Sorry for resending. I misremembered the linux-mm address. > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: alloc_pages_bulk() > Date: February 8, 2021 at 10:42:07 AM EST > To: "mgorman@xxxxxxx" <mgorman@xxxxxxx>, "brouer@xxxxxxxxxx" <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "linux-mm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi- > > [ please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed to linux-mm ] > > We've been discussing how NFSD can more efficiently refill its > receive buffers (currently alloc_page() in a loop; see > net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c::svc_alloc_arg()). > > Neil Brown pointed me to this old thread: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170109163518.6001-1-mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > We see that many of the prerequisites are in v5.11-rc, but > alloc_page_bulk() is not. I tried forward-porting 4/4 in that > series, but enough internal APIs have changed since 2017 that > the patch does not come close to applying and compiling. > > I'm wondering: > > a) is there a newer version of that work? > > b) if not, does there exist a preferred API in 5.11 for bulk > page allocation? > > Many thanks for any guidance! > > -- > Chuck Lever > > > -- Chuck Lever
