Re: [PATCH 1/2] rust: add initial scatterlist bindings

[Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>]

On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 11:50:26AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 11:44:26PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> 
> > I would be fully on board with a simpler design, definitely. The reason
> > why I've tried to keep some doors open is that as you mentioned
> > scatterlist is used in many different ways, and I am not familiar enough
> > with all these uses to draw a line and say "we will never ever need to
> > do that".
> 
> I think it would be better to grow as needed. It is hard to speculate.
> 
> We also have the new two step DMA API, so it may very well be the only
> use for this stuff is very simple mappings of VVec like things for
> DMA, and maybe this all gets rewritten to use the new DMA API and not
> scatterlist.
> 
> Having a rust user facing API that allows for that would be a great
> thing.
> 
> IOW I would maybe reframe the task here, it is not to create simple
> naive wrappers around scatterlist but to provide a nice rust API to go
> from VVec/etc to DMA mapping of that VVec/etc.

I agree, this is likely to be the main use-case and I also think it makes sense
to focus more on exposing higher level APIs in this respect. We can still expose
more low level API details if actually needed.

However, also for the API details we do not expose to drivers, we should aim for
creating safe abstractions for internal use if reasonable.