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David S. Miller c276e098d3 Revert "net: Fix for initial link state in 2.6.28"
This reverts commit 22604c8668.

We can't fix this issue in this way, because we now can try
to take the dev_base_lock rwlock as a writer in software interrupt
context and that is not allowed without major surgery elsewhere.

This initial link state problem needs to be solved in some other
way.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-05 16:01:51 -08:00
Michael Marineau 22604c8668 net: Fix for initial link state in 2.6.28
From: Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org>

Commit b47300168e "Do not fire linkwatch
events until the device is registered." was made as a workaround for
drivers that call netif_carrier_off before registering the device.
Unfortunately this causes these drivers to incorrectly report their
link status as IF_OPER_UNKNOWN which can falsely set the IFF_RUNNING
flag when the interface is first brought up. This issues was
previously pointed out[1] but was dismissed saying that IFF_RUNNING is
not related to the link status. From my digging IFF_RUNNING, as
reported to userspace, is based on the link state. It is set based on
__LINK_STATE_START and IF_OPER_UP or IF_OPER_UNKNOWN. See [2], [3],
and [4]. (Whether or not the kernel has IFF_RUNNING set in flags is
not reported to user space so it may well be independent of the link,
I don't know if and when it may get set.)

The end result depends slightly depending on the driver. The the two I
tested were e1000e and b44. With e1000e if the system is booted
without a network cable attached the interface will falsely report
RUNNING when it is brought up causing NetworkManager to attempt to
start it and eventually time out. With b44 when the system is booted
with a network cable attached and brought up with dhcpcd it will time
out the first time.

The attached patch that will still set the operstate variable
correctly to IF_OPER_UP/DOWN/etc when linkwatch_fire_event is called
but then return rather than skipping the linkwatch_fire_event call
entirely as the previous fix did. (sorry it isn't inline, I don't have
a patch friendly email client at the moment)

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-04 17:18:51 -08:00
Herbert Xu 5d38a079ce gro: Add page frag support
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>
2009-01-04 16:13:40 -08:00
Herbert Xu b530256d2e gro: Use gso_size to store MSS
In order to allow GRO packets without frag_list at all, we need to
store the MSS in the packet itself.  The obvious place is gso_size.
The only thing to watch out for is if the packet ends up not being
GRO then we need to clear gso_size before pushing the packet into
the stack.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-04 16:13:19 -08:00
Rusty Russell 0f23174aa8 cpumask: prepare for iterators to only go to nr_cpu_ids/nr_cpumask_bits: net
In future all cpumask ops will only be valid (in general) for bit
numbers < nr_cpu_ids.  So use that instead of NR_CPUS in iterators
and other comparisons.

This is always safe: no cpu number can be >= nr_cpu_ids, and
nr_cpu_ids is initialized to NR_CPUS at boot.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-29 22:44:47 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 8eb7986396 netns: foreach_netdev_safe is insufficient in default_device_exit
During network namespace teardown we either move or delete
all of the network devices associated with a network namespace.
In the case of veth devices deleting one will also delete it's
pair device.  If both devices are in the same network namespace
then for_each_netdev_safe is insufficient as next may point
to the second veth device we have deleted.

To avoid problems I do what we do in __rtnl_kill_links and
restart the scan of the device list, after we have deleted
a device.

Currently dev_change_netnamespace does not appear to suffer from
this problem, but wireless devices are also paired and likely
should be moved between network namespaces together.  So I have
errored on the side of caution and restart the scan of the network
devices in that case as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-29 18:21:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 0191b625ca Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits)
  net: Allow dependancies of FDDI & Tokenring to be modular.
  igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled.
  net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes.
  gro: Fix potential use after free
  sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits
  sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it
  sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics
  sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests
  sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests
  sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test
  sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes
  sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues
  802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header
  802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer
  802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer
  802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system
  802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool
  802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool
  802.3ad: make ntt bool
  ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools.
  ...

Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due
to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of
doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).
2008-12-28 12:49:40 -08:00
Herbert Xu 0da2afd596 gro: Fix potential use after free
The initial skb may have been freed after napi_gro_complete in
napi_gro_receive if it was merged into an existing packet.  Thus
we cannot check same_flow (which indicates whether it was merged)
after calling napi_gro_complete.

