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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
Timo Teras 5ef12d98a1 neigh: fix state transition INCOMPLETE->FAILED via Netlink request
The current code errors out the INCOMPLETE neigh entry skb queue only from
the timer if maximum probes have been attempted and there has been no reply.
This also causes the transtion to FAILED state.

However, the neigh entry can be also updated via Netlink to inform that the
address is unavailable.  Currently, neigh_update() just stops the timers and
leaves the pending skb's unreleased. This results that the clean up code in
the timer callback is never called, preventing also proper garbage collection.

This fixes neigh_update() to process the pending skb queue immediately if
INCOMPLETE -> FAILED state transtion occurs due to a Netlink request.

Signed-off-by: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-11 04:16:28 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 2b85a34e91 net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx
One of the problem with sock memory accounting is it uses
a pair of sock_hold()/sock_put() for each transmitted packet.

This slows down bidirectional flows because the receive path
also needs to take a refcount on socket and might use a different
cpu than transmit path or transmit completion path. So these
two atomic operations also trigger cache line bounces.

We can see this in tx or tx/rx workloads (media gateways for example),
where sock_wfree() can be in top five functions in profiles.

We use this sock_hold()/sock_put() so that sock freeing
is delayed until all tx packets are completed.

As we also update sk_wmem_alloc, we could offset sk_wmem_alloc
by one unit at init time, until sk_free() is called.
Once sk_free() is called, we atomic_dec_and_test(sk_wmem_alloc)
to decrement initial offset and atomicaly check if any packets
are in flight.

skb_set_owner_w() doesnt call sock_hold() anymore

sock_wfree() doesnt call sock_put() anymore, but check if sk_wmem_alloc
reached 0 to perform the final freeing.

Drawback is that a skb->truesize error could lead to unfreeable sockets, or
even worse, prematurely calling __sk_free() on a live socket.

Nice speedups on SMP. tbench for example, going from 2691 MB/s to 2711 MB/s
on my 8 cpu dev machine, even if tbench was not really hitting sk_refcnt
contention point. 5 % speedup on a UDP transmit workload (depends
on number of flows), lowering TX completion cpu usage.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-11 02:55:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8623661180 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
  Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
  tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
  ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
  tracing: add protection around module events unload
  tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
  tracing: fix the block trace points print size
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
  ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
  ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
  tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
  tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
  tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
  tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
  tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
  ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
  ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
  ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
  ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
  tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
  ...
2009-06-10 19:53:40 -07:00
Johannes Berg 8f77f3849c mac80211: do not pass PS frames out of mac80211 again
In order to handle powersave frames properly we had needed
to pass these out to the device queues again, and introduce
the skb->requeue bit. This, however, also has unnecessary
overhead by needing to 'clean up' already tried frames, and
this clean-up code is also buggy when software encryption
is used.

Instead of sending the frames via the master netdev queue
again, simply put them into the pending queue. This also
fixes a problem where frames for that particular station
could be reordered when some were still on the software
queues and older ones are re-injected into the software
queue after them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10 13:28:37 -04:00
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 285e42802b net/core/user_dma.c: Use frag list abstraction interfaces.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-09 00:19:10 -07:00
David S. Miller fbb398a832 net/core/skbuff.c: Use frag list abstraction interfaces.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-09 00:18:59 -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
David S. Miller 5b1a002ade datagram: Use frag list abstraction interfaces.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-09 00:18:15 -07:00
Figo.zhang 1d0ebfe7c9 net pkgen.c:fix no need for check
vfree() does its own 'NULL' check, so no need for check before
calling it.

Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-08 00:40:35 -07:00
Sridhar Samudrala 2faef52b72 net: Fix memcpy_toiovecend() to use the right offset
Increment the iovec base by the offset passed in for the initial
copy_to_user() in memcpy_to_iovecend().

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-08 00:25:39 -07:00
Sridhar Samudrala d2d27bfd11 net: Fix skb_copy_datagram_from_iovec() to pass the right offset
I am working on enabling UFO between KVM guests using virtio-net and i have
some patches that i got working with 2.6.30-rc8. When i wanted to try them
with net-next-2.6, i noticed that virtio-net is not working with that tree.

After some debugging, it turned out to be several bugs in the recent patches
to fix aio with tun driver, specifically the following 2 commits.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a1ec07a67bd8b0033dace237249654d015efa21
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=6f26c9a7555e5bcca3560919db9b852015077dae

Fix the call to memcpy_from_iovecend() in skb_copy_datagram_from_iovec
to pass the right iovec offset.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-08 00:25:38 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 042a53a9e4 net: skb_shared_info optimization
skb_dma_unmap() is quite expensive for small packets,
because we use two different cache lines from skb_shared_info.

One to access nr_frags, one to access dma_maps[0]

Instead of dma_maps being an array of MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1 elements,
let dma_head alone in a new dma_head field, close to nr_frags,
to reduce cache lines misses.

Tested on my dev machine (bnx2 & tg3 adapters), nice speedup !

