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Eric Dumazet 55f9d6786d net: Remove debugging code
Remove a debugging aid I accidently left in previous 'cleanup' patch

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-03 05:17:20 -07:00
Eric Dumazet d1b19dff91 net: net/core/dev.c cleanups
Pure style cleanup patch before surgery :)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-03 01:29:39 -07:00
Krishna Kumar 03a9a447d2 net: convert remaining non-symbolic return values in dev_queue_xmit
Patch compiled and 32 simultaneous netperf testing ran fine.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-30 22:16:57 -07:00
Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov 929122cdd5 Drop ARPHRD_IEEE802154_PHY
There are not maste devices in mac802154 anymore, so drop
ARPHRD_IEEE802154_PHY definition.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
2009-08-19 23:08:24 +04:00
David S. Miller aa11d958d1 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/socket.h
2009-08-12 17:44:53 -07:00
Krishna Kumar bbd8a0d3a3 net: Avoid enqueuing skb for default qdiscs
dev_queue_xmit enqueue's a skb and calls qdisc_run which
dequeue's the skb and xmits it. In most cases, the skb that
is enqueue'd is the same one that is dequeue'd (unless the
queue gets stopped or multiple cpu's write to the same queue
and ends in a race with qdisc_run). For default qdiscs, we
can remove the redundant enqueue/dequeue and simply xmit the
skb since the default qdisc is work-conserving.

The patch uses a new flag - TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS to identify the
default fast queue. The controversial part of the patch is
incrementing qlen when a skb is requeued - this is to avoid
checks like the second line below:

+  } else if ((q->flags & TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS) && !qdisc_qlen(q) &&
>>         !q->gso_skb &&
+          !test_and_set_bit(__QDISC_STATE_RUNNING, &q->state)) {

Results of a 2 hour testing for multiple netperf sessions (1,
2, 4, 8, 12 sessions on a 4 cpu system-X). The BW numbers are
aggregate Mb/s across iterations tested with this version on
System-X boxes with Chelsio 10gbps cards:

----------------------------------
Size |  ORG BW          NEW BW   |
----------------------------------
128K |  156964          159381   |
256K |  158650          162042   |
----------------------------------

Changes from ver1:

1. Move sch_direct_xmit declaration from sch_generic.h to
   pkt_sched.h
2. Update qdisc basic statistics for direct xmit path.
3. Set qlen to zero in qdisc_reset.
4. Changed some function names to more meaningful ones.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-06 20:10:18 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt 36cbd3dcc1 net: mark read-only arrays as const
String literals are constant, and usually, we can also tag the array
of pointers const too, moving it to the .rodata section.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-05 10:42:58 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 0bf52b9817 net: Fix spinlock use in alloc_netdev_mq()
-tip testing found this lockdep warning:

[    2.272010] calling  net_dev_init+0x0/0x164 @ 1
[    2.276033] device class 'net': registering
[    2.280191] INFO: trying to register non-static key.
[    2.284005] the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
[    2.284005] turning off the locking correctness validator.
[    2.284005] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31-rc5-tip #1145
[    2.284005] Call Trace:
[    2.284005]  [<7958eb4e>] ? printk+0xf/0x11
[    2.284005]  [<7904f83c>] __lock_acquire+0x11b/0x622
[    2.284005]  [<7908c9b7>] ? alloc_debug_processing+0xf9/0x144
[    2.284005]  [<7904e2be>] ? mark_held_locks+0x3a/0x52
[    2.284005]  [<7908dbc4>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0xa8/0x13f
[    2.284005]  [<7904e475>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xa2/0xc3
[    2.284005]  [<7904fdf6>] lock_acquire+0xb3/0xd0
[    2.284005]  [<79489678>] ? alloc_netdev_mq+0xf5/0x1ad
[    2.284005]  [<79591514>] _spin_lock_bh+0x2d/0x5d
[    2.284005]  [<79489678>] ? alloc_netdev_mq+0xf5/0x1ad
[    2.284005]  [<79489678>] alloc_netdev_mq+0xf5/0x1ad
[    2.284005]  [<793a38f2>] ? loopback_setup+0x0/0x74
[    2.284005]  [<798eecd0>] loopback_net_init+0x20/0x5d
[    2.284005]  [<79483efb>] register_pernet_device+0x23/0x4b
[    2.284005]  [<798f5c9f>] net_dev_init+0x115/0x164
[    2.284005]  [<7900104f>] do_one_initcall+0x4a/0x11a
[    2.284005]  [<798f5b8a>] ? net_dev_init+0x0/0x164
[    2.284005]  [<79066f6d>] ? register_irq_proc+0x8c/0xa8
[    2.284005]  [<798cc29a>] do_basic_setup+0x42/0x52
[    2.284005]  [<798cc30a>] kernel_init+0x60/0xa1
[    2.284005]  [<798cc2aa>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0xa1
[    2.284005]  [<79003e03>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[    2.284078] device: 'lo': device_add
[    2.288248] initcall net_dev_init+0x0/0x164 returned 0 after 11718 usecs
[    2.292010] calling  neigh_init+0x0/0x66 @ 1
[    2.296010] initcall neigh_init+0x0/0x66 returned 0 after 0 usecs

