Re: [PATCH net-next v6 1/9] netmem: introduce struct netmem_desc mirroring struct page

[David Hildenbrand]

On 23.06.25 12:28, Byungchul Park wrote:
> 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.

Well, you CC MM folks like me ... :)

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David / dhildenb