This patch fixes this by saving the same_flow status before the
call to napi_gro_complete.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-26 14:57:42 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr d7b06636be net: Init NAPI dev_list on napi_del
The recent GRO patches introduced the NAPI removal of devices in
free_netdev.  For drivers that can change the number of queues during
driver operation, the NAPI infrastructure doesn't allow the freeing and
re-addition of NAPI entities without reloading the driver.

This change reinitializes the dev_list in each NAPI struct on delete,
instead of just deleting it (and assigning the list pointers to POISON).
Drivers that wish to remove/re-add NAPI will need to re-initialize the
netdev napi_list after removing all NAPI instances, before re-adding NAPI
devices again.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-26 01:35:35 -08:00
James Morris cbacc2c7f0 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-12-25 11:40:09 +11:00
Jarek Poplawski 5f2f6da76c net: Fix oops in dev_ifsioc()
A command like this: "brctl addif br1 eth1" issued as a user gave me
an oops when bridge module wasn't loaded. It's caused by using a dev
pointer before checking for NULL.

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-22 19:35:28 -08:00
David S. Miller 49ad9599d4 Revert "net: release skb->dst in sock_queue_rcv_skb()"
This reverts commit 7035560287.

As pointed out by Mark McLoughlin IP_PKTINFO cmsg data is one
post-queueing user, so this optimization is not valid right
now.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-17 22:11:38 -08:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont 57c81fffc8 Phonet: allocate separate ARP type for GPRS over a Phonet pipe
A separate xmit lock class supports GPRS over a Phonet pipe over a TUN
device (type ARPHRD_NONE).

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-17 15:47:48 -08:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont 2d91d78b68 Phonet: allocate a non-Ethernet ARP type
Also leave some room for more 802.11 types.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-17 15:47:29 -08:00
Herbert Xu b240a0e564 ethtool: Add GGRO and SGRO ops
This patch adds the ethtool ops to enable and disable GRO.  It also
makes GRO depend on RX checksum offload much the same as how TSO
depends on SG support.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15 23:44:31 -08:00
Herbert Xu 71d93b39e5 net: Add skb_gro_receive
This patch adds the helper skb_gro_receive to merge packets for
GRO.  The current method is to allocate a new header skb and then
chain the original packets to its frag_list.  This is done to
make it easier to integrate into the existing GSO framework.

In future as GSO is moved into the drivers, we can undo this and
simply chain the original packets together.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15 23:42:33 -08:00
Herbert Xu d565b0a1a9 net: Add Generic Receive Offload infrastructure
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>
2008-12-15 23:38:52 -08:00
Herbert Xu 1a881f27c5 net: Add frag_list support to GSO
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>
2008-12-15 23:27:47 -08:00
Herbert Xu 89319d3801 net: Add frag_list support to skb_segment
This patch adds limited support for handling frag_list packets in
skb_segment.  The intention is to support GRO (Generic Receive Offload)
packets which will be constructed by chaining normal packets using
frag_list.

As such we require all frag_list members terminate on exact MSS
boundaries.  This is checked using BUG_ON.

As there should only be one producer in the kernel of such packets,
namely GRO, this requirement should not be difficult to maintain.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15 23:26:06 -08:00
David S. Miller eb14f01959 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c
2008-12-15 20:03:50 -08:00
Neil Horman 7b363e4400 netpoll: fix race on poll_list resulting in garbage entry
A few months back a race was discused between the netpoll napi service
path, and the fast path through net_rx_action:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2007/10/16/345470

A patch was submitted for that bug, but I think we missed a case.

Consider the following scenario:

INITIAL STATE
CPU0 has one napi_struct A on its poll_list
CPU1 is calling netpoll_send_skb and needs to call poll_napi on the same
napi_struct A that CPU0 has on its list



CPU0						CPU1
net_rx_action					poll_napi
!list_empty (returns true)			locks poll_lock for A
						 poll_one_napi
						  napi->poll
						   netif_rx_complete
						    __napi_complete
						    (removes A from poll_list)
list_entry(list->next)


In the above scenario, net_rx_action assumes that the per-cpu poll_list is
exclusive to that cpu.  netpoll of course violates that, and because the netpoll
path can dequeue from the poll list, its possible for CPU0 to detect a non-empty
list at the top of the while loop in net_rx_action, but have it become empty by
the time it calls list_entry.  Since the poll_list isn't surrounded by any other
structure, the returned data from that list_entry call in this situation is
garbage, and any number of crashes can result based on what exactly that garbage
is.

