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>
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>
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>
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>
This reverts commit 011983048a.
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>
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>
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>
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>
