net: add a hardware buffer management helper API

This basic implementation allows to share code between driver using
hardware buffer management. As the code is hardware agnostic, there is
few helpers, most of the optimization brought by the an HW BM has to be
done at driver level.

Tested-by: Sebastian Careba <nitroshift@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Gregory CLEMENT
2016-03-14 09:39:04 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent dc35a10f68
commit 8cb2d8bf57
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@@ -25,4 +25,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_NET_PRIO) += netprio_cgroup.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_NET_CLASSID) += netclassid_cgroup.o
obj-$(CONFIG_LWTUNNEL) += lwtunnel.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DST_CACHE) += dst_cache.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HWBM) += hwbm.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DEVLINK) += devlink.o