Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Don't account SWA in tx_data_offset

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri Oct 27 2017 - 10:34:25 EST


On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 02:31:22PM +0000, Bogdan Purcareata wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 5:27 PM
> > To: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ruxandra Ioana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@xxxxxxx>;
> > gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Don't account SWA in
> > tx_data_offset
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 02:11:34PM +0000, Bogdan Purcareata wrote:
> > > When configuring the Tx buffer layout, the software annotation size is
> > > mentioned, and MC accounts for it when configuring the frame
> > > tx_data_offset. No need to handle it in the driver as well.
> > >
> >
> > The impact is that we allocate slightly less memory right?
>
> Yes, 64B per frame.

Ok. Cool. Please put this kind of stuff in the changelog. At first I
thought it was maybe a buffer overflow just from reading what was in the
email without looking at the code.

regards,
dan carpenter