1. 25 2月, 2010 1 次提交
  2. 23 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      kfifo: move struct kfifo in place · 45465487
      Stefani Seibold 提交于
      This is a new generic kernel FIFO implementation.
      
      The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to
      many constrains.  Only 17 files in the current 2.6.31-rc5 used it.
      FIFO's are like list's a very basic thing and a kfifo API which handles
      the most use case would save a lot of development time and memory
      resources.
      
      I think this are the reasons why kfifo is not in use:
      
       - The API is to simple, important functions are missing
       - A fifo can be only allocated dynamically
       - There is a requirement of a spinlock whether you need it or not
       - There is no support for data records inside a fifo
      
      So I decided to extend the kfifo in a more generic way without blowing up
      the API to much.  The new API has the following benefits:
      
       - Generic usage: For kernel internal use and/or device driver.
       - Provide an API for the most use case.
       - Slim API: The whole API provides 25 functions.
       - Linux style habit.
       - DECLARE_KFIFO, DEFINE_KFIFO and INIT_KFIFO Macros
       - Direct copy_to_user from the fifo and copy_from_user into the fifo.
       - The kfifo itself is an in place member of the using data structure, this save an
         indirection access and does not waste the kernel allocator.
       - Lockless access: if only one reader and one writer is active on the fifo,
         which is the common use case, no additional locking is necessary.
       - Remove spinlock - give the user the freedom of choice what kind of locking to use if
         one is required.
       - Ability to handle records. Three type of records are supported:
         - Variable length records between 0-255 bytes, with a record size
           field of 1 bytes.
         - Variable length records between 0-65535 bytes, with a record size
           field of 2 bytes.
         - Fixed size records, which no record size field.
       - Preserve memory resource.
       - Performance!
       - Easy to use!
      
      This patch:
      
      Since most users want to have the kfifo as part of another object,
      reorganize the code to allow including struct kfifo in another data
      structure.  This requires changing the kfifo_alloc and kfifo_init
      prototypes so that we pass an existing kfifo pointer into them.  This
      patch changes the implementation and all existing users.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
      Signed-off-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
      Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      Acked-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      45465487
  3. 30 3月, 2009 1 次提交
  4. 25 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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      RDMA/cxgb3: Enforce required firmware · d1fbe04e
      Steve Wise 提交于
      The cxgb3 NIC driver can handle more firmware versions than iw_cxgb3,
      and since commit 8207befa ("cxgb3: untie strict FW matching") cxgb3
      will load with firmware versions that iw_cxgb3 can't handle.  The FW
      major number indicates a specific interface between the FW and
      iw_cxgb3.  Thus if the major number of the running firmware does not
      match the required version compiled into iw_cxgb3, then iw_cxgb3 must
      not register that device.
      Signed-off-by: NSteve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      d1fbe04e
  5. 27 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  6. 15 7月, 2008 3 次提交
  7. 07 5月, 2008 1 次提交
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      RDMA/cxgb3: Fix severe limit on userspace memory registration size · 273748cc
      Roland Dreier 提交于
      Currently, iw_cxgb3 is severely limited on the amount of userspace
      memory that can be registered in in a single memory region, which
      causes big problems for applications that expect to be able to
      register 100s of MB.
      
      The problem is that the driver uses a single kmalloc()ed buffer to
      hold the physical buffer list (PBL) for the entire memory region
      during registration, which means that 8 bytes of contiguous memory are
      required for each page of memory being registered.  For example, a 64
      MB registration will require 128 KB of contiguous memory with 4 KB
      pages, and it unlikely that such an allocation will succeed on a busy
      system.
      
      This is purely a driver problem: the temporary page list buffer is not
      needed by the hardware, so we can fix this by writing the PBL to the
      hardware in page-sized chunks rather than all at once.  We do this by
      splitting the memory registration operation up into several steps:
      
       - Allocate PBL space in adapter memory for the full registration
       - Copy PBL to adapter memory in chunks
       - Allocate STag and enable memory region
      
      This also allows several other cleanups to the __cxio_tpt_op()
      interface and related parts of the driver.
      
      This change leaves the reregister memory region and memory window
      operations broken, but they already didn't work due to other
      longstanding bugs, so fixing them will be left to a later patch.
      Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      273748cc
  8. 03 5月, 2008 1 次提交
  9. 30 4月, 2008 1 次提交
  10. 24 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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      RDMA/cxgb3: cleanups · 2b540355
      Adrian Bunk 提交于
      - don't mark static functions in C files as inline - gcc should know
        best whether inlining makes sense
      - never compile the unused cxio_dbg.c
      - make the following needlessly global functions static:
        - cxio_hal.c: cxio_hal_clear_qp_ctx()
        - iwch_provider.c: iwch_get_qp()
      - remove the following unused global functions:
        - cxio_hal.c: cxio_allocate_stag()
        - cxio_resource.: cxio_hal_get_rhdl()
        - cxio_resource.: cxio_hal_put_rhdl()
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Acked-by: NSteve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      2b540355
  11. 17 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  12. 13 2月, 2007 1 次提交