Re: [PATCH 3/7] mm/page_alloc: Add a bulk page allocator

2021-03-22 Thread Mel Gorman
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 07:18:32PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 3/12/21 4:43 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: > > This patch adds a new page allocator interface via alloc_pages_bulk, > > and __alloc_pages_bulk_nodemask. A caller requests a number of pages > > to be allocated and added to a list. They ca

Re: [PATCH 3/7] mm/page_alloc: Add a bulk page allocator

2021-03-19 Thread Vlastimil Babka
On 3/12/21 4:43 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: > This patch adds a new page allocator interface via alloc_pages_bulk, > and __alloc_pages_bulk_nodemask. A caller requests a number of pages > to be allocated and added to a list. They can be freed in bulk using > free_pages_bulk(). > > The API is not guarant

[PATCH 3/7] mm/page_alloc: Add a bulk page allocator

2021-03-12 Thread Mel Gorman
This patch adds a new page allocator interface via alloc_pages_bulk, and __alloc_pages_bulk_nodemask. A caller requests a number of pages to be allocated and added to a list. They can be freed in bulk using free_pages_bulk(). The API is not guaranteed to return the requested number of pages and ma