Re: [RFC v4 01/18] netmem: introduce struct netmem_desc mirroring struct page

Mina Almasry
2025-06-05T19:34:51Z

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> wrote:
>
> To simplify struct page, the page pool members of struct page should be
> moved to other, allowing these members to be removed from struct page.
>
> Introduce a network memory descriptor to store the members, struct
> netmem_desc, and make it union'ed with the existing fields in struct
> net_iov, allowing to organize the fields of struct net_iov.
>
> Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>

Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>

But, if you want this merged via net-next, follow the netdev rules:
https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-netdev.html

In particular, the series needs to target the net-next tree via the
[PATCH net-next ...] prefix. And net-next is currently closed, so
resend once it reopens as non-RFC.

--
Thanks,
Mina