This patch removes the allocation of RX skb's buffers from a workqueue
to be called directly at RX processing time. This change was suggested
by Dave Miller when the driver was starving the RX buffers and
deadlocking under heavy traffic:
> Allocating RX SKBs via tasklet is, IMHO, the worst way to
> do it. It is no surprise that there are starvation cases.
>
> If tasklets or work queues get delayed in any way, you lose,
> and it's very easy for a card to catch up with the driver RX'ing
> packets very fast, no matter how aggressive you make the
> replenishing. By the time you detect that you need to be
> "more aggressive" it is already too late.
> The only pseudo-reliable way is to allocate at RX processing time.
>
Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
This patch changes the way the ibmveth driver handles the receive
buffers. The old code mallocs and maps all the buffers in the pools
regardless of MTU size and it also limits the number of buffer pools to
three. This patch makes the driver malloc and map the buffers necessary
to support the current MTU. It also changes the hardcoded names of the
buffer pool number, size, and elements to arrays to make it easier to
change (with the hope of making them runtime parameters in the future).
Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
This patch updates dev->trans_start and dev->last_rx so that the ibmveth
driver can be used with the ARP monitor in the bonding driver.
Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Update version and reldate and add more sanity checking to
tg3_set_settings().
Signed-off-by: Gary Zambrano <zambrano@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Change the ASF heart beat to 5 seconds for faster detection of system
crash. The driver sends the heartbeat every 2 seconds and the ASF
firmware will timeout and reset the device if no heartbeat is received
after 5 seconds. The old scheme of 2 minutes is ineffective.
tg3_write_mem_fast() is added to speed up the IO to send the heartbeat.
When no workaround is needed, it will use direct MMIO to memory space
to write to memory.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Add complete support for 5714/5715. These chips are very similar to
5780 so the changes are very trivial. A TG3_FLG2_5780_CLASS flag is
added to identify these chips.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
