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authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>2014-01-10 03:18:26 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-01-10 13:23:08 -0500
commitf663dd9aaf9ed124f25f0f8452edf238f087ad50 (patch)
tree2aee7dfcfd373c6905de5b2a9f810f9e209156b6 /include/linux
parentb13ba1b83f524732523db1079e56478b32c85c96 (diff)
net: core: explicitly select a txq before doing l2 forwarding
Currently, the tx queue were selected implicitly in ndo_dfwd_start_xmit(). The will cause several issues: - NETIF_F_LLTX were removed for macvlan, so txq lock were done for macvlan instead of lower device which misses the necessary txq synchronization for lower device such as txq stopping or frozen required by dev watchdog or control path. - dev_hard_start_xmit() was called with NULL txq which bypasses the net device watchdog. - dev_hard_start_xmit() does not check txq everywhere which will lead a crash when tso is disabled for lower device. Fix this by explicitly introducing a new param for .ndo_select_queue() for just selecting queues in the case of l2 forwarding offload. netdev_pick_tx() was also extended to accept this parameter and dev_queue_xmit_accel() was used to do l2 forwarding transmission. With this fixes, NETIF_F_LLTX could be preserved for macvlan and there's no need to check txq against NULL in dev_hard_start_xmit(). Also there's no need to keep a dedicated ndo_dfwd_start_xmit() and we can just reuse the code of dev_queue_xmit() to do the transmission. In the future, it was also required for macvtap l2 forwarding support since it provides a necessary synchronization method. Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 5faaadb0c74f..ce2a1f5f9a1e 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -769,7 +769,8 @@ struct netdev_phys_port_id {
769 * (can also return NETDEV_TX_LOCKED iff NETIF_F_LLTX) 769 * (can also return NETDEV_TX_LOCKED iff NETIF_F_LLTX)
770 * Required can not be NULL. 770 * Required can not be NULL.
771 * 771 *
772 * u16 (*ndo_select_queue)(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb); 772 * u16 (*ndo_select_queue)(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
773 * void *accel_priv);
773 * Called to decide which queue to when device supports multiple 774 * Called to decide which queue to when device supports multiple
774 * transmit queues. 775 * transmit queues.
775 * 776 *
@@ -990,7 +991,8 @@ struct net_device_ops {
990 netdev_tx_t (*ndo_start_xmit) (struct sk_buff *skb, 991 netdev_tx_t (*ndo_start_xmit) (struct sk_buff *skb,
991 struct net_device *dev); 992 struct net_device *dev);
992 u16 (*ndo_select_queue)(struct net_device *dev, 993 u16 (*ndo_select_queue)(struct net_device *dev,
993 struct sk_buff *skb); 994 struct sk_buff *skb,
995 void *accel_priv);
994 void (*ndo_change_rx_flags)(struct net_device *dev, 996 void (*ndo_change_rx_flags)(struct net_device *dev,
995 int flags); 997 int flags);
996 void (*ndo_set_rx_mode)(struct net_device *dev); 998 void (*ndo_set_rx_mode)(struct net_device *dev);
@@ -1529,7 +1531,8 @@ static inline void netdev_for_each_tx_queue(struct net_device *dev,
1529} 1531}
1530 1532
1531struct netdev_queue *netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev, 1533struct netdev_queue *netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev,
1532 struct sk_buff *skb); 1534 struct sk_buff *skb,
1535 void *accel_priv);
1533u16 __netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb); 1536u16 __netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb);
1534 1537
1535/* 1538/*
@@ -1819,6 +1822,7 @@ int dev_close(struct net_device *dev);
1819void dev_disable_lro(struct net_device *dev); 1822void dev_disable_lro(struct net_device *dev);
1820int dev_loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *newskb); 1823int dev_loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *newskb);
1821int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb); 1824int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb);
1825int dev_queue_xmit_accel(struct sk_buff *skb, void *accel_priv);
1822int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev); 1826int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev);
1823void unregister_netdevice_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head); 1827void unregister_netdevice_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head);
1824void unregister_netdevice_many(struct list_head *head); 1828void unregister_netdevice_many(struct list_head *head);
@@ -2426,7 +2430,7 @@ int dev_change_carrier(struct net_device *, bool new_carrier);
2426int dev_get_phys_port_id(struct net_device *dev, 2430int dev_get_phys_port_id(struct net_device *dev,
2427 struct netdev_phys_port_id *ppid); 2431 struct netdev_phys_port_id *ppid);
2428int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, 2432int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
2429 struct netdev_queue *txq, void *accel_priv); 2433 struct netdev_queue *txq);
2430int dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb); 2434int dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb);
2431 2435
2432extern int netdev_budget; 2436extern int netdev_budget;