alistair23-linux/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac
Eric Dumazet acb600def2 net: remove skb recycling
Over time, skb recycling infrastructure got litle interest and
many bugs. Generic rx path skb allocation is now using page
fragments for efficient GRO / TCP coalescing, and recyling
a tx skb for rx path is not worth the pain.

Last identified bug is that fat skbs can be recycled
and it can endup using high order pages after few iterations.

With help from Maxime Bizon, who pointed out that commit
87151b8689 (net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom)
introduced this regression for recycled skbs.

Instead of fixing this bug, lets remove skb recycling.

Drivers wanting really hot skbs should use build_skb() anyway,
to allocate/populate sk_buff right before netif_receive_skb()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
..
chain_mode.c
common.h stmmac: add header inclusion protection 2012-08-24 13:25:05 -04:00
descs.h stmmac: add header inclusion protection 2012-08-24 13:25:05 -04:00
descs_com.h stmmac: add header inclusion protection 2012-08-24 13:25:05 -04:00
dwmac100.h stmmac: add header inclusion protection 2012-08-24 13:25:05 -04:00
dwmac100_core.c stmmac: add the Energy Efficient Ethernet support 2012-07-01 03:34:50 -07:00
dwmac100_dma.c
dwmac1000.h stmmac: add header inclusion protection 2012-08-24 13:25:05 -04:00
dwmac1000_core.c stmmac: add the Energy Efficient Ethernet support 2012-07-01 03:34:50 -07:00
dwmac1000_dma.c
dwmac_dma.h stmmac: add header inclusion protection 2012-08-24 13:25:05 -04:00
dwmac_lib.c
enh_desc.c
Kconfig
Makefile
mmc.h stmmac: add header inclusion protection 2012-08-24 13:25:05 -04:00
mmc_core.c stmmac: fix a typo in the macro used to mask the mmc irq 2012-08-22 19:14:31 -07:00
norm_desc.c
ring_mode.c stmmac: Fix for higher mtu size handling 2012-07-09 14:37:52 -07:00
stmmac.h net: remove skb recycling 2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
stmmac_ethtool.c stmmac: add the Energy Efficient Ethernet support 2012-07-01 03:34:50 -07:00
stmmac_main.c net: remove skb recycling 2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
stmmac_mdio.c net:stmmac: Remove bus_id from mdio platform data. 2012-08-31 16:11:28 -04:00
stmmac_pci.c net:stmmac: Remove bus_id from mdio platform data. 2012-08-31 16:11:28 -04:00
stmmac_platform.c net:stmmac: convert driver to use devm_request_and_ioremap. 2012-08-31 16:11:37 -04:00
stmmac_timer.c net/stmmac: Use clk_prepare_enable and clk_disable_unprepare 2012-09-21 14:59:52 -04:00
stmmac_timer.h stmmac: add header inclusion protection 2012-08-24 13:25:05 -04:00