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Date:   Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:45:15 -0700
From:   "Jonathan Lemon" <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>
To:     "Saeed Mahameed" <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Cc:     kernel-team@...com, ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org,
        "Tariq Toukan" <tariqt@...lanox.com>, brouer@...hat.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10 net-next] page_pool cleanups



On 21 Oct 2019, at 12:08, Saeed Mahameed wrote:

> On Fri, 2019-10-18 at 16:32 -0700, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
>>
>> On 18 Oct 2019, at 13:50, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 15:50 -0700, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
>>>> This patch combines work from various people:
>>>> - part of Tariq's work to move the DMA mapping from
>>>>   the mlx5 driver into the page pool.  This does not
>>>>   include later patches which remove the dma address
>>>>   from the driver, as this conflicts with AF_XDP.
>>>>
>>>> - Saeed's changes to check the numa node before
>>>>   including the page in the pool, and flushing the
>>>>   pool on a node change.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Jonathan, thanks for submitting this,
>>> the patches you have are not up to date, i have new ones with
>>> tracing
>>> support and some fixes from offlist review iterations, plus
>>> performance
>>> numbers and a  cover letter.
>>>
>>> I will send it to you and you can post it as v2 ?
>>
>> Sure, I have some other cleanups to do and have a concern about
>> the cache effectiveness for some workloads.
>
> Ok then, I will submit the page pool NUMA change patches separately.
> I will remove the flush mechanism and will add your changes.
>
> for the other patches, mlx5 cache and page pool statistics, i think
> they need some more work and a lot of pieces are still WIP. I don't
> want to block the NUMA change API patches.

Sounds good - the stats are only really needed once the mlx5 private
cache goes away, and it doesn't look like that will happen immediately.

The private cache and the page pool are performing two different functions
at the moment.
-- 
Jonathan