From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932212AbcHIPpk (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:45:40 -0400 Received: from arroyo.ext.ti.com ([198.47.19.12]:41297 "EHLO arroyo.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752051AbcHIPpj (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:45:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: split driver data and per ndev data To: Ivan Khoronzhuk , , References: <1470480524-6851-1-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org> CC: , , From: Grygorii Strashko Message-ID: <8e766576-e147-fdca-30bb-c12531cc91b8@ti.com> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 18:45:35 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1470480524-6851-1-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/06/2016 01:48 PM, Ivan Khoronzhuk wrote: > In dual_emac mode the driver can handle 2 network devices. Each of them can use > its own private data and common data/resources. This patchset splits common driver > data/resources and private per net device data. > It leads to: > - reduce memory usage > - increase code readability > - allows add a bunch of simplification > - create prerequisites to add multi-channel support, > when channels are shared between net devices > > Doesn't have bad impact on performance. > v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/4/616 Patches 6-14 (except PATCH v2 12/14]) looks good. Thanks. -- regards, -grygorii