From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f200.google.com (mail-pf0-f200.google.com [209.85.192.200]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32FBD6B0270 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 23:00:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pf0-f200.google.com with SMTP id d123so156150365pfd.0 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:00:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org. [198.145.29.136]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p17si5525186pgi.67.2017.01.28.20.00.36 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:00:36 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Fast noirq bulk page allocator v2r7 References: <20170109163518.6001-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net> From: Andy Lutomirski Message-ID: <76b3372e-591c-186d-d8ce-f950eea997cf@kernel.org> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:00:33 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170109163518.6001-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman , Jesper Dangaard Brouer Cc: Linux Kernel , Linux-MM , Hillf Danton On 01/09/2017 08:35 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > The > fourth patch introduces a bulk page allocator with no in-kernel users as > an example for Jesper and others who want to build a page allocator for > DMA-coherent pages. If you want an in-kernel user as a test, to validate the API's sanity, and to improve performance, how about __vmalloc_area_node()? :) --Andy -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org