On 01/09/2017 08:35 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
The
fourth patch introduces a bulk page allocator with no in-kernel users as
an example for Jesper and others who want to build a page allocator for
DMA-coherent pages.
If you want an in-kernel user as a test, to validate the API's sanity,
and to impro
The biggest changes are in the final patch. In v1, it was a rough untested
prototype. This version corrected a number of issues, tested it and includes
a comparison between bulk allocating pages and allocating them one at a time.
While there are still no in-kernel users, it is hoped that the bulk A
This series is motivated by a conversation led by Jesper Dangaard Brouer at
the last LSF/MM proposing a generic page pool for DMA-coherent pages. Part of
his motivation was due to the overhead of allocating multiple order-0 that
led some drivers to use high-order allocations and splitting them whic
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