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From: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	kuba@kernel.org, brouer@redhat.com, ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: page_pool: Add page_pool_put_page_bulk() to page_pool.rst
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 23:19:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <937ccc89a82302a06744bcb6d253f0e95651caa2.1605910519.git.lorenzo@kernel.org> (raw)

Introduce page_pool_put_page_bulk() entry into the API section of
page_pool.rst

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst b/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst
index 43088ddf95e4..e848f5b995b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst
@@ -97,6 +97,14 @@ a page will cause no race conditions is enough.
 
 * page_pool_get_dma_dir(): Retrieve the stored DMA direction.
 
+* page_pool_put_page_bulk(): It tries to refill a bulk of count pages into the
+  ptr_ring cache holding ptr_ring producer lock. If the ptr_ring is full,
+  page_pool_put_page_bulk() will release leftover pages to the page allocator.
+  page_pool_put_page_bulk() is suitable to be run inside the driver NAPI tx
+  completion loop for the XDP_REDIRECT use case.
+  Please consider the caller must not use data area after running
+  page_pool_put_page_bulk(), as this function overwrites it.
+
 Coding examples
 ===============
 
-- 
2.28.0


             reply	other threads:[~2020-11-20 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-20 22:19 Lorenzo Bianconi [this message]
2020-11-23  8:06 ` [PATCH net-next] net: page_pool: Add page_pool_put_page_bulk() to page_pool.rst Ilias Apalodimas
2020-11-23  8:54   ` Lorenzo Bianconi

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