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From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unused alloc_pages_bulk_list()
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:38:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y6RPvqhtvVJ5WQW0@murray> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y6Qrgu94tLAZsAN/@infradead.org>

On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 02:03:46AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Is that being snarky? :)  We generally don't add dead code at all, and
> certaintly don't leave it around for a year and a half.
>
> If anyone really needs this we can add it back.
>

Mel has replied elsewhere on this thread and we have a potential user so I think
the lowest-impact approach is to go with what he suggested - wait until May and
see if we have any takers.

I have put a reminder in my calendar for then, I'll check to see if it's being
used anywhere, if not I'll respin this patch. So problem solved for everyone :)

> > Also, if we do get rid of this, then __alloc_pages_bulk() can lose
> > the "list" argument.
>
> Yepp.

Yeah the respin will take this into account, if the function remains unused in
May.


      reply	other threads:[~2022-12-22 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-17  0:15 Lorenzo Stoakes
2022-12-17  4:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-12-17  8:34   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2022-12-19 10:07     ` Mel Gorman
2022-12-20 17:56       ` Yang Shi
2022-12-22 12:44         ` Mel Gorman
2023-05-31 15:24       ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2022-12-22 10:03   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-22 12:38     ` Lorenzo Stoakes [this message]

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