From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] reuse __free_pages_exact() in __alloc_pages_exact()
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:00:07 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1104141459510.13286@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110414200141.09C3AA5F@kernel>
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> Michal Nazarewicz noticed that __alloc_pages_exact()'s
> __free_page() loop was really close to something he was
> using in one of his patches. That made me realize that
> it was actually very similar to __free_pages_exact().
>
> This uses __free_pages_exact() in place of the loop
> that we had in __alloc_pages_exact(). Since we had to
> change the temporary variables around anyway, I gave
> them some better names to hopefully address some other
> review comments.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-14 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-14 20:01 [PATCH 1/3] rename alloc_pages_exact() Dave Hansen
2011-04-14 20:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] make new alloc_pages_exact() Dave Hansen
2011-04-14 21:55 ` David Rientjes
2011-04-27 21:30 ` Timur Tabi
2011-04-27 21:37 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-27 21:42 ` Timur Tabi
2011-04-28 16:02 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-14 20:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] reuse __free_pages_exact() in __alloc_pages_exact() Dave Hansen
2011-04-14 22:00 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2011-04-14 22:07 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-14 22:09 ` David Rientjes
2011-04-29 14:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] rename alloc_pages_exact() Timur Tabi
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2011-04-11 22:03 Dave Hansen
2011-04-11 22:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] reuse __free_pages_exact() in __alloc_pages_exact() Dave Hansen
2011-04-12 10:29 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-04-12 15:24 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-12 15:57 ` Michal Nazarewicz
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