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Message-ID: <CAC_iWj+VM1vCDygvXkd6snuSO64iQCm48oahYa4wQQeM3QXiFg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 09:02:02 +0200
From: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linyunsheng@...wei.com, 
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] page_pool: Rename frag_users to pagecnt_bias

Hi Jakub,

On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 at 01:35, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:01:46 +0200 Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
> > -     long frag_users;
> > +     long pagecnt_bias;
>
> IDK :(
>
> pagecnt to mean suggests this is related to page refcount,
> not page pool specific refcount.
>
> More importantly bias is the large number by which we increment.
> This counter counts how many of the bias references we actually
> consumed. So how about bias_consumed? bias_used? bias_issued?
> frags_alloced?

I had similar concerns, that's why v1 used 'frag_cnt'.
I am fine with either frags_alloced or frag_cnt

Thanks
/Ilias

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