On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 17:01:21 +0200 Julian Wiedmann wrote: > The (misplaced) comment doesn't make any sense, enforcing an > uninitialized RX buffer won't help with IRQ reduction. > > So make the best use of all available RX buffers. Often one entry in the ring is left free to make it easy to differentiate between empty and full conditions. Is this not the reason here?