RE: Dealing with limited resources and DMA Engine copies

2008-02-20 Thread Sosnowski, Maciej
>-- Original message -- >From: Olof Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Feb 14, 2008 3:38 AM >Subject: Dealing with limited resources and DMA Engine copies >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org > >Hi, > >My DMA

Dealing with limited resources and DMA Engine copies

2008-02-13 Thread Olof Johansson
Hi, My DMA Engine has a limited resource: It's got a descriptor ring, so it's not always possible to add a new descriptor to it (i.e. it might be full). While allocating a huge ring will help, eventually I'm sure I will hit a case where it'll overflow. I thought this was going to be taken care of