ibmvnic: Allow multiple ltbs in txpool ltb_set
Allow multiple LTBs in the txpool's ltb_set. i.e rather than using a single large LTB, use several smaller LTBs. The first n-1 LTBs will all be of the same size. The size of the last LTB in the set depends on the number of buffers and buffer (mtu) size. This strategy hopefully allows more reuse of the initial LTBs and also reduces the chances of an allocation failure (of the large LTB) when system is low in memory. Suggested-by: Brian King <brking@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dany Madden <drt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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