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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:23:42 +0000
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Cc: "Harry Yoo (Oracle)" <harry@kernel.org>, "Gregory Price"
 <gourry@gourry.net>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: drop flag-conversion "optimisation"
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From: "Brendan Jackman" <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>
To: "Brendan Jackman" <jackmanb@google.com>, "Andrew Morton"
 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, "Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@kernel.org>, "Suren
 Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com>, "Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>,
 "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, "Zi Yan" <ziy@nvidia.com>
References: <20260612-gfp-pessimisation-v1-1-936eb04202e7@google.com>
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On Fri Jun 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM UTC, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> [0] https://github.com/bjackman/aethelred/blob/2ccdc84ef087c2a631914f58e1=
06e99e19bd3b98/page-alloc-test/page-alloc-test.c
[...]
> (Used AI for the disasm but the rest is all manual).

Oh sorry, for full transparency: AI also set up the "benchmark" module
above based on mm/test_free_pages.c.