netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] net/mlx5e: RX datapath enhancements

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Message-ID: <aWjyOVQp73jmsmSN@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:57:13 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>,
	Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...dia.com>, Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...dia.com>,
	Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] net/mlx5e: RX datapath enhancements

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 03:22:06PM +0200, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This series by Dragos introduces multiple RX datapath enhancements to
> the mlx5e driver.
> 
> First patch adds SW handling for oversized packets in non-linear SKB
> mode.
> 
> Second patch adds a reclaim mechanism to mitigate memory allocation
> failures with memory providers.
> 
> Third patch moves SHAMPO to use static memory for the headers, rather
> than replenishing the memory from a page_pool.
> This introduces an interesting performance tradeoff where copying the
> header pays off.

Thanks,

This series looks good to me.
I particularly like the code complexity reduction in patch 3/3.

For the series,

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>