linux/drivers/net
Bjørn Mork 844e88f044 net: cdc_mbim: send ZLP only for the specific buggy device
Reverting 328d7b8 and instead adding an exception for the
Sierra Wireless MC7710.

commit 328d7b8 (net: cdc_mbim: send ZLP after max sized NTBs)
added a workaround for an issue observed on one specific device.
Concerns were raised that this workaround adds a performance
penalty to all devices based on questionable, if not buggy,
behaviour of a single device:

 "If you add ZLP for NTBs of dwNtbOutMaxSize, you are heavily affecting CPU
  load, increasing interrupt load by factor of 2 in high load traffic
  scenario and possibly decreasing throughput for all other devices
  which behaves correctly."

 "The idea of NCM was to avoid extra ZLPs. If your transfer is exactly
  dwNtbOutMaxSize, it's known, you can submit such request on the receiver
  side and you do not need any EOT indicatation, so the frametime can be
  used for useful data."

Adding a device specific exception to prevent the workaround from
affecting well behaved devices.

The assumption here is that needing a ZLP is truly an *exception*.
We do not yet have enough data to verify this.  The generic
workaround in commit 328d7b8 should be considered acceptable despite
the performance penalty if the exception list becomes a maintainance
hassle.

Cc: Alexey ORISHKO <alexey.orishko@stericsson.com>
Cc: Yauheni Kaliuta <y.kaliuta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-23 13:45:49 -05:00
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appletalk
arcnet ARCNET: remove __dev* attributes 2012-12-03 11:16:10 -08:00
bonding bonding: do not cancel works in bond_uninit() 2012-12-14 13:14:07 -05:00
caif
can can: sja1000: fix compilation on x86 2012-12-15 17:14:38 -08:00
cris
dsa dsa: Hide core config options; make drivers select what they need 2012-11-26 17:10:44 -05:00
ethernet netxen: fix off by one bug in netxen_release_tx_buffer() 2013-01-22 14:14:47 -05:00
fddi drivers/net: fix up function prototypes after __dev* removals 2012-12-07 14:22:22 -05:00
hamradio sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/net/hamradio 2012-10-06 03:04:43 +09:00
hippi drivers/net: fix up function prototypes after __dev* removals 2012-12-07 14:22:22 -05:00
hyperv net/hyperv: fix wrong length of mac address 2013-01-19 11:01:23 -05:00
ieee802154 ieee802154: remove __dev* attributes 2012-12-03 11:16:56 -08:00
irda drivers/net: fix up function prototypes after __dev* removals 2012-12-07 14:22:22 -05:00
phy phy/marvell: remove fiber/copper autoselect on 88e1111 2013-01-17 15:47:24 -05:00
plip
ppp ppp: make ppp_get_stats64 static 2012-11-01 12:38:31 -04:00
slip
team team: fix hw_features setup 2012-11-28 11:39:22 -05:00
usb net: cdc_mbim: send ZLP only for the specific buggy device 2013-01-23 13:45:49 -05:00
vmxnet3 vmxnet3: remove __dev* attributes 2012-12-03 11:17:06 -08:00
wan Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-12-12 18:07:07 -08:00
wimax i2400m: add Intel 6150 device IDs 2012-12-15 17:14:38 -08:00
wireless Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem 2013-01-17 12:07:44 -05:00
xen-netback xen: netback: handle compound page fragments on transmit. 2012-10-10 22:50:45 -04:00
dummy.c
eql.c
ifb.c
Kconfig vxlan: Depend on CONFIG_INET 2012-10-02 14:37:31 -04:00
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c net: loopback: set default mtu to 64K 2012-09-24 16:23:53 -04:00
macvlan.c macvlan: fix macvlan_get_size() 2013-01-17 16:40:35 -05:00
macvtap.c
Makefile vxlan: virtual extensible lan 2012-10-01 18:39:45 -04:00
mdio.c
mii.c
netconsole.c netconsole: add oops_only module option 2012-11-08 22:06:36 -05:00
rionet.c rapidio/rionet: rework to support multiple RIO master ports 2012-10-06 03:05:23 +09:00
sb1000.c
Space.c
sungem_phy.c Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments. 2012-11-19 14:31:35 +01:00
tun.c tun: fix LSM/SELinux labeling of tun/tap devices 2013-01-14 18:16:59 -05:00
veth.c rtnelink: remove unused parameter from rtnl_create_link(). 2012-11-30 12:24:40 -05:00
virtio_net.c Some nice cleanups, and even a patch my wife did as a "live" demo for 2012-12-20 08:37:05 -08:00
vxlan.c vxlan: allow live mac address change 2013-01-03 01:58:13 -08:00
xen-netfront.c xen/netfront: improve truesize tracking 2013-01-07 19:51:19 -08:00