linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] change alloc function in alloc_slab

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1004131654340.8116@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:55:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] change alloc function in alloc_slab_page

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Minchan Kim wrote:

> This changlog is bad.
> I will change it with following as when I send v2.
> 
> "alloc_slab_page always checks nid == -1, so alloc_page_node can't be
> called with -1.
>  It means node's validity check in alloc_pages_node is unnecessary.
>  So we can use alloc_pages_exact_node instead of alloc_pages_node.
>  It could avoid comparison and branch as 6484eb3e2a81807722 tried."
> 

Each patch in this series seems to be independent and can be applied 
seperately, so it's probably not necessary to make them incremental.
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