[PATCH] IB/ipath: reduce overhead on receive interrupts
authorBryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:36:04 +0000 (04:36 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sat, 1 Jul 2006 16:56:00 +0000 (09:56 -0700)
Also count the number of interrupts where that works (fastrcvint).  On any
interrupt where the port0 head and tail registers are not equal, just call the
ipath_kreceive code without reading the interrupt status, thus saving the
approximately 0.25usec processor stall waiting for the read to return.  If any
other interrupt bits are set, or head==tail, take the normal path, but that
has been reordered to handle read ahead of pioavail.  Also no longer call
ipath_kreceive() from ipath_qcheck(), because that just seems to make things
worse, and isn't really buying us anything, these days.

Also no longer loop in ipath_kreceive(); better to not hold things off too
long (I saw many cases where we would loop 4-8 times, and handle thousands (up
to 3500) in a single call).

Signed-off-by: Dave Olson <dave.olson@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bryan.osullivan@qlogic.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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