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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Fast noirq bulk page allocator v2r7
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
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On 01/09/2017 08:35 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The
> fourth patch introduces a bulk page allocator with no in-kernel users as
> an example for Jesper and others who want to build a page allocator for
> DMA-coherent pages.

If you want an in-kernel user as a test, to validate the API's sanity, 
and to improve performance, how about __vmalloc_area_node()?  :)

--Andy