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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:58:31 +0530 From: psr <pradeep.rautela@...il.com> To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> Cc: "Shani Moideen" <shani.moideen@...ro.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jgarzik@...ox.com, kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org Subject: Re: [KJ] [KJ PATCH] Replacing alloc_pages(gfp, 0) with alloc_page(gfp) in net/core/pktgen.c On 6/13/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com> wrote: [snip] > > > > Does this makes any difference anyway? Both are same eventually? > > What is the rational behind this? Can you please help me > > understanding this? > > since this is one of the TO DO items i added to the list of things at > the wiki: > > http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Memory_allocation_cleanup > > i'll just toss in my $0.02. if a short (more convenient) form of a > routine has been defined, it should be used. if you have no plans to > use it, it shouldn't have been defined in the first place. Oh... agreed Thanks --pradeep > > in short, make a consistent decision and go with it. > > rday > -- > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry > Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page > ======================================================================== > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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