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>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2007-10-10 16:47:45 -07:00
I have made a tool to parse the kernel that does not pre-process the
source. That means that my parser tries to parse all the code, including
code in the #else branch or code that is not often compiled because the
driver is not very used (or not used at all). So, my parser sometimes
reports parse error not originally detected by gcc. Here is my (first)
patch.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix amd8111e.c]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Acked-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Yoann Padioleauauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2007-06-01 08:18:27 -07:00
I noticed this driver (and several others) reinvent their own copy of the
existing CRC library. Don't have the hardware, but tested by extracting
code and comparing result.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and Jeff Garzikcommited 2006-12-02 00:22:30 -05:00
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!
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