On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 04:35:16PM +0000, Pavel Begunkov wrote: > I see, the reply is about your phrase about additional memory > abstractions: > > "... don't really need to build memory buffer abstraction over > memory buffer abstraction." Yes, over the exsting memory buffer abstraction (dma_buf). > If you mean internals, making up a dmabuf that has never existed in the > picture in the first place is not cleaner or easier in any way. If that > changes, e.g. there is more code to reuse in the future, we can unify it > then. I'm not sure what "making up" means here, they are all made up :) > > with pre-registering the memry with the iommu to get good performance > > in IOMMU-enabled setups. > > The page pool already does that just like it handles the normal > path without providers. In which case is basically is a dma-buf. If you'd expose it as such we could actually use to communicate between subsystems in the kernel.
