Re: [PATCH 3/6] change alloc function in alloc_slab_page

From: David Rientjes
Date: Tue Apr 13 2010 - 19:55:33 EST


On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Minchan Kim wrote:

> This changlog is bad.
> I will change it with following as when I send v2.
>
> "alloc_slab_page always checks nid == -1, so alloc_page_node can't be
> called with -1.
> It means node's validity check in alloc_pages_node is unnecessary.
> So we can use alloc_pages_exact_node instead of alloc_pages_node.
> It could avoid comparison and branch as 6484eb3e2a81807722 tried."
>

Each patch in this series seems to be independent and can be applied
seperately, so it's probably not necessary to make them incremental.
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