linux-kernel - Re: mm/page_alloc.c: remove hand-coded get

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804161218230.14718@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:18:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm/page_alloc.c: remove hand-coded get_order()

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> writes:
> >
> > What about creating void *get_free_pages(flags, order) version, then
> > slowly converting users to it?
> 
> Then we would also need a free_pages() that takes void *, but unfortunately
> free_pages() already has other semantics.

But it would be more consistent.

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