On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:34 PM, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Iyappan Subramanian <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:18:16 -0700 > >> This patch adds network driver for APM X-Gene SoC ethernet. >> >> Signed-off-by: Iyappan Subramanian <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Ravi Patel <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Keyur Chudgar <[email protected]> > > I really don't like how you handle the hardware descriptors in this > driver. > > You copy back and forth between a software format and the hardware > format. That's extremely wasteful and will hurt performance. > > Just use the raw format throughout, you can extract the fields when > you need them.
I agree and I will fix this and resubmit the patches. > > You also make two passes when building a hardware descriptor: > > 1) write the values > 2) endian swap > > This means you make three memory accesses on every 64-bit word > in every descriptor you setup, this is really inefficient. > > You should just byte swap them in-situ as you build the raw > descriptors. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
