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Dave Jones
089fff2aa8 [PATCH] Remove useless comment from sb1250
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-21 14:20:01 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
12cbbd95e1 Merge tag 'jg-20061012-00' of git://electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com/home/romieu/linux-2.6 into tmp 2006-10-21 14:16:11 -04:00
Li Yang
18a8e8649d [PATCH] ucc_geth: changes to ucc_geth driver as a result of qe_lib changes and bugfixes
changes due to qe_lib changes include:

o removed inclusion of platform header file
o removed platform_device code, replaced with of_device
o removed typedefs
o uint -> u32 conversions
o removed following defines:
  QE_SIZEOF_BD, BD_BUFFER_ARG, BD_BUFFER_CLEAR, BD_BUFFER,
  BD_STATUS_AND_LENGTH_SET, BD_STATUS_AND_LENGTH, and BD_BUFFER_SET
  because they hid sizeof/in_be32/out_be32 operations from the reader.
o removed irrelevant comments, added others to resemble removed BD_ defines
o const'd and uncasted all get_property() assignments

bugfixes, courtesy of Scott Wood, include:

- Read phy_address as a u32, not u8.
- Match on type == "network" as well as compatible == "ucc_geth", as
  device_is_compatible() will only compare up to the length of the
  test string, allowing "ucc_geth_phy" to match as well.
- fixes the MAC setting code in ucc_geth.c.  The old code was overwriting and dereferencing random stack contents.

Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-21 14:09:51 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
470ea7eba4 [PATCH] sky2: 88E803X transmit lockup
The reason sky2 driver was locking up on transmit on the Yukon-FE chipset
is that it was misconfiguring the internal RAM buffer so the transmitter
and receiver were sharing the same space.

The code assumed there was 16K of RAM on Yukon-FE (taken from vendor driver
sk98lin which is even more f*cked up on this). Then it assigned based on that.
The giveaway was that the registers would only hold 9bits so both RX/TX
had 0..1ff for space. It is a wonder it worked at all!

This patch addresses this, and fixes an easily reproducible hang on Transmit.
Only the Yukon-FE chip is Marvell 88E803X (10/100 only) are affected.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-21 14:08:24 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
7347b03d25 [PATCH] e1000: Reset all functions after a PCI error
During the handling of the PCI error recovery sequence, the current e1000
driver erroneously blocks a device reset for any but the first PCI
function.  It shouldn't -- this is a cut-n-paste error from a different
driver (which tolerated only one hardware reset per hardware card).

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-21 14:08:24 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
6f0f6d87a2 [PATCH] WAN/pc300: handle, propagate minor errors
- move definition of 'tmc' and 'br' locals closer to usage

- handle clock_rate_calc() error

- propagate errors back to upper level open routine

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-21 14:08:24 -04:00
Deepak Saxena
718ecac2ed [PATCH] Update smc91x driver with ARM Versatile board info
We need to specify a Versatile-specific SMC_IRQ_FLAGS value or the new
generic IRQ layer will complain thusly:

No IRQF_TRIGGER set_type function for IRQ 25 (<NULL>)

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-21 14:08:24 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
b2ef7858db Revert "[mv643xx] Add pci device table for auto module loading."
This reverts commit 4596c75c23 as
requested by Olaf Hering. It causes compile errors, and says Olaf:

  "This change is also wrong, the autoloading works perfect with 2.6.18,
   no need to add random PCI ids.

   See commit a0245f7ad5, platform devices
   have now a modalias entry in sysfs.  The network card is not a PCI
   device."

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20 10:40:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c144879164 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (36 commits)
  [Bluetooth] Fix HID disconnect NULL pointer dereference
  [Bluetooth] Add missing entry for Nokia DTL-4 PCMCIA card
  [Bluetooth] Add support for newer ANYCOM USB dongles
  [NET]: Can use __get_cpu_var() instead of per_cpu() in loopback driver.
  [IPV4] inet_peer: Group together avl_left, avl_right, v4daddr to speedup lookups on some CPUS
  [TCP]: One NET_INC_STATS() could be NET_INC_STATS_BH in tcp_v4_err()
  [NETFILTER]: Missing check for CAP_NET_ADMIN in iptables compat layer
  [NETPOLL]: initialize skb for UDP
  [IPV6]: Fix route.c warnings when multiple tables are disabled.
  [TG3]: Bump driver version and release date.
  [TG3]: Add lower bound checks for tx ring size.
  [TG3]: Fix set ring params tx ring size implementation
  [NET]: reduce per cpu ram used for loopback stats
  [IPv6] route: Fix prohibit and blackhole routing decision
  [DECNET]: Fix input routing bug
  [TCP]: Bound TSO defer time
  [IPv4] fib: Remove unused fib_config members
  [IPV6]: Always copy rt->u.dst.error when copying a rt6_info.
  [IPV6]: Make IPV6_SUBTREES depend on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES.
  [IPV6]: Clean up BACKTRACK().
  ...
2006-10-20 10:27:38 -07:00
Auke Kok
e8e82b76e0 [PATCH] e100: fix reboot -f with netconsole enabled
When rebooting with netconsole over e100, the driver shutdown code would
deadlock with netpoll.  Reduce shutdown code to a bare minimum while retaining
WoL and suspend functionality.

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20 10:26:35 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
58f539740b [NET]: Can use __get_cpu_var() instead of per_cpu() in loopback driver.
As BHs are off in loopback_xmit(), preemption cannot occurs, so we can
use __get_cpu_var() instead of per_cpu() (and avoid a
preempt_enable()/preempt_disable() pair)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-20 00:32:41 -07:00
David S. Miller
6ba7511b7c [TG3]: Bump driver version and release date.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-18 20:56:06 -07:00
Michael Chan
bc3a9254a7 [TG3]: Add lower bound checks for tx ring size.
The minimum tx ring size must be greater than MAX_SKB_FRAGS or 3
times that on some chips with TSO bugs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-18 20:55:18 -07:00
Ranjit Manomohan
42952231c6 [TG3]: Fix set ring params tx ring size implementation
Fixes the implementation of the ethtool set ring parameters for the
tg3 transmit ring.  The size of tx_pending is taken into account
before doing a netif_wake_queue.  This prevents the interface from
locking up when smaller transmit ring sizes are used.

Signed-off-by: Ranjit Manomohan <ranjitm@google.com>
Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-18 20:54:26 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
5175c3786c [NET]: reduce per cpu ram used for loopback stats
We dont need a full struct net_device_stats (currently 23 long : 184 bytes on 
x86_64) per possible CPU, but only two counters : bytes and packets

We save few CPU cycles too in loopback_xmit() not updating 4 fields, but 2. 

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-18 20:51:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ce9e3d9953 Merge branch 'ubuntu-updates' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-2.6
* 'ubuntu-updates' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-2.6:
  [pci_ids] Add Quicknet XJ vendor/device ID's.
  [valkyriefb] Ifdef for when CONFIG_NVRAM isn't enabled.
  [platinumfb] Ifdef for when CONFIG_NVRAM isn't enabled.
  [igafb] Add pci dev table for module auto loading.
  [controlfb] Ifdef for when CONFIG_NVRAM isn't enabled.
  [hid-core] TurboX Keyboard needs NOGET quirk.
  [ixj] Add pci dev table for module auto loading.
  [initio] Add pci dev table for module auto loading.
  [fdomain] Add pci dev table for module auto loading.
  [BusLogic] Add pci dev table for auto module loading.
  [mv643xx] Add pci device table for auto module loading.
  [alim7101] Add pci dev table for auto module loading.
2006-10-18 18:30:00 -07:00
Ben Collins
4596c75c23 [mv643xx] Add pci device table for auto module loading.
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
2006-10-18 08:33:03 -04:00
Ben Collins
b48194bf0d [SPARC]: Fix some section mismatch warnings in sparc drivers.
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-17 19:28:51 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
4e4bc305e1 sky2: GMAC pause frame
This reverts earlier change that attempted to fix flow control.
Device needs to discard pause frames, otherwise it hangs after a while.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 10:24:25 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
a052b52f4b sky2: accept multicast pause frames
When using flow control, the PHY needs to accept multicast pause frames.
Without this fix, these frames were getting discarded by the PHY before
doing any flow control.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 10:24:23 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
52c89cac67 sky2: version 1.9
Mark version, this has been a lot of patches.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 10:24:18 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
b6d7773462 sky2: no message on rx fifo overflow
Under high load it is possible to make the receiver FIFO get overloaded.
The driver/hardware recover properly, so there is no reason to fill the log
with lots of extra messages, just update counter.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 10:24:16 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
16ad91e1c6 sky2: flow control setting fixes
The result of flow control negotiation should not limit the next
negotiatition. If board is plugged into an old half duplex 10Mbit port,
without pause, then replugged into a gigabit port, it should negotiate
what is desired, not inherit that last negotiation.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 10:24:13 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
7800fddcd0 sky2: don't reset PHY twice
Don't need to reset PHY twice on startup.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 10:24:10 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
7c74ac1c23 sky2: use duplex result bits
The result of duplex negotiation is avaliable in the phy status
register, so use that to simplify code and avoid rereading the PHY.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 10:24:08 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
0edea0f54e sky2: advertising register 16 bits
The advertising bits (from ethtool.h) fit in 16 bits.
2006-10-17 10:24:07 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
709c6e7bb0 sky2: fiber pause bits
The advertisement bits for flow control are located in
different location on fiber (1000baseX)

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 10:24:04 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
ebc646f681 sky2: phy irq on shutdown
When PHY is turned off on shutdown, it causes the IRQ to get stuck on.
Make sure and disable the IRQ first, and if IRQ occurs when device
is not running, don't access PHY because that will hang.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 10:23:56 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
e561a83be5 sky2: turn of workaround timer
The workaround timer is not needed in most systems with proper IRQ
routing and by perodically waking up it adds to laptop power consumption.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 10:20:51 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
2bffc23a01 sky2: MSI test is only a warning
Some motherboards don't implement MSI correctly. The driver handles this
but the warning is too verbose and overly cautious.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 10:17:18 -07:00
Arnaud Patard
733b736c91 r8169: fix infinite loop during hotplug
Bug reported for PCMCIA.

Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <apatard@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
2006-10-12 22:10:44 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
60ca97584f Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (42 commits)
  [PATCH] Fix section mismatch in de2104x.c
  [PATCH] sky2: set lower pause threshold to prevent overrun
  [PATCH] sky2: revert pci express extensions
  [PATCH] skge: version 1.9
  [PATCH] skge: better flow control negotiation
  [PATCH] skge: pause mapping for fiber
  [PATCH] skge: fix stuck irq when fiber down
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet release all descrs
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet DMA direction fix
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet variable name change
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet reduce DMA kicking
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet NAPI polling info.
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet low watermark patch.
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet incorrect offset
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet stop error printing patch.
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet fix error interrupt print
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet bogus rx interrupt bit
  [PATCH] Spidernet stop queue when queue is full.
  ...
2006-10-11 11:19:30 -07:00
Al Viro
437111ca38 [PATCH] sun3 __iomem annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:17:06 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox
53d5ed627d [PATCH] Use linux/io.h instead of asm/io.h
In preparation for moving check_signature, change these users from asm/io.h
to linux/io.h

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
Helge Deller
4a1d2d81fa [PATCH] Fix section mismatch in de2104x.c
WARNING: drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:de_init_one from .data.rel.local after 'de_driver' (at offset 0x20)
WARNING: drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:de_remove_one from .data.rel.local after 'de_driver' (at offset 0x28)

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:07:45 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
6e532cfe49 [PATCH] sky2: set lower pause threshold to prevent overrun
Adjust the pause threshold on slower systems to keep from getting overrun.
Since FIFO is 2K bytes, don't send XON pause until there is space for a full
frame.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:07:45 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
7bd656d121 [PATCH] sky2: revert pci express extensions
The pci express error handling extensions don't work unless PCI access is via
mmconfig. Otherwise, all accesses to pci config registers greater than 256 fail.
Since the sky2 driver has other ways of getting to PCI config space, it works
around this short coming, but the pci_find_ext_capablity doesn't work.

This backs out commit 91aeb3edbc
Go back to hardcoding, since we know where the error registers are anyway.
Fixes  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7222

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemmminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:07:45 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
370de6cdc2 [PATCH] skge: version 1.9
Want to be able to track downstream impact of fiber related
fixes.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:06:09 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
5d5c8e0378 [PATCH] skge: better flow control negotiation
Do flow control negotiation properly. Don't let auto negotiation
status limit renegotiation. Separate desired pause values from
the result of auto negotiation.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:06:09 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
4b67be999e [PATCH] skge: pause mapping for fiber
Do correct mapping of pause and duplex when using 1000BaseX fiber
versions of the board.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:06:09 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
a1bc9b875b [PATCH] skge: fix stuck irq when fiber down
The PHY interrupt from the internal fiber is getting
stuck on when the link is down. Add code to handle the
transition and mask it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:06:08 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
6475191001 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet release all descrs
Bugfix: rx descriptor release function fails to visit
the last entry while walking receive descriptor ring.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:27 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
348bc2a6e3 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet DMA direction fix
The ring buffer descriptors are DMA-accessed bidirectionally,
but are not declared in this way.  Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:27 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
66c097165c [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet variable name change
Cosmetic patch: give the variable holding the numer of descriptors
a more descriptive name, so to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:27 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
a664ccf430 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet reduce DMA kicking
The current code attempts to start the TX dma every time a packet
is queued. This is too conservative, and wastes CPU time. This
patch changes behaviour to call the kick-dma function less often,
only when the tx queue is at risk of emptying.

This reduces cpu usage, improves performance.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:26 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
499eea1872 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet
Remove a dummy register read that is not needed.
This reduces CPU usage notably during transmit.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:26 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
9cc7bf7edf [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking
The transmit side of the spider ethernet driver currently
places locks around some very large chunks of code. This
results in a fair amount of lock contention is some cases.
This patch makes the locks much more fine-grained, protecting
only the cirtical sections. One lock is used to protect
three locations: the queue head and tail pointers, and the
queue low-watermark location.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:26 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
68a8c609b3 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet NAPI polling info.
This patch moves transmit queue cleanup code out of the
interrupt context, and into the NAPI polling routine.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:26 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
204e5fa17c [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet low watermark patch.
Implement basic low-watermark support for the transmit queue.
Hardware low-watermarks allow a properly configured kernel
to continously stream data to a device and not have to handle
any interrupts at all in doing so. Correct zero-interrupt
operation can be actually observed for this driver, when the
socket buffer is made large enough.

The basic idea of a low-watermark interrupt is as follows.
The device driver queues up a bunch of packets for the hardware
to transmit, and then kicks the hardware to get it started.
As the hardware drains the queue of pending, untransmitted
packets, the device driver will want to know when the queue
is almost empty, so that it can queue some more packets.

If the queue drains down to the low waterark, then an interrupt
will be generated. However, if the kernel/driver continues
to add enough packets to keep the queue partially filled,
no interrupt will actually be generated, and the hardware
can continue streaming packets indefinitely in this mode.

The impelmentation is done by setting the DESCR_TXDESFLG flag
in one of the packets. When the hardware sees this flag, it will
interrupt the device driver. Because this flag is on a fixed
packet, rather than at  fixed location in the queue, the
code below needs to move the flag as more packets are
queued up. This implementation attempts to keep the flag
at about 1/4 from "empty".

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:26 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
b21606a773 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet incorrect offset
Bugfix -- the rx chain is in memory after the tx chain --
the offset being used was wrong, resulting in memory corruption
when the size of the rx and tx rings weren't exactly the same.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:26 -04:00