From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet patches
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:23:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061002172300.GD4546@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610021850.41062.arnd@arndb.de>
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:50:39PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 02 October 2006 18:27, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if I have missed a patch in here, but I
> > > don't see anything reintroducing the 'netif_stop_queue'
> > > that is missing from the transmit path.
> > >
> > > Do you have a extra patch for that?
> >
> > Unfinished. There are several ways in which the current
> > spider-net driver doesn't do things the way Greg KH's, etal
> > book on device drivers recommends. I was planning on combing
> > through these this week.
>
> Ok, that's good. However, removing the netif_stop_queue
> was an obvious oversight that happened during the cleanup
> last year.
>
> Putting that one line back in should be a really safe fix for
> the problem of overly high system load we sometimes see.
Hmm. I have a patch from 5 weeks ago that seems to insert a bunch
of these. I'm not sure why it hadn't been mailed before, I'll
test and post as soon as I can.
--linas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-02 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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