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From: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>, jgarzik@pobox.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.21 hangs during post boot initialization phase
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:50:00 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46328C28.5040908@bigpond.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070427171150.GF19017@hmsreliant.homelinux.net>

Neil Horman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:28:28AM +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
>> Neil Horman wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:05:11PM +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> 
> Damn, This is what happens when I try to do things too quickly.  I missed one
> spot in my last patch where I replaced skb with rx_skb.  Its not critical, but
> it should improve sis900 performance by quite a bit.  This applies on top of the
> last two patches.  Sorry about that.
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> Neil
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> 
> 
>  sis900.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/net/sis900.c b/drivers/net/sis900.c
> index 7e44939..db59dce 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/sis900.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/sis900.c
> @@ -1790,7 +1790,7 @@ static int sis900_rx(struct net_device *net_dev)
>  			/* give the socket buffer to upper layers */
>  			rx_skb = sis_priv->rx_skbuff[entry];
>  			skb_put(rx_skb, rx_size);
> -			skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(rx_skb, net_dev);
> +			rx_skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(rx_skb, net_dev);
>  			netif_rx(rx_skb);
>  
>  			/* some network statistics */

My system also boots OK after I add this patch.  Can't tell whether it's 
improved the performance or not.

Peter
-- 
Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
  -- Ambrose Bierce

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-27 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-27  2:58 Linux-2.6.21 hangs during post boot initialization phase Peter Williams
2007-04-27  3:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-27  4:12   ` Peter Williams
2007-04-27  6:05   ` Peter Williams
2007-04-27 12:22     ` Neil Horman
2007-04-27 12:26       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-27 12:52         ` Neil Horman
2007-04-27 14:28       ` Peter Williams
2007-04-27 17:11         ` Neil Horman
2007-04-27 17:46           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-27 18:01             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-27 23:50           ` Peter Williams [this message]
2007-04-28 22:19             ` Neil Horman

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