Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 08/10] net: mvneta: bm: add support for hardware buffer management

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:39:03 +0100 Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
> index b0ae69f84493..2847c0c291de 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
[...]
> -static void *mvneta_frag_alloc(const struct mvneta_port *pp)
> +void *mvneta_frag_alloc(unsigned int frag_size)
>  {
> -	if (likely(pp->frag_size <= PAGE_SIZE))
> -		return netdev_alloc_frag(pp->frag_size);
> +	if (likely(frag_size <= PAGE_SIZE))
> +		return netdev_alloc_frag(frag_size);

(I know you are modifying existing code here.)

Be aware that there is a significant performance advantage of using
napi_alloc_frag() over netdev_alloc_frag().  You obviously can only use
the NAPI call, if you indeed are running in NAPI/BH context.

>  	else
> -		return kmalloc(pp->frag_size, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +		return kmalloc(frag_size, GFP_ATOMIC);
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mvneta_frag_alloc);
  


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  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
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