1. 12 Sep, 2014 36 commits
  2. 03 Sep, 2014 1 commit
  3. 27 Aug, 2014 3 commits
    • Boris Ostrovsky's avatar
      x86/espfix/xen: Fix allocation of pages for paravirt page tables · 5d1b4311
      Boris Ostrovsky authored
      commit 8762e509 upstream.
      
      init_espfix_ap() is currently off by one level when informing hypervisor
      that allocated pages will be used for ministacks' page tables.
      
      The most immediate effect of this on a PV guest is that if
      'stack_page = __get_free_page()' returns a non-zeroed-out page the hypervisor
      will refuse to use it for a page table (which it shouldn't be anyway). This will
      result in warnings by both Xen and Linux.
      
      More importantly, a subsequent write to that page (again, by a PV guest) is
      likely to result in fatal page fault.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404926298-5565-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.comReviewed-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      5d1b4311
    • willy tarreau's avatar
      net: mvneta: replace Tx timer with a real interrupt · 10d937e0
      willy tarreau authored
      Right now the mvneta driver doesn't handle Tx IRQ, and relies on two
      mechanisms to flush Tx descriptors : a flush at the end of mvneta_tx()
      and a timer. If a burst of packets is emitted faster than the device
      can send them, then the queue is stopped until next wake-up of the
      timer 10ms later. This causes jerky output traffic with bursts and
      pauses, making it difficult to reach line rate with very few streams.
      
      A test on UDP traffic shows that it's not possible to go beyond 134
      Mbps / 12 kpps of outgoing traffic with 1500-bytes IP packets. Routed
      traffic tends to observe pauses as well if the traffic is bursty,
      making it even burstier after the wake-up.
      
      It seems that this feature was inherited from the original driver but
      nothing there mentions any reason for not using the interrupt instead,
      which the chip supports.
      
      Thus, this patch enables Tx interrupts and removes the timer. It does
      the two at once because it's not really possible to make the two
      mechanisms coexist, so a split patch doesn't make sense.
      
      First tests performed on a Mirabox (Armada 370) show that less CPU
      seems to be used when sending traffic. One reason might be that we now
      call the mvneta_tx_done_gbe() with a mask indicating which queues have
      been done instead of looping over all of them.
      
      The same UDP test above now happily reaches 987 Mbps / 87.7 kpps.
      Single-stream TCP traffic can now more easily reach line rate. HTTP
      transfers of 1 MB objects over a single connection went from 730 to
      840 Mbps. It is even possible to go significantly higher (>900 Mbps)
      by tweaking tcp_tso_win_divisor.
      
      Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
      Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
      Cc: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarArnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      
      (cherry picked from commit 71f6d1b3)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      10d937e0
    • willy tarreau's avatar
      net: mvneta: add missing bit descriptions for interrupt masks and causes · 7a399737
      willy tarreau authored
      Marvell has not published the chip's datasheet yet, so it's very hard
      to find the relevant bits to manipulate to change the IRQ behaviour.
      Fortunately, these bits are described in the proprietary LSP patch set
      which is publicly available here :
      
          http://www.plugcomputer.org/downloads/mirabox/
      
      So let's put them back in the driver in order to reduce the burden of
      current and future maintenance.
      
      Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
      Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarArnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      
      (cherry picked from commit 40ba35e7)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      7a399737