Merge branch '40GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue
Tony Nguyen says: ==================== 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 ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240424203559.3420468-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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