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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:57:45 +0000
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm, page_alloc: support multiple pages
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On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> @@ -298,13 +298,15 @@ static inline void arch_alloc_page(struct page *page, int order) { }
>
>  struct page *
>  __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
> -		       struct zonelist *zonelist, nodemask_t *nodemask);
> +		       struct zonelist *zonelist, nodemask_t *nodemask,
> +		       unsigned long *nr_pages, struct page **pages);
>

Add a separate function for the allocation of multiple pages instead?

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