linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] net: add Faraday FTMAC100 10/100 Ethernet driver

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Date:	Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:06:37 +0800
From:	Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert.chuang@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	dilinger@...ued.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: add Faraday FTMAC100 10/100 Ethernet driver

Dear Joe,

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 13:03 +0800, Po-Yu Chuang wrote:
>> > Is it useful to retry the NORXBUF case?
>> The idea is that if I miss packet finished interrupts (then rx buffers used up),
>> I should retrieve the received packets ASAP to free buffers to HW.
>> Maybe this is really unnecessary.
>> I am not quite sure, but I'll do your advice now.
>
> I wasn't giving advice, just asking a question.
> Your concept makes sense to me.

I see. So I will leave it as is.

>> >> +     if (status & FTMAC100_INT_NORXBUF) {
>> >> +             /* RX buffer unavailable */
>> >> +             if (net_ratelimit())
>> >> +                     netdev_info(netdev, "INT_NORXBUF\n");
>> >> +
>> >> +             netdev->stats.rx_over_errors++;
>> >> +     }
>> >
>> > Perhaps this "if (status & FTMAC100_INT_NORXBUF)" block should be
>> > moved into the test block above it before the retry?
>>
>> Since status is not changed in the function, it does not matter where
>> the test is.
>> But I agree that it is better to handle error cases earlier.
>
> This wasn't so much a handle error case early, but
> a suggestion that
>        if (status & (foo | bar)) {
>                ...
>        }
>        if (status & bar) {
>                ...
>        }
> should be
>        if (status & (foo | bar)) {
>                ...
>                if (status & bar) {
>                        ...
>                }
>        }
>
> so that when the first test fails, a known
> subset of the first test isn't tested again.

Understand. Thanks.

best regards,
Po-Yu Chuang
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