Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v1 2/4] net: introduce abstraction for network memory

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Dec 15 2023 - 21:52:15 EST


On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:05:25 -0800 Mina Almasry wrote:
> +struct netmem {
> + union {
> + struct page page;
> +
> + /* Stub to prevent compiler implicitly converting from page*
> + * to netmem_t* and vice versa.
> + *
> + * Other memory type(s) net stack would like to support
> + * can be added to this union.
> + */
> + void *addr;
> + };
> +};

My mind went to something like:

typedef unsigned long __bitwise netmem_ref;

instead. struct netmem does not exist, it's a handle which has
to be converted to a real type using a helper.