Re: [RFC PATCH v3 10/12] tcp: RX path for devmem TCP

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On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 3:55 PM David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 11/6/23 4:32 PM, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> >> The concise notification API returns tokens as a range for
> >> compression, encoding as two 32-bit unsigned integers start + length.
> >> It allows for even further batching by returning multiple such ranges
> >> in a single call.
> >
> > Tangential: should tokens be u64? Otherwise we can't have more than
> > 4gb unacknowledged. Or that's a reasonable constraint?
> >
>
> Was thinking the same and with bits reserved for a dmabuf id to allow
> multiple dmabufs in a single rx queue (future extension, but build the
> capability in now). e.g., something like a 37b offset (128GB dmabuf
> size), 19b length (large GRO), 8b dmabuf id (lots of dmabufs to a queue).

Agreed. Converting to 64b now sounds like a good forward looking revision.





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