On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:55:31AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> It has been asserted that the name get_huge_pages() implies the API is
> a close-to-kernel interface for allocating hugepages and nothing else.
> In 2.1-preX, this definition does not fit as it allows fallback to base pages
> for example. This patch enforces the meaning implied by the function name by
> removing the ability of the function to fallback to base pages and redefines
> GHP_DEFAULT to mean "Use the default hugepage size to back the
> region".
Um, yeah. My same wish to keep get_huge_pages() simple and low-level
is why I was dubious about having it fallback to normal pages in the
first place. I may not have expressed this thought very well at the
time, which might account for why our views of the interface had
diverged so greatly this time around.
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