netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm/page_alloc: Add a bulk page allocator

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Date:   Tue, 9 Mar 2021 17:12:30 +0000
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Net <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux-NFS <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm/page_alloc: Add a bulk page allocator

Would vmalloc be another good user of this API? 

> +	/* May set ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT, fragmentation will return 1 page. */
> +	if (!prepare_alloc_pages(gfp_mask, 0, preferred_nid, nodemask, &ac, &alloc_mask, &alloc_flags))

This crazy long line is really hard to follow.

> +		return 0;
> +	gfp_mask = alloc_mask;
> +
> +	/* Find an allowed local zone that meets the high watermark. */
> +	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, ac.zonelist, ac.highest_zoneidx, ac.nodemask) {

Same here.

> +		unsigned long mark;
> +
> +		if (cpusets_enabled() && (alloc_flags & ALLOC_CPUSET) &&
> +		    !__cpuset_zone_allowed(zone, gfp_mask)) {
> +			continue;
> +		}

No need for the curly braces.

>  	}
>  
> -	gfp_mask &= gfp_allowed_mask;
> -	alloc_mask = gfp_mask;

Is this change intentional?