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    mm: remove quicklist page table caches · 13224794
    Nicholas Piggin authored
    Patch series "mm: remove quicklist page table caches".
    
    A while ago Nicholas proposed to remove quicklist page table caches [1].
    
    I've rebased his patch on the curren upstream and switched ia64 and sh to
    use generic versions of PTE allocation.
    
    [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190711030339.20892-1-npiggin@gmail.com
    
    This patch (of 3):
    
    Remove page table allocator "quicklists".  These have been around for a
    long time, but have not got much traction in the last decade and are only
    used on ia64 and sh architectures.
    
    The numbers in the initial commit look interesting but probably don't
    apply anymore.  If anybody wants to resurrect this it's in the git
    history, but it's unhelpful to have this code and divergent allocator
    behaviour for minor archs.
    
    Also it might be better to instead make more general improvements to page
    allocator if this is still so slow.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565250728-21721-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
    Signed-off-by: Nicholas P...
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