netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 08/12] net: support non paged skb frags

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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:17:21 -0500
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 08/12] net: support non paged skb frags

On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 22:05:30 -0800 Mina Almasry wrote:
> My issue here is that all these skb helpers call each other so I end
> up having to move a lot of the unrelated skb helpers to this new
> header (maybe that is acceptable but it feels weird).

Splitting pp headers again is not an option, we already split it into
types and helpers.

The series doesn't apply and it's a bit hard for me to, in between LPC
talks, figure out how to extract your patches from the GH UI to take a
proper look :(
We can defer this for now, and hopefully v4 will apply to net-next.
But it will need to get solved.