Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: obd_support: Add obd_cpt_alloc function

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sun May 03 2015 - 01:53:23 EST


On Sat, 2 May 2015, Drokin, Oleg wrote:

>
> On May 2, 2015, at 5:16 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> > Summarize OBD_CPT_ALLOC_GFP, OBD_CPT_ALLOC, and OBD_CPT_ALLOC_PTR as a
> > function, obd_cpt_alloc.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Some questions: Is the name OK? Is the NULL test needed? If not, should
> > the call to kzalloc_node with the call to cfs_cpt_spread_node just be
> > inlined into the call sites?
>
> I think we don't need this function at all, we can use kzalloc/kzalloc_node directly with cfs_cpt_spread_node call in.

So everywhere the CPT macro is called, it is known that the value is not
NULL? I looked at some call sites, but it's not obvious to determine
that.

> What we do need is obd_cpt_alloc_large similar to how we need
> obd_alloc_large (I know I still owe you a proper patch with that). The
> only differences between the two would then be passing down of the cpt
> (and it's use) or not.

I saw that patch. Thanks.

julia
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