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

Mina Almasry
2025-05-23T17:13:42Z

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

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Thanks,
Mina