[PATCH net-next v10 02/14] net: page_pool: create hooks for custom page providers

[David Ahern]

On 6/10/24 6:16 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 02:07:01AM +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> On 6/10/24 01:37, David Wei wrote:
>>> On 2024-06-07 17:52, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>>> IMHO it seems to compose poorly if you can only use the io_uring
>>>> lifecycle model with io_uring registered memory, and not with DMABUF
>>>> memory registered through Mina's mechanism.
>>>
>>> By this, do you mean io_uring must be exclusively used to use this
>>> feature?
>>>
>>> And you'd rather see the two decoupled, so userspace can register w/ say
>>> dmabuf then pass it to io_uring?
>>
>> Personally, I have no clue what Jason means. You can just as
>> well say that it's poorly composable that write(2) to a disk
>> cannot post a completion into a XDP ring, or a netlink socket,
>> or io_uring's main completion queue, or name any other API.
> 
> There is no reason you shouldn't be able to use your fast io_uring
> completion and lifecycle flow with DMABUF backed memory. Those are not
> widly different things and there is good reason they should work
> together.
> 
> Pretending they are totally different just because two different
> people wrote them is a very siloed view.
> 
>> The devmem TCP callback can implement it in a way feasible to
>> the project, but it cannot directly post events to an unrelated
>> API like io_uring. And devmem attaches buffers to a socket,
>> for which a ring for returning buffers might even be a nuisance.
> 
> If you can't compose your io_uring completion mechanism with a DMABUF
> provided backing store then I think it needs more work.
> 

exactly. io_uring, page_pool, dmabuf - all kernel building blocks for
solutions. This why I was pushing for Mina's set not to be using the
name `devmem` - it is but one type of memory and with dmabuf it should
not matter if it is gpu or host (or something else later on - cxl?).