Tony Nguyen says:
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net: intel: start The Great Code Dedup + Page Pool for iavf
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.
* '40GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue:
MAINTAINERS: add entry for libeth and libie
iavf: switch to Page Pool
iavf: pack iavf_ring more efficiently
libeth: add Rx buffer management
page_pool: add DMA-sync-for-CPU inline helper
page_pool: constify some read-only function arguments
slab: introduce kvmalloc_array_node() and kvcalloc_node()
iavf: drop page splitting and recycling
iavf: kill "legacy-rx" for good
net: intel: introduce {, Intel} Ethernet common library
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240424203559.3420468-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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