From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 3/4] net: introduce common dev_page_is_reserved()
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 13:23:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <752a57a6-3f45-8b9b-e8b1-939bc9450947@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210130194459.37837-1-alobakin@pm.me>
On 1/30/21 11:45 AM, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 11:07:07 -0800
>
>> On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 15:42:29 +0000 Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:11:23 +0000 Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>>>>> + * dev_page_is_reserved - check whether a page can be reused for network Rx
>>>>> + * @page: the page to test
>>>>> + *
>>>>> + * A page shouldn't be considered for reusing/recycling if it was allocated
>>>>> + * under memory pressure or at a distant memory node.
>>>>> + *
>>>>> + * Returns true if this page should be returned to page allocator, false
>>>>> + * otherwise.
>>>>> + */
>>>>> +static inline bool dev_page_is_reserved(const struct page *page)
>>>>
>>>> Am I the only one who feels like "reusable" is a better term than
>>>> "reserved".
>>>
>>> I thought about it, but this will need to inverse the conditions in
>>> most of the drivers. I decided to keep it as it is.
>>> I can redo if "reusable" is preferred.
>>
>> Naming is hard. As long as the condition is not a double negative it
>> reads fine to me, but that's probably personal preference.
>> The thing that doesn't sit well is the fact that there is nothing
>> "reserved" about a page from another NUMA node.. But again, if nobody
>> +1s this it's whatever...
>
> Agree on NUMA and naming. I'm a bit surprised that 95% of drivers
> have this helper called "reserved" (one of the reasons why I finished
> with this variant).
> Let's say, if anybody else will vote for "reusable", I'll pick it for
> v3.
Definitely "reusable" seems better to me, and especially anything *other*
than "reserved" is a good idea, IMHO.
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-30 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-27 20:10 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/4] net: consolidate page_is_pfmemalloc() usage Alexander Lobakin
2021-01-27 20:11 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/4] mm: constify page_is_pfmemalloc() argument Alexander Lobakin
2021-01-28 22:44 ` David Rientjes
2021-01-30 2:30 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-01-27 20:11 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/4] skbuff: constify skb_propagate_pfmemalloc() "page" argument Alexander Lobakin
2021-01-28 22:45 ` David Rientjes
2021-01-27 20:11 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 3/4] net: introduce common dev_page_is_reserved() Alexander Lobakin
2021-01-27 21:47 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2021-01-28 22:48 ` David Rientjes
2021-01-30 2:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-01-30 15:42 ` Alexander Lobakin
2021-01-30 19:07 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-01-30 19:45 ` Alexander Lobakin
2021-01-30 21:23 ` John Hubbard [this message]
2021-01-27 20:11 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 4/4] net: page_pool: simplify page recycling condition tests Alexander Lobakin
2021-01-28 22:49 ` David Rientjes
2021-01-27 21:52 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 0/4] net: consolidate page_is_pfmemalloc() usage Jesse Brandeburg
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