RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v2 5/5] ice: add support for transmitting unreadable frags
From: Nowlin, Alexander
Date: Fri Feb 06 2026 - 11:33:22 EST
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> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v2 5/5] ice: add support for transmitting unreadable frags
>
> Advertise netmem Tx support in ice. The only change needed is to set ICE_TX_BUF_FRAG conditionally, only when skb_frag_is_net_iov() is false. Otherwise, the Tx buffer type will be ICE_TX_BUF_EMPTY and the > driver will skip the DMA unmapping operation.
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> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 1 +
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c | 1 +
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
> 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Tested-by: Alexander Nowlin <alexander.nowlin@xxxxxxxxx>