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John W. Linville 63e35cd9bd Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-1000.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
2010-12-22 14:27:21 -05:00
Javier Cardona 61ad539459 mac80211: Remove unused third address from mesh address extension header.
The Mesh Control header only includes 0, 1 or 2 addresses. If there is
one address, it should be interpreted as Address 4.  If there are 2,
they are interpreted as Addresses 5 and 6 (Address 4 being the 4th
address in the 802.11 header).

The address extension used to hold up to 3 addresses instead of the current 2.
I'm not sure which draft version changed this, but it is very unlikely that it
will change again given the state of the approval process of this draft.  See
section 7.1.3.6.3 in current draft (8.0).

Also, note that the extra address that I'm removing was not being used, so this
change has no effect on over-the-air frame formats.  But I thought I better
remove it before someone does start using it.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-20 14:49:47 -05:00
Bruno Randolf 39fd5de447 nl80211: Export available antennas
Export the information which antennas are available for configuration as TX or
RX antennas via nl80211.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-20 14:49:47 -05:00
Javier Cardona c80d545da3 mac80211: Let userspace enable and configure vendor specific path selection.
Userspace will now be allowed to toggle between the default path
selection algorithm (HWMP, implemented in the kernel), and a vendor
specific alternative.  Also in the same patch, allow userspace to add
information elements to mesh beacons.  This is accordance with the
Extensible Path Selection Framework specified in version 7.0 of the
802.11s draft.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-20 14:46:57 -05:00
Javier Cardona 24bdd9f4c9 mac80211: Rename mesh_params to mesh_config to prepare for mesh_setup
Mesh parameters can be to setup a mesh or to configure it.
This patch renames the ambiguous name mesh_params to mesh_config
in preparation for mesh_setup.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-20 14:46:57 -05:00
David S. Miller b4aa9e05a6 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-1000.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	drivers/vhost/vhost.c
2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
Dmitry V. Levin 4b8fe66300 netlink: fix gcc -Wconversion compilation warning
$ cat << EOF | gcc -Wconversion -xc -S -o/dev/null -
unsigned f(void) {return NLMSG_HDRLEN;}
EOF
<stdin>: In function 'f':
<stdin>:3:26: warning: negative integer implicitly converted to unsigned type

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-17 12:03:14 -08:00
Michał Mirosław 04fb451eff net: Introduce skb_checksum_start_offset()
Introduce skb_checksum_start_offset() to replace repetitive calculation.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-16 14:43:14 -08:00
Changli Gao b236da6931 net: use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of the magic number -1
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-16 13:16:06 -08:00
Vladislav Zolotarov a3d22a68d7 bnx2x: Take the distribution range definition out of skb_tx_hash()
Move the calcualation of the Tx hash for a given hash range into a separate
function and define the skb_tx_hash(), which calculates a Tx hash for a
[0; dev->real_num_tx_queues - 1] hash values range, using this
function (__skb_tx_hash()).

Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-16 13:15:53 -08:00
Jouni Malinen cf4e594ea7 nl80211: Add notification for dropped Deauth/Disassoc
Add a new notification to indicate that a received, unprotected
Deauthentication or Disassociation frame was dropped due to
management frame protection being in use. This notification is
needed to allow user space (e.g., wpa_supplicant) to implement
SA Query procedure to recover from association state mismatch
between an AP and STA.

This is needed to avoid getting stuck in non-working state when MFP
(IEEE 802.11w) is used and a protected Deauthentication or
Disassociation frame is dropped for any reason. After that, the
station would silently discard any unprotected Deauthentication or
Disassociation frame that could be indicating that the AP does not
have association for the STA (when the Reason Code would be 6 or 7).
IEEE Std 802.11w-2009, 11.13 describes this recovery mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-16 15:22:30 -05:00
Johannes Berg a293911d4f nl80211: advertise maximum remain-on-channel duration
With the upcoming hardware offload implementation,
some devices will have a different maximum duration
for the remain-on-channel command. Advertise the
maximum duration in mac80211, and make mac80211 set
it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-15 17:03:56 -05:00
Bing Zhao 44316cb1e9 ieee80211: add Parameter Set Count bitmask
WMM IE QoS Info field lower 4 bits: Parameter Set Count

Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-13 15:23:30 -05:00
Johannes Berg dbd2fd656f cfg80211/nl80211: separate unicast/multicast default TX keys
Allow userspace to specify that a given key
is default only for unicast and/or multicast
transmissions. Only WEP keys are for both,
WPA/RSN keys set here are GTKs for multicast
only. For more future flexibility, allow to
specify all combiations.

