netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/9] page_pool: don't use driver-set flags field directly

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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 20:36:50 +0800
From: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>, "David S. Miller"
	<davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
	<kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
CC: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>, Larysa Zaremba
	<larysa.zaremba@...el.com>, Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@...com>, Jesper
 Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>, Ilias Apalodimas
	<ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>, Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/9] page_pool: don't use driver-set flags field
 directly

On 2023/7/27 22:43, Alexander Lobakin wrote:

>  
>  struct page_pool {
>  	struct page_pool_params p;
> -	long pad;
> +
> +	bool dma_map:1;				/* Perform DMA mapping */
> +	enum {
> +		PP_DMA_SYNC_ACT_DISABLED = 0,	/* Driver didn't ask to sync */
> +		PP_DMA_SYNC_ACT_DO,		/* Perform DMA sync ops */
> +	} dma_sync_act:1;
> +	bool page_frag:1;			/* Allow page fragments */
>  

Isn't it more common or better to just remove the flags field in
'struct page_pool_params' and pass the flags by parameter like
below, so that patch 4 is not needed?

struct page_pool *page_pool_create(const struct page_pool_params *params,
				   unsigned int	flags);