Given that its not fasible for performance reasons to place exclusive locks
arround each cpus poll list to provide that mutal exclusion, I think the best
solution is modify the netpoll path in such a way that we continue to guarantee
that the poll_list for a cpu is in fact exclusive to that cpu.  To do this I've
implemented the patch below.  It adds an additional bit to the state field in
the napi_struct.  When executing napi->poll from the netpoll_path, this bit will
be set. When a driver calls netif_rx_complete, if that bit is set, it will not
remove the napi_struct from the poll_list.  That work will be saved for the next
iteration of net_rx_action.

I've tested this and it seems to work well.  About the biggest drawback I can
see to it is the fact that it might result in an extra loop through
net_rx_action in the event that the device is actually contended for (i.e. the
netpoll path actually preforms all the needed work no the device, and the call
to net_rx_action winds up doing nothing, except removing the napi_struct from
the poll_list.  However I think this is probably a small price to pay, given
that the alternative is a crash.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-09 23:22:26 -08:00
Wang Chen b74ca3a896 netdevice: Kill netdev->priv
This is the last shoot of this series.
After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing
"priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs.

Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly.
If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv()
instead.
If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use
netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private
data.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-08 01:14:16 -08:00
James Morris ec98ce480a Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c

Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g.
nfs4_save_creds().

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-04 17:16:36 +11:00
David S. Miller 5b9ab2ec04 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/hp-plus.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/recv.c
	net/wireless/reg.c
2008-11-26 23:48:40 -08:00
Jarek Poplawski 244e6c2d07 pkt_sched: gen_estimator: Optimize gen_estimator_active()
Since all other gen_estimator functions use bstats and rate_est params
together, and searching for them is optimized now, let's use this also
in gen_estimator_active(). The return type of gen_estimator_active()
is changed to bool, and gen_find_node() parameters to const, btw.

In tcf_act_police_locate() a check for ACT_P_CREATED is added before
calling gen_estimator_active().

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-26 15:24:32 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 7035560287 net: release skb->dst in sock_queue_rcv_skb()
When queuing a skb to sk->sk_receive_queue, we can release its dst,
not anymore needed.  Since current cpu did the dst_hold(), refcount is
probably still hot int this cpu caches.

This avoids readers to access the original dst to decrement its
refcount, possibly a long time after packet reception. This should
speedup UDP and RAW receive path.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-26 01:08:18 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 1748376b66 net: Use a percpu_counter for sockets_allocated
Instead of using one atomic_t per protocol, use a percpu_counter
for "sockets_allocated", to reduce cache line contention on
heavy duty network servers. 

Note : We revert commit (248969ae31
net: af_unix can make unix_nr_socks visbile in /proc),
since it is not anymore used after sock_prot_inuse_add() addition

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 21:16:35 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger c1b56878fb tc: policing requires a rate estimator
Found that while trying average rate policing, it was possible to
request average rate policing without a rate estimator. This results
in no policing which is harmless but incorrect.

Since policing could be setup in two steps, need to check
in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 21:14:06 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 8f480c0e4e net: make skb_truesize_bug() call WARN()
The truesize message check is important enough to make it print "BUG"
to the user console... lets also make it important enough to spit a
backtrace/module list etc so that kerneloops.org can track them.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 21:08:13 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan b27aeadb59 netns xfrm: per-netns sysctls
Make
	net.core.xfrm_aevent_etime
	net.core.xfrm_acq_expires
	net.core.xfrm_aevent_rseqth
	net.core.xfrm_larval_drop

sysctls per-netns.

For that make net_core_path[] global, register it to prevent two
/proc/net/core antries and change initcall position -- xfrm_init() is called
from fs_initcall, so this one should be fs_initcall at least.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 18:00:48 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 52479b623d netns xfrm: lookup in netns
Pass netns to xfrm_lookup()/__xfrm_lookup(). For that pass netns
to flow_cache_lookup() and resolver callback.

