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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/14] Spidernet DMA coalescing
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:09:11 -0500
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Ishizaki Kou <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp>,
	Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@gmx.de>,
	James K Lewis <jim@jklewis.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
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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