[PATCH 0/2 v4] net/macb: RX path enhancement

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Thu Jun 6 19:23:58 EDT 2013


From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:57:10 +0200

> Here is the patch series for modifying the RX path in macb driver.
> This change applies on GEM variant of the Cadence IP and introduces
> function pointers to match the path to the proper adapter. The move
> to RX buffers adapted to MTU and that can be DMAed directly in SKB
> is done in two steps but can be merged in a single patch.
> 
> v4: - rebased on top of net-next
>     - removed the last patch of the series which needs rework
> 
> v3: - rebased on top of net-next (containing recently added
>       net/macb: fix ISR clear-on-write behavior only for some SoC)
>     - added the ___cacheline_aligned_in_smp qualifier to napi field
>       following Ben Hutchings' advice
> 
> v2: - gave up the idea of using non-coherent memory for
>       rx buffers
>     - addition of the struct macb layout optimization

Applied to net-next but I had to fix the printf format strings
used in macb_init_rx_buffer_size().

netdev->mtu is "unsigned int" so "%u"
bp->rx_buffer_size is "size_t" so "%Zu"

otherwise we get build warnings.



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