From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: plagnioj@jcrosoft.com (Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 15:47:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v4 00/10] net/macb: driver enhancement concerning GEM support, ring logic and cleanup In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20121101144707.GH19021@game.jcrosoft.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 17:04 Wed 31 Oct , Nicolas Ferre wrote: > This is an enhancement work that began several years ago. I try to catchup with > some performance improvement that has been implemented then by Havard. > The ring index logic and the TX error path modification are the biggest changes > but some cleanup/debugging have been added along the way. > The GEM revision will benefit from the Gigabit support. > Newer pinctrl infrastructure support is added but it is optional. > > The series has been tested on several Atmel AT91 SoC with the two MACB/GEM > flavors. > > v4: - remove unneeded device tree header includes > - modified the computation of available entries in ring buffer > v3: - rebased on net-next to take into account current effor to merge > at91_ether with macb drivers > - add additional patch to use the new pinctrl infrastructure > v2: - modify the tx error handling: now uses a workqueue > - information provided by ethtool -i were not accurate: removed > > > Havard Skinnemoen (4): > net/macb: memory barriers cleanup > net/macb: change debugging messages > net/macb: clean up ring buffer logic > net/macb: Offset first RX buffer by two bytes > > Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD (1): > net/macb: add pinctrl consumer support > > Nicolas Ferre (4): > net/macb: remove macb_get_drvinfo() > net/macb: tx status is more than 8 bits now > net/macb: ethtool interface: add register dump feature > net/macb: better manage tx errors > > Patrice Vilchez (1): > net/macb: Add support for Gigabit Ethernet mode > > drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/at91_ether.c | 6 +- > drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c | 448 +++++++++++++++++++++--------- > drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h | 30 +- > 3 files changed, 337 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-) Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD Best Regards, J. > > -- > 1.8.0 >