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From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: 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>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unused alloc_pages_bulk_list()
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 08:34:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y51/Mt70d++6Zzzq@lucifer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y51L496TjNuiSxsG@casper.infradead.org>

+ 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.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-17  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-17  0:15 [PATCH] mm: remove unused alloc_pages_bulk_list() Lorenzo Stoakes
2022-12-17  4:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-12-17  8:34   ` Lorenzo Stoakes [this message]
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
2023-05-31 21:29         ` Yang Shi
2023-06-01  9:10           ` Mel Gorman
2023-06-01 21:44             ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2023-06-02  3:59             ` Yang Shi
2022-12-22 10:03   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-22 12:38     ` Lorenzo Stoakes

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