netdev - Re: [EXT] Re: [net PATCH] octeon_ep: fix tx dma unmap len values in SG

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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 05:49:05 +0000
From: Shinas Rasheed <srasheed@...vell.com>
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Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [net PATCH] octeon_ep: fix tx dma unmap len values in
 SG

Hi Paolo, Hi Simon,


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Subject: [EXT] Re: [net PATCH] octeon_ep: fix tx dma unmap len values in SG 
 
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>I guess Simon intended asking about octep_iq_free_pending(), and AFAICT
your reply confirm that the change is required there, too.

You are correct in that the change is also required in octep_iq_free_pending as well. Thanks for pointing that out!
I will submit another version of this patchset including that.

>Additionally the changelog really need to be expanded. I don't
understand how this change relates to endianess: if the ring format is
big endian I expect some be16_to_cpu(len) instead of complement-to-4 of
indexes.


The bytes are in itself not big endian, but rather the each of the 16 bytes are kept in memory in
a kind of big-endian order. Apologizing for the confusion.

63              48 47             32  31           16 15       0
|      Len0       |     Len1         |   Len2         |   Len3  |

I shall provide an ascii figure like above in the code to explain and also update the changelog accordingly. Thanks for your time!