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18 The receive (RX) ring is a circular linked list of RX descriptors,
19 together with three pointers into the ring that are used to manage its
22 The elements of the ring are called "descriptors" or "descrs"; they
36 ring is handed off to the hardware, which sequentially fills in the
74 other descrs in the ring should be "empty" as well.
78 of the ring, starting at the tail pointer, and listing the status
116 the OS fails to empty the RX ring fast enough, the hardware GDACTDPA
126 When the OS finally has a chance to run, it will empty out the RX ring.
174 search the ring for the next full descr, and the driver will resume
175 operations there.  Since this will leave "holes" in the ring, there
182 The TX ring
184 The TX ring uses a low-watermark interrupt scheme to make sure that
188 the TX ring quicker than the device can drain it. Once the ring
189 is full, the netdev is stopped. When there is room in the ring,
191 in the ring. The hardware can empty the ring about four times per jiffy,