This patch increases the Burst Address alignment from 64 to 1024 in the Spidernet driver. This improves transmit performance for arge packets from about 100Mbps to 300-400Mbps.
From: James K Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Utz Bacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jens Osterkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---- drivers/net/spider_net.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2/drivers/net/spider_net.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2.orig/drivers/net/spider_net.h 2006-08-07 14:37:10.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2/drivers/net/spider_net.h 2006-08-11 11:09:57.000000000 -0500 @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ extern char spider_net_driver_name[]; #define SPIDER_NET_DMA_RX_FEND_VALUE 0x00030003 /* to set TX_DMA_EN */ #define SPIDER_NET_TX_DMA_EN 0x80000000 -#define SPIDER_NET_GDTDCEIDIS 0x00000002 +#define SPIDER_NET_GDTDCEIDIS 0x00000302 #define SPIDER_NET_DMA_TX_VALUE SPIDER_NET_TX_DMA_EN | \ SPIDER_NET_GDTDCEIDIS #define SPIDER_NET_DMA_TX_FEND_VALUE 0x00030003 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html