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Randy Dunlap d0d856e8bd [PATCH] ext4: clean up comments in ext4-extents patch
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:16 -07:00
Suparna Bhattacharya 471d4011a9 [PATCH] ext4: uninitialised extent handling
Make it possible to add file preallocation support in future as an RO_COMPAT
feature by recognizing uninitialized extents as holes and limiting extent
length to keep the top bit of ee_len free for marking uninitialized extents.

Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:16 -07:00
Alex Tomas f65e6fba16 [PATCH] ext4: 48bit physical block number support in extents
Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:16 -07:00
Mingming Cao 3a5b2ecdd1 [PATCH] ext4: switch fsblk to sector_t
Redefine ext3 in-kernel filesystem block type (ext3_fsblk_t) from unsigned
long to sector_t, to allow kernel to handle  >32 bit ext3 blocks.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:16 -07:00
Alex Tomas a86c618126 [PATCH] ext3: add extent map support
On disk extents format:
/*
* this is extent on-disk structure
* it's used at the bottom of the tree
*/
struct ext3_extent {
__le32  ee_block;       /* first logical block extent covers */
__le16  ee_len;         /* number of blocks covered by extent */
__le16  ee_start_hi;    /* high 16 bits of physical block */
__le32  ee_start;       /* low 32 bigs of physical block */
};

Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:16 -07:00
Dave Kleikamp c3fcc8137c [PATCH] jbd2: cleanup ext4_jbd.h
To allow ext4 to build during the transition from jbd to jbd2, we have both
ext4_jbd.h and ext4_jbd2.h in the tree.  We no longer need the former.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:16 -07:00
Mingming Cao dab291af8d [PATCH] jbd2: enable building of jbd2 and have ext4 use it rather than jbd
Reworked from a patch by Mingming Cao and Randy Dunlap

Signed-off-By: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:16 -07:00
Johann Lombardi a920e9416b [PATCH] jbd2: rename slab
jbd and jbd2 currently use the same slab names which must be unique.  The
patch below just renames jbd2's slabs.

Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
Mingming Cao f7f4bccb72 [PATCH] jbd2: rename jbd2 symbols to avoid duplication of jbd symbols
Mingming Cao originally did this work, and Shaggy reproduced it using some
scripts from her.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
Dave Kleikamp 470decc613 [PATCH] jbd2: initial copy of files from jbd
This is a simple copy of the files in fs/jbd to fs/jbd2 and
/usr/incude/linux/[ext4_]jbd.h to /usr/include/[ext4_]jbd2.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
Mingming Cao 02ea2104c5 [PATCH] ext4: enable building of ext4
Originally part of a patch from Mingming Cao and Randy Dunlap.  Reorganized
by Shaggy.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao<cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
Mingming Cao 617ba13b31 [PATCH] ext4: rename ext4 symbols to avoid duplication of ext3 symbols
Mingming Cao originally did this work, and Shaggy reproduced it using some
scripts from her.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
Dave Kleikamp ac27a0ec11 [PATCH] ext4: initial copy of files from ext3
Start of the ext4 patch series.  See Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt for
details.

This is a simple copy of the files in fs/ext3 to fs/ext4 and
/usr/incude/linux/ext3* to /usr/include/ex4*

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
Chen, Kenneth W 502717f4e1 [PATCH] hugetlb: fix linked list corruption in unmap_hugepage_range()
commit fe1668ae5b causes kernel to oops with
libhugetlbfs test suite.  The problem is that hugetlb pages can be shared
by multiple mappings.  Multiple threads can fight over page->lru in the
unmap path and bad things happen.  We now serialize __unmap_hugepage_range
to void concurrent linked list manipulation.  Such serialization is also
needed for shared page table page on hugetlb area.  This patch will fixed
the bug and also serve as a prepatch for shared page table.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 97c7801cd5 [PATCH] swsusp: Use suspend_console
Add suspend_console() and resume_console() to the suspend-to-disk code paths
so that the users of netconsole can use swsusp with it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
Heiko Carstens dea20a3fbd [PATCH] Disable DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP for s390
We got several false bug reports because of enabled
CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP.  Disable soft lockup detection on s390, since it
doesn't work on a virtualized architecture.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V c37e108d15 [PATCH] use struct irq_chip instead of struct hw_interrupt_type
hw_interrupt_type is deprecated in favour of struct irq_chip.

[mingo@elte.hu: do x86_64 too]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
Luca Tettamanti 1db11ea65e [PATCH] Fix menuconfig build failure due to missing stdbool.h
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c fails to build because it uses
true/false without including stdbool.h:

kronos:~/src/linux-2.6$ make O=../linux-build-git menuconfig
  GEN     /home/kronos/src/linux-build/Makefile
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c: In function 'set_classic_theme':
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:68: error: 'true' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:68: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:68: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:70: error: 'false' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c: In function 'set_blackbg_theme':
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:101: error: 'true' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:102: error: 'false' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c: In function 'set_bluetitle_theme':
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:144: error: 'true' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

Add <stdbool.h> to dialog.h to fix the breakage.

Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
Mel Gorman b888132b0f [PATCH] mm: remove memmap_zone_idx()
memmap_zone_idx() is not used anymore.  It was required by an earlier
version of
account-for-memmap-and-optionally-the-kernel-image-as-holes.patch but not
any more.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
Mel Gorman 6391af174a [PATCH] mm: use symbolic names instead of indices for zone initialisation
Arch-independent zone-sizing is using indices instead of symbolic names to
offset within an array related to zones (max_zone_pfns).  The unintended
impact is that ZONE_DMA and ZONE_NORMAL is initialised on powerpc instead
of ZONE_DMA and ZONE_HIGHMEM when CONFIG_HIGHMEM is set.  As a result, the
the machine fails to boot but will boot with CONFIG_HIGHMEM turned off.

The following patch properly initialises the max_zone_pfns[] array and uses
symbolic names instead of indices in each architecture using
arch-independent zone-sizing.  Two users have successfully booted their
powerpcs with it (one an ibook G4).  It has also been boot tested on x86,
x86_64, ppc64 and ia64.  Please merge for 2.6.19-rc2.

Credit to Benjamin Herrenschmidt for identifying the bug and rolling the
first fix.  Additional credit to Johannes Berg and Andreas Schwab for
reporting the problem and testing on powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
Haavard Skinnemoen 4e0fadfcf6 [PATCH] IRQ: Fix AVR32 breakage
Make the necessary changes to AVR32 required by the irq regs stuff.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
Eric Sesterhenn 41716c7c21 [PATCH] null dereference in fs/jbd/journal.c
Since commit d1807793e1 we dereference a NULL
pointer.  Coverity id #1432.  We set journal to NULL, and use it directly
afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
Andrew Morton 7e491092e4 [PATCH] revert "nvidiafb: use generic ddc reading"
Olaf reports that this gave him a black screen.

Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
Christian Borntraeger 75e9de18f0 [S390] stacktrace bug.
The latest kernel 2.6.19-rc1 triggers a bug in the s390 specific stack
trace code when compiled with gcc 3.4.
This patch fixes the latest lock dependency validator code (2.6.19-rc1)
on s390 gcc 3.4. The variable sp was fixed to r15 (which is the stack
pointer in the s390 abi) and assigned new values to r15. Therefore,
gcc 3.4 assigns a new value to r15 and does not restore it on exit (r15
is supposed to be call save) - the kernel stack is broken. Avoid trouble
by not assigning any new value to sp (r15).

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-11 15:31:52 +02:00
Cornelia Huck 12975aef62 [S390] cio: remove casts from/to (void *).
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-11 15:31:47 +02:00
Cornelia Huck e7769b48a0 [S390] cio: Remove grace period for vary off chpid.
The grace period handling introduced needless complexity. It didn't
help the dasd driver (which can handle terminated I/O just well),
and it doesn't help for long running channel programs (which won't
complete during the grace period anyway). Terminating I/O using a
path that just disappeared immediately is much more consistent with
what the user expects.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-11 15:31:41 +02:00
Cornelia Huck 7896426805 [S390] cio: Use ccw_dev_id and subchannel_id in ccw_device_private
Use the proper structures to identify device and subchannel. Change
get_disc_ccwdev_by_devno() to get_disc_ccwdev_by_dev_id().

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-11 15:31:38 +02:00
Melissa Howland 715d854bc2 [S390] monwriter kzalloc size.
Fix length on kzalloc for data buffer so as to not overwrite
unallocated storage.

Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-11 15:31:34 +02:00
Cornelia Huck 08983787d2 [S390] cio: add missing KERN_INFO printk header.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-11 15:31:30 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 9d0a57cbdb [S390] irq change improvements.
Remove the last few places where a pointer to pt_regs gets passed.
Also make sure we call set_irq_regs() before irq_enter() and after
irq_exit(). This doesn't fix anything but makes sure s390 looks the
same like all other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-11 15:31:26 +02:00
Jeff Garzik 701328a7b5 Merge branch 'master' into upstream-fixes 2006-10-11 04:59:46 -04:00
Peter Korsgaard 53e36ada37 [PATCH] pata-qdi: fix le32 in data_xfer
The following tiny patch fixes a typo in qdi_data_xfer (le32 instead
of le16).

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:48:52 -04:00
Jeff Garzik a83068bbac [libata] sata_promise: add PCI ID
Noticed by Steve Brown <sbrown25@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:46:52 -04:00
Eran Tromer bbe1fe7ea3 [PATCH] libata: return sense data in HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl
Make the HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl in libata (ATA command pass through) return a
few ATA registers to userspace, following the same convention as the
drivers/ide implementation of the same ioctl.  This is needed to support ATA
commands like CHECK POWER MODE, which return information in nsectors.

This fixes "hdparm -C" on SATA drives.

Forcing the sense data read via the cc flag causes spurious check conditions,
so we filter these out (following the ATA command pass-through specification
T10/04-262r7).

