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  1. Oct 10, 2007
    • Stephen Hemminger's avatar
      [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects. · bea3348e
      Stephen Hemminger authored
      
      Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net
      device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several
      queues.
      
      In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the
      structure representing the poll is independant from the net
      device itself.
      
      The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from:
      
      	int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget)
      
      to
      
      	int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
      
      The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or
      the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get
      abstract).  The callee no longer messes around bumping
      dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the
      caller upon return.
      
      The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data
      structures.
      
      Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI
      instances in it's ->stop() device close handler.  Since the
      napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures,
      only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances
      it may have per-device.
      
      With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier,
      Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim.
      
      Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra,
      Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan.
      
      [ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted.  Integrated
        Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list
        handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues.  -DaveM ]
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      bea3348e
  2. Nov 18, 2005
    • Lennert Buytenhek's avatar
      [PATCH] intel ixp2000 network driver · 15d014d1
      Lennert Buytenhek authored
      
      The way the hardware and firmware work is that there is one shared RX
      queue and IRQ for a number of different network interfaces.  Due to this,
      we would like to process received packets for every interface in the same
      NAPI poll handler, so we need a pseudo-device to schedule polling on.
      
      What the driver currently does is that it always schedules polling for
      the first network interface in the list, and processes packets for every
      interface in the poll handler for that first interface -- however, this
      scheme breaks down if the first network interface happens to not be up,
      since netif_rx_schedule_prep() checks netif_running().
      
      sky2 apparently has the same issue, and Stephen Hemminger suggested a
      way to work around this: create a variant of netif_rx_schedule_prep()
      that does not check netif_running().  I implemented this locally and
      called it netif_rx_schedule_prep_notup(), and it seems to work well,
      but it's something that probably not everyone would be happy with.
      
      The ixp2000 is an ARM CPU with a high-speed network interface in the
      CPU itself (full duplex 4Gb/s or 10Gb/s depending on the IXP model.)
      The CPU package also contains 8 or 16 (again depending on the IXP
      model) 'microengines', which are somewhat primitive but very fast
      and efficient processor cores which can be used to offload various
      things from the main CPU.
      
      This driver makes the high-speed network interface in the CPU visible
      and usable as a regular linux network device.  Currently, it only
      supports the Radisys ENP2611 IXP board, but adding support for other
      board types should be fairly easy.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
      15d014d1
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