netdev - Re: [net-next 00/14][pull request] 10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2017-02-16

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Date:   Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:22:46 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
        jogreene@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 00/14][pull request] 10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver
 Updates 2017-02-16

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 04:50:27 -0800

> This series contains updates to ixgbe only.
> 
> Tony updates the driver to advertise 2.5Gb and 5.0Gb if the adapter
> supports it.
> 
> Stephen Hemminger renames our dcbnl_ops since it is global to
> ixgbe_dcbnl_ops to avoid namespace issues.
> 
> Mark updates the driver version based on the recent changes.
> 
> Alex has the remainder of the changes, starting with consolidating
> functions that represent logical steps in the receive process so we can
> later update them more easily (and align with igb).  Modify the receive
> path to only synchronize the length of the frame versus the entire buffer.
> Provided performance improvements by adding support for
> DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC and DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING.  Also made additional
> performance gains by batching the page count updates instead of doing
> them one at a time.  Adjusted the receive path to use 3k buffers with
> 8k backing them in order to support build_skb with jumbo frames.  Made
> additional driver improvements by using the length of the packet instead
> of the DD status to determine if a new descriptor is ready to be
> processed, which cuts down on reads.  To reduce code duplication, pulled
> apart the receive path into separate functions.  Added support for
> providing a buffer with headroom and tailroom to allow for shared info
> for NET_SKB_PAD and NET_IP_ALIGN.
> 
> The following are changes since commit b973154a2278c6af0b0efefafb222e0189959659:
>   atm: idt77252, use setup_timer and mod_timer
> and are available in the git repository at:
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue 10GbE

Pulled, thanks Jeff.