Re: [PATCH net 1/2] r8152: fix the sw rx checksum is unavailable

[Mark Lord]

On 16-11-24 01:34 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
>From tracing through the powerpc arch code, this is the buffer that
> is being directly DMA'd into.  And the USB layer does an invalidate_dcache
> on that entire buffer before initiating the DMA (confirmed via printk).

Slight correction:  the invalidate_dcache_range() is only done when
using kmalloc'd buffers.  I have converted the driver here
to use usb_alloc_coherent() instead, so that now gets skipped
since the memory is never cached.