Signed-off-by: Eran Tromer <eran@tromer.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:18:07 -04:00
Helge Deller 4a1d2d81fa [PATCH] Fix section mismatch in de2104x.c
WARNING: drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:de_init_one from .data.rel.local after 'de_driver' (at offset 0x20)
WARNING: drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:de_remove_one from .data.rel.local after 'de_driver' (at offset 0x28)

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:07:45 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger 6e532cfe49 [PATCH] sky2: set lower pause threshold to prevent overrun
Adjust the pause threshold on slower systems to keep from getting overrun.
Since FIFO is 2K bytes, don't send XON pause until there is space for a full
frame.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:07:45 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger 7bd656d121 [PATCH] sky2: revert pci express extensions
The pci express error handling extensions don't work unless PCI access is via
mmconfig. Otherwise, all accesses to pci config registers greater than 256 fail.
Since the sky2 driver has other ways of getting to PCI config space, it works
around this short coming, but the pci_find_ext_capablity doesn't work.

This backs out commit 91aeb3edbc
Go back to hardcoding, since we know where the error registers are anyway.
Fixes  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7222

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemmminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:07:45 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger 370de6cdc2 [PATCH] skge: version 1.9
Want to be able to track downstream impact of fiber related
fixes.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:06:09 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger 5d5c8e0378 [PATCH] skge: better flow control negotiation
Do flow control negotiation properly. Don't let auto negotiation
status limit renegotiation. Separate desired pause values from
the result of auto negotiation.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:06:09 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger 4b67be999e [PATCH] skge: pause mapping for fiber
Do correct mapping of pause and duplex when using 1000BaseX fiber
versions of the board.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:06:09 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger a1bc9b875b [PATCH] skge: fix stuck irq when fiber down
The PHY interrupt from the internal fiber is getting
stuck on when the link is down. Add code to handle the
transition and mask it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:06:08 -04:00
Linas Vepstas 6475191001 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet release all descrs
Bugfix: rx descriptor release function fails to visit
the last entry while walking receive descriptor ring.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:27 -04:00
Linas Vepstas 348bc2a6e3 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet DMA direction fix
The ring buffer descriptors are DMA-accessed bidirectionally,
but are not declared in this way.  Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:27 -04:00
Linas Vepstas 66c097165c [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet variable name change
Cosmetic patch: give the variable holding the numer of descriptors
a more descriptive name, so to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:27 -04:00
Linas Vepstas a664ccf430 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet reduce DMA kicking
The current code attempts to start the TX dma every time a packet
is queued. This is too conservative, and wastes CPU time. This
patch changes behaviour to call the kick-dma function less often,
only when the tx queue is at risk of emptying.

This reduces cpu usage, improves performance.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:26 -04:00
Linas Vepstas 499eea1872 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet
Remove a dummy register read that is not needed.
This reduces CPU usage notably during transmit.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:26 -04:00
Linas Vepstas 9cc7bf7edf [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking
The transmit side of the spider ethernet driver currently
places locks around some very large chunks of code. This
results in a fair amount of lock contention is some cases.
This patch makes the locks much more fine-grained, protecting
only the cirtical sections. One lock is used to protect
three locations: the queue head and tail pointers, and the
queue low-watermark location.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:26 -04:00
Linas Vepstas 68a8c609b3 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet NAPI polling info.
This patch moves transmit queue cleanup code out of the
interrupt context, and into the NAPI polling routine.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:26 -04:00
Linas Vepstas 204e5fa17c [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet low watermark patch.
Implement basic low-watermark support for the transmit queue.
Hardware low-watermarks allow a properly configured kernel
to continously stream data to a device and not have to handle
any interrupts at all in doing so. Correct zero-interrupt
operation can be actually observed for this driver, when the
socket buffer is made large enough.

The basic idea of a low-watermark interrupt is as follows.
The device driver queues up a bunch of packets for the hardware
to transmit, and then kicks the hardware to get it started.
As the hardware drains the queue of pending, untransmitted
packets, the device driver will want to know when the queue
is almost empty, so that it can queue some more packets.

If the queue drains down to the low waterark, then an interrupt
will be generated. However, if the kernel/driver continues
to add enough packets to keep the queue partially filled,
no interrupt will actually be generated, and the hardware
can continue streaming packets indefinitely in this mode.

The impelmentation is done by setting the DESCR_TXDESFLG flag
in one of the packets. When the hardware sees this flag, it will
interrupt the device driver. Because this flag is on a fixed
packet, rather than at  fixed location in the queue, the
code below needs to move the flag as more packets are
queued up. This implementation attempts to keep the flag
at about 1/4 from "empty".

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:26 -04:00
Linas Vepstas b21606a773 [PATCH] powerpc/cell spidernet incorrect offset
Bugfix -- the rx chain is in memory after the tx chain --
the offset being used was wrong, resulting in memory corruption
when the size of the rx and tx rings weren't exactly the same.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 04:04:26 -04:00