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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] net/szedata2: refactor ibuf and obuf
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Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 13:41:30 +0100
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On 5/26/2017 7:05 PM, Matej Vido wrote:
> This is to prepare for firmwares with multiple ibufs and obufs.
> Offsets of ibufs and obufs are defined in array.

I was thinking ibufs and obufs as queues, but since link functions
updated per ibufs it looks like ports, can you please provide some
information what is ibufs and obufs?

What is the benefit of having multiple ibufs and obufs?

> Functions which operate on ibufs and obufs iterate over this array.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matej Vido <vido@cesnet.cz>
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