When SMC_DEBUG >= 2, we hit the following compilation error:
drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.c:85:0:
drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.c: In function ‘smc_findirq’:
drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.c:1784:9: error: ‘dev’ undeclared (first use in this function)
DBG(2, dev, "%s: %s\n", CARDNAME, __func__);
^
Fix it by passing in the appropriate netdev pointer.
Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim <zlim.lnx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ying Xue says:
====================
purge tipc_net_lock
Now tipc routing hierarchy comprises the structures 'node', 'link'and
'bearer'. The whole hierarchy is protected by a big read/write lock,
tipc_net_lock, to ensure that nothing is added or removed while code
is accessing any of these structures. Obviously the locking policy
makes node, link and bearer components closely bound together so that
their relationship becomes unnecessarily complex. In the worst case,
such locking policy not only has a negative influence on performance,
but also it's prone to lead to deadlock occasionally.
In order o decouple the complex relationship between bearer and node
as well as link, the locking policy is adjusted as follows:
- Bearer level
RTNL lock is used on update side, and RCU is used on read side.
Meanwhile, all bearer instances including broadcast bearer are
saved into bearer_list array.
- Node and link level
All node instances are saved into two tipc_node_list and node_htable
lists. The two lists are protected by node_list_lock on write side,
and they are guarded with RCU lock on read side. All members in node
structure including link instances are protected by node spin lock.
- The relationship between bearer and node
When link accesses bearer, it first needs to find the bearer with
its bearer identity from the bearer_list array. When bearer accesses
node, it can iterate the node_htable hash list with the node address
to find the corresponding node.
In the new locking policy, every component has its private locking
solution and the relationship between bearer and node is very simple,
that is, they can find each other with node address or bearer identity
from node_htable hash list or bearer_list array.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit a21a584d67 (tipc: fix neighbor
detection problem after hw address change) introduces a race condition
involving tipc_disc_delete() and tipc_disc_add/remove_dest that can
cause TIPC to dereference the pointer to the bearer discovery request
structure after it has been freed since a stray pointer is left in the
bearer structure.
In order to fix the issue, the process of resetting the discovery
request handler is optimized: the discovery request handler and request
buffer are just reset instead of being freed, allocated and initialized.
As the request point is always valid and the request's lock is taken
while the request handler is reset, the race doesn't happen any more.
Reported-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The node map variable - 'nodes' in bearer structure is only used by
bclink. When bclink accesses it, bc_lock is held. But when change it,
for instance, in tipc_bearer_add_dest() or tipc_bearer_remove_dest()
the bc_lock is not taken at all. To avoid any inconsistent data, we
should always grab bc_lock while accessing node map variable.
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As bearer pointer is known in tipc_l2_device_event(), it's unnecessary
to search it again in tipc_disable_bearer(). If tipc_disable_bearer()
is replaced with bearer_disable() in tipc_l2_device_event(), this will
help us save a bit time when bearer is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The 'media_ptr' pointer in bearer structure which points to network
device, is protected by RCU. So, before netdevice is released,
synchronize_net() should be involved to prevent no any user of
the netdevice on read side from accessing it after it is freed.
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now tipc routing hierarchy comprises the structures 'node', 'link'and
'bearer'. The whole hierarchy is protected by a big read/write lock,
tipc_net_lock, to ensure that nothing is added or removed while code
is accessing any of these structures. Obviously the locking policy
makes node, link and bearer components closely bound together so that
their relationship becomes unnecessarily complex. In the worst case,
such locking policy not only has a negative influence on performance,
but also it's prone to lead to deadlock occasionally.
In order o decouple the complex relationship between bearer and node
as well as link, the locking policy is adjusted as follows:
- Bearer level
RTNL lock is used on update side, and RCU is used on read side.
Meanwhile, all bearer instances including broadcast bearer are
saved into bearer_list array.
- Node and link level
All node instances are saved into two tipc_node_list and node_htable
lists. The two lists are protected by node_list_lock on write side,
and they are guarded with RCU lock on read side. All members in node
structure including link instances are protected by node spin lock.
- The relationship between bearer and node
When link accesses bearer, it first needs to find the bearer with
its bearer identity from the bearer_list array. When bearer accesses
node, it can iterate the node_htable hash list with the node
address to find the corresponding node.
In the new locking policy, every component has its private locking
solution and the relationship between bearer and node is very simple,
that is, they can find each other with node address or bearer identity
from node_htable hash list or bearer_list array.
Until now above all changes have been done, so tipc_net_lock can be
removed safely.
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now the media_ptr pointer is protected with tipc_net_lock write lock
on write side; tipc_net_lock read lock is used to read side. As the
part of effort of eliminating tipc_net_lock, we decide to adjust the
locking policy of media_ptr pointer protection: on write side, RTNL
lock is use while on read side RCU read lock is applied.
