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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/iphase.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt | 2 |
5 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt index 93af3e87c65b..c300f26a2772 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt @@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ There are two types of event register ACK mechanisms. Move all to dev->poll() C) Ability to detect new work correctly. -NAPI works by shutting down event interrupts when theres work and -turning them on when theres none. +NAPI works by shutting down event interrupts when there's work and +turning them on when there's none. New packets might show up in the small window while interrupts were being re-enabled (refer to appendix 2). A packet might sneak in during the period we are enabling interrupts. We only get to know about such a packet when the @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Locking rules and environmental guarantees only one CPU can pick the initial interrupt and hence the initial netif_rx_schedule(dev); - The core layer invokes devices to send packets in a round robin format. -This implies receive is totaly lockless because of the guarantee only that +This implies receive is totally lockless because of the guarantee that only one CPU is executing it. - contention can only be the result of some other CPU accessing the rx ring. This happens only in close() and suspend() (when these methods @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ static int my_poll (struct net_device *dev, int *budget) an interrupt will be generated */ goto done; } - /* done! at least thats what it looks like ;-> + /* done! at least that's what it looks like ;-> if new packets came in after our last check on status bits they'll be caught by the while check and we go back and clear them since we havent exceeded our quota */ @@ -678,10 +678,10 @@ routine: CSR5 bit of interest is only the rx status. If you look at the last if statement: you just finished grabbing all the packets from the rx ring .. you check if -status bit says theres more packets just in ... it says none; you then +status bit says there are more packets just in ... it says none; you then enable rx interrupts again; if a new packet just came in during this check, we are counting that CSR5 will be set in that small window of opportunity -and that by re-enabling interrupts, we would actually triger an interrupt +and that by re-enabling interrupts, we would actually trigger an interrupt to register the new packet for processing. [The above description nay be very verbose, if you have better wording diff --git a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt index 64896470e279..e4d2287e0c85 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ c) The driver's hardware probe routine is designed to avoid with device probing. To avoid this behaviour, add one to the `io=' module parameter. This doesn't actually change the I/O address, but it is a flag to tell the driver - topartially initialise the hardware before trying to + to partially initialise the hardware before trying to identify the card. This could be dangerous if you are not sure that there is a cs89x0 card at the provided address. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/iphase.txt b/Documentation/networking/iphase.txt index 493203a080a8..55eac4a784e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/iphase.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/iphase.txt @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Installation 1M. The RAM size decides the number of buffers and buffer size. The default size and number of buffers are set as following: - Totol Rx RAM Tx RAM Rx Buf Tx Buf Rx buf Tx buf + Total Rx RAM Tx RAM Rx Buf Tx Buf Rx buf Tx buf RAM size size size size size cnt cnt -------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ 128K 64K 64K 10K 10K 6 6 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt index c8eee23be8c0..7b358553e8c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Examples: there must be no spaces between the arguments. Leading zeros are required. Do not set the bottom of stack bit, - thats done automatically. If you do + that's done automatically. If you do set the bottom of stack bit, that indicates that you want to randomly generate that address and the flag diff --git a/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt b/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt index 59cb915c3713..5e21f7cb6383 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ up into 3 parts because of the length of the line): 1000 0 54165785 4 cd1e6040 25 4 27 3 -1 | | | | | | | | | |--> slow start size threshold, - | | | | | | | | | or -1 if the treshold + | | | | | | | | | or -1 if the threshold | | | | | | | | | is >= 0xFFFF | | | | | | | | |----> sending congestion window | | | | | | | |-------> (ack.quick<<1)|ack.pingpong |
