Fix typos in /Documentation : 'T''
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some +words starting with the letter 'T'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ There are two types of event register ACK mechanisms.
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Move all to dev->poll()
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C) Ability to detect new work correctly.
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NAPI works by shutting down event interrupts when theres work and
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turning them on when theres none.
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NAPI works by shutting down event interrupts when there's work and
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turning them on when there's none.
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New packets might show up in the small window while interrupts were being
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re-enabled (refer to appendix 2). A packet might sneak in during the period
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we are enabling interrupts. We only get to know about such a packet when the
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@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Locking rules and environmental guarantees
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only one CPU can pick the initial interrupt and hence the initial
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netif_rx_schedule(dev);
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- The core layer invokes devices to send packets in a round robin format.
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This implies receive is totaly lockless because of the guarantee only that
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This implies receive is totally lockless because of the guarantee that only
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one CPU is executing it.
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- contention can only be the result of some other CPU accessing the rx
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ring. This happens only in close() and suspend() (when these methods
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@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ static int my_poll (struct net_device *dev, int *budget)
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an interrupt will be generated */
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goto done;
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}
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/* done! at least thats what it looks like ;->
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/* done! at least that's what it looks like ;->
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if new packets came in after our last check on status bits
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they'll be caught by the while check and we go back and clear them
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since we havent exceeded our quota */
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@@ -678,10 +678,10 @@ routine:
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CSR5 bit of interest is only the rx status.
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If you look at the last if statement:
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you just finished grabbing all the packets from the rx ring .. you check if
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status bit says theres more packets just in ... it says none; you then
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status bit says there are more packets just in ... it says none; you then
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enable rx interrupts again; if a new packet just came in during this check,
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we are counting that CSR5 will be set in that small window of opportunity
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and that by re-enabling interrupts, we would actually triger an interrupt
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and that by re-enabling interrupts, we would actually trigger an interrupt
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to register the new packet for processing.
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[The above description nay be very verbose, if you have better wording
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