Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:20:10 -0400 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] mm/gup: add compound page list iterator |
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On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 08:41:24PM +0000, Joao Martins wrote: > Add an helper that iterates over head pages in a list of pages. It > essentially counts the tails until the next page to process has a > different head that the current. This is going to be used by > unpin_user_pages() family of functions, to batch the head page refcount > updates once for all passed consecutive tail pages. > > Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> > Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> > Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> > --- > mm/gup.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
This can be used for check_and_migrate_cma_pages() too (there is a series around to change this logic though, not sure if it is landed yet)
Jason
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