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Sonic Zhang 4fcc3d3409 netdev:bfin_mac: reclaim and free tx skb as soon as possible after transfer
SKBs hold onto resources that can't be held indefinitely, such as TCP
socket references and netfilter conntrack state.  So if a packet is left
in TX ring for a long time, there might be a TCP socket that cannot be
closed and freed up.

Current blackfin EMAC driver always reclaim and free used tx skbs in future
transfers. The problem is that future transfer may not come as soon as
possible. This patch start a timer after transfer to reclaim and free skb.
There is nearly no performance drop with this patch.

TX interrupt is not enabled because of a strange behavior of the Blackfin EMAC.
If EMAC TX transfer control is turned on, endless TX interrupts are triggered
no matter if TX DMA is enabled or not. Since DMA walks down the ring automatically,
TX transfer control can't be turned off in the middle. The only way is to disable
TX interrupt completely.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-15 15:04:10 -07:00
Michael Hennerich 53fd3f2829 netdev: bfin_mac: add support for wake-on-lan magic packets
Note that WOL works only in PM Suspend Standby Mode (Sleep Mode).

Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:20:59 -07:00
Barry Song fe92afedee netdev: bfin_mac: add support for IEEE 1588 PTP
Newer on-chip MAC peripherals support IEEE 1588 PTP in the hardware, so
extend the driver to support this functionality.

Signed-off-by: Barry Song <barry.song@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:19:40 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek 298cf9beb9 phylib: move to dynamic allocation of struct mii_bus
This patch introduces mdiobus_alloc() and mdiobus_free(), and
makes all mdio bus drivers use these functions to allocate their
struct mii_bus'es dynamically.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
2008-10-08 16:29:57 -07:00
Bryan Wu 7ef0a7ee2f Blackfin EMAC Driver: code cleanup
- replace specific "bf537" function or data structure name to "bfin_mac"
 - cleanup bfin_mac_probe with error checking
 - punt set_pin_mux function, call peripheral request/free list functions directly

Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-04-29 01:56:14 -04:00
Mike Frysinger 2fb9d6f5a3 EMAC driver: use simpler comment headers and strip out information that is maintained in the scm's log
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-03 04:28:48 -08:00
Mike Frysinger 9862cc5278 Blackfin arch: change get_bf537_ether_addr() to bfin_get_ether_addr() since this is not BF537 specific and to better match other Blackfin-specific conventions
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-11-15 21:21:20 +08:00
Bryan Wu 4ae5a3ad5a Blackfin EMAC driver: Add phy abstraction layer supporting in bfin_emac driver
- add MDIO functions and register mdio bus
 - add phy abstraction layer (PAL) functions and use PAL API
 - test on STAMP537 board

Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:51:50 -07:00
Jeff Garzik 09f75cd7bf [NET] drivers/net: statistics cleanup #1 -- save memory and shrink code
We now have struct net_device_stats embedded in struct net_device,
and the default ->get_stats() hook does the obvious thing for us.

Run through drivers/net/* and remove the driver-local storage of
statistics, and driver-local ->get_stats() hook where applicable.

This was just the low-hanging fruit in drivers/net; plenty more drivers
remain to be updated.

[ Resolved conflicts with napi_struct changes and fix sunqe build
  regression... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:16 -07:00
Bryan Wu e190d6b140 Blackfin ethernet driver: on chip ethernet MAC controller driver
This patch implements the driver necessary use the Analog Devices
Blackfin processor's on-chip ethernet MAC controller.

[try#2]
 - add timeout control
 - kill dma_config_reg bitfields
 - some trivial cleanup

[try#3]
 - add endianess check
 - add DRV_NAME, DRV_VERSION... driver information string
 - add some comments for silicon anomaly and dma API confusion
 - some code trivial cleanup

[try#4]
 - add Blackfin latest GPIO pin mux opertion with Michael Hennerich's
  help and Dan's review
 - rewrite the DMA descriptor list operation in a more readable way
  by Joe's review

[try#5]
 - cleanup some coding style by Joe's review.

[try#6]
 - 1.1 version fix a bug when set up multicast list pointed by Mr. yoshfuji
 - rearrange the desc_list_free function.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-07-18 18:38:25 -04:00