Take it from socket or netdevice. Stub DECnet to init_net.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 17:35:18 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 5447c5e401 netns xfrm: finding states in netns
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 17:31:51 -08:00
Daniel Lezcano 09bb52175b netns: filter out uevent not belonging to init_net
This patch will filter out the uevent not related to the init_net.
Without this patch if a network device is created in a network
namespace with the same name as one network device belonging to the
initial network namespace (eg. eth0), when the network namespace
will die and the network device will be destroyed, an event will
be sent and catched by the udevd daemon. That will result to have
the real network device to be shutdown because the udevd/uevent are
not namespace aware.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 16:46:37 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 9f782db3f5 tcp: skb_shift cannot cache frag ptrs past pskb_expand_head
Since pskb_expand_head creates copy of the shared area we
cannot keep any frag ptr past de-cloning. This fixes the
tcpdump recvfrom -EFAULT problem.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 13:57:01 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 0ace285605 tcp: handle shift/merge of cloned skbs too
This caused me to get repeatably:

  tcpdump: pcap_loop: recvfrom: Bad address

Happens occassionally when I tcpdump my for-looped test xfers:
  while [ : ]; do echo -n "$(date '+%s.%N') "; ./sendfile; sleep 20; done

Rest of the relevant commands:
  ethtool -K eth0 tso off
  tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem drop 4%
  tcpdump -n -s0 -i eth0 -w sacklog.all

Running net-next under kvm, connection goes to the same host
(basically just out of kvm). The connection itself works ok
and data gets sent without corruption even with a large
number of tests while tcpdump fails usually within less than
5 tests.

Whether it only happens because of this change or not, I
don't know for sure but it's the only thing with which
I've seen that error. The non-cloned variant works w/o it
for much longer time. I'm yet to debug where the error
actually comes from.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24 21:30:21 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 832d11c5cd tcp: Try to restore large SKBs while SACK processing
During SACK processing, most of the benefits of TSO are eaten by
the SACK blocks that one-by-one fragment SKBs to MSS sized chunks.
Then we're in problems when cleanup work for them has to be done
when a large cumulative ACK comes. Try to return back to pre-split
state already while more and more SACK info gets discovered by
combining newly discovered SACK areas with the previous skb if
that's SACKed as well.

This approach has a number of benefits:

1) The processing overhead is spread more equally over the RTT
2) Write queue has less skbs to process (affect everything
   which has to walk in the queue past the sacked areas)
3) Write queue is consistent whole the time, so no other parts
   of TCP has to be aware of this (this was not the case with
   some other approach that was, well, quite intrusive all
   around).
4) Clean_rtx_queue can release most of the pages using single
   put_page instead of previous PAGE_SIZE/mss+1 calls

In case a hole is fully filled by the new SACK block, we attempt
to combine the next skb too which allows construction of skbs
that are even larger than what tso split them to and it handles
hole per on every nth patterns that often occur during slow start
overshoot pretty nicely. Though this to be really useful also
a retransmission would have to get lost since cumulative ACKs
advance one hole at a time in the most typical case.

TODO: handle upwards only merging. That should be rather easy
when segment is fully sacked but I'm leaving that as future
work item (it won't make very large difference anyway since
this current approach already covers quite a lot of normal
cases).

I was earlier thinking of some sophisticated way of tracking
timestamps of the first and the last segment but later on
realized that it won't be that necessary at all to store the
timestamp of the last segment. The cases that can occur are
basically either:
  1) ambiguous => no sensible measurement can be taken anyway
  2) non-ambiguous is due to reordering => having the timestamp
     of the last segment there is just skewing things more off
     than does some good since the ack got triggered by one of
     the holes (besides some substle issues that would make
     determining right hole/skb even harder problem). Anyway,
     it has nothing to do with this change then.

I choose to route some abnormal looking cases with goto noop,
some could be handled differently (eg., by stopping the
walking at that skb but again). In general, they either
shouldn't happen at all or are rare enough to make no difference
in practice.

In theory this change (as whole) could cause some macroscale
regression (global) because of cache misses that are taken over
the round-trip time but it gets very likely better because of much
less (local) cache misses per other write queue walkers and the
big recovery clearing cumulative ack.

Worth to note that these benefits would be very easy to get also
without TSO/GSO being on as long as the data is in pages so that
we can merge them. Currently I won't let that happen because
DSACK splitting at fragment that would mess up pcounts due to
sk_can_gso in tcp_set_skb_tso_segs. Once DSACKs fragments gets
avoided, we have some conditions that can be made less strict.

