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

Byungchul Park
2025-05-26T03:09:05Z

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

I can send to net-next, but is it okay even if it's more than 15 patches?

Byungchul
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Mina