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authorLinas Vepstas2006-11-17 23:39:40 +0100
committerJeff Garzik2006-11-30 12:14:06 +0100
commit7bd54c863608a460e72aa0e57170cffb6bc62110 (patch)
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parent[PATCH] Spidernet: remove ETH_ZLEN check in earlier patch (diff)
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[PATCH] spidernet: poor network performance
Correct a problem seen on later kernels running the NetPIPE application. Specifically, NetPIPE would begin running very slowly at the 1533 packet size. It was determined that Spidernet slowed with an idle DMA engine. Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/spider_net.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/spider_net.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/spider_net.c b/drivers/net/spider_net.c
index 9dd282346e1c..cef7e6671c49 100644
--- a/drivers/net/spider_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/spider_net.c
@@ -1633,7 +1633,7 @@ spider_net_enable_card(struct spider_net_card *card)
SPIDER_NET_INT2_MASK_VALUE);
spider_net_write_reg(card, SPIDER_NET_GDTDMACCNTR,
- SPIDER_NET_GDTBSTA | SPIDER_NET_GDTDCEIDIS);
+ SPIDER_NET_GDTBSTA);
}
/**