linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] percpu_counter: add @gfp to percpu_counter

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Message-Id: <20140825.174653.1190425703684375530.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:46:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tj@...nel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org,
	x86@...nel.org, axboe@...nel.dk, jack@...e.cz, tytso@....edu,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] percpu_counter: add @gfp to percpu_counter_init()

From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:43:30 -0400

> Percpu allocator now supports allocation mask.  Add @gfp to
> percpu_counter_init() so that !GFP_KERNEL allocation masks can be used
> with percpu_counters too.
> 
> We could have left percpu_counter_init() alone and added
> percpu_counter_init_gfp(); however, the number of users isn't that
> high and introducing _gfp variants to all percpu data structures would
> be quite ugly, so let's just do the conversion.  This is the one with
> the most users.  Other percpu data structures are a lot easier to
> convert.
> 
> This patch doesn't make any functional difference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

For networking bits:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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