Re: [PATCH net-next v2] page_pool: split types and declarations from page_pool.h

[Yunsheng Lin]

On 2023/7/26 18:43, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Alexander H Duyck <alexander.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:47:46 -0700
> 
>> On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 21:12 +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
>>> Split types and pure function declarations from page_pool.h
>>> and add them in page_pool/types.h, so that C sources can
>>> include page_pool.h and headers should generally only include
>>> page_pool/types.h as suggested by jakub.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> CC: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> +/* Caller must provide appropriate safe context, e.g. NAPI. */
>>> +void page_pool_update_nid(struct page_pool *pool, int new_nid);
>>> +
>>> +#endif /* _NET_PAGE_POOL_H */
>>
>>
>> This seems kind of overkill for what is needed. It seems like the
>> general thought process with splitting this was so that you had just
>> the minimum of what is needed to support skbuff.h and the functions
>> declared there. The rest of this would then be added via the .h to the
>> .c files that will actually be calling the functions.
>>
>> By that logic I think the only thing we really need is the function
>> declaration for page_pool_return_skb_page moved into skbuff.h. We could
>> then just remove page_pool.h from skbuff.h couldn't we?
> 
> This patch is not to drop page_pool.h include from skbuff.h.
> This is more future-proof (since I'm dropping this include anyway in my
> series) to have includes organized and prevent cases like that one with
> skbuff.h from happening. And to save some CPU cycles on preprocessing if
> that makes sense.

The suggestion is from below:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230710113841.482cbeac@xxxxxxxxxx/

> 
>>
>> Another thing we could consider doing is looking at splitting things up
>> so that we had a include file in net/core/page_pool.h to handle some of
>> the cases where we are just linking the page_pool bits to other core
>> file bits such as xdp.c and skbuff.c.

I suppose the above suggestion is about splitting or naming by
the user as the discussed in the below thread?
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230721182942.0ca57663@xxxxxxxxxx/

> 
> Thanks,
> Olek
> .
>