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* [NET]: Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL/CHECKSUM_COMPLETEPatrick McHardy2006-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL (for outgoing packets, whose checksum still needs to be completed) and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE (for incoming packets, device supplied full checksum). Patch originally from Herbert Xu, updated by myself for 2.6.18-rc3. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [INET]: Use pskb_trim_unique when trimming paged unique skbsHerbert Xu2006-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The IPv4/IPv6 datagram output path was using skb_trim to trim paged packets because they know that the packet has not been cloned yet (since the packet hasn't been given to anything else in the system). This broke because skb_trim no longer allows paged packets to be trimmed. Paged packets must be given to one of the pskb_trim functions instead. This patch adds a new pskb_trim_unique function to cover the IPv4/IPv6 datagram output path scenario and replaces the corresponding skb_trim calls with it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Fix alloc_skb comment typoChristoph Hellwig2006-08-07
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: skb_queue_lock_key() is no longer used.Adrian Bunk2006-08-02
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Remove lockdep_set_class() call from skb_queue_head_init().Arjan van de Ven2006-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The skb_queue_head_init() function is used both in drivers for private use and in the core networking code. The usage models are vastly set of functions that is only softirq safe; while the driver usage tends to be more limited to a few hardirq safe accessor functions. Rather than annotating all 133+ driver usages, for now just split this lock into a per queue class. This change is obviously safe and probably should make 2.6.18. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Add netdev_alloc_skb().Christoph Hellwig2006-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | Add a dev_alloc_skb variant that takes a struct net_device * paramater. For now that paramater is unused, but I'll use it to allocate the skb from node-local memory in a follow-up patch. Also there have been some other plans mentioned on the list that can use it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Correct dev_alloc_skb kerneldocChristoph Hellwig2006-07-24
| | | | | | | | dev_alloc_skb is designated for RX descriptors, not TX. (Some drivers use it for the latter anyway, but that's a different story) Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Remove CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_DEV_ALLOC_SKBChristoph Hellwig2006-07-24
| | | | | | | | | | skbuff.h has an #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_DEV_ALLOC_SKB to allow architectures to reimplement __dev_alloc_skb. It's not set on any architecture and now that we have an architecture-overrideable NET_SKB_PAD there is not point at all to have one either. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET] gso: Add skb_is_gsoHerbert Xu2006-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the wrapper function skb_is_gso which can be used instead of directly testing skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size. This makes things a little nicer and allows us to change the primary key for indicating whether an skb is GSO (if we ever want to do that). Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] lockdep: annotate skb_queue_head_initIngo Molnar2006-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | Teach special (multi-initialized) locking code to the lock validator. Has no effect on non-lockdep kernels. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [IPV6]: Added GSO support for TCPv6Herbert Xu2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds GSO support for IPv6 and TCPv6. This is based on a patch by Ananda Raju <Ananda.Raju@neterion.com>. His original description is: This patch enables TSO over IPv6. Currently Linux network stacks restricts TSO over IPv6 by clearing of the NETIF_F_TSO bit from "dev->features". This patch will remove this restriction. This patch will introduce a new flag NETIF_F_TSO6 which will be used to check whether device supports TSO over IPv6. If device support TSO over IPv6 then we don't clear of NETIF_F_TSO and which will make the TCP layer to create TSO packets. Any device supporting TSO over IPv6 will set NETIF_F_TSO6 flag in "dev->features" along with NETIF_F_TSO. In case when user disables TSO using ethtool, NETIF_F_TSO will get cleared from "dev->features". So even if we have NETIF_F_TSO6 we don't get TSO packets created by TCP layer. SKB_GSO_TCPV4 renamed to SKB_GSO_TCP to make it generic GSO packet. SKB_GSO_UDPV4 renamed to SKB_GSO_UDP as UFO is not a IPv4 feature. UFO is supported over IPv6 also The following table shows there is significant improvement in throughput with normal frames and CPU usage for both normal and jumbo. -------------------------------------------------- | | 1500 | 9600 | | ------------------|-------------------| | | thru CPU | thru CPU | -------------------------------------------------- | TSO OFF | 2.00 5.5% id | 5.66 20.0% id | -------------------------------------------------- | TSO ON | 2.63 78.0 id | 5.67 39.0% id | -------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: make skb_release_data() staticAdrian Bunk2006-06-29
