Re: [PATCH v35 1/5] mm: support to get hints of free page blocks

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[Hmm this one somehow got stuck in my outgoing emails]

On Wed 11-07-18 09:23:54, Linus Torvalds wrote:
[...]
> So I'm open to new interfaces. I just want those new interfaces to
> make sense, and be low latency and simple for the VM to do. I'm
> objecting to the incredibly baroque and heavy-weight one that can
> return near-infinite amounts of memory.

Mel was suggesting a bulk page allocator a year ago [1]. I can see only
slab bulk api so I am not sure what happened with that work. Anyway
I think that starting with what we have right now is much more
appropriate than over design this thing from the early beginning.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170109163518.6001-5-mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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