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Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v5 03/14] page_pool: avoid
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To:     Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
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From:   Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
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Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:20:44 +0800
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On 2023/11/30 19:58, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:46:11 +0800
> 
>> On 2023/11/29 21:17, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>>> From: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 11:17:50 +0800
>>>
>>>> On 2023/11/27 22:32, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris, any thoughts on a global flag for skipping DMA syncs ladder?
>>>>
>>>> It seems there was one already in the past:
>>>>
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/7c55a4d7-b4aa-25d4-1917-f6f355bd722e@arm.com/T/
>>>
>>> It addresses a different problem, meaningless indirect calls, while this
>>> one addresses meaningless direct calls :>
>>> When the above gets merged, we could combine these two into one global,
>>> but Eric wasn't active with his patch and I remember there were some
>>> problems, so I wouldn't count on that it will arrive soon.
>>
>> I went through the above patch, It seems to me that there was no
>> fundamental problem that stopping us from implementing it in the dma
>> layer basing on Eric' patch if Eric is no longer interested in working
>> on a newer version?
> 
> I'm somewhat interested in continuing working on Eric's patch, but not
> now. Have some urgent projects to work on, I could take this in January
> I guess...
> This PP-specific shortcut was done earlier and gives good boosts. It
> would be trivial to remove it together with the XSk shortcut once a
> generic both indirect and direct call DMA shortcut lands.
> Does this sounds good / justified enough? Or you and other
> reviewers/maintainers would prefer to wait for the generic one without
> taking this patch?
> 

I would prefer we could wait for the generic one as there is only about one
month between now and january:)