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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Minchan Kim wrote:

> I don't want to remove alloc_pages for UMA system.

alloc_pages is the same as alloc_pages_any_node so why have it?

> #define alloc_pages alloc_page_sexact_node
>
> What I want to remove is just alloc_pages_node. :)

Why remove it? If you want to get rid of -1 handling then check all the
callsites and make sure that they are not using  -1.

Also could you define a constant for -1? -1 may have various meanings. One
is the local node and the other is any node. The difference is if memory
policies are obeyed or not. Note that alloc_pages follows memory policies
whereas alloc_pages_node does not.

Therefore

alloc_pages() != alloc_pages_node(  , -1)

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