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  1. 29 Apr, 2007 1 commit
    • Stefan Richter's avatar
      ieee1394: sbp2: remove unnecessary alignments of struct members · f412bf44
      Stefan Richter authored 
      The members "dma_addr_t command_orb_dma" and "dma_addr_t sge_dma" of
sbp2.h::sbp2_command_info do not have to be aligned themselves --- only
the memory which they point to has to be.

The member "struct sbp2_command_orb command_orb" has to be aligned on
4 bytes boundary which is guaranteed because it contains u32 members.

The member "struct sbp2_unrestricted_page_table scatter_gather_element",
i.e. the SBP-2 s/g table, has to be aligned on 8 bytes boundary
according to the SBP-2 spec.  This is not a requirement for FireWire
controllers but could be expected by SBP-2 targets.

I see no need to align the members command_orb and
scatter_gather_element on CPU cacheline boundaries.  It could have
performance benefits, but on the other hand sbp2 has a somewhat wasteful
allocation scheme which should be optimized first before further tweaks
like cacheline alignments.  (E.g. don't always allocate SG_ALL s/g table
elements.)

Note, before as well as after the patch, the code relies on the
assumption that memory alignment in the virtual address space is
preserved in the physical address space after DMA mapping.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
      f412bf44
  3. 28 Apr, 2007 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 · b9099ff6
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
  sis900: Allocate rx replacement buffer before rx operation
  usb-net/pegasus: simplify carrier detection
      b9099ff6
    • Neil Horman's avatar
      sis900: Allocate rx replacement buffer before rx operation · dc5a1449
      Neil Horman authored 
      Just found a hole in my last patch.  It was reported to me that shortly after we
integrated this patch.  The report was of an oops that took place inside of
netif_rx when using the sis900 driver.  Looking at my origional patch I noted
that there was a spot between the new skb_alloc and the refill_rx_ring label
where skb got reassigned to the pointer currently held in the rx_ring for the
purposes of receiveing the frame.  The result of this is however that the buffer
that gets passed to netif_rx (if it is called), then gets placed right back into
the rx_ring.  So if you receive frames fast enough the skb being processed by
the network stack can get corrupted.  The reporter is testing out the fix I've
written for this below (I'm not near my hardware at the moment to test myself),
but I wanted to post it for review ASAP.  I'll post test results when I hear
them, but I think this is a pretty straightforward fix.  It just uses a separate
pointer to do the rx operation, so that we don't improperly reassign the pointer
that we use to refill the rx ring.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      dc5a1449
    • Dan Williams's avatar
      usb-net/pegasus: simplify carrier detection · 1764f150
      Dan Williams authored 
      Simplify pegasus carrier detection; rely only on the periodic MII
polling.  Reverts pieces of c43c49bd.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      1764f150
  5. 27 Apr, 2007 36 commits