From: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
To: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, atl1-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/26] atl1: refactor tx processing
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:08:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47993673.7040408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080124190024.1b81238e@osprey.hogchain.net>
Jay Cliburn wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:31:09 -0600
> Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:58:17 -0500
>> Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>>
> [...]
>>> for such a huge patch, this description is very tiny. [describe]
>>> what is refactored, and why.
>
> Is this one any better?
This satisfies me.
Acked-by: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
> From df475e2eea401f9dc18ca23dab538b99fb9e710c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:36:36 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] atl1: simplify tx packet descriptor
>
> The transmit packet descriptor consists of four 32-bit words, with word 3
> upper bits overloaded depending upon the condition of its bits 3 and 4.
> The driver currently duplicates all word 2 and some word 3 register bit
> definitions unnecessarily and also uses a set of nested structures in its
> definition of the TPD without good cause. This patch adds a lengthy
> comment describing the TPD, eliminates duplicate TPD bit definitions,
> and simplifies the TPD structure itself. It also expands the TSO check
> to correctly handle custom checksum versus TSO processing using the revised
> TPD definitions. Finally, shorten some variable names in the transmit
> processing path to reduce line lengths, rename some variables to better
> describe their purpose (e.g., nseg versus m), and add a comment or two
> to better describe what the code is doing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-25 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-01 1:59 [PATCH 00/26] atl1: divide and modernize jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 01/26] atl1: relocate atl1 driver to /drivers/net/atlx jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 02/26] atl1: move common functions to atlx files jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 03/26] atl1: fix broken TSO jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 04/26] atl1: add ethtool register dump jacliburn
2008-01-22 9:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 05/26] atl1: print debug info if rrd error jacliburn
2008-01-22 9:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 06/26] atl1: update initialization parameters jacliburn
2008-01-22 9:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-23 2:13 ` Jay Cliburn
2008-01-23 2:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-23 2:30 ` Chris Snook
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 07/26] atl1: clarify max rx frame size jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 08/26] atl1: additional DMA engine configuration jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 09/26] atl1: refactor tx processing jacliburn
2008-01-22 9:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-23 0:31 ` Jay Cliburn
2008-01-25 1:00 ` Jay Cliburn
2008-01-25 1:08 ` Chris Snook [this message]
2008-01-25 3:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 10/26] atl1: use csum_start jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 11/26] atl1: refactor initialization and startup jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 12/26] atl1: refactor atl1_probe jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 13/26] atl1: refactor interrupt handling jacliburn
2008-01-22 9:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 14/26] atl1: move stray defines to header file jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 15/26] atl1: tidy up ring management jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 16/26] atl1: modernize check link function jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 17/26] atl1: update phy config function jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 18/26] atl1: make function static jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 19/26] atl1: modernize down/up functions jacliburn
2008-01-22 10:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 20/26] atl1: update change mtu jacliburn
2008-01-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 21/26] atl1: update atl1_close jacliburn
2008-01-01 2:00 ` [PATCH 22/26] atl1: update netpoll jacliburn
2008-01-01 2:00 ` [PATCH 23/26] atl1: update shutdown and remove functions jacliburn
2008-01-01 2:00 ` [PATCH 24/26] atl1: update wake-on-lan jacliburn
2008-01-01 2:00 ` [PATCH 25/26] atl1: add NAPI support jacliburn
2008-01-01 6:09 ` Joonwoo Park
2008-01-01 18:15 ` [PATCH 25/26] [REVISED] " Jay Cliburn
2008-01-02 2:56 ` Joonwoo Park
2008-01-02 3:07 ` David Miller
2008-01-01 2:00 ` [PATCH 26/26] atl1: remove experimental tag and clean up comments jacliburn
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-01 2:22 [PATCH 00/26] atl1: divide and modernize Jay Cliburn
2008-01-01 2:22 ` [PATCH 09/26] atl1: refactor tx processing Jay Cliburn
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