| | | | | | | skb_release_data() no longer has any users in other files. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Add ECN support for TSOMichael Chan2006-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the current TSO implementation, NETIF_F_TSO and ECN cannot be turned on together in a TCP connection. The problem is that most hardware that supports TSO does not handle CWR correctly if it is set in the TSO packet. Correct handling requires CWR to be set in the first packet only if it is set in the TSO header. This patch adds the ability to turn on NETIF_F_TSO and ECN using GSO if necessary to handle TSO packets with CWR set. Hardware that handles CWR correctly can turn on NETIF_F_TSO_ECN in the dev-> features flag. All TSO packets with CWR set will have the SKB_GSO_TCPV4_ECN set. If the output device does not have the NETIF_F_TSO_ECN feature set, GSO will split the packet up correctly with CWR only set in the first segment. With help from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>. Since ECN can always be enabled with TSO, the SOCK_NO_LARGESEND sock flag is completely removed. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Added GSO header verificationHerbert Xu2006-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When GSO packets come from an untrusted source (e.g., a Xen guest domain), we need to verify the header integrity before passing it to the hardware. Since the first step in GSO is to verify the header, we can reuse that code by adding a new bit to gso_type: SKB_GSO_DODGY. Packets with this bit set can only be fed directly to devices with the corresponding bit NETIF_F_GSO_ROBUST. If the device doesn't have that bit, then the skb is fed to the GSO engine which will allow the packet to be sent to the hardware if it passes the header check. This patch changes the sg flag to a full features flag. The same method can be used to implement TSO ECN support. We simply have to mark packets with CWR set with SKB_GSO_ECN so that only hardware with a corresponding NETIF_F_TSO_ECN can accept them. The GSO engine can either fully segment the packet, or segment the first MTU and pass the rest to the hardware for further segmentation. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: fix net-core kernel-docRandy Dunlap2006-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//include/linux/skbuff.h:304): No description found for parameter 'dma_cookie' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//include/net/sock.h:1274): No description found for parameter 'copied_early' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//net/core/dev.c:3309): No description found for parameter 'chan' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//net/core/dev.c:3309): No description found for parameter 'event' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Add software TSOv4Herbert Xu2006-06-23
| | | | | | | This patch adds the GSO implementation for IPv4 TCP. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Merge TSO/UFO fields in sk_buffHerbert Xu2006-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Having separate fields in sk_buff for TSO/UFO (tso_size/ufo_size) is not going to scale if we add any more segmentation methods (e.g., DCCP). So let's merge them. They were used to tell the protocol of a packet. This function has been subsumed by the new gso_type field. This is essentially a set of netdev feature bits (shifted by 16 bits) that are required to process a specific skb. As such it's easy to tell whether a given device can process a GSO skb: you just have to and the gso_type field and the netdev's features field. I've made gso_type a conjunction. The idea is that you have a base type (e.g., SKB_GSO_TCPV4) that can be modified further to support new features. For example, if we add a hardware TSO type that supports ECN, they would declare NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO_ECN. All TSO packets with CWR set would have a gso_type of SKB_GSO_TCPV4 | SKB_GSO_TCPV4_ECN while all other TSO packets would be SKB_GSO_TCPV4. This means that only the CWR packets need to be emulated in software. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Avoid allocating skb in skb_padHerbert Xu2006-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | First of all it is unnecessary to allocate a new skb in skb_pad since the existing one is not shared. More importantly, our hard_start_xmit interface does not allow a new skb to be allocated since that breaks requeueing. This patch uses pskb_expand_head to expand the existing skb and linearize it if needed. Actually, someone should sift through every instance of skb_pad on a non-linear skb as they do not fit the reasons why this was originally created. Incidentally, this fixes a minor bug when the skb is cloned (tcpdump, TCP, etc.). As it is skb_pad will simply write over a cloned skb. Because of the position of the write it is unlikely to cause problems but still it's best if we don't do it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge git://git.infradead.org/hdrcleanup-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-06-20
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.infradead.org/hdrcleanup-2.6: (63 commits) [S390] __FD_foo definitions. Switch to __s32 types in joystick.h instead of C99 types for consistency. Add <sys/types.h> to headers included for userspace in <linux/input.h> Move inclusion of <linux/compat.h> out of user scope in asm-x86_64/mtrr.h Remove struct fddi_statistics from user view in <linux/if_fddi.h> Move user-visible parts of drivers/s390/crypto/z90crypt.h to include/asm-s390 Revert include/media changes: Mauro says those ioctls are only used in-kernel(!) Include <linux/types.h> and use __uXX types in <linux/cramfs_fs.h> Use __uXX types in <linux/i2o_dev.h>, include <linux/ioctl.h> too Remove private struct dx_hash_info from public view in <linux/ext3_fs.h> Include <linux/types.h> and use __uXX types in <linux/affs_hardblocks.h> Use __uXX types in <linux/divert.h> for struct divert_blk et al. Use __u32 for elf_addr_t in <asm-powerpc/elf.h>, not u32. It's user-visible. Remove PPP_FCS from user view in <linux/ppp_defs.h>, remove __P mess entirely Use __uXX types in user-visible structures in <linux/nbd.h> Don't use 'u32' in user-visible struct ip_conntrack_old_tuple. Use __uXX types for S390 DASD volume label definitions which are user-visible S390 BIODASDREADCMB ioctl should use __u64 not u64 type. Remove unneeded inclusion of <linux/time.h> from <linux/ufs_fs.h> Fix private integer types used in V4L2 ioctls. ... Manually resolve conflict in include/linux/mtd/physmap.h
| * Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/David Woodhouse2006-04-26
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [NET]: Warn in __skb_trim if skb is pagedHerbert Xu2006-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's better to warn and fail rather than rarely triggering BUG on paths that incorrectly call skb_trim/__skb_trim on a non-linear skb. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [NET]: Clean up skb_linearizeHerbert Xu2006-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The linearisation operation doesn't need to be super-optimised. So we can replace __skb_linearize with __pskb_pull_tail which does the same thing but is more general. Also, most users of skb_linearize end up testing whether the skb is linear or not so it helps to make skb_linearize do just that. Some callers of skb_linearize also use it to copy cloned data, so it's useful to have a new function skb_linearize_cow to copy the data if it's either non-linear or cloned. Last but not least, I've removed the gfp argument since nobody uses it anymore. If it's ever needed we can easily add it back. Misc bugs fixed by this patch: * via-velocity error handling (also, no SG => no frags) Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [SECMARK]: Add secmark support to core networking.James Morris2006-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a secmark field to the skbuff structure, to allow security subsystems to place security markings on network packets. This is similar to the nfmark field, except is intended for implementing security policy, rather than than networking policy. This patch was already acked in principle by Dave Miller. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [I/OAT]: Structure changes for TCP recv offload to I/OATChris Leech2006-06-18
|/ | | | | | | | Adds an async_wait_queue and some additional fields to tcp_sock, and a dma_cookie_t to sk_buff. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Add skb->truesize assertion checking.David S. Miller2006-04-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some sanity checking. truesize should be at least sizeof(struct sk_buff) plus the current packet length. If not, then truesize is seriously mangled and deserves a kernel log message. Currently we'll do the check for release of stream socket buffers. But we can add checks to more spots over time. Incorporating ideas from Herbert Xu. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Allow skb headroom to be overriddenAnton Blanchard2006-03-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously we added NET_IP_ALIGN so an architecture can override the padding done to align headers. The next step is to allow the skb headroom to be overridden. We currently always reserve 16 bytes to grow into, meaning all DMAs start 16 bytes into a cacheline. On ppc64 we really want DMA writes to start on a cacheline boundary, so we increase that headroom to one cacheline. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Replace skb_pull/skb_postpull_rcsum with skb_pull_rcsumHerbert Xu2006-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We're now starting to have quite a number of places that do skb_pull followed immediately by an skb_postpull_rcsum. We can merge these two operations into one function with skb_pull_rcsum. This makes sense since most pull operations on receive skb's need to update the checksum. I've decided to make this out-of-line since it is fairly big and the fast path where hardware checksums are enabled need to call csum_partial anyway. Since this is a brand new function we get to add an extra check on the len argument. As it is most callers of skb_pull ignore its return value which essentially means that there is no check on the len argument. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Uninline kfree_skb and allow NULL argumentJörn Engel2006-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | o Uninline kfree_skb, which saves some 15k of object code on my notebook. o Allow kfree_skb to be called with a NULL argument. Subsequent patches can remove conditional from drivers and further reduce source and object size. Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETFILTER]: Fix skb->nf_bridge lifetime issuesPatrick McHardy2006-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The bridge netfilter code simulates the NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING hook and skips the real hook by registering with high priority and returning NF_STOP if skb->nf_bridge is present and the BRNF_NF_BRIDGE_PREROUTING flag is not set. The flag is only set during the simulated hook. Because skb->nf_bridge is only freed when the packet is destroyed, the packet will not only skip the first invocation of NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING, but in the case of tunnel devices on top of the bridge also all further ones. Forwarded packets from a bridge encapsulated by a tunnel device and sent as locally outgoing packet will also still have the incorrect bridge information from the input path attached. We already have nf_reset calls on all RX/TX paths of tunnel devices, so simply reset the nf_bridge field there too. As an added bonus, the bridge information for locally delivered packets is now also freed when the packet is queued to a socket. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Reduce size of struct sk_buff on 64 bit architecturesPatrick McHardy2006-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | Move skb->nf_mark next to skb->tc_index to remove a 4 byte hole between skb->nfmark and skb->nfct and another one between skb->users and skb->head when CONFIG_NETFILTER, CONFIG_NET_SCHED and CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT are enabled. For all other combinations the size stays the same. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Make second arg to skb_reserved() signed.David S. Miller2006-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | Some subsystems, such as PPP, can send negative values here. It just happened to work correctly on 32-bit with an unsigned value, but on 64-bit this explodes. Figured out by Paul Mackerras based upon several PPP crash reports. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETFILTER]: Fix xfrm lookup in ip_route_me_harder/ip6_route_me_harderPatrick McHardy2006-01-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ip_route_me_harder doesn't use the port numbers of the xfrm lookup and uses ip_route_input for non-local addresses which doesn't do a xfrm lookup, ip6_route_me_harder doesn't do a xfrm lookup at all. Use xfrm_decode_session and do the lookup manually, make sure both only do the lookup if the packet hasn't been transformed already. Makeing sure the lookup only happens once needs a new field in the IP6CB, which exceeds the size of skb->cb. The size of skb->cb is increased to 48b. Apparently the IPv6 mobile extensions need some more room anyway. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Speed up __alloc_skb()Benjamin LaHaise2006-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> In __alloc_skb(), the use of skb_shinfo() which casts a u8 * to the shared info structure results in gcc being forced to do a reload of the pointer since it has no information on possible aliasing. Fix this by using a pointer to refer to skb_shared_info. By initializing skb_shared_info sequentially, the write combining buffers can reduce the number of memory transactions to a single write. Reorder the initialization in __alloc_skb() to match the structure definition. There is also an alignment issue on 64 bit systems with skb_shared_info by converting nr_frags to a short everything packs up nicely. Also, pass the slab cache pointer according to the fclone flag instead of using two almost identical function calls. This raises bw_unix performance up to a peak of 707KB/s when combined with the spinlock patch. It should help other networking protocols, too. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Small cleanup to socket initializationAndi Kleen2006-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | sock_init can be done as a core_initcall instead of calling it directly in init/main.c Also I removed an out of date #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IP]: Simplify and consolidate MSG_PEEK error handlingHerbert Xu2006-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a packet is obtained from skb_recv_datagram with MSG_PEEK enabled it is left on the socket receive queue. This means that when we detect a checksum error we have to be careful when trying to free the packet as someone could have dequeued it in the time being. Currently this delicate logic is duplicated three times between UDPv4, UDPv6 and RAWv6. This patch moves them into a one place and simplifies the code somewhat. This is based on a suggestion by Eric Dumazet. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: kernel-doc fixesRandy Dunlap2005-11-21
| | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc warnings in network files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Use unused bit for ipvs_property field in struct sk_buffPatrick McHardy2005-11-21
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Detect hardware rx checksum faults correctlyHerbert Xu2005-11-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults. If that happens, it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack trace with the device name. In future it can turn off RX checksum. I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the exceptions of: * Those places where checksums are done bit by bit. These will call netdev_rx_csum_fault directly. * The following have not been completely checked/converted: ipmr ip_vs netfilter dccp This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger and David S. Miller. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.Yasuyuki Kozakai2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The existing connection tracking subsystem in netfilter can only handle ipv4. There were basically two choices present to add connection tracking support for ipv6. We could either duplicate all of the ipv4 connection tracking code into an ipv6 counterpart, or (the choice taken by these patches) we could design a generic layer that could handle both ipv4 and ipv6 and thus requiring only one sub-protocol (TCP, UDP, etc.) connection tracking helper module to be written. In fact nf_conntrack is capable of working with any layer 3 protocol. The existing ipv4 specific conntrack code could also not deal with the pecularities of doing connection tracking on ipv6, which is also cured here. For example, these issues include: 1) ICMPv6 handling, which is used for neighbour discovery in ipv6 thus some messages such as these should not participate in connection tracking since effectively they are like ARP messages 2) fragmentation must be handled differently in ipv6, because the simplistic "defrag, connection track and NAT, refrag" (which the existing ipv4 connection tracking does) approach simply isn't feasible in ipv6 3) ipv6 extension header parsing must occur at the correct spots before and after connection tracking decisions, and there were no provisions for this in the existing connection tracking design 4) ipv6 has no need for stateful NAT The ipv4 specific conntrack layer is kept around, until all of the ipv4 specific conntrack helpers are ported over to nf_conntrack and it is feature complete. Once that occurs, the old conntrack stuff will get placed into the feature-removal-schedule and we will fully kill it off 6 months later. Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
* [NETEM]: Support time based reorderingStephen Hemminger2005-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change netem to support packets getting reordered because of variations in delay. Introduce a special case version of FIFO that queues packets in order based on the netem delay. Since netem is classful, those users that don't want jitter based reordering can just insert a pfifo instead of the default. This required changes to generic skbuff code to allow finer grain manipulation of sk_buff_head. Insertion into the middle and reverse walk. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
* [IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approachAnanda Raju2005-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Attached is kernel patch for UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) feature. 1. This patch incorporate the review comments by Jeff Garzik. 2. Renamed USO as UFO (UDP Fragmentation Offload) 3. udp sendfile support with UFO This patches uses scatter-gather feature of skb to generate large UDP datagram. Below is a "how-to" on changes required in network device driver to use the UFO interface. UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) Interface: ------------------------------------------- UFO is a feature wherein the Linux kernel network stack will offload the IP fragmentation functionality of large UDP datagram to hardware. This will reduce the overhead of stack in fragmenting the large UDP datagram to MTU sized packets 1) Drivers indicate their capability of UFO using dev->features |= NETIF_F_UFO | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG NETIF_F_HW_CSUM is required for UFO over ipv6. 2) UFO packet will be submitted for transmission using driver xmit routine. UFO packet will have a non-zero value for "skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size" skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size will indicate the length of data part in each IP fragment going out of the adapter after IP fragmentation by hardware. skb->data will contain MAC/IP/UDP header and skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[] contains the data payload. The skb->ip_summed will be set to CHECKSUM_HW indicating that hardware has to do checksum calculation. Hardware should compute the UDP checksum of complete datagram and also ip header checksum of each fragmented IP packet. For IPV6 the UFO provides the fragment identification-id in skb_shinfo(skb)->ip6_frag_id. The adapter should use this ID for generating IPv6 fragments. Signed-off-by: Ananda Raju <ananda.raju@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (forwarded) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
* [SK_BUFF] kernel-doc: fix skbuff warningsRandy Dunlap2005-10-25
| | | | | | | Add kernel-doc to skbuff.h, skbuff.c to eliminate kernel-doc warnings. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
* [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1Al Viro2005-10-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | - added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t; - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with typedef) and documents what's going on far better. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [NET]: Fix packet timestamping.Herbert Xu2005-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've found the problem in general. It affects any 64-bit architecture. The problem occurs when you change the system time. Suppose that when you boot your system clock is forward by a day. This gets recorded down in skb_tv_base. You then wind the clock back by a day. From that point onwards the offset will be negative which essentially overflows the 32-bit variables they're stored in. In fact, why don't we just store the real time stamp in those 32-bit variables? After all, we're not going to overflow for quite a while yet. When we do overflow, we'll need a better solution of course. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Optimize pskb_trim_rcsum()Stephen Hemminger2005-09-08
| | | | | | | | | Since packets almost never contain extra garbage at the end, it is worthwhile to optimize for that case. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: skb_get/set_timestamp use constStephen Hemminger2005-09-06
| | | | | | | | The new timestamp get/set routines should have const attribute on parameters (helps to indicate direction). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Implement SKB fast cloning.David S. Miller2005-08-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Protocols that make extensive use of SKB cloning, for example TCP, eat at least 2 allocations per packet sent as a result. To cut the kmalloc() count in half, we implement a pre-allocation scheme wherein we allocate 2 sk_buff objects in advance, then use a simple reference count to free up the memory at the correct time. Based upon an initial patch by Thomas Graf and suggestions from Herbert Xu. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Fix sparse warningsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2005-08-29
| | | | | | | | | | | Of this type, mostly: CHECK net/ipv6/netfilter.c net/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_init' was not declared. Should it be static? net/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_fini' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Store skb->timestamp as offset to a base timestampPatrick McHardy2005-08-29
| | | | | | | Reduces skb size by 8 bytes on 64-bit. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Kill skb->real_devDavid S. Miller2005-08-29
| | | | | | | | | | | Bonding just wants the device before the skb_bond() decapsulation occurs, so simply pass that original device into packet_type->func() as an argument. It remains to be seen whether we can use this same exact thing to get rid of skb->input_dev as well. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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