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Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm, page_alloc: Split alloc_pages_nodemask

From Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm, page_alloc: Split alloc_pages_nodemask
Date 2017-01-11 13:40 +0100
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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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Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

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[RFC PATCH 0/4] Fast noirq bulk page allocator v2r7 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-01-09 17:40 +0100
  [PATCH 2/4] mm, page_alloc: Split alloc_pages_nodemask Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-01-09 17:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm, page_alloc: Split alloc_pages_nodemask Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> - 2017-01-11 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm, page_alloc: Split alloc_pages_nodemask "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-01-12 04:20 +0100

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