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[4/6] netdev: octeon_mgmt: Free TX skbufs in a timely manner.

Message ID 1273100593-11043-5-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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David Daney May 5, 2010, 11:03 p.m. UTC
We also reduce the high water mark to 1 so skbufs are not stranded for
long periods of time.  Since we are cleaning after each packet, no
need to do it in the transmit path.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
---
 drivers/net/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c |    5 ++---
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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David Miller May 6, 2010, 7:19 a.m. UTC | #1
From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Date: Wed,  5 May 2010 16:03:11 -0700

> We also reduce the high water mark to 1 so skbufs are not stranded for
> long periods of time.  Since we are cleaning after each packet, no
> need to do it in the transmit path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>

Applied.
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diff --git a/drivers/net/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c b/drivers/net/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c
index 633fa89..3cf6f62 100644
--- a/drivers/net/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c
@@ -832,9 +832,9 @@  static int octeon_mgmt_open(struct net_device *netdev)
 	mix_irhwm.s.irhwm = 0;
 	cvmx_write_csr(CVMX_MIXX_IRHWM(port), mix_irhwm.u64);
 
-	/* Interrupt when we have 5 or more packets to clean.  */
+	/* Interrupt when we have 1 or more packets to clean.  */
 	mix_orhwm.u64 = 0;
-	mix_orhwm.s.orhwm = 5;
+	mix_orhwm.s.orhwm = 1;
 	cvmx_write_csr(CVMX_MIXX_ORHWM(port), mix_orhwm.u64);
 
 	/* Enable receive and transmit interrupts */
@@ -995,7 +995,6 @@  static int octeon_mgmt_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
 	cvmx_write_csr(CVMX_MIXX_ORING2(port), 1);
 
 	netdev->trans_start = jiffies;
-	octeon_mgmt_clean_tx_buffers(p);
 	octeon_mgmt_update_tx_stats(netdev);
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }