linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #13319] Page allocation failures with b43 and p54usb

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:38:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Subject: Re: [Bug #13319] Page allocation failures with b43 and p54usb

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> My prosal was to use the size and objsize parameters. You would only have
> to call calculate_sizes() twice when the comparison of the order of size
> and objsize would be different.
> 
> Doing so would simplify additing future flags. If you do your own
> calculations (like in the patch) then you have to replicate the size
> calculation from calculate_sizes() somehow. Is the duplicate calculation
> really accurate regarding alignment and other special casing?
> 

Ok, fair enough.  It seems like a matter of taste in implementation but 
your proposal is also more extendable than mine, and I'm definitely not 
going to argue your taste vs. mine when it comes to slub :)

I'll write an incremental patch on top of Pekka's for-next branch to 
implement your idea.
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