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Stephen Hemminger bea3348eef [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.
Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net
device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several
queues.

In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the
structure representing the poll is independant from the net
device itself.

The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from:

	int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget)

to

	int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)

The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or
the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get
abstract).  The callee no longer messes around bumping
dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the
caller upon return.

The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data
structures.

Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI
instances in it's ->stop() device close handler.  Since the
napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures,
only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances
it may have per-device.

With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier,
Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim.

Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra,
Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan.

[ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted.  Integrated
  Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list
  handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues.  -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:45 -07:00
Mariusz Kozlowski 9dc83afdbe drivers/net/ibmveth.c: memset fix
> >> 	Looks like memset() is zeroing wrong nr of bytes.
> >
> > Good catch, however, I think we can just remove this memset altogether
> > since the memory gets allocated via kzalloc.
>
> Correct, that memset() is superfluous.

Ok. Then this should do it.

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>

 drivers/net/ibmveth.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-08-07 17:36:20 -04:00
Brian King 76b9cfccb3 ibmveth: Fix rx pool deactivate oops
This fixes the following oops which can occur when trying to deallocate
receive buffer pools using sysfs with the ibmveth driver.

NIP: d00000000024f954 LR: d00000000024fa58 CTR: c0000000000d7478
REGS: c00000000ffef9f0 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (2.6.22-ppc64)
MSR: 8000000000009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR>  CR: 24242442  XER: 00000010
DAR: 00000000000007f0, DSISR: 0000000042000000
TASK = c000000002f91360[2967] 'bash' THREAD: c00000001398c000 CPU: 2
GPR00: 0000000000000000 c00000000ffefc70 d000000000262d30 c00000001c4087a0
GPR04: 00000003000000fe 0000000000000000 000000000000000f c000000000579d80
GPR08: 0000000000365688 c00000001c408998 00000000000007f0 0000000000000000
GPR12: d000000000251e88 c000000000579d80 00000000200957ec 0000000000000000
GPR16: 00000000100b8808 00000000100feb30 0000000000000000 0000000010084828
GPR20: 0000000000000000 000000001014d4d0 0000000000000010 c00000000ffefeb0
GPR24: c00000001c408000 0000000000000000 c00000001c408000 00000000ffffb054
GPR28: 00000000000000fe 0000000000000003 d000000000262700 c00000001c4087a0
NIP [d00000000024f954] .ibmveth_remove_buffer_from_pool+0x38/0x108 [ibmveth]
LR [d00000000024fa58] .ibmveth_rxq_harvest_buffer+0x34/0x78 [ibmveth]
Call Trace:
[c00000000ffefc70] [c0000000000280a8] .dma_iommu_unmap_single+0x14/0x28 (unreliable)
[c00000000ffefd00] [d00000000024fa58] .ibmveth_rxq_harvest_buffer+0x34/0x78 [ibmveth]
[c00000000ffefd80] [d000000000250e40] .ibmveth_poll+0xd8/0x434 [ibmveth]
[c00000000ffefe40] [c00000000032da8c] .net_rx_action+0xdc/0x248
[c00000000ffefef0] [c000000000068b4c] .__do_softirq+0xa8/0x164
[c00000000ffeff90] [c00000000002789c] .call_do_softirq+0x14/0x24
[c00000001398f6f0] [c00000000000c04c] .do_softirq+0x68/0xac
[c00000001398f780] [c000000000068ca0] .irq_exit+0x54/0x6c
[c00000001398f800] [c00000000000c8e4] .do_IRQ+0x170/0x1ac
[c00000001398f890] [c000000000004790] hardware_interrupt_entry+0x18/0x1c
   Exception: 501 at .plpar_hcall_norets+0x24/0x94
    LR = .veth_pool_store+0x15c/0x298 [ibmveth]
[c00000001398fb80] [d000000000250b2c] .veth_pool_store+0x5c/0x298 [ibmveth] (unreliable)
[c00000001398fc30] [c000000000145530] .sysfs_write_file+0x140/0x1d8
[c00000001398fcf0] [c0000000000de89c] .vfs_write+0x120/0x208
[c00000001398fd90] [c0000000000df2c8] .sys_write+0x4c/0x8c
[c00000001398fe30] [c0000000000086ac] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
Instruction dump:
fba1ffe8 fbe1fff8 789d0022 f8010010 f821ff71 789c0020 1d3d00a8 7b8a1f24
38000000 7c7f1b78 7d291a14 e9690128 <7c0a592a> e8030000 e9690120 80a90100

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-08-07 17:34:13 -04:00
Tejun Heo 7b595756ec sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
Brian King ce6eea58eb ibmveth: Automatically enable larger rx buffer pools for larger mtu
Currently, ibmveth maintains several rx buffer pools, which can
be modified through sysfs. By default, pools are not allocated by
default such that jumbo frames cannot be supported without first
activating larger rx buffer pools. This results in failures when attempting
to change the mtu. This patch makes ibmveth automatically allocate
these larger buffer pools when the mtu is changed.

