netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 3/4] net: introduce common dev_page_is

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Date:   Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:48:43 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>
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        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 3/4] net: introduce common
 dev_page_is_reserved()

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Alexander Lobakin wrote:

> A bunch of drivers test the page before reusing/recycling for two
> common conditions:
>  - if a page was allocated under memory pressure (pfmemalloc page);
>  - if a page was allocated at a distant memory node (to exclude
>    slowdowns).
> 
> Introduce and use a new common function for doing this and eliminate
> all functions-duplicates from drivers.
> 
> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>

Looks even better than I thought!

(Since all of the changes are in drivers/net/ethernet/, I assume 
everything directly or indirectly includes skbuff.h already.)

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

Thanks for doing this.