On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 12:35 AM Mel Gorman wrote:
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> 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 <mgor...@techsingularity.net>
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Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf...@alibaba-inc.com>
