On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:59:38AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > I don't understand this comment. Only alloc_flags_nofragment() sets this
> > flag
> > and we don't use it here?
> >
>
> It's there as a reminder that there are non-obvious consequences
> to ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT that may affect the bulk
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 12:21:42PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > index 8a3e13277e22..eb547470a7e4 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -4965,6 +4965,124 @@ static inline bool prepare_alloc_pages(gfp_t
> >
On 3/25/21 12:42 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.
>
> The API is not guaranteed to return the requested number of pages and
>
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 12:05:25PM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 11:42:21AM +, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > +int __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp_t gfp, int preferred_nid,
> > + nodemask_t *nodemask, int nr_pages,
> > + struct
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 11:42:21AM +, Mel Gorman wrote:
> +int __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp_t gfp, int preferred_nid,
> + nodemask_t *nodemask, int nr_pages,
> + struct list_head *list);
> +
> +/* Bulk allocate order-0 pages */
> +static inline
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.
The API is not guaranteed to return the requested number of pages and
may fail if the preferred allocation zone has
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