Re: [mm PATCH 0/3] Page fragment updates

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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Alexander Duyck
<alexander.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> Second I did some minor clean-up on the function calls so that they are
> more inline with the existing __free_pages calls in terms of how they
> operate.
>
> 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.
>
> ---
>
> Alexander Duyck (3):
>       mm: Rename __alloc_page_frag to page_frag_alloc and __free_page_frag to page_frag_free
>       mm: Rename __page_frag functions to __page_frag_cache, drop order from drain
>       mm: Add documentation for page fragment APIs
>
>
>  Documentation/vm/page_frags               |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c |    6 ++--
>  include/linux/gfp.h                       |    9 +++---
>  include/linux/skbuff.h                    |    2 +
>  mm/page_alloc.c                           |   33 +++++++++++++----------
>  net/core/skbuff.c                         |    8 +++---
>  6 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/vm/page_frags
>
> --

It's been about a week since I submitted this series.  Just wanted to
check in and see if anyone had any feedback or if this is good to be
accepted for 4.10-rc1 with the rest of the set?

Thanks.

- Alex

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