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From: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
To: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Bryan Whitehead <bryan.whitehead@microchip.com>,
	David S Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v1] lan743x: fix ethernet frame cutoff issue
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:19:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGngYiXyQEui8+OiVQXe1UeypQvny_hr=qtuOri7r2guxVDm9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0bf00feb-a588-12e1-d606-4a5d7d45e0b3@linux.ibm.com>

Hi Julian,

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:53 AM Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On a cursory glance, using __netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() here should
> allow you to get rid of all the RX_HEAD_PADDING gymnastics.
>
> And also avoid the need for setting RX_CFG_B_RX_PAD_2_, as the
> NET_IP_ALIGN part would no longer get dma-mapped.

That's an excellent suggestion, and I'll definitely keep that in mind
for the future.

In this case, I'm not sure if it could work. This NIC has multi-buffer
frames. The dma-ed skbs represent frame fragments. A flag in the
descriptor ring indicates if an skb is "first". If first, we can
reserve the padding. Otherwise, we cannot. because that would corrupt
a fragment in the middle. At the time of skb allocation, we do not
know whether that skb will be "first".

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c?h=v5.12-rc7#n2125

Maybe I'm missing a trick here? Feel free to suggest improvements,
it's always much appreciated.

Sven

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-14 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-09  0:39 [PATCH net v1] lan743x: fix ethernet frame cutoff issue Sven Van Asbroeck
2021-04-09  1:02 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-04-09  1:13   ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2021-04-09 14:12 ` George McCollister
2021-04-09 14:38   ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2021-04-09 20:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2021-04-14 12:53 ` Julian Wiedmann
2021-04-14 13:19   ` Sven Van Asbroeck [this message]
2021-04-14 13:33     ` Julian Wiedmann
2021-04-14 13:40       ` Sven Van Asbroeck

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