From: Ben Hutchings Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:22:00 +0000 (+0000) Subject: sfc: Reverse initial buffer table allocation to allow for later resizing X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c92aaff18e0a48f693678105343160e0bd032dfa;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git sfc: Reverse initial buffer table allocation to allow for later resizing We have a very simple way of allocating buffer table entries to queues, which is just to take the next one available. The extra channels are the highest numbered channels but they need to be allocated the lowest entries so that the traffic channels can be allocated new entries without any collisions. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c index ac571cf14485..c7004dcb5838 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c @@ -585,7 +585,12 @@ static int efx_probe_channels(struct efx_nic *efx) /* Restart special buffer allocation */ efx->next_buffer_table = 0; - efx_for_each_channel(channel, efx) { + /* Probe channels in reverse, so that any 'extra' channels + * use the start of the buffer table. This allows the traffic + * channels to be resized without moving them or wasting the + * entries before them. + */ + efx_for_each_channel_rev(channel, efx) { rc = efx_probe_channel(channel); if (rc) { netif_err(efx, probe, efx->net_dev,