Re: mm/page_alloc.c: remove hand-coded get_order()

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Apr 16 2008 - 15:18:58 EST


On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > What about creating void *get_free_pages(flags, order) version, then
> > slowly converting users to it?
>
> Then we would also need a free_pages() that takes void *, but unfortunately
> free_pages() already has other semantics.

But it would be more consistent.

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