it's using an zero-initialized spinlock. This is a side-effect of:

        dev_unicast_init(dev);

in alloc_netdev_mq() making use of dev->addr_list_lock.

The device has just been allocated freshly, it's not accessible
anywhere yet so no locking is needed at all - in fact it's wrong
to lock it here (the lock isnt initialized yet).

This bug was introduced via:

| commit a6ac65db23
| Date:   Thu Jul 30 01:06:12 2009 +0000
|
|     net: restore the original spinlock to protect unicast list

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-05 08:35:11 -07:00
Jiri Pirko a6ac65db23 net: restore the original spinlock to protect unicast list
There is a path when an assetion in dev_unicast_sync() appears.

igmp6_group_added -> dev_mc_add -> __dev_set_rx_mode ->
-> vlan_dev_set_rx_mode -> dev_unicast_sync

Therefore we cannot protect this list with rtnl. This patch restores the
original protecting this list with spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-02 12:20:46 -07:00
Johannes Berg 463d018323 cfg80211: make aware of net namespaces
In order to make cfg80211/nl80211 aware of network namespaces,
we have to do the following things:

 * del_virtual_intf method takes an interface index rather
   than a netdev pointer - simply change this

 * nl80211 uses init_net a lot, it changes to use the sender's
   network namespace

 * scan requests use the interface index, hold a netdev pointer
   and reference instead

 * we want a wiphy and its associated virtual interfaces to be
   in one netns together, so
    - we need to be able to change ns for a given interface, so
      export dev_change_net_namespace()
    - for each virtual interface set the NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL
      flag, and clear that flag only when the wiphy changes ns,
      to disallow breaking this invariant

 * when a network namespace goes away, we need to reparent the
   wiphy to init_net

 * cfg80211 users that support creating virtual interfaces must
   create them in the wiphy's namespace, currently this affects
   only mac80211

The end result is that you can now switch an entire wiphy into
a different network namespace with the new command
	iw phy#<idx> set netns <pid>
and all virtual interfaces will follow (or the operation fails).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27 15:24:07 -04:00
Johannes Berg c4029083e2 net: export __dev_addr_sync/__dev_addr_unsync
For mac80211, with the master netdev removal, we need to be
able to sync a multicast address list onto another list that
is not tracked within a netdev, so we need access to the
functions doing that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:30 -04:00
Patrick McHardy ec634fe328 net: convert remaining non-symbolic return values in ndo_start_xmit() functions
This patch converts the remaining occurences of raw return values to their
symbolic counterparts in ndo_start_xmit() functions that were missed by the
previous automatic conversion.

Additionally code that assumed the symbolic value of NETDEV_TX_OK to be zero
is changed to explicitly use NETDEV_TX_OK.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-05 19:23:38 -07:00
Herbert Xu ff780cd8f2 gro: Flush GRO packets in napi_disable_pending path
When NAPI is disabled while we're in net_rx_action, we end up
calling __napi_complete without flushing GRO packets.  This is
a bug as it would cause the GRO packets to linger, of course it
also literally BUGs to catch error like this :)

This patch changes it to napi_complete, with the obligatory IRQ
reenabling.  This should be safe because we've only just disabled
IRQs and it does not materially affect the test conditions in
between.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-26 19:27:04 -07:00
Herbert Xu d55d87fdff net: Move rx skb_orphan call to where needed
In order to get the tun driver to account packets, we need to be
able to receive packets with destructors set.  To be on the safe
side, I added an skb_orphan call for all protocols by default since
some of them (IP in particular) cannot handle receiving packets
destructors properly.

