linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node to __alloc_pages

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1507301506560.6410@east.gentwo.org>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:07:25 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node to
 __alloc_pages_node

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> > NAK. This is changing slob behavior. With no node specified it must use
> > alloc_pages because that obeys NUMA memory policies etc etc. It should not
> > force allocation from the current node like what is happening here after
> > the patch. See the code in slub.c that is similar.
>
> Doh, somehow I convinced myself that there's #else and alloc_pages() is only
> used for !CONFIG_NUMA so it doesn't matter. Here's a fixed version.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
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