Jeff:
Hello. Saw this post on the Internet, and was hoping you are still open
to answering some questions about scatter/gather lists in Linux.
I'm tyring to update the Linux driver for our triple speed Ethernet MAC
(we haven't formally given the driver to you yet; I guess we should soon.)
Anyhow, I'm trying to find documentation, or examples of how to use the
scatter/gather capabilities of Linux, and not having much luck. So
basically, I'm not sure where to start. I tried grepping the source as
you say below, its not helping much.
One question I can start with is, how do you use pci_dma_sg?
pci_map_sg(dev, sglist, nents, direction);
I'm assuming I supply the dev and direction fields. How about the nents
field? Is that supposed to be the largest number of fragments I can
handle (that's what I assumed.) Finally, the sglist argument has me
really confused. Do I have to create this structure in advance (and if
so how) or is pci_map_sg supposed to simply give me a pointer back via
the sglist argument (that's what I assumed, but that doesn't seem to be
the case unless I'm doing something else wrong.)
Also, were in the source code is pci_map_sg located? I'll admit I'm not
an expert at looking through the source code of an OS like Linux, but
I'm frustrated by the fact that a simple grep of /usr/src/linux-2.4.2
does not show where this function is coded.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Jeff Garzik linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Wed, 14 Nov 2001 20:41:34 -0500
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> harish.vasudeva@amd.com wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> > Could any1 pls direct me wherein i could find some documentation about implementing checksum offloading for my ethernet LAN driver?
>
>
> There is not good documentation. Feel free to ask me questions, I am
> the Linux network driver maintainer.
>
> First, search the source code in linux/drivers/net/* for
> NETIF_F_IP_CSUM, NETIF_F_HW_CSUM, skb->csum, and nr_frags.
>
> Can I expect an ethernet driver submitted to me, soon?
>
> Jeff
>
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