From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com [148.163.156.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42KzgP10GRzF3Kq for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:44:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098396.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w8QDdGE7141024 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:43:58 -0400 Received: from e06smtp04.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp04.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.100]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2mrae32red-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:43:57 -0400 Received: from localhost by e06smtp04.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:43:54 +0100 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:43:35 +0300 From: Mike Rapoport To: Michal Hocko Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Catalin Marinas , Chris Zankel , "David S. Miller" , Geert Uytterhoeven , Greentime Hu , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Guan Xuetao , Ingo Molnar , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Jonas Bonn , Jonathan Corbet , Ley Foon Tan , Mark Salter , Martin Schwidefsky , Matt Turner , Michael Ellerman , Michal Simek , Palmer Dabbelt , Paul Burton , Richard Kuo , Richard Weinberger , Rich Felker , Russell King , Serge Semin , Thomas Gleixner , Tony Luck , Vineet Gupta , Yoshinori Sato , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org, openrisc@lists.librecores.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/30] memblock: add align parameter to memblock_alloc_node() References: <1536927045-23536-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1536927045-23536-15-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180926093127.GO6278@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20180926093648.GP6278@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20180926093648.GP6278@dhcp22.suse.cz> Message-Id: <20180926134335.GF4628@rapoport-lnx> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:36:48AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 26-09-18 11:31:27, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Fri 14-09-18 15:10:29, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > > With the align parameter memblock_alloc_node() can be used as drop in > > > replacement for alloc_bootmem_pages_node() and __alloc_bootmem_node(), > > > which is done in the following patches. > > > > /me confused. Why do we need this patch at all? Maybe it should be > > folded into the later patch you are refereing here? > > OK, I can see 1536927045-23536-17-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com > now. If you are going to repost for whatever reason please merge those > two. Also I would get rid of the implicit "0 implies SMP_CACHE_BYTES" > behavior. It is subtle and you have to dig deep to find that out. Why > not make it explicit? Agree. I'd just prefer to make it a separate patch rather then resend the whole series. > -- > Michal Hocko > SUSE Labs > -- Sincerely yours, Mike.