Wireless extensions can only set both so use
nl80211; WEP keys (connect keys) must be set
as default for both (but 802.1X WEP is still
possible).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-13 15:23:28 -05:00
John W. Linville 1d212aa96e Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2010-12-13 15:20:45 -05:00
Ben Hutchings e596e6e4d5 ethtool: Report link-down while interface is down
While an interface is down, many implementations of
ethtool_ops::get_link, including the default, ethtool_op_get_link(),
will report the last link state seen while the interface was up.  In
general the current physical link state is not available if the
interface is down.

Define ETHTOOL_GLINK to reflect whether the interface *and* any
physical port have a working link, and consistently return 0 when the
interface is down.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-10 15:55:23 -08:00
Dan Williams d9ca676bcb atm: correct sysfs 'device' link creation and parent relationships
The ATM subsystem was incorrectly creating the 'device' link for ATM
nodes in sysfs.  This led to incorrect device/parent relationships
exposed by sysfs and udev.  Instead of rolling the 'device' link by hand
in the generic ATM code, pass each ATM driver's bus device down to the
sysfs code and let sysfs do this stuff correctly.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-10 15:45:05 -08:00
Martin Willi 35d2856b46 xfrm: Add Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding XFRM attribute
The XFRMA_TFCPAD attribute for XFRM state installation configures
Traffic Flow Confidentiality by padding ESP packets to a specified
length.

Signed-off-by: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-10 14:43:58 -08:00
David S. Miller 1e13f863ca Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c
2010-12-10 09:50:47 -08:00
Jozsef Kadlecsik 60d509c823 The new jhash implementation
The current jhash.h implements the lookup2() hash function by Bob Jenkins.
However, lookup2() is outdated as Bob wrote a new hash function called
lookup3(). The patch replaces the lookup2() implementation of the 'jhash*'
functions with that of lookup3().

You can read a longer comparison of the two and other hash functions at
http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/doobs.html.

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-09 20:17:07 -08:00
David S. Miller fe6c791570 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c
	net/llc/af_llc.c
2010-12-08 13:47:38 -08:00
Amitkumar Karwar b7e8941b2d cfg80211: add some element IDs in enum ieee80211_eid
1)WLAN_EID_BSS_COEX_2040
2)WLAN_EID_OVERLAP_BSS_SCAN_PARAM
3)WLAN_EID_EXT_CAPABILITY

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-08 15:38:45 -05:00
Helmut Schaa 50b12f597b cfg80211: Add new BSS attribute ht_opmode
Add a new BSS attribute to allow hostapd to set the current HT opmode.
Otherwise drivers won't be able to set up protection for HT rates in
AP mode.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-08 15:38:43 -05:00
Tom Herbert 67631510a3 tcp: Replace time wait bucket msg by counter
Rather than printing the message to the log, use a mib counter to keep
track of the count of occurences of time wait bucket overflow.  Reduces
spam in logs.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-08 12:16:33 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 62ab081213 filter: constify sk_run_filter()
sk_run_filter() doesnt write on skb, change its prototype to reflect
this.

Fix two af_packet comments.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-08 10:30:34 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 941666c2e3 net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl()
Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 09:19 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :

> Hmm..
>
> If somebody can explain why RTNL is held in arp_ioctl() (and therefore
> in arp_req_delete()), we might first remove RTNL use in arp_ioctl() so
> that your patch can be applied.
>
> Right now it is not good, because RTNL wont be necessarly held when you
> are going to call arp_invalidate() ?

While doing this analysis, I found a refcount bug in llc, I'll send a
patch for net-2.6

Meanwhile, here is the patch for net-next-2.6

Your patch then can be applied after mine.

Thanks

[PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl()

dev_getbyhwaddr() was called under RTNL.

Rename it to dev_getbyhwaddr_rcu() and change all its caller to now use
RCU locking instead of RTNL.

Change arp_ioctl() to use RCU instead of RTNL locking.

Note: this fix a dev refcount bug in llc

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-08 10:07:24 -08:00
Bruno Randolf 541a45a142 nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average
Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the
signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different
packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet.

This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function.

--
v2:	fix ABI breakage and change factor to be a power of 2.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07 16:09:12 -05:00
Tomasz Grobelny 871a2c16c2 dccp: Policy-based packet dequeueing infrastructure
This patch adds a generic infrastructure for policy-based dequeueing of
TX packets and provides two policies:
 * a simple FIFO policy (which is the default) and
 * a priority based policy (set via socket options).
Both policies honour the tx_qlen sysctl for the maximum size of the write
queue (can be overridden via socket options).

