8cb2d8bf57e6e004c37db2fb4ce74f4d032b7cd0 - linux

commit	8cb2d8bf57e6e004c37db2fb4ce74f4d032b7cd0	[log] [tgz]
author	Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>	Mon Mar 14 09:39:04 2016 +0100
committer	David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>	Mon Mar 14 12:19:46 2016 -0400
tree	d70238eede693b7bf8b42d86a4eab534754ce341
parent	dc35a10f68d3781c2345d60b22103785985ca849 [diff]

net: add a hardware buffer management helper API

This basic implementation allows to share code between driver using
hardware buffer management. As the code is hardware agnostic, there is
few helpers, most of the optimization brought by the an HW BM has to be
done at driver level.

Tested-by: Sebastian Careba <nitroshift@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

include/net/hwbm.h[Added - diff]
net/Kconfig[diff]
net/core/Makefile[diff]
net/core/hwbm.c[Added - diff]

4 files changed

tree: d70238eede693b7bf8b42d86a4eab534754ce341