On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 08:34:58AM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > + Mel > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 04:56:03AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > I think we're waiting to see if any users show up. It's only been 18 > > months or so, so perhaps wait a little longer? > > Apologies, I should have researched the background of this further. I see it was > added speculatively in 0f87d9d30f. > > > Also, if we do get rid of this, then __alloc_pages_bulk() can lose > > the "list" argument. > > Ack. Will do a v2 if Mel feels it's appropriate to remove at this stage, > otherwise we can drop the idea and wait for users to emerge. 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. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs
