From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Daniel Thompson' <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>,
Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Cc: "linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org" <linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH RESEND net-next 1/2] dpaa2-eth: send a scatter-gather FD instead of realloc-ing
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 09:30:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4e033fe17674685b64a60055c68704e@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201210173156.mbizovo6rxvkda73@holly.lan>
From: Daniel Thompson
> Sent: 10 December 2020 17:32
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 06:47:11PM +0000, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> > Instead of realloc-ing the skb on the Tx path when the provided headroom
> > is smaller than the HW requirements, create a Scatter/Gather frame
> > descriptor with only one entry.
Is it worth simplifying the code by permanently allocating (and dma-mapping)
the extra structure for every ring entry.
It is (probably) only one page and 1 iommu entry.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-11 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20200629184712.12449-2-ioana.ciornei () nxp ! com>
2020-12-10 17:31 ` [PATCH RESEND net-next 1/2] dpaa2-eth: send a scatter-gather FD instead of realloc-ing Daniel Thompson
2020-12-10 18:06 ` Ioana Ciornei
2020-12-11 7:21 ` Jon Nettleton
2020-12-11 14:01 ` Ioana Ciornei
2020-12-11 16:29 ` Daniel Thompson
2020-12-11 16:54 ` Ioana Ciornei
2020-12-12 15:58 ` Jon Nettleton
2020-12-12 19:31 ` Ioana Ciornei
2020-12-11 9:30 ` David Laight [this message]
2020-12-11 9:38 ` Ioana Ciornei
2020-12-11 10:03 ` David Laight
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