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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:13:35 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 14/15] mm: page_frag: update documentation
 for page_frag

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 09:19:39PM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> +API interface
> +=============
> +As the design and implementation of page_frag API, the allocation side does not
                                        "... implies, the allocation side ..."
> +allow concurrent calling, it is assumed that the caller must ensure there is not
                      "... . Instead, it is assumed that ...:
> +concurrent alloc calling to the same page_frag_cache instance by using it's own
                                                            "... by using its own ..."
> +lock or rely on some lockless guarantee like NAPI softirq.
> +
> +Depending on different use cases, callers expecting to deal with va, page or
> +both va and page for them may call page_frag_alloc_va*, page_frag_alloc_pg*,
> +or page_frag_alloc* API accordingly.
> +
> +There is also a use case that need minimum memory in order for forward
> +progressing, but can do better if there is more memory available. Introduce
Did you mean "... but more performant if more memory is available"?
> +page_frag_alloc_prepare() and page_frag_alloc_commit() related API, the caller
s/Introduce/Using/
> +requests the minimum memory it need and the prepare API will return the maximum
> +size of the fragment returned, caller need to report back to the page_frag core
                                  "The caller needs to either call the commit API ..."
> +how much memory it actually use by calling commit API, or not calling the commit
"... to report how much memory it actually uses ..."
> +API if deciding to not use any memory.
"... or not do so if deciding to not use any memory."

Thanks.

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