Re: Struct page proposal

[David Hildenbrand]

On 27.09.21 20:34, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:54 AM Kent Overstreet
> <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > That list_head is the problematic one. Why do we need to be able to take a page
> > from the middle of a freelist?
>
> At least for the merging with the buddy page case.

And alloc_contig_range(), page reporting, page poisioning ... and 
probably more.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb