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2011-11-14Sweep the last of the active .get_drvinfo floors under ethernet/Rick Jones
This round of floor sweeping converts strncpy calls in various .get_drvinfo routines to the preferred strlcpy. It also does a modicum of other cleaning in those routines. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-02igb: Fix for I347AT4 PHY cable length unit detectionKantecki, Tomasz
The PHY cable length unit detection was not using the correct the correct PHY data variable for I347AT4. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Kantecki <tomasz.kantecki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1745 commits) dp83640: free packet queues on remove dp83640: use proper function to free transmit time stamping packets ipv6: Do not use routes from locally generated RAs |PATCH net-next] tg3: add tx_dropped counter be2net: don't create multiple RX/TX rings in multi channel mode be2net: don't create multiple TXQs in BE2 be2net: refactor VF setup/teardown code into be_vf_setup/clear() be2net: add vlan/rx-mode/flow-control config to be_setup() net_sched: cls_flow: use skb_header_pointer() ipv4: avoid useless call of the function check_peer_pmtu TCP: remove TCP_DEBUG net: Fix driver name for mdio-gpio.c ipv4: tcp: fix TOS value in ACK messages sent from TIME_WAIT rtnetlink: Add missing manual netlink notification in dev_change_net_namespaces ipv4: fix ipsec forward performance regression jme: fix irq storm after suspend/resume route: fix ICMP redirect validation net: hold sock reference while processing tx timestamps tcp: md5: add more const attributes Add ethtool -g support to virtio_net ... Fix up conflicts in: - drivers/net/Kconfig: The split-up generated a trivial conflict with removal of a stale reference to Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt. Remove it from the new location instead. - fs/sysfs/dir.c: Fairly nasty conflicts with the sysfs rb-tree usage, conflicting with Eric Biederman's changes for tagged directories.
2011-10-21igb: VFTA Table Fix for i350 devicesCarolyn Wyborny
Due to a hardware problem, writes to the VFTA register can theoretically fail. Although the likelihood of this is very low. This patch adds a shadow vfta in the adapter struct for reading and adds new write functions for these devices to work around the problem. Signed-off-by: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-21igb: Move DMA Coalescing init code to separate function.Carolyn Wyborny
This patch moves the DMA Coalescing feature initialization code from igb_reset to a new function and replaces it with a call to the new function. Signed-off-by: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-21igb: Fix for Alt MAC Address feature on 82580 and later devicesCarolyn Wyborny
In 82580 and later devices, the alternate MAC address feature is completely handled by the option ROM and software does not handle it anymore. This patch changes the check_alt_mac_addr function to exit immediately if device is 82580 or later. Signed-off-by: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-20igb: fix a compile warningRongQing Li
control these three function declarations and definitions with same macro CONFIG_PCI_IOV drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c:165: warning: ‘igb_vf_configure’ declared ‘static’ but never defined drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c:166: warning: ‘igb_find_enabled_vfs’ declared ‘static’ but never defined drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c:167: warning: ‘igb_check_vf_assignment’ declared ‘static’ but never defined Signed-off-by: RongQing Li <roy.qing.li@gmail.com> Acked-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19net: add skb frag size accessorsEric Dumazet
To ease skb->truesize sanitization, its better to be able to localize all references to skb frags size. Define accessors : skb_frag_size() to fetch frag size, and skb_frag_size_{set|add|sub}() to manipulate it. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-17igb: Check if subordinate VFs are assigned to virtual machinesGreg Rose
Kvm and the Xen pci-back driver will set a flag in the virtual function pci device dev_flags when the VF is assigned to a guest VM. Before destroying subordinate VFs check to see if the flag is set and if so skip the call to pci_disable_sriov() to avoid system crashes. Copy the maintainer for the Xen pci-back driver. Also CC'ing maintainers of all drivers found to call pci_disable_sriov(). V2 - Fix uninitialized variable warning Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Christian Benvenuti <benve@cisco.com> Cc: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com> Cc: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com> Cc: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> Cc: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-16igb: enable l4 timestamping for v2 event packetsJacob Keller
When enabling hardware timestamping for ptp v2 event packets, the software does not setup the queue for l4 packets, although layer 4 packets are valid for v2. This patch adds the flag which enables setting up a queue and enabling udp packet timestamping. Signed-off-by: Jacob E Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-13igb: fix skb truesize underestimationEric Dumazet
e1000 allocates half a page per skb fragment. We must account PAGE_SIZE/2 increments on skb->truesize, not the actual frag length. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-13igb: Version bump.Carolyn Wyborny
This change updates the driver version to 3.2.10. Signed-off-by: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-13igb: Loopback functionality supports for i350 devicesAkeem G. Abodunrin
This patch adds VMDq loopback pf support for i350 devices. The patch is necessary since the register that enabled loopback was moved and renamed from DTXSWC to TXSWC. Signed-off-by: "Akeem G. Abodunrin" <akeem.g.abodunrin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-13igb: fix static function warnings reported by sparseEmil Tantilov
igb_update/validate_nvm_checksum_with_offset() should be static. Also removes unneeded prototypes for the above functions. Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-13igb: Add workaround for byte swapped VLAN on i350 local trafficAlexander Duyck
On i350 when traffic is looped back from a VF to the PF the value is byte swapped from the normal format. In order to address this we need to add a flag indicating that the ring will need to byte swap the loopback packets prior to processing them. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-13igb: Drop unnecessary write of E1000_IMS from igb_msix_otherAlexander Duyck
Since we mask interrupts in EIMS not in IMS there is no need to re-enable mask bits in that register. As such we can remove the write to IMS from the end of igb_msix_other. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-13igb: Fix features that are currently 82580 only and should also be i350Alexander Duyck
This change allows support for per packet timesync and global device reset on the i350 adapter. These features were supported on both 82580 and i350 however it looks like several checks where not updated and as such the i350 support was not enabled. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-13igb: Make certain one vector is always assigned in igb_request_irqAlexander Duyck
This change makes certain that one interrupt is always initialized in igb_request_irq. In addition we drop the use of adapter->pdev and instead just call pdev since we made a local copy of the pointer earlier in the function. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-13igb: avoid unnecessarily creating a local copy of the q_vectorAlexander Duyck
This is mostly a drop of unnecessary pointer defines for q_vector when we don't have issues with line width and don't have multiple references to the pointer. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-11Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-nextDavid S. Miller
2011-10-08igb: add support for NETIF_F_RXHASHAlexander Duyck
This patch adds support for Rx hashing. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-08igb: move TX hang check flag into ring->flagsAlexander Duyck
This change moves the Tx hang check into the ring flags. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-08igb: fix recent VLAN changes that would leave VLANs disabled after resetAlexander Duyck
This patch cleans up several issues with VLANs on igb after the recent changes that were meant to leave the VLANs enabled/disable via the netdev->features flags. Specifically the Rx VLAN settings were being dropped after reset due to the fact that they were not being restored correctly. In addition I removed the IRQ disable/enable since those were in place to protect the setting of vlgrp. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-08igb: leave staterr in place and instead us a helper function to check bitsAlexander Duyck
Instead of doing a byte swap on the staterr bits in the Rx descriptor we can save ourselves a bit of space and some CPU time by instead just testing for the various bits out of the Rx descriptor directly. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-08igb: retire the RX_CSUM flag and use the netdev flag insteadAlexander Duyck
Since the netdev now has its' own checksum flag to indicate if Rx checksum is enabled we might as well use that instead of using the ring flag. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-08igb: cleanup IVAR configurationAlexander Duyck
This change is meant to cleanup some of the IVAR register configuration. igb_assign_vector had become pretty large with multiple copies of the same general code for setting the IVAR. This change consolidates most of that code by adding the igb_write_ivar function which allows us just to compute the index and offset and then use that information to setup the IVAR. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-08igb: Move ITR related data into work container within the q_vectorAlexander Duyck
This change moves information related to interrupt throttle rate configuration into a separate q_vector sub-structure called a work container. A similar change has already been made for ixgbe and this work is based off of that. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-08igb: Consolidate all of the ring feature flags into a single valueAlexander Duyck
This change moves all of the ring flags into a single value. The advantage to this is that there is one central area for all of these flags and they can all make use of the set/test bit operations. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-08igb: avoid unnecessary conversions from u16 to intAlexander Duyck
There are a number of places where we have values that are stored as u16 but are being converted to int unnecessarily. In order to avoid that we should convert all variables that deal with the next_to_clean, next_to_use, and count to u16 values. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-08igb: Use node specific allocations for the q_vectors and ringsAlexander Duyck
This change is meant to update the ring and vector allocations so that they are per node instead of allocating everything on the node that ifconfig/modprobe is called on. By doing this we can cut down significantly on cross node traffic. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-08igb: push data into first igb_tx_buffer sooner to reduce stack usageAlexander Duyck
Instead of storing most of the data for the TX hot path in the stack until we are ready to write the descriptor we can save ourselves some time and effort by pushing the SKB, tx_flags, gso_size, bytecount, and protocol into the first igb_tx_buffer since that is where we will end up putting it anyway. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-07net: Remove unnecessary driver assignments of ethtool_ringparam fields to zeroRick Jones
Per comments from Ben Hutchings on a previous patch, sweep the floors a little removing unnecessary assignments of zero to fields of struct ethtool_ringparam in driver code supporting ethtool -g. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-07igb: consolidate creation of Tx buffer info and data descriptorAlexander Duyck
This change will combine the writes of tx_buffer_info and the Tx data descriptors into a single function. The advantage of this is that we can avoid needless memory reads from the buffer info struct and speed things up by keeping the accesses to the local registers. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-07igb: Combine all flag info fields into a single tx_flags structureAlexander Duyck
This change is meant to combine all of the TX flags fields into one u32 flags field so that it can be stored into the tx_buffer_info structure. This includes the time stamp flag as well as mapped_as_page flag info. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-07igb: Cleanup protocol handling in transmit pathAlexander Duyck
This change is meant to cleanup the protocol handling in the transmit path so that it correctly offloads software VLAN tagged frames. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-07igb: Create separate functions for generating cmd_type and olinfoAlexander Duyck
This change is meant to improve the readability of the driver by separating out the cmd_type configuration and the olinfo configuration into their own functions. By doing this it is much easier to determine which ingredients go into setting up these to portions of the descriptor. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-07igb: Make first and tx_buffer_info->next_to_watch into pointersAlexander Duyck
This change converts two tx_buffer_info index values into pointers. The advantage to this is that we reduce unnecessary computations and in the case of next_to_watch we get an added bonus of the value being able to provide additional information as a NULL value indicates it is unset versus a 0 not having any meaning for the index value. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-07igb: Consolidate creation of Tx context descriptors into a single functionAlexander Duyck
This patch is meant to simplify the transmit path by reducing the overhead for creating a transmit context descriptor. The current implementation is split with igb_tso and igb_tx_csum doing two separate implementations on how to setup the tx_buffer_info structure and the tx_desc. By combining them it is possible to reduce code and simplify things since now only one function will create context descriptors. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-07igb: split buffer_info into tx_buffer_info and rx_buffer_infoAlexander Duyck
In order to be able to improve the performance of the TX path it has been necessary to add addition info to the tx_buffer_info structure. However a side effect is that the structure has gotten larger and this in turn has also increased the size of the RX buffer info structure. In order to avoid this in the future I am splitting the single buffer_info structure into two separate ones and instead I will join them by making the buffer_info pointer in the ring a union of the two. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-07igb: Make Tx budget for NAPI user adjustableAlexander Duyck
