netdev - RE: [PATCH] liquidio: stop using huge static buffer, save 4096k in .data

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Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2017 20:15:34 +0000
From:   "Chickles, Derek" <Derek.Chickles@...ium.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "dvlasenk@...hat.com" <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Manlunas, Felix" <Felix.Manlunas@...ium.com>,
        "Kanneganti, Prasad" <Prasad.Kanneganti@...ium.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] liquidio: stop using huge static buffer, save 4096k in
 .data

> 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.