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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d626f62b11 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}
To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-04-25 22:28:23 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
27a884dc3c [SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_t
So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes
on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the
layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4
64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN...
:-)

Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network,
mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being
meaningful as offsets or pointers.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:26:28 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
4c13eb6657 [ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_trans
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>
2007-04-25 22:24:30 -07:00
David Howells
7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
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)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Jeff Garzik
7282d491ec drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-13 14:30:00 -04:00
Henrik Kretzschmar
e1c3e50140 [PATCH] initialisation cleanup for ULI526x-net-driver
removes the unneeded local variable rc
replace pci_module_init() with pci_register_driver()
two coding style issues on switch

Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-07-29 01:31:33 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner
1fb9df5d30 [PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/net: Use the new IRQF_ constants
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>
2006-07-02 13:58:51 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
f3b197ac26 [netdrvr] trim trailing whitespace: 8139*.c, epic100, forcedeth, tulip/* 2006-05-26 21:39:03 -04:00
Andrew Morton
99bb25793e [PATCH] uli526x warning fix
drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c: In function `__check_mode':
drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c:1693: warning: return from incompatible pointer type

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-02-07 02:53:11 -05:00
Eric Sesterhenn / snakebyte
c213460fd4 [PATCH] replace MODULE_PARM in tulip/uli526x.c
Replace the MODULE_PARM usage in uli526x.c with module_param.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:32:35 -05:00
viro@ftp.linux.org.uk
6cafa99f01 [PATCH] (4/7) missing include (uli526x)
added missing include of dma-mapping.h, removed bogus ptrace.h (what the
hell was it doing there, in the first place?)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-05 17:57:23 -04:00
Peer Chen
945a787675 [netdrvr uli526x] fix problems found in review
- s/DEVICE/net_device/
- improve formatting
- remove dead code
- check return value, in several areas
2005-08-20 01:10:06 -04:00
Peer Chen
4689ced99b [netdrvr] add 'uli526x' driver (a tulip clone)
We want to extract our LAN card driver from tulip core driver and
make a new file uli526x.c at tulip folder, because we have added
some ethtool interface support and non-eprom support in our driver
and may be other change in the futher.

If our controllers support are still contained in the tulip core
driver, I think it'll increase the complexity of maintenance, you
know, tulip core driver include several files and support so many
other controllers.  Furthermore, I tested the newest kernel 2.6.12
and I found the tulip driver can not work on our lan controller, and
I no time to debug it, so I aspired want to make a single uli526x.c
file just for our controllers.  Could you help us remove the ULi
m5261/m5263 lan controller support from tulip core driver and add
the new single uli526x.c file for us?

Signed-off-by: Peer Chen <Peer.Chen@uli.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-07-29 15:33:58 -04:00