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This patch adds the packet transmission support. For a given skb prepares send queue descriptors (SQEs) and pushes them to HW. Here driver doesn't maintain it's own SQ rings, SQEs are pushed to HW using a silicon specific operations called LMTST. From the instuction HW derives the transmit queue number and queues the SQE to that queue. These LMTST instructions are designed to avoid queue maintenance in SW and lockless behavior ie when multiple cores are trying to add SQEs to same queue then HW will takecare of serialization, no need for SW to hold locks. Also supports scatter/gather. Co-developed-by: Geetha sowjanya <gakula@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Geetha sowjanya <gakula@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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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
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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.