Add a new dynamic itr algorithm, with 2 modes, and make it the default
operation mode. This greatly reduces latency and increases small packet
performance, at the "cost" of some CPU utilization. Bulk traffic
throughput is unaffected.
The driver can limit the amount of interrupts per second that the
adapter will generate for incoming packets. It does this by writing a
value to the adapter that is based on the maximum amount of interrupts
that the adapter will generate per second.
Setting InterruptThrottleRate to a value greater or equal to 100 will
program the adapter to send out a maximum of that many interrupts per
second, even if more packets have come in. This reduces interrupt
load on the system and can lower CPU utilization under heavy load,
but will increase latency as packets are not processed as quickly.
The default behaviour of the driver previously assumed a static
InterruptThrottleRate value of 8000, providing a good fallback value
for all traffic types,but lacking in small packet performance and
latency. The hardware can handle many more small packets per second
however, and for this reason an adaptive interrupt moderation algorithm
was implemented.
Since 7.3.x, the driver has two adaptive modes (setting 1 or 3) in
which it dynamically adjusts the InterruptThrottleRate value based on
the traffic that it receives. After determining the type of incoming
traffic in the last timeframe, it will adjust the InterruptThrottleRate
to an appropriate value for that traffic.
The algorithm classifies the incoming traffic every interval into
classes. Once the class is determined, the InterruptThrottleRate
value is adjusted to suit that traffic type the best. There are
three classes defined: "Bulk traffic", for large amounts of packets
of normal size; "Low latency", for small amounts of traffic and/or
a significant percentage of small packets; and "Lowest latency",
for almost completely small packets or minimal traffic.
In dynamic conservative mode, the InterruptThrottleRate value is
set to 4000 for traffic that falls in class "Bulk traffic". If
traffic falls in the "Low latency" or "Lowest latency" class, the
InterruptThrottleRate is increased stepwise to 20000. This default
mode is suitable for most applications.
For situations where low latency is vital such as cluster or
grid computing, the algorithm can reduce latency even more when
InterruptThrottleRate is set to mode 1. In this mode, which operates
the same as mode 3, the InterruptThrottleRate will be increased
stepwise to 70000 for traffic in class "Lowest latency".
Setting InterruptThrottleRate to 0 turns off any interrupt moderation
and may improve small packet latency, but is generally not suitable
for bulk throughput traffic.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Add a generic MSI interrupt routine that is IO read-free, speeding up
MSI interrupt handling.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
This file needs some cleanups and reordering - logically order it
so that relevant defines and code are together with properly quoted
defaults.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Spec fix: don't set IDE unless we are actually setting the tx
int delay time.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
ICH8 will soon be followed by newer chipsets bearing the same acronym,
thus we remove the '8' and make it independent of the version number in
the platform name.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Add a netif_wake/start_queue counter to the ethtool statistics to indicated
to the user that their transmit ring could be too small for their workload.
Signed-off-by: Jesse brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Add support for a Low Profile quad-port PCI-E adapter and 2 variants
of the ICH8 systems' onboard NIC's.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
This memsetting was added in a paranoid rage debugging TX hangs, but
are no longer of importance. We can beef up the performance quite a
bit removing them. Make sure to fill in next_to_watch to allow this.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Order pci-e capability struct according to bus/pci bus width ordering
preserving the hard pci spec numbers.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
On ich systems during PHY power down to D3, the voltage regulators
were left on.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
IA64 SMP systems were seeing TX issues with multiple cpu's attempting
to write tail registers unordered. This mmiowb() fixes the issue.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Enable early receives on 82573 for jumbo frame performance. Jumbo's
are only supported on 82573L with ASPM disabled.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Enable TSO for IPV6. All e1000 hardware supports it. This reduces CPU
utilizations by 50% when transmitting IPv6 frames.
Fix symbol naming enabling ipv6 TSO. Turn off TSO6 for 10/100.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Remove debugging code disabling MULR (multiple reads). It's not usable
for a wide audience and there are no known problems with MULR right
now.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Tested by Newsome on IRC
zd1211 chip 0586:3401 v4330 high 00-13-49 AL2230_RF pa0 g---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds two new defines for the SIOCSIWMLME to cover all
kinds MLMEs (well, except REASSOC) through a ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The current bcm43xx driver does not contain code to handle PCI-E interfaces
such as the BCM4311 and BCM4312. This patch, originally written by Stefano
Brivio adds the necessary code to enable these interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Output signal strength information as part of iwlist scan - before it did
not output any signal strength related information.
Signed-off-by: Holden Karau <holden@pigscanfly.ca>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
NET: prism54 - fix potential race in reset scheduling
There appears to be a race in reset scheduling logic - thread
responsible for reseting the interface should clear "reset
pending" flag before restarting the queue, otherwise timeout
handler might not schedule another reset even if it is needed.
This race is mostly theoretical as far as I can see but a race
nonetheless.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
NET: atmel - do not initialize array over and over again
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the SoftMAC version of the IEEE 802.11 stack, not all duplicate messages are
detected. For the most part, there is no difficulty; however for TKIP and CCMP
encryption, the duplicates result in a "replay detected" log message where the
received and previous values of the TSC are identical. This change adds a new
variable to the ieee80211_device structure that holds the 'seq_ctl' value for
the previous frame. When a new frame repeats the value, the frame is dropped and
the appropriate counter is incremented.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Hi
this patch allow to set the mtu between 1500 and 2304 (max octets in an
MSDU) for devices using ieee80211 linux stack.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds a host_strip_iv_icv flag to ieee80211 which indicates that
ieee80211_rx should strip the IV/ICV/other security features from the payload.
