From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
To: "mgorman@suse.de" <mgorman@suse.de>,
"brouer@redhat.com" <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Fwd: alloc_pages_bulk()
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 17:50:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EEB0B974-6E63-41A0-9C01-F0DEA39FC4BF@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2A0C36E7-8CB0-486F-A8DB-463CA28C5C5D@oracle.com
Sorry for resending. I misremembered the linux-mm address.
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
> Subject: alloc_pages_bulk()
> Date: February 8, 2021 at 10:42:07 AM EST
> To: "mgorman@suse.de" <mgorman@suse.de>, "brouer@redhat.com" <brouer@redhat.com>
> Cc: "linux-mm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-mm@vger.kernel.org>, Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
>
> Hi-
>
> [ please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed to linux-mm ]
>
> We've been discussing how NFSD can more efficiently refill its
> receive buffers (currently alloc_page() in a loop; see
> net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c::svc_alloc_arg()).
>
> Neil Brown pointed me to this old thread:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170109163518.6001-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net/
>
> We see that many of the prerequisites are in v5.11-rc, but
> alloc_page_bulk() is not. I tried forward-porting 4/4 in that
> series, but enough internal APIs have changed since 2017 that
> the patch does not come close to applying and compiling.
>
> I'm wondering:
>
> a) is there a newer version of that work?
>
> b) if not, does there exist a preferred API in 5.11 for bulk
> page allocation?
>
> Many thanks for any guidance!
>
> --
> Chuck Lever
>
>
>
--
Chuck Lever
next parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-08 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <2A0C36E7-8CB0-486F-A8DB-463CA28C5C5D@oracle.com>
2021-02-08 17:50 ` Chuck Lever [this message]
2021-02-09 10:31 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-02-09 13:37 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Chuck Lever
2021-02-09 17:27 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Vlastimil Babka
2021-02-10 9:51 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-10 8:41 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Mel Gorman
2021-02-10 11:41 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-02-10 13:07 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Mel Gorman
2021-02-10 22:58 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Chuck Lever
2021-02-11 9:12 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Mel Gorman
2021-02-11 12:26 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-02-15 12:00 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Mel Gorman
2021-02-15 16:10 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-02-22 9:42 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Mel Gorman
2021-02-22 11:42 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-02-22 14:08 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Mel Gorman
2021-02-11 16:20 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Chuck Lever
2021-02-15 12:06 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Mel Gorman
2021-02-15 16:00 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Chuck Lever
2021-02-22 20:44 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-02-09 22:01 ` Fwd: alloc_pages_bulk() Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-09 22:55 ` alloc_pages_bulk() Chuck Lever
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