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<title>linux-toradex.git/Documentation/networking, branch v3.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>stmmac: update driver's doc</title>
<updated>2012-06-06T16:34:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Giuseppe CAVALLARO</name>
<email>peppe.cavallaro@st.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-04T19:22:56+00:00</published>
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Fixed the driver's documentation that was obsolete and didn't
report new platform fields (recently added).

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro &lt;peppe.cavallaro@st.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Fixed the driver's documentation that was obsolete and didn't
report new platform fields (recently added).

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro &lt;peppe.cavallaro@st.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2012-05-23T02:22:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-23T02:22:50+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "As usual, it's mostly typo fixes, redundant code elimination and some
  documentation updates."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (57 commits)
  edac, mips: don't change code that has been removed in edac/mips tree
  xtensa: Change mail addresses of Hannes Weiner and Oskar Schirmer
  lib: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer
  net: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer
  arm/m68k: Change mail address of Sebastian Hess
  i2c: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer
  net: Fix tcp_build_and_update_options comment in struct tcp_sock
  atomic64_32.h: fix parameter naming mismatch
  Kconfig: replace "--- help ---" with "---help---"
  c2port: fix bogus Kconfig "default no"
  edac: Fix spelling errors.
  qla1280: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call
  remoteproc: remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware()
  qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call.
  aic94xx: Get rid of redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call
  tehuti: delete redundant NULL check before release_firmware()
  qlogic: get rid of a redundant test for NULL before call to release_firmware()
  bna: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware()
  tg3: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware() call
  typhoon: get rid of redundant conditional before all to release_firmware()
  ...
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Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "As usual, it's mostly typo fixes, redundant code elimination and some
  documentation updates."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (57 commits)
  edac, mips: don't change code that has been removed in edac/mips tree
  xtensa: Change mail addresses of Hannes Weiner and Oskar Schirmer
  lib: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer
  net: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer
  arm/m68k: Change mail address of Sebastian Hess
  i2c: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer
  net: Fix tcp_build_and_update_options comment in struct tcp_sock
  atomic64_32.h: fix parameter naming mismatch
  Kconfig: replace "--- help ---" with "---help---"
  c2port: fix bogus Kconfig "default no"
  edac: Fix spelling errors.
  qla1280: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call
  remoteproc: remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware()
  qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call.
  aic94xx: Get rid of redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call
  tehuti: delete redundant NULL check before release_firmware()
  qlogic: get rid of a redundant test for NULL before call to release_firmware()
  bna: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware()
  tg3: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware() call
  typhoon: get rid of redundant conditional before all to release_firmware()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/net: delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCA</title>
<updated>2012-05-17T20:37:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-16T23:48:42+00:00</published>
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The support for CONFIG_MCA is being removed, since the 20
year old hardware simply isn't capable of meeting today's
software demands on CPU and memory resources.

This commit removes any MCA specific net drivers, and removes
any MCA specific probe/support code from drivers that were
doing a dual ISA/MCA role.

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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The support for CONFIG_MCA is being removed, since the 20
year old hardware simply isn't capable of meeting today's
software demands on CPU and memory resources.

This commit removes any MCA specific net drivers, and removes
any MCA specific probe/support code from drivers that were
doing a dual ISA/MCA role.

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation/networking/ieee802154: update MAC chapter</title>
<updated>2012-05-16T19:17:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com</name>
<email>alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-15T20:50:31+00:00</published>
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Update the documentation according to latest changes.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov &lt;alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Update the documentation according to latest changes.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov &lt;alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tokenring: delete all remaining driver support</title>
<updated>2012-05-16T00:23:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-10T02:41:59+00:00</published>
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This represents the mass deletion of the of the tokenring support.

It gets rid of:
  - the net/tr.c which the drivers depended on
  - the drivers/net component
  - the Kbuild infrastructure around it
  - any tokenring related CONFIG_ settings in any defconfigs
  - the tokenring headers in the include/linux dir
  - the firmware associated with the tokenring drivers.
  - any associated token ring documentation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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This represents the mass deletion of the of the tokenring support.

It gets rid of:
  - the net/tr.c which the drivers depended on
  - the drivers/net component
  - the Kbuild infrastructure around it
  - any tokenring related CONFIG_ settings in any defconfigs
  - the tokenring headers in the include/linux dir
  - the firmware associated with the tokenring drivers.
  - any associated token ring documentation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>batman-adv: README cleanups</title>
<updated>2012-05-14T06:50:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sven Eckelmann</name>
<email>sven@narfation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-02T17:31:26+00:00</published>
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- Add routing_algo

- Remove date from README:
The date has to be updated when a patch touches the README. Therefore, nearly
every feature will modify this date. It can happens quite often that not only
one feature is currently in development or waiting on the mailinglist. This
creates merge conflicts when applying a patchset.

The date itself doesn't provide any additional information when this file is
only available in a release tarball or as part of a SCM repository.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann &lt;sven@narfation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli &lt;ordex@autistici.org&gt;
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- Add routing_algo

- Remove date from README:
The date has to be updated when a patch touches the README. Therefore, nearly
every feature will modify this date. It can happens quite often that not only
one feature is currently in development or waiting on the mailinglist. This
creates merge conflicts when applying a patchset.

The date itself doesn't provide any additional information when this file is
only available in a release tarball or as part of a SCM repository.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann &lt;sven@narfation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli &lt;ordex@autistici.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: bridge: optionally set indev to vlan</title>
<updated>2012-05-08T17:36:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-08T17:36:44+00:00</published>
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if net.bridge.bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged sysctl is enabled, bridge
netfilter removes the vlan header temporarily and then feeds the packet
to ip(6)tables.

When the new "bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-device" sysctl is on
(default off), then bridge netfilter will also set the
in-interface to the vlan interface; if such an interface exists.

This is needed to make iptables REDIRECT target work with
"vlan-on-top-of-bridge" setups and to allow use of "iptables -i" to
match the vlan device name.

Also update Documentation with current brnf default settings.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Acked-by: Bart De Schuymer &lt;bdschuym@pandora.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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if net.bridge.bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged sysctl is enabled, bridge
netfilter removes the vlan header temporarily and then feeds the packet
to ip(6)tables.

When the new "bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-device" sysctl is on
(default off), then bridge netfilter will also set the
in-interface to the vlan interface; if such an interface exists.

This is needed to make iptables REDIRECT target work with
"vlan-on-top-of-bridge" setups and to allow use of "iptables -i" to
match the vlan device name.

Also update Documentation with current brnf default settings.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Acked-by: Bart De Schuymer &lt;bdschuym@pandora.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2012-05-08T03:35:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-08T03:35:40+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/param.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-rx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h

Resolved the iwlwifi conflict with mainline using 3-way diff posted
by John Linville and Stephen Rothwell.  In 'net' we added a bug
fix to make iwlwifi report a more accurate skb-&gt;truesize but this
conflicted with RX path changes that happened meanwhile in net-next.

In e1000e a conflict arose in the validation code for settings of
adapter-&gt;itr.  'net-next' had more sophisticated logic so that
logic was used.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/param.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-rx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h

Resolved the iwlwifi conflict with mainline using 3-way diff posted
by John Linville and Stephen Rothwell.  In 'net' we added a bug
fix to make iwlwifi report a more accurate skb-&gt;truesize but this
conflicted with RX path changes that happened meanwhile in net-next.

In e1000e a conflict arose in the validation code for settings of
adapter-&gt;itr.  'net-next' had more sophisticated logic so that
logic was used.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: change tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_rmem[2]</title>
<updated>2012-05-03T01:08:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-02T02:28:41+00:00</published>
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tcp_adv_win_scale default value is 2, meaning we expect a good citizen
skb to have skb-&gt;len / skb-&gt;truesize ratio of 75% (3/4)

In 2.6 kernels we (mis)accounted for typical MSS=1460 frame :
1536 + 64 + 256 = 1856 'estimated truesize', and 1856 * 3/4 = 1392.
So these skbs were considered as not bloated.

With recent truesize fixes, a typical MSS=1460 frame truesize is now the
more precise :
2048 + 256 = 2304. But 2304 * 3/4 = 1728.
So these skb are not good citizen anymore, because 1460 &lt; 1728

(GRO can escape this problem because it build skbs with a too low
truesize.)

This also means tcp advertises a too optimistic window for a given
allocated rcvspace : When receiving frames, sk_rmem_alloc can hit
sk_rcvbuf limit and we call tcp_prune_queue()/tcp_collapse() too often,
especially when application is slow to drain its receive queue or in
case of losses (netperf is fast, scp is slow). This is a major latency
source.

We should adjust the len/truesize ratio to 50% instead of 75%

This patch :

1) changes tcp_adv_win_scale default to 1 instead of 2

2) increase tcp_rmem[2] limit from 4MB to 6MB to take into account
better truesize tracking and to allow autotuning tcp receive window to
reach same value than before. Note that same amount of kernel memory is
consumed compared to 2.6 kernels.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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tcp_adv_win_scale default value is 2, meaning we expect a good citizen
skb to have skb-&gt;len / skb-&gt;truesize ratio of 75% (3/4)

In 2.6 kernels we (mis)accounted for typical MSS=1460 frame :
1536 + 64 + 256 = 1856 'estimated truesize', and 1856 * 3/4 = 1392.
So these skbs were considered as not bloated.

With recent truesize fixes, a typical MSS=1460 frame truesize is now the
more precise :
2048 + 256 = 2304. But 2304 * 3/4 = 1728.
So these skb are not good citizen anymore, because 1460 &lt; 1728

(GRO can escape this problem because it build skbs with a too low
truesize.)

This also means tcp advertises a too optimistic window for a given
allocated rcvspace : When receiving frames, sk_rmem_alloc can hit
sk_rcvbuf limit and we call tcp_prune_queue()/tcp_collapse() too often,
especially when application is slow to drain its receive queue or in
case of losses (netperf is fast, scp is slow). This is a major latency
source.

We should adjust the len/truesize ratio to 50% instead of 75%

This patch :

1) changes tcp_adv_win_scale default to 1 instead of 2

2) increase tcp_rmem[2] limit from 4MB to 6MB to take into account
better truesize tracking and to allow autotuning tcp receive window to
reach same value than before. Note that same amount of kernel memory is
consumed compared to 2.6 kernels.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: early retransmit</title>
<updated>2012-05-03T00:56:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-02T13:30:03+00:00</published>
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This patch implements RFC 5827 early retransmit (ER) for TCP.
It reduces DUPACK threshold (dupthresh) if outstanding packets are
less than 4 to recover losses by fast recovery instead of timeout.

While the algorithm is simple, small but frequent network reordering
makes this feature dangerous: the connection repeatedly enter
false recovery and degrade performance. Therefore we implement
a mitigation suggested in the appendix of the RFC that delays
entering fast recovery by a small interval, i.e., RTT/4. Currently
ER is conservative and is disabled for the rest of the connection
after the first reordering event. A large scale web server
experiment on the performance impact of ER is summarized in
section 6 of the paper "Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP”,
IMC 2011. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2011/docs/p155.pdf

Note that Linux has a similar feature called THIN_DUPACK. The
differences are THIN_DUPACK do not mitigate reorderings and is only
used after slow start. Currently ER is disabled if THIN_DUPACK is
enabled. I would be happy to merge THIN_DUPACK feature with ER if
people think it's a good idea.

ER is enabled by sysctl_tcp_early_retrans:
  0: Disables ER

  1: Reduce dupthresh to packets_out - 1 when outstanding packets &lt; 4.

  2: (Default) reduce dupthresh like mode 1. In addition, delay
     entering fast recovery by RTT/4.

Note: mode 2 is implemented in the third part of this patch series.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch implements RFC 5827 early retransmit (ER) for TCP.
It reduces DUPACK threshold (dupthresh) if outstanding packets are
less than 4 to recover losses by fast recovery instead of timeout.

While the algorithm is simple, small but frequent network reordering
makes this feature dangerous: the connection repeatedly enter
false recovery and degrade performance. Therefore we implement
a mitigation suggested in the appendix of the RFC that delays
entering fast recovery by a small interval, i.e., RTT/4. Currently
ER is conservative and is disabled for the rest of the connection
after the first reordering event. A large scale web server
experiment on the performance impact of ER is summarized in
section 6 of the paper "Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP”,
IMC 2011. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2011/docs/p155.pdf

Note that Linux has a similar feature called THIN_DUPACK. The
differences are THIN_DUPACK do not mitigate reorderings and is only
used after slow start. Currently ER is disabled if THIN_DUPACK is
enabled. I would be happy to merge THIN_DUPACK feature with ER if
people think it's a good idea.

ER is enabled by sysctl_tcp_early_retrans:
  0: Disables ER

  1: Reduce dupthresh to packets_out - 1 when outstanding packets &lt; 4.

  2: (Default) reduce dupthresh like mode 1. In addition, delay
     entering fast recovery by RTT/4.

Note: mode 2 is implemented in the third part of this patch series.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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