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* [PATCH 0/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet patches
@ 2006-09-29 23:05 Linas Vepstas
  2006-09-29 23:15 ` [PATCH 1/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet burst alignment patch Linas Vepstas
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  0 siblings, 7 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Linas Vepstas @ 2006-09-29 23:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jeff, akpm
  Cc: netdev, James K Lewis, linux-kernel, Arnd Bergmann, linuxppc-dev


Please apply and forward upstream as appropriate.

Although these patches have not been baking in 
any -mm tree, they have been tested and are 
generally available as a part of the Cell SDK 2.0
overseen by Arnd Bergmann. (Arnd, if you want
to lend a voice of authority here, or to correct 
me, please do so...)

The following sequence of six patches implement a 
series of changes to the transmit side of the 
spidernet ethernet device driver, significantly 
improving performance for large packets.

This series of patches is almost identical to 
those previously mailed on 18-20 August, with one
critical change: NAPI polling is used instead of 
homegrown polling.

Although these patches improve things, I am not
satisfied with how this driver behaves, and so 
plan to do additional work next week. 

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

--linas

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* [PATCH 0/6]:  powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet driver update
@ 2006-08-18 22:07 Linas Vepstas
  2006-08-18 22:29 ` [PATCH 6/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking Linas Vepstas
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread
From: Linas Vepstas @ 2006-08-18 22:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeff Garzik
  Cc: akpm, Arnd Bergmann, netdev, James K Lewis, linux-kernel,
	linuxppc-dev, ens Osterkamp


Jeff,

Can you apply and forward upstream the following series of patches?
This is the same set of patches I sent only a few days ago; however,
it appears that I failed to cc you on some of them, and I failed to
ask anyone in particular to actually apply them. So I'm asking now. :-)

The maintainership of the spidernet driver is transitioning from
Utz Bacher and Jens Osterkamp to Jim Lewis; you should be receiving
a patch to the MAINTAINERS file from Jim, noting this, shortly.  
I suspect that neither Utz nor Jens will be ack'ing or nack'ing 
these patches unless prodded; let me know if you want some particlar
ack from someone before you apply these. (BenH and Arnd Bergmann
are the ones who usually keep us honest about these things.)

Although these are based on a week-old mm tree, they should 
apply cleanly just about anywhere, as there has been little/no 
change to this code base in a long while. 

The patches bring the transmit performance of the driver up
to a decent level, as reviewed in greter detail in the patch
descriptions.

--linas

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2006-09-29 23:05 [PATCH 0/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet patches Linas Vepstas
2006-09-29 23:15 ` [PATCH 1/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet burst alignment patch Linas Vepstas
2006-09-30 10:29   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-29 23:17 ` [PATCH 2/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet low watermark patch Linas Vepstas
2006-09-30 10:30   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-29 23:19 ` [PATCH 3/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet stop error printing patch Linas Vepstas
2006-09-30 10:32   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-29 23:21 ` [PATCH 4/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethtool -i version number info Linas Vepstas
2006-09-30 10:33   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-02 17:14     ` Linas Vepstas
2006-09-29 23:26 ` [PATCH 5/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethtool -i version number Linas Vepstas
2006-09-30 10:35   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-29 23:29 ` [PATCH 6/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking Linas Vepstas
2006-09-30  2:47   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-02 17:47     ` Linas Vepstas
2006-09-30 10:40 ` [PATCH 0/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet patches Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-02 16:27   ` Linas Vepstas
2006-10-02 16:50     ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-02 17:23       ` Linas Vepstas
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2006-08-18 22:07 [PATCH 0/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet driver update Linas Vepstas
2006-08-18 22:29 ` [PATCH 6/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking Linas Vepstas

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