On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 03:36:07PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > Hi, > > (added Mel) > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 01:01:18PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > From: Mateusz Nosek <[email protected]> > > > > The 'finalise_ac' function is just 'epilogue' for 'prepare_alloc_pages'. > > Therefore there is no need to keep them both so 'finalise_ac' content can > > be merged into 'prepare_alloc_pages' code. It would make > > '__alloc_pages_nodemask' cleaner when it comes to readability. > > These functions were split from alloc_pages_nodemask() by commit > 9cd7555875bb ("mm, page_alloc: split alloc_pages_nodemask()"), so at the > very least I'd add Mel to 'cc. >
The changelog explains the intent. At the time, there was demand for a bulk page allocator for networking support and one was prototyped https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ but the networking side to consume the interface was never finished. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs
