-17  6:46 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm, swap: Improve readability via make spin_lock/unlock balanced Huang, Ying
2017-03-17  6:46 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm, swap: Avoid lock swap_avail_lock when held cluster lock Huang, Ying
2017-03-17  6:46 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm, swap: Try kzalloc before vzalloc Huang, Ying
2017-03-17  8:52   ` David Rientjes
2017-03-17 11:47   ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-03-20  1:01     ` Huang, Ying
2017-03-17  6:46 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm, swap: Sort swap entries before free Huang, Ying
2017-03-17 12:42 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm, swap: Fix comment in __read_swap_cache_async Rafael Aquini
2017-03-20  2:07   ` Huang, Ying

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