From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Subject: [PATCH 0/14]: Spidernet RX-side patches Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:00:10 -0600 Message-ID: <20061213210010.GR4329@austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Christoph Hellwig , Ishizaki Kou , Jens Osterkamp , James K Lewis , Arnd Bergmann Return-path: Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:41477 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750896AbWLMVAU (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:00:20 -0500 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kBDL0Ctw003274 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:00:12 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id kBDL0CVU175020 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:00:12 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kBDL0ASX021185 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:00:11 -0500 To: Andrew Morton Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Andrew, Please apply; these patches obsolete/replace the series of 16 patches I'd previously sent, by addressing problems raised by Christoph Hellwig and Jeff Garzik. Most of te focus of this series of patches is to simplify the RX code be removing extraneous flags, branches, arguments, etc. The first few patches are the biggest: using dma_alloc_coherent for the rings, and removing a bogus tasklet that does work that could be better done in the poll loop. The rest are mostly cleanup. --linas