These comments have been revised in response to questions raised by Andrew
Morton in <20080501120858.207b6dd6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Ben Hutchingsauthored and Jeff Garzikcommited 2008-05-22 05:59:29 -04:00
This should make the driver work on 32-bit systems with 64-bit PCI support.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Ben Hutchingsauthored and Jeff Garzikcommited 2008-05-22 05:59:29 -04:00
Merged it into its only caller, efx_init_channels().
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Ben Hutchingsauthored and Jeff Garzikcommited 2008-05-22 05:59:25 -04:00
The SFC4000 controller does not have hardware support for TSO, and the
core GSO code incurs a high cost in allocating and freeing skbs. This
TSO implementation uses lightweight packet header structures and is
substantially faster.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Ben Hutchingsauthored and Jeff Garzikcommited 2008-05-13 01:31:40 -04:00
The driver supports the 10Xpress PHY and XFP modules on our reference
designs SFE4001 and SFE4002 and the SMC models SMC10GPCIe-XFP and
SMC10GPCIe-10BT.
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Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Ben Hutchingsauthored and Jeff Garzikcommited 2008-04-29 01:42:43 -04:00
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