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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 18:27:49 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v8 06/14] page_pool: convert to use netmem
On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 05:20:43PM -0700, Mina Almasry wrote:
> Abstrace the memory type from the page_pool so we can later add support
> for new memory types. Convert the page_pool to use the new netmem type
> abstraction, rather than use struct page directly.
>
> As of this patch the netmem type is a no-op abstraction: it's always a
> struct page underneath. All the page pool internals are converted to
> use struct netmem instead of struct page, and the page pool now exports
> 2 APIs:
>
> 1. The existing struct page API.
> 2. The new struct netmem API.
>
> Keeping the existing API is transitional; we do not want to refactor all
> the current drivers using the page pool at once.
>
> The netmem abstraction is currently a no-op. The page_pool uses
> page_to_netmem() to convert allocated pages to netmem, and uses
> netmem_to_page() to convert the netmem back to pages to pass to mm APIs,
>
> Follow up patches to this series add non-paged netmem support to the
> page_pool. This change is factored out on its own to limit the code
> churn to this 1 patch, for ease of code review.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>
...
> diff --git a/include/net/page_pool/helpers.h b/include/net/page_pool/helpers.h
...
> @@ -170,9 +172,10 @@ static inline void *page_pool_alloc_va(struct page_pool *pool,
> struct page *page;
>
> /* Mask off __GFP_HIGHMEM to ensure we can use page_address() */
> - page = page_pool_alloc(pool, &offset, size, gfp & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
> + page = netmem_to_page(
> + page_pool_alloc(pool, &offset, size, gfp & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM));
> if (unlikely(!page))
> - return NULL;
> + return 0;
Hi Mina,
This doesn't seem right, as the return type is a pointer rather than an
integer.
Flagged by Sparse.
>
> return page_address(page) + offset;
> }
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