netdev - Re: [PATCH V4 net 5/5] net: stmmac: re-init rx buffers when mac resume back

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Date:   Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:47:37 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Joakim Zhang <qiangqing.zhang@....com>
Cc:     "peppe.cavallaro@...com" <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        "alexandre.torgue@...com" <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        "joabreu@...opsys.com" <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 net 5/5] net: stmmac: re-init rx buffers when mac
 resume back

On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 07:52:46 +0000 Joakim Zhang wrote:
> > I'm not sure why you recycle and reallocate every buffer. Isn't it enough to
> > reinitialize the descriptors with the buffers which are already allocated?  
> 
> As I know, the receive buffer address is not fixed after allocated,
> it will recycle and re-allocate in stmmac_rx(), where to handle the
> receive buffers.

Not sure what you mean by that. The driver must know the addresses of
the memory it allocated and handed over to the device.

> It should be enough to re-initialize the descriptors with the buffers
> if it is possible. Could you point me how to do it?