The patch titled spidernet: RX Refill has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is spidernet-rx-refill.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: spidernet: RX Refill From: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The invocation of the rx ring refill routine is haphazard; centralize and make its usage consistent. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/spider_net.c | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-rx-refill drivers/net/spider_net.c --- a/drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-rx-refill +++ a/drivers/net/spider_net.c @@ -968,8 +968,6 @@ spider_net_decode_one_descr(struct spide if (status == SPIDER_NET_DESCR_NOT_IN_USE) { /* not initialized yet, the ring must be empty */ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chain->lock, flags); - spider_net_refill_rx_chain(card); - spider_net_enable_rxdmac(card); return 0; } @@ -1058,6 +1056,7 @@ spider_net_poll(struct net_device *netde netdev->quota -= packets_done; *budget -= packets_done; spider_net_refill_rx_chain(card); + spider_net_enable_rxdmac(card); /* if all packets are in the stack, enable interrupts and return 0 */ /* if not, return 1 */ @@ -1197,11 +1196,9 @@ spider_net_set_mac(struct net_device *ne static void spider_net_handle_rxram_full(struct spider_net_card *card) { - int rc = 1; - while (rc) { - rc = spider_net_decode_one_descr(card, 0); - spider_net_refill_rx_chain(card); - } + while (spider_net_decode_one_descr(card, 0)); + + spider_net_refill_rx_chain(card); spider_net_enable_rxchtails(card); spider_net_enable_rxdmac(card); netif_rx_schedule(card->netdev); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch hvcs-char-driver-janitoring-move-block-of-code.patch spidernet-dma-coalescing.patch spidernet-add-net_ratelimit-to-suppress-long-output.patch spidernet-rx-locking.patch spidernet-refactor-rx-refill.patch spidernet-rx-skb-mem-leak.patch spidernet-another-skb-mem-leak.patch spidernet-cleanup-return-codes.patch spidernet-rx-refill.patch spidernet-merge-error-branches.patch spidernet-remove-unused-variable.patch spidernet-rx-chain-tail.patch spidernet-turn-rx-irq-back-on.patch spidernet-memory-barrier.patch spidernet-avoid-possible-rx-chain-corruption.patch spidernet-rx-debugging-printout.patch spidernet-rework-rx-linked-list.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html