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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jesse Brandeburg
0ef4eedc2e e1000: convert to private mutex from rtnl
The e1000 driver when running with lockdep could run into
some possible deadlocks between the work items acquiring
rtnl and the rtnl lock being acquired before work items
were cancelled.

Use a private mutex to make sure lock ordering isn't violated.
The private mutex is only used to protect areas not generally
covered by the rtnl lock already.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-06 22:40:56 -07:00
Jesse Brandeburg
a4010afef5 e1000: convert hardware management from timers to threads
Thomas Gleixner (tglx) reported that e1000 was delaying for many milliseconds
(using mdelay) from inside timer/interrupt context.  None of these paths are
performance critical and can be moved into threads/work items.  This patch
implements the work items and the next patch changes the mdelays to msleeps.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-06 22:38:25 -07:00
Dean Nelson
31c15a2f24 e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses
Virtual Machines with emulated e1000 network adapter running on Parallels'
server were seeing kernel panics due to the e1000 driver dereferencing an
unexpected NULL pointer retrieved from buffer_info->skb.

The problem has been addressed for the e1000e driver, but not for the e1000.
Since the two drivers share similar code in the affected area, a port of the
following e1000e driver commit solves the issue for the e1000 driver:

commit 9ed318d546
Author: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Date:   Wed May 5 14:02:27 2010 +0000

    e1000e: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses

    In e1000_tx_map, precompute number of segements and bytecounts which
    are derived from fields in skb; these are stored in buffer_info.  When
    cleaning tx in e1000_clean_tx_irq use the values in the associated
    buffer_info for statistics counting, this eliminates cache misses
    on skb fields.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-26 12:55:18 -04:00
Jeff Kirsher
dee1ad47f2 intel: Move the Intel wired LAN drivers
Moves the Intel wired LAN drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ and
the necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-08-10 20:03:27 -07:00