On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 2:07 AM Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Another recent try was the patches for dm-crypt. However Mel suggested adding a callback interface instead of using list since list is not necessary for that usecase. Or are we talking about the same one? I didn't get time to implement Mel's suggestion yet due to my employment change. Hopefully I can find some time after the new year. > > -- > Mel Gorman > SUSE Labs >
