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Eric Dumazet
1ae5dc342a net: trans_start cleanups
Now that core network takes care of trans_start updates, dont do it
in drivers themselves, if possible. Drivers can avoid one cache miss
(on dev->trans_start) in their start_xmit() handler.

Exceptions are NETIF_F_LLTX drivers

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-10 05:01:31 -07:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
David S. Miller
421355de87 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-10-13 12:55:20 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
89d71a66c4 net: Use netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align()
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 11:48:18 -07:00
Vincent Sanders
b9696ea325 net: Fix IXP 2000 network driver building.
The IXP 2000 network driver was failing to build as it has its own
statistics gathering which was not compatible with the recent network
device operations changes. This patch fixes the driver in the obvious
way and has been compile tested. I have been unable to get the ixp2000
maintainer to comment or test this fix.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Sanders <vince@simtec.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 00:03:11 -07:00
David S. Miller
6cdee2f96a Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/yellowfin.c
2009-09-02 00:32:56 -07:00
Dongdong Deng
4871953c0e drivers/net: fixed drivers that support netpoll use ndo_start_xmit()
The NETPOLL API requires that interrupts remain disabled in
netpoll_send_skb(). The use of "A functions set" in the NETPOLL API
callbacks causes the interrupts to get enabled and can lead to kernel
instability.

The solution is to use "B functions set" to prevent the irqs from
getting enabled while in netpoll_send_skb().

A functions set:
local_irq_disable()/local_irq_enable()
spin_lock_irq()/spin_unlock_irq()
spin_trylock_irq()/spin_unlock_irq()

B functions set:
local_irq_save()/local_irq_restore()
spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_unlock_irqrestore()
spin_trylock_irqsave()/spin_unlock_irqrestore()

Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-23 19:51:03 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
6ed106549d net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functions
This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert
all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK.

Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be
handled in a seperate patch.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-05 19:16:04 -07:00
Alexander Beregalov
e7090e347a ixp2000/ixpdev: convert to net_device_ops
Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-16 02:20:13 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
288379f050 net: Remove redundant NAPI functions
Following the removal of the unused struct net_device * parameter from
the NAPI functions named *netif_rx_* in commit 908a7a1, they are
exactly equivalent to the corresponding *napi_* functions and are
therefore redundant.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-21 14:33:50 -08:00
Neil Horman
908a7a16b8 net: Remove unused netdev arg from some NAPI interfaces.
When the napi api was changed to separate its 1:1 binding to the net_device
struct, the netif_rx_[prep|schedule|complete] api failed to remove the now
vestigual net_device structure parameter.  This patch cleans up that api by
properly removing it..

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-22 20:43:12 -08:00
David S. Miller
babcda74e9 drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.
The generic packet receive code takes care of setting
netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the
bonding ARP monitor.

Drivers need not do it any more.

Some cases had to be skipped over because the drivers
were making use of the ->last_rx value themselves.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 21:11:17 -08:00
Russell King
a09e64fbc0 [ARM] Move include/asm-arm/arch-* to arch/arm/*/include/mach
This just leaves include/asm-arm/plat-* to deal with.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-07 09:55:48 +01:00
Russell King
be50972935 [ARM] Remove asm/hardware.h, use asm/arch/hardware.h instead
Remove includes of asm/hardware.h in addition to asm/arch/hardware.h.
Then, since asm/hardware.h only exists to include asm/arch/hardware.h,
update everything to directly include asm/arch/hardware.h and remove
asm/hardware.h.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-07 09:40:08 +01:00
Russell King
0f8469a54f [ARM] Eliminate useless includes of asm/mach-types.h
There are 43 includes of asm/mach-types.h by files that don't
reference anything from that file.  Remove these unnecessary
includes.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-07 09:40:04 +01:00
Stephen Hemminger
d27e7c3f6c ixp2000: use netdev_alloc_skb
Use netdev_alloc_skb. This sets skb->dev and allows arch specific
allocation.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-22 14:12:39 -04:00
David S. Miller
4ec2411980 [NET]: Do not check netif_running() and carrier state in ->poll()
Drivers do this to try to break out of the ->poll()'ing loop
when the device is being brought administratively down.

Now that we have a napi_disable() "pending" state we are going
to solve that problem generically.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-08 23:30:09 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
10d024c1b2 [NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.
It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to
remove it.  The number of people that could object because they're
maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small.

[ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:13 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
bea3348eef [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.
Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net
device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several
queues.

In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the
structure representing the poll is independant from the net
device itself.

The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from:

	int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget)

to

	int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)

The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or
the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get
abstract).  The callee no longer messes around bumping
dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the
caller upon return.

The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data
structures.

Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI
instances in it's ->stop() device close handler.  Since the
napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures,
only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances
it may have per-device.

With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier,
Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim.

Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra,
Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan.

[ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted.  Integrated
  Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list
  handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues.  -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:45 -07:00
David S. Miller
8c7b7faaa6 [NET]: Kill eth_copy_and_sum().
It hasn't "summed" anything in over 7 years, and it's
just a straight mempcy ala skb_copy_to_linear_data()
so just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:08:12 -07:00
Yoann Padioleau
0da2f0f164 potential compiler error, irqfunc caller sites update
In 7d12e780e0 David Howells performed
this evolution:
 "IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers"

He correctly updated many of the function definitions that were using this
extra regs pointer parameter but forgot to update some caller sites of
those functions.  The reason the modifications was not properly done on all
drivers is that some drivers were rarely compiled because they are for
AMIGA, or that some code sites were inside #ifdefs where the option is not
set or inside #if 0.

Here is the semantic patch that found the occurences
and fixed the problem.

