netdev - Re: DMA allocation driver defined limit?

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Date:	Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:41:48 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Javier Domingo <javierdo1@...il.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DMA allocation driver defined limit?

On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 20:18 +0200, Javier Domingo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to find how big can the DMA memory be, as I haven't found
> anything in the docs that describes exactly a general size of DMA
> allocation, I have supposed that it depends entirely on the card.

Right.

> As a general approach, is it alright to suppose that the DMA memory
> will be as big as the internal memory of the network card?

I don't see what the network card's memory has got to do with it.  I
would expect that you can allocate and DMA-map much more memory (number
of rings * number of descriptors per ring * maximum length of
descriptor).

> The real question here is, when using DMA, the driver has a limit of
> packet size or a limit of sk_buffs it can receive? For me is like
> there should be a size limit (althought I suppose there can't be
> unlimited skbuffs).
> 
> Thanks for your attention and looking back for a replay,

Before you deliver an skb up the stack, you must DMA-unmap the header
area.  The stack then takes care of limiting the amount of memory in
use.

Ben.

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