Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] rust: Add IO polling

From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Sat Oct 12 2024 - 22:50:59 EST


On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:15:05 +0900 (JST)
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 08:29:06 -0700
> Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> While, we are at it, I want to suggest that we also add
>> rust/kernel/time{.rs, /} into the "F:" entries of TIME subsystem like:
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index b77f4495dcf4..09e46a214333 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -23376,6 +23376,8 @@ F: kernel/time/timeconv.c
>> F: kernel/time/timecounter.c
>> F: kernel/time/timekeeping*
>> F: kernel/time/time_test.c
>> +F: rust/kernel/time.rs
>> +F: rust/kernel/time/
>> F: tools/testing/selftests/timers/
>>
>> TIPC NETWORK LAYER
>>
>> This will help future contributers copy the correct people while
>> submission. Could you maybe add a patch of this in your series if this
>> sounds reasonable to you? Thanks!
>
> Agreed that it's better to have Rust time abstractions in
> MAINTAINERS. You add it into the time entry but there are two options
> in the file; time and timer?
>
> TIMEKEEPING, CLOCKSOURCE CORE, NTP, ALARMTIMER
> M: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> M: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> R: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> HIGH-RESOLUTION TIMERS, TIMER WHEEL, CLOCKEVENTS
> M: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> M: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> M: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The current Rust abstractions which play mainly with ktimer.h. it's
> not time, timer stuff, I think.

Oops, s/ktimer.h/ktime.h/

No entry for ktime.h in MAINTAINERS; used by both time and timer
stuff.

> As planned, we'll move *.rs files from rust/kernel in the future,
> how we handle time and timer abstractions?

Looks like that we'll add rust/kernel/hrtimer/ soon. I feel that it's
better to decide on the layout of time and timer abstractions now
rather than later.