Re: Aw: BUG: Wrong dma queue handling in ixp4 driver

[Krzysztof HaÅasa]

Hi Lino,

"Lino Sanfilippo" <LinoSanfilippo@xxxxxx> writes:

>> maybe I miss something, but the ixp4 ethernet driver seems to handle dma pools 
>> in a wrong way: In init_queues() it creates a dma pool for descriptors and then
>>  only allocates a single descriptor from this pool. The author seems to assume the whole
>> table has been allocated already, since after that the complete pool size is zeroed:
>> 
>
> Sorry, I indeed missed something. The allocation is correct. A pool is not required, though,
> since only one chunk is allocated.

Not really: there is one pool for all ports, but each port uses
a separate desc_tab (allocated from that pool).
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

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