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Eric Dumazet f99189b186 netns: net_identifiers should be read_mostly
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-18 05:03:25 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 9793241fe9 vlan: Precise RX stats accounting
With multi queue devices, its possible that several cpus call
vlan RX routines simultaneously for the same vlan device.

We update RX stats counter without any locking, so we can
get slightly wrong counters.

One possible fix is to use percpu counters, to get precise
accounting and also get guarantee of no cache line ping pongs
between cpus.

Note: this adds 16 bytes (32 bytes on 64bit arches) of percpu
data per vlan device.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-17 23:51:55 -08:00
Eric Dumazet b93ab837a2 vlan: Use __vlan_hwaccel_put_tag() in rx
Commit 05423b2413 (vlan: allow null VLAN ID to be used)
forgot to update __vlan_hwaccel_rx() & vlan_gro_common()

We need to set VLAN_TAG_PRESENT flag in skb->vlan_tci

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-15 22:21:33 -08:00
Patrick McHardy cbbef5e183 vlan/macvlan: propagate transmission state to upper layers
Both vlan and macvlan devices usually don't use a qdisc and immediately
queue packets to the underlying device. Propagate transmission state of
the underlying device to the upper layers so they can react on congestion
and/or inform the sending process.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13 14:07:33 -08:00
stephen hemminger 9e067597ee vlan: eliminate use of dev_base_lock
Do not need to use read_lock(&dev_base_lock), use RCU instead.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-10 22:26:30 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 81adee47df net: Support specifying the network namespace upon device creation.
There is no good reason to not support userspace specifying the
network namespace during device creation, and it makes it easier
to create a network device and pass it to a child network namespace
with a well known name.

We have to be careful to ensure that the target network namespace
for the new device exists through the life of the call.  To keep
that logic clear I have factored out the network namespace grabbing
logic into rtnl_link_get_net.

In addtion we need to continue to pass the source network namespace
to the rtnl_link_ops.newlink method so that we can find the base
device source network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
2009-11-08 00:53:51 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 29906f6a42 vlan: cleanup multiple unregistrations
The temporary copy of the VLAN group is not neccessary since the lower device
is already in the process of being unregistered, if it was neccessary the
memset of the global group would introduce a race condition.

With this removed, the changes to the original code are only a few lines, so
remove the new function and move the code back into vlan_device_event().

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 23:43:00 -07:00
Ben Hutchings c7c4b3b6e9 gro: Change all receive functions to return GRO result codes
This will allow drivers to adjust their receive path dynamically
based on whether GRO is being applied successfully.

Currently all in-tree callers ignore the return values of these
functions and do not need to be changed.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 21:36:53 -07:00
Ben Hutchings 5b252f0c2f gro: Name the GRO result enumeration type
This clarifies which return and parameter types are GRO result codes
and not RX result codes.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 21:33:55 -07:00
Yi Zou d653479941 vlan: Add support to netdev_ops.ndo_fcoe_get_wwn for VLAN device
Implements the netdev_ops.ndo_fcoe_get_wwn for VLAN device.

Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 01:04:04 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 63c8099d90 vlan: Optimize multiple unregistration
Use unregister_netdevice_many() to speedup master device unregister.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-28 02:22:08 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 23289a37e2 net: add a list_head parameter to dellink() method
Adding a list_head parameter to rtnl_link_ops->dellink() methods
allow us to queue devices on a list, in order to dismantle
them all at once.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-28 02:22:07 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 05423b2413 vlan: allow null VLAN ID to be used
We currently use a 16 bit field (vlan_tci) to store VLAN ID/PRIO on a skb.

Null value is used as a special value, meaning vlan tagging not enabled.
This forbids use of null vlan ID.

As pointed by David, some drivers use the 3 high order bits (PRIO)

As VLAN ID is 12 bits, we can use the remaining bit (CFI) as a flag, and
allow null VLAN ID.

In case future code really wants to use VLAN_CFI_MASK, we'll have to use
a bit outside of vlan_tci.

#define VLAN_PRIO_MASK         0xe000 /* Priority Code Point */
#define VLAN_PRIO_SHIFT        13
#define VLAN_CFI_MASK          0x1000 /* Canonical Format Indicator */
#define VLAN_TAG_PRESENT       VLAN_CFI_MASK
#define VLAN_VID_MASK          0x0fff /* VLAN Identifier */

Reported-by: Gertjan Hofman <gertjan_hofman@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-27 01:02:33 -07:00
John Fastabend fc482cc54e net: fix vlan_get_size to include vlan_flags size
Fix vlan_get_size to include vlan->flags.  Currently, the
size of the vlan flags is not included in the nlmsg size.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-26 20:16:07 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 1a123a3168 vlan: adds drops accounting
Its hard to tell if vlans are dropping frames, since
every frame given to vlan_???_start_xmit() functions
is accounted as fully transmitted by lower device.

We can test dev_queue_xmit() return values to
properly account for dropped frames.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-03 20:02:17 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 2f8bc32b7a vlan: enable multiqueue xmits
vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit() & vlan_dev_hwaccel_hard_start_xmit()
select txqueue number 0, instead of using index provided by
skb_get_queue_mapping().

