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10 Commits

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Matt Mackall d7b9dfc8ea [NETPOLL]: remove unused variable
Remove unused variable

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:28:05 -07:00
Matt Mackall 53fb95d3c1 [NETPOLL]: fix initialization/NAPI race
This fixes a race during initialization with the NAPI softirq
processing by using an RCU approach.

This race was discovered when refill_skbs() was added to
the setup code.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:27:43 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 2652076507 [NETPOLL]: pre-fill skb pool
we could do one thing (see the patch below): i think it would be useful 
to fill up the netlogging skb queue straight at initialization time.  
Especially if netpoll is used for dumping alone, the system might not be 
in a situation to fill up the queue at the point of crash, so better be 
a bit more prepared and keep the pipeline filled.

[ I've modified this to be called earlier - mpm ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:26:42 -07:00
Matt Mackall 0db1d6fc1e [NETPOLL]: add retry timeout
Add limited retry logic to netpoll_send_skb

Each time we attempt to send, decrement our per-device retry counter.
On every successful send, we reset the counter. 

We delay 50us between attempts with up to 20000 retries for a total of
1 second. After we've exhausted our retries, subsequent failed
attempts will try only once until reset by success.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:25:54 -07:00
Matt Mackall f0d3459d07 [NETPOLL]: netpoll_send_skb simplify
Minor netpoll_send_skb restructuring

Restructure to avoid confusing goto and move some bits out of the
retry loop.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:25:11 -07:00
Jeff Moyer a636e13579 [NETPOLL]: deadlock bugfix
This fixes an obvious deadlock in the netpoll code.  netpoll_rx takes the
npinfo->rx_lock.  netpoll_rx is also the only caller of arp_reply (through
__netpoll_rx).  As such, it is not necessary to take this lock.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:23:50 -07:00
Jeff Moyer 11513128bb [NETPOLL]: rx_flags bugfix
Initialize npinfo->rx_flags.  The way it stands now, this will have random
garbage, and so will incur a locking penalty even when an rx_hook isn't
registered and we are not active in the netpoll polling code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:23:04 -07:00
Jeff Moyer fbeec2e155 [NETPOLL]: allow multiple netpoll_clients to register against one interface
This patch provides support for registering multiple netpoll clients to the
same network device.  Only one of these clients may register an rx_hook,
however.  In practice, this restriction has not been problematic.  It is
worth mentioning, though, that the current design can be easily extended to
allow for the registration of multiple rx_hooks.

The basic idea of the patch is that the rx_np pointer in the netpoll_info
structure points to the struct netpoll that has rx_hook filled in.  Aside
from this one case, there is no need for a pointer from the struct
net_device to an individual struct netpoll.

A lock is introduced to protect the setting and clearing of the np_rx
pointer.  The pointer will only be cleared upon netpoll client module
removal, and the lock should be uncontested.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:05:59 -07:00
Jeff Moyer 115c1d6e61 [NETPOLL]: Introduce a netpoll_info struct
This patch introduces a netpoll_info structure, which the struct net_device
will now point to instead of pointing to a struct netpoll.  The reason for
this is two-fold: 1) fields such as the rx_flags, poll_owner, and poll_lock
should be maintained per net_device, not per netpoll;  and 2) this is a first
step in providing support for multiple netpoll clients to register against the
same net_device.

The struct netpoll is now pointed to by the netpoll_info structure.  As
such, the previous behaviour of the code is preserved.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:05:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00