linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net/macb: Use dmapool to align descriptors on 64bits

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Date:	Tue, 4 Dec 2012 18:18:54 +0100
From:	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joachim Eastwood <manabian@...il.com>,
	Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@...osoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/macb: Use dmapool to align descriptors on 64bits

On 12/03/2012 03:01 PM, Ben Hutchings :
> On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 13:15 +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
>> Depending on datapath, some revisions of GEM need
>> 64bits aligned descriptors. Use dmapool to allocate
>> these descriptors.
>> Note that different size between RX and TX rings
>> leads to the creation of two pools.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
> [...]
> 
> dma_alloc_coherent() allocates whole pages, which I think is quite
> enough alignment.  You can't save memory by doing this, since each pool
> needs at least one page.  So what is this change meant to achieve?

Well... I guess we can forget this patch then ;-)

Thanks, best regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre
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