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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	"Mina Almasry" <almasrymina@google.com>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	"Sumit Semwal" <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
	"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"Jesper Dangaard Brouer" <hawk@kernel.org>,
	"Ilias Apalodimas" <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Willem de Bruijn" <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
	"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Device Memory TCP
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:29:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230718112940.2c126677@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35f3ec37-11fe-19c8-9d6f-ae5a789843cb@kernel.org>

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 12:20:59 -0600 David Ahern wrote:
> On 7/18/23 12:15 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:06:29 -0300 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:  
> >> netlink feels like a weird API choice for that, in particular it would
> >> be really wrong to somehow bind the lifecycle of a netlink object to a
> >> process.  
> > 
> > Netlink is the right API, life cycle of objects can be easily tied to
> > a netlink socket.  
> 
> That is an untuitive connection -- memory references, h/w queues, flow
> steering should be tied to the datapath socket, not a control plane socket.

There's one RSS context for may datapath sockets. Plus a lot of the
APIs already exist, and it's more of a question of packaging them up 
at the user space level. For things which do not have an API, however,
netlink, please.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-18 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-10 22:32 [RFC PATCH 00/10] Device Memory TCP Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 22:32 ` [RFC PATCH 01/10] dma-buf: add support for paged attachment mappings Mina Almasry
2023-07-11  7:59   ` Christian König
2023-07-11 11:44     ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-11 12:13       ` Christian König
2023-07-10 22:32 ` [RFC PATCH 02/10] dma-buf: add support for NET_RX pages Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 22:32 ` [RFC PATCH 03/10] dma-buf: add support for NET_TX pages Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 22:32 ` [RFC PATCH 04/10] net: add support for skbs with unreadable frags Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 22:32 ` [RFC PATCH 05/10] tcp: implement recvmsg() RX path for devmem TCP Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 22:32 ` [RFC PATCH 06/10] net: add SO_DEVMEM_DONTNEED setsockopt to release RX pages Mina Almasry
2023-07-16 23:57   ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-07-17  2:06     ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 22:32 ` [RFC PATCH 07/10] tcp: implement sendmsg() TX path for for devmem tcp Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 22:32 ` [RFC PATCH 08/10] selftests: add ncdevmem, netcat for devmem TCP Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 22:33 ` [RFC PATCH 09/10] memory-provider: updates core provider API " Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 22:33 ` [RFC PATCH 10/10] memory-provider: add dmabuf devmem provider Mina Almasry
2023-07-17  2:41 ` [RFC PATCH 00/10] Device Memory TCP Andy Lutomirski
2023-07-18 17:32   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-18 17:36   ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-18 18:06     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-18 18:15       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-18 18:20         ` David Ahern
2023-07-18 18:29           ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-07-18 22:35             ` David Ahern
2023-07-18 22:45               ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-19 15:10                 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-19 17:57                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-07-19 23:24                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-27 11:40                       ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Christian König
2023-07-19 20:36                   ` Jakub Kicinski

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