Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v1 4/4] net: page_pool: use netmem_t instead of struct page in API

From: Shakeel Butt
Date: Thu Dec 14 2023 - 21:11:30 EST


On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 08:27:55AM -0800, Mina Almasry wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 4:05 AM Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
[...]
> > I perfer the second one personally, as devmem means that it is not
> > readable from cpu.
>
> From my POV it has to be the first one. We want to abstract the memory
> type from the drivers as much as possible, not introduce N new memory
> types and ask the driver to implement new code for each of them
> separately.
>

Agree with Mina's point. Let's aim to decouple memory types from
drivers.