linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: hibmcge: support pagepool for rx

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Message-ID: <20251117174957.631e7b40@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:49:57 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jijie Shao <shaojijie@...wei.com>
Cc: <davem@...emloft.net>, <edumazet@...gle.com>, <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, <horms@...nel.org>, <shenjian15@...wei.com>,
 <liuyonglong@...wei.com>, <chenhao418@...wei.com>, <lantao5@...wei.com>,
 <huangdonghua3@...artners.com>, <yangshuaisong@...artners.com>,
 <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>, <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
 <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: hibmcge: support pagepool for rx

On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:22:22 +0800 Jijie Shao wrote:
> Support pagepool for rx, retaining the original
> packet receiving process.

Why retain the legacy path? Page pool is 7 years old, all major NIC
vendors had dropped the support for non-page pool Rx path at this point.
If there are bugs or performance regressions we will fix them and send
the fixes to stable.
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