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2009-05-18net: release dst entry in dev_hard_start_xmit()Eric Dumazet
One point of contention in high network loads is the dst_release() performed when a transmited skb is freed. This is because NIC tx completion calls dev_kree_skb() long after original call to dev_queue_xmit(skb). CPU cache is cold and the atomic op in dst_release() stalls. On SMP, this is quite visible if one CPU is 100% handling softirqs for a network device, since dst_clone() is done by other cpus, involving cache line ping pongs. It seems right place to release dst is in dev_hard_start_xmit(), for most devices but ones that are virtual, and some exceptions. David Miller suggested to define a new device flag, set in alloc_netdev_mq() (so that most devices set it at init time), and carefuly unset in devices which dont want a NULL skb->dst in their ndo_start_xmit(). List of devices that must clear this flag is : - loopback device, because it calls netif_rx() and quoting Patrick : "ip_route_input() doesn't accept loopback addresses, so loopback packets already need to have a dst_entry attached." - appletalk/ipddp.c : needs skb->dst in its xmit function - And all devices that call again dev_queue_xmit() from their xmit function (as some classifiers need skb->dst) : bonding, vlan, macvlan, eql, ifb, hdlc_fr Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18vlan: use struct netdev_queue counters instead of dev->statsEric Dumazet
We can update netdev_queue tx_bytes/tx_packets/tx_dropped counters instead of dev->stats ones, to reduce number of cache lines dirtied in xmit path. This fixes a performance problem on SMP when many different cpus take vlan tx path. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-29Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.c net/mac80211/main.c
2009-04-25vlan: update vlan carrier state for admin up/downJay Vosburgh
Currently, the VLAN event handler does not adjust the VLAN device's carrier state when the real device or the VLAN device is set administratively up or down. The following patch adds a transfer of operating state from the real device to the VLAN device when the real device is administratively set up or down, and sets the carrier state up or down during init, open and close of the VLAN device. This permits observers above the VLAN device that care about the carrier state (bonding's link monitor, for example) to receive updates for administrative changes by more closely mimicing the behavior of real devices. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-04-21net: factor out ethtool invocation of vlan/macvlan driversPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-21Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: net/core/dev.c
2009-04-17vlan/macvlan: fix NULL pointer dereferences in ethtool handlersPatrick McHardy
Check whether the underlying device provides a set of ethtool ops before checking for individual handlers to avoid NULL pointer dereferences. Reported-by: Art van Breemen <ard@telegraafnet.nl> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2009-04-16gro: New frags interface to avoid copying shinfoHerbert Xu
It turns out that copying a 16-byte area at ~800k times a second can be really expensive :) This patch redesigns the frags GRO interface to avoid copying that area twice. The two disciples of the frags interface have been converted. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-13gro: Normalise skb before bypassing GRO on netpoll VLAN pathHerbert Xu
Hi: gro: Normalise skb before bypassing GRO on netpoll VLAN path When we detect netpoll RX on the GRO VLAN path we bail out and call the normal VLAN receive handler. However, the packet needs to be normalised by calling eth_type_trans since that's what the normal path expects (normally the GRO path does the fixup). This patch adds the necessary call to vlan_gro_frags. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Thanks, Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-17gro: Fix vlan/netpoll check againHerbert Xu
Jarek Poplawski pointed out that my previous fix is broken for VLAN+netpoll as if netpoll is enabled we'd end up in the normal receive path instead of the VLAN receive path. This patch fixes it by calling the VLAN receive hook. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-16GRO: Move netpoll checks to correct locationHerbert Xu
As my netpoll fix for net doesn't really work for net-next, we need this update to move the checks into the right place. As it stands we may pass freed skbs to netpoll_receive_skb. This patch also introduces a netpoll_rx_on function to avoid GRO completely if we're invoked through netpoll. This might seem paranoid but as netpoll may have an external receive hook it's better to be safe than sorry. I don't think we need this for 2.6.29 though since there's nothing immediately broken by it. This patch also moves the GRO_* return values to netdevice.h since VLAN needs them too (I tried to avoid this originally but alas this seems to be the easiest way out). This fixes a bug in VLAN where it continued to use the old return value 2 instead of the correct GRO_DROP. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostlyStephen Hemminger
