Re: [PATCH v5 10/17] net: sgi: ioc3-eth: rework skb rx handling

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:28:47 +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:

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This looks like a DMA engine alignment requirement, more than an
optimization.  

that true, there are two constraints for the rx buffers, start must be aligned
to 128 bytes and a buffer must not cross a 16kbyte boundary. I was already
thinking of allocating pages and chop them up. Is there a Linux API available,
which could help for implementing this ?

I'll probably drop this patch or only change the skb_put stuff plus RX_BUF_SIZE
define.

Sounds a little like frag allocator (napi_alloc_frag()/
netdev_alloc_frag()), but I'm not sure you'd have sufficient control
to skip over the 16k boundary.. Perhaps others have better suggestions.