Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/3] net: stmmac: Introducing support for Page Pool

From: Ilias Apalodimas
Date: Fri Jul 05 2019 - 11:25:01 EST


Hi Jose,

On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 03:21:16PM +0000, Jose Abreu wrote:
> From: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > I think this look ok for now. One request though, on page_pool_free
>
> Thanks for the review!
>
> > A patch currently under review will slightly change that [1] and [2]
> > Can you defer this a bit till that one gets merged?
> > The only thing you'll have to do is respin this and replace page_pool_free()
> > with page_pool_destroy()
>
> As we are in end of release cycle net-next may close soon so maybe this
> can be merged and I can send a follow-up patch later if that's okay by
> you and David ?
Well ideally we'd like to get the change in before the merge window ourselves,
since we dont want to remove->re-add the same function in stable kernels. If
that doesn't go in i am fine fixing it in the next merge window i guess, since
it offers substantial speedups


Thanks
/Ilias