Now it seems that at least one protocol (CAN) expects to be able
to pass skb->sk through the rx path without getting clobbered.

So this patch attempts to fix this properly by moving the skb_orphan
call to where it's actually needed.  In particular, I've added it
to skb_set_owner_[rw] which is what most users of skb->destructor
call.

This is actually an improvement for tun too since it means that
we only give back the amount charged to the socket when the skb
is passed to another socket that will also be charged accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp <olver@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-23 16:36:25 -07:00
Jiri Pirko 31278e7147 net: group address list and its count
This patch is inspired by patch recently posted by Johannes Berg. Basically what
my patch does is to group list and a count of addresses into newly introduced
structure netdev_hw_addr_list. This brings us two benefits:
1) struct net_device becames a bit nicer.
2) in the future there will be a possibility to operate with lists independently
   on netdevices (with exporting right functions).
I wanted to introduce this patch before I'll post a multicast lists conversion.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>

 drivers/net/bnx2.c              |    4 +-
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c  |    4 +-
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c  |    6 +-
 drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c       |    2 +-
 drivers/net/niu.c               |    4 +-
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c        |   10 ++--
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c |    2 +-
 include/linux/netdevice.h       |   17 +++--
 net/core/dev.c                  |  130 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 9 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-18 00:29:08 -07:00
David S. Miller 9cbc1cb8cd Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
	net/core/drop_monitor.c
	net/core/net-traces.c
2009-06-15 03:02:23 -07:00
Michał Mirosław da6782927d bridge: Simplify interface for ATM LANE
This patch changes FDB entry check for ATM LANE bridge integration.
There's no point in holding a FDB entry around SKB building.

br_fdb_get()/br_fdb_put() pair are changed into single br_fdb_test_addr()
hook that checks if the addr has FDB entry pointing to other port
to the one the request arrived on.

FDB entry refcounting is removed as it's not used anywhere else.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-11 21:03:21 -07:00
John Dykstra 746e6ad23c [PATCH] net core: Some interface flags not returned by SIOCGIFFLAGS
Commit b00055aacd " [NET] core: add
RFC2863 operstate" defined new interface flag values.  Its
documentation specified that these flags could be accessed from user
space via SIOCGIFFLAGS.  However, this does not work because the new
flags do not fit in that ioctl's argument width.

Change the documentation to match the code's behavior.  Also change
the source to explicitly show the truncation.  This _should_ have no
effect on executable code, and did not with gcc 4.2.4 generating x86
code.

A new ioctl could be defined to return all interface flags to user
space.  However, since this has been broken for three years with no
one complaining, there doesn't seem much need.  They are still
accessible via netlink.

Reported-by:  "Fredrik Arnerup" <fredrik.arnerup@edgeware.tv>
Signed-off-by: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-11 20:57:21 -07:00
Sergey Lapin fcb94e4224 Add constants for the ieee 802.15.4 stack
IEEE 802.15.4 stack requires several constants to be defined/adjusted.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-09 05:25:30 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 0c27922e49 net: dev_addr_init() fix
commit f001fde5ea
(net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6))
added one regression Vegard Nossum found in its testings.

With kmemcheck help, Vegard found some uninitialized memory
was read and reported to user, potentialy leaking kernel data.
( thread can be found on http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/30/177 )

dev_addr_init() incorrectly uses sizeof() operator. We were
initializing one byte instead of MAX_ADDR_LEN bytes.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-09 05:11:42 -07:00
David S. Miller 4cf704fbea net/core/dev.c: Use frag list abstraction interfaces.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-09 00:18:51 -07:00
Johannes Berg 3b8bcfd5d3 net: introduce pre-up netdev notifier
NETDEV_UP is called after the device is set UP, but sometimes
it is useful to be able to veto the device UP. Introduce a
new NETDEV_PRE_UP notifier that can be used for exactly this.
The first use case will be cfg80211 denying interfaces to be
set UP if the device is known to be rfkill'ed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:05:12 -04:00
Eric Dumazet adf30907d6 net: skb->dst accessors
Define three accessors to get/set dst attached to a skb

struct dst_entry *skb_dst(const struct sk_buff *skb)

void skb_dst_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst)

void skb_dst_drop(struct sk_buff *skb)
This one should replace occurrences of :
dst_release(skb->dst)
skb->dst = NULL;

