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* [PATCH 00/18] e1000: features, updates, documentation
@ 2006-11-01 17:50 Kok, Auke
  2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 01/18] e1000: whitespace changes, comments, typos Kok, Auke
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  0 siblings, 19 replies; 22+ messages in thread
From: Kok, Auke @ 2006-11-01 17:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Garzik, Jeff
  Cc: netdev, Brandeburg, Jesse, Kok, Auke, Kok, Auke, Ronciak, John


Hi,

Here are patches for e1000 for #upstream in netdev-2.6.git. Most of the
patches are maintenance and minor fixes only, but a few are significant
and more complex:

o Patch to enable IPv6 TSO for all e1000 hardware
o Add support for 3 newly packaged existing silicon devices
o Add a MSI interrupt servicing routine for pci-e hardware
o Add dynamic interrupt moderation algorithm favouring low latency but
  not affecting bulk throughput traffic situations. This improves small
  packet performance significantly.

(Summary below.)


These changes are available through git.

Jeff, please pull:

git pull git://lost.foo-projects.org/~ahkok/git/netdev-2.6 upstream

these patches are against
 netdev-2.6#upstream a01ad6b4b316afb7f9c48bde3590c0d6c063b1b4


Cheers,

Auke

---

Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>:
     e1000: add mmiowb() for IA64 to sync tail writes
     e1000: Remove unneeded and unwanted memsets
     e1000: add queue restart counter
     e1000: Only set IDE for tx when we are using TIDV/TADV
     e1000: add dynamic generic MSI interrupt routine
     e1000: add dynamic itr modes

Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>:
     e1000: fix VR powerdown code
     e1000: reorder pci-e infor struct
     e1000: rename ICH8 flash macros

Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>:
     e1000: whitespace changes, comments, typos
     e1000: Remove DISABLE_MULR debug code
     e1000: FIX: enable hw TSO for IPV6
     e1000: Enble early receive (ERT) on 82573
     e1000: simplify skb_put call.
     e1000: New hardware support
     e1000: reorder e1000_param.c
     e1000: increment version to 7.3.15-k2
     e1000: update README for e1000

---

 Documentation/networking/e1000.txt |  451 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h          |   17 +
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c  |   36 +-
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c       |  137 +++++-----
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.h       |   90 +++---
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c     |  491 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_osdep.h    |    9 
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_param.c    |  106 +++----
 8 files changed, 852 insertions(+), 485 deletions(-)


---
Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>

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* RE: [PATCH 16/18] e1000: add dynamic itr modes
@ 2006-11-01 21:55 Brandeburg, Jesse
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread
From: Brandeburg, Jesse @ 2006-11-01 21:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kok, Auke-jan H, Garzik, Jeff
  Cc: netdev, Kok, Auke-jan H, Kok, Auke, Ronciak, John, Rick Jones,
	Robin Humble

Kok, Auke wrote:
> Add a new dynamic itr algorithm, with 2 modes, and make it the default
> operation mode. This greatly reduces latency and increases small
> packet performance, at the "cost" of some CPU utilization. Bulk
> traffic throughput is unaffected.

Thanks to the generous testing of Rick Jones from HP, we have some
externally published numbers to back up this patch. Please see the
updated paper at
ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/briefs/nic_latency_vs_tput.txt or
http://tinyurl.com/yd2ufj

We would also like to thank Robin Humble for his feedback and input on
this patch.

Testing and comments welcome, particularly from anyone running latency
sensitive testing, where they might want to test with the
"InterruptThrottleRate=1" module parameter.

Jesse

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2006-11-01 17:50 [PATCH 00/18] e1000: features, updates, documentation Kok, Auke
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2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 02/18] e1000: Remove DISABLE_MULR debug code Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 03/18] e1000: FIX: enable hw TSO for IPV6 Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 04/18] e1000: Enble early receive (ERT) on 82573 Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 05/18] e1000: add mmiowb() for IA64 to sync tail writes Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 06/18] e1000: fix VR powerdown code Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 07/18] e1000: reorder pci-e infor struct Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 08/18] e1000: simplify skb_put call Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 09/18] e1000: Remove unneeded and unwanted memsets Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 10/18] e1000: New hardware support Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 11/18] e1000: add queue restart counter Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 12/18] e1000: rename ICH8 flash macros Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:51 ` [PATCH 13/18] e1000: Only set IDE for tx when we are using TIDV/TADV Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:52 ` [PATCH 14/18] e1000: reorder e1000_param.c Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:52 ` [PATCH 15/18] e1000: add dynamic generic MSI interrupt routine Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:52 ` [PATCH 16/18] e1000: add dynamic itr modes Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:52 ` [PATCH 17/18] e1000: increment version to 7.3.15-k2 Kok, Auke
2006-11-01 17:52 ` [PATCH 18/18] e1000: update README for e1000 Kok, Auke
2006-11-06  8:08 ` [PATCH 00/18] e1000: features, updates, documentation Jeff Garzik
2006-11-06 15:23   ` Auke Kok
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2006-11-01 21:55 [PATCH 16/18] e1000: add dynamic itr modes Brandeburg, Jesse

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