Please consider applying to net-next
Ajit Khaparde (2):
Patch 1: Declare some u16 fields as u32 to improve performance
Patch 2: Fix a UE caused by passing large frames to the ASIC
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be.h | 21 -
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet
transmitted it also adds the size of VLANs to be
inserted by the HW to the length of the frame indicated in the WRB,
which in some cases fails the range check. This causes a UE.
Avoid this by trimming the skb length to accommodate the VLAN insertion.
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde
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drivers/net
fields as u32. With this change we see the
64-byte packets per second numbers improve by about 4%.
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde
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drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be.h | 18 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
From: Ajit Khaparde
Currently we request RSS capability even if a single Rx ring is created.
As a result in few cases we unnecessarily consume an RSS capable interface
which is a limited resource in the chip.
This patch enables RSS on an interface only if more than one Rx ring
is created
From: Ajit Khaparde
Please consider applying these two patches to net-next
Patch-1: Request RSS capability of Rx interface depending on number of
Rx rings
Patch-2: Interpret and log new data that's added to the port
misconfigure async event
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet
From: Ajit Khaparde
>From FW version 11.0. onwards, the PORT_MISCONFIG event generated by the FW
will carry more information about the event in the "data_word1"
and "data_word2" fields. This patch adds support in the driver to parse the
new information and log it accor
