Re: [PATCH v3 06/55] mm: Make the page_frag_cache allocator use per-cpu

Christoph Hellwig
2023-04-05T15:05:20Z

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 05:08:25PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Make the page_frag_cache allocator have a separate allocation bucket for
> each cpu to avoid racing. This means that no lock is required, other than
> preempt disablement, to allocate from it, though if a softirq wants to
> access it, then softirq disablement will need to be added.

Can you split this into a separte series? Right now I only see this
patch in mbox and miss the context on why wed want this.

> Make the NVMe and mediatek drivers pass in NULL to page_frag_cache() and
> use the default allocation buckets rather than defining their own.

Can you explain why?