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently on both paths of message transmission and reception, the
read lock of tipc_net_lock must be held before bearer is accessed,
while the write lock of tipc_net_lock has to be taken before bearer
is configured. Although it can ensure that bearer is always valid on
the two data paths, link and bearer is closely bound together.
So as the part of effort of removing tipc_net_lock, the locking
policy of bearer protection will be adjusted as below: on the two
data paths, RCU is used, and on the configuration path of bearer,
RTNL lock is applied.
Now RCU just covers the path of message reception. To make it possible
to protect the path of message transmission with RCU, link should not
use its stored bearer pointer to access bearer, but it should use the
bearer identity of its attached bearer as index to get bearer instance
from bearer_list array, which can help us decouple the relationship
between bearer and link. As a result, bearer on the path of message
transmission can be safely protected by RCU when we access bearer_list
array within RCU lock protection.
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Convert bearer_list to RCU list. It's protected by RTNL lock on
update side, and RCU read lock is applied to read side.
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As the tipc network initialization(ie, tipc_net_start routine) is
under RTNL protection, its corresponding deinitialization part(ie,
tipc_net_stop routine) should be protected by RTNL too.
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently the 'tipc_ptr' pointer is protected by tipc_net_lock
write lock on write side, and RCU read lock is applied to read
side. In addition, there have two paths on write side where we
may change variables pointed by the 'tipc_ptr' pointer: one is
to configure bearer by tipc-config tool and another one is that
bearer status is changed by notification events of its attached
interface. But on the latter path, we improperly deem that
accessing 'tipc_ptr' pointer happens on read side with
rcu_read_lock() although some variables pointed by the 'tipc_ptr'
pointer are changed possibly.
Moreover, as now the both paths are guarded by RTNL lock, it's
better to adjust the locking policy of 'tipc_ptr' pointer
protection, allowing RTNL instead of tipc_net_lock write lock to
protect it on write side, which will help us purge tipc_net_lock
in the future.
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There have two paths where we can configure or change bearer status:
one is that bearer is configured from user space with tipc-config
tool; another one is that bearer is changed by notification events
from its attached interface. On the first path, one dedicated
config_mutex lock is guarded; on the latter path, RTNL lock has been
placed to serialize the process of dealing with interface events.
So, if RTNL lock is also used to protect the first path, this will
not only extremely help us simplify current locking policy, but also
config_mutex lock can be deleted as well.
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds phy_found error path when there is no phy device
and changes bus_name.
Signed-off-by: Byungho An <bh74.an@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch moves cksum_ctl to tx_rd_des23 from cksum_pktlen for correct checksum
offloading and modifies size for Tx/Rx descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Byungho An <bh74.an@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Execute "ethtool -L eth0 combined 0" in guest, if multiqueue
is enabled, virtnet_send_command() will return -EINVAL error,
there is a validation in QEMU.
But if multiqueue is disabled, virtnet_set_queues() will just
return zero (success). We should return error for this situation.
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The MAC address retrieved from dt was not actually written to the
hardware. This meant proper communication was only possible after
changing the MAC address.
Fix that by always writing the mac address during probing.
Signed-off-by: Max Schwarz <max.schwarz@online.de>
Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The caller needs capabilities on the namespace being queried, not on
their own namespace. This is a security bug, although it likely has
only a minor impact.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Bump i40e to version 0.3.43 and i40evf to version 0.9.21.
Change-ID: Ice4c715731bfa1dfc12dd45418675a3ba6e08d57
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Tweak a for-loop to make it easier to add conditional stats in the future.
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Use the newer i40e_vsi_open() and i40e_vsi_close() in the FDIR VSI
lifetime. This makes sure we're using standard methods for all the
VSI open and close paths. This also fixes a memory leak of the
FDIR queue buffer info structs across a reset.
Change-ID: I1b60a1b08ab923afe4f49810c2c7844d850e19b9
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Use the new i40e_vsi_open() for waking VSIs back up in order to
be sure all the standard actions happen.
Change-ID: Ic3479410dd3079733f4951dcea69f101e69e77df
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Abstract out the vsi close actions into a single function so they
can be used correctly for both netdev and non-netdev based VSIs.
Change-ID: I59e3d115fcb20e614a09477281b7787dd340d276
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
The NVM updates take some time and are asynchronous actions that signal
their completion with an AdminQ event. This code tracks when there is
an NVM update outstanding and won't allow a new update command until a
completion event is received from the current update.
Change-ID: Ic132fe16bd9dc09b002ed38297a877c1a01553ce
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
The flow spec coming in for IPv4 filters is IP_USER_FLOW, which
needed some more info to be communicated up above in order for it
to be displayed correctly.
Change-ID: Ia968238e0d7c4c4df12908ba81f0c4501280f3ec
Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Remove the FW workaround to increment the number of msix vectors.
