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Currently, the opaque field in the TX BD is only used for debugging. The TX completion logic relies on getting one TX completion for each packet and they always complete in order. Improve this scheme by putting the producer information (ring index plus number of BDs for the packet) in the opaque field. This way, we can handle TX completion processing by looking at the last TX completion instead of counting the number of completions. Since we no longer need to count the exact number of completions, we can optimize xmit_more by disabling TX completion when the xmit_more condition is true. This will be done in later patches. This patch is only initializing the opaque field in the TX BD and is not changing the driver's TX completion logic yet. Reviewed-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.