The patch below moves the init_block out of the private struct and
only allocates init block with pci_alloc_consistent.
This has two effects:
1. Performance increase for non cache coherent machines, because the
CPU only data in the private struct are now cached
2. locks are working now for platforms, which need to have locks
in cached memory
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Acked-by: Don Fry <pcnet32@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The PCnet32 driver always passed the the size of the largest possible packet
to the pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu and pci_dma_sync_single_for_device.
This results in a fairly large "colateral damage" in the caches and makes
the flush operation itself much slower. On a system with a 40MHz CPU this
patch increases network bandwidth by about 12%.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Don Fry <pcnet32@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
- Eliminate check for irq handler 'dev_id==NULL' where the
condition never occurs.
- Eliminate needless casts to/from void*
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.
The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around. On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).
Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable. On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.
Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions. Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller. A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.
I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386. I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.
This will affect all archs. Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:
struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
And put the old one back at the end:
set_irq_regs(old_regs);
Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().
In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:
- update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
- profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
+ update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
+ profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);
I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().
Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:
(*) input_dev() is now gone entirely. The regs pointer is no longer stored in
the input_dev struct.
(*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking. It does
something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
pointer or not.
(*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
irq_handler_t.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
Implement NAPI changes to pcnet32 driver. Compile default is off.
Listed as experimental.
Len and Don both worked on a NAPI implementation and have both tested
these changes.
An e1000 blasting short packets to the pcnet32 will lockup Don's system
until the receive storm stops. Without NAPI Len's system watchdog would
expire causing the system to reboot. With NAPI the system will stay
operational.
Tested ia32 and ppc64. Tested '970A, '971, '972, '973, '975, '976, and
'978.
The Kconfig changes came from Len. Don is to blame for all the others.
Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Breaking the receive frame processing into two routines for greater clarity.
Tested ia32 and ppc64.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Move the receive routine and create the transmit routine.
Tested ia32 and ppc64.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Change some magic numbers to clearer names. A few whitespace changes.
Tested ia32 and ppc64.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Delete unnecessary save/restore of rap in interrupt handler and statistics.
tested ia32 and ppc64.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
A change I made for 2.6.17 and another for 2.6.18 do not work on older
pcnet32 chips which I do not have access to. If the chip is a 79C970 or
79C965, do not try and suspend or check the link status.
I have tested with a 79C970A, 79C971, 79C972, 79C973, 79C975, 79C976,
and 79C978.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
More cleanup to pcnet32_loopback_test to release receive buffers if
device is not up. Created common routine to free rx buffers.
Tested ia32 and ppc64
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Suspend the chip if possible rather than stop and discard all tx and rx
frames, when changing the mcast list or entering/leaving promiscuous
mode. Created common pcnet32_suspend routine.
Tested ia32 and ppc64
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Fix pcnet32_set_ringparam to handle memory allocation errors without
leaving the adapter in an inoperative state and null pointers waiting to
be dereferenced.
Tested ia32 and ppc64.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
On 2006-03-08 Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
converts drivers/net to kzalloc usage.
Don Fry modified it to use netif_msg_drv. Tested ia32 and ppc64.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Jon Mason wrote on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:07:49 -0600:
This patch adds the PCI_DEVICE macro to the pcnet32 driver.
This has been tested on my opteron with my "trident" adapter.
Don Fry modified it slightly and tested on ia32 and ppc64.
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Symbols such as PCI_USES_IO, PCI_ADDR0, etc. originated from Donald
Becker's net driver template, but have been long unused. Remove.
In a few drivers, this allows the further eliminate of the pci_flags (or
just plain flags) member in the template driver probe structure.
Most of this logic is simply open-coded in most drivers, since it never
changes.
Made a few other cleanups while I was in there, too:
* constify, __devinitdata several PCI ID tables
* replace table terminating entries such as "{0,}," and "{NULL},"
with a more-clean "{ }".
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Don Fry
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Jeff Garzik
David Howells
Dave Jones
Don Fry
Thomas Gleixner