2021-01-28 00:41:04

by Jesse Brandeburg

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/4] net: consolidate page_is_pfmemalloc() usage

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.

This is a useful cleanup! Thanks.

For the series:
Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <[email protected]>