Protocols that use packet_type can be __read_mostly section for better locality. Elminate any unnecessary initializations of NULL. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
2009-03-04vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes.David S. Miller
As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this leaves the compat method pointers stale. Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code. Any other driver which changes ->netdev_ops after register_netdevice() will need to call this new function after doing so too. With help from Patrick McHardy. Tested-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-01Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c net/8021q/vlan_core.c net/core/dev.c
2009-03-01netpoll: Add drop checks to all entry pointsHerbert Xu
The netpoll entry checks are required to ensure that we don't receive normal packets when invoked via netpoll. Unfortunately it only ever worked for the netif_receive_skb/netif_rx entry points. The VLAN (and subsequently GRO) entry point didn't have the check and therefore can trigger all sorts of weird problems. This patch adds the netpoll check to all entry points. I'm still uneasy with receiving at all under netpoll (which apparently is only used by the out-of-tree kdump code). The reason is it is perfectly legal to receive all data including headers into highmem if netpoll is off, but if you try to do that with netpoll on and someone gets a printk in an IRQ handler you're going to get a nice BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-08gro: Optimise Ethernet header comparisonHerbert Xu
This patch optimises the Ethernet header comparison to use 2-byte and 4-byte xors instead of memcmp. In order to facilitate this, the actual comparison is now carried out by the callers of the shared dev_gro_receive function. This has a significant impact when receiving 1500B packets through 10GbE. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-01net: replace uses of __constant_{endian}Harvey Harrison
Base versions handle constant folding now. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-29gro: Avoid copying headers of unmerged packetsHerbert Xu
Unfortunately simplicity isn't always the best. The fraginfo interface turned out to be suboptimal. The problem was quite obvious. For every packet, we have to copy the headers from the frags structure into skb->head, even though for 99% of the packets this part is immediately thrown away after the merge. LRO didn't have this problem because it directly read the headers from the frags structure. This patch attempts to address this by creating an interface that allows GRO to access the headers in the first frag without having to copy it. Because all drivers that use frags place the headers in the first frag this optimisation should be enough. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-29gro: Move common completion code into helpersHerbert Xu
Currently VLAN still has a bit of common code handling the aftermath of GRO that's shared with the common path. This patch moves them into shared helpers to reduce code duplication. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-26vlan: Export symbols as non GPL symbols.Ben Greear
In previous kernels, any kernel module could get access to the 'real-device' and the VLAN-ID for a particular VLAN. In more recent kernels, the code was restructured such that this is hard to do without accessing private .h files for any module that cannot use GPL-only symbols. Attached is a patch to once again allow non-GPL modules the ability to access the real-device and VLAN id for VLANs. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-08vlan: add neigh_setupFrank Blaschka
In case the real device has a neigh_setup function, this neigh_setup function should be used for the vlan device. Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-06vlan: Add GRO interfacesHerbert Xu
This patch adds GRO interfaces for hardware-assisted VLAN reception. With this in place we're now at parity with LRO as far as the interface is concerned. That is, you can now take any LRO driver and convert it over to GRO. As the CB memory clashes with GRO's use of CB, I've removed it entirely by storing dev in skb->dev. This is OK because VLAN gets called first thing in netif_receive_skb and skb->dev is not used in between us calling netif_rx and netif_receive_skb getting called. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-25vlan: fix convertion to net_device_opsEric Dumazet
commit 656299f706e52e0409733d704c2761f1b12d6954 (vlan: convert to net_device_ops) added a net_device_ops with a NULL ndo_start_xmit field. This gives a crash in dev_hard_start_xmit() Fix it using two net_device_ops structures, one for hwaccel vlan, one for non hwaccel vlan. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19vlan: convert to net_device_opsStephen Hemminger
Convert vlan devices and function pointers to net_device_ops. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c
2008-11-10vlan: Fix typos in proc output stringFerenc Wagner
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-06Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c net/8021q/vlan_core.c
