Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/4] net: consolidate page_is_pfmemalloc() usage

From: Jesse Brandeburg
Date: Wed Jan 27 2021 - 16:54:02 EST


Alexander Lobakin wrote:

> page_is_pfmemalloc() is used mostly by networking drivers to test
> if a page can be considered for reusing/recycling.
> It doesn't write anything to the struct page itself, so its sole
> argument can be constified, as well as the first argument of
> skb_propagate_pfmemalloc().
> In Page Pool core code, it can be simply inlined instead.
> Most of the callers from NIC drivers were just doppelgangers of
> the same condition tests. Derive them into a new common function
> do deduplicate the code.

This is a useful cleanup! Thanks.

For the series:
Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>