Re: [PATCH 2/9] mm/page_alloc: Add a bulk page allocator

This patch adds a new page allocator interface via alloc_pages_bulk,
and __alloc_pages_bulk_nodemask. A caller requests a number of pages
to be allocated and added to a list.

The API is not guaranteed to return the requested number of pages and
may fail if the preferred allocation zone has limited free memory, the
cpuset changes during the allocation or page debugging decides to fail
an allocation. It's up to the caller to request more pages in batch
if necessary.

Note that this implementation is not very efficient and could be improved
but it would require refactoring. The intent is to make it available early
to determine what semantics are required by different callers. Once the
full semantics are nailed down, it can be refactored.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <redacted>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
---
 include/linux/gfp.h |  11 +++++
 mm/page_alloc.c     | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 129 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 0a88f84b08f4..4a304fd39916 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h

@@ -518,6 +518,17 @@ static inline int arch_make_page_accessible(struct page *page)
 struct page *__alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order, int preferred_nid,
 		nodemask_t *nodemask);
 
+int __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp_t gfp, int preferred_nid,
+				nodemask_t *nodemask, int nr_pages,
+				struct list_head *list);
+
+/* Bulk allocate order-0 pages */
+static inline unsigned long
+alloc_pages_bulk(gfp_t gfp, unsigned long nr_pages, struct list_head *list)
+{
+	return __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp, numa_mem_id(), NULL, nr_pages, list);
+}
+
 /*
  * Allocate pages, preferring the node given as nid. The node must be valid and
  * online. For more general interface, see alloc_pages_node().

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 8a3e13277e22..eb547470a7e4 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c

@@ -4965,6 +4965,124 @@ static inline bool prepare_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	return true;
 }
 
+/*
+ * __alloc_pages_bulk - Allocate a number of order-0 pages to a list
+ * @gfp: GFP flags for the allocation
+ * @preferred_nid: The preferred NUMA node ID to allocate from
+ * @nodemask: Set of nodes to allocate from, may be NULL
+ * @nr_pages: The number of pages desired on the list
+ * @page_list: List to store the allocated pages
+ *
+ * This is a batched version of the page allocator that attempts to
+ * allocate nr_pages quickly and add them to a list.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of pages on the list.
+ */
+int __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp_t gfp, int preferred_nid,
+			nodemask_t *nodemask, int nr_pages,
+			struct list_head *page_list)
+{
+	struct page *page;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	struct zone *zone;
+	struct zoneref *z;
+	struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
+	struct list_head *pcp_list;
+	struct alloc_context ac;
+	gfp_t alloc_gfp;
+	unsigned int alloc_flags;