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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 08/11] iavf: switch to Page Pool
To:     Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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On 5/16/23 9:18 AM, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> Now that the IAVF driver simply uses dev_alloc_page() + free_page() with
> no custom recycling logics and one whole page per frame, it can easily
> be switched to using Page Pool API instead.

Any plans to add page pool fragmentation support (i.e. 
PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG) in the future to better support architectures with 
larger page sizes such as 64KB on ppc64le?

Dave