From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next 0/7] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:18:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20140117.191801.664015483645532953.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1390012205-21995-1-git-send-email-aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com To: aaron.f.brown@intel.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:41853 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753124AbaARDSC (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:18:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1390012205-21995-1-git-send-email-aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Aaron Brown 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.