linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] liquidio: stop using huge static buffer, save 4096k in .data

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Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:17:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     felix.manlunas@...ium.com
Cc:     Derek.Chickles@...ium.com, dvlasenk@...hat.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Prasad.Kanneganti@...ium.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] liquidio: stop using huge static buffer, save 4096k in
 .data

From: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...ium.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:51:25 -0700

> From: Derek Chickles <Derek.Chickles@...ium.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:15:34 -0700
> 
>> > From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 12:22 PM
>> > 
>> > From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
>> > Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:50:52 +0200
>> > 
>> > > Only compile-tested - I don't have the hardware.
>> > >
>> > > From code inspection, octeon_pci_write_core_mem() appears to be safe wrt
>> > > unaligned source. In any case, u8 fbuf[] was not guaranteed to be aligned
>> > > anyway.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
>> > 
>> > Looks good to me but I'll let one of the liquidio guys review this first
>> > before I apply it.
>> 
>> Felix is going to try this out this week to confirm. Let's wait for his ack.
> 
> This patch works.  I tested it with a LiquidIO II adapter.
> 
> ACK

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Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

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