From: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC mm v4 1/2] page_pool: check if nmdesc->pp is !NULL to confirm its usage as pp for net_iov
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:56:08 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251029015608.GA37879@system.software.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251028183356.29601348@kernel.org>
On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 06:33:56PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:44:09 +0900 Byungchul Park wrote:
> > As a preparation, the check for net_iov, that is not page-backed, should
> > avoid using ->pp_magic since net_iov doens't have to do with page type.
>
> doesn't
>
> > Instead, nmdesc->pp can be used if a net_iov or its nmdesc belongs to a
> > page pool, by making sure nmdesc->pp is NULL otherwise.
>
> Please explain in the commit message why the new branch in
> netmem_is_pp() is necessary. We used to identify the pages based
> on PP_SIGNATURE, now we identify them based on page_type.
Yes, I will. It'd be much better. Thank you very much for the comment.
Byungchul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-29 1:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-23 7:44 [RFC mm v4 0/2] mm, page_pool: introduce a new page type for page pool in page type Byungchul Park
2025-10-23 7:44 ` [RFC mm v4 1/2] page_pool: check if nmdesc->pp is !NULL to confirm its usage as pp for net_iov Byungchul Park
2025-10-28 1:25 ` Mina Almasry
2025-10-28 2:24 ` Byungchul Park
2025-10-29 1:33 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-29 1:56 ` Byungchul Park [this message]
2025-10-23 7:44 ` [RFC mm v4 2/2] mm: introduce a new page type for page pool in page type Byungchul Park
2025-10-28 1:28 ` Mina Almasry
2025-10-28 1:45 ` Zi Yan
2025-10-28 16:12 ` Mina Almasry
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