On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:39:14 +0300
Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodi...@linaro.org> wrote:

> Since the dma direction is stored in page pool params, offer an API
> helper for driver that choose not to keep track of it locally
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodi...@linaro.org>
> ---
>  include/net/page_pool.h | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <bro...@redhat.com>

This is simple enough and you also explained the downside.
Thanks for adding a helper for this.

 
> diff --git a/include/net/page_pool.h b/include/net/page_pool.h
> index f07c518ef8a5..ee9c871d2043 100644
> --- a/include/net/page_pool.h
> +++ b/include/net/page_pool.h
> @@ -112,6 +112,15 @@ static inline struct page 
> *page_pool_dev_alloc_pages(struct page_pool *pool)
>       return page_pool_alloc_pages(pool, gfp);
>  }
>  
> +/* get the stored dma direction. A driver might decide to treat this locally 
> and
> + * avoid the extra cache line from page_pool to determine the direction
> + */
> +static
> +inline enum dma_data_direction page_pool_get_dma_dir(struct page_pool *pool)
> +{
> +     return pool->p.dma_dir;
> +}
> +
>  struct page_pool *page_pool_create(const struct page_pool_params *params);
>  
>  void __page_pool_free(struct page_pool *pool);


-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

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