This is not correct after commit 2e59af3dcb
[vlan: multiqueue vlan device] because
txq->tx_packets  & txq->tx_bytes changes are performed on
a single location, and not the right locking.

Fix is to take the appropriate struct netdev_queue pointer

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-03 02:19:58 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 2e59af3dcb vlan: multiqueue vlan device
vlan devices are currently not multi-queue capable.

We can do that with a new rtnl_link_ops method,
get_tx_queues(), called from rtnl_create_link()

This new method gets num_tx_queues/real_num_tx_queues
from real device.

register_vlan_device() is also handled.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-02 18:03:00 -07:00
Yi Zou 0af46d997f vlan: Add support for net_devices_ops.ndo_fcoe_enable/_disable to VLAN
This adds implementation of the net_devices_ops.ndo_fcoe_enable/_disable to
the VLAN driver. It checks if the real_dev has support for ndo_fcoe_enable/
ndo_fcoe_disable and if so, passes on to call the associated real_dev.

Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:24:23 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 6fef4c0c8e netdev: convert pseudo-devices to netdev_tx_t
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:13:07 -07:00
Vasu Dev b85daa5324 vlan: adds fcoe offload related net_device_ops and updates fcoe_ddp_xid field
Adds fcoe offload related net_device_ops functions vlan_dev_fcoe_ddp_setup
and vlan_dev_fcoe_ddp_done, their implementation simply calls real eth device
net_device_ops for FCoE DDP setup and done operations.

Updates VLAN netdev field value for fcoe_ddp_xid from real eth device netdev.

Above changes are required for fcoe DDP offload working on a VLAN interface.

Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-14 16:12:06 -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
Stephen Hemminger b4076d1715 vlan: allow creating vlan when real device is not up
There is no reason for the arbitrary restriction that device must be
up to create a vlan. This patch was added to Vyatta kernel to resolve startup
ordering issues where vlan's are created but real device was disabled.

Note: the vlan already correctly inherits the operstate from real device; so
if vlan is created and real device is marked down, the vlan is marked
down.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-30 13:16:45 -07:00
Herbert Xu 2e477c9bd2 vlan: Propagate physical MTU changes
When the physical MTU changes we want to ensure that all existing
VLAN device MTUs do not exceed the new underlying MTU.  This patch
adds that propagation.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 07:35:37 -07:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer 6e327c11a9 8021q: Vlan driver should use rcu_barrier() on unload instead of syncronize_net()
The VLAN 8021q driver needs to call rcu_barrier() when unloading the module,
instead of syncronize_net().  This is needed to make sure that outstanding
call_rcu() callbacks have completed, before the callback function code is
removed on module unload.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-10 01:11:22 -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
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
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 450c4ea15e vlan: use struct netdev_queue counters instead of dev->stats
We can update netdev_queue tx_bytes/tx_packets/tx_dropped counters instead
of dev->stats ones, to reduce number of cache lines dirtied in xmit path.

This fixes a performance problem on SMP when many different cpus take
vlan tx path.

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
David S. Miller aba7453037 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.c
	net/mac80211/main.c
2009-04-29 20:30:35 -07:00
Jay Vosburgh adc667e84f vlan: update vlan carrier state for admin up/down
Currently, the VLAN event handler does not adjust the VLAN
device's carrier state when the real device or the VLAN device is set
administratively up or down.

	The following patch adds a transfer of operating state from the
real device to the VLAN device when the real device is administratively
set up or down, and sets the carrier state up or down during init, open
and close of the VLAN device.

	This permits observers above the VLAN device that care about the
carrier state (bonding's link monitor, for example) to receive updates
for administrative changes by more closely mimicing the behavior of real
devices.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-04-25 18:03:35 -07:00
Patrick McHardy b1b67dd45a net: factor out ethtool invocation of vlan/macvlan drivers
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-21 02:00:51 -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
Patrick McHardy 7816a0a862 vlan/macvlan: fix NULL pointer dereferences in ethtool handlers
Check whether the underlying device provides a set of ethtool ops before
checking for individual handlers to avoid NULL pointer dereferences.

Reported-by: Art van Breemen <ard@telegraafnet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-17 15:59:23 -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 1db9e29bb0 gro: Normalise skb before bypassing GRO on netpoll VLAN path
Hi:

gro: Normalise skb before bypassing GRO on netpoll VLAN path

When we detect netpoll RX on the GRO VLAN path we bail out and
call the normal VLAN receive handler.  However, the packet needs
to be normalised by calling eth_type_trans since that's what the
normal path expects (normally the GRO path does the fixup).

This patch adds the necessary call to vlan_gro_frags.

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

Thanks,
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-13 15:44:50 -07:00
Herbert Xu 2ffb455819 gro: Fix vlan/netpoll check again
Jarek Poplawski pointed out that my previous fix is broken for
VLAN+netpoll as if netpoll is enabled we'd end up in the normal
receive path instead of the VLAN receive path.

