Re: [RFC PATCH v3 02/12] net: page_pool: create hooks for custom page providers

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Sun,  5 Nov 2023 18:44:01 -0800 Mina Almasry wrote:
> diff --git a/include/net/page_pool/types.h b/include/net/page_pool/types.h
> index 6fc5134095ed..d4bea053bb7e 100644
> --- a/include/net/page_pool/types.h
> +++ b/include/net/page_pool/types.h
> @@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ struct page_pool_params {
>  	int		nid;
>  	struct device	*dev;
>  	struct napi_struct *napi;
> +	u8		memory_provider;
> +	void            *mp_priv;
>  	enum dma_data_direction dma_dir;
>  	unsigned int	max_len;
>  	unsigned int	offset;

you should rebase on top of net-next

More importantly I was expecting those fields to be gone from params.
The fact that the page pool is configured to a specific provider
should be fully transparent to the driver, driver should just tell
the core what queue its creating the pool from and if there's a dmabuf
bound for that queue - out pops a pp backed by the dmabuf.

My RFC had the page pool params fields here as a hack.