TODO: I will probably have to convert the excessive pointer
passing to struct sacktag_state... :-)

My testing revealed that considerable amount of skbs couldn't
be shifted because they were cloned (most likely still awaiting
tx reclaim)...

[The rest is considering future work instead since I got
repeatably EFAULT to tcpdump's recvfrom when I added
pskb_expand_head to deal with clones, so I separated that
into another, later patch]

...To counter that, I gave up on the fifth advantage:

5) When growing previous SACK block, less allocs for new skbs
   are done, basically a new alloc is needed only when new hole
   is detected and when the previous skb runs out of frags space

...which now only happens of if reclaim is fast enough to dispose
the clone before the SACK block comes in (the window is RTT long),
otherwise we'll have to alloc some.

With clones being handled I got these numbers (will be somewhat
worse without that), taken with fine-grained mibs:

                  TCPSackShifted 398
                   TCPSackMerged 877
            TCPSackShiftFallback 320
      TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKGSO 0
  TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKSKBBITS 0
  TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKSKBDATA 0
    TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKBELOW 0
    TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKFIRST 1
 TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKPREVBITS 318
      TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKMSS 1
   TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKNOHEAD 0
    TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKSHIFT 0
          TCPSACKCOLLAPSENOOPSEQ 0
  TCPSACKCOLLAPSENOOPSMALLPCOUNT 0
     TCPSACKCOLLAPSENOOPSMALLLEN 0
             TCPSACKCOLLAPSEHOLE 12

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24 21:20:15 -08:00
Jarek Poplawski 4db0acf3c0 net: gen_estimator: Fix gen_kill_estimator() lookups
gen_kill_estimator() linear lists lookups are very slow, and e.g. while
deleting a large number of HTB classes soft lockups were reported. Here
is another try to fix this problem: this time internally, with rbtree,
so similarly to Jamal's hashing idea IIRC. (Looking for next hits could
be still optimized, but it's really fast as it is.)

Reported-by: Badalian Vyacheslav <slavon@bigtelecom.ru>
Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24 15:48:05 -08:00
Catalin Marinas 7e56b5d698 net: Fix memory leak in the proto_register function
If the slub allocator is used, kmem_cache_create() may merge two or more
kmem_cache's into one but the cache name pointer is not updated and
kmem_cache_name() is no longer guaranteed to return the pointer passed
to the former function. This patch stores the kmalloc'ed pointers in the
corresponding request_sock_ops and timewait_sock_ops structures.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-21 16:45:22 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 008298231a netdev: add more functions to netdevice ops
This patch moves neigh_setup and hard_start_xmit into the network device ops
structure. For bisection, fix all the previously converted drivers as well.
Bonding driver took the biggest hit on this.

Added a prefetch of the hard_start_xmit in the fast path to try and reduce
any impact this would have.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20 20:14:53 -08:00
David S. Miller 6ab33d5171 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
	include/net/mac80211.h
	net/phonet/af_phonet.c
2008-11-20 16:44:00 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso d214c7537b filter: add SKF_AD_NLATTR_NEST to look for nested attributes
SKF_AD_NLATTR allows us to find the first matching attribute in a
stream of netlink attributes from one offset to the end of the
netlink message. This is not suitable to look for a specific
matching inside a set of nested attributes.

For example, in ctnetlink messages, if we look for the CTA_V6_SRC
attribute in a message that talks about an IPv4 connection,
SKF_AD_NLATTR returns the offset of CTA_STATUS which has the same
value of CTA_V6_SRC but outside the nest. To differenciate
CTA_STATUS and CTA_V6_SRC, we would have to make assumptions on the
size of the attribute and the usual offset, resulting in horrible
BSF code.

This patch adds SKF_AD_NLATTR_NEST, which is a variant of
SKF_AD_NLATTR, that looks for an attribute inside the limits of
a nested attributes, but not further.

This patch validates that we have enough room to look for the
nested attributes - based on a suggestion from Patrick McHardy.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20 00:49:27 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger eeda3fd64f netdev: introduce dev_get_stats()
In order for the network device ops get_stats call to be immutable, the handling
of the default internal network device stats block has to be changed. Add a new
helper function which replaces the old use of internal_get_stats.