This patch fixes it by calling the VLAN receive hook.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-17 13:10:52 -07:00
Herbert Xu d1c76af9e2 GRO: Move netpoll checks to correct location
As my netpoll fix for net doesn't really work for net-next, we
need this update to move the checks into the right place.  As it
stands we may pass freed skbs to netpoll_receive_skb.

This patch also introduces a netpoll_rx_on function to avoid GRO
completely if we're invoked through netpoll.  This might seem
paranoid but as netpoll may have an external receive hook it's
better to be safe than sorry.  I don't think we need this for
2.6.29 though since there's nothing immediately broken by it.

This patch also moves the GRO_* return values to netdevice.h since
VLAN needs them too (I tried to avoid this originally but alas
this seems to be the easiest way out).  This fixes a bug in VLAN
where it continued to use the old return value 2 instead of the
correct GRO_DROP.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-16 10:50:02 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 7546dd97d2 net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly
Protocols that use packet_type can be __read_mostly section for better
locality. Elminate any unnecessary initializations of NULL.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
David S. Miller 508827ff0a Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c
	drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
2009-03-05 02:06:47 -08:00
David S. Miller 9d40bbda59 vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes.
As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's
netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this
leaves the compat method pointers stale.

Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code.

Any other driver which changes ->netdev_ops after register_netdevice()
will need to call this new function after doing so too.

With help from Patrick McHardy.

Tested-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-04 23:46:25 -08:00
David S. Miller aa4abc9bcc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
	net/8021q/vlan_core.c
	net/core/dev.c
2009-03-01 21:35:16 -08:00
Herbert Xu 4ead443163 netpoll: Add drop checks to all entry points
The netpoll entry checks are required to ensure that we don't
receive normal packets when invoked via netpoll.  Unfortunately
it only ever worked for the netif_receive_skb/netif_rx entry
points.  The VLAN (and subsequently GRO) entry point didn't
have the check and therefore can trigger all sorts of weird
problems.

This patch adds the netpoll check to all entry points.

I'm still uneasy with receiving at all under netpoll (which
apparently is only used by the out-of-tree kdump code).  The
reason is it is perfectly legal to receive all data including
headers into highmem if netpoll is off, but if you try to do
that with netpoll on and someone gets a printk in an IRQ handler                                             
you're going to get a nice BUG_ON.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-01 00:11:52 -08:00
Herbert Xu aa4b9f533e gro: Optimise Ethernet header comparison
This patch optimises the Ethernet header comparison to use 2-byte
and 4-byte xors instead of memcmp.  In order to facilitate this,
the actual comparison is now carried out by the callers of the
shared dev_gro_receive function.

This has a significant impact when receiving 1500B packets through
10GbE.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-08 20:22:18 -08:00
Harvey Harrison 09640e6365 net: replace uses of __constant_{endian}
Base versions handle constant folding now.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-01 00:45:17 -08:00
Herbert Xu 86911732d3 gro: Avoid copying headers of unmerged packets
Unfortunately simplicity isn't always the best.  The fraginfo
interface turned out to be suboptimal.  The problem was quite
obvious.  For every packet, we have to copy the headers from
the frags structure into skb->head, even though for 99% of the
packets this part is immediately thrown away after the merge.

LRO didn't have this problem because it directly read the headers
from the frags structure.

This patch attempts to address this by creating an interface
that allows GRO to access the headers in the first frag without
having to copy it.  Because all drivers that use frags place the
headers in the first frag this optimisation should be enough.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-29 16:33:03 -08:00
Herbert Xu 5d0d9be8ef gro: Move common completion code into helpers
Currently VLAN still has a bit of common code handling the aftermath
of GRO that's shared with the common path.  This patch moves them
into shared helpers to reduce code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-29 16:33:02 -08:00
Ben Greear 116cb42855 vlan: Export symbols as non GPL symbols.
In previous kernels, any kernel module could get access to the
'real-device' and the VLAN-ID for a particular VLAN.  In more recent
kernels, the code was restructured such that this is hard to do
without accessing private .h files for any module that cannot use
GPL-only symbols.

Attached is a patch to once again allow non-GPL modules the ability to
access the real-device and VLAN id for VLANs.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-26 12:37:53 -08:00
Frank Blaschka cc883d16c3 vlan: add neigh_setup
In case the real device has a neigh_setup function, this
neigh_setup function should be used for the vlan device.

Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-08 10:50:20 -08:00
Herbert Xu e1c096e251 vlan: Add GRO interfaces
This patch adds GRO interfaces for hardware-assisted VLAN reception.
With this in place we're now at parity with LRO as far as the
interface is concerned.  That is, you can now take any LRO driver
and convert it over to GRO.

As the CB memory clashes with GRO's use of CB, I've removed it
entirely by storing dev in skb->dev.  This is OK because VLAN
gets called first thing in netif_receive_skb and skb->dev is
not used in between us calling netif_rx and netif_receive_skb
getting called.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-06 10:50:09 -08:00