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3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Ben Hutchings 3273c2e8c6 [netdrvr] sfc: sfc: Add self-test support
Add a set of self-tests accessible thorugh ethtool.
Add hardware loopback and TX disable control code to support them.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-13 01:31:44 -04:00
Ben Hutchings b9b39b625c [netdrvr] sfc: Add TSO support
The SFC4000 controller does not have hardware support for TSO, and the
core GSO code incurs a high cost in allocating and freeing skbs.  This
TSO implementation uses lightweight packet header structures and is
substantially faster.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-13 01:31:40 -04:00
Ben Hutchings 8ceee660aa New driver "sfc" for Solarstorm SFC4000 controller.
The driver supports the 10Xpress PHY and XFP modules on our reference
designs SFE4001 and SFE4002 and the SMC models SMC10GPCIe-XFP and
SMC10GPCIe-10BT.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-04-29 01:42:43 -04:00