Re: [PATCH 05/33] mm: kmem_estimate_pages()

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 03:04, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Provide a method to get the upper bound on the pages needed to allocate
> a given number of objects from a given kmem_cache.
>

Fair enough, but just to make it a bit easier, can you provide a
little reason of why in this patch (or reference the patch number
where you use it, or put it together with the patch where you use
it, etc.).

Thanks,
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