Re: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver

["Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 17:27 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> There's no need to do a get_page after the allocation and a put_page
> before the free (though you could, it's just extra unnecessary work):
> the allocation comes with a reference count of 1, the free frees up
> that last remaining reference count of 1 (as Andrew explained more
> lucidly elsewhere in his mail).

All right.  I followed your advice and you are indeed correct; the added
get_page and put_page were not necessary; __GFP_COMP alone did the
trick.

Thanks,

	<b

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