Hello:
This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:35:47 -0700 you wrote:
> Alexander Lobakin says:
>
> Here's a two-shot: introduce {,Intel} Ethernet common library (libeth and
> libie) and switch iavf to Page Pool. Details are in the commit messages;
> here's a summary:
>
> Not a secret there's a ton of code duplication between two and more Intel
> ethernet modules. Before introducing new changes, which would need to be
> copied over again, start decoupling the already existing duplicate
> functionality into a new module, which will be shared between several
> Intel Ethernet drivers. The first name that came to my mind was
> "libie" -- "Intel Ethernet common library". Also this sounds like
> "lovelie" (-> one word, no "lib I E" pls) and can be expanded as
> "lib Internet Explorer" :P
> The "generic", pure-software part is placed separately, so that it can be
> easily reused in any driver by any vendor without linking to the Intel
> pre-200G guts. In a few words, it's something any modern driver does the
> same way, but nobody moved it level up (yet).
> The series is only the beginning. From now on, adding every new feature
> or doing any good driver refactoring will remove much more lines than add
> for quite some time. There's a basic roadmap with some deduplications
> planned already, not speaking of that touching every line now asks:
> "can I share this?". The final destination is very ambitious: have only
> one unified driver for at least i40e, ice, iavf, and idpf with a struct
> ops for each generation. That's never gonna happen, right? But you still
> can at least try.
> PP conversion for iavf lands within the same series as these two are tied
> closely. libie will support Page Pool model only, so that a driver can't
> use much of the lib until it's converted. iavf is only the example, the
> rest will eventually be converted soon on a per-driver basis. That is
> when it gets really interesting. Stay tech.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [net-next,v11,01/10] net: intel: introduce {, Intel} Ethernet common library
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/306ec721d043
- [net-next,v11,02/10] iavf: kill "legacy-rx" for good
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/53844673d555
- [net-next,v11,03/10] iavf: drop page splitting and recycling
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/920d86f3c552
- [net-next,v11,04/10] slab: introduce kvmalloc_array_node() and kvcalloc_node()
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/a1d6063d9f2f
- [net-next,v11,05/10] page_pool: constify some read-only function arguments
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/ef9226cd56b7
- [net-next,v11,06/10] page_pool: add DMA-sync-for-CPU inline helper
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/ce230f4f8981
- [net-next,v11,07/10] libeth: add Rx buffer management
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/e6c91556b97f
- [net-next,v11,08/10] iavf: pack iavf_ring more efficiently
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/97cadd3d3ce3
- [net-next,v11,09/10] iavf: switch to Page Pool
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/5fa4caff59f2
- [net-next,v11,10/10] MAINTAINERS: add entry for libeth and libie
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/87a927efa7d9
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