This is a subset of patches to rework the driver in order to improve its
performances and make it more robust under stress conditions.
All patches have been ported on STi mainstream kernel branch and
tested on ARM STiH4xx platforms and newer ones.
This series also updates the driver version and prepares it
to include further development to support new chips.
In detail, these patches are:
o to rework and improve the internal DMA bus settings
Fine tuning is mandatory on some platforms for both
performance and stability issues.
o to rework and optimize the descriptor management.
This will help a lot on performance side and preparing
the inclusion on the GMAC4.
o to add a set of optimizations for both xmit and rx functions.
These will help a lot on performance side and making the driver
more robust in case of low memory conditions and under some
stress test, performed for example on IP-STB.
Below some throughput figures obtained on some boxes before and after
the patches.
nuttcp (mbps) iperf (Mbps)
------------------------------------------------------------------
tcp udp tcp udp
tx rx tx rx tx rx tx rx
------------------------------------------
old 680 800 480 506 760 800 600 700
new 830 880 540 630 840 880 700 800
==============================================================================
V2: as required, the rx_copybreak is now managed by using ethtool.
==============================================================================
Fabrice Gasnier (3):
stmmac: merge get_rx_owner into rx_status routine.
stmmac: optimize tx clean function
stmmac: fix phy init when attached to a phy
Giuseppe Cavallaro (15):
stmmac: share reset function between dwmac100 and dwmac1000
stmmac: rework DMA bus setting and introduce new platform AXI
structure
stmmac: change descriptor layout
stmmac: remove modulo in stmmac_xmit()
stmmac: add length field to dma data
stmmac: add last_segment field to dma data
stmmac: add is_jumbo field to dma data
stmmac: optimize tx desc management
stmmac: set dirty index out of the loop
stmmac: first frame prep at the end of xmit routine
stmmac: perf, remove modulo in stmmac_rx()
stmmac: do not poll phy handler when attach a switch
stmmac: do not perform zero-copy for rx frames
stmmac: tune rx copy via threshold.
stmmac: update version to Oct_2015
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/stmmac.txt | 54 +++-
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/chain_mode.c | 35 ++-
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/common.h | 34 ++-
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/descs.h | 330 +++++++++-----------
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/descs_com.h | 77 ++---
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac100.h | 1 -
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000.h | 3 +-
.../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000_dma.c | 111 ++++---
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac100_dma.c | 22 +--
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac_dma.h | 39 +++-
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac_lib.c | 21 ++
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/enh_desc.c | 226 ++++++++------
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/norm_desc.c | 150 +++++----
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/ring_mode.c | 32 ++-
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h | 7 +-
.../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ethtool.c | 41 +++-
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 338 +++++++++++++------
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_pci.c | 4 +-
.../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c | 42 +++-
include/linux/stmmac.h | 17 +-
20 files changed, 967 insertions(+), 617 deletions(-)
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1.7.4.4
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