From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com (e33.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.151]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e33.co.us.ibm.com", Issuer "Equifax" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37CDD67BB1 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:15:15 +1000 (EST) Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e33.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8TNFDlW019763 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:15:13 -0400 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id k8TNFCvN313836 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:15:12 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k8TNFCGI003685 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:15:12 -0600 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:15:11 -0500 To: jeff@garzik.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: [PATCH 1/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet burst alignment patch. Message-ID: <20060929231511.GI6433@austin.ibm.com> References: <20060929230552.GG6433@austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20060929230552.GG6433@austin.ibm.com> From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, James K Lewis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , This patch increases the Burst Address alignment from 64 to 1024 in the Spidernet driver. This improves transmit performance for large packets. From: James K Lewis Signed-off-by: James K Lewis Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas Cc: Arnd Bergmann ---- drivers/net/spider_net.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.18-mm2/drivers/net/spider_net.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-mm2.orig/drivers/net/spider_net.h 2006-09-29 14:11:21.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.18-mm2/drivers/net/spider_net.h 2006-09-29 16:33:49.000000000 -0500 @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ extern char spider_net_driver_name[]; #define SPIDER_NET_DMA_RX_FEND_VALUE 0x00030003 /* to set TX_DMA_EN */ #define SPIDER_NET_TX_DMA_EN 0x80000000 -#define SPIDER_NET_GDTDCEIDIS 0x00000002 +#define SPIDER_NET_GDTDCEIDIS 0x00000302 #define SPIDER_NET_DMA_TX_VALUE SPIDER_NET_TX_DMA_EN | \ SPIDER_NET_GDTDCEIDIS #define SPIDER_NET_DMA_TX_FEND_VALUE 0x00030003