From: "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
To: "Conor Dooley" <conor@kernel.org>
Cc: "Conor Dooley" <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Richard Cochran" <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Nicolas Ferre" <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
"Claudiu Beznea" <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
"Paolo Valerio" <pvalerio@redhat.com>,
"Nicolai Buchwitz" <nb@tipi-net.de>,
"Vladimir Kondratiev" <vladimir.kondratiev@mobileye.com>,
"Gregory CLEMENT" <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
"Benoît Monin" <benoit.monin@bootlin.com>,
"Tawfik Bayouk" <tawfik.bayouk@mobileye.com>,
"Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
"Maxime Chevallier" <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 01/15] net: macb: drop "consistent" from alloc/free function names
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:32:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DJP2W90JJK0G.1DBR4RMJKJO2Z@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260703-stucco-broadly-d9393f789868@spud>
Hello Conor,
On Fri Jul 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM CEST, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2026 at 05:59:04PM +0200, Théo Lebrun wrote:
>> Since commit 4df95131ea80 ("net/macb: change RX path for GEM") those
>> functions have not been only allocating or freeing consistent memory
>> mappings.
>>
>> Rename from macb_alloc_consistent() to macb_alloc() and
>> from macb_free_consistent() to macb_free().
>
> What does "consistent" even mean? Is it intended to be analogous to
> coherent?
That's my guess. We used to have pci_alloc_consistent(), being an alias
to dma_alloc_coherent().
This alias has been present since forever (since Git):
git show 1da177e4c3f4:include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h
The alias got removed in commit 7968778914e5 ("PCI: Remove the
deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API", 2022-03-09).
Thanks,
--
Théo Lebrun, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-03 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-01 15:59 [PATCH net-next v3 00/15] net: macb: implement context swapping Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 01/15] net: macb: drop "consistent" from alloc/free function names Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:41 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-03 11:28 ` Conor Dooley
2026-07-03 16:32 ` Théo Lebrun [this message]
2026-07-03 16:34 ` Conor Dooley
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 02/15] net: macb: unify device pointer naming convention Théo Lebrun
2026-07-03 11:29 ` Conor Dooley
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 03/15] net: macb: unify variable naming convention in at91ether functions Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:42 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-03 11:30 ` Conor Dooley
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 04/15] net: macb: unify queue index variable naming convention and types Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:43 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-03 11:34 ` Conor Dooley
2026-07-03 17:10 ` Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 05/15] net: macb: enforce reverse christmas tree (RCT) convention Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:48 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-03 11:35 ` Conor Dooley
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 06/15] net: macb: allocate tieoff descriptor once across device lifetime Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:54 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 07/15] net: macb: introduce macb_context struct for buffer management Théo Lebrun
2026-07-03 11:39 ` Conor Dooley
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 08/15] net: macb: avoid macb_init_rx_buffer_size() modifying state Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 09/15] net: macb: make `struct macb` subset reachable from macb_context struct Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 10/15] net: macb: change caps helpers signatures Théo Lebrun
2026-07-03 11:43 ` Conor Dooley
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 11/15] net: macb: change function signatures to take contexts Théo Lebrun
2026-07-03 11:45 ` Conor Dooley
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 12/15] net: macb: introduce macb_context_alloc() helper Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 13/15] net: macb: re-read ISR inside IRQ handler locked section Théo Lebrun
2026-07-03 12:09 ` Conor Dooley
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 14/15] net: macb: use context swapping in .set_ringparam() Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:37 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 15/15] net: macb: use context swapping in .ndo_change_mtu() Théo Lebrun
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