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There are some cases where an skb carries more frags than the number of SGs that ionic can support per descriptor - this forces the driver to linearize the skb. However, if this is a TSO packet that is going to become multiple descriptors (one per MTU-sized packet) and spread the frags across them, this time-consuming linearization is likely not necessary. We scan the frag list and count up the number of SGs that would be created for each descriptor that would be generated, and only linearize if we hit the SG limit on a descriptor. In most cases, we won't even get to the frag list scan, so this doesn't affect typical traffic. Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.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.