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[PATCH] intel ixp2000 network driver The way the hardware and firmware work is that there is one shared RX queue and IRQ for a number of different network interfaces. Due to this, we would like to process received packets for every interface in the same NAPI poll handler, so we need a pseudo-device to schedule polling on. What the driver currently does is that it always schedules polling for the first network interface in the list, and processes packets for every interface in the poll handler for that first interface -- however, this scheme breaks down if the first network interface happens to not be up, since netif_rx_schedule_prep() checks netif_running(). sky2 apparently has the same issue, and Stephen Hemminger suggested a way to work around this: create a variant of netif_rx_schedule_prep() that does not check netif_running(). I implemented this locally and called it netif_rx_schedule_prep_notup(), and it seems to work well, but it's something that probably not everyone would be happy with. The ixp2000 is an ARM CPU with a high-speed network interface in the CPU itself (full duplex 4Gb/s or 10Gb/s depending on the IXP model.) The CPU package also contains 8 or 16 (again depending on the IXP model) 'microengines', which are somewhat primitive but very fast and efficient processor cores which can be used to offload various things from the main CPU. This driver makes the high-speed network interface in the CPU visible and usable as a regular linux network device. Currently, it only supports the Radisys ENP2611 IXP board, but adding support for other board types should be fairly easy. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-11-11 18:23:13 +01:00
[PATCH] Add tsi108/9 On Chip Ethernet device driver support Add tsi108/9 on chip Ethernet controller driver support. The driver code collects the feedback of previous posting form the mailing list and gives the update. MPC7448HPC2 platform in arch/powerpc uses tsi108 bridge. The following is a brief description of the Ethernet controller: The Tsi108/9 Ethernet Controller connects Switch Fabric to two independent Gigabit Ethernet ports,E0 and E1. It uses a single Management interface to manage the two physical connection devices (PHYs). Each Ethernet port has its own statistics monitor that tracks and reports key interface statistics. Each port supports a 256-entry hash table for address filtering. In addition, each port is bridged to the Switch Fabric through a 2-Kbyte transmit FIFO and a 4-Kbyte Receive FIFO. Each Ethernet port also has a pair of internal Ethernet DMA channels to support the transmit and receive data flows. The Ethernet DMA channels use descriptors set up in memory, the memory map of the device, and access via the Switch Fabric. The Ethernet Controller’s DMA arbiter handles arbitration for the Switch Fabric. The Controller also has a register bus interface for register accesses and status monitor control. The PMD (Physical Media Device) interface operates in MII, GMII, or TBI modes. The MII mode is used for connecting with 10 or 100 Mbit/s PMDs. The GMII and TBI modes are used to connect with Gigabit PMDs. Internal data flows to and from the Ethernet Controller through the Switch Fabric. Each Ethernet port uses its transmit and receive DMA channels to manage data flows through buffer descriptors that are predefined by the system (the descriptors can exist anywhere in the system memory map). These descriptors are data structures that point to buffers filled with data ready to transmit over Ethernet, or they point to empty buffers ready to receive data from Ethernet. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <Alexandre.Bounine@tundra.com> Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-11-08 19:49:13 -08:00
[PATCH] A new 10GB Ethernet Driver by Chelsio Communications A Linux driver for the Chelsio 10Gb Ethernet Network Controller by Chelsio (http://www.chelsio.com). This driver supports the Chelsio N210 NIC and is backward compatible with the Chelsio N110 model 10Gb NICs. It supports AMD64, EM64T and x86 systems. Signed-off-by: Tina Yang <tinay@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Scott Bardone <sbardone@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Adrian said: - my3126.c is unused (because t1_my3126_ops isn't used anywhere) - what are the EXTRA_CFLAGS in drivers/net/chelsio/Makefile for? - $(cxgb-y) in drivers/net/chelsio/Makefile seems to be unneeded - completely unused global functions: - espi.c: t1_espi_get_intr_counts - sge.c: t1_sge_get_intr_counts - the following functions can be made static: - sge.c: t1_espi_workaround - sge.c: t1_sge_tx - subr.c: __t1_tpi_read - subr.c: __t1_tpi_write - subr.c: t1_wait_op_done shemminger said: The performance recommendations in cxgb.txt are common to all fast devices, and should be in one file rather than just for this device. I would rather see ip-sysctl.txt updated or a new file on tuning recommendations started. Some of them have consequences that aren't documented well. For example, turning off TCP timestamps risks data corruption from sequence wrap. A new driver shouldn't need so may #ifdef's unless you want to putit on older vendor versions of 2.4 Some accessor and wrapper functions like: t1_pci_read_config_4 adapter_name t1_malloc are just annoying noise. Why have useless dead code like: /* Interrupt handler */ +static int pm3393_interrupt_handler(struct cmac *cmac) +{ + u32 master_intr_status; +/* + 1. Read master interrupt register. + 2. Read BLOCK's interrupt status registers. + 3. Handle BLOCK interrupts. +*/ Jeff said: step 1: kill all the OS wrappers. And do you really need hooks for multiple MACs, when only one MAC is really supported? Typically these hooks are at a higher level anyway -- struct net_device. From: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter Driver modified as suggested by Pekka Enberg, Stephen Hemminger and Andrian Bunk. Reduces the size of the driver to ~260k. - clean up tabs - removed my3126.c - removed 85% of suni1x10gexp_regs.h - removed 80% of regs.h - removed various calls, renamed variables/functions. - removed system specific and other wrappers (usleep, msleep) - removed dead code - dropped redundant casts in osdep.h - dropped redundant check of kfree - dropped weird code (MODVERSIONS stuff) - reduced number of #ifdefs - use kcalloc now instead of kmalloc - Add information about known issues with the driver - Add information about authors Signed-off-by: Scott Bardone <sbardone@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> diff -puN /dev/null Documentation/networking/cxgb.txt
2005-03-30 13:34:31 -08:00
[PATCH] A new 10GB Ethernet Driver by Chelsio Communications A Linux driver for the Chelsio 10Gb Ethernet Network Controller by Chelsio (http://www.chelsio.com). This driver supports the Chelsio N210 NIC and is backward compatible with the Chelsio N110 model 10Gb NICs. It supports AMD64, EM64T and x86 systems. Signed-off-by: Tina Yang <tinay@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Scott Bardone <sbardone@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Adrian said: - my3126.c is unused (because t1_my3126_ops isn't used anywhere) - what are the EXTRA_CFLAGS in drivers/net/chelsio/Makefile for? - $(cxgb-y) in drivers/net/chelsio/Makefile seems to be unneeded - completely unused global functions: - espi.c: t1_espi_get_intr_counts - sge.c: t1_sge_get_intr_counts - the following functions can be made static: - sge.c: t1_espi_workaround - sge.c: t1_sge_tx - subr.c: __t1_tpi_read - subr.c: __t1_tpi_write - subr.c: t1_wait_op_done shemminger said: The performance recommendations in cxgb.txt are common to all fast devices, and should be in one file rather than just for this device. I would rather see ip-sysctl.txt updated or a new file on tuning recommendations started. Some of them have consequences that aren't documented well. For example, turning off TCP timestamps risks data corruption from sequence wrap. A new driver shouldn't need so may #ifdef's unless you want to putit on older vendor versions of 2.4 Some accessor and wrapper functions like: t1_pci_read_config_4 adapter_name t1_malloc are just annoying noise. Why have useless dead code like: /* Interrupt handler */ +static int pm3393_interrupt_handler(struct cmac *cmac) +{ + u32 master_intr_status; +/* + 1. Read master interrupt register. + 2. Read BLOCK's interrupt status registers. + 3. Handle BLOCK interrupts. +*/ Jeff said: step 1: kill all the OS wrappers. And do you really need hooks for multiple MACs, when only one MAC is really supported? Typically these hooks are at a higher level anyway -- struct net_device. From: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter Driver modified as suggested by Pekka Enberg, Stephen Hemminger and Andrian Bunk. Reduces the size of the driver to ~260k. - clean up tabs - removed my3126.c - removed 85% of suni1x10gexp_regs.h - removed 80% of regs.h - removed various calls, renamed variables/functions. - removed system specific and other wrappers (usleep, msleep) - removed dead code - dropped redundant casts in osdep.h - dropped redundant check of kfree - dropped weird code (MODVERSIONS stuff) - reduced number of #ifdefs - use kcalloc now instead of kmalloc - Add information about known issues with the driver - Add information about authors Signed-off-by: Scott Bardone <sbardone@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> diff -puN /dev/null Documentation/networking/cxgb.txt
2005-03-30 13:34:31 -08:00
[PATCH] A new 10GB Ethernet Driver by Chelsio Communications A Linux driver for the Chelsio 10Gb Ethernet Network Controller by Chelsio (http://www.chelsio.com). This driver supports the Chelsio N210 NIC and is backward compatible with the Chelsio N110 model 10Gb NICs. It supports AMD64, EM64T and x86 systems. Signed-off-by: Tina Yang <tinay@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Scott Bardone <sbardone@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Adrian said: - my3126.c is unused (because t1_my3126_ops isn't used anywhere) - what are the EXTRA_CFLAGS in drivers/net/chelsio/Makefile for? - $(cxgb-y) in drivers/net/chelsio/Makefile seems to be unneeded - completely unused global functions: - espi.c: t1_espi_get_intr_counts - sge.c: t1_sge_get_intr_counts - the following functions can be made static: - sge.c: t1_espi_workaround - sge.c: t1_sge_tx - subr.c: __t1_tpi_read - subr.c: __t1_tpi_write - subr.c: t1_wait_op_done shemminger said: The performance recommendations in cxgb.txt are common to all fast devices, and should be in one file rather than just for this device. I would rather see ip-sysctl.txt updated or a new file on tuning recommendations started. Some of them have consequences that aren't documented well. For example, turning off TCP timestamps risks data corruption from sequence wrap. A new driver shouldn't need so may #ifdef's unless you want to putit on older vendor versions of 2.4 Some accessor and wrapper functions like: t1_pci_read_config_4 adapter_name t1_malloc are just annoying noise. Why have useless dead code like: /* Interrupt handler */ +static int pm3393_interrupt_handler(struct cmac *cmac) +{ + u32 master_intr_status; +/* + 1. Read master interrupt register. + 2. Read BLOCK's interrupt status registers. + 3. Handle BLOCK interrupts. +*/ Jeff said: step 1: kill all the OS wrappers. And do you really need hooks for multiple MACs, when only one MAC is really supported? Typically these hooks are at a higher level anyway -- struct net_device. From: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter Driver modified as suggested by Pekka Enberg, Stephen Hemminger and Andrian Bunk. Reduces the size of the driver to ~260k. - clean up tabs - removed my3126.c - removed 85% of suni1x10gexp_regs.h - removed 80% of regs.h - removed various calls, renamed variables/functions. - removed system specific and other wrappers (usleep, msleep) - removed dead code - dropped redundant casts in osdep.h - dropped redundant check of kfree - dropped weird code (MODVERSIONS stuff) - reduced number of #ifdefs - use kcalloc now instead of kmalloc - Add information about known issues with the driver - Add information about authors Signed-off-by: Scott Bardone <sbardone@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> diff -puN /dev/null Documentation/networking/cxgb.txt
2005-03-30 13:34:31 -08:00
[NET] netconsole: Support dynamic reconfiguration using configfs Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>. This patch introduces support for dynamic reconfiguration (adding, removing and/or modifying parameters of netconsole targets at runtime) using a userspace interface exported via configfs. Documentation is also updated accordingly. Issues and brief design overview: (1) Kernel-initiated creation / destruction of kernel objects is not possible with configfs -- the lifetimes of the "config items" is managed exclusively from userspace. But netconsole must support boot/module params too, and these are parsed in kernel and hence netpolls must be setup from the kernel. Joel Becker suggested to separately manage the lifetimes of the two kinds of netconsole_target objects -- those created via configfs mkdir(2) from userspace and those specified from the boot/module option string. This adds complexity and some redundancy here and also means that boot/module param-created targets are not exposed through the configfs namespace (and hence cannot be updated / destroyed dynamically). However, this saves us from locking / refcounting complexities that would need to be introduced in configfs to support kernel-initiated item creation / destroy there. (2) In configfs, item creation takes place in the call chain of the mkdir(2) syscall in the driver subsystem. If we used an ioctl(2) to create / destroy objects from userspace, the special userspace program is able to fill out the structure to be passed into the ioctl and hence specify attributes such as local interface that are required at the time we set up the netpoll. For configfs, this information is not available at the time of mkdir(2). So, we keep all newly-created targets (via configfs) disabled by default. The user is expected to set various attributes appropriately (including the local network interface if required) and then write(2) "1" to the "enabled" attribute. Thus, netpoll_setup() is then called on the set parameters in the context of _this_ write(2) on the "enabled" attribute itself. This design enables the user to reconfigure existing netconsole targets at runtime to be attached to newly-come-up interfaces that may not have existed when netconsole was loaded or when the targets were actually created. All this effectively enables us to get rid of custom ioctls. (3) Ultra-paranoid configfs attribute show() and store() operations, with sanity and input range checking, using only safe string primitives, and compliant with the recommendations in Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt. (4) A new function netpoll_print_options() is created in the netpoll API, that just prints out the configured parameters for a netpoll structure. netpoll_parse_options() is modified to use that and it is also exported to be used from netconsole. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-10 15:35:05 -07:00