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  1. 19 May, 2005 3 commits
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      [TG3]: Refine DMA boundary setting. · 59e6b434
      David S. Miller authored 
      Extract DMA boundary bit selection into a seperate
function, tg3_calc_dma_bndry().  Call this from
tg3_test_dma().

Make DMA test more reliable by using no DMA boundry
setting during the test.  If the test passes, then
use the setting we selected before the test.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
      59e6b434
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      [TG3]: Set minimal hw interrupt mitigation. · 15f9850d
      David S. Miller authored 
      Even though we do software interrupt mitigation
via NAPI, it still helps to have some minimal
hw assisted mitigation.

This helps, particularly, on systems where register
I/O overhead is much greater than the CPU horsepower.

For example, it helps on NUMA systems.  In such cases
the PIO overhead to disable interrupts for NAPI accounts
for the majority of the packet processing cost.  The
CPU is fast enough such that only a single packet is
processed by each NAPI poll call.

Thanks to Michael Chan for reviewing this patch.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      15f9850d
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      [TG3]: Add tagged status support. · fac9b83e
      David S. Miller authored 
      When supported, use the TAGGED interrupt processing support
the chip provides.  In this mode, instead of a "on/off" binary
semaphore, an incrementing tag scheme is used to ACK interrupts.

All MSI supporting chips support TAGGED mode, so the tg3_msi()
interrupt handler uses it unconditionally.  This invariant is
verified when MSI support is tested.

Since we can invoke tg3_poll() multiple times per interrupt under
high packet load, we fetch a new copy of the tag value in the
status block right before we actually do the work.

Also, because the tagged status tells the chip exactly which
work we have processed, we can make two optimizations:

1) tg3_restart_ints() need not check tg3_has_work()
2) the tg3_timer() need not poke the chip 10 times per
   second to keep from losing interrupt events

Based upon valuable feedback from Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      fac9b83e
  3. 18 May, 2005 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Automatic merge of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6.git/ · 05d3794a
      Linus Torvalds authored
      05d3794a
    • Stephen Tweedie's avatar
      [PATCH] Avoid console spam with ext3 aborted journal. · 30121624
      Stephen Tweedie authored 
      Avoid console spam with ext3 aborted journal.

ext3 usually reports error conditions that it detects in its environment.
But when its journal gets aborted due to such errors, it can sometimes
continue to report that condition forever, spamming the console to such
an extent that the initial first cause of the journal abort can be lost.

When the journal aborts, we put the filesystem into readonly mode.  Most
subsequent filesystem operations will get rejected immediately by checks
for MS_RDONLY either in the filesystem or in the VFS.  But some paths do
not have such checks --- for example, if we continue to write to a file
handle that was opened before the fs went readonly.  (We only check for
the ROFS condition when the file is first opened.)  In these cases, we
can continue to generate log errors similar to

EXT3-fs error (device $DEV) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

for each subsequent write.

There is really no point in generating these errors after the initial
error has been fully reported.  Specifically, if we're starting a
completely new filesystem operation, and the filesystem is *already*
readonly (ie. the ext3 layer has already detected and handled the
underlying jbd abort), and we see an EROFS error, then there is simply
no point in reporting it again.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      30121624
    • Stephen Tweedie's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix filp being passed through raw ioctl handler · e72022e1
      Stephen Tweedie authored 
      Don't pass meaningless file handles to block device ioctls.

The recent raw IO ioctl-passthrough fix started passing the raw file
handle into the block device ioctl handler.  That's unlikely to be
useful, as the file handle is actually open on a character-mode raw
device, not a block device, so dereferencing it is not going to yield
useful results to a block device ioctl handler.

Previously we just passed NULL; also not a value that can usefully
be dereferenced, but at least if it does happen, we'll oops instead of
silently pretending that the file is a block device, so NULL is the more
defensive option here.  This patch reverts to that behaviour.

Noticed by Al Viro.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e72022e1
  5. 17 May, 2005 34 commits
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