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On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 12:13:02AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I have the beginnings of a patch for that, but I got busy with other stuff
> and didn't finish it.

If we have numbers that we want larger batch sizes than the current
pagevec PAGEVEC_SIZE this is the way to go insted of special casing
it in one path.