Re: [PATCH] Gigabit Ethernet support for forcedeth

From: Manfred Spraul
Date: Wed Jun 30 2004 - 14:02:45 EST


Manfred Spraul wrote:


your driver needs to call pci_set_dma_mask() and pci_set_consistent_dma_mask().

I'll add that.

I've checked the pci layer: 32-bit is the default, thus no calls are required. What's missing is error handling for pci_map, I'll add that later.

Attached is an incremental patch that fixes the simple issues you mentioned. Could you merge both patches together to your tree? They improve the driver significantly and I want some test input from users.

I've added message flags and pci_map error handling to my todo list.
--
Manfred
// $Header$
// Kernel Version:
// VERSION = 2
// PATCHLEVEL = 6
// SUBLEVEL = 7
// EXTRAVERSION = -mm2
--- 2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2004-06-30 18:45:23.000000000 +0200
+++ build-2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2004-06-30 18:45:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -348,18 +348,22 @@ struct ring_desc {

/* General driver defaults */
#define NV_WATCHDOG_TIMEO (5*HZ)
-#define DEFAULT_MTU 1500 /* also maximum supported, at least for now */

#define RX_RING 128
#define TX_RING 64
-/* limited to 1 packet until we understand NV_TX_LASTPACKET */
+/*
+ * If your nic mysteriously hangs then try to reduce the limits
+ * to 1/0: It might be required to set NV_TX_LASTPACKET in the
+ * last valid ring entry. But this would be impossible to
+ * implement - probably a disassembly error.
+ */
#define TX_LIMIT_STOP 63
#define TX_LIMIT_START 62

/* rx/tx mac addr + type + vlan + align + slack*/
-#define RX_NIC_BUFSIZE (DEFAULT_MTU + 64)
+#define RX_NIC_BUFSIZE (ETH_DATA_LEN + 64)
/* even more slack */
-#define RX_ALLOC_BUFSIZE (DEFAULT_MTU + 128)
+#define RX_ALLOC_BUFSIZE (ETH_DATA_LEN + 128)

#define OOM_REFILL (1+HZ/20)
#define POLL_WAIT (1+HZ/100)
@@ -988,7 +992,7 @@ static void nv_tx_done(struct net_device
while (np->nic_tx != np->next_tx) {
i = np->nic_tx % TX_RING;

- Flags = cpu_to_le32(np->tx_ring[i].FlagLen);
+ Flags = le32_to_cpu(np->tx_ring[i].FlagLen);

dprintk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: nv_tx_done: looking at packet %d, Flags 0x%x.\n",
dev->name, np->nic_tx, Flags);
@@ -1077,7 +1081,7 @@ static void nv_rx_process(struct net_dev
break; /* we scanned the whole ring - do not continue */

i = np->cur_rx % RX_RING;
- Flags = cpu_to_le32(np->rx_ring[i].FlagLen);
+ Flags = le32_to_cpu(np->rx_ring[i].FlagLen);
len = nv_descr_getlength(&np->rx_ring[i], np->desc_ver);

dprintk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: nv_rx_process: looking at packet %d, Flags 0x%x.\n",
@@ -1193,7 +1197,7 @@ next_pkt:
*/
static int nv_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
{
- if (new_mtu > DEFAULT_MTU)
+ if (new_mtu > ETH_DATA_LEN)
return -EINVAL;
dev->mtu = new_mtu;
return 0;
@@ -1999,7 +2003,7 @@ static void __exit exit_nic(void)
pci_unregister_driver(&driver);
}

-MODULE_PARM(max_interrupt_work, "i");
+module_param(max_interrupt_work, int, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_interrupt_work, "forcedeth maximum events handled per interrupt");

MODULE_AUTHOR("Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>");