Messages in this thread | | | From | Yang Shi <> | Date | Wed, 31 May 2023 14:29:01 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unused alloc_pages_bulk_list() |
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On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 8:24 AM Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 10:07, Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 08:34:58AM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > > I reckon we should give it another few months until May. There has been > > one user recently that tried to use list but it turned out arrays were > > more appropriate. > > > > It being May 31st, it feels appropriate to chase this up :) > > David's series at [0] did initially use this function, before > switching to the _array() variant. Other than that it seems that it > remains unused.
Thanks for following this up. My patchset (use bulk allocator for dm-crypt) also switched from list API to a new callback API suggested by Mel. But I haven't heard anything back from Mel about it yet. I forgot to follow up due to too many distractions.
> > Cheers, Lorenzo > > [0]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230522205744.2825689-1-dhowells@redhat.com/ > > > -- > > Mel Gorman > > SUSE Labs > > > > -- > Lorenzo Stoakes > https://ljs.io >
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