Delete skb->dst field

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03 02:51:04 -07:00
Jiri Pirko ccffad25b5 net: convert unicast addr list
This patch converts unicast address list to standard list_head using
previously introduced struct netdev_hw_addr. It also relaxes the
locking. Original spinlock (still used for multicast addresses) is not
needed and is no longer used for a protection of this list. All
reading and writing takes place under rtnl (with no changes).

I also removed a possibility to specify the length of the address
while adding or deleting unicast address. It's always dev->addr_len.

The convertion touched especially e1000 and ixgbe codes when the
change is not so trivial.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>

 drivers/net/bnx2.c               |   13 +--
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c   |   24 +++--
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c |   14 ++--
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h |    4 +-
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c   |    6 +-
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h   |    4 +-
 drivers/net/macvlan.c            |   11 +-
 drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c        |   11 +-
 drivers/net/niu.c                |    7 +-
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c         |    7 +-
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c  |    6 +-
 drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c         |   16 ++--
 include/linux/netdevice.h        |   18 ++--
 net/8021q/vlan.c                 |    4 +-
 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c             |   10 +-
 net/core/dev.c                   |  195 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 net/dsa/slave.c                  |   10 +-
 net/packet/af_packet.c           |    4 +-
 18 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-29 22:12:32 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 1ce8e7b57b net: ALIGN/PTR_ALIGN cleanup in alloc_netdev_mq()/netdev_priv()
Use ALIGN() and PTR_ALIGN() macros instead of handcoding them.

Get rid of NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST ugly define

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 15:47:06 -07:00
Herbert Xu cb18978cbf gro: Open-code final pskb_may_pull
As we know the only packets which need the final pskb_may_pull
are completely non-linear, and have all the required bits in
frag0, we can perform a straight memcpy instead of going through
pskb_may_pull and doing skb_copy_bits.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 03:26:02 -07:00
Herbert Xu a5b1cf288d gro: Avoid unnecessary comparison after skb_gro_header
For the overwhelming majority of cases, skb_gro_header's return
value cannot be NULL.  Yet we must check it because of its current
form.  This patch splits it up into multiple functions in order
to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 03:26:01 -07:00
Herbert Xu 7489594cb2 gro: Optimise length comparison in skb_gro_header
By caching frag0_len, we can avoid checking both frag0 and the
length separately in skb_gro_header.  This helps as skb_gro_header
is called four times per packet which amounts to a few million
times at 10Gb/s.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 03:26:01 -07:00
Herbert Xu 78d3fd0b7d gro: Only use skb_gro_header for completely non-linear packets
Currently skb_gro_header is used for packets which put the hardware
header in skb->data with the rest in frags.  Since the drivers that
need this optimisation all provide completely non-linear packets,
we can gain extra optimisations by only performing the frag0
optimisation for completely non-linear packets.

In particular, we can simply test frag0 (instead of skb_headlen)
to see whether the optimisation is in force.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 03:25:57 -07:00
Herbert Xu 78a478d0ef gro: Inline skb_gro_header and cache frag0 virtual address
The function skb_gro_header is called four times per packet which
quickly adds up at 10Gb/s.  This patch inlines it to allow better
optimisations.

Some architectures perform multiplication for page_address, which
is done by each skb_gro_header invocation.  This patch caches that
value in skb->cb to avoid the unnecessary multiplications.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 03:25:55 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 08baf56108 net: txq_trans_update() helper
We would like to get rid of netdev->trans_start = jiffies; that about all net
drivers have to use in their start_xmit() function, and use txq->trans_start
instead.

This can be done generically in core network, as suggested by David.

