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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/9/2026 4:45 PM, Bruce Richardson
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">The ice and i40e drivers have identical code for writing ring entries in
the simple Tx path, so merge in the descriptor writing code.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bruce.richardson@intel.com"><bruce.richardson@intel.com></a>
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drivers/net/intel/common/tx.h | 6 ++
drivers/net/intel/common/tx_scalar.h | 60 ++++++++++++++
drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c | 79 +------------------
drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx.h | 3 -
.../net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_altivec.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx2.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx512.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_neon.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_rxtx.c | 69 +---------------
drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_rxtx.h | 2 -
drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_rxtx_vec_avx2.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_rxtx_vec_avx512.c | 4 +-
12 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/common/tx.h b/drivers/net/intel/common/tx.h
index 203938180b..ef6d543e7a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/common/tx.h
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/common/tx.h
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ enum ci_tx_l2tag1_field {
/* Common maximum data per TX descriptor */
#define CI_MAX_DATA_PER_TXD (CI_TXD_QW1_TX_BUF_SZ_M >> CI_TXD_QW1_TX_BUF_SZ_S)
+/* Common TX maximum burst size for chunked transmission in simple paths */
+#define CI_TX_MAX_BURST 32</pre>
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eventually it would be good to replace all the rest {IXGBE, I40E,
ICE, IDPF_VPMD}<span style="white-space: pre-wrap">_TX_MAX_BURST</span> with
this
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Acked-by: Vladimir Medvedkin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:vladimir.medvedkin@intel.com"><vladimir.medvedkin@intel.com></a>
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Regards,
Vladimir</pre>
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