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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:56:10 +0100
From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>
To: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>, almasrymina@...gle.com,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: cratiu@...dia.com, tariqt@...dia.com, parav@...dia.com,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next v3 1/7] queue_api: add support for fetching per
queue DMA dev
On 8/15/25 12:03, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> For zerocopy (io_uring, devmem), there is an assumption that the
> parent device can do DMA. However that is not always the case:
> - Scalable Function netdevs [1] have the DMA device in the grandparent.
> - For Multi-PF netdevs [2] queues can be associated to different DMA
> devices.
>
> This patch introduces the a queue based interface for allowing drivers
> to expose a different DMA device for zerocopy.
>
> [1] Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/switchdev.rst
> [2] Documentation/networking/multi-pf-netdev.rst
>
> Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>
> ---
> include/net/netdev_queues.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
Assuming it'll be moved and uninlined
Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>
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Pavel Begunkov
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