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* net: group address list and its countJiri Pirko2009-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is inspired by patch recently posted by Johannes Berg. Basically what my patch does is to group list and a count of addresses into newly introduced structure netdev_hw_addr_list. This brings us two benefits: 1) struct net_device becames a bit nicer. 2) in the future there will be a possibility to operate with lists independently on netdevices (with exporting right functions). I wanted to introduce this patch before I'll post a multicast lists conversion. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> drivers/net/bnx2.c | 4 +- drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 6 +- drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c | 2 +- drivers/net/niu.c | 4 +- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 10 ++-- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 2 +- include/linux/netdevice.h | 17 +++-- net/core/dev.c | 130 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 9 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netdevice.h: Use frag list abstraction interfaces.David S. Miller2009-06-09
| | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* gso: Stop fraglists from escapingHerbert Xu2009-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As it stands skb fraglists can get past the check in dev_queue_xmit if the skb is marked as GSO. In particular, if the packet doesn't have the proper checksums for GSO, but can otherwise be handled by the underlying device, we will not perform the fraglist check on it at all. If the underlying device cannot handle fraglists, then this will break. The fix is as simple as moving the fraglist check from the device check into skb_gso_ok. This has caused crashes with Xen when used together with GRO which can generate GSO packets with fraglists. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: convert unicast addr listJiri Pirko2009-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try4.3Jiri Pirko2009-05-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH net-next] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try4.3 (updated) changes v4.2 -> v4.3 - memcpy the address always, not just in case it differs from master->dev_addr - compare_ether_addr_64bits() is not used so there is no direct need to make new header file (I think it would be good to have bond stuff in separate file anyway). changes v4.1 -> v4.2 - use skb->pkt_type == PACKET_HOST compare rather then comparing skb dest addr against skb->dev->dev_addr The problem is described in following bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487763 Basically here's what's going on. In every mode, bonding interface uses the same mac address for all enslaved devices (except fail_over_mac). Only balance-alb will simultaneously use multiple MAC addresses across different slaves. When you put this kind of bond device into a bridge it will only add one of mac adresses into a hash list of mac addresses, say X. This mac address is marked as local. But this bonding interface also has mac address Y. Now then packet arrives with destination address Y, this address is not marked as local and the packed looks like it needs to be forwarded. This packet is then lost which is wrong. Notice that interfaces can be added and removed from bond while it is in bridge. *** When the multiple addresses for bridge port approach failed to solve this issue due to STP I started to think other way to solve this. I returned to previous solution but tweaked one. This patch solves the situation in the bonding without touching bridge code. For every incoming frame to bonding the destination address is compared to current address of the slave device from which tha packet came. If these two match destination address is replaced by mac address of the master. This address is known by bridge so it is delivered properly. Note that the comparsion is not made directly, it's used skb->pkt_type == PACKET_HOST instead. This is "set" previously in eth_type_trans(). I experimentally tried that this works as good as searching through the slave list (v4 of this patch). Jirka Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: correct a comment for the final #endifJiri Pirko2009-05-27
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: ALIGN/PTR_ALIGN cleanup in alloc_netdev_mq()/netdev_priv()Eric Dumazet2009-05-27
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* gro: Avoid unnecessary comparison after skb_gro_headerHerbert Xu2009-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* gro: Optimise length comparison in skb_gro_headerHerbert Xu2009-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* gro: Only use skb_gro_header for completely non-linear packetsHerbert Xu2009-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* gro: Inline skb_gro_header and cache frag0 virtual addressHerbert Xu2009-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* net: txq_trans_update() helperEric Dumazet2009-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPSAlexander Beregalov2009-05-25
| | | | | | | | 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>
