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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v1 4/4] net: page_pool: use netmem_t instead
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To: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
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On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 08:27:55AM -0800, Mina Almasry wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 4:05=E2=80=AFAM Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.=
com> wrote:
> >
[...]
> > I perfer the second one personally, as devmem means that it is not
> > readable from cpu.
>=20
> From my POV it has to be the first one. We want to abstract the memory
> type from the drivers as much as possible, not introduce N new memory
> types and ask the driver to implement new code for each of them
> separately.
>=20

Agree with Mina's point. Let's aim to decouple memory types from
drivers.