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Santiago Leon e2adbcb480 [PATCH] ibmveth fix buffer replenishing
This patch removes the allocation of RX skb's  buffers from a workqueue
to be called directly at RX processing time.  This change was suggested
by Dave Miller when the driver was starving the RX buffers and
deadlocking under heavy traffic:

> Allocating RX SKBs via tasklet is, IMHO, the worst way to
> do it.  It is no surprise that there are starvation cases.
>
> If tasklets or work queues get delayed in any way, you lose,
> and it's very easy for a card to catch up with the driver RX'ing
> packets very fast, no matter how aggressive you make the
> replenishing.  By the time you detect that you need to be
> "more aggressive" it is already too late.
> The only pseudo-reliable way is to allocate at RX processing time.
>

Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-10-28 16:07:30 -04:00
Santiago Leon b6d35182fe [PATCH] ibmveth fix buffer pool management
This patch changes the way the ibmveth driver handles the receive
buffers.  The old code mallocs and maps all the buffers in the pools
regardless of MTU size and it also limits the number of buffer pools to
three. This patch makes the driver malloc and map the buffers necessary
to support the current MTU. It also changes the hardcoded names of the
buffer pool number, size, and elements to arrays to make it easier to
change (with the hope of making them runtime parameters in the future).

Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-10-28 16:07:30 -04:00
Santiago Leon 0abe791e94 [PATCH] ibmveth fix bonding
This patch updates dev->trans_start and dev->last_rx so that the ibmveth
driver can be used with the ARP monitor in the bonding driver.

Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-10-28 16:07:30 -04:00
Stephen Rothwell 8168f902fa [PATCH] ppc64: make dma_addr_t 64 bits
There has been a need expressed for dma_addr_t to be 64 bits on PPC64.
This patch does that.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-27 16:45:50 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell 915124d811 powerpc: set the driver.owner field for all vio drivers
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-10-24 16:59:13 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell 6fdf5392ca powerpc: don't duplicate name between vio_driver and device_driver
Just set the name field directly in the device_driver structure
contained in the vio_driver struct.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-10-24 15:42:12 +10:00
Al Viro 666002218d [PATCH] proc_mkdir() should be used to create procfs directories
A bunch of create_proc_dir_entry() calls creating directories had crept
in since the last sweep; converted to proc_mkdir().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-29 08:46:26 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell fb120da678 [PATCH] Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devices
Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devices.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-08-30 13:31:56 +10:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00