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-08 00:21:48 -07:00
Eric Dumazet eae3f29cc7 net: num_dma_maps is not used
Get rid of num_dma_maps in struct skb_shared_info, as it seems unused.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-08 00:20:23 -07:00
Herbert Xu 5ff8dda303 net: Ensure partial checksum offset is inside the skb head
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:06:00PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> tun: Optimise handling of bogus gso->hdr_len
>
> As all current versions of virtio_net generate a value for the
> header length that's too small, we should optimise this so that
> we don't copy it twice.  This can be done by ensuring that it is
> at least as large as the place where we'll write the checksum.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

With this applied we can strengthen the partial checksum check:

In skb_partial_csum_set we check to see if the checksum offset
is within the packet.  However, we really should check that it
is within the skb head as that's the only bit we can modify
without copying.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-08 00:20:19 -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 2a91525c20 net: net/core/sock.c cleanup
Pure style cleanup patch.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 15:47:07 -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 9aaa156cf9 gro: Store shinfo in local variable in skb_gro_receive
This patch stores the two shinfo pointers in local variables
because they're used over and over again in skb_gro_receive.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 03:26:05 -07:00
Herbert Xu 66e92fcf1d gro: Nasty optimisations for page frags in skb_gro_receive
This patch reverses the direction of the frags array copy in
skb_gro_receive in order simplify the loop conditional.  It
also avoids touching the first element of the original frags
array.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 03:26:04 -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 67147ba99a gro: Localise offset/headlen in skb_gro_offset
This patch stores the offset/headlen in local variables as they're
used repeatedly in skb_gro_offset.

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
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
Herbert Xu 42da6994ca gro: Open-code frags copy in skb_gro_receive
gcc does a poor job at generating code for the memcpy of the frags
array in skb_gro_receive, which is the primary purpose of that
function when merging frags.  In particular, it can't utilise the
alignment information of the source and destination.  This patch
open-codes the copy so we process words instead of bytes.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 03:25:54 -07:00
David S. Miller 2b0cc7f78b net: Remove bogus reference to BUS_ID_SIZE in sysfs code.
BUS_ID_SIZE is really no more, and device names are dynamically
allocated and thus can be any necessary size.

So remove the BUG check here making sure BUS_ID_SIZE is at least
as large as IFNAMSIZ.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-26 21:05:19 -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
Jarek Poplawski a1dcb6628b pkt_sched: gen_estimator: Fix signed integers right-shifts.
Right-shifts of signed integers are implementation-defined so unportable.

With feedback from: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 22:47:01 -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
David S. Miller c649c0e31d Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2009-05-25 01:42:21 -07:00
Herbert Xu 9bcb97cace skbuff: Copy csum instead of csum_start/csum_offset
Hi:

skbuff: Copy csum instead of csum_start/csum_offset

It's easier to copy the u32 csum instead of its two u16
constituents.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Cheers,
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 00:40:43 -07:00
Herbert Xu 82c49a352e skbuff: Move new code into __copy_skb_header
Hi:

skbuff: Move new __skb_clone code into __copy_skb_header

It seems that people just keep on adding stuff to __skb_clone
instead __copy_skb_header.  This is wrong as it means your brand-new
attributes won't always get copied as you intended.

This patch moves them to the right place, and adds a comment to
prevent this from happening again.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Thanks,
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 00:40:43 -07:00
David S. Miller 7d18f11489 net: Fix arg to trace_napi_poll() in netpoll.
Reproted by Stephen Rothwell.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21 23:30:09 -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
Stephen Hemminger ca0f31125c netns: simplify net_ns_init
The net_ns_init code can be simplified. No need to save error code
if it is only going to panic if it is set 4 lines later.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21 15:10:31 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 1f7a2bb4ef netns: remove leftover debugging message
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21 15:10:05 -07:00
Florian Westphal 5b5f792a6a pktgen: do not access flows[] beyond its length
typo -- pkt_dev->nflows is for stats only, the number of concurrent
flows is stored in cflows.

Reported-By: Vladimir Ivashchenko <hazard@francoudi.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21 15:07:12 -07:00
Rami Rosen 04af8cf6f3 net: Remove unused parameter from fill method in fib_rules_ops.
The netlink message header (struct nlmsghdr) is an unused parameter in
fill method of fib_rules_ops struct.  This patch removes this
parameter from this method and fixes the places where this method is
called.

(include/net/fib_rules.h)

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-20 17:26:23 -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 W. Biederman 336ca57c3b net-sysfs: Use rtnl_trylock in sysfs methods.
The earlier patch to fix the deadlock between a network device going
away and writing to sysfs attributes was incomplete.
- It did not set signal_pending so we would leak ERSTARTSYS to user space.
- It used ERESTARTSYS which only restarts if sigaction configures it to.
- It did not cover store and show for ifalias.

So fix all of these up and use the new helper restart_syscall so we get
the details correct on what it takes.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18 22:15:57 -07:00
Thomas Chenault 995b337952 net: fix skb_seq_read returning wrong offset/length for page frag data
When called with a consumed value that is less than skb_headlen(skb)
bytes into a page frag, skb_seq_read() incorrectly returns an
offset/length relative to skb->data. Ensure that data which should come
from a page frag does.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Chenault <thomas_chenault@dell.com>
Tested-by: Shyam Iyer <shyam_iyer@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18 21:43:27 -07:00
David S. Miller bb803cfbec Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
2009-05-18 21:08:20 -07:00