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* net: return operator cleanupEric Dumazet2010-09-23
| | | | | | | | | Change "return (EXPR);" to "return EXPR;" return is not a function, parentheses are not required. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* gro: __napi_gro_receive() optimizationsEric Dumazet2010-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | compare_ether_header() can have a special implementation on 64 bit arches if CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is defined. __napi_gro_receive() and vlan_gro_common() can avoid a conditional branch to perform device match. On x86_64, __napi_gro_receive() has now 38 instructions instead of 53 As gcc-4.4.3 still choose to not inline it, add inline keyword to this performance critical function. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice.h: fix kernel-doc typoRandy Dunlap2010-08-10
| | | | | | | | | | Fix etherdevice.h parameter name typo in kernel-doc: Warning(include/linux/etherdevice.h:138): No description found for parameter 'hwaddr' Warning(include/linux/etherdevice.h:138): Excess function parameter 'addr' description in 'dev_hw_addr_random' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* sysfs: add attribute to indicate hw address assignment typeStefan Assmann2010-07-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add addr_assign_type to struct net_device and expose it via sysfs. This new attribute has the purpose of giving user-space the ability to distinguish between different assignment types of MAC addresses. For example user-space can treat NICs with randomly generated MAC addresses differently than NICs that have permanent (locally assigned) MAC addresses. For the former udev could write a persistent net rule by matching the device path instead of the MAC address. There's also the case of devices that 'steal' MAC addresses from slave devices. In which it is also be beneficial for user-space to be aware of the fact. This patch also introduces a helper function to assist adoption of drivers that generate MAC addresses randomly. Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6)Jiri Pirko2009-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* gro: Optimise Ethernet header comparisonHerbert Xu2009-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* eth: Declare an optimized compare_ether_addr_64bits() functionEric Dumazet2008-11-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linus mentioned we could try to perform long word operations, even on potentially unaligned addresses, on x86 at least. David mentioned the HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS test to handle this on all arches that have efficient unailgned accesses. I tried this idea and got nice assembly on 32 bits: 158: 33 82 38 01 00 00 xor 0x138(%edx),%eax 15e: 33 8a 34 01 00 00 xor 0x134(%edx),%ecx 164: c1 e0 10 shl $0x10,%eax 167: 09 c1 or %eax,%ecx 169: 74 0b je 176 <eth_type_trans+0x87> And very nice assembly on 64 bits of course (one xor, one shl) Nice oprofile improvement in eth_type_trans(), 0.17 % instead of 0.41 %, expected since we remove 8 instructions on a fast path. This patch implements a compare_ether_addr_64bits() function, that uses the CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS ifdef to efficiently perform the 6 bytes comparison on all capable arches. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netdev: expose ethernet address primitivesStephen Hemminger2008-11-20
| | | | | | | | When ethernet devices are converted, the function pointer setup by eth_setup() need to be done during intialization. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* docbook: make a networking book and fix a few errorsRandy Dunlap2008-02-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Move networking (core and drivers) docbook to its own networking book. Fix a few kernel-doc errors in header and source files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.Stephen Hemminger2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class not the device instance, make them into a separate object and save memory. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue hardware support APIPeter P Waskiewicz Jr2007-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the multiqueue hardware device support API to the core network stack. Allow drivers to allocate multiple queues and manage them at the netdev level if they choose to do so. Added a new field to sk_buff, namely queue_mapping, for drivers to know which tx_ring to select based on OS classification of the flow. Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Kill eth_copy_and_sum().David S. Miller2007-07-11
| | | | | | | | It hasn't "summed" anything in over 7 years, and it's just a straight mempcy ala skb_copy_to_linear_data() so just get rid of it. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* uml: improve checking and diagnostics of ethernet MACsPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | Improve checking and diagnostics for broadcast and multicast Ethernet MAC addresses, and distinguish between those cases in output; also make sure the device is assigned a MAC address valid only locally to avoid collisions. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [NET]: Don't exclude broadcast addresses from is_multicast_ether_addr()Stephen Hemminger2006-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | | The check for multicast shouldn't exclude broadcast type addresses. This reverts the incorrect change done in 2.6.13. The broadcast address is a multicast address and should be excluded from being a valid_ether_address for use in bridging or device address. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [ETHERNET]: Add ether stuff to docbookStephen Hemminger2005-11-02
| | | | | | | | | Fix up etherdevice docbook comments and make them (and other networking stuff) get dragged into the kernel-api. Delete the old 8390 stuff, it really isn't interesting anymore. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
* [ETHERNET]: Optimize is_broadcast_ether_addrStephen Hemminger2005-11-02
| | | | | | | | | Optimize the match for broadcast address by using bit operations instead of comparison. This saves a number of conditional branches, and generates smaller code. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
* [ETH]: ether address compareStephen Hemminger2005-10-29
| | | | | | | | | Expose faster ether compare for use by protocols and other driver. And change name to be more consistent with other ether address manipulation routines in same file Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
* Merge upstream 2.6.13-rc3 into ieee80211 branch of netdev-2.6.Jeff Garzik2005-07-13
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| * [NET]: __be'ify *_type_trans()Alexey Dobriyan2005-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | tr_type_trans(), hippi_type_trans() left as-is. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge upstream 2.6.13-rc1-git1 into 'ieee80211' branch of netdev-2.6.Jeff Garzik2005-06-30
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| * [NET]: Add missing include to linux/netdevice.hArnd Bergmann2005-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | linux/etherdevice.h can't be included standalone at the moment, which is required in order to sort the header files in the recommended alphabetic order. This patch fixes that and is needed to build spider_net. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | wireless: fix ipw warning; add is_broadcast_ether_addr() to linux/etherdevice.hJeff Garzik2005-06-28
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* Update is_multicast_ether_addr() definition; net/ieee80211.h cleanups.Jeff Garzik2005-06-27
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* [NET]: Add is_multicast_ether_addr() in include/linux/etherdevice.hMichael Ellerman2005-05-29
| | | | | | | | | | This patch adds is_multicast_ether_addr() to go along with is_valid_ether_addr() and friends. It then changes is_valid_ether_addr() to use the new macro, and fixes up the comment on that function to move implementation details out of the API doco. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] update Ross Biro bouncing email addressJesper Juhl2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | Ross moved. Remove the bad email address so people will find the correct one in ./CREDITS. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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