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From: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 10:15:08 -0700
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v8 02/14] net: page_pool: create hooks for
 custom page providers
To: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 9:55=E2=80=AFAM Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.c=
om> wrote:
>
> On 5/7/24 17:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 01:18:57PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 05:05:12PM +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> >>>> even in tree if you give them enough rope, and they should not have
> >>>> that rope when the only sensible options are page/folio based kernel
> >>>> memory (incuding large/huge folios) and dmabuf.
> >>>
> >>> I believe there is at least one deep confusion here, considering you
> >>> previously mentioned Keith's pre-mapping patches. The "hooks" are not
> >>> that about in what format you pass memory, it's arguably the least
> >>> interesting part for page pool, more or less it'd circulate whatever
> >>> is given. It's more of how to have a better control over buffer lifet=
ime
> >>> and implement a buffer pool passing data to users and empty buffers
> >>> back.
> >>
> >> Isn't that more or less exactly what dmabuf is? Why do you need
> >> another almost dma-buf thing for another project?
> >
> > That's the exact point I've been making since the last round of
> > the series.  We don't need to reinvent dmabuf poorly in every
> > subsystem, but instead fix the odd parts in it and make it suitable
> > for everyone.
>
> Someone would need to elaborate how dma-buf is like that addition
> to page pool infra.

I think I understand what Jason is requesting here, and I'll take a
shot at elaborating. AFAICT what he's saying is technically feasible
and addresses the nack while giving you the uapi you want. It just
requires a bit (a lot?) of work on your end unfortunately.

CONFIG_UDMABUF takes in a memfd, converts it to a dmabuf, and returns
it to userspace. See udmabuf_create().

I think what Jason is saying here, is that you can write similar code
to udmabuf_creat() that takes in a io_uring memory region, and
converts it to a dmabuf inside the kernel.

I haven't looked at your series yet too closely (sorry!), but I assume
you currently have a netlink API that binds an io_uring memory region
to the NIC rx-queue page_pool, right? That netlink API would need to
be changed to:

1. Take in the io_uring memory.
2. Convert it to a dmabuf like udmabuf_create() does.
3. Bind the resulting dmabuf to the rx-queue page_pool.

There would be more changes needed vis-a-vis the clean up path and
lifetime management, but I think this is the general idea.

This would give you the uapi you want, while the page_pool never seen
non-dmabuf memory (addresses the nack, I think).


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Thanks,
Mina