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Commit c450a8eb authored by John Efstathiades's avatar John Efstathiades Committed by David S. Miller
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lan78xx: Introduce Rx URB processing improvements



This patch introduces a new approach to allocating and managing
Rx URBs that contributes to improving driver throughput and reducing
CPU load.

A pool of Rx URBs is created during driver instantiation. All the
URBs are initially submitted to the USB host controller for
processing.

The default URB buffer size is different for each USB bus speed.
The chosen sizes provide good USB utilisation with little impact on
overall packet latency.

Completed URBs are processed in the driver bottom half. The URB
buffer contents are copied to a dynamically allocated SKB, which is
then passed to the network stack. The URB is then re-submitted to
the USB host controller.

NOTE: the call to skb_copy() in rx_process() that copies the URB
contents to a new SKB is a temporary change to make this patch work
in its own right. This call will be removed when the NAPI processing
is introduced by patch 6 in this patch set.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Efstathiades <john.efstathiades@pebblebay.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent d383216a
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