Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 00/34] Christmas 3-serie XDP for idpf (+generic stuff)

[Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>]

From: Willem De Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:23:41 -0500

> Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>> I was highly asked to send this WIP before the holidays to trigger
>> some discussions at least for the generic parts.
>>
>> This all depends on libie[0] and WB-on-ITR fix[1]. The RFC does not
>> guarantee to work perfectly, but at least regular XDP seems to work
>> for me...
>>
>> In fact, here are 3 separate series:
>> * 01-08: convert idpf to libie and make it more sane;
>> * 09-25: add XDP to idpf;
>> * 26-34: add XSk to idpf.
>>
>> Most people may want to be interested only in the following generic
>> changes:
>> * 11: allow attaching already registered memory models to XDP RxQ info;
>> * 12-13: generic helpers for adding a frag to &xdp_buff and converting
>>   it to an skb;
>> * 14: get rid of xdp_frame::mem.id, allow mixing pages from different
>>   page_pools within one &xdp_buff/&xdp_frame;
>> * 15: some Page Pool helper;
>> * 18: it's for libie, but I wanted to talk about XDP_TX bulking;
>> * 26: same as 13, but for converting XSK &xdp_buff to skb.
>>
>> The rest is up to you, driver-specific stuff is pretty boring sometimes.
>>
>> I'll be polishing and finishing this all starting January 3rd and then
>> preparing and sending sane series, some early feedback never hurts tho.
>>
>> Merry Yule!
>>
>> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231213112835.2262651-1-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231215193721.425087-1-michal.kubiak@intel.com
> 
> This is great. Thanks for sharing the entire series.
> 
> Which SHA1 should we apply this to? I'm having a hard time applying
> cleanly.
> 
> The libie v7 series applied cleanly on bc044ae9d64b. Which I chose
> only based on the follow-on page pool patch.
> 
> But that base commit causes too many conflicts when applying this.
> Patch 6 had a trivial one in idpf_rx_singleq_clean (`skb = rx_q->skb`).
> But patch 14 has so many conflicts in page_pool.c, that I'm clearly
> on the wrong track trying to fix up manually.

net-next was updated while I was preparing the series. I also did a
couple changes in the basic libie code, but a new rev wasn't sent.
Please just use my open GH[0].

[0] https://github.com/alobakin/linux/tree/idpf-libie

Thanks,
Olek