Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V

[David Miller]

From: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:52:01 +0000

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> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Have a pre-cooked ring of buffers for these descriptors that you can
>> point the chip at.  No per-packet allocation is necessary at all.
> 
> Even if I had a ring of buffers, I would still need to manage the life cycle
> of these buffers - selecting an unused one on the transmit path and marking
> it used (atomically).

Have one per TX ring entry, then the lifetime matches the lifetime of the
TX entry itself and therefore you need do nothing.

That's the whole idea.
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