Re: [PATCH net-next v6 1/9] netmem: introduce struct netmem_desc mirroring struct page
From: Byungchul Park
Date: Mon Jun 23 2025 - 06:28:51 EST
On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 11:32:16AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 20.06.25 06:12, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > To simplify struct page, the page pool members of struct page should be
> > moved to other, allowing these members to be removed from struct page.
> >
> > Introduce a network memory descriptor to store the members, struct
> > netmem_desc, and make it union'ed with the existing fields in struct
> > net_iov, allowing to organize the fields of struct net_iov.
>
> It would be great adding some result from the previous discussions in
> here, such as that the layout of "struct net_iov" can be changed because
> it is not a "struct page" overlay, what the next steps based on this
I think the network folks already know how to use and interpret their
data struct, struct net_iov for sure.. but I will add the comment if it
you think is needed. Thanks for the comment.
Byungchul
> patch are etc.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David / dhildenb