netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 02/28] Add a special allocator for staging netfs protocol to MSG_SPLICE

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Message-ID: <809772.1678989636@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:00:36 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Bernard Metzler <bmt@...ich.ibm.com>,
        Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/28] Add a special allocator for staging netfs protocol to MSG_SPLICE_PAGES

Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:

> This feels a _lot_ like the page_frag allocator.  Can the two be
> unified?

Looks kind of similar.  I might well be able to use that instead.

David