From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: aaron.f.brown@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/7] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:18:01 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140117.191801.664015483645532953.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1390012205-21995-1-git-send-email-aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
From: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:29:58 -0800
> This series contains updates from Emil to ixgbevf.
>
> He cleans up the code by removing the adapter structure as a
> parameter from multiple functions in favor of using the ixgbevf_ring
> structure and moves hot-path specific statistic int the ring
> structure for anticipated performance gains.
>
> He also removes the Tx/Rx counters for checksum offload and adds
> counters for tx_restart_queue and tx_timeout_count.
>
> Next he makes it so that the first tx_buffer structure acts as a
> central storage location for most the skb info we are about to
> transmit, then takes advantage of the dma buffer always being
> present in the first descriptor and mapped as single allowing a
> call to dma_unmap_single which alleviates the need to check for
> DMA mapping in ixgbevf_clean_tx_irq().
>
> Finally he merges the ixgbevf_tx_map call and the ixgbevf_tx_queue
> call into a single function.
Series applied, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-18 3:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-18 2:29 [net-next 0/7] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates Aaron Brown
2014-01-18 2:29 ` [net-next 1/7] ixgbevf: make use of the dev pointer in the ixgbevf_ring struct Aaron Brown
2014-01-18 2:30 ` [net-next 2/7] ixgbevf: move ring specific stats into ring specific structure Aaron Brown
2014-01-18 2:30 ` [net-next 3/7] ixgbevf: remove counters for Tx/Rx checksum offload Aaron Brown
2014-01-18 2:30 ` [net-next 4/7] ixgbevf: add tx counters Aaron Brown
2014-01-18 2:30 ` [net-next 5/7] ixgbevf: make the first tx_buffer a repository for most of the skb info Aaron Brown
2014-01-18 2:30 ` [net-next 6/7] ixgbevf: redo dma mapping using the tx buffer info Aaron Brown
2014-01-18 2:30 ` [net-next 7/7] ixgbevf: merge ixgbevf_tx_map and ixgbevf_tx_queue into a single function Aaron Brown
2014-01-18 3:18 ` David Miller [this message]
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2014-01-08 7:40 [net-next 0/7] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates Aaron Brown
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