linux-kernel - Re: lustre: LIBCFS

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Message-ID: <5ACF44E8-AB92-4343-88CA-C32DA6D6F6CE@intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2015 08:30:13 +0000
From:	"Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
CC:	"Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"<HPDD-discuss@...ts.01.org>" <HPDD-discuss@...1.01.org>,
	"<devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lustre: LIBCFS_ALLOC


On Jun 23, 2015, at 2:23 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:

> It seems that libcfs_kvzalloc doesn't use any particular threshold or 
> switchingbetween kzalloc and vmalloc, so can be replaced by ths function 
> too?

If you mean to replace all instances of LIBCFS_ALLOC with libcfs_kvzalloc (and all frees with kvfree) then yes, that could be done I think.

Bye,
    Oleg--
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