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To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/14] Spidernet DMA coalescing
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Linas Vepstas wrote:
> The current driver code performs 512 DMA mappings of a bunch of 
> 32-byte ring descriptor structures. This is silly, as they are 
> all in contiguous memory. This patch changes the code to 
> dma_map_coherent() each rx/tx ring as a whole.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
> Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

applied 1-13 of 14 to netdev-2.6.git#upstream