On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Pekka Enberg wrote: > The introduction kmalloc_large() needs to happen in a > separate patch. What exactly is the benefit of adding the > new API, btw? Why don't people just use the page allocator > directly? The advantage of kmalloc_large is that is has the same calling convention as kmalloc. get_free_pages() etc require page addresses and return unsigned longs meaning that conversions are required. kmalloc_large functionality is already in use by slob and slub and therefore is easy to make commonly available. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>