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authorSantiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>2008-07-24 04:34:23 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-07-25 15:44:44 +1000
commitea866e6526b8a2ead92875732d41b26fdb470312 (patch)
treeb6645f5f136691defbe6a73941a05d0649811a37 /drivers/net/ibmveth.c
parent22e1a4dd3f2a9009d1d8896a5e833b6094877008 (diff)
ibmveth: Automatically enable larger rx buffer pools for larger mtu
Activates larger rx buffer pools when the MTU is changed to a larger value. This patch de-activates the large rx buffer pools when the MTU changes to a smaller value. Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ibmveth.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ibmveth.c20
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
index 00527805e4f1..007ca8735a94 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
@@ -1054,7 +1054,6 @@ static int ibmveth_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
{
struct ibmveth_adapter *adapter = dev->priv;
int new_mtu_oh = new_mtu + IBMVETH_BUFF_OH;
- int reinit = 0;
int i, rc;
if (new_mtu < IBMVETH_MAX_MTU)
@@ -1067,15 +1066,21 @@ static int ibmveth_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
if (i == IbmVethNumBufferPools)
return -EINVAL;
+ /* Deactivate all the buffer pools so that the next loop can activate
+ only the buffer pools necessary to hold the new MTU */
+ for (i = 0; i < IbmVethNumBufferPools; i++)
+ if (adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].active) {
+ ibmveth_free_buffer_pool(adapter,
+ &adapter->rx_buff_pool[i]);
+ adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].active = 0;
+ }
+
/* Look for an active buffer pool that can hold the new MTU */
for(i = 0; i<IbmVethNumBufferPools; i++) {
- if (!adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].active) {
- adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].active = 1;
- reinit = 1;
- }
+ adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].active = 1;
if (new_mtu_oh < adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].buff_size) {
- if (reinit && netif_running(adapter->netdev)) {
+ if (netif_running(adapter->netdev)) {
adapter->pool_config = 1;
ibmveth_close(adapter->netdev);
adapter->pool_config = 0;
@@ -1402,14 +1407,15 @@ const char * buf, size_t count)
return -EPERM;
}
- pool->active = 0;
if (netif_running(netdev)) {
adapter->pool_config = 1;
ibmveth_close(netdev);
+ pool->active = 0;
adapter->pool_config = 0;
if ((rc = ibmveth_open(netdev)))
return rc;
}
+ pool->active = 0;
}
} else if (attr == &veth_num_attr) {
if (value <= 0 || value > IBMVETH_MAX_POOL_COUNT)