On Tue, 10 May 2011 01:04:46 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:17:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 6 May 2011 14:17:16 -0700 > > Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Add a alloc_pages_exact_nid() that allocates on a specific node. > > > > This conflicts in, I suspect, a more-than-textual manner with Dave's > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-make-new-alloc_pages_exact.patch > > > > Can you please take a look at that and work out what we should do? > > > > As your [patch 2/2] fixes a regression, the answer might be "drop > > Dave's patch". > > It should be relatively simple to rebase Dave's patch on top of mine. > > I think that's the right order: first regression fix, then cleanup. > Sorry Dave for the additional work. > (I agree the cleanup is very valuable in itself) > I started repairing Dave's stuff but then things got complex. Probably we should rename your new alloc_pages_exact_nid() to get_free_pages_exact_nid(). -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>