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2009-08-05vxge: prefetch RxD descriptorsBenjamin LaHaise
This patch prefetches RxD descriptors which helps to lower the latency of a cache miss in vxge_hw_ring_rxd_next_completed. This lowers the % of CPU time used by vxge_hw_ring_rxd_next_completed() where the descriptor is accessed in profiling netperf on a P4 Xeon from 1.5% to 1.0%. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <ben.lahaise@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Sreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-05vxge: improve tx performance by using mmiowb() instead of wmb()Benjamin LaHaise
wmb() is extremely heavy on x86. The semantics required in the driver are provided by mmiowb(), so use that and improve tx performance on P4 Xeons by 5-10%. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <ben.lahaise@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Sreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-05vxge: fix pktgen hangs (don't abuse skb->cb[])Benjamin LaHaise
This patch fixes a case in the transmit completion code which was resulting in pktgen hanging at the end of a run. The cause is due to the fact that the ->cb[] area of an skb cannot be used in a network driver's transmit path, as that area belongs to the network protocol. Pktgen hangs, as it sends out the same packet multiple times, and vxge's use of this area of the skb for a temporary list can only add the packet to the temporary list once (while it may be on the queue many times). The fix is to remove this abuse of skb->cb[]. Instead, skb pointers are placed into a temporary stack array, and then free outside of the tx lock. This retains the smp optimization of doing dev_kfree_skb() outside of the tx lock. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <ben.lahaise@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Sreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
2009-05-17Neterion: *FIFO1_DMA_ERR set twice, should 2nd be *FIFO2_DMA_ERR?roel kluin
FIFO1_DMA_ERR is set twice, the second should be FIFO2_DMA_ERR. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ram Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-29Revert "vxge: use max() instead of VXGE_HW_SET_LEVEL"David S. Miller
This reverts commit 011983048a120e520147361be1067dd82343038e. Causes warnings in the build as reported by Stephen Rothwell. So this change is worse than what it's curing. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-27vxge: use max() instead of VXGE_HW_SET_LEVELAlexander Beregalov
Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ram Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-27vxge: fix possible NULL dereference in vxge-traffic.cAlexander Beregalov
If vpath is NULL then hldev is NULL also. Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ram Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-02Neterion: New driver: Traffic & alarm handlerRamkrishna Vepa
This patch takes care of trafic handling related APIS. - Interrupt Enable and disable - Mask / Unmask Interrupt - Traffic Interrupt handling. - Alarm Interrupt handling. - Changes in this submission - - General clean up - removed redundant includes, defines and macros. - Changes in previous submissions - - General cleanup - removed unused functions and variables. - Use asserts where necessary - Reported by Andi Kleen - Fixed sparse warnings - Reported by Andi Kleen - Use a prefix, "__vxge" in front of hw functions to make them globally unique - Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Sivakumar Subramani <sivakumar.subramani@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Rastapur Santosh <santosh.rastapur@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>