linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] page_pool: Rename frag_users to frag

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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 09:43:03 +0200
From: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linyunsheng@...wei.com, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] page_pool: Rename frag_users to frag_cnt

On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 at 09:31, Ilias Apalodimas
<ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> Since [0] got merged, it's clear that 'pp_ref_count' is used to track
> the number of users for each page. On struct_page though we have
> a member called 'frag_users'. Despite of what the name suggests this is
> not the number of users. It instead represents the number of fragments of
> the current page. When we have a single page this is set to one.

Replying to myself here, but this is a typo. On single pages, we set
pp_ref_count to one, not this.

>  When we
> split the page this is set to the actual number of frags and later used
> in page_pool_drain_frag() to infer the real number of users.
>
> So let's rename it to something that matches the description above
>
> [0]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231212044614.42733-2-liangchen.linux@gmail.com/
> Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>
> ---
>  include/net/page_pool.h | 2 +-
>  net/core/page_pool.c    | 8 ++++----
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/net/page_pool.h b/include/net/page_pool.h
> index 813c93499f20..957cd84bb3f4 100644
> --- a/include/net/page_pool.h
> +++ b/include/net/page_pool.h
> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ struct page_pool {
>         u32 pages_state_hold_cnt;
>         unsigned int frag_offset;
>         struct page *frag_page;
> -       long frag_users;
> +       long frag_cnt;
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS
>         /* these stats are incremented while in softirq context */
> diff --git a/net/core/page_pool.c b/net/core/page_pool.c
> index 9b203d8660e4..19a56a52ac8f 100644
> --- a/net/core/page_pool.c
> +++ b/net/core/page_pool.c
> @@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_pool_put_page_bulk);
>  static struct page *page_pool_drain_frag(struct page_pool *pool,
>                                          struct page *page)
>  {
> -       long drain_count = BIAS_MAX - pool->frag_users;
> +       long drain_count = BIAS_MAX - pool->frag_cnt;
>
>         /* Some user is still using the page frag */
>         if (likely(page_pool_defrag_page(page, drain_count)))
> @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ static struct page *page_pool_drain_frag(struct page_pool *pool,
>
>  static void page_pool_free_frag(struct page_pool *pool)
>  {
> -       long drain_count = BIAS_MAX - pool->frag_users;
> +       long drain_count = BIAS_MAX - pool->frag_cnt;
>         struct page *page = pool->frag_page;
>
>         pool->frag_page = NULL;
> @@ -721,14 +721,14 @@ struct page *page_pool_alloc_frag(struct page_pool *pool,
>                 pool->frag_page = page;
>
>  frag_reset:
> -               pool->frag_users = 1;
> +               pool->frag_cnt = 1;
>                 *offset = 0;
>                 pool->frag_offset = size;
>                 page_pool_fragment_page(page, BIAS_MAX);
>                 return page;
>         }
>
> -       pool->frag_users++;
> +       pool->frag_cnt++;
>         pool->frag_offset = *offset + size;
>         alloc_stat_inc(pool, fast);
>         return page;
> --
> 2.37.2
>