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* net: trans_start cleanupsEric Dumazet2010-05-101-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Now that core network takes care of trans_start updates, dont do it in drivers themselves, if possible. Drivers can avoid one cache miss (on dev->trans_start) in their start_xmit() handler. Exceptions are NETIF_F_LLTX drivers Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo2010-03-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-10-132-17/+12
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| * net: Fix IXP 2000 network driver building.Vincent Sanders2009-10-132-17/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The IXP 2000 network driver was failing to build as it has its own statistics gathering which was not compatible with the recent network device operations changes. This patch fixes the driver in the obvious way and has been compile tested. I have been unable to get the ixp2000 maintainer to comment or test this fix. Signed-off-by: Vincent Sanders <vince@simtec.co.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: Use netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align()Eric Dumazet2009-10-131-2/+1
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-09-021-2/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/yellowfin.c
| * drivers/net: fixed drivers that support netpoll use ndo_start_xmit()Dongdong Deng2009-08-231-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The NETPOLL API requires that interrupts remain disabled in netpoll_send_skb(). The use of "A functions set" in the NETPOLL API callbacks causes the interrupts to get enabled and can lead to kernel instability. The solution is to use "B functions set" to prevent the irqs from getting enabled while in netpoll_send_skb(). A functions set: local_irq_disable()/local_irq_enable() spin_lock_irq()/spin_unlock_irq() spin_trylock_irq()/spin_unlock_irq() B functions set: local_irq_save()/local_irq_restore() spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_unlock_irqrestore() spin_trylock_irqsave()/spin_unlock_irqrestore() Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functionsPatrick McHardy2009-07-051-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK. Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be handled in a seperate patch. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ixp2000/ixpdev: convert to net_device_opsAlexander Beregalov2009-04-161-6/+13
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Remove redundant NAPI functionsBen Hutchings2009-01-211-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Following the removal of the unused struct net_device * parameter from the NAPI functions named *netif_rx_* in commit 908a7a1, they are exactly equivalent to the corresponding *napi_* functions and are therefore redundant. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Remove unused netdev arg from some NAPI interfaces.Neil Horman2008-12-221-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | When the napi api was changed to separate its 1:1 binding to the net_device struct, the netif_rx_[prep|schedule|complete] api failed to remove the now vestigual net_device structure parameter. This patch cleans up that api by properly removing it.. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.David S. Miller2008-11-031-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The generic packet receive code takes care of setting netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the bonding ARP monitor. Drivers need not do it any more. Some cases had to be skipped over because the drivers were making use of the ->last_rx value themselves. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [ARM] Move include/asm-arm/arch-* to arch/arm/*/include/machRussell King2008-08-071-2/+2
| | | | | | This just leaves include/asm-arm/plat-* to deal with. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* [ARM] Remove asm/hardware.h, use asm/arch/hardware.h insteadRussell King2008-08-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Remove includes of asm/hardware.h in addition to asm/arch/hardware.h. Then, since asm/hardware.h only exists to include asm/arch/hardware.h, update everything to directly include asm/arch/hardware.h and remove asm/hardware.h. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* [ARM] Eliminate useless includes of asm/mach-types.hRussell King2008-08-071-1/+0
| | | | | | | | There are 43 includes of asm/mach-types.h by files that don't reference anything from that file. Remove these unnecessary includes. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* ixp2000: use netdev_alloc_skbStephen Hemminger2008-05-221-2/+2
| | | | | | | | Use netdev_alloc_skb. This sets skb->dev and allows arch specific allocation. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
* [NET]: Do not check netif_running() and carrier state in ->poll()David S. Miller2008-01-081-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Drivers do this to try to break out of the ->poll()'ing loop when the device is being brought administratively down. Now that we have a napi_disable() "pending" state we are going to solve that problem generically. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.Ralf Baechle2007-10-101-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to remove it. The number of people that could object because they're maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small. [ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.Stephen Hemminger2007-10-102-14/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several queues. In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the structure representing the poll is independant from the net device itself. The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from: int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget) to int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the caller upon return. The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data structures. Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures, only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances it may have per-device. With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier, Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim. Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra, Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan. [ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Kill eth_copy_and_sum().David S. Miller2007-07-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | It hasn't "summed" anything in over 7 years, and it's just a straight mempcy ala skb_copy_to_linear_data() so just get rid of it. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* potential compiler error, irqfunc caller sites updateYoann Padioleau2007-07-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In 7d12e780e003f93433d49ce78cfedf4b4c52adc5 David Howells performed this evolution: "IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers" He correctly updated many of the function definitions that were using this extra regs pointer parameter but forgot to update some caller sites of those functions. The reason the modifications was not properly done on all drivers is that some drivers were rarely compiled because they are for AMIGA, or that some code sites were inside #ifdefs where the option is not set or inside #if 0. Here is the semantic patch that found the occurences and fixed the problem. @ rule1 @ identifier fn; identifier irq, dev_id; typedef irqreturn_t; @@ static irqreturn_t fn(int irq, void *dev_id) { ... } @@ identifier rule1.fn; expression E1, E2, E3; @@ fn(E1, E2 - ,E3 ) Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_transArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-251-2/+1
