[PATCH 0/2] [Karmic/Lucid] netdev/fec: bug fixing (v2)

Bryan Wu bryan.wu at canonical.com
Tue Apr 13 14:53:00 UTC 2010


Can I get more review and acks of this patch. It improves the performance drop a 
lot as mobile folks tested.

Thanks,
-Bryan

On 04/07/2010 11:44 PM, Bryan Wu wrote:
> v2: please ignore the v1 patchset, since testers found v1 patches failed to
>      pass their validation
>    - rework on the second patch to fix performance regression
>
> The first patch is fixing a bug found by upstream review.
>
> The 2nd one is a new fixing to the performance impact after introducing phylib
> to fec.c driver. The busy wait in mdio poll opertaion will drop transfer speed.
>
> These 2 patches can be cleanly applied to both Karmic and Lucid fsl-imx51 branch.
> And Both of them were tested and passed the validation. Please find the testing
> report here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-fsl-imx51/+bug/546649
>
> Please consider pull it from:
> 	git://kernel.ubuntu.com/roc/ubuntu-lucid fec
>
> Bryan Wu (2):
>    netdev/fec: fix phy_speed caculating
>    netdev/fec: fix performance impact from mdio poll operation
>
>   drivers/net/fec.c |   54 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
>   1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>




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