On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 18:38:48 -0800 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. > > 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>