On 6 March 2015 at 19:17, Peter Senna Tschudin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On my test environment the troughput of a file transfer drops from
> 4.4Mbps to 116Kbps due the number of repeated warning messages.
> Adding printk_ratelimit() solves the issue without removing the
> warning message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c 
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
> index 676ffe0..d1a259b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
> @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static int bgmac_dma_rx_skb_for_slot(struct bgmac *bgmac,
>         slot->skb = skb;
>         slot->dma_addr = dma_addr;
>
> -       if (slot->dma_addr & 0xC0000000)
> +       if ((slot->dma_addr & 0xC0000000) && printk_ratelimit())
>                 bgmac_warn(bgmac, "DMA address using 0xC0000000 bit(s), it 
> may need translation trick\n");
>
>         return 0;

Nack. Please just drop this code.

>From what I understand network works for you. I've also checked
Broadcom's open source code, and on SoC we can always safely write
whole low 32b.
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