[PATCH v2 0/6] net: thunderx: Setting IRQ affinity hints and other optimizations

From: sunil . kovvuri
Date: Thu Feb 11 2016 - 11:17:26 EST


From: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch series contains changes
- To add support for virtual function's irq affinity hint
- Replace napi_schedule() with napi_schedule_irqoff()
- Reduce page allocation overhead by allocating pages
of higher order when pagesize is 4KB.
- Add couple of stats which helps in debugging
- Some miscellaneous changes to BGX driver.

Changes from v1:
- As suggested changed MAC address invalid log message
to dev_err() instead of dev_warn().

David Daney (1):
net: thunderx: bgx: Use standard firmware node infrastructure.

Robert Richter (1):
net: thunderx: bgx: Add log message when setting mac address

Sunil Goutham (3):
net: thunderx: Use napi_schedule_irqoff()
net: thunderx: Assign affinity hints to vf's interrupts
net: thunderx: Alloc higher order pages when pagesize is small

Thanneeru Srinivasulu (1):
net, thunderx: Add TX timeout and RX buffer alloc failure stats.

drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic.h | 4 ++
.../net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_ethtool.c | 2 +
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c | 5 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.c | 38 +++++++++++--------
5 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)