Re: Ping-Pong Compatible DMA buffer chaining

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2006-01-04 at 10:58 +0530, Deven Balani wrote:
> My hardware has two Buffers B0 and B1 for both Tx and Rx path.
> I had to fill the first buffer initially and then _continue_ a walk
> through the sg list with help of buffer completion interrupts of B0 &
> B1.

This looks workable to me. You can possibly also use the max_Sectors
field in the sht to simplify the logic by letting the kernel split the
sg entries before they become too large for your hardware.

Alan

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