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Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:34:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 08:34:58 +0000 From: Lorenzo Stoakes To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrey Konovalov , Ingo Molnar , Marco Elver , Michal Hocko , Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unused alloc_pages_bulk_list() Message-ID: References: <20221217001554.554913-1-lstoakes@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Server: rspam04 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 634C440006 X-Stat-Signature: i37woawnwjf9mj1gmrbf945u1o8zb31s X-HE-Tag: 1671266101-138460 X-HE-Meta: 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 1eI33cXI rZ1e+ewPl3eDre2nDRoLLN/ZhylZDfF2bIeyxbRcWAaqOfwgq52WJVQ91GClQYpAi0NcdK3o1q5jZRvThe/vIjKYIyKOM5ooOrcN6PtukuNrQed9G9uRn9Rsem/fxBSpun4Pd X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: + Mel On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 04:56:03AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > I think we're waiting to see if any users show up. It's only been 18 > months or so, so perhaps wait a little longer? Apologies, I should have researched the background of this further. I see it was added speculatively in 0f87d9d30f. > Also, if we do get rid of this, then __alloc_pages_bulk() can lose > the "list" argument. Ack. Will do a v2 if Mel feels it's appropriate to remove at this stage, otherwise we can drop the idea and wait for users to emerge.