Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next] netvsc: Use the new in-place consumption APIs in the rx path

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Jul 08 2016 - 23:12:34 EST


From: kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 16:52:46 -0700

> From: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Use the new APIs for eliminating a copy on the receive path. These new APIs also
> help in minimizing the number of memory barriers we end up issuing (in the
> ringbuffer code) since we can better control when we want to expose the ring
> state to the host.
>
> The patch is being resent to address earlier email issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.