[PATCH net-next V2 0/8] net: fec: cleanup/fixes

Troy Kisky troy.kisky at boundarydevices.com
Fri Feb 5 13:52:42 PST 2016


V2 is a rebase on top of johannes endian-safe patch and
is only the 1st eight patches.
The testing for this series was done on a nitrogen6x.
The base commit was
commit b45efa30a626e915192a6c548cd8642379cd47cc
    Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

Testing showed no change in performance.
Testing used imx_v6_v7_defconfig + CONFIG_MICREL_PHY.
The processor was running at 996Mhz.
The following commands were used to get the transfer rates.

On an x86 ubunto system,
iperf -s -i.5 -u


On a nitrogen6x board, running via SD Card.
I first stopped some background processes

stop cron
stop upstart-file-bridge
stop upstart-socket-bridge
stop upstart-udev-bridge
stop rsyslog
stop dbus
killall dhclient
echo performance >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

taskset 0x2 iperf -c 192.168.0.201 -u -t60 -b500M -r

There is a branch available on github with this series, and the rest of
my fec patches, for those who would like to test it.
https://github.com:boundarydevices/linux-imx6.git branch net-next_master



Troy Kisky (8):
SDCard
 TX/RX
378/405  before any patches
379/407  net: fec: stop the "rcv is not +last, " error messages
378/405  net: fec: fix rx error counts
379/396  net: fec: fix fec_enet_get_free_txdesc_num
379/403  net: fec: add struct bufdesc_prop
390/396  net: fec: add variable reg_desc_active to speed things up
388/396  net: fec: don't disable FEC_ENET_TS_TIMER interrupt
382/403  net: fec: don't transfer ownership until descriptor write is complete
378/403  net: fec: improve error handling

 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec.h      |  38 ++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 396 ++++++++++++++----------------
 2 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 238 deletions(-)

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