Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/page_alloc.c: clean code by merging two functions

[Mel Gorman]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 03:36:07PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (added Mel)
> 
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 01:01:18PM +0200, mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The 'finalise_ac' function is just 'epilogue' for 'prepare_alloc_pages'.
> > Therefore there is no need to keep them both so 'finalise_ac' content can
> > be merged into 'prepare_alloc_pages' code. It would make
> > '__alloc_pages_nodemask' cleaner when it comes to readability.
> 
> These functions were split from alloc_pages_nodemask() by commit
> 9cd7555875bb ("mm, page_alloc: split alloc_pages_nodemask()"), so at the
> very least I'd add Mel to 'cc. 
> 

The changelog explains the intent. At the time, there was demand for a
bulk page allocator for networking support and one was prototyped
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170109163518.6001-5-mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
but the networking side to consume the interface was never finished.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs