On Tue, 25 May 2021, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > The function get_partial() finds a suitable page on a partial list, acquires > and returns its freelist and assigns the page pointer to kmem_cache_node. in kmem_cache_cpu ?? > In later patch we will need more control over the kmem_cache_node assignment, kmem_cache_cpu? > so instead return the page pointer to get_partial()'s caller and assign it > there. No functional change as all of this still happens with disabled irq. Instead of passing a kmem_cache_cpu pointer pass a pointer to a pointer to a page ....
