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, it can be called from a central location. 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 | 13 ++++--------- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 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 @@ -980,17 +980,11 @@ spider_net_decode_one_descr(struct spide status = spider_net_get_descr_status(descr); - /* nothing in the descriptor yet */ - if (status == SPIDER_NET_DESCR_CARDOWNED) + /* Nothing in the descriptor, or ring must be empty */ + if ((status == SPIDER_NET_DESCR_CARDOWNED) || + (status == SPIDER_NET_DESCR_NOT_IN_USE)) return 0; - if (status == SPIDER_NET_DESCR_NOT_IN_USE) { - /* not initialized yet, the ring must be empty */ - spider_net_refill_rx_chain(card); - spider_net_enable_rxdmac(card); - return 0; - } - /* descriptor definitively used -- move on tail */ chain->tail = descr->next; @@ -1074,6 +1068,7 @@ 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 */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch spidernet-dma-coalescing.patch spidernet-add-net_ratelimit-to-suppress-long-output.patch spidernet-remove-rxramfull-tasklet.patch spidernet-cleanup-un-needed-api.patch spidernet-rx-skb-mem-leak.patch spidernet-another-skb-mem-leak.patch spidernet-cleanup-return-codes.patch spidernet-rx-refill.patch spidernet-remove-unused-variable.patch spidernet-rx-chain-tail.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