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Jeff Kirsher says: ==================== 1GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2017-03-17 This series contains updates to mainly igb, with one fix for ixgbe. Alex does all the changes in the series, starting with adding support for DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING to improve performance on some platforms. Modified igb to use the length of the packet instead of the DD status bit to determine if a new descriptor is ready to be processed. Modified the driver to only go through the region in the receive ring that was designated to be cleaned up, instead of going through the entire ring on cleanup. Cleaned up the transmit side, by clearing the transmit buffer_info only when resetting the rings. Added a new upper limit for receive, which is based on the size of a 2K buffer minus padding, which will allow us to support build_skb going forward. Fixed ethtool testing to only sync on the size of the frame that is being tested, instead of the entire receive buffer. Updated the handling of page addresses to always use a void pointer with the consistent name of "va" to indicate that we are working with a virtual address. Added a "chicken bit" so that we can turn off the new receive allocation feature, in the case where we need to fallback to the legacy receive path. Added support for using 3K buffers in order 1 pages the same way we were using 2K buffers in 4K pages. Added support for padding packet, since we limit the size of the frame, we are able to write to an offset within the buffer instead of having to write at the very start of the buffer. This allows us to leaving padding room for things like supporting XDP in the future. Refactored the receive buffer page management, since there are 2-3 paths that can be taken depending on what receive modes are enabled, so to improve maintainability, break out the common bits into their own functions. Add support for build_skb, again. Lastly, fixed a typo in igb and ixgbe code comments. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.