On Wed 26-09-18 11:31:27, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 14-09-18 15:10:29, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > With the align parameter memblock_alloc_node() can be used as drop in > > replacement for alloc_bootmem_pages_node() and __alloc_bootmem_node(), > > which is done in the following patches. > > /me confused. Why do we need this patch at all? Maybe it should be > folded into the later patch you are refereing here? OK, I can see 1536927045-23536-17-git-send-email-rppt at linux.vnet.ibm.com now. If you are going to repost for whatever reason please merge those two. Also I would get rid of the implicit "0 implies SMP_CACHE_BYTES" behavior. It is subtle and you have to dig deep to find that out. Why not make it explicit? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs