From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] atl1: add napi to Atheros L1 NIC Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:28:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120415.132805.143754486571031578.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1334333394-38404-1-git-send-email-antonz@parallels.com> <20120415.130346.1822341707659142562.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jcliburn@gmail.com, csnook@redhat.com, khorenko@parallels.com To: antonz@parallels.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:37585 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754727Ab2DOR2L (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:28:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120415.130346.1822341707659142562.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: David Miller Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:03:46 -0400 (EDT) > From: Tony Zelenoff > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:09:45 +0400 > >> Added NAPI interface to the driver of Atheros L1 NIC. >> RX speed reported by iperf in TCP mode (with and without -N >> switch) improved by ~7 Mbps. In UDP mode the speed up is >> improved by ~4 Mbps. >> Also hard RX/TX rings processing with memory allocation in >> interrupt handlers is not very good idea. So, fixed this. >> >> Note: thouse patches must be applied after patch, that fix >> kernel panic in this driver. >> Its subject is: "atl1: fix kernel panic in case of DMA errors" > > Unfortunately this is bullshit. These patches actually depend upon > that bug fix not being applied. Look at the patches, they reference > and use the reset workqueue the bug fix removed. My bad, I thought I had merged the net tree into net-next before processing your patches but I didn't. I just fixed this all up in the net-next tree, please double check my work. Thank you.