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author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2023-07-19 18:04:08 -0700 |
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committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2023-07-21 18:50:18 -0700 |
commit | 535b9c61bdef6017228c708128b7849a476f8da5 (patch) | |
tree | 189831a0758ed31960c1b97cf18f8f09e84d7a30 /Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst | |
parent | 98e2727c79d007d99a026eb66f481908e66af263 (diff) | |
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net: page_pool: hide page_pool_release_page()
There seems to be no user calling page_pool_release_page()
for legit reasons, all the users simply haven't been converted
to skb-based recycling, yet. Previous changes converted them.
Update the docs, and unexport the function.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230720010409.1967072-4-kuba@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst b/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst index 873efd97f822..0aa850cf4447 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ replacing dev_alloc_pages(). API keeps track of in-flight pages, in order to let API user know when it is safe to free a page_pool object. Thus, API users -must run page_pool_release_page() when a page is leaving the page_pool or -call page_pool_put_page() where appropriate in order to maintain correct -accounting. +must call page_pool_put_page() to free the page, or attach +the page to a page_pool-aware objects like skbs marked with +skb_mark_for_recycle(). API user must call page_pool_put_page() once on a page, as it will either recycle the page, or in case of refcnt > 1, it will @@ -87,9 +87,6 @@ a page will cause no race conditions is enough. must guarantee safe context (e.g NAPI), since it will recycle the page directly into the pool fast cache. -* page_pool_release_page(): Unmap the page (if mapped) and account for it on - in-flight counters. - * page_pool_dev_alloc_pages(): Get a page from the page allocator or page_pool caches. @@ -194,7 +191,7 @@ NAPI poller if XDP_DROP: page_pool_recycle_direct(page_pool, page); } else (packet_is_skb) { - page_pool_release_page(page_pool, page); + skb_mark_for_recycle(skb); new_page = page_pool_dev_alloc_pages(page_pool); } } |