Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 00/34] Christmas 3-serie XDP for idpf (+generic stuff)

[Willem de Bruijn]

Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Willem De Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:23:41 -0500
> 
> > Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> >> I was highly asked to send this WIP before the holidays to trigger
> >> some discussions at least for the generic parts.
> >>
> >> This all depends on libie[0] and WB-on-ITR fix[1]. The RFC does not
> >> guarantee to work perfectly, but at least regular XDP seems to work
> >> for me...
> >>
> >> In fact, here are 3 separate series:
> >> * 01-08: convert idpf to libie and make it more sane;
> >> * 09-25: add XDP to idpf;
> >> * 26-34: add XSk to idpf.
> >>
> >> Most people may want to be interested only in the following generic
> >> changes:
> >> * 11: allow attaching already registered memory models to XDP RxQ info;
> >> * 12-13: generic helpers for adding a frag to &xdp_buff and converting
> >>   it to an skb;
> >> * 14: get rid of xdp_frame::mem.id, allow mixing pages from different
> >>   page_pools within one &xdp_buff/&xdp_frame;
> >> * 15: some Page Pool helper;
> >> * 18: it's for libie, but I wanted to talk about XDP_TX bulking;
> >> * 26: same as 13, but for converting XSK &xdp_buff to skb.
> >>
> >> The rest is up to you, driver-specific stuff is pretty boring sometimes.
> >>
> >> I'll be polishing and finishing this all starting January 3rd and then
> >> preparing and sending sane series, some early feedback never hurts tho.
> >>
> >> Merry Yule!
> >>
> >> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231213112835.2262651-1-aleksander.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx
> >> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231215193721.425087-1-michal.kubiak@xxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > This is great. Thanks for sharing the entire series.
> > 
> > Which SHA1 should we apply this to? I'm having a hard time applying
> > cleanly.
> > 
> > The libie v7 series applied cleanly on bc044ae9d64b. Which I chose
> > only based on the follow-on page pool patch.
> > 
> > But that base commit causes too many conflicts when applying this.
> > Patch 6 had a trivial one in idpf_rx_singleq_clean (`skb = rx_q->skb`).
> > But patch 14 has so many conflicts in page_pool.c, that I'm clearly
> > on the wrong track trying to fix up manually.
> 
> net-next was updated while I was preparing the series. I also did a
> couple changes in the basic libie code, but a new rev wasn't sent.
> Please just use my open GH[0].
> 
> [0] https://github.com/alobakin/linux/tree/idpf-libie

Even better, thanks. I'll use that to run my basic XSK tests.