From: KY Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:52:01 +0000
> > >> -----Original Message----- >> Have a pre-cooked ring of buffers for these descriptors that you can >> point the chip at. No per-packet allocation is necessary at all. > > Even if I had a ring of buffers, I would still need to manage the life cycle > of these buffers - selecting an unused one on the transmit path and marking > it used (atomically). Have one per TX ring entry, then the lifetime matches the lifetime of the TX entry itself and therefore you need do nothing. That's the whole idea. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
