ravb: minimize TX data copying
authorSergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:42:01 +0000 (23:42 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 27 Jul 2015 08:22:38 +0000 (01:22 -0700)
commit2f45d1902acfc7e6680cfeeb38922dcc7e16deb6
tree5d65107c25abf0912aacc61ea3ecb97796a2f464
parentc22995c5488d7048554d85ee5ee8a269932b0aea
ravb: minimize TX data copying

Renesas Ethernet AVB controller requires that all data are aligned on 4-byte
boundary.  While it's  easily achievable for  the RX  data with  the help of
skb_reserve() (we even align on 128-byte boundary as recommended by the manual),
we  can't  do the same with the TX data, and it always comes  unaligned from
the networking core. Originally we solved it an easy way, copying all packet
to  a  preallocated  aligned buffer; however, it's enough to copy only up to
3 first bytes from each packet, doing the transfer using 2 TX descriptors
instead of just 1. Here's an implementation of the new  TX algorithm that
significantly reduces the driver's memory requirements.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c