[RFC PATCH 00/10] Device Memory TCP

[David Ahern]

On 7/18/23 12:15 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:06:29 -0300 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> netlink feels like a weird API choice for that, in particular it would
>> be really wrong to somehow bind the lifecycle of a netlink object to a
>> process.
> 
> Netlink is the right API, life cycle of objects can be easily tied to
> a netlink socket.

That is an untuitive connection -- memory references, h/w queues, flow
steering should be tied to the datapath socket, not a control plane socket.