On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Minchan Kim wrote: > I don't want to remove alloc_pages for UMA system. alloc_pages is the same as alloc_pages_any_node so why have it? > #define alloc_pages alloc_page_sexact_node > > What I want to remove is just alloc_pages_node. :) Why remove it? If you want to get rid of -1 handling then check all the callsites and make sure that they are not using -1. Also could you define a constant for -1? -1 may have various meanings. One is the local node and the other is any node. The difference is if memory policies are obeyed or not. Note that alloc_pages follows memory policies whereas alloc_pages_node does not. Therefore alloc_pages() != alloc_pages_node( , -1) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>