Note: change return code to make it clear that the caller should not
go changing the returned statistics.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19 21:40:23 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger d314774cf2 netdev: network device operations infrastructure
This patch changes the network device internal API to move adminstrative
operations out of the network device structure and into a separate structure.

This patch involves some hackery to maintain compatablity between the
new and old model, so all 300+ drivers don't have to be changed at once.
For drivers that aren't converted yet, the netdevice_ops virt function list
still resides in the net_device structure. For old protocols, the new
net_device_ops are copied out to the old net_device pointers.

After the transistion is completed the nag message can be changed to
an WARN_ON, and the compatiablity code can be made configurable.

Some function pointers aren't moved:
* destructor can't be in net_device_ops because
  it may need to be referenced after the module is unloaded.
* neighbor setup is manipulated in a couple of places that need special
  consideration
* hard_start_xmit is in the fast path for transmit.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19 21:32:24 -08:00
Joe Perches 07f0757a68 include/net net/ - csum_partial - remove unnecessary casts
The first argument to csum_partial is const void *
casts to char/u8 * are not necessary

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19 15:44:53 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 14e943db13 net: make /proc/net/protocols namespace aware
Converting /proc/net/protocols to be namespace aware is quite easy
and permits us to use sock_prot_inuse_get().

This provides seperate counters for each protocol. For example
we can really count TCPv6 sockets and TCPv4 sockets, while previously,
we had the same value, and this value was not namespace aware.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19 15:14:01 -08:00
Robert Olsson bfdbc0acad pktgen: fix multiple queue warning
As number of TX queues in unrelated to number of CPU's we remove this test
and just make sure nxtq never gets exceeded.

Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19 14:09:47 -08:00
David S. Miller 198d6ba4d7 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net.c
	fs/cifs/connect.c
2008-11-18 23:38:23 -08:00
James Morris f3a5c54701 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/cifs/misc.c

Merge to resolve above, per the patch below.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

diff --cc fs/cifs/misc.c
index ec36410,addd1dc..0000000
--- a/fs/cifs/misc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c
@@@ -347,13 -338,13 +338,13 @@@ header_assemble(struct smb_hdr *buffer
  		/*  BB Add support for establishing new tCon and SMB Session  */
  		/*      with userid/password pairs found on the smb session   */
  		/*	for other target tcp/ip addresses 		BB    */
 -				if (current->fsuid != treeCon->ses->linux_uid) {
 +				if (current_fsuid() != treeCon->ses->linux_uid) {
  					cFYI(1, ("Multiuser mode and UID "
  						 "did not match tcon uid"));
- 					read_lock(&GlobalSMBSeslock);
- 					list_for_each(temp_item, &GlobalSMBSessionList) {
- 						ses = list_entry(temp_item, struct cifsSesInfo, cifsSessionList);
+ 					read_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
+ 					list_for_each(temp_item, &treeCon->ses->server->smb_ses_list) {
+ 						ses = list_entry(temp_item, struct cifsSesInfo, smb_ses_list);
 -						if (ses->linux_uid == current->fsuid) {
 +						if (ses->linux_uid == current_fsuid()) {
  							if (ses->server == treeCon->ses->server) {
  								cFYI(1, ("found matching uid substitute right smb_uid"));
  								buffer->Uid = ses->Suid;
2008-11-18 18:52:37 +11:00
Johannes Berg 5f9021cfdc rtnetlink: propagate error from dev_change_flags in do_setlink()
Unlike ifconfig, iproute doesn't report an error when setting
an interface up fails:

(example: put wireless network mac80211 interface into repeater mode
with iwconfig but do not set a peer MAC address, it should fail with
-ENOLINK)

without patch:
# ip link set wlan0 up ; echo $?
0
# 

with patch:
# ip link set wlan0 up ; echo $?
RTNETLINK answers: Link has been severed
2
# 

Propagate the return value from dev_change_flags() to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Tested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-16 23:20:31 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 908cd2dabb net: use %pF for /proc/net/ptype
Technically, patch changes format for modules, but I think nobody cares.

	-86dd          :ipv6:ipv6_rcv+0x0
	+86dd          ipv6_rcv+0x0/0x400 [ipv6]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-16 19:50:35 -08:00