This saves on some memmove() calls in the driver and seems like something that
belongs in the stack as it can be used by bcm43xx, ipw2200, and zd1211rw
I will submit the ipw2200 patch separately as it needs testing.
This patch also adds some sensible variable reuse (idx vs keyidx) in
ieee80211_rx
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The bcm43xx-softmac driver fails to set two quantities needed for
iwlist to compute wireless quality when scanning. As a result, userland
programs using the quality to determine the best connection fail.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The rest of 8390 conversions; ifdef cascade in 8390.h is gone now.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
more 8390 conversions - mac8390, zorro8390 and hydra got the same treatment
as arm etherh; one more case in 8390.h ifdef cascade is gone.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
etherh and a handful of other odd drivers use different macros when building
8390.c. Since we generate a single 8390.o and then link with it, in any
config with both oddball and normal 8390-based driver we will end up with
breakage in at least one of them. Solution: take most of 8390.c into
lib8390.c and have 8390.c, etherh.c and the rest of oddballs #include it.
Helper macros are taken from 8390.h to whoever includes lib8390.c. That
way odd drivers get separate instances of compiled 8390 stuff and stop
stepping on each other's toes. 8390.h gets cleaned up - we don't have
the cascade of ifdefs in there and are left with the stuff that can be
used by any 8390-based driver. Current problems are exactly because of
that cascade - we attempt to choose the set of helpers by looking at config
and that, of course, doesn't work well when we have several sets needed
by various drivers in our config.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Add MII ioctl support to the deprecated sk98lin driver.
This allows comparison with skge driver's PHY settings.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Add support for dumping the registers in the deprecated
sk98lin driver. This is allows for easier comparison with
settings in new skge driver.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
pci_module_init() convertion in olympic.c
Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
This was spotted by coverity (cid #793). All callers dereference dev
before calling this functions, and we dereference it earlier in the
function, when initializing lp.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Tobias Diedrich <ranma@tdiedrich.de> sayeth:
Vanilla forcedeth doesn't seem to support suspend and an ifdown/up-cycle is
needed to get it working again after suspend. Francois Romieu's "Awfully
experimental" patch is working just fine for me (with message signalled
interrupts disabled) and has survived quite a few suspend/resume cycles.
So I'd very much like to see (at least partial, with msi disabled)
suspend support for forcedeth in mainline.
(Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6398)
Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc; Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
This patch fixes a couple of problems discovered with interrupt handling
in the phylib core, namely:
1. The driver uses timer and workqueue calls, but does not include
<linux/timer.h> nor <linux/workqueue.h>.
2. The driver uses schedule_work() for handling interrupts, but does not
make sure any pending work scheduled thus has been completed before
driver's structures get freed from memory. This is especially
important as interrupts may keep arriving if the line is shared with
another PHY.
The solution is to ignore phy_interrupt() calls if the reported device
has already been halted and calling flush_scheduled_work() from
phy_stop_interrupts() (but guarded with current_is_keventd() in case
the function has been called through keventd from the MAC device's
close call to avoid a deadlock on the netlink lock).
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
patch-mips-2.6.18-20060920-phy-irq-16
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The <linux/phy.h> uses some types and macros defined in
<linux/ethtool.h>, <linux/mii.h>, <linux/timer.h> and <linux/workqueue.h>,
but fails to include these headers.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
patch-mips-2.6.18-20060920-include-phy-16
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
This patch adds support for interrupt-driven operation of the Broadcom
Gigabit Ethernet PHYs. I have included device IDs for the parts used on
Broadcom SiByte evaluation boards; more can be added as a need arises.
They are apparently generally software-compatible with one another.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
patch-mips-2.6.18-20060920-broadcom-phy-15
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
[PATCH] Fix an offset error when reading the CS89x0 ADD_PORT register
[PATCH] spidernet: poor network performance
[PATCH] Spidernet: remove ETH_ZLEN check in earlier patch
[PATCH] bonding: fix an oops when slave device does not provide get_stats
[PATCH] drivers/net: SAA9730: Fix build error
Revert "[PATCH] zd1211rw: Removed unneeded packed attributes"
[PATCH] zd1211rw: Fix of a locking bug
[PATCH] softmac: remove netif_tx_disable when scanning
[PATCH] ieee80211: Fix kernel panic when QoS is enabled
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (31 commits)
[MIPS] Remove duplicate ISA DMA code for 0 DMA channel case.
[MIPS] Remove unused definition of cpu_to_lelongp()
[MIPS] Remove userspace proofing from <asm/bitops.h>.
[MIPS] Remove old junk left from old atomic_lock.
[MIPS] Use conditional traps for BUG_ON on MIPS II and better.
[MIPS] mips HPT cleanup: make clocksource_mips public
[MIPS] do_IRQ cleanup
[MIPS] Avoid dupliate D-cache flush on R400C / R4400 SC and MC variants.
[MIPS] Remove redundant r4k_blast_icache() calls
[MIPS] Work around bogus gcc warnings.
[MIPS] Fix double inclusions
[MIPS] use generic_handle_irq, handle_level_irq, handle_percpu_irq
[MIPS] IRQ cleanups
[MIPS] mips hpt cleanup: get rid of mips_hpt_init
[MIPS] PB1200: Remove duplicate definitions
[MIPS] Fix alignment hole in struct cache_desc; shrink struct.
[MIPS] Oprofile: kernel support for the R10000.
[MIPS] Remove unused R10000 performance counter definitions.
[MIPS] Add support for kexec
[MIPS] Don't print presence of WAIT instruction on bootup.
...
* 'for-2.6.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6:
SELinux: validate kernel object classes and permissions
SELinux: ensure keys constant in hashtab_search
SELinux: export object class and permission definitions
SELinux: remove current object class and permission validation mechanism
