Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758597Ab2J3K0g (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:26:36 -0400 Received: from eusmtp01.atmel.com ([212.144.249.242]:38600 "EHLO eusmtp01.atmel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758331Ab2J3K0e (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:26:34 -0400 Message-ID: <508FB970.8070703@atmel.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:26:40 +0100 From: Nicolas Ferre Organization: atmel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CC: , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] net/macb: driver enhancement concerning GEM support, ring logic and cleanup References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.161.30.18] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2547 Lines: 65 On 10/30/2012 11:17 AM, Nicolas Ferre : > This is an enhancement work that began several years ago. I try to catchup with > some performance improvement that has been implemented then by Havard. > The ring index logic and the TX error path modification are the biggest changes > but some cleanup/debugging have been added along the way. > The GEM revision will benefit from the Gigabit support. > Newer pinctrl infrastructure support is added but it is optional. > > The series has been tested on several Atmel AT91 SoC with the two MACB/GEM > flavors. > > v3: - rebased on net-next to take into account current effor to merge > at91_ether with macb drivers > - add additional patch to use the new pinctrl infrastructure > v2: - modify the tx error handling: now uses a workqueue > - information provided by ethtool -i were not accurate: removed David, if you feel more comfortable with a git branch (I can also cook a signed tag if you want), here it is: The following changes since commit a932657f51eadb8280166e82dc7034dfbff3985a: net: sierra: shut up sparse restricted type warnings (2012-10-28 19:09:02 -0400) are available in the git repository at: git://github.com/at91linux/linux-at91.git net-next_macb_enhancement3 for you to fetch changes up to 3269426bdd44debc00d027651f8248db9d40f3dc: net/macb: add pinctrl consumer support (2012-10-30 11:08:10 +0100) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Havard Skinnemoen (4): net/macb: memory barriers cleanup net/macb: change debugging messages net/macb: clean up ring buffer logic net/macb: Offset first RX buffer by two bytes Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD (1): net/macb: add pinctrl consumer support Nicolas Ferre (4): net/macb: remove macb_get_drvinfo() net/macb: tx status is more than 8 bits now net/macb: ethtool interface: add register dump feature net/macb: better manage tx errors Patrice Vilchez (1): net/macb: Add support for Gigabit Ethernet mode drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c | 446 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h | 30 ++++-- 2 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-) Thanks, best regards, -- Nicolas Ferre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/