netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v8 01/15] net: homa: define user-visible API for Homa

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Message-ID: <7addde54-1b77-4376-b976-655a2776a31e@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 10:03:17 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: John Ousterhout <ouster@...stanford.edu>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: edumazet@...gle.com, horms@...nel.org, kuba@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v8 01/15] net: homa: define user-visible API for
 Homa

On 5/3/25 1:37 AM, John Ousterhout wrote:
> +/* Flag bits for homa_sendmsg_args.flags (see man page for documentation):
> + */
> +#define HOMA_SENDMSG_PRIVATE       0x01
> +#define HOMA_SENDMSG_NONBLOCKING   0x02

It's unclear why you need to define a new mechanism instead of using
MSG_DONTWAIT. This is possibly not needed and deserves at least a good
motivation in the patch introducing it.

/P