From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1034625AbdAFABx (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2017 19:01:53 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57466 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S968934AbdAFABo (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2017 19:01:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 16:02:02 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Alexander Duyck Cc: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [next PATCH v4 0/3] Page fragment updates Message-Id: <20170105160202.baa14f400bfd906466a915db@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20170104023620.13451.80691.stgit@localhost.localdomain> References: <20170104023620.13451.80691.stgit@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 18:38:48 -0800 Alexander Duyck wrote: > This patch series takes care of a few cleanups for the page fragments API. > > First we do some renames so that things are much more consistent. First we > move the page_frag_ portion of the name to the front of the functions > names. Secondly we split out the cache specific functions from the other > page fragment functions by adding the word "cache" to the name. > > Finally I added a bit of documentation that will hopefully help to explain > some of this. I plan to revisit this later as we get things more ironed > out in the near future with the changes planned for the DMA setup to > support eXpress Data Path. > > --- > > v2: Fixed a comparison between a void* and 0 due to copy/paste from free_pages > v3: Updated first rename patch so that it is just a rename and doesn't impact > the actual functionality to avoid performance regression. > v4: Fix mangling that occured due to a bad merge fix when patches 1 and 2 > were swapped and then swapped back. > > I'm submitting this to Intel Wired Lan and Jeff Kirsher's "next-queue" for > acceptance as I have a series of other patches for igb that are blocked by > by these patches since I had to rename the functionality fo draining extra > references. > > This series was going to be accepted for mmotm back when it was v1, however > since then I found a few minor issues that needed to be fixed. > > I am hoping to get an Acked-by from Andrew Morton for these patches and > then have them submitted to David Miller as he has said he will accept them > if I get the Acked-by. In the meantime if these can be applied to > next-queue while waiting on that Acked-by then I can submit the other > patches for igb and ixgbe for testing. The patches look fine. How about I just scoot them straight into mainline next week? I do that occasionally, just to simplify ongoing development and these patches are safe enough.