Merge branch 'GVE-Raw-Addressing'
David Awogbemil says: ==================== GVE Raw Addressing Patchset description: This patchset introduces "raw addressing" mode to the GVE driver. Previously (in "queue_page_list" or "qpl" mode), the driver would pre-allocate and dma_map buffers to be used on egress and ingress. On egress, it would copy data from the skb provided to the pre-allocated buffers - this was expensive. In raw addressing mode, the driver can avoid this copy and simply dma_map the skb's data so that the NIC can use it. On ingress, the driver passes buffers up to the networking stack and then frees and reallocates buffers when necessary instead of using skb_copy_to_linear_data. Patch 3 separates the page refcount tracking mechanism into a function gve_rx_can_recycle_buffer which uses get_page - this will be changed in a future patch to eliminate the use of get_page in tracking page refcounts. Changes from v9: Patch 4: Use u64, not u32 for new tx stat counters. ==================== Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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