From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Simon Derr <Simon.Derr@bull.net>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
"Rohit, Seth" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/05] mm rationalize __alloc_pages ALLOC_* flag names
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:00:09 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4379A399.1080407@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051114040353.13951.82602.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com>
Paul Jackson wrote:
> Rationalize mm/page_alloc.c:__alloc_pages() ALLOC flag names.
>
I don't really see the need for this. The names aren't
clearly better, and the downside is that they move away
from the terminlogy we've been using in the page allocator
for the past few years.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-15 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-14 4:03 [PATCH 01/05] mm fix __alloc_pages cpuset ALLOC_* flags Paul Jackson
2005-11-14 4:03 ` [PATCH 02/05] mm simplify " Paul Jackson
2005-11-14 4:03 ` [PATCH 03/05] mm rationalize __alloc_pages ALLOC_* flag names Paul Jackson
2005-11-15 9:00 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-11-15 9:03 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-15 9:55 ` Nick Piggin
2005-11-15 19:20 ` Paul Jackson
2005-11-15 9:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-15 9:18 ` Paul Jackson
2005-11-14 4:04 ` [PATCH 04/05] mm simplify __alloc_pages cpuset hardwall logic Paul Jackson
2005-11-14 4:04 ` [PATCH 05/05] mm GFP_ATOMIC comment Paul Jackson
2005-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH 01/05] mm fix __alloc_pages cpuset ALLOC_* flags Nick Piggin
2005-11-15 9:50 ` Paul Jackson
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