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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net-next, PATCH 1/2] net: socionext: different approach on DMA
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2018 19:42:59 -0800 (PST)
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From: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Date: Thu,  8 Nov 2018 17:19:54 +0200

> Current driver dynamically allocates an skb and maps it as DMA Rx
> buffer. In order to prepare for upcoming XDP changes, let's introduce a
> different allocation scheme.
> Buffers are allocated dynamically and mapped into hardware.
> During the Rx operation the driver uses build_skb() to produce the
> necessary buffers for the network stack.
> This change increases performance ~15% on 64b packets with smmu disabled
> and ~5% with smmu enabled
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>

Applied.