- 16 Feb, 2003 8 commits
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Duncan Sands authored
Eliminate a pile of code that isn't used anymore now the new send code is in place, and make some cosmetic changes.
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Duncan Sands authored
Finally, here is the new code for sending packets. The ATM layer passes us a skb containing the packet to be sent. We need to encode that as AAL5, and then encapsulate the result in a series of ATM cells. Finally, the result has to be sent to the modem. When we have finished with the skb, we need to pass it back to the ATM layer. The old code did this as follows: (1) Try to do the AAL5 encoding in place in the skb. This fattens the packet, so there is not always enough room. Thus sometimes a new skb is allocated. (2) Try to form the frame of ATM cells in place. This also fattens the packet, so sometimes another skb is allocated here too. (3) send the urb, using the skb as buffer. The main problems with this are: (1) in the urb completion handler, we need to pass the skb back to the ATM layer, or free it ourselves if we allocated a new one. The driver was pretty confused about which to do. Also, error conditions were not always handled right. (2) if the ATM layer wants to close the VCC (connection), any urbs in flight using skbs from that VCC need to be shot down, otherwise the skb may be returned to a VCC that no longer exists when the urb completes. You have to be careful to shoot down the right urb (beware of resubmission), and deal with failures of usb_unlink_urb. (3) There may need to be several memory allocations. The new code sidesteps all this by (1) not sending the skb off with the urb, and (2) not reallocating the skb at all. It simply has a couple of buffers of fixed size: the encoded and encapsulated content of the skb is placed in a buffer. The skb is sent back down to the ATM layer and the buffer is sent off with the urb. Et voila, as they say around here. Now for the complicating factors: (1) if there are no spare buffers, the incoming skb needs to be queued (this was already the case if there were no free urbs). If the VCC is closed, the skbs from that VCC need to be removed from the queue. This is trivial and is done in udsl_usb_cancelsends. (2) The skbs can be quite big. In practice, with the default configuration for pppd, they contain at most 1502 bytes. However pppd can be configured to send up to 16k packets, and who says everyone is using pppd? - the ATM layer allows up to 64k packets. So how big should the buffers be? Not 64k, that's for sure - I've set them to about 6k (128 ATM cells). So there needs to be a way to encode/encapsulate and transfer only part of the skb's payload into a buffer. This is done by udsl_write_cell, which extracts one ATM cell from the skb. The data needed is precalculated by udsl_groom_skb and stored in the skb's cb field. This also means that if there is only a little room left in a buffer, it can still be filled by extracting part of a skb. A nice consequence is that under heavy load (many packets being sent), the driver starts streaming the data to the USB subsystem: every time a send urb completes, there is a completely filled buffer waiting to be sent, so not only is the time between urb completion and resubmission essentially zero, but the amount of data sent in each USB transaction is as big as possible, each buffer containing the contents of several skbs (typically 4). And the best thing is: it actually works!
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Duncan Sands authored
Add a new encoding routine, udsl_write_cell, which extracts one ATM cell from a skb and writes it, doing the AAL5/ATM encoding on the fly. To make this possible, various bits of info about the AAL5/ATM structure need to be stored beforehand in the skb. This is done by udsl_groom_skb using the udsl_control structure introduced in the previous patch.
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Duncan Sands authored
Add a new structure, udsl_control. It will live in the sk_buff cb field, so check there is room for it and bail out during module init if not.
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Duncan Sands authored
Expose some CRC definitions in atmsar.h (for use by speedtouch.c).
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Duncan Sands authored
Put in infrastructure for the new send code. The only code changes are in the udsl_usb_probe and udsl_usb_disconnect functions, changed to initialize/finalize the new fields (plus cleaned up a bit). I couldn't resist a real code change while I was there: freeing the memory used by the ATM after shutting it down, rather than before! This doesn't make any difference since the shutdown routine doesn't work - so it still oopses. I will fix the shutdown routine later.
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Duncan Sands authored
Measure the receive buffer size in ATM cells (53 bytes).
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Duncan Sands authored
Rename UDSL_RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE to UDSL_RCV_BUFFER_SIZE.
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- 15 Feb, 2003 32 commits
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
into kroah.com:/home/linux/linux/BK/gregkh-2.5
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Steven Cole authored
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Dominik Brodowski authored
Remove unneeded function declarations and correct /proc-directory name for > 1 pcmcia_socket_class devices.
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Rob Weryk authored
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Andries E. Brouwer authored
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Dominik Brodowski authored
here's the compile fix for this breakage which appears if CONFIG_ACPI && !(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE || CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE_MODULE).
