netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v10 04/22] net: generalise net

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Message-ID: <20250115163141.14feb403@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:31:41 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: David Wei <dw@...idwei.uk>
Cc: io-uring@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe
 <axboe@...nel.dk>, Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>, David
 Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>,
 Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@...il.com>, Joe Damato <jdamato@...tly.com>,
 Pedro Tammela <pctammela@...atatu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v10 04/22] net: generalise net_iov chunk owners

On Wed,  8 Jan 2025 14:06:25 -0800 David Wei wrote:
> From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>
> 
> Currently net_iov stores a pointer to struct dmabuf_genpool_chunk_owner,
> which serves as a useful abstraction to share data and provide a
> context. However, it's too devmem specific, and we want to reuse it for
> other memory providers, and for that we need to decouple net_iov from
> devmem. Make net_iov to point to a new base structure called
> net_iov_area, which dmabuf_genpool_chunk_owner extends.

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>