From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>,
brouer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm, page_alloc: Split alloc_pages_nodemask
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:32:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170111133211.39132706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170109163518.6001-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 16:35:16 +0000
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 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: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-11 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-09 16:35 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Fast noirq bulk page allocator v2r7 Mel Gorman
2017-01-09 16:35 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm, page_alloc: Split buffered_rmqueue Mel Gorman
2017-01-11 12:31 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-01-12 3:09 ` Hillf Danton
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 [this message]
2017-01-12 3:11 ` Hillf Danton
2017-01-09 16:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm, page_allocator: Only use per-cpu allocator for irq-safe requests Mel Gorman
2017-01-11 12:44 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-01-11 13:27 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-01-12 10:47 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-09 16:35 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm, page_alloc: Add a bulk page allocator Mel Gorman
2017-01-10 4:00 ` Hillf Danton
2017-01-10 8:34 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-16 14:25 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-01-16 15:01 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-29 4:00 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Fast noirq bulk page allocator v2r7 Andy Lutomirski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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 2/4] mm, page_alloc: Split alloc_pages_nodemask Mel Gorman
2017-01-24 10:52 ` Vlastimil Babka
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
2017-01-04 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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