[PATCH net-next v7 03/10] dpaa_eth: add option to use one buffer pool set

[David Miller]

From: Madalin-Cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur at nxp.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:25:13 +0000

> I've introduced this Kconfig option as a backwards compatible option, to
> be able to run comparative tests between the independent buffer pool setup
> and the previous common buffer pool setup. There are not so many reasons
> to use the same buffer pool besides "having the old setup", the memory
> saving is marginal, in all other aspects the separate buffer pools setup
> fares better.
> 
> I'll remove this patch from the next submission. Should anyone care for
> this I can add an entry to the feature backlog to add runtime support but
> it will be quite low in priority.

If it's a debugging feature then that's certainly how this should be
handled.