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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 110 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/dm9000.txt | 167 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README | 67 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/hostapd.conf | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/wpa_supplicant.conf | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/multiqueue.txt | 79 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/s2io.txt | 7 |
8 files changed, 355 insertions, 117 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index a0cda062bc3..7fa7fe71d7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -289,35 +289,73 @@ downdelay fail_over_mac Specifies whether active-backup mode should set all slaves to - the same MAC address (the traditional behavior), or, when - enabled, change the bond's MAC address when changing the - active interface (i.e., fail over the MAC address itself). - - Fail over MAC is useful for devices that cannot ever alter - their MAC address, or for devices that refuse incoming - broadcasts with their own source MAC (which interferes with - the ARP monitor). - - The down side of fail over MAC is that every device on the - network must be updated via gratuitous ARP, vs. just updating - a switch or set of switches (which often takes place for any - traffic, not just ARP traffic, if the switch snoops incoming - traffic to update its tables) for the traditional method. If - the gratuitous ARP is lost, communication may be disrupted. - - When fail over MAC is used in conjuction with the mii monitor, - devices which assert link up prior to being able to actually - transmit and receive are particularly susecptible to loss of - the gratuitous ARP, and an appropriate updelay setting may be - required. - - A value of 0 disables fail over MAC, and is the default. A - value of 1 enables fail over MAC. This option is enabled - automatically if the first slave added cannot change its MAC - address. This option may be modified via sysfs only when no - slaves are present in the bond. - - This option was added in bonding version 3.2.0. + the same MAC address at enslavement (the traditional + behavior), or, when enabled, perform special handling of the + bond's MAC address in accordance with the selected policy. + + Possible values are: + + none or 0 + + This setting disables fail_over_mac, and causes + bonding to set all slaves of an active-backup bond to + the same MAC address at enslavement time. This is the + default. + + active or 1 + + The "active" fail_over_mac policy indicates that the + MAC address of the bond should always be the MAC + address of the currently active slave. The MAC + address of the slaves is not changed; instead, the MAC + address of the bond changes during a failover. + + This policy is useful for devices that cannot ever + alter their MAC address, or for devices that refuse + incoming broadcasts with their own source MAC (which + interferes with the ARP monitor). + + The down side of this policy is that every device on + the network must be updated via gratuitous ARP, + vs. just updating a switch or set of switches (which + often takes place for any traffic, not just ARP + traffic, if the switch snoops incoming traffic to + update its tables) for the traditional method. If the + gratuitous ARP is lost, communication may be + disrupted. + + When this policy is used in conjuction with the mii + monitor, devices which assert link up prior to being + able to actually transmit and receive are particularly + susecptible to loss of the gratuitous ARP, and an + appropriate updelay setting may be required. + + follow or 2 + + The "follow" fail_over_mac policy causes the MAC + address of the bond to be selected normally (normally + the MAC address of the first slave added to the bond). + However, the second and subsequent slaves are not set + to this MAC address while they are in a backup role; a + slave is programmed with the bond's MAC address at + failover time (and the formerly active slave receives + the newly active slave's MAC address). + + This policy is useful for multiport devices that + either become confused or incur a performance penalty + when multiple ports are programmed with the same MAC + address. + + + The default policy is none, unless the first slave cannot + change its MAC address, in which case the active policy is + selected by default. + + This option may be modified via sysfs only when no slaves are + present in the bond. + + This option was added in bonding version 3.2.0. The "follow" + policy was added in bonding version 3.3.0. lacp_rate @@ -338,7 +376,8 @@ max_bonds Specifies the number of bonding devices to create for this instance of the bonding driver. E.g., if max_bonds is 3, and the bonding driver is not already loaded, then bond0, bond1 - and bond2 will be created. The default value is 1. + and bond2 will be created. The default value is 1. Specifying + a value of 0 will load bonding, but will not create any devices. miimon @@ -501,6 +540,17 @@ mode swapped with the new curr_active_slave that was chosen. +num_grat_arp + + Specifies the number of gratuitous ARPs to be issued after a + failover event. One gratuitous ARP is issued immediately after + the failover, subsequent ARPs are sent at a rate of one per link + monitor interval (arp_interval or miimon, whichever is active). + + The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. This option + affects only the active-backup mode. This option was added for + bonding version 3.3.0. + primary A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dm9000.txt b/Documentation/networking/dm9000.