NTB: Remove reads across NTB
authorJon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com>
Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:02:26 +0000 (02:02 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:45:51 +0000 (15:45 -0800)
CPU reads across NTB are slow(er) and can hang the local system if an
ECC error is encountered on the remote.  To work around the need for a
read, have the remote side write its current position in the rx buffer
to the local system's buffer and use that to see if there is room when
transmitting.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c

Simple merge