Re: [PATCH 13/18] mlx5: use netmem descriptor and APIs for page pool

Mina Almasry
2025-05-26T18:00:44Z

On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 12:08:58PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 10:13:27AM -0700, Mina Almasry wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > To simplify struct page, the effort to seperate its own descriptor from
> > > > struct page is required and the work for page pool is on going.
> > > >
> > > > Use netmem descriptor and APIs for page pool in mlx5 code.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
> > >
> > > Just FYI, you're racing with Nvidia adding netmem support to mlx5 as
> > > well. Probably they prefer to take their patch. So try to rebase on
> > > top of that maybe? Up to you.
> > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1747950086-1246773-9-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com/
> > >
> > > I also wonder if you should send this through the net-next tree, since
> > > it seem to race with changes that are going to land in net-next soon.
> > > Up to you, I don't have any strong preference. But if you do send to
> > > net-next, there are a bunch of extra rules to keep in mind:
> > >
> > > https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-netdev.html
>
> It looks like I have to wait for net-next to reopen, maybe until the
> next -rc1 released.. Right? However, I can see some patches posted now.
> Hm..
>

We try to stick to 15 patches, but I've seen up to 20 sometimes get reviewed.

net-next just closed unfortunately, so yes you'll need to wait until
it reopens. RFCs are welcome in the meantime, and if you want to stick
to mm-unstable that's fine by me too, FWIW.

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Thanks,
Mina