| | | | | | | One less thing for drivers writers to worry about. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlersDavid Howells2006-10-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the Linux kernel. The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack space and code to pass it around. On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path (ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()). Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do something different with the variable. On FRV, for instance, the address is maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception handling. Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down through up to twenty or so layers of functions. Consider a USB character device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller. A character device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing. I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386. I've runtested the main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers. I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile with minimal configurations. This will affect all archs. Mostly the changes should be relatively easy. Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one: struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs); And put the old one back at the end: set_irq_regs(old_regs); Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ(). In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary: - update_process_times(user_mode(regs)); - profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs); + update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs())); + profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING); I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself, except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode(). Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers: (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely. The regs pointer is no longer stored in the input_dev struct. (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking. It does something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs pointer or not. (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type irq_handler_t. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
* [PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/net: Use the new IRQF_ constantsThomas Gleixner2006-07-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-305-5/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* The ixp2000 driver for the enp2611 was developed on a board withLennert Buytenhek2006-05-153-10/+34
| | | | | | | | | | | | | three gigabit ports, but some enp2611 models only have two ports (and only one onboard PM3386.) The current driver assumes there are always three ports and so it doesn't work on the two-port version of the board at all. This patch adds a bit of logic to the enp2611 driver to limit the number of ports to 2 if the second PM3386 isn't detected. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ixp2000: fix gcc4 breakageLennert Buytenhek2006-03-291-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | gcc4 doesn't like us declaring a static function inside another function. We can do away with this construct altogether and use BUILD_BUG_ON() instead (idea from Andi Kleen.) Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [ARM] 3373/1: move uengine loader to arch/arm/commonLennert Buytenhek2006-03-212-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Patch from Lennert Buytenhek Move the uengine loader from arch/arm/mach-ixp2000 to arch/arm/common so that ixp23xx can use it too. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] ixp2000: change netif_schedule_test to __netif_schedule_prepStephen Hemminger2005-12-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | Sky2 update changed name of netif_schedule_test to __netif_schedule_prep Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] ixp2000: add driver version, bump version to 0.2Lennert Buytenhek2005-12-011-0/+4
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] ixp2000: add netpoll supportLennert Buytenhek2005-12-011-0/+12
| | | | | | | Add netpoll support to the ixp2000 driver. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] enp2611: disable/enable SERDES carrier on interface down/upLennert Buytenhek2005-12-011-0/+5
| | | | | | | | Disable/enable the SERDES carrier when an interface is administratively downed/upped. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] pm3386: implement resetLennert Buytenhek2005-12-011-1/+31
| | | | | | | | Implement pm3386 reset. A reset zeroes out the internally stored MAC addresses, so we need to save and reload them by hand. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] pm3386: add hook for setting carrierLennert Buytenhek2005-12-012-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | Add a pm3386 hook for disabling/enabling the SERDES carrier, so that we can disable it when the interface is administratively downed, and enable it when it is upped. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] pm3386: add hook for setting MAC addressLennert Buytenhek2005-12-012-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | When we reset the pm3386, it loses its internally stored MAC addresses that were programmed into it by the bootloader (and are used by the hardware for the generation of PAUSE frames.) Add a hook to allow setting these addresses so that we can program them back by hand. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] ixp2000: report MAC addresses for each port on initLennert Buytenhek2005-12-011-0/+8
| | | | | | | | After initialising, report the MAC address that we're using for each port. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] enp2611: report link up/down eventsLennert Buytenhek2005-12-011-0/+5
| | | | | | | Report carrier going up/down. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] enp2611: use 'dev' in link status timerLennert Buytenhek2005-12-011-4/+4
| | | | | | | | We assign nds[i] to a local variable 'dev', which we never use afterwards. Use the local variable instead. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] enp2611: don't check netif_running() in link status timerLennert Buytenhek2005-12-011-3/+0
| | | | | | | | Even after an interface has gone !netif_running(), we still want to catch the 'carrier went down' event for our internal bookkeeping. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] ixp2000: use netif_rx_schedule_testLennert Buytenhek2005-12-011-7/+1
| | | | | | | | | | The sky2 driver introduced netif_rx_schedule_test(). This is exactly what we need, so remove our local version of this function (which was called netif_rx_schedule_prep_notup) and use the generic one instead. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] caleb/pm3386: include proper header filesLennert Buytenhek2005-12-012-0/+2
| | | | | | | | Make caleb.c and pm3386.c include their own header files, to catch incorrect prototype definitions. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] pm3386: remove unnecessary udelaysLennert Buytenhek2005-12-011-13/+0
| | | | | | | Remove a number of unnecessary udelay() calls. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] pm3386: zero stats properlyLennert Buytenhek2005-12-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | Zero our stats structure properly. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] ixp2000: register netdevices lastLennert Buytenhek2005-12-011-18/+17
| | | | | | | | Do not register our netdevices with the kernel until we've actually finished setting up the hardware and microcode. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] intel ixp2000 network driverLennert Buytenhek2005-11-1816-0/+2459
The way the hardware and firmware work is that there is one shared RX queue and IRQ for a number of different network interfaces. Due to this, we would like to process received packets for every interface in the same NAPI poll handler, so we need a pseudo-device to schedule polling on. What the driver currently does is that it always schedules polling for the first network interface in the list, and processes packets for every interface in the poll handler for that first interface -- however, this scheme breaks down if the first network interface happens to not be up, since netif_rx_schedule_prep() checks netif_running(). sky2 apparently has the same issue, and Stephen Hemminger suggested a way to work around this: create a variant of netif_rx_schedule_prep() that does not check netif_running(). I implemented this locally and called it netif_rx_schedule_prep_notup(), and it seems to work well, but it's something that probably not everyone would be happy with. The ixp2000 is an ARM CPU with a high-speed network interface in the CPU itself (full duplex 4Gb/s or 10Gb/s depending on the IXP model.) The CPU package also contains 8 or 16 (again depending on the IXP model) 'microengines', which are somewhat primitive but very fast and efficient processor cores which can be used to offload various things from the main CPU. This driver makes the high-speed network interface in the CPU visible and usable as a regular linux network device. Currently, it only supports the Radisys ENP2611 IXP board, but adding support for other board types should be fairly easy. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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