Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] mm: page_owner: add support for splitting to any order in split page_owner.

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 05:38:01PM -0800, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 08:08:58PM -0500, Zi Yan wrote:
> > Matthew recently converted split_page_owner to take nr instead of order.[1]
> > But I am not
> > sure why, since it seems to me that two call sites (__split_huge_page in
> > mm/huge_memory.c and split_page in mm/page_alloc.c) can pass the order
> > information.
> 
> Yeah, I'm not sure why too. Maybe Matthew has some input here?
> You can also pass new_nr, but IMO orders look so much better here.

If only I'd written that information in the changelog ... oh wait, I did!

    mm/page_owner: change split_page_owner to take a count
    
    The implementation of split_page_owner() prefers a count rather than the
    old order of the page.  When we support a variable size THP, we won't
    have the order at this point, but we will have the number of pages.
    So change the interface to what the caller and callee would prefer.