Re: [PATCH 18/18] mm, netmem: remove the page pool members in struct page

Byungchul Park
2025-05-27T01:31:22Z

On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 10:02:26AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 05:58:10PM +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> > struct net_iov {
> > unsigned long flags_padding;
> > union {
> > struct {
> > // same layout as in page + build asserts;
> > ...
> > struct page_pool *pp;
> > ...
> > };
> > struct netmem_desc desc;
> > };
> > };
> >
> > struct netmem_desc *page_to_netmem_desc(struct page *page)
> > {
> > return &page->netmem_desc;
>
> page will not have any netmem things in it after this, that matters.
^
this patch series
Byungchul
>
> > }
> >
> > struct netmem_desc *netmem_to_desc(netmem_t netmem)
> > {
> > if (netmem_is_page(netmem))
> > return page_to_netmem_desc(netmem_to_page(netmem);
> > return &netmem_to_niov(netmem)->desc;
> > }
> >
> > The compiler should be able to optimise the branch in netmem_to_desc(),
> > but we might need to help it a bit.
> >
> >
> > Then, patch 2 ... N convert page pool and everyone else accessing
> > those page fields directly to netmem_to_desc / etc.
> >
> > And the final patch replaces the struct group in the page with a
> > new field:
> >
> > struct netmem_desc {
> > struct page_pool *pp;
> > ...
> > };
> >
> > struct page {
> > unsigned long flags_padding;
> > union {
> > struct netmem_desc desc;
> ^
> should be gone.
>
> Byungchul
> > ...
> > };
> > };
> >
> > net_iov will drop its union in a later series to avoid conflicts.
> >
> > btw, I don't think you need to convert page pool to netmem for this
> > to happen, so that can be done in a separate unrelated series. It's
> > 18 patches, and netdev usually requires it to be no more than 15.
> >
> > --
> > Pavel Begunkov