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

Alexander Lobakin alobakin at pm.me
Tue Feb 2 13:13:06 UTC 2021


From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 17:18:35 -0800

> 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 :/

I suspected it would be so as I got reports about undelivered mails
due to unavailability of vger.kernel.org for some reasons Will do.

Al



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