[PATCH 8/16] Spidernet RX Refill

Linas Vepstas linas at austin.ibm.com
Thu Dec 7 10:39:12 EST 2006


The invocation of the rx ring refill routine is haphazard;
centralize and make its usage consistent.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas at austin.ibm.com>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis at us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

----
 drivers/net/spider_net.c |   11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.19-git7/drivers/net/spider_net.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-git7.orig/drivers/net/spider_net.c	2006-12-06 16:03:06.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.19-git7/drivers/net/spider_net.c	2006-12-06 16:03:08.000000000 -0600
@@ -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);



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