Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR

Alexey Zaytsev
2007-05-08T12:47:33Z

On 5/8/07, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> wrote:
...
> As with Christian's driver, I don't know whether an SRAM allocator
> makes much sense. We can just set up a static allocation map for the
> in-tree drivers and leave out the allocator altogether. I.e. I don't
> think it's worth the complexity (and just because the butt-ugly Intel
> code has an allocator isn't a very good reason. :-)

Is the qmgr used when the NPEs are utilized as DMA engines? And is the
allocator needed in this case? If yes, I beg you not to drop it,
because we use one NPE for this purpose, and if we are going to adopt
this driver instead of the intel's one, you will receive a patch
adding DMA functionality very soon. ;)