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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Alex Shi , Yanteng Si , Dongliang Mu , Michael Chan , Pavan Chebbi , Joshua Washington , Harshitha Ramamurthy , Saeed Mahameed , Tariq Toukan , Mark Bloch , Leon Romanovsky , Alexander Duyck , kernel-team@meta.com, Daniel Borkmann , Nikolay Aleksandrov , Shuah Khan , dw@davidwei.uk, sdf.kernel@gmail.com, mohsin.bashr@gmail.com, willemb@google.com, jiang.kun2@zte.com.cn, xu.xin16@zte.com.cn, wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Stanislav Fomichev , Mina Almasry , Bobby Eshleman Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/8] net: devmem: support TX over NETMEM_TX_NO_DMA devices Message-ID: References: <20260507-tcp-dm-netkit-v3-0-52821445867c@meta.com> <20260507-tcp-dm-netkit-v3-3-52821445867c@meta.com> <20260508134717.4ef87ab6@kernel.org> <20260508152708.011a9687@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260508152708.011a9687@kernel.org> On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 03:27:08PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 2026 14:28:55 -0700 Bobby Eshleman wrote: > > My guess is this would probably be the simplest way? > > IDK. Notifiers are so inelegant. Don't we have the same problem with > the main ->dev on Tx binding? Yes, true. For some reason, I thought I recalled the dma buf attachment causing some chain of reference holding that kept the device alive, but that is actually not true...