On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:39:51 +0100 Pavel Begunkov wrote:

On 8/20/25 03:31, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:57:16 +0100 Pavel Begunkov wrote:  

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Jakub Kicinski (20):  

I think we need to revisit how we operate.
When we started the ZC work w/ io-uring I suggested a permanent shared
branch. That's perhaps an overkill. What I did not expect is that you
will not even CC netdev@ on changes to io_uring/zcrx.*

I don't mean to assert any sort of ownership of that code, but you're
not meeting basic collaboration standards for the kernel. This needs
to change first.  

You're throwing quite allegations. Basic collaboration standards don't
include spamming people with unrelated changes via an already busy list.
I cc'ed netdev on patches that meaningfully change how it interacts
(incl indirectly) with netdev and/or might be of interest, which is
beyond of the usual standard expected of a project using infrastructure
provided by a subsystem.

To me iouring is a fancy syscall layer. It's good at its job, sure,
but saying that netdev provides infrastructure to a syscall layer is
laughable.

There are pieces that don't touch netdev, like
how io_uring pins pages, accounts memory, sets up rings, etc. In the
very same way generic io_uring patches are not normally posted to
netdev, and netdev patches are not redirected to mm because there
are kmalloc calls, even though, it's not even the standard used here.

I'm asking you to CC netdev, and people who work on ZC like Mina.
Normal reaction to someone asking to be CCed on patches is "Sure."
I don't understand what you're afraid of.

If you have some way you want to work, I'd appreciate a clear
indication of that, because that message you mentioned was answered
and I've never heard any objection, or anything else really.

It honestly didn't cross my mind that you'd only CC netdev on patches
which touch code under net/. I'd have let you know sooner but it's hard
to reply to messages one doesn't see. I found out that there's whole
bunch of ZC work that landed in iouring from talking to David Wei.