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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: madalin.bucur@nxp.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oss@buserror.net,
	ppc@mindchasers.com, joe@perches.com, pebolle@tiscali.nl,
	joakim.tjernlund@infinera.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 03/10] dpaa_eth: add option to use one buffer pool set
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 12:31:41 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161114.123141.575224690412855747.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM4PR04MB16040D32960405FD16007950ECBC0@AM4PR04MB1604.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>

From: Madalin-Cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@nxp.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:25:13 +0000

> I've introduced this Kconfig option as a backwards compatible option, to
> be able to run comparative tests between the independent buffer pool setup
> and the previous common buffer pool setup. There are not so many reasons
> to use the same buffer pool besides "having the old setup", the memory
> saving is marginal, in all other aspects the separate buffer pools setup
> fares better.
> 
> I'll remove this patch from the next submission. Should anyone care for
> this I can add an entry to the feature backlog to add runtime support but
> it will be quite low in priority.

If it's a debugging feature then that's certainly how this should be
handled.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-14 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-11  8:19 [PATCH net-next v7 00/10] dpaa_eth: Add the QorIQ DPAA Ethernet driver Madalin Bucur
2016-11-11  8:19 ` [PATCH net-next v7 01/10] devres: add devm_alloc_percpu() Madalin Bucur
2016-11-11  8:19 ` [PATCH net-next v7 02/10] dpaa_eth: add support for DPAA Ethernet Madalin Bucur
2016-11-11  8:20 ` [PATCH net-next v7 03/10] dpaa_eth: add option to use one buffer pool set Madalin Bucur
2016-11-13 17:46   ` David Miller
2016-11-14 10:25     ` Madalin-Cristian Bucur
2016-11-14 17:31       ` David Miller [this message]
2016-11-11  8:20 ` [PATCH net-next v7 04/10] dpaa_eth: add ethtool functionality Madalin Bucur
2016-11-11  8:20 ` [PATCH net-next v7 05/10] dpaa_eth: add ethtool statistics Madalin Bucur
2016-11-11  8:20 ` [PATCH net-next v7 06/10] dpaa_eth: add sysfs exports Madalin Bucur
2016-11-11  8:20 ` [PATCH net-next v7 07/10] dpaa_eth: add trace points Madalin Bucur
2016-11-11  8:20 ` [PATCH net-next v7 08/10] arch/powerpc: Enable FSL_PAMU Madalin Bucur
2016-11-11  8:20 ` [PATCH net-next v7 09/10] arch/powerpc: Enable FSL_FMAN Madalin Bucur
2016-11-11  8:20 ` [PATCH net-next v7 10/10] arch/powerpc: Enable dpaa_eth Madalin Bucur

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