Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 04/12] mm: Make the page_frag_cache allocator use multipage folios

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 17:50:02 -0700

On Wed, 24 May 2023 16:33:03 +0100 David Howells wrote:
> -	offset = nc->offset - fragsz;
> -	if (unlikely(offset < 0)) {
> -		page = virt_to_page(nc->va);
> -
> -		if (page_ref_count(page) != nc->pagecnt_bias)
> +	offset = nc->offset;
> +	if (unlikely(fragsz > offset)) {
> +		/* Reuse the folio if everyone we gave it to has finished with
> +		 * it.
> +		 */
> +		if (!folio_ref_sub_and_test(folio, nc->pagecnt_bias)) {
> +			nc->folio = NULL;
>  			goto refill;
> +		}
> +
>  		if (unlikely(nc->pfmemalloc)) {
> -			page_ref_sub(page, nc->pagecnt_bias - 1);
> -			__free_pages(page, compound_order(page));
> +			__folio_put(folio);

This is not a pure 1:1 page -> folio conversion.
Why mix conversion with other code changes?