bna: Remove tx tasklet

The scheduling of tasklet and keeping the interrupts enabled makes interrupt
reduntant. 20% of the Tx interrupts have nothing left to process or could not
process as Tx tasklet was running.

Signed-off-by: Jing Huang <huangj@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Jing Huang 2012-04-04 05:43:48 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 01b54b1451
commit d95d1081c3
2 changed files with 3 additions and 71 deletions

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@ -185,7 +185,6 @@ bnad_free_all_txbufs(struct bnad *bnad,
* bnad_free_txbufs : Frees the Tx bufs on Tx completion
* Can be called in a) Interrupt context
* b) Sending context
* c) Tasklet context
*/
static u32
bnad_free_txbufs(struct bnad *bnad,
@ -197,13 +196,7 @@ bnad_free_txbufs(struct bnad *bnad,
struct bnad_skb_unmap *unmap_array;
struct sk_buff *skb;
/*
* Just return if TX is stopped. This check is useful
* when bnad_free_txbufs() runs out of a tasklet scheduled
* before bnad_cb_tx_cleanup() cleared BNAD_TXQ_TX_STARTED bit
* but this routine runs actually after the cleanup has been
* executed.
*/
/* Just return if TX is stopped */
if (!test_bit(BNAD_TXQ_TX_STARTED, &tcb->flags))
return 0;
@ -242,55 +235,6 @@ bnad_free_txbufs(struct bnad *bnad,
return sent_packets;
}
/* Tx Free Tasklet function */
/* Frees for all the tcb's in all the Tx's */
/*
* Scheduled from sending context, so that
* the fat Tx lock is not held for too long
* in the sending context.
*/
static void
bnad_tx_free_tasklet(unsigned long bnad_ptr)
{
struct bnad *bnad = (struct bnad *)bnad_ptr;
struct bna_tcb *tcb;
u32 acked = 0;
int i, j;
for (i = 0; i < bnad->num_tx; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < bnad->num_txq_per_tx; j++) {
tcb = bnad->tx_info[i].tcb[j];
if (!tcb)
continue;
if (((u16) (*tcb->hw_consumer_index) !=
tcb->consumer_index) &&
(!test_and_set_bit(BNAD_TXQ_FREE_SENT,
&tcb->flags))) {
acked = bnad_free_txbufs(bnad, tcb);
if (likely(test_bit(BNAD_TXQ_TX_STARTED,
&tcb->flags)))
bna_ib_ack(tcb->i_dbell, acked);
smp_mb__before_clear_bit();
clear_bit(BNAD_TXQ_FREE_SENT, &tcb->flags);
}
if (unlikely(!test_bit(BNAD_TXQ_TX_STARTED,
&tcb->flags)))
continue;
if (netif_queue_stopped(bnad->netdev)) {
if (acked && netif_carrier_ok(bnad->netdev) &&
BNA_QE_FREE_CNT(tcb, tcb->q_depth) >=
BNAD_NETIF_WAKE_THRESHOLD) {
netif_wake_queue(bnad->netdev);
/* TODO */
/* Counters for individual TxQs? */
BNAD_UPDATE_CTR(bnad,
netif_queue_wakeup);
}
}
}
}
}
static u32
bnad_tx(struct bnad *bnad, struct bna_tcb *tcb)
{
@ -1789,9 +1733,6 @@ bnad_cleanup_tx(struct bnad *bnad, u32 tx_id)
bnad_tx_msix_unregister(bnad, tx_info,
bnad->num_txq_per_tx);
if (0 == tx_id)
tasklet_kill(&bnad->tx_free_tasklet);
spin_lock_irqsave(&bnad->bna_lock, flags);
bna_tx_destroy(tx_info->tx);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bnad->bna_lock, flags);
@ -2871,9 +2812,6 @@ bnad_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
bna_txq_prod_indx_doorbell(tcb);
smp_mb();
if ((u16) (*tcb->hw_consumer_index) != tcb->consumer_index)
tasklet_schedule(&bnad->tx_free_tasklet);
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}
@ -3155,9 +3093,8 @@ bnad_netdev_init(struct bnad *bnad, bool using_dac)
/*
* 1. Initialize the bnad structure
* 2. Setup netdev pointer in pci_dev
* 3. Initialze Tx free tasklet
* 4. Initialize no. of TxQ & CQs & MSIX vectors
* 5. Initialize work queue.
* 3. Initialize no. of TxQ & CQs & MSIX vectors
* 4. Initialize work queue.
*/
static int
bnad_init(struct bnad *bnad,
@ -3200,9 +3137,6 @@ bnad_init(struct bnad *bnad,
bnad->tx_coalescing_timeo = BFI_TX_COALESCING_TIMEO;
bnad->rx_coalescing_timeo = BFI_RX_COALESCING_TIMEO;
tasklet_init(&bnad->tx_free_tasklet, bnad_tx_free_tasklet,
(unsigned long)bnad);
sprintf(bnad->wq_name, "%s_wq_%d", BNAD_NAME, bnad->id);
bnad->work_q = create_singlethread_workqueue(bnad->wq_name);
@ -3345,7 +3279,6 @@ bnad_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
/*
* Initialize bnad structure
* Setup relation between pci_dev & netdev
* Init Tx free tasklet
*/
err = bnad_init(bnad, pdev, netdev);
if (err)

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@ -320,7 +320,6 @@ struct bnad {
/* Burnt in MAC address */
mac_t perm_addr;
struct tasklet_struct tx_free_tasklet;
struct workqueue_struct *work_q;
/* Statistics */