Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 24 May 2018 14:41:42 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH -next 0/6] rhashtable: guarantee first allocation |
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On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 2:28 PM Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> wrote: > 10 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
I certainly can't complain about this small code removal, but I think if we did the kvmalloc_node() cleanup, we'd be able to get rid of even more.
For example, bucket_table_alloc() does that
if (gfp != GFP_KERNEL) tbl = kzalloc(size, gfp | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY); else tbl = kvzalloc(size, gfp);
purely due to the kvalloc_node() oddity. Wouldn't it be nice to just write it as
tbl = kvzalloc(size, gfp);
knowing that the whole point of all the kv*alloc*() functions is to "just do the right thing given size, gpf mask, and ease of allocation".
Linus
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