From: me@tobin.cc (Tobin C. Harding)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: tx path circular buffer
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 16:34:21 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170608063421.GH2747@eros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170607084833.GA13755@kroah.com>
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.
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2017-06-07 6:03 tx path circular buffer Tobin C. Harding
2017-06-07 8:48 ` Greg KH
2017-06-08 6:34 ` Tobin C. Harding [this message]
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