netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX

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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:10:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kys@...rosoft.com
Cc:	David.Laight@...LAB.COM, alexander.duyck@...il.com,
	haiyangz@...rosoft.com, vkuznets@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jasowang@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V

From: KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:52:01 +0000

> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Have a pre-cooked ring of buffers for these descriptors that you can
>> point the chip at.  No per-packet allocation is necessary at all.
> 
> Even if I had a ring of buffers, I would still need to manage the life cycle
> of these buffers - selecting an unused one on the transmit path and marking
> it used (atomically).

Have one per TX ring entry, then the lifetime matches the lifetime of the
TX entry itself and therefore you need do nothing.

That's the whole idea.
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