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Re: [RFC v2 1/4] mm: make alloc_pages_exact_node pass __GFP_THISNODE

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On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 02:30:43PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The change of what we have now is a good idea. What you have is a solid
> improvement in my view but I see there are a few different suggestions
> in the thread. Based on that I think it makes sense to just destroy
> alloc_pages_exact_node. In the future "exact" in the allocator API will
> mean "exactly this number of pages". Use your __alloc_pages_node helper
> and specify __GFP_THISNODE if the caller requires that specific node.

+1
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Re: [RFC v2 1/4] mm: make alloc_pages_exact_node pass __GFP_THISNODE Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2015-07-29 15:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC v2 1/4] mm: make alloc_pages_exact_node pass  __GFP_THISNODE Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-07-30 16:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC v2 1/4] mm: make alloc_pages_exact_node pass __GFP_THISNODE Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2015-07-30 17:20 +0200

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