Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] net: introduce helper sendpage_ok() in include/linux/net.h

Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-18T07:01:30Z

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 12:12:12PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
>
> So netdev people will have to understand and support PageSlab() or
> page_count()?

Yes. As they came up with that contrived rule what is acceptable
for sendpage. No one else really knows and other subsystems like the
block layer are perfectly fine with it.

>
> If it is unusual even for mm people, how could netdev people suppose
> to understand this unusual mm bug? At least not any better.

It is not a mm bug, it is a networking quirk.