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Implement the net device op for Tx bandwidth setting. Setting the Tx
bandwidth is done by 'ip link set <PF device> vf <VF num> rate <Tx
rate>', with the rate specified in Mbit/sec. The rate setting is
displayed with 'ip link show'.
Change-ID: I4d45dda8320632fdb6ec92c87d083e51070b46ab
Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
If a host VMM administrator hoses his VF by assigning a port VLAN after
it is already up and running with implicit permission to set local
VLANs then we print a message warning the host administrator that the
VF driver needs to be reloaded.
In addition we need to knock the VF offline so that it does not continue
to receive traffic not on the port VLAN assigned to it. So we reset the
VF. The VF will cease operation and the administrator will be forced to
unload and reload the VF driver to make it work again.
Change-ID: Iae1ae006b244e74e30a4ee546b3c5fca5cfb40aa
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
The PREFENA field in the receive host memory cache (RX-HMC)
must be visible in order to be set to 1 at driver init for
best performance.
Change-ID: I16b0bcd84cf56f4b6c938201ff5e954bee5a1992
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Add the netdev ops to support addition of static FDB entries in the
physical function (PF) MAC/VLAN filter table so that virtual functions
(VFs) can communicate with bridged virtual Ethernet ports such as those
provided by the virtio driver.
Change-ID: Ifbd6817a75074e3b5cdf945a5635f26440bf15df
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
The mail address for Siva Reddy Kallam is bouncing, remove the email
address from the MAINTAINERS entry for Samsung's SXGBE driver.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Florian Fainelli says:
====================
net: ndo_set_config/ifmap cleanups
This patch series removes a bunch of useless ndo_set_config in non
PCMCIA Ethernet drivers.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
stmmac_config() denies changing the base address and interrupt
parameters, and ignores any other settings from the ifmap parameters,
thus making stmmac_config() useless, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
sxgbe_config() denies changing the base address and interrupt, and
ignores all other 'struct ifmap' members, which means that it is useless
as is, so let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
cpmac_config() refuses changing the base address parameter, and ignores
all other parameters, which means that it is pretty useless as it is, so
let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ethoc_config() returns -ENOSYS and does not implement anything useful,
let's remove it such that net/core/dev_ioctl.c::dev_ifsioc can return
something meaningful like -EOPNOTSUPP.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This feature allows multiple channels to be used by each virtual NIC.
It is available on Hyper-V host 2012 R2.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jeff Kirsher says:
====================
Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates
This series contains updates to e1000e, igb, ixgbe and i40e.
Most notably are Jakub's patches to clean up the Rx time stamping
code for ixgbe and the fix up of debug messages with proper termination.
Jesse's i40e patch fixes an issue reported by Eric Dumazet that the
i40e driver was allowing the hardware to replicate the PSH flag on
all segments of a TSO operation. With this fix, we are now configuring
the CWR bit to only be set in the first packet of a TSO and we
enable TSO_ECN in order to advertise to the stack that we do the right
thing on the wire.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Make tcp_cwnd_application_limited() static and move it from tcp_input.c to
tcp_output.c
Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Don't rely on driver files or other headers having this file included.
CC: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-zigbee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-zigbee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This will simplify the new reassembly backport
with no code changes being required.
CC: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-zigbee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The busy polling socket option adds support for sockets to busy wait on data
arriving on the napi queue from which they have most recently received a frame.
Currently only tcp and udp support this feature, but theres no reason sctp can't
do so as well. Add it in so appliations can take advantage of it
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Make local functions static, because these are used only in this
file.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Byungho An <bh74.an@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently broadcasts are handled in network RX context, where
the packets are sent through netif_rx. This means that the number
of macvlans will be constrained by the capacity of netif_rx.
For example, setting up 4096 macvlans practically causes all
broadcast packets to be dropped as the default netif_rx queue
size simply can't handle 4096 skbs being stuffed into it all
at once.
Fundamentally, we need to ensure that the amount of work handled
in each netif_rx backlog run is constrained. As broadcasts are
anything but constrained, it either needs to be limited per run
or moved to process context.
This patch picks the second option and moves all broadcast handling
bar the trivial case of packets going to a single interface into
a work queue. Obviously there also needs to be a limit on how
many broadcast packets we postpone in this way. I've arbitrarily
chosen tx_queue_len of the master device as the limit (act_mirred
also happens to use this parameter in a similar way).
In order to ensure we don't exceed the backlog queue we will use
netif_rx_ni instead of netif_rx for broadcast packets.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Thanks,
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds the helper __dev_forward_skb which is identical to
dev_forward_skb except that it doesn't actually inject the skb into
the stack. This is useful where we wish to have finer control over
how the packet is injected, e.g., via netif_rx_ni or netif_receive_skb.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>