Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce a bulk order-0 page allocator with two in-tree users

2021-03-12 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 08:48:27AM +, Mel Gorman wrote: > I don't have that information unfortunately. It's a chicken and egg > problem because without the API, there is no point creating new users. > For example, fault around or readahead could potentially batch pages > but whether it is actua

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce a bulk order-0 page allocator with two in-tree users

2021-03-11 Thread Mel Gorman
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 03:47:04PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:46:13 + Mel Gorman > wrote: > > > This series introduces a bulk order-0 page allocator with sunrpc and > > the network page pool being the first users. > > > > Right now, the [0/n] doesn't even tell us

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce a bulk order-0 page allocator with two in-tree users

2021-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:46:13 + Mel Gorman wrote: > This series introduces a bulk order-0 page allocator with sunrpc and > the network page pool being the first users. Right now, the [0/n] doesn't even tell us that it's a performance patchset! The whole point of this patchset appears to a