linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: rename and document alloc_pages_exact

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Message-ID: <CAPp3RGryq96pEErEw8x=UV_=xsZS4ACD15uAEaOVT5CgcLzzEQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2015 09:14:40 -0500
From:	Robin Holt <robinmholt@...il.com>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Cliff Whickman <cpw@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: rename and document alloc_pages_exact_node

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
> The function alloc_pages_exact_node() was introduced in 6484eb3e2a81 ("page
> allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is valid")
> as an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node(), that doesn't allow the node id
> to be -1. Unfortunately the name of the function can easily suggest that the
> allocation is restricted to the given node. In truth, the node is only
> preferred, unless __GFP_THISNODE is among the gfp flags.
>
...
> Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@...il.com>

Acked-by: Robin Holt <robinmholt@...il.com>
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