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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:47:31PM +0400, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:

> > As with Christian's driver, I don't know whether an SRAM allocator
> > makes much sense. We can just set up a static allocation map for the
> > in-tree drivers and leave out the allocator altogether. I.e. I don't
> > think it's worth the complexity (and just because the butt-ugly Intel
> > code has an allocator isn't a very good reason. :-)
>
> Is the qmgr used when the NPEs are utilized as DMA engines?

I'm not sure, but probably yes.


> And is the allocator needed in this case?

If you statically partition the available queue SRAM, no.
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