Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: netmem: add net_iov_area freelist helpers

[Pavel Begunkov]

On 9/24/26 16:02, Mina Almasry wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 1:43 PM Stanislav Fomichev <sdf.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > io_uring zero-copy receive and devmem both maintain a bounded LIFO for
> > net_iovs in a contiguous area. Store the freelist in struct net_iov_area
> > and provide common push and pop helpers.
> >
> > Leave synchronization to area owners. Keep devmem's area adjacent to its
>
> This could be a follow up change, but I think synchronization should
> be provided by the netmem/niov infra, rather than the area owners. TBH
> the infra providing an unsynchronized data structure and letting the
> area owner use it and shoot themselves in the foot feels error prone.
> For now we could use a comment.

I don't think we want it. The duplication is minor, but I'm not set
on the per area index array approach, and it'd make changing it
more difficult.

> I also think we should not provide _push and_pop functions, rather we
> should provide _push_bulk() and _pop_bulk(), and the caller can decide
> to only push and pop 1 at a time if they need to. The reason is that
> in allocation paths, we almost always want to alloc in bulk. If the
> infra had the lock it could lock once and alloc a bulk.
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Pavel Begunkov