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two qeth patches for 2.6.23:
- scatter-gather patch improves handling of large incoming packets
- barrier patch is required due to a recent removal of 'volatile'
from atomic_t in include/asm-s390/atomic.h
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From: Frank Blaschka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For large incoming packets > PAGE_SIZE/2 qeth creates a fragmented skb
by adding pointers to qdio pages to the fragment list of the skb.
This avoids allocating big chunks of consecutive memory. Also copying
data from the qdio buffer to the skb is economized
From: Frank Blaschka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Add barrier to loop where atomic variable is evaluated.
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c |1 +
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