From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm, page_alloc: Split alloc_pages_nodemask
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 11:52:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <527f302a-644b-de24-b9ce-a65d5d7aec95@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170123153906.3122-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
On 01/23/2017 04:39 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> alloc_pages_nodemask does a number of preperation steps that determine
> what zones can be used for the allocation depending on a variety of
> factors. This is fine but a hypothetical caller that wanted multiple
> order-0 pages has to do the preparation steps multiple times. This patch
> structures __alloc_pages_nodemask such that it's relatively easy to build
> a bulk order-0 page allocator. There is no functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-24 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-23 15:39 [PATCH 0/4] Use per-cpu allocator for !irq requests and prepare for a bulk allocator v5 Mel Gorman
2017-01-23 15:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm, page_alloc: Split buffered_rmqueue Mel Gorman
2017-01-24 10:23 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-24 11:27 ` [PATCH] mm, page_alloc: Split buffered_rmqueue -fix Mel Gorman
2017-01-23 15:39 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm, page_alloc: Split alloc_pages_nodemask Mel Gorman
2017-01-24 10:52 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2017-01-23 15:39 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm, page_alloc: Drain per-cpu pages from workqueue context Mel Gorman
2017-01-23 15:39 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm, page_alloc: Only use per-cpu allocator for irq-safe requests Mel Gorman
2017-01-24 13:16 ` Vlastimil Babka
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2017-01-17 9:29 [PATCH 0/4] Use per-cpu allocator for !irq requests and prepare for a bulk allocator v4 Mel Gorman
2017-01-17 9:29 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm, page_alloc: Split alloc_pages_nodemask Mel Gorman
2017-01-09 16:35 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Fast noirq bulk page allocator v2r7 Mel Gorman
2017-01-09 16:35 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm, page_alloc: Split alloc_pages_nodemask Mel Gorman
2017-01-11 12:32 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-01-12 3:11 ` Hillf Danton
2017-01-04 11:10 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Fast noirq bulk page allocator Mel Gorman
2017-01-04 11:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm, page_alloc: Split alloc_pages_nodemask Mel Gorman
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