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..65df3dea556 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/dm9000.txt @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ +DM9000 Network driver +===================== + +Copyright 2008 Simtec Electronics, + Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk> <ben-linux@fluff.org> + + +Introduction +------------ + +This file describes how to use the DM9000 platform-device based network driver +that is contained in the files drivers/net/dm9000.c and drivers/net/dm9000.h. + +The driver supports three DM9000 variants, the DM9000E which is the first chip +supported as well as the newer DM9000A and DM9000B devices. It is currently +maintained and tested by Ben Dooks, who should be CC: to any patches for this +driver. + + +Defining the platform device +---------------------------- + +The minimum set of resources attached to the platform device are as follows: + + 1) The physical address of the address register + 2) The physical address of the data register + 3) The IRQ line the device's interrupt pin is connected to. + +These resources should be specified in that order, as the ordering of the +two address regions is important (the driver expects these to be address +and then data). + +An example from arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/mach-bast.c is: + +static struct resource bast_dm9k_resource[] = { + [0] = { + .start = S3C2410_CS5 + BAST_PA_DM9000, + .end = S3C2410_CS5 + BAST_PA_DM9000 + 3, + .flags = IORESOURCE_MEM, + }, + [1] = { + .start = S3C2410_CS5 + BAST_PA_DM9000 + 0x40, + .end = S3C2410_CS5 + BAST_PA_DM9000 + 0x40 + 0x3f, + .flags = IORESOURCE_MEM, + }, + [2] = { + .start = IRQ_DM9000, + .end = IRQ_DM9000, + .flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ | IORESOURCE_IRQ_HIGHLEVEL, + } +}; + +static struct platform_device bast_device_dm9k = { + .name = "dm9000", + .id = 0, + .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(bast_dm9k_resource), + .resource = bast_dm9k_resource, +}; + +Note the setting of the IRQ trigger flag in bast_dm9k_resource[2].flags, +as this will generate a warning if it is not present. The trigger from +the flags field will be passed to request_irq() when registering the IRQ +handler to ensure that the IRQ is setup correctly. + +This shows a typical platform device, without the optional configuration +platform data supplied. The next example uses the same resources, but adds +the optional platform data to pass extra configuration data: + +static struct dm9000_plat_data bast_dm9k_platdata = { + .flags = DM9000_PLATF_16BITONLY, +}; + +static struct platform_device bast_device_dm9k = { + .name = "dm9000", + .id = 0, + .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(bast_dm9k_resource), + .resource = bast_dm9k_resource, + .dev = { + .platform_data = &bast_dm9k_platdata, + } +}; + +The platform data is defined in include/linux/dm9000.h and described below. + + +Platform data +------------- + +Extra platform data for the DM9000 can describe the IO bus width to the +device, whether or not an external PHY is attached to the device and +the availability of an external configuration EEPROM. + +The flags for the platform data .flags field are as follows: + +DM9000_PLATF_8BITONLY + + The IO should be done with 8bit operations. + +DM9000_PLATF_16BITONLY + + The IO should be done with 16bit operations. + +DM9000_PLATF_32BITONLY + + The IO should be done with 32bit operations. + +DM9000_PLATF_EXT_PHY + + The chip is connected to an external PHY. + +DM9000_PLATF_NO_EEPROM + + This can be used to signify that the board does not have an + EEPROM, or that the EEPROM should be hidden from the user. + +DM9000_PLATF_SIMPLE_PHY + + Switch to using the simpler PHY polling method which does not + try and read the MII PHY state regularly. This is only available + when using the internal PHY. See the section on link state polling + for more information. + + The config symbol DM9000_FORCE_SIMPLE_PHY_POLL, Kconfig entry + "Force simple NSR based PHY polling" allows this flag to be + forced on at build time. + + +PHY Link state polling +---------------------- + +The driver keeps track of the link state and informs the network core +about link (carrier) availablilty. This is managed by several methods +depending on the version of the chip and on which PHY is being used. + +For the internal PHY, the original (and currently default) method is +to read the MII state, either when the status changes if we have the +necessary interrupt support in the chip or every two seconds via a +periodic timer. + +To reduce the overhead for the internal PHY, there is now the option +of using the DM9000_FORCE_SIMPLE_PHY_POLL config, or DM9000_PLATF_SIMPLE_PHY +platform data option to read the summary information without the +expensive MII accesses. This method is faster, but does not print +as much information. + +When using an external PHY, the driver currently has to poll the MII +link status as there is no method for getting an interrupt on link change. + + +DM9000A / DM9000B +----------------- + +These chips are functionally similar to the DM9000E and are supported easily +by the same driver. The features are: + + 1) Interrupt on internal PHY state change. This means that the periodic + polling of the PHY status may be disabled on these devices when using + the internal PHY. + + 2) TCP/UDP checksum offloading, which the driver does not currently support. + + +ethtool +------- + +The driver supports the ethtool interface for access to the driver +state information, the PHY state and the EEPROM. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 946b66e1b65..d84932650fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -551,8 +551,9 @@ icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets. - 0 to disable any limiting, otherwise the maximal rate in jiffies(1) - Default: 100 + 0 to disable any limiting, + otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds. + Default: 1000 icmp_ratemask - INTEGER Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited. @@ -1023,11 +1024,23 @@ max_addresses - INTEGER autoconfigured addresses. Default: 16 +disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN + Disable IPv6 operation. + Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation) + +accept_dad - INTEGER + Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection). + 0: Disable DAD + 1: Enable DAD (default) + 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate + link-local address has been found. + icmp/*: ratelimit - INTEGER Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets. - 0 to disable any limiting, otherwise the maximal rate in jiffies(1) - Default: 100 + 0 to disable any limiting, + otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds. + Default: 1000 IPv6 Update by: diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2ff8ccb8dc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +mac80211_hwsim - software simulator of 802.11 radio(s) for mac80211 +Copyright (c) 2008, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> + +This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as +published by the Free Software Foundation. + + +Introduction + +mac80211_hwsim is a Linux kernel module that can be used to simulate +arbitrary number of IEEE 802.11 radios for mac80211. It can be used to +test most of the mac80211 functionality and user space tools (e.g., +hostapd and wpa_supplicant) in a way that matches very closely with +the normal case of using real WLAN hardware. From the mac80211 view +point, mac80211_hwsim is yet another hardware driver, i.e., no changes +to mac80211 are needed to use this testing tool. + +The main goal for mac80211_hwsim is to make it easier for developers +to test their code and work with new features to mac80211, hostapd, +and wpa_supplicant. The simulated radios do not have the limitations +of real hardware, so it is easy to generate an arbitrary test setup +and always reproduce the same setup for future tests. In addition, +since all radio operation is simulated, any channel can be used in +tests regardless of regulatory rules. + +mac80211_hwsim kernel module has a parameter 'radios' that can be used +to select how many radios are simulated (default 2). This allows +configuration of both very simply setups (e.g., just a single access +point and a station) or large scale tests (multiple access points with +hundreds of stations). + +mac80211_hwsim works by tracking the current channel of each virtual +radio and copying all transmitted frames to all other radios that are +currently enabled and on the same channel as the transmitting +radio. Software encryption in mac80211 is used so that the frames are +actually encrypted over the virtual air interface to allow more +complete testing of encryption. + +A global monitoring netdev, hwsim#, is created independent of +mac80211. This interface can be used to monitor all transmitted frames +regardless of channel. + + +Simple example + +This example shows how to use mac80211_hwsim to simulate two radios: +one to act as an access point and the other as a station that +associates with the AP. hostapd and wpa_supplicant are used to take +care of WPA2-PSK authentication. In addition, hostapd is also +processing access point side of association. + +Please note that the current Linux kernel does not enable AP mode, so a +simple patch is needed to enable AP mode selection: +http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/006-allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch + + +# Build mac80211_hwsim as part of kernel configuration + +# Load the module +modprobe mac80211_hwsim + +# Run hostapd (AP) for wlan0 +hostapd hostapd.conf + +# Run wpa_supplicant (station) for wlan1 +wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan1 -c wpa_supplicant.conf diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/hostapd.conf b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/hostapd.conf new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..08cde7e35f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/hostapd.conf @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +interface=wlan0 +driver=nl80211 + +hw_mode=g +channel=1 +ssid=mac80211 test + +wpa=2 +wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK +wpa_pairwise=CCMP +wpa_passphrase=12345678 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/wpa_supplicant.conf b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/wpa_supplicant.conf new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..299128cff03 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/wpa_supplicant.conf @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant + +network={ + ssid="mac80211 test" + psk="12345678" + key_mgmt=WPA-PSK + proto=WPA2 + pairwise=CCMP + group=CCMP +} diff --git a/Documentation/networking/multiqueue.txt b/Documentation/networking/multiqueue.txt index ea5a42e8f79..e6dc1ee9e8f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/multiqueue.