Dean Nelson 31c15a2f24 e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses ... Virtual Machines with emulated e1000 network adapter running on Parallels' server were seeing kernel panics due to the e1000 driver dereferencing an unexpected NULL pointer retrieved from buffer_info->skb. The problem has been addressed for the e1000e driver, but not for the e1000. Since the two drivers share similar code in the affected area, a port of the following e1000e driver commit solves the issue for the e1000 driver: commit 9ed318d546 Author: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Date: Wed May 5 14:02:27 2010 +0000 e1000e: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses In e1000_tx_map, precompute number of segements and bytecounts which are derived from fields in skb; these are stored in buffer_info. When cleaning tx in e1000_clean_tx_irq use the values in the associated buffer_info for statistics counting, this eliminates cache misses on skb fields. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>		2011-08-26 12:55:18 -04:00
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e1000	e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses	2011-08-26 12:55:18 -04:00
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