usbnet: handle link change

The link change is detected via the interrupt pipe, and bulk
pipes are responsible for transfering packets, so it is reasonable
to stop bulk transfer after link is reported as off.

Two adavantages may be obtained with stopping bulk transfer
after link becomes off:

- USB bus bandwidth is saved(USB bus is shared bus except for
USB3.0), for example, lots of 'IN' token packets and 'NYET'
handshake packets is transfered on 2.0 bus.

- probabaly power might be saved for usb host controller since
cancelling bulk transfer may disable the asynchronous schedule of
host controller.

With this patch, when link becomes off, about ~10% performance
boost can be found on bulk transfer of anther usb device which
is attached to same bus with the usbnet device, see below
test on next-20130410:

- read from usb mass storage(Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0) on pandaboard
with below command after unplugging ethernet cable:

	dd if=/dev/sda iflag=direct of=/dev/null bs=1M count=800

- without the patch
1, 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 36.2216 s, 23.2 MB/s
2, 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 35.8368 s, 23.4 MB/s
3, 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 35.823 s, 23.4 MB/s
4, 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 35.937 s, 23.3 MB/s
5, 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 35.7365 s, 23.5 MB/s
average: 23.6MB/s

- with the patch
1, 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 32.3817 s, 25.9 MB/s
2, 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 31.7389 s, 26.4 MB/s
3, 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 32.438 s, 25.9 MB/s
4, 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 32.5492 s, 25.8 MB/s
5, 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 31.6178 s, 26.5 MB/s
average: 26.1MB/s

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index 34e425264a7a..1e5a9b72650e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -938,6 +938,27 @@ static const struct ethtool_ops usbnet_ethtool_ops = {
 
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
+static void __handle_link_change(struct usbnet *dev)
+{
+	if (!test_bit(EVENT_DEV_OPEN, &dev->flags))
+		return;
+
+	if (!netif_carrier_ok(dev->net)) {
+		/* kill URBs for reading packets to save bus bandwidth */
+		unlink_urbs(dev, &dev->rxq);
+
+		/*
+		 * tx_timeout will unlink URBs for sending packets and
+		 * tx queue is stopped by netcore after link becomes off
+		 */
+	} else {
+		/* submitting URBs for reading packets */
+		tasklet_schedule(&dev->bh);
+	}
+
+	clear_bit(EVENT_LINK_CHANGE, &dev->flags);
+}
+
 /* work that cannot be done in interrupt context uses keventd.
  *
  * NOTE:  with 2.5 we could do more of this using completion callbacks,
@@ -1035,8 +1056,14 @@ skip_reset:
 		} else {
 			usb_autopm_put_interface(dev->intf);
 		}
+
+		/* handle link change from link resetting */
+		__handle_link_change(dev);
 	}
 
+	if (test_bit (EVENT_LINK_CHANGE, &dev->flags))
+		__handle_link_change(dev);
+
 	if (dev->flags)
 		netdev_dbg(dev->net, "kevent done, flags = 0x%lx\n", dev->flags);
 }
@@ -1286,6 +1313,7 @@ static void usbnet_bh (unsigned long param)
 	// or are we maybe short a few urbs?
 	} else if (netif_running (dev->net) &&
 		   netif_device_present (dev->net) &&
+		   netif_carrier_ok(dev->net) &&
 		   !timer_pending (&dev->delay) &&
 		   !test_bit (EVENT_RX_HALT, &dev->flags)) {
 		int	temp = dev->rxq.qlen;
@@ -1663,6 +1691,8 @@ void usbnet_link_change(struct usbnet *dev, bool link, bool need_reset)
 
 	if (need_reset && link)
 		usbnet_defer_kevent(dev, EVENT_LINK_RESET);
+	else
+		usbnet_defer_kevent(dev, EVENT_LINK_CHANGE);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(usbnet_link_change);