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-06-09 18:25:34 -04:00
Brian King 4aa9c93e1c ibmveth: Fix h_free_logical_lan error on pool resize
When attempting to activate additional rx buffer pools on an ibmveth interface that
was not yet up, the error below was seen. The patch fixes this by only closing
and opening the interface to activate the resize if the interface is already
opened.

(drivers/net/ibmveth.c:597 ua:30000004) ERROR: h_free_logical_lan failed with fffffffffffffffc, continuing with close
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000ff8
Faulting instruction address: 0xd0000000002540e0
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
SMP NR_CPUS=128 NUMA PSERIES LPAR
Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT xt_tcpudp ipt_REJECT xt_state iptable_mangle ipta
ble_nat ip_nat iptable_filter ip6table_mangle ip_conntrack nfnetlink ip_tables i
p6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables ipv6 apparmor aamatch_pcre loop dm_mod ibmvet
h sg ibmvscsic sd_mod scsi_mod
NIP: D0000000002540E0 LR: D0000000002540D4 CTR: 80000000001AF404
REGS: c00000001cd27870 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (2.6.16.46-0.4-ppc64)
MSR: 8000000000009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR>  CR: 24242422  XER: 00000007
DAR: 0000000000000FF8, DSISR: 0000000040000000
TASK = c00000001ca7b4e0[1636] 'sh' THREAD: c00000001cd24000 CPU: 0
GPR00: D0000000002540D4 C00000001CD27AF0 D000000000265650 C00000001C936500
GPR04: 8000000000009032 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 0000000000000007 000000000002C2EF
GPR08: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 0000000000000000 C000000000652A10 C000000000652AE0
GPR12: 0000000000004000 C0000000004A3300 00000000100A0000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 00000000100B8808 00000000100C0F60 0000000000000000 0000000010084878
GPR20: 0000000000000000 00000000100C0CB0 00000000100AF498 0000000000000002
GPR24: 00000000100BA488 C00000001C936760 D000000000258DD0 C00000001C936000
GPR28: 0000000000000000 C00000001C936500 D000000000265180 C00000001C936000
NIP [D0000000002540E0] .ibmveth_close+0xc8/0xf4 [ibmveth]
LR [D0000000002540D4] .ibmveth_close+0xbc/0xf4 [ibmveth]
Call Trace:
[C00000001CD27AF0] [D0000000002540D4] .ibmveth_close+0xbc/0xf4 [ibmveth] (unreliable)
[C00000001CD27B80] [D0000000002545FC] .veth_pool_store+0xd0/0x260 [ibmveth]
[C00000001CD27C40] [C00000000012E0E8] .sysfs_write_file+0x118/0x198
[C00000001CD27CF0] [C0000000000CDAF0] .vfs_write+0x130/0x218
[C00000001CD27D90] [C0000000000CE52C] .sys_write+0x4c/0x8c
[C00000001CD27E30] [C00000000000871C] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
Instruction dump:
419affd8 2fa30000 419e0020 e93d0000 e89e8040 38a00255 e87e81b0 80c90018
48001531 e8410028 e93d00e0 7fa3eb78 <e8090ff8> f81d0430 4bfffdc9 38210090

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-06-09 18:25:34 -04:00
Michael Ellerman 493a684ab8 Fix sparse errors in drivers/net/ibmveth.c
drivers/net/ibmveth.c:96:46: error: marked inline, but without a definition
drivers/net/ibmveth.c:96: warning: 'ibmveth_rxq_harvest_buffer' declared inline after being called
drivers/net/ibmveth.c:96: warning: previous declaration of 'ibmveth_rxq_harvest_buffer' was here

Just let the compiler decide, as it happens gcc 4.~ inlines it anyway.

drivers/net/ibmveth.c:957:71: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
drivers/net/ibmveth.c:964:85: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Split the long lines as well, ugly, but < 80 columns.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:01:05 -04:00
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
Arjan van de Ven d54b1fdb1d [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 7c719871ff [PATCH] ibmveth: Remove ibmveth "liobn" field
Remove the now unused "liobn" field in ibmveth which also avoids
having insider knowledge of the iommu table in that driver.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-12-04 20:38:06 +11:00
David Gibson 047a66d4bb [PATCH] ibmveth: Fix index increment calculation
The recent commit 751ae21c6c introduced a bug
in the producer/consumer index calculation in the ibmveth driver -
incautious use of the post-increment ++ operator resulted in an increment
being immediately reverted.  This patch corrects the logic.

Without this patch, the driver oopses almost immediately after activation
on at least some machines.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-21 13:35:06 -07:00
Andrew Morton 5f77113c01 [PATCH] ibmveth irq fix
drivers/net/ibmveth.c:939: error: too many arguments to function `ibmveth_interrupt'

Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-11 03:56:33 -04:00
Jeff Garzik 24fcbacedb Merge branch 'master' into upstream-fixes 2006-10-11 03:56:12 -04:00
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
Santiago Leon 751ae21c6c [PATCH] ibmveth: fix int rollover panic
This patch fixes a nasty bug that has been sitting there since the
very first versions of the driver, but is generating a panic because
we changed the number of 2K buffers for 2.6.16.

