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

Byungchul Park
2025-05-26T08:12:54Z

On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 12:08:58PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> 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

It looks like I have to wait for net-next to reopen, maybe until the
next -rc1 released.. Right? However, I can see some patches posted now.
Hm..

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