On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:02:51 -0700 Alexander Duyck <alexander.du...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Have you taken a look at possibly trying to optimize the DMA pool API
> to work with pages?  It sounds like it is supposed to do something
> similar to what you are wanting to do.

Yes, I have looked at the mm/dmapool.c API. AFAIK this is for DMA
coherent memory (see use of dma_alloc_coherent/dma_free_coherent). 

What we are doing is "streaming" DMA memory, when processing the RX
ring.

(NIC are only using DMA coherent memory for the descriptors, which are
allocated on driver init)
-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

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