Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] net/mlx4: Get rid of page operation after dma_alloc_coherent

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:44:48 +0100

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 10:43:18AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >   - chunk->coherent is an int not a bool since checkpatch complains about
> >     using bool in structs; see https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/384.
> 
> :( bool is much more readable and there is no performance concern in
> this struct. I think checkpatch is overzealous here.

Yes.  Nevermind that this for bool vs bitfield.  A int is worse in
every respect in the criteria used in that mail.