The priority policy uses skb->priority internally to assign an u32 priority
identifier, using the same ranking as SO_PRIORITY. The skb->priority field
is set to 0 when the packet leaves DCCP. The priority is supplied as ancillary
data using cmsg(3), the patch also provides the requisite parsing routines.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net>
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2010-12-07 13:47:12 +01:00
Johannes Berg 29cbe68c51 cfg80211/mac80211: add mesh join/leave commands
Instead of tying mesh activity to interface up,
add join and leave commands for mesh. Since we
must be backward compatible, let cfg80211 handle
joining a mesh if a mesh ID was pre-configured
when the device goes up.

Note that this therefore must modify mac80211 as
well since mac80211 needs to lose the logic to
start the mesh on interface up.

We now allow querying mesh parameters before the
mesh is connected, which simply returns defaults.
Setting them (internally renamed to "update") is
only allowed while connected. Specify them with
the new mesh join command instead where needed.

In mac80211, beaconing must now also follow the
mesh enabled/not enabled state, which is done
by testing the mesh ID.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-06 16:01:29 -05:00
Javier Cardona 45904f2165 nl80211/mac80211: define and allow configuring mesh element TTL
The TTL in path selection information elements is different from
the mesh ttl used in mesh data frames.  Version 7.03 of the 11s
draft calls this ttl 'Element TTL'.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-06 16:01:28 -05:00
Eric Dumazet 06a9701f4b __in_dev_get_rtnl() can use rtnl_dereference()
If caller holds RTNL, we dont need a memory barrier
(smp_read_barrier_depends) included in rcu_dereference().

Just use rtnl_dereference() to properly document the assertions.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-06 12:59:05 -08:00
Eric Dumazet da2033c282 filter: add SKF_AD_RXHASH and SKF_AD_CPU
Add SKF_AD_RXHASH and SKF_AD_CPU to filter ancillary mechanism,
to be able to build advanced filters.

This can help spreading packets on several sockets with a fast
selection, after RPS dispatch to N cpus for example, or to catch a
percentage of flows in one queue.

tcpdump -s 500 "cpu = 1" :

[0] ld CPU
[1] jeq #1  jt 2  jf 3
[2] ret #500
[3] ret #0

# take 12.5 % of flows (average)
tcpdump -s 1000 "rxhash & 7 = 2" :

[0] ld RXHASH
[1] and #7
[2] jeq #2  jt 3  jf 4
[3] ret #1000
[4] ret #0

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Rui <wirelesser@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-06 12:59:05 -08:00
Alexey Orishko 073285fd39 usbnet: changes for upcoming cdc_ncm driver
Changes:
include/linux/usb/usbnet.h:
- a new flag to indicate driver's capability to accumulate IP packets in Tx
 direction and extract several packets from single skb in Rx direction.
drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:
- the procedure of counting packets in usbnet was updated due to the
 accumulating of IP packets in the driver
- no short packets are sent if indicated by the flag in driver_info
 structure

Signed-off-by: Alexey Orishko <alexey.orishko@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-06 12:59:02 -08:00
Bruno Randolf af55688435 lib: Improve EWMA efficiency by using bitshifts
Using bitshifts instead of division and multiplication should improve
performance. That requires weight and factor to be powers of two, but i think
this is something we can live with.

Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for the improved formula!

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>

--

v2:	use log2.h functions
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-06 15:58:43 -05:00
John W. Linville f435d9eea0 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2010-12-06 15:35:34 -05:00
Matt Carlson 3110f5f554 tg3: Move EEE definitions into mdio.h
In commit 52b02d04c8 entitled "tg3: Add
EEE support", Ben Hutchings had commented that the EEE advertisement
register will be in a standard location.  This patch moves that
definition into mdio.h and changes the code to use it.

Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-06 11:03:46 -08:00
Rafał Miłecki 172c69a476 ssb: extract indexes for power tables
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-02 14:37:00 -05:00
Eric Dumazet f2cd2d3e9b net sched: use xps information for qdisc NUMA affinity
Allocate qdisc memory according to NUMA properties of cpus included in
xps map.

To be effective, qdisc should be (re)setup after changes
of /sys/class/net/eth<n>/queues/tx-<n>/xps_cpus

I added a numa_node field in struct netdev_queue, containing NUMA node
if all cpus included in xps_cpus share same node, else -1.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-01 12:47:42 -08:00
Johannes Berg f7ca38dfe5 nl80211/cfg80211: extend mgmt-tx API for off-channel
With p2p, it is sometimes necessary to transmit
a frame (typically an action frame) on another
channel than the current channel. Enable this
through the CMD_FRAME API, and allow it to wait
for a response. A new command allows that wait
to be aborted.

