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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-09 21:24:39 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-09 21:24:39 -0400
commit496322bc91e35007ed754184dcd447a02b6dd685 (patch)
treef5298d0a74c0a6e65c0e98050b594b8d020904c1 /Documentation/sysctl
parent2e17c5a97e231f3cb426f4b7895eab5be5c5442e (diff)
parent56e0ef527b184b3de2d7f88c6190812b2b2ac6bf (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "This is a re-do of the net-next pull request for the current merge window. The only difference from the one I made the other day is that this has Eliezer's interface renames and the timeout handling changes made based upon your feedback, as well as a few bug fixes that have trickeled in. Highlights: 1) Low latency device polling, eliminating the cost of interrupt handling and context switches. Allows direct polling of a network device from socket operations, such as recvmsg() and poll(). Currently ixgbe, mlx4, and bnx2x support this feature. Full high level description, performance numbers, and design in commit 0a4db187a999 ("Merge branch 'll_poll'") From Eliezer Tamir. 2) With the routing cache removed, ip_check_mc_rcu() gets exercised more than ever before in the case where we have lots of multicast addresses. Use a hash table instead of a simple linked list, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Add driver for Atheros CQA98xx 802.11ac wireless devices, from Bartosz Markowski, Janusz Dziedzic, Kalle Valo, Marek Kwaczynski, Marek Puzyniak, Michal Kazior, and Sujith Manoharan. 4) Support reporting the TUN device persist flag to userspace, from Pavel Emelyanov. 5) Allow controlling network device VF link state using netlink, from Rony Efraim. 6) Support GRE tunneling in openvswitch, from Pravin B Shelar. 7) Adjust SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF and SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF for modern times, from Daniel Borkmann and Eric Dumazet. 8) Allow controlling of TCP quickack behavior on a per-route basis, from Cong Wang. 9) Several bug fixes and improvements to vxlan from Stephen Hemminger, Pravin B Shelar, and Mike Rapoport. In particular, support receiving on multiple UDP ports. 10) Major cleanups, particular in the area of debugging and cookie lifetime handline, to the SCTP protocol code. From Daniel Borkmann. 11) Allow packets to cross network namespaces when traversing tunnel devices. From Nicolas Dichtel. 12) Allow monitoring netlink traffic via AF_PACKET sockets, in a manner akin to how we monitor real network traffic via ptype_all. From Daniel Borkmann. 13) Several bug fixes and improvements for the new alx device driver, from Johannes Berg. 14) Fix scalability issues in the netem packet scheduler's time queue, by using an rbtree. From Eric Dumazet. 15) Several bug fixes in TCP loss recovery handling, from Yuchung Cheng. 16) Add support for GSO segmentation of MPLS packets, from Simon Horman. 17) Make network notifiers have a real data type for the opaque pointer that's passed into them. Use this to properly handle network device flag changes in arp_netdev_event(). From Jiri Pirko and Timo Teräs. 18) Convert several drivers over to module_pci_driver(), from Peter Huewe. 19) tcp_fixup_rcvbuf() can loop 500 times over loopback, just use a O(1) calculation instead. From Eric Dumazet. 20) Support setting of explicit tunnel peer addresses in ipv6, just like ipv4. From Nicolas Dichtel. 21) Protect x86 BPF JIT against spraying attacks, from Eric Dumazet. 22) Prevent a single high rate flow from overruning an individual cpu during RX packet processing via selective flow shedding. From Willem de Bruijn. 23) Don't use spinlocks in TCP md5 signing fast paths, from Eric Dumazet. 24) Don't just drop GSO packets which are above the TBF scheduler's burst limit, chop them up so they are in-bounds instead. Also from Eric Dumazet. 25) VLAN offloads are missed when configured on top of a bridge, fix from Vlad Yasevich. 26) Support IPV6 in ping sockets. From Lorenzo Colitti. 27) Receive flow steering targets should be updated at poll() time too, from David Majnemer. 28) Fix several corner case regressions in PMTU/redirect handling due to the routing cache removal, from Timo Teräs. 29) We have to be mindful of ipv4 mapped ipv6 sockets in upd_v6_push_pending_frames(). From Hannes Frederic Sowa. 30) Fix L2TP sequence number handling bugs, from James Chapman." * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1214 commits) drivers/net: caif: fix wrong rtnl_is_locked() usage drivers/net: enic: release rtnl_lock on error-path vhost-net: fix use-after-free in vhost_net_flush net: mv643xx_eth: do not use port number as platform device id net: sctp: confirm route during forward progress virtio_net: fix race in RX VQ processing virtio: support unlocked queue poll net/cadence/macb: fix bug/typo in extracting gem_irq_read_clear bit Documentation: Fix references to defunct linux-net@vger.kernel.org net/fs: change busy poll time accounting net: rename low latency sockets functions to busy poll bridge: fix some kernel warning in multicast timer sfc: Fix memory leak when discarding scattered packets sit: fix tunnel update via netlink dt:net:stmmac: Add dt specific phy reset callback support. dt:net:stmmac: Add support to dwmac version 3.610 and 3.710 dt:net:stmmac: Allocate platform data only if its NULL. net:stmmac: fix memleak in the open method ipv6: rt6_check_neigh should successfully verify neigh if no NUD information are available net: ipv6: fix wrong ping_v6_sendmsg return value ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/net.txt43
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
index 6f1c201319de..d69e14c9002c 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Table : Subdirectories in /proc/sys/net
26 ipv4 IP version 4 x25 X.25 protocol 26 ipv4 IP version 4 x25 X.25 protocol
27 ipx IPX token-ring IBM token ring 27 ipx IPX token-ring IBM token ring
28 bridge Bridging decnet DEC net 28 bridge Bridging decnet DEC net
29 ipv6 IP version 6 29 ipv6 IP version 6 tipc TIPC
30.............................................................................. 30..............................................................................
31 31
321. /proc/sys/net/core - Network core options 321. /proc/sys/net/core - Network core options
@@ -50,6 +50,29 @@ The maximum number of packets that kernel can handle on a NAPI interrupt,
50it's a Per-CPU variable. 50it's a Per-CPU variable.
51Default: 64 51Default: 64
52 52
53low_latency_read
54----------------
55Low latency busy poll timeout for socket reads. (needs CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL)
56Approximate time in us to busy loop waiting for packets on the device queue.
57This sets the default value of the SO_LL socket option.
58Can be set or overridden per socket by setting socket option SO_LL, which is
59the preferred method of enabling.
60If you need to enable the feature globally via sysctl, a value of 50 is recommended.
61Will increase power usage.
62Default: 0 (off)
63
64low_latency_poll
65----------------
66Low latency busy poll timeout for poll and select. (needs CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL)
67Approximate time in us to busy loop waiting for events.
68Recommended value depends on the number of sockets you poll on.
69For several sockets 50, for several hundreds 100.
70For more than that you probably want to use epoll.
71Note that only sockets with SO_LL set will be busy polled, so you want to either
72selectively set SO_LL on those sockets or set sysctl.net.low_latency_read globally.
73Will increase power usage.
74Default: 0 (off)
75
53rmem_default 76rmem_default
54------------ 77------------
55 78
@@ -93,8 +116,7 @@ netdev_budget
93 116
94Maximum number of packets taken from all interfaces in one polling cycle (NAPI 117Maximum number of packets taken from all interfaces in one polling cycle (NAPI
95poll). In one polling cycle interfaces which are registered to polling are 118poll). In one polling cycle interfaces which are registered to polling are
96probed in a round-robin manner. The limit of packets in one such probe can be 119probed in a round-robin manner.
97set per-device via sysfs class/net/<device>/weight .
98 120
99netdev_max_backlog 121netdev_max_backlog
100------------------ 122------------------
@@ -201,3 +223,18 @@ IPX.
201The /proc/net/ipx_route table holds a list of IPX routes. For each route it 223The /proc/net/ipx_route table holds a list of IPX routes. For each route it
202gives the destination network, the router node (or Directly) and the network 224gives the destination network, the router node (or Directly) and the network
203address of the router (or Connected) for internal networks. 225address of the router (or Connected) for internal networks.
226
2276. TIPC
228-------------------------------------------------------
229
230The TIPC protocol now has a tunable for the receive memory, similar to the
231tcp_rmem - i.e. a vector of 3 INTEGERs: (min, default, max)
232
233 # cat /proc/sys/net/tipc/tipc_rmem
234 4252725 34021800 68043600
235 #
236
237The max value is set to CONN_OVERLOAD_LIMIT, and the default and min values
238are scaled (shifted) versions of that same value. Note that the min value
239is not at this point in time used in any meaningful way, but the triplet is
240preserved in order to be consistent with things like tcp_rmem.