netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] gve: Add support for raw addressing to the rx path

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Date:   Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:33:11 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     David Awogbemila <awogbemila@...gle.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Catherine Sullivan <csully@...gle.com>,
        Yangchun Fu <yangchun@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] gve: Add support for raw addressing to
 the rx path

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 08:50:59 -0700 David Awogbemila wrote:
> From: Catherine Sullivan <csully@...gle.com>
> 
> Add support to use raw dma addresses in the rx path. Due to this new
> support we can alloc a new buffer instead of making a copy.
> 
> RX buffers are handed to the networking stack and are then recycled or
> re-allocated as needed, avoiding the need to use
> skb_copy_to_linear_data() as in "qpl" mode.

Please separate page recycling into a separate commit.