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Due to the additions of support for modes like AES-CCM and AES-GCM, which require large command tokens, the size of the descriptor has grown such that it now does not fit into the descriptor cache of a standard EIP97 anymore. This means that the driver no longer works on the Marvell Armada 3700LP chip (as used on e.g. Espressobin) that it has always supported. Additionally, performance on EIP197's like Marvell A8K may also degrade due to being able to fit less descriptors in the on-chip cache. Putting these tokens into the descriptor was really a hack and not how the design was supposed to be used - resource allocation did not account for it. So what this patch does, is move the command token out of the descriptor. To avoid having to allocate buffers on the fly for these command tokens, they are stuffed in a "shadow ring", which is a circular buffer of fixed size blocks that runs in lock-step with the descriptor ring. i.e. there is one token block per descriptor. The descriptor ring itself is then pre- populated with the pointers to these token blocks so these do not need to be filled in when building the descriptors later. Signed-off-by: Pascal van Leeuwen <pvanleeuwen@rambus.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> |
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Linux kernel
============
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.