Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/6] net: unify symmetric netmem and page_pool refcounting
From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Oct 20 2026 - 18:03:18 EST
On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:23:03 -0700 Mina Almasry wrote:
> This is awesome. For years the skb refcounting annoyed the hell out of
> me. I couldn't fix it on my own; there were too many edge cases I
> didn't thoroughly understand and could break. LLMs made this possible.
> Thanks!
You should have followed more modern naming patterns tho
get_netmem() is pretty bad IMO. PP naming is object_action()
so netmem_ref() or netmem_inc_ref() would be better, no?