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

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Tue Apr 13 2010 - 20:02:29 EST


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:55 AM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>> ÂIt means node's validity check in alloc_pages_node is unnecessary.
>> ÂSo we can use alloc_pages_exact_node instead of alloc_pages_node.
>> ÂIt 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.

Surely.
Without considering, I used git-formant-patch -n --thread.
I will keep it in mind.

Thanks, David.


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Minchan Kim
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