Subject: [PATCH v4 net-next 8/9] net: add a hardware buffer management helper API

From: [email-masked] (Gregory CLEMENT)
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 09:15:53 +0100

Hi Marcin,
 
 On dim., mars 06 2016, Marcin Wojtas <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi Gregory,
>
>
>> +int hwbm_pool_add(struct hwbm_pool *bm_pool, unsigned int buf_num, gfp_t gfp)
>> +{
>> +       int err, i;
>> +       unsigned long flags;
>> +
>> +       spin_lock_irqsave(&bm_pool->lock, flags);
>> +       if (bm_pool->buf_num == bm_pool->size) {
>
> 'size' field is used as a 'frag_size' but here it means pool capacity.
> I think it's better to keep 'size' for pool capacity and add
> 'buf_size' field to struct hwbm_pool.

I thought I already added this field, but it seems that I didn't so. So
I will add it.

>
>> +               pr_warn("pool already filled\n");
>> +               return bm_pool->buf_num;
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       if (buf_num + bm_pool->buf_num > bm_pool->size) {
>> +               pr_warn("cannot allocate %d buffers for pool\n",
>> +                       buf_num);
>> +               return 0;
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       if ((buf_num + bm_pool->buf_num) < bm_pool->buf_num) {
>
> What is a point of this condition? How possibly after checking if
> capacity of pool is not exceeded, this one would ever be true?

see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2125152/focus=2137421

this test is here to ensure that (buf_num + bm_pool->buf_nu doesn't
wrap.

Thanks,

Gregory

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