Some devices, (particularly loopback) dont need trans_start update, because
they dont have transmit watchdog. We could add a new device flag, or rely
on fact that txq->tran_start can be updated is txq->xmit_lock_owner is
different than -1. Use a helper function to hide our choice.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 22:58:01 -07:00
Alexander Beregalov e3804cbebb net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS
All drivers are already converted to new net_device_ops API
and nobody uses old API anymore.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 01:53:53 -07:00
Neil Horman 4ea7e38696 dropmon: add ability to detect when hardware dropsrxpackets
Patch to add the ability to detect drops in hardware interfaces via dropwatch.
Adds a tracepoint to net_rx_action to signal everytime a napi instance is
polled.  The dropmon code then periodically checks to see if the rx_frames
counter has changed, and if so, adds a drop notification to the netlink
protocol, using the reserved all-0's vector to indicate the drop location was in
hardware, rather than somewhere in the code.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

 include/linux/net_dropmon.h |    8 ++
 include/trace/napi.h        |   11 +++
 net/core/dev.c              |    5 +
 net/core/drop_monitor.c     |  124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 net/core/net-traces.c       |    4 +
 net/core/netpoll.c          |    2
 6 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21 16:50:21 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 93f154b594 net: release dst entry in dev_hard_start_xmit()
One point of contention in high network loads is the dst_release() performed
when a transmited skb is freed. This is because NIC tx completion calls
dev_kree_skb() long after original call to dev_queue_xmit(skb).

CPU cache is cold and the atomic op in dst_release() stalls. On SMP, this is
quite visible if one CPU is 100% handling softirqs for a network device,
since dst_clone() is done by other cpus, involving cache line ping pongs.

It seems right place to release dst is in dev_hard_start_xmit(), for most
devices but ones that are virtual, and some exceptions.

David Miller suggested to define a new device flag, set in alloc_netdev_mq()
(so that most devices set it at init time), and carefuly unset in devices
which dont want a NULL skb->dst in their ndo_start_xmit().

List of devices that must clear this flag is :

- loopback device, because it calls netif_rx() and quoting Patrick :
    "ip_route_input() doesn't accept loopback addresses, so loopback packets
     already need to have a dst_entry attached."
- appletalk/ipddp.c : needs skb->dst in its xmit function

- And all devices that call again dev_queue_xmit() from their xmit function
(as some classifiers need skb->dst) : bonding, vlan, macvlan, eql, ifb, hdlc_fr

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18 22:19:19 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 7004bf252c net: add tx_packets/tx_bytes/tx_dropped counters in struct netdev_queue
offsetof(struct net_device, features)=0x44
offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_packets)=0x54
offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_bytes)=0x5c
offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_dropped)=0x6c

Network drivers that touch dev->stats.tx_packets/stats.tx_bytes in their
tx path can slow down SMP operations, since they dirty a cache line
that should stay shared (dev->features is needed in rx and tx paths)

We could move away stats field in net_device but it wont help that much.
(Two cache lines dirtied in tx path, we can do one only)

Better solution is to add tx_packets/tx_bytes/tx_dropped in struct
netdev_queue because this structure is already touched in tx path and
counters updates will then be free (no increase in size)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18 15:15:06 -07:00
Jiri Pirko ab9c73ccb5 net: check retval of dev_addr_init()
Add missed checking of dev_addr_init return value in alloc_netdev_mq.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>

 net/core/dev.c |   15 ++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-09 13:15:48 -07:00
Jiri Pirko f001fde5ea net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6)
v5 -> v6 (current):
-removed so far unused static functions
-corrected dev_addr_del_multiple to call del instead of add

v4 -> v5:
-added device address type (suggested by davem)
-removed refcounting (better to have simplier code then safe potentially few
 bytes)

v3 -> v4:
-changed kzalloc to kmalloc in __hw_addr_add_ii()
-ASSERT_RTNL() avoided in dev_addr_flush() and dev_addr_init()

v2 -> v3:
-removed unnecessary rcu read locking
-moved dev_addr_flush() calling to ensure no null dereference of dev_addr

v1 -> v2:
-added forgotten ASSERT_RTNL to dev_addr_init and dev_addr_flush
-removed unnecessary rcu_read locking in dev_addr_init
-use compare_ether_addr_64bits instead of compare_ether_addr
-use L1_CACHE_BYTES as size for allocating struct netdev_hw_addr
-use call_rcu instead of rcu_synchronize
-moved is_etherdev_addr into __KERNEL__ ifdef

This patch introduces a new list in struct net_device and brings a set of
functions to handle the work with device address list. The list is a replacement
for the original dev_addr field and because in some situations there is need to
carry several device addresses with the net device. To be backward compatible,
dev_addr is made to point to the first member of the list so original drivers
sees no difference.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-05 12:26:24 -07:00
David S. Miller 513de11bba net: Avoid modulus in skb_tx_hash() for forwarding case.
Based almost entirely upon a patch by Eric Dumazet.

