From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 2/3] qlge: Allow RX buf rings to be > than 4096 bytes. Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:37:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090611.023719.251163841.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1244684975-10211-1-git-send-email-ron.mercer@qlogic.com> <1244684975-10211-2-git-send-email-ron.mercer@qlogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: ron.mercer@qlogic.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54296 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760842AbZFKJhR (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:37:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1244684975-10211-2-git-send-email-ron.mercer@qlogic.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ron Mercer Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:49:34 -0700 > RX buffer rings can be comprised of non-contiguous fixed > size chunks of memory. The ring is given to the hardware > as a pointer to a location that stores the location of > the queue. If the queue is greater than 4096 bytes then > the hardware gets a list of said pointers. > This patch addes the necessary logic to generate the list if > the queue size exceeds 4096. > > Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer Applied.