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Andrew Morton authored
This morning's fix for elv_former_request() is causing oopses all over the place in the IO scheduler. Jens, remember that I did try that fix a while ago, and the same happened. I believe it has exposed a new problem at the __make_request/attempt_front_merge level: if attempt_front_merge() actually succeeds, the wrong request gets freed up in elv_merged_request(). It may be best to back this change out until it can be fixed up for real.
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http://linux-isdn.bkbits.net/linux-2.5.makeLinus Torvalds authored
into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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Kai Germaschewski authored
into tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de:/scratch/kai/kernel/v2.5/linux-2.5.make
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Kai Germaschewski authored
modpost did not warn on symbols which are exported but not defined in the current module, but it should. Also, fix a compile time warning, and have bk ignore *.mod.c files.
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bk://cifs.bkbits.net/linux-2.5cifsLinus Torvalds authored
into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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François Romieu authored
- pci_disable_device() added in rr_remove_one() to balance pci_enable_device() in rr_init_one() - rr_timer() and rr_close() are leaking pci_map'ed memory: make them use rr_raz_{rx/tx} - error exiting path in rr_open() was balancing pci_alloc_consistent() with kfree().
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Adrian Bunk authored
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Roger Luethi authored
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Roger Luethi authored
The new reset function only waits up to 0.1 ms for the reset to complete, instead of 10 ms. However, it introduces the use of a forced reset flag if a chip doesn't seem cooperative. This fixes cases where until now only reloading the driver or even rebooting the machine would bring the chip back.
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Roger Luethi authored
Fix the following bugs: - after a watchdog timeout (still a common thing with the Rhine), the driver will fall back to half-duplex, ignoring the auto-negotiation results, killing performance completely until the driver is reloaded; fixed by clearing full_duplex in init_registers() - driver considers only 0x200 for full-duplex option; now 0x220 - duplex code used dev->name before it's initialized; code section moved The full_duplex and force_media related code is quite a mess, but this minimal fix will make the most annoying problems go away. Looking at some other code (e.g. mii.c) it seems to me the interaction between user force, autoneg results and full_duplex/force_media is amazingly complex, so I'll leave it at this for now.
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Roger Luethi authored
The Tx underrun handling in the current driver is broken. The details have been explained in a posting "VIA Rhine 1.15exp1, patch for testing/discussion" a couple of months ago.
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Roger Luethi authored
- nuke mii_status_bits - move clear_tally_counters() up so it can get inlined (pointed out by Luca Barbieri) - rename via_restart_tx() -> via_rhine_restart_tx()
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Jeff Garzik authored
into redhat.com:/garz/repo/net-drivers-2.5
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Steve French authored
Merge in fixes from version 0.6.5 of the CIFS VFS. Greatly improved performance including improved distributed caching support and support for readpages and larger read sizes. Cache data now flushed properly at file close time. Socket and memory leak fixed. Fix two oops. Fix error logging and made more consistent. Generic sendfile added.
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Art Haas authored
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Art Haas authored
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Art Haas authored
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Art Haas authored
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Dominik Brodowski authored
The deprecated /proc/cpufreq interface can easily live outside the cpufreq core now.
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Dominik Brodowski authored
The CPU frequency table helpers can easily be modularized -- especially as they are not needed on all architectures, or for all drivers (even on x86 -- see longrun and gx-suspmod)
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Anton Blanchard authored
I added this comment but the line it refers to is long gone.
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Anton Blanchard authored
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Anton Blanchard authored
The interrupt printout in /proc/stat doesnt make sense on many ppc64 boxes because we remap interrupts. Also, with enough active interrupt sources /proc/stat might get much bigger than a page which results in memory corruption.
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Dominik Brodowski authored
This patch removes the {un}register_ss_entry/pcmcia_{un}register_socket calls, and replaces them with generic driver-model-compatible functions. Also, update the CodingStyle of these cs.c functions to what's recommended in the Linux kernel.
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Dominik Brodowski authored
A new device_class "pcmcia_socket_class" is introduced for PCMCIA and CardBus sockets. All socket drivers I could find are updated so that they register a driver, and -if necessary- the "platform"/legacy device. This will allow for a cleanup of pcmcia_{un}register_socket() / {un}register_ss_entry() as well as reflect the parent for pcmcia_bus devices. Russell King allowed me to break sa1100_generic pcmcia support for the time being - so drop that part of the patch for the moment.
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