Re: [PATCH v8 3/8] mm: zswap: Rename zswap_pool_get() to zswap_pool_tryget().
From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Sat Sep 28 2024 - 09:47:47 EST
On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 07:16:15PM -0700, Kanchana P Sridhar wrote:
> Modify the name of the existing zswap_pool_get() to zswap_pool_tryget()
> to be representative of the call it makes to percpu_ref_tryget().
> A subsequent patch will introduce a new zswap_pool_get() that calls
> percpu_ref_get().
>
> The intent behind this change is for higher level zswap API such as
> zswap_store() to call zswap_pool_tryget() to check upfront if the pool's
> refcount is "0" (which means it could be getting destroyed) and to handle
> this as an error condition. zswap_store() would proceed only if
> zswap_pool_tryget() returns success, and any additional pool refcounts that
> need to be obtained for compressing sub-pages in a large folio could simply
> call zswap_pool_get().
>
> Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>