bnx2x: Using the new FW

The new FW improves the packets per second rate. It required a lot of change in the FW which implies many changes in the driver to support it. It is now also possible for the driver to use a separate MSI-X vector for Rx and Tx - this also add some to the complicity of this change. All things said - after this patch, practically all performance matrixes show improvement. Though Vladislav Zolotarov is not signed on this patch, he did most of the job and deserves credit for that. Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

bnx2x: Using the new FW
The new FW improves the packets per second rate. It required a lot of change in the FW which implies many changes in the driver to support it. It is now also possible for the driver to use a separate MSI-X vector for Rx and Tx - this also add some to the complicity of this change. All things said - after this patch, practically all performance matrixes show improvement. Though Vladislav Zolotarov is not signed on this patch, he did most of the job and deserves credit for that. Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
931b7c1f · Eilon Greenstein · David S. Miller · 10719d6d · 10719d6d · 931b7c1f
Commit 931b7c1f authored Aug 12, 2009 by Eilon Greenstein Committed by David S. Miller Aug 12, 2009
--- a/bnx2x-e1-4.8.53.0.fw
+++ b/bnx2x-e1-4.8.53.0.fw
--- a/bnx2x-e1-5.0.21.0.fw
+++ b/bnx2x-e1-5.0.21.0.fw
--- a/bnx2x-e1h-4.8.53.0.fw
+++ b/bnx2x-e1h-4.8.53.0.fw
--- a/bnx2x-e1h-5.0.21.0.fw
+++ b/bnx2x-e1h-5.0.21.0.fw