* net: add tx_packets/tx_bytes/tx_dropped counters in struct netdev_queueEric Dumazet2009-05-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | offsetof(struct net_device, features)=0x44 offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_packets)=0x54 offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_bytes)=0x5c offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_dropped)=0x6c Network drivers that touch dev->stats.tx_packets/stats.tx_bytes in their tx path can slow down SMP operations, since they dirty a cache line that should stay shared (dev->features is needed in rx and tx paths) We could move away stats field in net_device but it wont help that much. (Two cache lines dirtied in tx path, we can do one only) Better solution is to add tx_packets/tx_bytes/tx_dropped in struct netdev_queue because this structure is already touched in tx path and counters updates will then be free (no increase in size) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: tx scalability works : trans_startEric Dumazet2009-05-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | struct net_device trans_start field is a hot spot on SMP and high performance devices, particularly multi queues ones, because every transmitter dirties it. Is main use is tx watchdog and bonding alive checks. But as most devices dont use NETIF_F_LLTX, we have to lock a netdev_queue before calling their ndo_start_xmit(). So it makes sense to move trans_start from net_device to netdev_queue. Its update will occur on a already present (and in exclusive state) cache line, for free. We can do this transition smoothly. An old driver continue to update dev->trans_start, while an updated one updates txq->trans_start. Further patches could also put tx_bytes/tx_packets counters in netdev_queue to avoid dirtying dev->stats (vlan device comes to mind) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Add missing rculist.h include to netdevice.hDavid S. Miller2009-05-06
| | | | | | | Otherwise list_for_each_entry_rcu() et al. aren't visible and we get build failures in some configurations. 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>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-04-29
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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
| * net: Fix typo in net_device_ops description.Mike Rapoport2009-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * net: Fix LL_MAX_HEADER for CONFIG_TR_MODULEAdrian Bunk2009-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unless I miss anything this should fix a bug. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: netif_tx_queue_stopped too expensiveEric Dumazet2009-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq) is most of the time false. Yet its cost is very expensive on SMP. static inline int netif_tx_queue_stopped(const struct netdev_queue *dev_queue) { return test_bit(__QUEUE_STATE_XOFF, &dev_queue->state); } I saw this on oprofile hunting and bnx2 driver bnx2_tx_int(). We probably should split "struct netdev_queue" in two parts, one being read mostly. __netif_tx_lock() touches _xmit_lock & xmit_lock_owner, these deserve a separate cache line. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | sctp: add feature bit for SCTP offload in hardwareJesse Brandeburg2009-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | this is the sctp code to enable hardware crc32c offload for adapters that support it. Originally by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> modified by Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | gro: Fix COMPLETE checksum handlingHerbert Xu2009-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On a brand new GRO skb, we cannot call ip_hdr since the header may lie in the non-linear area. This patch adds the helper skb_gro_network_header to handle this. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | gro: Fix handling of headers that extend over the tailHerbert Xu2009-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The skb_gro_* code fails to handle the case where a header starts in the linear area but ends in the frags area. Since the goal of skb_gro_* is to optimise the case of completely non-linear packets, we can simply bail out if we have anything in the linear area. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: factor out ethtool invocation of vlan/macvlan driversPatrick McHardy2009-04-21
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | gro: New frags interface to avoid copying shinfoHerbert Xu2009-04-16
|/ | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-03-28
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (119 commits) [SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Retry for NOT_READY check condition [SCSI] mpt2sas: make global symbols unique [SCSI] sd: Make revalidate less chatty [SCSI] sd: Try READ CAPACITY 16 first for SBC-2 devices [SCSI] sd: Refactor sd_read_capacity() [SCSI] mpt2sas v00.100.11.15 [SCSI] mpt2sas: add MPT2SAS_MINOR(221) to miscdevice.h [SCSI] ch: Add scsi type modalias [SCSI] 3w-9xxx: add power management support [SCSI] bsg: add linux/types.h include to bsg.h [SCSI] cxgb3i: fix function descriptions [SCSI] libiscsi: fix possbile null ptr session command cleanup [SCSI] iscsi class: remove host no argument from session creation callout [SCSI] libiscsi: pass session failure a session struct [SCSI] iscsi lib: remove qdepth param from iscsi host allocation [SCSI] iscsi lib: have lib create work queue for transmitting IO [SCSI] iscsi class: fix lock dep warning on logout [SCSI] libiscsi: don't cap queue depth in iscsi modules [SCSI] iscsi_tcp: replace scsi_debug/tcp_debug logging with iscsi conn logging [SCSI] libiscsi_tcp: replace tcp_debug/scsi_debug logging with session/conn logging ...
| * [SCSI] net: add FCoE offload support through net_deviceYi Zou2009-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds support to provide Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offload through net_device's net_device_ops struct. The offload through net_device for FCoE is enabled in kernel as built-in or module driver. Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
| * [SCSI] net: define feature flags for FCoE offloadsChris Leech2009-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Define feature flags for FCoE offloads. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
| * [SCSI] net: reclaim 8 upper bits of the netdev->features from GSOChris Leech2009-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reclaim 8 upper bits of netdev->features from GSO. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* | net: Add missing include into include/linux/netdevice.hDmitri Vorobiev2009-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The inline function skb_gro_mac_header defined in include/linux/netdevice.h makes use of page_address(). Depending on configuration options, the latter is either defined as a macro or is declared as a function in another header file, namely include/linux/mm.h. However, include/linux/netdevice.h does not include include/linux/mm.h. On MIPS, this has produced the following build error: CC kernel/sysctl_check.o In file included from include/linux/icmpv6.h:173, from include/linux/ipv6.h:208, from include/net/ip_vs.h:26, from kernel/sysctl_check.c:6: include/linux/netdevice.h: In function 'skb_gro_mac_header': include/linux/netdevice.h:1132: error: implicit declaration of function 'page_address' include/linux/netdevice.h:1133: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in conditional expression make[1]: *** [kernel/sysctl_check.o] Error 1 make: *** [kernel] Error 2 The patch adds the missing include and fixes the build error. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | GRO: Move netpoll checks to correct locationHerbert Xu2009-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-03-05
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
| * | vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes.David S. Miller2009-03-05
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | net: replace __constant_{endian} uses in net headersHarvey Harrison2009-02-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Base versions handle constant folding now. For headers exposed to userspace, we must only expose the __ prefixed versions. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.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>
* | gro: Remember number of held packets instead of counting every timeHerbert Xu2009-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch prepares for the move of the same_flow checks out of dev_gro_receive. As such we need to remember the number of held packets since doing a loop just to count them every time is silly. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: fix some trailing whitespacesGraf Yang2009-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | gro: Avoid copying headers of unmerged packetsHerbert Xu2009-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | gro: Move common completion code into helpersHerbert Xu2009-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | net: Remove redundant NAPI functionsBen Hutchings2009-01-21
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Following the removal of the unused struct net_device * parameter from the NAPI functions named *netif_rx_* in commit 908a7a1, they are exactly equivalent to the corresponding *napi_* functions and are therefore redundant. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Add init_dummy_netdev() and fix EMAC driver using itBenjamin Herrenschmidt2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds an init_dummy_netdev() function that gets a network device structure (allocation and lifetime entirely under caller's control) and initialize the minimum amount of fields so it can be used to schedule NAPI polls without registering a full blown interface. This is to be used by drivers that need to tie several hardware interfaces to a single NAPI poll scheduler due to HW limitations. It also updates the ibm_newemac driver to use that, this fixing the oops on 2.6.29 due to passing NULL as "dev" to netif_napi_add() Symbol is exported GPL only a I don't think we want binary drivers doing that sort of acrobatics (if we want them at all). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Fix a comment in include/linux/netdevice.h.Krzysztof Hałasa2009-01-13
| | | | | | | Fix a comment in include/linux/netdevice.h. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-01-09
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (22 commits) ioat: fix self test for multi-channel case dmaengine: bump initcall level to arch_initcall dmaengine: advertise all channels on a device to dma_filter_fn dmaengine: use idr for registering dma device numbers dmaengine: add a release for dma class devices and dependent infrastructure ioat: do not perform removal actions at shutdown iop-adma: enable module removal iop-adma: kill debug BUG_ON iop-adma: let devm do its job, don't duplicate free dmaengine: kill enum dma_state_client dmaengine: remove 'bigref' infrastructure dmaengine: kill struct dma_client and supporting infrastructure dmaengine: replace dma_async_client_register with dmaengine_get atmel-mci: convert to dma_request_channel and down-level dma_slave dmatest: convert to dma_request_channel dmaengine: introduce dma_request_channel and private channels net_dma: convert to dma_find_channel dmaengine: provide a common 'issue_pending_all' implementation dmaengine: centralize channel allocation, introduce dma_find_channel dmaengine: up-level reference counting to the module level ...
| * net_dma: convert to dma_find_channelDan Williams2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the general-purpose channel allocation provided by dmaengine. Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
* | gro: Add internal interfaces for VLANHerbert Xu2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously GRO's only entry point from the outside is through napi_gro_receive and napi_gro_frags. These interfaces are for device drivers. This patch rearranges things to provide a new set of interfaces for VLANs. These interfaces are for internal use only. The VLAN code itself can then provide a set of entry points for device drivers. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | gro: Add page frag supportHerbert Xu2009-01-04
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch allows GRO to merge page frags (skb_shinfo(skb)->frags) in one skb, rather than using the less efficient frag_list. It also adds a new interface, napi_gro_frags to allow drivers to inject page frags directly into the stack without allocating an skb. This is intended to be the GRO equivalent for LRO's lro_receive_frags interface. The existing GSO interface can already handle page frags with or without an appended frag_list so nothing needs to be changed there. The merging itself is rather simple. We store any new frag entries after the last existing entry, without checking whether the first new entry can be merged with the last existing entry. Making this check would actually be easy but since no existing driver can produce contiguous frags anyway it would just be mental masturbation. If the total number of entries would exceed the capacity of a single skb, we simply resort to using frag_list as we do now. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Remove unused netdev arg from some NAPI interfaces.Neil Horman2008-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | When the napi api was changed to separate its 1:1 binding to the net_device struct, the netif_rx_[prep|schedule|complete] api failed to remove the now vestigual net_device structure parameter. This patch cleans up that api by properly removing it.. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Add Generic Receive Offload infrastructureHerbert Xu2008-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the top-level GRO (Generic Receive Offload) infrastructure. This is pretty similar to LRO except that this is protocol-independent. Instead of holding packets in an lro_mgr structure, they're now held in napi_struct. For drivers that intend to use this, they can set the NETIF_F_GRO bit and call napi_gro_receive instead of netif_receive_skb or just call netif_rx. The latter will call napi_receive_skb automatically. When napi_gro_receive is used, the driver must either call napi_complete/napi_rx_complete, or call napi_gro_flush in softirq context if the driver uses the primitives __napi_complete/__napi_rx_complete. Protocols will set the gro_receive and gro_complete function pointers in order to participate in this scheme. In addition to the packet, gro_receive will get a list of currently held packets. Each packet in the list has a same_flow field which is non-zero if it is a potential match for the new packet. For each packet that may match, they also have a flush field which is non-zero if the held packet must not be merged with the new packet. Once gro_receive has determined that the new skb matches a held packet, the held packet may be processed immediately if the new skb cannot be merged with it. In this case gro_receive should return the pointer to the existing skb in gro_list. Otherwise the new skb should be merged into the existing packet and NULL should be returned, unless the new skb makes it impossible for any further merges to be made (e.g., FIN packet) where the merged skb should be returned. Whenever the skb is merged into an existing entry, the gro_receive function should set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->same_flow. Note that if an skb merely matches an existing entry but can't be merged with it, then this shouldn't be set. If gro_receive finds it pointless to hold the new skb for future merging, it should set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush. Held packets will be flushed by napi_gro_flush which is called by napi_complete and napi_rx_complete. Currently held packets are stored in a singly liked list just like LRO. The list is limited to a maximum of 8 entries. In future, this may be expanded to use a hash table to allow more flows to be held for merging. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Add frag_list support to GSOHerbert Xu2008-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch allows GSO to handle frag_list in a limited way for the purposes of allowing packets merged by GRO to be refragmented on output. Most hardware won't (and aren't expected to) support handling GRO frag_list packets directly. Therefore we will perform GSO in software for those cases. However, for drivers that can support it (such as virtual NICs) we may not have to segment the packets at all. Whether the added overhead of GRO/GSO is worthwhile for bridges and routers when weighed against the benefit of potentially increasing the MTU within the host is still an open question. However, for the case of host nodes this is undoubtedly a win. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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