On 2/9/2026 4:45 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> The buffer freeing function for the simple scalar Tx path is almost
> identical in both ice and i40e drivers, except that the i40e has
> batching for the FAST_FREE case. Consolidate both functions into a
> common one based off the better i40e version.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson<bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/intel/common/tx.h        |  3 ++
>   drivers/net/intel/common/tx_scalar.h | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c   | 63 +---------------------------
>   drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_rxtx.c     | 45 +-------------------
>   4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/common/tx.h b/drivers/net/intel/common/tx.h
> index ef6d543e7a..67378a0803 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/intel/common/tx.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/intel/common/tx.h
> @@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ enum ci_tx_l2tag1_field {
>   /* Common TX maximum burst size for chunked transmission in simple paths */
>   #define CI_TX_MAX_BURST 32
>   
> +/* Common TX maximum free buffer size for batched bulk freeing */
> +#define CI_TX_MAX_FREE_BUF_SZ 64
> +
same here, eventually it would be good to replace all the rest {IXGBE, 
I40E, ICE, RTE_FM10K}_TX_MAX_FREE_BUF_SZ  with this
<snip>
>
Acked-by: Vladimir Medvedkin <vladimir.medvedkin@intel.com>

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Regards,
Vladimir