[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 29/30] net: rtl8169: Use non-cached memory if available

Thierry Reding treding at nvidia.com
Mon Nov 17 11:16:14 CET 2014


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 06:27:15PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/rtl8169.c b/drivers/net/rtl8169.c
> index fc8c31e..cd26c36 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/rtl8169.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/rtl8169.c
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
>   * Modified to use le32_to_cpu and cpu_to_le32 properly
>   */
>  #include <common.h>
> +#include <errno.h>
>  #include <malloc.h>
>  #include <net.h>
>  #include <netdev.h>
> @@ -290,16 +291,15 @@ struct RxDesc {
>   * cases the driver will likely fail because the CPU needs to flush the cache
>   * when requeuing RX buffers, therefore descriptors written by the hardware
>   * may be discarded.
> + *
> + * This can be fixed by defining CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY which will cause
> + * the driver allocate descriptors from a pool of non-cached memory.

Self-correct: s/driver allocate/driver to allocate/

Thierry
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