[PATCH net-next v11 0/6] introduce page_pool_alloc() related API

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Mon Oct 16 18:27:25 PDT 2023


On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:48:20 +0800 Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> v5 RFC: Add a new page_pool_cache_alloc() API, and other minor
>         change as discussed in v4. As there seems to be three
>         comsumers that might be made use of the new API, so
>         repost it as RFC and CC the relevant authors to see
>         if the new API fits their need.

I have looked thru the v4 discussion (admittedly it was pretty huge).
I can't find where the "cache" API was suggested.
And I can't figure out now what the "cache" in the name is referring to.
Looks like these are just convenience wrappers which return VA instead
of struct page..



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