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authorVineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>2013-09-04 17:17:15 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-10-13 18:14:25 -0700
commit6a5bb65640a56fbb23e578e2891eb3639458cabb (patch)
treec6e56bfc770840d0b1fcc87982aec15c4cdf0107
parent6f4a38bf6dfeda68612299aaf7cb8f0e5f7e1245 (diff)
ethernet/arc/arc_emac: Fix huge delays in large file copies
[ Upstream commit 27082ee1b92f4d41e78b85fe40f6ab39673fba00 ] copying large files to a NFS mounted host was taking absurdly large time. Turns out that TX BD reclaim had a sublte bug. Loop starts off from @txbd_dirty cursor and stops when it hits a BD still in use by controller. However when it stops it needs to keep the cursor at that very BD to resume scanning in next iteration. However it was erroneously incrementing the cursor, causing the next scan(s) to fail too, unless the BD chain was completely drained out. [ARCLinux]$ ls -l -sh /disk/log.txt 17976 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17.5M Sep /disk/log.txt ========== Before ===================== [ARCLinux]$ time cp /disk/log.txt /mnt/. real 31m 7.95s user 0m 0.00s sys 0m 0.10s ========== After ===================== [ARCLinux]$ time cp /disk/log.txt /mnt/. real 0m 24.33s user 0m 0.00s sys 0m 0.19s Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com> (commit_signer:3/4=75%) Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> (commit_signer:3/4=75%) Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: arc-linux-dev@synopsys.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c
index 55d79cb53a7..9e160148726 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c
@@ -149,8 +149,6 @@ static void arc_emac_tx_clean(struct net_device *ndev)
struct sk_buff *skb = tx_buff->skb;
unsigned int info = le32_to_cpu(txbd->info);
- *txbd_dirty = (*txbd_dirty + 1) % TX_BD_NUM;
-
if ((info & FOR_EMAC) || !txbd->data)
break;
@@ -180,6 +178,8 @@ static void arc_emac_tx_clean(struct net_device *ndev)
txbd->data = 0;
txbd->info = 0;
+ *txbd_dirty = (*txbd_dirty + 1) % TX_BD_NUM;
+
if (netif_queue_stopped(ndev))
netif_wake_queue(ndev);
}