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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:43:04 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: mana: Add page pool for RX buffers
On 14/07/2023 05.53, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:48:45 +0000 Haiyang Zhang wrote:
>> Add page pool for RX buffers for faster buffer cycle and reduce CPU
>> usage.
>>
>> Get an extra ref count of a page after allocation, so after upper
>> layers put the page, it's still referenced by the pool. We can reuse
>> it as RX buffer without alloc a new page.
>
> Please use the real page_pool API from include/net/page_pool.h
> We've moved past every driver reinventing the wheel, sorry.
+1
Quoting[1]: Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst
Basic use involves replacing alloc_pages() calls with the
page_pool_alloc_pages() call.
Drivers should use page_pool_dev_alloc_pages() replacing
dev_alloc_pages().
[1] https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/page_pool.html
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