sfc: Allow changing the DMA ring sizes dynamically via ethtool

This requires some reorganisation of channel setup and teardown to
ensure that we can always roll-back a failed change.

Based on work by Steve Hodgson <shodgson@solarflare.com>

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ben Hutchings 2010-09-10 06:42:33 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller
commit 4642610c77
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