netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 RE-SEND 1/7] net: sxgbe: add basic framework for Samsung 10Gb ethernet driver

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Message-ID: <20140316231101.GA23765@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:11:01 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	"Andrew.an" <bh74.an@...sung.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, ilho215.lee@...sung.com,
	siva.kallam@...sung.com, vipul.pandya@...sung.com,
	ks.giri@...sung.com, "'Joe Perches'" <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 RE-SEND 1/7] net: sxgbe: add basic framework for
 Samsung 10Gb ethernet driver

Andrew.an <bh74.an@...sung.com> :
[...]
> > > +struct sxgbe_core_ops {
> > > +	/* MAC core initialization */
> > > +	void (*core_init)(void __iomem *ioaddr);
[...]
> > > +	/* adjust SXGBE speed */
> > > +	void (*set_speed)(void __iomem *ioaddr, unsigned char speed);
> > > +};
> > 
> > This indirection level is never used.
> Those are used, can you give more detail?

They are used but they always point to the same set of methods.
Those methods could thus be directly called.

[...]
> > > +/* SXGBE private data structures */
> > > +struct sxgbe_tx_queue {
> > > +	u8 queue_no;
> > > +	unsigned int irq_no;
> > > +	struct sxgbe_priv_data *priv_ptr;
> > > +	struct sxgbe_tx_norm_desc *dma_tx;
> > 
> > You may lay things a bit differently.
> can you give more detail?

Bigger fields first, u8 at the end. It will save padding in the struct.

-- 
Ueimor
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