The consumer_index and producer_index are u32's that get incremented
on every buffer emptied and replenished respectively.  We use
the {producer,consumer}_index mod'ed with the size of the pool to
pick out an entry in the free_map.  The problem happens when the
u32 rolls over and the number of the buffers in the pool is not a
perfect divisor of 2^32.  i.e. if the number of 2K buffers is 0x300,
before the consumer_index rolls over,  our index to the free map =
0xffffffff mod 0x300 = 0xff.  The next time a buffer is emptied, we
want the index to the free map to be 0x100, but 0x0 mod 0x300 is 0x0.

This patch assigns the mod'ed result back to the consumer and producer
indexes so that they never roll over.  The second chunk of the patch
covers the unlikely case where the consumer_index has just been reset
to 0x0 and the hypervisor is not able to accept that buffer.

Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-05 06:43:24 -04:00
Santiago Leon 03a85d0907 [PATCH] ibmveth: rename proc entry name
This patch changes the name of the proc file for each ibmveth adapter
from the network device name to the slot number in the virtual bus.

The proc file is created when the device is probed, so a change
in the name of the device will not be reflected in the name of the
proc file giving problems when identifying and removing the adapter.
The slot number is a property that does not change through the life
of the adapter so we use that instead.

Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-05 06:43:23 -04:00
Santiago Leon 4347ef15f7 [PATCH] ibmveth: kdump interrupt fix
This patch fixes a race that panics the kernel when opening the
device after a kdump.  Without this patch there is a window where the
hypervisor can send an interrupt before all the structures for the
kdump ibmveth module are ready (because the hypervisor is not aware
that the partition crashed and that the virtual driver is reloading).
We close this window by disabling the interrupts before registering
the adapter to the hypervisor.

This patch depends on the "ibmveth: Harden driver initilisation" patch.

Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-05 06:43:23 -04:00
Santiago Leon 6b42237488 [PATCH] ibmveth: Add netpoll function
This patch adds the net poll controller function to ibmveth to support
netconsole and netdump.

Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-05 06:43:23 -04:00
Michael Ellerman bbedefccc6 [PATCH] ibmveth: Harden driver initilisation
This patch has been floating around for a while now, Santi originally
sent it in March: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg00471.html

After a kexec the ibmveth driver will fail when trying to register
with the Hypervisor because the previous kernel has not unregistered.

So if the registration fails, we unregister and then try again.

We don't unconditionally unregister, because we don't want to disturb
the regular code path for 99% of users.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-05 06:43:23 -04:00
Jeff Garzik 28eb177dfa Merge branch 'master' into upstream
Conflicts:

	net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c
	net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
2006-09-22 20:10:23 -04:00
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
Anton Blanchard b9377ffc3a [POWERPC] clean up pseries hcall interfaces
Our pseries hcall interfaces are out of control:

	plpar_hcall_norets
	plpar_hcall
	plpar_hcall_8arg_2ret
	plpar_hcall_4out
	plpar_hcall_7arg_7ret
	plpar_hcall_9arg_9ret

Create 3 interfaces to cover all cases:

	plpar_hcall_norets:	7 arguments no returns
	plpar_hcall:		6 arguments 4 returns
	plpar_hcall9:		9 arguments 9 returns

There are only 2 cases in the kernel that need plpar_hcall9, hopefully
we can keep it that way.

Pass in a buffer to stash return parameters so we avoid the &dummy1,
&dummy2 madness.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
--
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-01 16:19:15 +10:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 45c091bb2d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (139 commits)
  [POWERPC] re-enable OProfile for iSeries, using timer interrupt
  [POWERPC] support ibm,extended-*-frequency properties
  [POWERPC] Extra sanity check in EEH code
  [POWERPC] Dont look for class-code in pci children
  [POWERPC] Fix mdelay badness on shared processor partitions
  [POWERPC] disable floating point exceptions for init
  [POWERPC] Unify ppc syscall tables
  [POWERPC] mpic: add support for serial mode interrupts
  [POWERPC] pseries: Print PCI slot location code on failure
  [POWERPC] spufs: one more fix for 64k pages
  [POWERPC] spufs: fail spu_create with invalid flags
  [POWERPC] spufs: clear class2 interrupt status before wakeup
  [POWERPC] spufs: fix Makefile for "make clean"
  [POWERPC] spufs: remove stop_code from struct spu
  [POWERPC] spufs: fix spu irq affinity setting
  [POWERPC] spufs: further abstract priv1 register access
  [POWERPC] spufs: split the Cell BE support into generic and platform dependant parts
  [POWERPC] spufs: dont try to access SPE channel 1 count
  [POWERPC] spufs: use kzalloc in create_spu
  [POWERPC] spufs: fix initial state of wbox file
  ...

Manually resolved conflicts in:
	drivers/net/phy/Makefile
	include/asm-powerpc/spu.h
2006-06-22 22:11:30 -07:00
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
Olof Johansson f98baffb82 [PATCH] powerpc: Quiet VETH version printk
ibmveth_printk() is only used to print the driver version when the module
initializes, which means on all machines as long as it's compiled in.

If it's really only needed for debugging, boot with loglevel=8, or get
it from dmesg instead.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-22 18:45:10 +10:00
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