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19 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jeff Garzik
d7fbeba60b [netdrvr ibmlana, ibmveth] trim trailing whitespace 2006-05-24 01:31:14 -04:00
Santiago Leon
860f242eb5 [PATCH] ibmveth change buffer pools dynamically
This patch provides a sysfs interface to change some properties of the
ibmveth buffer pools (size of the buffers, number of buffers per pool,
and whether a pool is active).  Ethernet drivers use ethtool to provide
this type of functionality.  However, the buffers in the ibmveth driver
can have an arbitrary size (not only regular, mini, and jumbo which are
the only sizes that ethtool can change), and also ibmveth can have an
arbitrary number of buffer pools

Under heavy load we have seen dropped packets which obviously kills TCP
performance.  We have created several fixes that mitigate this issue,
but we definitely need a way of changing the number of buffers for an
adapter dynamically.  Also, changing the size of the buffers allows
users to change the MTU to something big (bigger than a jumbo frame)
greatly improving performance on partition to partition transfers.

The patch creates directories pool1...pool4 in the device directory in
sysfs, each with files: num, size, and active (which default to the
values in the mainline version).

Comments and suggestions are welcome...
--
Santiago A. Leon
Power Linux Development
IBM Linux Technology Center

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-05-24 01:30:37 -04:00
Segher Boessenkool
706c8c93ba [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Change H_StudlyCaps to H_SHOUTING_CAPS
Also cleans up some nearby whitespace problems.

Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-01 22:36:57 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
6af37fa992 [PATCH] disable DEBUG in ibmveth
At the moment ibmveth has DEBUG enabled which is rather verbose. Disable
it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-11-11 05:47:04 -05:00
Olaf Hering
733482e445 [PATCH] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reason
This patch removes almost all inclusions of linux/version.h.  The 3
#defines are unused in most of the touched files.

A few drivers use the simple KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro, which is
unfortunatly in linux/version.h.

There are also lots of #ifdef for long obsolete kernels, this was not
touched.  In a few places, the linux/version.h include was move to where
the LINUX_VERSION_CODE was used.

quilt vi `find * -type f -name "*.[ch]"|xargs grep -El '(UTS_RELEASE|LINUX_VERSION_CODE|KERNEL_VERSION|linux/version.h)'|grep -Ev '(/(boot|coda|drm)/|~$)'`

search pattern:
/UTS_RELEASE\|LINUX_VERSION_CODE\|KERNEL_VERSION\|linux\/\(utsname\|version\).h

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09 07:55:57 -08:00
Santiago Leon
6c2af71f7f [PATCH] ibmveth fix panic in initial replenish cycle
This patch fixes a panic in the current tree caused by a race condition between the initial replenish cycle and the rx processing of the first packets trying to replenish the buffers.

Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-01 21:56:40 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
23fd07750a Merge ../linux-2.6 by hand 2005-10-31 13:37:12 +11:00
Jesper Juhl
b4558ea93d drivers/net: Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() 2005-10-28 16:53:13 -04:00
Santiago Leon
82702d37a5 [PATCH] ibmveth fix failed addbuf
This patch fixes a bug that happens when the hypervisor can't add a
buffer.  The old code wrote IBM_VETH_INVALID_MAP into the free_map
array, so next time the index was used, a ibmveth_assert() caught it and
called BUG().  The patch writes the right value into the free_map array
so that the index can be reused.

Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-10-28 16:07:31 -04:00
Santiago Leon
60296d9e4b [PATCH] ibmveth lockless TX
This patch adds the lockless TX feature to the ibmveth driver.  The
hypervisor has its own locking so the only change that is necessary is
to protect the statistics counters.

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
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