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Alexander Duyck ffed21bcee ixgbe: Don't bother clearing buffer memory for descriptor rings
This patch makes it so that we don't need to bother with clearing the
memory out for the descriptor rings.  The general idea is to only free
buffers associated with buffers in use which are located between the
next_to_clean and next_to_use or next_to_alloc values.  Everything outside
of those regions can be safely ignored since they should have no buffers
associated with them.

The advantage to doing things this way is that is should speed up bring-up
and tear-down of the rings.  Specifically we can avoid the 512 or more
cycles required to memset the rings in tear-down.  In the bring-up phase we
then clear the memory as a part of initialization.  The general idea is
that the clearing in initialization can act as a prefetch of sorts for the
buffer info structures so they are in the local CPU when we go to populate
them.  This should help to improve overall time needed to perform a
suspend/resume.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2017-02-16 04:02:44 -08:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-02-11 02:31:11 -05:00
block block: don't try Write Same from __blkdev_issue_zeroout 2017-02-06 09:34:46 -07:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: algif_aead - Fix kernel panic on list_del 2017-02-03 17:45:48 +08:00
Documentation net: phy: Add LED mode driver for Microsemi PHYs. 2017-02-08 13:29:04 -05:00
drivers ixgbe: Don't bother clearing buffer memory for descriptor rings 2017-02-16 04:02:44 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs RxRPC rewrite 2017-02-13 22:24:16 -05:00
include qed: Add infrastructure for PTP support 2017-02-15 12:42:52 -05:00
init kbuild: modversions: add infrastructure for emitting relative CRCs 2017-02-03 08:28:25 -08:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel bpf: reduce compiler warnings by adding fallthrough comments 2017-02-14 14:32:12 -05:00
lib lib: Introduce priority array area manager 2017-02-03 16:35:42 -05:00
mm mm/slub.c: fix random_seq offset destruction 2017-02-08 15:41:43 -08:00
net openvswitch: Set internal device max mtu to ETH_MAX_MTU. 2017-02-15 12:40:27 -05:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-28 10:33:06 -05:00
scripts kbuild: modversions: add infrastructure for emitting relative CRCs 2017-02-03 08:28:25 -08:00
security Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-02-11 02:31:11 -05:00
sound ALSA: hda - adding a new NV HDMI/DP codec ID in the driver 2017-02-09 08:57:47 +01:00
tools bpf: Rebuild bpf.o for any dependency update 2017-02-15 12:16:17 -05:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for 4.10-rc4 2017-01-17 15:04:59 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap mailmap: add codeaurora.org names for nameless email commits 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS CREDITS: Remove outdated address information 2016-12-21 15:21:29 -08:00
Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next 2017-02-12 22:11:43 -05:00
Makefile Linux 4.10-rc7 2017-02-05 15:10:58 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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.