Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v1 2/4] net: introduce abstraction for network memory

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On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:05:25 -0800 Mina Almasry wrote:
> +struct netmem {
> +	union {
> +		struct page page;
> +
> +		/* Stub to prevent compiler implicitly converting from page*
> +		 * to netmem_t* and vice versa.
> +		 *
> +		 * Other memory type(s) net stack would like to support
> +		 * can be added to this union.
> +		 */
> +		void *addr;
> +	};
> +};

My mind went to something like:

typedef unsigned long __bitwise netmem_ref;

instead. struct netmem does not exist, it's a handle which has 
to be converted to a real type using a helper.




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