netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] gve: Improve RX buffer length management

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Message-ID: <CAHS8izOynoK_7pGumZGefecdThsH=oXr1HJJ7+BQMF_ZyTL7=A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:40:50 -0700
From: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Joshua Washington <joshwash@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	Ankit Garg <nktgrg@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] gve: Improve RX buffer length management

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:22:22 -0700 Joshua Washington wrote:
> > This patch series improves the management of the RX buffer length for
> > the DQO queue format in the gve driver. The goal is to make RX buffer
> > length config more explicit, easy to change, and performant by default.
>
> I suppose this was done in prep for later buffers for ZC?
> It's less urgent given the change of plans in
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251016184031.66c92962@kernel.org/
> but still relevant AFAICT. Just wanted to confirm.. Mina?

This is very likely unrelated to the large ZC buffers and instead
related to another effort we're preparing for. Not really 'urgent' but
as always a bit pressing :D

-- 
Thanks,
Mina