Re: [PATCH 2/6] change alloc function in pcpu_alloc_pages

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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 04/15/2010 07:21 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
>> kill alloc_pages_exact_node?
>> Sorry but I can't understand your point.
>> I don't want to kill user of alloc_pages_exact_node.
>> That's opposite.
>> I want to kill user of alloc_pages_node and change it with
>> alloc_pages_any_node or alloc_pages_exact_node. :)
>
> I see, so...
>
>  alloc_pages()          -> alloc_pages_any_node()
>  alloc_pages_node()     -> alloc_pages_exact_node()
>
> right?  It just seems strange to me and different from usual naming
> convention - ie. something which doesn't care about nodes usually
> doesn't carry _node postfix.  Anyways, no big deal, those names just
> felt a bit strange to me.

I don't want to remove alloc_pages for UMA system.
#define alloc_pages alloc_page_sexact_node

What I want to remove is just alloc_pages_node. :)
Sorry for confusing you.

-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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