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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 16:07:54 -0800
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Subject: Re: [next PATCH v4 0/3] Page fragment updates
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org>, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 18:38:48 -0800 Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> 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.

That should work for me.

Thanks.

- Alex

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