alloc_pages_exact() is similar to alloc_pages(), except that it allocates
the minimum number of pages to fulfill the request. This is useful if you
want to allocate a very large buffer that is slightly larger than an even
power-of-two number of pages. In that case, alloc_pages() will waste a
lot of memory.
I have a video driver that wants to allocate a 5MB buffer. alloc_pages()
wiill waste 3MB of physically-contiguous memory.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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