Hi, I am attempting to implement a circular buffer for the tx path of a networking driver. From my understanding this is something that is very common, yet I am struggling to find a clear way to do it. I have tried to read the source for ath6kl, brcmfmac without success. I have read Documentation/circular-buffers.txt and this seems like the solution however grep'ing drivers/net hints that this is not that common a way to solve this problem. Also I'm getting in knots with atomic_t types when copying the text document. Before I bore you with all my non-working code, does any one please know, off the top of their heads, a driver with simple-ish / nice clean implementation that I can learn from? thanks, Tobin.
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 04:03:33PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
Hi,
I am attempting to implement a circular buffer for the tx path of a networking driver. From my understanding this is something that is very common, yet I am struggling to find a clear way to do it.
Have you looked at include/linux/kfifo.h?
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:48:33AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 04:03:33PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
Hi,
I am attempting to implement a circular buffer for the tx path of a networking driver. From my understanding this is something that is very common, yet I am struggling to find a clear way to do it.
Have you looked at include/linux/kfifo.h?
thanks Greg, I ended up using kfifo for the tx path and circ_buf for the rx path. Tobin.
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