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Linas Vepstas
7bd54c8636 [PATCH] spidernet: poor network performance
Correct a problem seen on later kernels running the NetPIPE application.
Specifically, NetPIPE would begin running very slowly at the 1533 packet
size.  It was determined that Spidernet slowed with an idle DMA engine.

Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-11-30 06:14:06 -05:00
James K Lewis
9c434f5e21 [PATCH] Spidernet: remove ETH_ZLEN check in earlier patch
In an earlier patch, code was added to pad packets that were less that
ETH_ZLEN (60) bytes using the skb_pad function.  This has caused hangs when
accessing certain NFS mounted file systems.  This patch removes the check
and solves the NFS problem.  The driver, with this patch, has been tested
extensively.  Please apply.

Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-11-30 06:14:06 -05:00
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
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
43932d938d [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet bogus rx interrupt bit
The current receive interrupt mask sets a bogus bit that doesn't even
belong to the definition of this register. Remove it.

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 04:04:25 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
ded8028a0b [PATCH] Spidernet fix register field definitions
This patch fixes the names of a few fields in the DMA control
register. There is no functional change.

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 04:04:25 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
a02d601dd5 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet burst alignment patch.
This patch increases the Burst Address alignment from 64 to 1024 in the
Spidernet driver. This improves transmit performance for large packets.

From: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:25 -04:00
Linas Vepstas
90f1084118 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet ethtool -i version number info.
This patch adds version information as reported by
ethtool -i to the Spidernet driver.

From: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:24 -04:00
Jim Lewis
9b6b0b81f0 [PATCH] Spidernet: add ethtool -S (show statistics)
Add the ethtool -S (show statistics) feature to the Spidernet ethernet
driver.  I have tested it extensively and believe it is ready to be
applied.

Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-22 20:26:02 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
7282d491ec drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-13 14:30:00 -04:00
Jim Lewis
b68a60e598 [PATCH] Add ethtool -g support to Spidernet network driver
Add ethtool -g (show ring sizes) support to the Spidernet network driver.

Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-19 17:44:30 -04:00
Jens Osterkamp
bdd01503c3 [PATCH] spidernet: rework tx queue handling
With this patch TX queue descriptors are not chained per default any more.
The pointer to next descriptor is set only when next descriptor is prepaired
for transfer. Also the mechanism of checking wether Spider is ready has been
changed: it checks not for CARDOWNED flag in status of previous descriptor
but for a TXDMAENABLED flag in Spider's register.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Shchetynin <maxim@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-07-17 13:30:12 -04:00
Jens Osterkamp
b636d17a3b spidernet: introduce new setting
We found a new chip setting that we need in order
to make the driver work more reliable.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-05-08 16:01:11 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann
11f1a52b87 [PATCH] spidernet: performance optimizations
Performance optimizations, changes in these areas:
  - RX and TX checksum offload
  - correct maximum MTU
  - don't use TX interrupts anymore, use a timer instead
  - remove some superfluous barriers
  - improve RX RAM full handling

From: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Osterkamp <jens.osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 07:25:01 -05:00
Arnd Bergmann
8e0a613bf6 [PATCH] spidernet: fix HW structures for 64 bit dma_addr_t
The driver incorrectly used dma_addr_t to describe
HW structures and consequently broke when that type
was changed in 2.6.15-rc.

This changed spidernet to use u32 for 32 bit HW defined
structure elements.

From: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 07:25:00 -05:00
Jens Osterkamp
aaec0fab5f [PATCH] net: add driver for the NIC on Cell Blades
This patch adds a driver for a new 1000 Mbit ethernet NIC.  It is
integrated on the south bridge that is used for our Cell Blades.

The code gets the MAC address from the Open Firmware device tree, so it
won't compile on platforms other than ppc64.

This is the first public release, so I don't expect the first version to
get merged, but I'd aim for integration within the 2.6.13 time frame.

Cc: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-06 22:17:49 -04:00