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| author | Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@redhat.com> | 2024-12-23 17:00:37 -0500 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-01-25 20:22:31 -0800 |
| commit | c8b979530f27f90c0353a189b2faa6e50a0ea94a (patch) | |
| tree | 7a8f96697ca58efc2161b28d01a851ab78508f88 /include/linux | |
| parent | b2466bb3b4955350ee102b29c904ef301cb72bd2 (diff) | |
mm: alloc_pages_bulk_noprof: drop page_list argument
Patch series "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor", v2.
Today, alloc_pages_bulk_noprof() supports two arguments to return
allocated pages: a linked list and an array. There are also higher level
APIs for both.
However, the linked list API has apparently never been used. So, this
series removes it along with the list API and also refactors the remaining
API naming for consistency.
This patch (of 2):
commit 387ba26fb1cb ("mm/page_alloc: add a bulk page allocator") added
__alloc_pages_bulk() along with the page_list argument. The next commit
0f87d9d30f21 ("mm/page_alloc: add an array-based interface to the bulk
page allocator") added the array-based argument. As it turns out, the
page_list argument has no users in the current tree (if it ever had any).
Dropping it allows for a slight simplification and eliminates some
unnecessary checks, now that page_array is required.
Also, note that the removal of the page_list argument was proposed before
in the thread below, where Matthew Wilcox mentions that:
"""
Iterating a linked list is _expensive_. It is about 10x quicker to
iterate an array than a linked list.
"""
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231025093254.xvomlctwhcuerzky@techsingularity.net)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1734991165.git.luizcap@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f1c75db91d08cafd211eca6a3b199b629d4ffe16.1734991165.git.luizcap@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/gfp.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index c96d5d7f7b89..f8b33c5e7a14 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -212,7 +212,6 @@ struct folio *__folio_alloc_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order, int preferred_ unsigned long alloc_pages_bulk_noprof(gfp_t gfp, int preferred_nid, nodemask_t *nodemask, int nr_pages, - struct list_head *page_list, struct page **page_array); #define __alloc_pages_bulk(...) alloc_hooks(alloc_pages_bulk_noprof(__VA_ARGS__)) @@ -223,11 +222,8 @@ unsigned long alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy_noprof(gfp_t gfp, alloc_hooks(alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy_noprof(__VA_ARGS__)) /* Bulk allocate order-0 pages */ -#define alloc_pages_bulk_list(_gfp, _nr_pages, _list) \ - __alloc_pages_bulk(_gfp, numa_mem_id(), NULL, _nr_pages, _list, NULL) - #define alloc_pages_bulk_array(_gfp, _nr_pages, _page_array) \ - __alloc_pages_bulk(_gfp, numa_mem_id(), NULL, _nr_pages, NULL, _page_array) + __alloc_pages_bulk(_gfp, numa_mem_id(), NULL, _nr_pages, _page_array) static inline unsigned long alloc_pages_bulk_array_node_noprof(gfp_t gfp, int nid, unsigned long nr_pages, @@ -236,7 +232,7 @@ alloc_pages_bulk_array_node_noprof(gfp_t gfp, int nid, unsigned long nr_pages, if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE) nid = numa_mem_id(); - return alloc_pages_bulk_noprof(gfp, nid, NULL, nr_pages, NULL, page_array); + return alloc_pages_bulk_noprof(gfp, nid, NULL, nr_pages, page_array); } #define alloc_pages_bulk_array_node(...) \ |