netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v13 04/14] mm: page_frag: add '_va' suffix to page

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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 08:49:53 -0700
From: Alexander H Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v13 04/14] mm: page_frag: add '_va' suffix to
 page_frag API

On Thu, 2024-08-08 at 20:37 +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> Currently the page_frag API is returning 'virtual address'
> or 'va' when allocing and expecting 'virtual address' or
> 'va' as input when freeing.
> 
> As we are about to support new use cases that the caller
> need to deal with 'struct page' or need to deal with both
> 'va' and 'struct page'. In order to differentiate the API
> handling between 'va' and 'struct page', add '_va' suffix
> to the corresponding API mirroring the page_pool_alloc_va()
> API of the page_pool. So that callers expecting to deal with
> va, page or both va and page may call page_frag_alloc_va*,
> page_frag_alloc_pg*, or page_frag_alloc* API accordingly.
> 
> CC: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>
> Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
> Acked-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx.c      |  4 ++--
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c     |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.h     |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx_lib.c |  2 +-
>  .../net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c |  4 ++--
>  .../marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.c       |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_wed_wo.c    |  4 ++--
>  drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c                       |  8 +++----
>  drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c                     | 22 +++++++++----------
>  drivers/vhost/net.c                           |  6 ++---
>  include/linux/page_frag_cache.h               | 21 +++++++++---------
>  include/linux/skbuff.h                        |  2 +-
>  kernel/bpf/cpumap.c                           |  2 +-
>  mm/page_frag_cache.c                          | 12 +++++-----
>  net/core/skbuff.c                             | 16 +++++++-------
>  net/core/xdp.c                                |  2 +-
>  net/rxrpc/txbuf.c                             | 15 +++++++------
>  net/sunrpc/svcsock.c                          |  6 ++---
>  .../selftests/mm/page_frag/page_frag_test.c   | 13 ++++++-----
>  19 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
> 

I still say no to this patch. It is an unnecessary name change and adds
no value. If you insist on this patch I will reject the set every time.

The fact is it is polluting the git history and just makes things
harder to maintain without adding any value as you aren't changing what
the function does and there is no need for this. In addition it just
makes it that much harder to backport fixes in the future as people
will have to work around the rename.