This change is to make the NAPI budget limits for transmit adjustable. Currently they are only set to 128, and when the changes/improvements to NAPI occur to allow for adjustability, it would be possible to tune the value for optimal performance with applications such as routing. v2: remove tie between NAPI and interrupt moderation fix work limit define name (s/IXGBE/IGB/) Update patch description to better reflect patch Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
2011-10-06igb: Alternate MAC Address Updates for Func2&3Akeem G. Abodunrin
Only function 1 has support for Alternate MAC Address in the EEPROM before, this update now allow function 2 and 3 to have support for Alternate MAC Address in the EEPROM. Signed-off-by: "Akeem G. Abodunrin" <akeem.g.abodunrin@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-06igb: Alternate MAC Address EEPROM UpdatesAkeem G. Abodunrin
This code check word 0x37 in the EEPROM, if it is 0xFFFF _or_ 0x0000, then there is no Alternate MAC Address in the EEPROM. Signed-off-by: "Akeem G. Abodunrin" <akeem.g.abodunrin@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-06igb: Code to prevent overwriting SFP I2CAkeem G. Abodunrin
This patch fixes "overwrite" problem. without this fix, SFP I2C EEPROM data, which is located at A0 can be overwritten by the phy write function. Signed-off-by: "Akeem G. Abodunrin" <akeem.g.abodunrin@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-09-20igb: Remove multi_tx_table and simplify igb_xmit_frameAlexander Duyck
Instead of using the multi_tx_table to map possible Tx queues to Tx rings we can just do simple subtraction for the unlikely event that the Tx queue provided exceeds the number of Tx rings. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-09-20igb: Replace E1000_XX_DESC_ADV with IGB_XX_DESCAlexander Duyck
Since igb only uses advanced descriptors we might as well just use an IGB specific define and drop the _ADV suffix for the descriptor declarations. In addition this can be further reduced by assuming that it will be working on pointers since that is normally how the Tx descriptors are handled. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-09-20igb: drop the "adv" off function names relating to descriptorsAlexander Duyck
Many of the function names in the hot path are carrying an extra "_adv" suffix on the end of them to represent the fact that they are using advanced descriptors instead of legacy descriptors. However since all igb uses are advanced descriptors adding the extra suffix doesn't really add any additional data. Since this is the case it is easiest to just drop the suffix and save us from having to store the extra characters. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-09-20igb: Refactor clean_rx_irq to reduce overhead and improve performanceAlexander Duyck
This change is meant to be a general cleanup and performance improvement for clean_rx_irq. The previous patch should have updated the allocation so that the rings can be treated as read-only within the clean_rx_irq function. In addition I am re-ordering the operations such that several goals are accomplished including reducing the overhead for packet accounting, reducing the number of items on the stack, and improving overall performance. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-09-20igb: update ring and adapter structure to improve performanceAlexander Duyck
This change is meant to improve performance by splitting the Tx and Rx rings into 3 sections. The first is primarily a read only section containing basic things like the indexes, a pointer to the dev and netdev structures, and basic information. The second section contains the stats and next_to_use and next_to_clean values. The third section is primarily unused values that can just be placed at the end of the ring and are not used in the hot path. The adapter structure has several sections that are read in the hot path. In order to improve performance there I am combining the frequent read hot path items into a single cache line. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-09-20igb: streamline Rx buffer allocation and cleanupAlexander Duyck
This change is meant to streamline the Rx buffer allocation and cleanup. This is accomplished by reducing the number of writes by only having the Rx descriptor ring written by software during allocation, and it will only be read during cleanup. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-09-20igb: drop support for single buffer modeAlexander Duyck
This change removes support for single buffer mode from igb and makes the driver function in packet split always. The advantage to doing this is that we can reduce total memory allocation overhead significantly as we will only need to allocate one 1K slab per packet and then make use of a reusable half page instead of allocating a 2K slab per packet. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>