Please apply and forward upstream. This patch requires the previous sequence of 4 spidernet patches to be applied.
--linas The recent set of low-waterark patches for the spider result in a significant amount of computing being done in an interrupt context. This patch moves this to a "bottom half" aka work queue, so that the code runs in a normal kernel context. Curiously, this seems to result in a performance boost of about 5% for large packets. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Utz Bacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jens Osterkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---- drivers/net/spider_net.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------ drivers/net/spider_net.h | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2/drivers/net/spider_net.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2.orig/drivers/net/spider_net.c 2006-08-15 14:25:50.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2/drivers/net/spider_net.c 2006-08-15 14:28:56.000000000 -0500 @@ -883,9 +883,10 @@ out: * spider_net_cleanup_tx_ring - cleans up the TX ring * @card: card structure * - * spider_net_cleanup_tx_ring is called by the tx_timer (as we don't use - * interrupts to cleanup our TX ring) and returns sent packets to the stack - * by freeing them + * spider_net_cleanup_tx_ring is called by either the tx_timer + * or from a work-queue scheduled by the tx-empty interrupt. + * This routine releases resources associted with transmitted + * packets, including updating the queue tail pointer. */ static void spider_net_cleanup_tx_ring(struct spider_net_card *card) @@ -895,12 +896,20 @@ spider_net_cleanup_tx_ring(struct spider spin_lock_irqsave(&card->tx_chain.lock, flags); if ((spider_net_release_tx_chain(card, 0) != 0) && - (card->netdev->flags & IFF_UP)) + (card->netdev->flags & IFF_UP)) { spider_net_kick_tx_dma(card); + netif_wake_queue(card->netdev); + } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&card->tx_chain.lock, flags); } +static void +spider_net_tx_cleanup_task(void * data) +{ + spider_net_cleanup_tx_ring((struct spider_net_card *) data); +} + /** * spider_net_do_ioctl - called for device ioctls * @netdev: interface device structure @@ -1499,8 +1508,7 @@ spider_net_interrupt(int irq, void *ptr, netif_rx_schedule(netdev); } if (status_reg & SPIDER_NET_TXINT ) { - spider_net_cleanup_tx_ring(card); - netif_wake_queue(netdev); + schedule_work(&card->tx_cleanup_task); } if (status_reg & SPIDER_NET_ERRINT ) @@ -2117,6 +2125,7 @@ spider_net_alloc_card(void) card->netdev = netdev; card->msg_enable = SPIDER_NET_DEFAULT_MSG; INIT_WORK(&card->tx_timeout_task, spider_net_tx_timeout_task, netdev); + INIT_WORK(&card->tx_cleanup_task, spider_net_tx_cleanup_task, card); init_waitqueue_head(&card->waitq); atomic_set(&card->tx_timeout_task_counter, 0); Index: linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2/drivers/net/spider_net.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2.orig/drivers/net/spider_net.h 2006-08-15 14:25:50.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2/drivers/net/spider_net.h 2006-08-15 14:28:56.000000000 -0500 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ #ifndef _SPIDER_NET_H #define _SPIDER_NET_H -#define VERSION "1.1 A" +#define VERSION "1.1 B" #include "sungem_phy.h" @@ -441,6 +441,8 @@ struct spider_net_card { atomic_t tx_timeout_task_counter; wait_queue_head_t waitq; + struct work_struct tx_cleanup_task; + /* for ethtool */ int msg_enable; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html