However, allow userspace to specify whether or
not it wants to allow off-channel TX, it may
actually want to use the same channel only.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-29 15:24:35 -05:00
David S. Miller 77148625e1 Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-11-29 11:19:09 -08:00
Eric Dumazet a417786948 xps: add __rcu annotations
Avoid sparse warnings : add __rcu annotations and use
rcu_dereference_protected() where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-29 09:43:13 -08:00
Tom Herbert bf26414510 xps: Add CONFIG_XPS
This patch adds XPS_CONFIG option to enable and disable XPS.  This is
done in the same manner as RPS_CONFIG.  This is also fixes build
failure in XPS code when SMP is not enabled.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-28 18:24:14 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 5a0d2268d2 net: add netif_tx_queue_frozen_or_stopped
When testing struct netdev_queue state against FROZEN bit, we also test
XOFF bit. We can test both bits at once and save some cycles.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-28 10:47:18 -08:00
John W. Linville 51cce8a590 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2010-11-24 16:49:20 -05:00
Johannes Berg c063dbf52b cfg80211: allow using CQM event to notify packet loss
This adds the ability for drivers to use CQM events
to notify about packet loss for specific stations
(which could be the AP for the managed mode case).
Since the threshold might be determined by the
driver (it isn't passed in right now) it will be
passed out of the driver to userspace in the event.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-24 16:19:36 -05:00
John W. Linville d7a066c923 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-11-24 16:19:24 -05:00
John W. Linville ccb1435401 Revert "nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average"
This reverts commit 86107fd170.

This patch inadvertantly changed the userland ABI.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-24 16:18:36 -05:00
Tom Herbert 1d24eb4815 xps: Transmit Packet Steering
This patch implements transmit packet steering (XPS) for multiqueue
devices.  XPS selects a transmit queue during packet transmission based
on configuration.  This is done by mapping the CPU transmitting the
packet to a queue.  This is the transmit side analogue to RPS-- where
RPS is selecting a CPU based on receive queue, XPS selects a queue
based on the CPU (previously there was an XPS patch from Eric
Dumazet, but that might more appropriately be called transmit completion
steering).

Each transmit queue can be associated with a number of CPUs which will
use the queue to send packets.  This is configured as a CPU mask on a
per queue basis in:

/sys/class/net/eth<n>/queues/tx-<n>/xps_cpus

The mappings are stored per device in an inverted data structure that
maps CPUs to queues.  In the netdevice structure this is an array of
num_possible_cpu structures where each structure holds and array of
queue_indexes for queues which that CPU can use.

The benefits of XPS are improved locality in the per queue data
structures.  Also, transmit completions are more likely to be done
nearer to the sending thread, so this should promote locality back
to the socket on free (e.g. UDP).  The benefits of XPS are dependent on
cache hierarchy, application load, and other factors.  XPS would
nominally be configured so that a queue would only be shared by CPUs
which are sharing a cache, the degenerative configuration woud be that
each CPU has it's own queue.

Below are some benchmark results which show the potential benfit of
this patch.  The netperf test has 500 instances of netperf TCP_RR test
with 1 byte req. and resp.

bnx2x on 16 core AMD
   XPS (16 queues, 1 TX queue per CPU)  1234K at 100% CPU
   No XPS (16 queues)                   996K at 100% CPU

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-24 11:44:20 -08:00
Tom Herbert 3853b5841c xps: Improvements in TX queue selection
In dev_pick_tx, don't do work in calculating queue
index or setting
the index in the sock unless the device has more than one queue.  This
allows the sock to be set only with a queue index of a multi-queue
device which is desirable if device are stacked like in a tunnel.

We also allow the mapping of a socket to queue to be changed.  To
maintain in order packet transmission a flag (ooo_okay) has been
added to the sk_buff structure.  If a transport layer sets this flag
on a packet, the transmit queue can be changed for the socket.
Presumably, the transport would set this if there was no possbility
of creating OOO packets (for instance, there are no packets in flight
for the socket).  This patch includes the modification in TCP output
for setting this flag.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-24 11:44:19 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 456b61bca8 ipv6: mcast: RCU conversion
ipv6_sk_mc_lock rwlock becomes a spinlock.

readers (inet6_mc_check()) now takes rcu_read_lock() instead of read
lock. Writers dont need to disable BH anymore.

struct ipv6_mc_socklist objects are reclaimed after one RCU grace
period.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-24 11:16:42 -08:00