Re: [PATCH 2/6] change alloc function in pcpu_alloc_pages

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Christoph.

On 04/20/2010 02:38 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> alloc_pages_exact_node results in more confusion because it does suggest
> that fallback to other nodes is not allowed.

I can't see why alloc_pages_exact_node() exists at all.  It's in the
mainline and if you look at the difference between alloc_pages_node()
and alloc_pages_exact_node(), it's almost silly.  :-(

-- 
tejun
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