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* [PATCHv6 net-next 0/3] sunvnet: NAPIfy sunvnet
@ 2014-10-25 19:11 Sowmini Varadhan
  2014-10-25 20:21 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sowmini Varadhan @ 2014-10-25 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem, bob.picco, sowmini.varadhan, dwight.engen,
	raghuram.kothakota; +Cc: netdev


This patchset converts the sunvnet driver to use the NAPI framework.
Changes since v4 to Patch1: 
  vnet_event accumulates LDC_EVENT_* bits into rx_event. 
  vnet_event_napi() unrolls send_events() logic to process all rx_event bits.
Changes since v5: 
  Patch 1: use net_device.h definition for NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT.
  Drop sparclinux changes (patch3) per David Miller feedback 

Patch 1 in the series addresses the packet-receive path- all
the vnet_event() processing is moved into NAPI context.
This patch is dependant on the sparc-next commit:
  "sparc64: Add vio_set_intr() to enable/disable Rx interrupts"
  (sparc commit id ca605b7dd740c8909408d67911d8ddd272c2b320)

Patch 2 uses RCU to fix race conditions between vnet_port_remove and
paths that access/modify port-related state, such as vnet_start_xmit.

Patch 3 leverages from the NAPIfied Rx path, 
dropping superfluous usage of the irqsave/irqrestores on the vio.lock
where possible.


Sowmini Varadhan (4):
  NAPIfy sunvnet
  Use RCU to synchronize port usage with vnet_port_remove()
  Avoid irqsave/restore on vio.lock if in_softirq()
  Remove irqsave/irqrestore on vio.lock

 arch/sparc/kernel/viohs.c          |   8 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c | 263 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.h |   6 +-
 3 files changed, 177 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)

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1.8.4.2

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