From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] mm/gup: consistently name GUP-fast functions
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:56:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7631ff56-fa16-4b2b-87b2-1e93691bd110@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240327135256.GG946323@nvidia.com>
On 27.03.24 14:52, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 02:05:36PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Let's consistently call the "fast-only" part of GUP "GUP-fast" and rename
>> all relevant internal functions to start with "gup_fast", to make it
>> clearer that this is not ordinary GUP. The current mixture of
>> "lockless", "gup" and "gup_fast" is confusing.
>>
>> Further, avoid the term "huge" when talking about a "leaf" -- for
>> example, we nowadays check pmd_leaf() because pmd_huge() is gone. For the
>> "hugepd"/"hugepte" stuff, it's part of the name ("is_hugepd"), so that
>> says.
>>
>> What remains is the "external" interface:
>> * get_user_pages_fast_only()
>> * get_user_pages_fast()
>> * pin_user_pages_fast()
>>
>> And the "internal" interface that handles GUP-fast + fallback:
>> * internal_get_user_pages_fast()
>
> This would like a better name too. How about gup_fast_fallback() ?
Yes, I was not able to come up with something I liked. But I do like
your proposal, so I'll do that!
[...]
>
> I think it is a great idea, it always takes a moment to figure out if
> a function is part of the fast callchain or not..
>
> (even better would be to shift the fast stuff into its own file, but I
> expect that is too much)
Yes, one step at a time :)
>
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Thanks Jason!
--
Cheers,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-27 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-27 13:05 [PATCH RFC 0/3] mm/gup: consistently call it GUP-fast David Hildenbrand
2024-03-27 13:05 ` [PATCH RFC 1/3] mm/gup: consistently name GUP-fast functions David Hildenbrand
2024-03-27 13:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-03-27 13:56 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2024-03-27 14:43 ` Mike Rapoport
2024-03-27 13:05 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] mm/treewide: rename CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP to CONFIG_HAVE_GUP_FAST David Hildenbrand
2024-03-27 15:02 ` Mike Rapoport
2024-03-27 13:05 ` [PATCH RFC 3/3] mm: use "GUP-fast" instead "fast GUP" in remaining comments David Hildenbrand
2024-03-27 15:03 ` Mike Rapoport
2024-03-27 15:21 ` [PATCH RFC 0/3] mm/gup: consistently call it GUP-fast Peter Xu
2024-03-27 15:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-03-27 15:46 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-27 15:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-03-27 16:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-03-28 5:51 ` Vineet Gupta
2024-03-28 6:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-03-28 7:15 ` Mike Rapoport
2024-03-28 9:50 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-03-28 17:46 ` Vineet Gupta
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