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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] mm/page_alloc: Add an array-based interface to the
 bulk page allocator
To:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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On 3/25/21 12:42 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The proposed callers for the bulk allocator store pages from the bulk
> allocator in an array. This patch adds an array-based interface to the API
> to avoid multiple list iterations. The page list interface is preserved
> to avoid requiring all users of the bulk API to allocate and manage enough
> storage to store the pages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>