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/multiqueue.txt @@ -3,19 +3,11 @@ =========================================== Section 1: Base driver requirements for implementing multiqueue support -Section 2: Qdisc support for multiqueue devices -Section 3: Brief howto using PRIO or RR for multiqueue devices - Intro: Kernel support for multiqueue devices --------------------------------------------------------- -Kernel support for multiqueue devices is only an API that is presented to the -netdevice layer for base drivers to implement. This feature is part of the -core networking stack, and all network devices will be running on the -multiqueue-aware stack. If a base driver only has one queue, then these -changes are transparent to that driver. - +Kernel support for multiqueue devices is always present. Section 1: Base driver requirements for implementing multiqueue support ----------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -43,73 +35,4 @@ bitmap on device initialization. Below is an example from e1000: netdev->features |= NETIF_F_MULTI_QUEUE; #endif - -Section 2: Qdisc support for multiqueue devices ------------------------------------------------ - -Currently two qdiscs support multiqueue devices. A new round-robin qdisc, -sch_rr, and sch_prio. The qdisc is responsible for classifying the skb's to -bands and queues, and will store the queue mapping into skb->queue_mapping. -Use this field in the base driver to determine which queue to send the skb -to. - -sch_rr has been added for hardware that doesn't want scheduling policies from -software, so it's a straight round-robin qdisc. It uses the same syntax and -classification priomap that sch_prio uses, so it should be intuitive to -configure for people who've used sch_prio. - -In order to utilitize the multiqueue features of the qdiscs, the network -device layer needs to enable multiple queue support. This can be done by -selecting NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE under Drivers. - -The PRIO qdisc naturally plugs into a multiqueue device. If -NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE is selected, then on qdisc load, the number of -bands requested is compared to the number of queues on the hardware. If they -are equal, it sets a one-to-one mapping up between the queues and bands. If -they're not equal, it will not load the qdisc. This is the same behavior -for RR. Once the association is made, any skb that is classified will have -skb->queue_mapping set, which will allow the driver to properly queue skb's -to multiple queues. - - -Section 3: Brief howto using PRIO and RR for multiqueue devices ---------------------------------------------------------------- - -The userspace command 'tc,' part of the iproute2 package, is used to configure -qdiscs. To add the PRIO qdisc to your network device, assuming the device is -called eth0, run the following command: - -# tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: prio bands 4 multiqueue - -This will create 4 bands, 0 being highest priority, and associate those bands -to the queues on your NIC. Assuming eth0 has 4 Tx queues, the band mapping -would look like: - -band 0 => queue 0 -band 1 => queue 1 -band 2 => queue 2 -band 3 => queue 3 - -Traffic will begin flowing through each queue if your TOS values are assigning -traffic across the various bands. For example, ssh traffic will always try to -go out band 0 based on TOS -> Linux priority conversion (realtime traffic), -so it will be sent out queue 0. ICMP traffic (pings) fall into the "normal" -traffic classification, which is band 1. Therefore pings will be send out -queue 1 on the NIC. - -Note the use of the multiqueue keyword. This is only in versions of iproute2 -that support multiqueue networking devices; if this is omitted when loading -a qdisc onto a multiqueue device, the qdisc will load and operate the same -if it were loaded onto a single-queue device (i.e. - sends all traffic to -queue 0). - -Another alternative to multiqueue band allocation can be done by using the -multiqueue option and specify 0 bands. If this is the case, the qdisc will -allocate the number of bands to equal the number of queues that the device -reports, and bring the qdisc online. - -The behavior of tc filters remains the same, where it will override TOS priority -classification. - - Author: Peter P. Waskiewicz Jr. <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt index 1e28e2ddb90..c3d6b4d5d01 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt @@ -52,13 +52,10 @@ d. MSI/MSI-X. Can be enabled on platforms which support this feature (IA64, Xeon) resulting in noticeable performance improvement(upto 7% on certain platforms). -e. NAPI. Compile-time option(CONFIG_S2IO_NAPI) for better Rx interrupt -moderation. - -f. Statistics. Comprehensive MAC-level and software statistics displayed +e. Statistics. Comprehensive MAC-level and software statistics displayed using "ethtool -S" option. -g. Multi-FIFO/Ring. Supports up to 8 transmit queues and receive rings, +f. Multi-FIFO/Ring. Supports up to 8 transmit queues and receive rings, with multiple steering options. 4. Command line parameters |