[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v3 net-next 0/5] net: consolidate page_is_pfmemalloc() usage

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Tue Feb 2 01:18:35 UTC 2021


On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 12:11:16 +0000 Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> page_is_pfmemalloc() is used mostly by networking drivers to test
> if a page can be considered for reusing/recycling.
> It doesn't write anything to the struct page itself, so its sole
> argument can be constified, as well as the first argument of
> skb_propagate_pfmemalloc().
> In Page Pool core code, it can be simply inlined instead.
> Most of the callers from NIC drivers were just doppelgangers of
> the same condition tests. Derive them into a new common function
> do deduplicate the code.

Please resend, this did not get into patchwork :/


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