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From:   Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 31 May 2023 16:24:17 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unused alloc_pages_bulk_list()
To:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
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On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 10:07, Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 08:34:58AM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> I reckon we should give it another few months until May. There has been
> one user recently that tried to use list but it turned out arrays were
> more appropriate.
>

It being May 31st, it feels appropriate to chase this up :)

David's series at [0] did initially use this function, before
switching to the _array() variant. Other than that it seems that it
remains unused.

Cheers, Lorenzo

[0]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230522205744.2825689-1-dhowells@redhat.com/

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> Mel Gorman
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