linux-toradex.git/net/sched/sch_generic.c, branch v3.0.95

net: Rework netdev_drivername() to avoid warning.

2011-06-06T23:41:33+00:00

This interface uses a temporary buffer, but for no real reason.
And now can generate warnings like:

net/sched/sch_generic.c: In function dev_watchdog
net/sched/sch_generic.c:254:10: warning: unused variable drivername

Just return driver->name directly or "".

Reported-by: Connor Hansen 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: avoid synchronize_rcu() in dev_deactivate_many

2011-05-23T01:01:20+00:00

dev_deactivate_many() issues one synchronize_rcu() call after qdiscs set
to noop_qdisc.

This call is here to make sure they are no outstanding qdisc-less
dev_queue_xmit calls before returning to caller.

But in dismantle phase, we dont have to wait, because we wont activate
again the device, and we are going to wait one rcu grace period later in
rollback_registered_many().

After this patch, device dismantle uses one synchronize_net() and one
rcu_barrier() call only, so we have a ~30% speedup and a smaller RTNL
latency.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
CC: Patrick McHardy ,
CC: Ben Greear 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2011-03-04T05:27:42+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h

net_sched: reduce fifo qdisc size

2011-03-03T19:10:02+00:00

Because of various alignements [SLUB / qdisc], we use 512 bytes of
memory for one {p|b}fifo qdisc, instead of 256 bytes on 64bit arches and
192 bytes on 32bit ones.

Move the "u32 limit" inside "struct Qdisc" (no impact on other qdiscs)

Change qdisc_alloc(), first trying a regular allocation before an
oversized one.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix more stale on-stack list_head objects.

2011-02-20T19:49:45+00:00

From: Eric W. Biederman 

In the beginning with batching unreg_list was a list that was used only
once in the lifetime of a network device (I think).  Now we have calls
using the unreg_list that can happen multiple times in the life of a
network device like dev_deactivate and dev_close that are also using the
unreg_list.  In addition in unregister_netdevice_queue we also do a
list_move because for devices like veth pairs it is possible that
unregister_netdevice_queue will be called multiple times.

So I think the change below to fix dev_deactivate which Eric D. missed
will fix this problem.  Now to go test that.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net_sched: TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS generalization

2011-01-22T00:26:09+00:00

Now qdisc stab is handled before TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS test in
__dev_xmit_skb(), we can generalize TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS to other qdiscs
than pfifo_fast : pfifo, bfifo, pfifo_head_drop and sfq

SFQ is special because it can have external classifiers, and in these
cases, we cannot bypass queue discipline (packet could be dropped by
classifier) without admin asking it, or further changes.

Its worth doing this, especially for SFQ, avoiding dirtying memory in
case no packets are already waiting in queue.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net_sched: RCU conversion of stab

2011-01-21T00:59:32+00:00

This patch converts stab qdisc management to RCU, so that we can perform
the qdisc_calculate_pkt_len() call before getting qdisc lock.

This shortens the lock's held time in __dev_xmit_skb().

This permits more qdiscs to get TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS status, avoiding lot of
cache misses and so reducing latencies.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
CC: Patrick McHardy 
CC: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
CC: Jarek Poplawski 
CC: Jamal Hadi Salim 
CC: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net_sched: cleanups

2011-01-20T07:31:12+00:00

Cleanup net/sched code to current CodingStyle and practices.

Reduce inline abuse

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net_sched: implement a root container qdisc sch_mqprio

2011-01-20T07:31:11+00:00

This implements a mqprio queueing discipline that by default creates
a pfifo_fast qdisc per tx queue and provides the needed configuration
interface.

Using the mqprio qdisc the number of tcs currently in use along
with the range of queues alloted to each class can be configured. By
default skbs are mapped to traffic classes using the skb priority.
This mapping is configurable.

Configurable parameters,

struct tc_mqprio_qopt {
	__u8    num_tc;
	__u8    prio_tc_map[TC_BITMASK + 1];
	__u8    hw;
	__u16   count[TC_MAX_QUEUE];
	__u16   offset[TC_MAX_QUEUE];
};

Here the count/offset pairing give the queue alignment and the
prio_tc_map gives the mapping from skb->priority to tc.

The hw bit determines if the hardware should configure the count
and offset values. If the hardware bit is set then the operation
will fail if the hardware does not implement the ndo_setup_tc
operation. This is to avoid undetermined states where the hardware
may or may not control the queue mapping. Also minimal bounds
checking is done on the count/offset to verify a queue does not
exceed num_tx_queues and that queue ranges do not overlap. Otherwise
it is left to user policy or hardware configuration to create
useful mappings.

It is expected that hardware QOS schemes can be implemented by
creating appropriate mappings of queues in ndo_tc_setup().

One expected use case is drivers will use the ndo_setup_tc to map
queue ranges onto 802.1Q traffic classes. This provides a generic
mechanism to map network traffic onto these traffic classes and
removes the need for lower layer drivers to know specifics about
traffic types.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: factorize sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice_many

2010-12-16T22:04:44+00:00

Add dev_close_many and dev_deactivate_many to factorize another
sync-rcu operation on the netdevice unregister path.

$ modprobe dummy numdummies=10000
$ ip link set dev dummy* up
$ time rmmod dummy

Without the patch           With the patch

real    0m 24.63s           real    0m 5.15s
user    0m 0.00s            user    0m 0.00s
sys     0m 6.05s            sys     0m 5.14s

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller