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332 Commits

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Patrick McHardy 62e3ba1b55 [NET_SCHED]: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL next to exported symbol
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:11:07 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger aa767bfea4 [PKT_SCHED] net classifier: style cleanup's
Classifier code cleanup. Get rid of printk wrapper, and fix whitespace
and other style stuff reported by checkpatch

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:42 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 786a90366f [PKT_SCHED] sch_atm: style cleanup
ATM scheduler clean house:
  * get rid of printk and qdisc_priv() wrapper
  * split some assignment in if() statements
  * whitespace and line breaks.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:41 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 9d127fbdd2 [PKT_SCHED] dsmark: checkpatch warning cleanup
Get rid of all style things checkpatch warns about, indentation and
whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:40 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 4c30719f4f [PKT_SCHED] dsmark: handle cloned and non-linear skb's
Make dsmark work properly with non-linear and cloned skb's
Before modifying the header, it needs to check that skb header is
writeable.

Note: this makes the assumption, that if it queues a good skb
then a good skb will come out of the embedded qdisc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:40 -08:00
David S. Miller 5b0ac72bc5 [PKT_SCHED] dsmark: Use hweight32() instead of convoluted loop.
Based upon a patch by Stephen Hemminger and suggestions
from Patrick McHardy.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:39 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 81da99ed71 [PKT_SCHED] dsmark: get rid of wrappers
Remove extraneous macro wrappers for printk and qdisc_priv.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:38 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 13a0a096e5 [NET_SCHED]: kill obsolete NET_CLS_POLICE option
The code is already gone for about half a year, the config option
has been kept around to select the replacement options for easier
upgrades. This seems long enough, people upgrading from older
kernels will have to reconfigure a lot anyway.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:37 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 891687649a [NET_SCHED]: sch_ingress: remove useless printk
The printk about ingress qdisc registration error can't be triggered
under normal circumstances. Since register_qdisc only fails for two
identical registrations, the only way to trigger it is by loading the
sch_ingress modules multiple times under different names, in which
case we already return -EEXIST to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:22 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 1389356735 [NET_SCHED]: sch_ingress: avoid a few #ifdefs
Move the repeating "ifndef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT/ifdef CONFIG_NETFILTER"
ifdefs into a single condition.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:22 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 645a1e39e4 [NET_SCHED]: sch_ingress: move dependencies to Kconfig
Instead of complaining at scheduler initialization time, check the
dependencies in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:21 -08:00
Patrick McHardy c6ee877f2e [NET_SCHED]: sch_ingress: remove unnecessary ops
- ->reset is optional
- sch_api provides identical defaults for ->dequeue/->requeue
- ->drop can't happen since ingress never has a parent qdisc

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:20 -08:00
Patrick McHardy e037834758 [NET_SCHED]: sch_ingress: return proper error code in ingress_graft()
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:20 -08:00
Patrick McHardy c21d4d5dd2 [NET_SCHED]: sch_ingress: remove unused inner qdisc
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:19 -08:00
Patrick McHardy cb53c04891 [NET_SCHED]: sch_ingress: remove qdisc_priv() wrapper
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:18 -08:00
Patrick McHardy a47812211b [NET_SCHED]: sch_ingress: remove excessive debugging
Remove excessive debugging statements and some "future use" stuff.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:18 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 58f4df423e [NET_SCHED]: sch_ingress: formatting fixes
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:17 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 6f9e98f7a9 [PKT_SCHED] SFQ: whitespace cleanup
Add whitespace around operators, and add a few blank lines to improve
readability.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:16 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger d46f8dd87d [PKT_SCHED] SFQ: use net_random
SFQ doesn't need true random numbers, it is only using them to salt a
hash. Therefore it is better to use net_random() and avoid any
possible problems with depleting the entropy pool.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:15 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger d3e994830d [PKT_SCHED] SFQ: timer is deferrable
The perturbation timer used for re-keying can be deferred, it doesn't
need to be deterministic.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:15 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen d88c305a03 [PKT_SCHED] HTB: htb_classid is dead static inline
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:59 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 9a429c4983 [NET]: Add some acquires/releases sparse annotations.
Add __acquires() and __releases() annotations to suppress some sparse
warnings.

example of warnings :

net/ipv4/udp.c:1555:14: warning: context imbalance in 'udp_seq_start' - wrong
count at exit
net/ipv4/udp.c:1571:13: warning: context imbalance in 'udp_seq_stop' -
unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:31 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 1999414a4e [NETFILTER]: Mark hooks __read_mostly
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:07 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 41c5b31703 [NETFILTER]: Use nf_register_hooks for multiple registrations
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:06 -08:00
Patrick McHardy be0ea7d5da [NETFILTER]: Convert old checksum helper names
Kill the defines again, convert to the new checksum helper names and
remove the dependency of NET_ACT_NAT on NETFILTER.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:15 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 97c53cacf0 [NET]: Make rtnetlink infrastructure network namespace aware (v3)
After this patch none of the netlink callback support anything
except the initial network namespace but the rtnetlink infrastructure
now handles multiple network namespaces.

Changes from v2:
- IPv6 addrlabel processing

Changes from v1:
- no need for special rtnl_unlock handling
- fixed IPv6 ndisc

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:25 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev b854272b3c [NET]: Modify all rtnetlink methods to only work in the initial namespace (v2)
Before I can enable rtnetlink to work in all network namespaces I need
to be certain that something won't break.  So this patch deliberately
disables all of the rtnletlink methods in everything except the
initial network namespace.  After the methods have been audited this
extra check can be disabled.

Changes from v1:
- added IPv6 addrlabel protection

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-01-28 14:54:24 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 20fea08b5f [NET]: Move Qdisc_class_ops and Qdisc_ops in appropriate sections.
Qdisc_class_ops are const, and Qdisc_ops are mostly read.

Using "const" and "__read_mostly" qualifiers helps to reduce false
sharing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:53:58 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 6e23ae2a48 [NETFILTER]: Introduce NF_INET_ hook values
The IPv4 and IPv6 hook values are identical, yet some code tries to figure
out the "correct" value by looking at the address family. Introduce NF_INET_*
values for both IPv4 and IPv6. The old values are kept in a #ifndef __KERNEL__
section for userspace compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:53:55 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov b24b8a247f [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer
Many-many code in the kernel initialized the timer->function
and  timer->data together with calling init_timer(timer). There
is already a helper for this. Use it for networking code.

The patch is HUGE, but makes the code 130 lines shorter
(98 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
Joe Perches 9a94b35184 [PKT_SCHED]: Spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-20 14:02:40 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr 5f1a485d59 [PKT_SCHED]: Check subqueue status before calling hard_start_xmit
The only qdiscs that check subqueue state before dequeue'ing are PRIO
and RR.  The other qdiscs, including the default pfifo_fast qdisc,
will allow traffic bound for subqueue 0 through to hard_start_xmit.
The check for netif_queue_stopped() is done above in pkt_sched.h, so
it is unnecessary for qdisc_restart().  However, if the underlying
driver is multiqueue capable, and only sets queue states on subqueues,
this will allow packets to enter the driver when it's currently unable
to process packets, resulting in expensive requeues and driver
entries.  This patch re-adds the check for the subqueue status before
calling hard_start_xmit, so we can try and avoid the driver entry when
the queues are stopped.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-13 20:40:55 -08:00
Radu Rendec b226801676 [PKT_SCHED] CLS_U32: Use ffs() instead of C code on hash mask to get first set bit.
Computing the rank of the first set bit in the hash mask (for using later
in u32_hash_fold()) was done with plain C code. Using ffs() instead makes
the code more readable and improves performance (since ffs() is better
optimized in assembler).

Using the conditional operator on hash mask before applying ntohl() also
saves one ntohl() call if mask is 0.

Signed-off-by: Radu Rendec <radu.rendec@ines.ro>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-10 21:54:50 -08:00
Radu Rendec 543821c6f5 [PKT_SCHED] CLS_U32: Fix endianness problem with u32 classifier hash masks.
While trying to implement u32 hashes in my shaping machine I ran into
a possible bug in the u32 hash/bucket computing algorithm
(net/sched/cls_u32.c).

The problem occurs only with hash masks that extend over the octet
boundary, on little endian machines (where htonl() actually does
something).

Let's say that I would like to use 0x3fc0 as the hash mask. This means
8 contiguous "1" bits starting at b6. With such a mask, the expected
(and logical) behavior is to hash any address in, for instance,
192.168.0.0/26 in bucket 0, then any address in 192.168.0.64/26 in
bucket 1, then 192.168.0.128/26 in bucket 2 and so on.

This is exactly what would happen on a big endian machine, but on
little endian machines, what would actually happen with current
implementation is 0x3fc0 being reversed (into 0xc03f0000) by htonl()
in the userspace tool and then applied to 192.168.x.x in the u32
classifier. When shifting right by 16 bits (rank of first "1" bit in
the reversed mask) and applying the divisor mask (0xff for divisor
256), what would actually remain is 0x3f applied on the "168" octet of
the address.

One could say is this can be easily worked around by taking endianness
into account in userspace and supplying an appropriate mask (0xfc03)
that would be turned into contiguous "1" bits when reversed
(0x03fc0000). But the actual problem is the network address (inside
the packet) not being converted to host order, but used as a
host-order value when computing the bucket.

Let's say the network address is written as n31 n30 ... n0, with n0
being the least significant bit. When used directly (without any
conversion) on a little endian machine, it becomes n7 ... n0 n8 ..n15
etc in the machine's registers. Thus bits n7 and n8 would no longer be
adjacent and 192.168.64.0/26 and 192.168.128.0/26 would no longer be
consecutive.

The fix is to apply ntohl() on the hmask before computing fshift,
and in u32_hash_fold() convert the packet data to host order before
shifting down by fshift.

With helpful feedback from Jamal Hadi Salim and Jarek Poplawski.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:11:45 -08:00
Evgeniy Polyakov 4f9f8311a0 [PKT_SCHED]: Fix OOPS when removing devices from a teql queuing discipline
tecl_reset() is called from deactivate and qdisc is set to noop already,
but subsequent teql_xmit does not know about it and dereference private
data as teql qdisc and thus oopses.
not catch it first :)

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:09:17 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim a057ae3c10 [NET_CLS_ACT]: Use skb_act_clone
clean skb_clone of any signs of CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT and
have mirred us skb_act_clone()

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-26 02:47:54 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 0034622693 [PKT_SCHED]: Fix sch_prio.c build with CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE
Fix one more user of netiff_subqueue_stopped. To check for the
queue id one must use the __netiff_subqueue_stoped call.

This run out of my sight when I made the:

668f895a85
[NET]: Hide the queue_mapping field inside netif_subqueue_stopped

commit :(

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-23 21:27:53 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 668f895a85 [NET]: Hide the queue_mapping field inside netif_subqueue_stopped
Many places get the queue_mapping field from skb to pass it to the
netif_subqueue_stopped() which will be 0 in any case.

Make the helper that works with sk_buff

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-22 02:59:56 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 4e3ab47a54 [NET]: Make and use skb_get_queue_mapping
Make the helper for getting the field, symmetrical to
the "set" one. Return 0 if CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE=n

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-22 02:59:56 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day 3a4fa0a25d Fix misspellings of "system", "controller", "interrupt" and "necessary".
Fix the various misspellings of "system", controller", "interrupt" and
"[un]necessary".

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:10:43 +02:00
Herbert Xu ce0e32e65f [NET]: Fix possible dev_deactivate race condition
The function dev_deactivate is supposed to only return when
all outstanding transmissions have completed.  Unfortunately
it is possible for store operations in the driver's transmit
function to only become visible after dev_deactivate returns.

This patch fixes this by taking the queue lock after we see
the end of the queue run.  This ensures that all effects of
any previous transmit calls are visible.

If however we detect that there is another queue run occuring,
then we'll warn about it because this should never happen as
we have pointed dev->qdisc to noop_qdisc within the same queue
lock earlier in the functino.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-18 22:37:58 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 85ef3e5cad [NET]: QoS/Sched as menuconfig
Convert "QoS and/or fair queueing" to menuconfig.
This makes it easy for someone to disable all sub-options with
one config symbol.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-18 21:56:38 -07:00
Jeff Garzik bfaae0f04c [NET]: fix carrier-on bug?
While looking at a net driver with the following construct,

	if (!netif_carrier_ok(dev))
		netif_carrier_on(dev);

it stuck me that the netif_carrier_ok() check was redundant, since
netif_carrier_on() checks bit __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER anyway.  This is
the same reason why netif_queue_stopped() need not be called prior to
netif_wake_queue().

This is true, but there is however an unwanted side effect from assuming
that netif_carrier_on() can be called multiple times:  it touches the
watchdog, regardless of pre-existing carrier state.

The fix:  move watchdog-up inside the bit-cleared code path.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17 23:26:43 -07:00
Herbert Xu 3db05fea51 [NETFILTER]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff *
With all the users of the double pointers removed, this patch mops up by
finally replacing all occurances of sk_buff ** in the netfilter API by
sk_buff *.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:29 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 3c0cfc1358 [NET_SCHED]: Show timer resolution instead of clock resolution in /proc/net/psched
The fourth parameter of /proc/net/psched is supposed to show the timer
resultion and is used by HTB userspace to calculate the necessary
burst rate. Currently we show the clock resolution, which results in a
too low burst rate when the two differ.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:59 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger cfcabdcc2d [NET]: sparse warning fixes
Fix a bunch of sparse warnings. Mostly about 0 used as
NULL pointer, and shadowed variable declarations.
One notable case was that hash size should have been unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:48 -07:00
Herbert Xu b421995235 [PKT_SCHED]: Add stateless NAT
Stateless NAT is useful in controlled environments where restrictions are
placed on through traffic such that we don't need connection tracking to
correctly NAT protocol-specific data.

In particular, this is of interest when the number of flows or the number
of addresses being NATed is large, or if connection tracking information
has to be replicated and where it is not practical to do so.

Previously we had stateless NAT functionality which was integrated into
the IPv4 routing subsystem.  This was a great solution as long as the NAT
worked on a subnet to subnet basis such that the number of NAT rules was
relatively small.  The reason is that for SNAT the routing based system
had to perform a linear scan through the rules.

If the number of rules is large then major renovations would have take
place in the routing subsystem to make this practical.

For the time being, the least intrusive way of achieving this is to use
the u32 classifier written by Alexey Kuznetsov along with the actions
infrastructure implemented by Jamal Hadi Salim.

The following patch is an attempt at this problem by creating a new nat
action that can be invoked from u32 hash tables which would allow large
number of stateless NAT rules that can be used/updated in constant time.

The actual NAT code is mostly based on the previous stateless NAT code
written by Alexey.  In future we might be able to utilise the protocol
NAT code from netfilter to improve support for other protocols.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:11 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 3b04ddde02 [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 0c4e85813d [NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.
Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and
fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is
an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space
was available,(ie -N bytes).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:50 -07:00
Jamal Hadi Salim 8236632fb3 [NET_SCHED]: explict hold dev tx lock
For N cpus, with full throttle traffic on all N CPUs, funneling traffic
to the same ethernet device, the devices queue lock is contended by all
N CPUs constantly. The TX lock is only contended by a max of 2 CPUS.
In the current mode of operation, after all the work of entering the
dequeue region, we may endup aborting the path if we are unable to get
the tx lock and go back to contend for the queue lock. As N goes up,
this gets worse.

The changes in this patch result in a small increase in performance
with a 4CPU (2xdual-core) with no irq binding. Both e1000 and tg3
showed similar behavior;

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:15 -07:00