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USBNET: ax88179_178a: enable tso if usb host supports sg dma
authorMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Thu, 8 Aug 2013 13:48:25 +0000 (21:48 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:09:51 +0000 (12:09 -0700)
commit1d1ef311e7b8fed056d2b88f46fd7a926edf5a9c
tree65ab2947e744b36ed2c8f357b7fde992b9c54d16
parent2af590676cb24fadf9e3381c649152e9771b9e86
USBNET: ax88179_178a: enable tso if usb host supports sg dma

This patch enables 'can_dma_sg' flag for ax88179_178a device
if the attached host controller supports building packet from
discontinuous buffers(DMA SG is possible), so TSO can be enabled
and skb fragment buffers can be passed to usb stack via urb->sg
directly.

With the patch, system CPU utilization decreased ~50% and throughput
increased by ~10% when doing iperf client test on one ARM A15 dual
core board.

Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Freddy Xin <freddy@asix.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c