On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 01:24:11PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I think it is just better to follow kernel convention and have > allocation functions include the GFP because it is a clear signal to > the user that there is an allocation hidden inside the API. The whole > point of gfp is not to have multitudes of every function for every > allocation mode. Well, having GFP parameters is not a strict kernel convention. There are places doing it differently and have sleeping and atomic variants of APIs. I have to say I like the latter more. But given that this leads to an invasion of API functions here which all do the same under the hood, I agree it is better to go with a GFP parameter here. Regards, Joerg