From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: me@tobin.cc (Tobin C. Harding)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 16:34:21 +1000
Subject: tx path circular buffer
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:48:33AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 04:03:33PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am attempting to implement a circular buffer for the tx path of a
> > networking driver. From my understanding this is something that is
> > very common, yet I am struggling to find a clear way to do it.
> 
> Have you looked at include/linux/kfifo.h?

thanks Greg, I ended up using kfifo for the tx path and circ_buf for
the rx path.

Tobin.