netdev - Re: [net-next 0/7] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:18:01 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	aaron.f.brown@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/7] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates

From: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:29:58 -0800

> This series contains updates from Emil to ixgbevf.
> 
> He cleans up the code by removing the adapter structure as a
> parameter from multiple functions in favor of using the ixgbevf_ring
> structure and moves hot-path specific statistic int the ring 
> structure for anticipated performance gains.
> 
> He also removes the Tx/Rx counters for checksum offload and adds 
> counters for tx_restart_queue and tx_timeout_count.
> 
> Next he makes it so that the first tx_buffer structure acts as a
> central storage location for most the skb info we are about to
> transmit, then takes advantage of the dma buffer always being
> present in the first descriptor and mapped as single allowing a 
> call to dma_unmap_single which alleviates the need to check for
> DMA mapping in ixgbevf_clean_tx_irq().  
> 
> Finally he merges the ixgbevf_tx_map call and the ixgbevf_tx_queue
> call into a single function.

Series applied, thanks.
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