netdev - Re: [PATCH, net-next, v3] ibmvnic: store RX and TX subCRQ handle array in ibmvnic

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Message-Id: <20200819.153841.119397707962960845.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:38:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     cforno12@...ux.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, drt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, net-next, v3] ibmvnic: store RX and TX subCRQ handle
 array in ibmvnic_adapter struct

From: Cristobal Forno <cforno12@...ux.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:16:23 -0500

> Currently the driver reads RX and TX subCRQ handle array directly from
> a DMA-mapped buffer address when it needs to make a H_SEND_SUBCRQ
> hcall. This patch stores that information in the ibmvnic_sub_crq_queue
> structure instead of reading from the buffer received at login. The
> overall goal of this patch is to parse relevant information from the
> login response buffer and store it in the driver's private data
> structures so that we don't need to read directly from the buffer and
> can then free up that memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cristobal Forno <cforno12@...ux.ibm.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.