linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: delete the unused put_pages

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Message-ID: <1716d6da-bd48-4a9d-90bd-9e510a42df59@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:28:32 +0100
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>, Yang Shi
 <shy828301@...il.com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
 Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: delete the unused put_pages_list()

On 27.10.24 21:14, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> The last user of put_pages_list() converted away from it in 6.10 commit
> 06c375053cef ("iommu/vt-d: add wrapper functions for page allocations"):
> delete put_pages_list().

In that commit we now manually iterate over the list and call put_page() 
on each entry ... I would suspect that to perform worse ;)

In any case, the function surely is unused now.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb