| Age | Commit message (Collapse) | Author |
|---|
|
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
|
|
Updates real_num_tx_queues in case underlying real device
has changed real_num_tx_queues.
-v2
As per Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@gmail.com> comment:-
-- adds BUG_ON to catch case of real_num_tx_queues exceeding num_tx_queues.
-- created this self contained patch to just update real_num_tx_queues.
Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
This is required to correctly select vlan tx queue for a driver
supporting multi tx queue with ndo_select_queue implemented since
currently selected vlan tx queue is unaligned to selected queue by
real net_devce ndo_select_queue.
Unaligned vlan tx queue selection causes thrash with higher vlan
tx lock contention for least fcoe traffic and wrong socket tx
queue_mapping for ixgbe having ndo_select_queue implemented.
-v2
As per Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@gmail.com> comments, mirrored
vlan net_device_ops to have them with and without vlan_dev_select_queue
and then select according to real dev ndo_select_queue present or not
for a vlan net_device. This is to completely skip vlan_dev_select_queue
calling for real net_device not supporting ndo_select_queue.
Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
When doing "ifenslave -d bond0 eth0", there is chance to get NULL
dereference in netif_receive_skb(), because dev->master suddenly becomes
NULL after we tested it.
We should use ACCESS_ONCE() to avoid this (or rcu_dereference())
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Add __percpu sparse annotations to net.
These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds.
The macro and type tricks around snmp stats make things a bit
interesting. DEFINE/DECLARE_SNMP_STAT() macros mark the target field
as __percpu and SNMP_UPD_PO_STATS() macro is updated accordingly. All
snmp_mib_*() users which used to cast the argument to (void **) are
updated to cast it to (void __percpu **).
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
In the vlan and macvlan drivers, the start_xmit function forwards
data to the dev_queue_xmit function for another device, which may
potentially belong to a different namespace.
To make sure that classification stays within a single namespace,
this resets the potentially critical fields.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
|
|
Bruno Prémont found commit 9793241fe92f7d930
(vlan: Precise RX stats accounting) added a regression for non
hw accelerated vlans.
[ 26.390576] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
[ 26.396369] IP: [<df856b89>] vlan_skb_recv+0x89/0x280 [8021q]
vlan_dev_info() was used with original device, instead of
skb->dev. Also spotted by Américo Wang.
Reported-By: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Tested-By: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
__net_init/__net_exit are apparently not going away, so use them
to full extent.
In some cases __net_init was removed, because it was called from
__net_exit code.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
This allows a bond device to specify an arp_ip_target as a host that is
not on the same vlan as the base bond device and still use arp
validation. A configuration like this, now works:
BONDING_OPTS="mode=active-backup arp_interval=1000 arp_ip_target=10.0.100.1 arp_validate=3"
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master bond0 qlen 1000
link/ether 00:13:21:be:33:e9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master bond0 qlen 1000
link/ether 00:13:21:be:33:e9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
8: bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
link/ether 00:13:21:be:33:e9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::213:21ff:febe:33e9/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
9: bond0.100@bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
link/ether 00:13:21:be:33:e9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.0.100.2/24 brd 10.0.100.255 scope global bond0.100
inet6 fe80::213:21ff:febe:33e9/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.6.0 (September 26, 2009)
Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Primary Slave: None
Currently Active Slave: eth1
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 0
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0
ARP Polling Interval (ms): 1000
ARP IP target/s (n.n.n.n form): 10.0.100.1
Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 1
Permanent HW addr: 00:40:05:30:ff:30
Slave Interface: eth0
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:13:21:be:33:e9
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Using dev_hard_header allows us to use LLC with VLANs and potentially
other Ethernet/TokernRing specific encapsulations. It also removes code
duplication between LLC and Ethernet/TokenRing core code.
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Provide common routine for the transition of operational state for a leaf
device during a root device transition.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mullaney <pmullaney@novell.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Take advantage of the fact that an explicit rtnl_kill_links is
unnecessary (and skipping it improves batching), as network namespace
exit calls dellink on all remaining virtual devices, and
rtnl_link_unregister calls dellink on all outstanding devices in that
network namespace. To do this we need to leave the vlan proc
directories in place until after network device exit time, which is
done by using register_pernet_subsys instead of
register_pernet_device.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Take advantage of the new pernet automatic storage management,
and stop using compatibility network namespace functions.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Currently the UP/DOWN state of VLANs is synchronized to the state of the
underlying device, meaning all VLANs are set down once the underlying
device is set down. This causes all routes to the VLAN devices to vanish.
Add a flag to specify a "loose binding" mode, in which only the operstate
is transfered, but the VLAN device state is independant.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/sfc/sfe4001.c
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c
drivers/staging/Kconfig
drivers/staging/Makefile
drivers/staging/rtl8187se/Kconfig
drivers/staging/rtl8192e/Kconfig
|
|
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
With multi queue devices, its possible that several cpus call
vlan RX routines simultaneously for the same vlan device.
We update RX stats counter without any locking, so we can
get slightly wrong counters.
One possible fix is to use percpu counters, to get precise
accounting and also get guarantee of no cache line ping pongs
between cpus.
Note: this adds 16 bytes (32 bytes on 64bit arches) of percpu
data per vlan device.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
In case register_netdevice() returns an error, and a new vlan_group
was allocated and inserted in vlan_group_hash[] we call
vlan_group_free() without deleting group from hash table. Future
lookups can give infinite loops or crashes.
We must delete the vlan_group using RCU safe procedure.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Commit 05423b241311c9380 (vlan: allow null VLAN ID to be used)
forgot to update __vlan_hwaccel_rx() & vlan_gro_common()
We need to set VLAN_TAG_PRESENT flag in skb->vlan_tci
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Both vlan and macvlan devices usually don't use a qdisc and immediately
queue packets to the underlying device. Propagate transmission state of
the underlying device to the upper layers so they can react on congestion
and/or inform the sending process.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Do not need to use read_lock(&dev_base_lock), use RCU instead.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
There is no good reason to not support userspace specifying the
network namespace during device creation, and it makes it easier
to create a network device and pass it to a child network namespace
with a well known name.
We have to be careful to ensure that the target network namespace
for the new device exists through the life of the call. To keep
that logic clear I have factored out the network namespace grabbing
logic into rtnl_link_get_net.
In addtion we need to continue to pass the source network namespace
to the rtnl_link_ops.newlink method so that we can find the base
device source network namespace.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
|
|
The temporary copy of the VLAN group is not neccessary since the lower device
is already in the process of being unregistered, if it was neccessary the
memset of the global group would introduce a race condition.
With this removed, the changes to the original code are only a few lines, so
remove the new function and move the code back into vlan_device_event().
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
This will allow drivers to adjust their receive path dynamically
based on whether GRO is being applied successfully.
Currently all in-tree callers ignore the return values of these
functions and do not need to be changed.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
This clarifies which return and parameter types are GRO result codes
and not RX result codes.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Implements the netdev_ops.ndo_fcoe_get_wwn for VLAN device.
Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Use unregister_netdevice_many() to speedup master device unregister.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Adding a list_head parameter to rtnl_link_ops->dellink() methods
allow us to queue devices on a list, in order to dismantle
them all at once.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
We currently use a 16 bit field (vlan_tci) to store VLAN ID/PRIO on a skb.
Null value is used as a special value, meaning vlan tagging not enabled.
This forbids use of null vlan ID.
As pointed by David, some drivers use the 3 high order bits (PRIO)
As VLAN ID is 12 bits, we can use the remaining bit (CFI) as a flag, and
allow null VLAN ID.
In case future code really wants to use VLAN_CFI_MASK, we'll have to use
a bit outside of vlan_tci.
#define VLAN_PRIO_MASK 0xe000 /* Priority Code Point */
#define VLAN_PRIO_SHIFT 13
#define VLAN_CFI_MASK 0x1000 /* Canonical Format Indicator */
#define VLAN_TAG_PRESENT VLAN_CFI_MASK
#define VLAN_VID_MASK 0x0fff /* VLAN Identifier */
Reported-by: Gertjan Hofman <gertjan_hofman@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Fix vlan_get_size to include vlan->flags. Currently, the
size of the vlan flags is not included in the nlmsg size.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Its hard to tell if vlans are dropping frames, since
every frame given to vlan_???_start_xmit() functions
is accounted as fully transmitted by lower device.
We can test dev_queue_xmit() return values to
properly account for dropped frames.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit() & vlan_dev_hwaccel_hard_start_xmit()
select txqueue number 0, instead of using index provided by
skb_get_queue_mapping().
This is not correct after commit 2e59af3dcbdf11635c03f
[vlan: multiqueue vlan device] because
txq->tx_packets & txq->tx_bytes changes are performed on
a single location, and not the right locking.
Fix is to take the appropriate struct netdev_queue pointer
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
vlan devices are currently not multi-queue capable.
We can do that with a new rtnl_link_ops method,
get_tx_queues(), called from rtnl_create_link()
This new method gets num_tx_queues/real_num_tx_queues
from real device.
register_vlan_device() is also handled.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
This adds implementation of the net_devices_ops.ndo_fcoe_enable/_disable to
the VLAN driver. It checks if the real_dev has support for ndo_fcoe_enable/
ndo_fcoe_disable and if so, passes on to call the associated real_dev.
Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
Adds fcoe offload related net_device_ops functions vlan_dev_fcoe_ddp_setup
and vlan_dev_fcoe_ddp_done, their implementation simply calls real eth device
net_device_ops for FCoE DDP setup and done operations.
Updates VLAN netdev field value for fcoe_ddp_xid from real eth device netdev.
Above changes are required for fcoe DDP offload working on a VLAN interface.
Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
String literals are constant, and usually, we can also tag the array
of pointers const too, moving it to the .rodata section.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
There is no reason for the arbitrary restriction that device must be
up to create a vlan. This patch was added to Vyatta kernel to resolve startup
ordering issues where vlan's are created but real device was disabled.
Note: the vlan already correctly inherits the operstate from real device; so
if vlan is created and real device is marked down, the vlan is marked
down.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
When the physical MTU changes we want to ensure that all existing
VLAN device MTUs do not exceed the new underlying MTU. This patch
adds that propagation.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
syncronize_net()
The VLAN 8021q driver needs to call rcu_barrier() when unloading the module,
instead of syncronize_net(). This is needed to make sure that outstanding
call_rcu() callbacks have completed, before the callback function code is
removed on module unload.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
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>
|
|
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>
|
|
One point of contention in high network loads is the dst_release() performed
when a transmited skb is freed. This is because NIC tx completion calls
dev_kree_skb() long after original call to dev_queue_xmit(skb).
CPU cache is cold and the atomic op in dst_release() stalls. On SMP, this is
quite visible if one CPU is 100% handling softirqs for a network device,
since dst_clone() is done by other cpus, involving cache line ping pongs.
It seems right place to release dst is in dev_hard_start_xmit(), for most
devices but ones that are virtual, and some exceptions.
David Miller suggested to define a new device flag, set in alloc_netdev_mq()
(so that most devices set it at init time), and carefuly unset in devices
which dont want a NULL skb->dst in their ndo_start_xmit().
List of devices that must clear this flag is :
- loopback device, because it calls netif_rx() and quoting Patrick :
"ip_route_input() doesn't accept loopback addresses, so loopback packets
already need to have a dst_entry attached."
- appletalk/ipddp.c : needs skb->dst in its xmit function
- And all devices that call again dev_queue_xmit() from their xmit function
(as some classifiers need skb->dst) : bonding, vlan, macvlan, eql, ifb, hdlc_fr
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
We can update netdev_queue tx_bytes/tx_packets/tx_dropped counters instead
of dev->stats ones, to reduce number of cache lines dirtied in xmit path.
This fixes a performance problem on SMP when many different cpus take
vlan tx path.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
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
|
|
Currently, the VLAN event handler does not adjust the VLAN
device's carrier state when the real device or the VLAN device is set
administratively up or down.
The following patch adds a transfer of operating state from the
real device to the VLAN device when the real device is administratively
set up or down, and sets the carrier state up or down during init, open
and close of the VLAN device.
This permits observers above the VLAN device that care about the
carrier state (bonding's link monitor, for example) to receive updates
for administrative changes by more closely mimicing the behavior of real
devices.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
|
|
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
|
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
net/core/dev.c
|
|
Check whether the underlying device provides a set of ethtool ops before
checking for individual handlers to avoid NULL pointer dereferences.
Reported-by: Art van Breemen <ard@telegraafnet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
