netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 10/18] xdp: get rid of xdp

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Message-ID: <87ikt79jwh.fsf@toke.dk>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:13:34 +0100
From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
 <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>, Alexei Starovoitov
 <ast@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, John Fastabend
 <john.fastabend@...il.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Maciej
 Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>, Stanislav Fomichev
 <sdf@...ichev.me>, Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
 nex.sw.ncis.osdt.itp.upstreaming@...el.com, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 10/18] xdp: get rid of xdp_frame::mem.id

Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com> writes:

> Initially, xdp_frame::mem.id was used to search for the corresponding
> &page_pool to return the page correctly.
> However, after that struct page now contains a direct pointer to its PP,
> further keeping of this field makes no sense. xdp_return_frame_bulk()
> still uses it to do a lookup, but this is rather a leftover.
> Remove xdp_frame::mem and replace it with ::mem_type, as only memory
> type still matters and we need to know it to be able to free the frame
> correctly.
> As a cute side effect, we can now make every scalar field in &xdp_frame
> of 4 byte width, speeding up accesses to them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>