@ rule1 @
identifier fn;
identifier irq, dev_id;
typedef irqreturn_t;
@@

static irqreturn_t fn(int irq, void *dev_id)
{
   ...
}

@@
identifier rule1.fn;
expression E1, E2, E3;
@@

 fn(E1, E2
-   ,E3
   )

Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-06 10:23:43 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
4c13eb6657 [ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_trans
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>
2007-04-25 22:24:30 -07:00
David Howells
7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
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)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
1fb9df5d30 [PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/net: Use the new IRQF_ constants
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-02 13:58:51 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Lennert Buytenhek
1ea739a5f9 The ixp2000 driver for the enp2611 was developed on a board with
three gigabit ports, but some enp2611 models only have two ports
(and only one onboard PM3386.)  The current driver assumes there
are always three ports and so it doesn't work on the two-port
version of the board at all.

This patch adds a bit of logic to the enp2611 driver to limit the
number of ports to 2 if the second PM3386 isn't detected.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-05-15 12:25:29 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek
5d4fe2c1ce [PATCH] ixp2000: fix gcc4 breakage
gcc4 doesn't like us declaring a static function inside another
function.  We can do away with this construct altogether and use
BUILD_BUG_ON() instead (idea from Andi Kleen.)

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29 17:34:02 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
18ec5c7312 [ARM] 3373/1: move uengine loader to arch/arm/common
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

Move the uengine loader from arch/arm/mach-ixp2000 to arch/arm/common
so that ixp23xx can use it too.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-21 22:06:16 +00:00
Stephen Hemminger
d359b6ff6a [PATCH] ixp2000: change netif_schedule_test to __netif_schedule_prep
Sky2 update changed name of netif_schedule_test to __netif_schedule_prep

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-03 20:29:03 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
127477840b [PATCH] ixp2000: add driver version, bump version to 0.2
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:27 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
8ce51d69b7 [PATCH] ixp2000: add netpoll support
Add netpoll support to the ixp2000 driver.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:27 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
cffbfcaf00 [PATCH] enp2611: disable/enable SERDES carrier on interface down/up
Disable/enable the SERDES carrier when an interface is administratively
downed/upped.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:27 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
c6e429bdd6 [PATCH] pm3386: implement reset
Implement pm3386 reset.  A reset zeroes out the internally stored MAC
addresses, so we need to save and reload them by hand.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:27 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
df86550602 [PATCH] pm3386: add hook for setting carrier
Add a pm3386 hook for disabling/enabling the SERDES carrier, so that
we can disable it when the interface is administratively downed, and
enable it when it is upped.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:27 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
0b85c0ebde [PATCH] pm3386: add hook for setting MAC address
When we reset the pm3386, it loses its internally stored MAC addresses
that were programmed into it by the bootloader (and are used by the
hardware for the generation of PAUSE frames.)  Add a hook to allow
setting these addresses so that we can program them back by hand.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:26 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
7ed98bfdea [PATCH] ixp2000: report MAC addresses for each port on init
After initialising, report the MAC address that we're using for
each port.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:26 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
350f19632d [PATCH] enp2611: report link up/down events
Report carrier going up/down.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:26 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
c44185d4dc [PATCH] enp2611: use 'dev' in link status timer
We assign nds[i] to a local variable 'dev', which we never use
afterwards.  Use the local variable instead.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:26 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
de287fd596 [PATCH] enp2611: don't check netif_running() in link status timer
Even after an interface has gone !netif_running(), we still want to
catch the 'carrier went down' event for our internal bookkeeping.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:26 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
ee61249468 [PATCH] ixp2000: use netif_rx_schedule_test
The sky2 driver introduced netif_rx_schedule_test().  This is
exactly what we need, so remove our local version of this function
(which was called netif_rx_schedule_prep_notup) and use the generic
one instead.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:26 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
6744a5069b [PATCH] caleb/pm3386: include proper header files
Make caleb.c and pm3386.c include their own header files, to catch
incorrect prototype definitions.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:26 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
f48a8815f8 [PATCH] pm3386: remove unnecessary udelays
Remove a number of unnecessary udelay() calls.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:26 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
178f171da7 [PATCH] pm3386: zero stats properly
Zero our stats structure properly.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:25 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
0c49919a47 [PATCH] ixp2000: register netdevices last
Do not register our netdevices with the kernel until we've actually
finished setting up the hardware and microcode.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-01 02:25:25 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
15d014d131 [PATCH] intel ixp2000 network driver
The way the hardware and firmware work is that there is one shared RX
queue and IRQ for a number of different network interfaces.  Due to this,
we would like to process received packets for every interface in the same
NAPI poll handler, so we need a pseudo-device to schedule polling on.

What the driver currently does is that it always schedules polling for
the first network interface in the list, and processes packets for every
interface in the poll handler for that first interface -- however, this
scheme breaks down if the first network interface happens to not be up,
since netif_rx_schedule_prep() checks netif_running().

sky2 apparently has the same issue, and Stephen Hemminger suggested a
way to work around this: create a variant of netif_rx_schedule_prep()
that does not check netif_running().  I implemented this locally and
called it netif_rx_schedule_prep_notup(), and it seems to work well,
but it's something that probably not everyone would be happy with.

The ixp2000 is an ARM CPU with a high-speed network interface in the
CPU itself (full duplex 4Gb/s or 10Gb/s depending on the IXP model.)
The CPU package also contains 8 or 16 (again depending on the IXP
model) 'microengines', which are somewhat primitive but very fast
and efficient processor cores which can be used to offload various
things from the main CPU.

This driver makes the high-speed network interface in the CPU visible
and usable as a regular linux network device.  Currently, it only
supports the Radisys ENP2611 IXP board, but adding support for other
board types should be fairly easy.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-11-18 13:32:22 -05:00