The common case is to have num-tx-queues <= num_rx_queues
and even if num_tx_queues is larger it will not be significantly
larger.

Therefore, a subtraction loop is always going to be faster than
modulus.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-03 14:43:10 -07:00
David S. Miller d252a5e7b7 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-05-03 14:07:43 -07:00
Eric Dumazet ec581f6a42 net: Fix skb_tx_hash() for forwarding workloads.
When skb_rx_queue_recorded() is true, we dont want to use jash distribution
as the device driver exactly told us which queue was selected at RX time.
jhash makes a statistical shuffle, but this wont work with 8 static inputs.

Later improvements would be to compute reciprocal value of real_num_tx_queues
to avoid a divide here. But this computation should be done once,
when real_num_tx_queues is set. This needs a separate patch, and a new
field in struct net_device.

Reported-by: Andrew Dickinson <andrew@whydna.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-01 09:05:06 -07:00
Herbert Xu edbd9e3030 gro: Fix handling of headers that extend over the tail
The skb_gro_* code fails to handle the case where a header starts
in the linear area but ends in the frags area.  Since the goal
of skb_gro_* is to optimise the case of completely non-linear
packets, we can simply bail out if we have anything in the linear
area.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-27 05:44:29 -07:00
David S. Miller e5e9743bb7 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/core/dev.c
2009-04-21 01:32:26 -07:00
Ben Hutchings 5db8765a86 net: Fix GRO for multiple page fragments
This loop over fragments in napi_fraginfo_skb() was "interesting".

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-20 02:20:30 -07:00
Marcin Slusarz eb39c57ff7 net: fix "compatibility" typos
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-20 02:15:01 -07:00
Jarek Poplawski 8caf153974 net: sch_netem: Fix an inconsistency in ingress netem timestamps.
Alex Sidorenko reported:

"while experimenting with 'netem' we have found some strange behaviour. It
seemed that ingress delay as measured by 'ping' command shows up on some
hosts but not on others.

After some investigation I have found that the problem is that skbuff->tstamp
field value depends on whether there are any packet sniffers enabled. That
is:

- if any ptype_all handler is registered, the tstamp field is as expected
- if there are no ptype_all handlers, the tstamp field does not show the delay"

This patch prevents unnecessary update of tstamp in dev_queue_xmit_nit()
on ingress path (with act_mirred) adding a check, so minimal overhead on
the fast path, but only when sniffers etc. are active.

Since netem at ingress seems to logically emulate a network before a host,
tstamp is zeroed to trigger the update and pretend delays are from the
outside.

Reported-by: Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidorenko@hp.com>
Tested-by: Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidorenko@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-20 02:14:59 -07:00
David S. Miller a54bfa40fd Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-04-16 17:35:26 -07:00
Herbert Xu 76620aafd6 gro: New frags interface to avoid copying shinfo
It turns out that copying a 16-byte area at ~800k times a second
can be really expensive :) This patch redesigns the frags GRO
interface to avoid copying that area twice.

The two disciples of the frags interface have been converted.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-16 02:02:07 -07:00
Herbert Xu fc59f9a3bf gro: Restore correct value to gso_size
Since everybody has been focusing on baremetal GRO performance
no one noticed when I added a bug that zapped gso_size for all
GRO packets.  This only gets picked up when you forward the skb
out of an interface.

Thanks to Mark Wagner for noticing this bug when testing kvm.

Reported-by: Mark Wagner <mwagner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-14 15:11:06 -07:00
Alexander Duyck d543103a0c net: netif_device_attach/detach should start/stop all queues
Currently netif_device_attach/detach are only stopping one queue.  They
should be starting and stopping all the queues on a given device.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-11 01:43:10 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger f2bde73286 net: allow multiple dev per napi with GRO
GRO assumes that there is a one-to-one relationship between NAPI
structure and network device. Some devices like sky2 share multiple
devices on a single interrupt so only have one NAPI handler. Rather than
split GRO from NAPI, just have GRO assume if device changes that
it is a different flow.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-02 01:07:37 -07:00