RE: [PATCH] liquidio: stop using huge static buffer, save 4096k in .data

From: Chickles, Derek
Date: Tue Jun 20 2017 - 16:15:53 EST


> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 12:22 PM
>
> From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:50:52 +0200
>
> > Only compile-tested - I don't have the hardware.
> >
> > From code inspection, octeon_pci_write_core_mem() appears to be safe wrt
> > unaligned source. In any case, u8 fbuf[] was not guaranteed to be aligned
> > anyway.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks good to me but I'll let one of the liquidio guys review this first
> before I apply it.

Felix is going to try this out this week to confirm. Let's wait for his ack.