[Lucid] [SRU] [PATCH 0/2] correct fix for performance issue of fec driver for fsl-imx51

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Tue Jul 13 16:45:49 UTC 2010


On 07/13/2010 06:34 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 07/13/2010 09:20 AM, Bryan Wu wrote:
>> SRU Justification:
>>
>> Impact: After introducing PHYLIB supporting to FEC driver, we faced a
>> performance drop. I provided a patch to fix that, but upstream refuse the
>> solution.
>>
>> Fix: Baruch provided a new patch to fix this issue via using interrupt for
>> MDIO completion. This patch was merged into linux-2.6-net upstream tree. It
>> will be available in mainline soon.
>>
>> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546649
>>
>> Baruch Siach (1):
>>    fec: use interrupt for MDIO completion indication
>>
>> Bryan Wu (1):
>>    UBUNTU: SAUCE: revert commit 41e74a1f7f90b0c092e9e153f7d8b685af2a980e
>>
>>   drivers/net/fec.c |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>>   1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
>>
>>
> 
> applied with minor commit log editorial changes.
> 

Though normally appreciated it is a bit inconvenient right now as I need to
juggle around between karmic updates, security and its effect on Lucid.

-Stefan




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