2008-11-04net: fix packet socket delivery in rx irq handlerPatrick McHardy
The changes to deliver hardware accelerated VLAN packets to packet sockets (commit bc1d0411) caused a warning for non-NAPI drivers. The __vlan_hwaccel_rx() function is called directly from the drivers RX function, for non-NAPI drivers that means its still in RX IRQ context: [ 27.779463] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 27.779509] WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:136 local_bh_enable+0x37/0x81() ... [ 27.782520] [<c0264755>] netif_nit_deliver+0x5b/0x75 [ 27.782590] [<c02bba83>] __vlan_hwaccel_rx+0x79/0x162 [ 27.782664] [<f8851c1d>] atl1_intr+0x9a9/0xa7c [atl1] [ 27.782738] [<c0155b17>] handle_IRQ_event+0x23/0x51 [ 27.782808] [<c015692e>] handle_edge_irq+0xc2/0x102 [ 27.782878] [<c0105fd5>] do_IRQ+0x4d/0x64 Split hardware accelerated VLAN reception into two parts to fix this: - __vlan_hwaccel_rx just stores the VLAN TCI and performs the VLAN device lookup, then calls netif_receive_skb()/netif_rx() - vlan_hwaccel_do_receive(), which is invoked by netif_receive_skb() in softirq context, performs the real reception and delivery to packet sockets. Reported-and-tested-by: Ramon Casellas <ramon.casellas@cttc.es> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03net/: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.David S. Miller
The generic packet receive code takes care of setting netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the bonding ARP monitor. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-28vlan: propogate ethtool speed valuesStephen Hemminger
This enables more ethtool information. The speed and settings of the underlying device are propagated up. This makes services like SNMP that use ethtool to get speed setting, work when managing a vlan, without adding silly heurtistics into SNMP daemon. For the driver info, just use existing driver strings. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-20net: Use hton[sl]() instead of __constant_hton[sl]() where applicableArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11vlan: vlan device not reading gso max size of parent.Alexander Duyck
The vlan devices are not reading the gso max size of the parent device. As a result devices that do not support 64K max gso size are currently failing. This issue is seen on 2.6.26 kernels as well and the same patch should be able to be applied without any issues. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-22netdev: Handle ->addr_list_lock just like ->_xmit_lock for lockdep.David S. Miller
The new address list lock needs to handle the same device layering issues that the _xmit_lock one does. This integrates work done by Patrick McHardy. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt drivers/atm/Makefile drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c net/8021q/vlan.c net/iucv/iucv.c
2008-07-17netdev: Allocate multiple queues for TX.David S. Miller
alloc_netdev_mq() now allocates an array of netdev_queue structures for TX, based upon the queue_count argument. Furthermore, all accesses to the TX queues are now vectored through the netdev_get_tx_queue() and netdev_for_each_tx_queue() interfaces. This makes it easy to grep the tree for all things that want to get to a TX queue of a net device. Problem spots which are not really multiqueue aware yet, and only work with one queue, can easily be spotted by grepping for all netdev_get_tx_queue() calls that pass in a zero index. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14vlan: remove unnecessary include statementsPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14vlan: clean up hard_start_xmit functionsPatrick McHardy
Remove excessive comments and debugging, use NETDEV_TX codes, remove some empty lines. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14vlan: clean up vlan_dev_hard_header()Patrick McHardy
Remove some debugging and excessive comments, merge the two dev_hard_header calls into one. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14vlan: ethtool ->get_flags supportPatrick McHardy
Allow to query LRO settings of underlying device when VLAN RX acceleration is used. Suggested by Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14vlan: deliver packets received with VLAN acceleration to network tapsPatrick McHardy
When VLAN header stripping is used, packets currently bypass packet sockets (and other network taps) completely. For locally existing VLANs, they appear directly on the VLAN device, for unknown VLANs they are silently dropped. Add a new function netif_nit_deliver() to deliver incoming packets to all network interface taps and use it in __vlan_hwaccel_rx() to make VLAN packets visible on the underlying device. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-148021q: Check return of dev_set_promiscuity/allmultiWang Chen
dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti might overflow. Commit: "netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow" in net-next makes dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti return error number if overflow happened. Here, we check all positive increment for promiscuity and allmulti to get error return. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08netdev: Move _xmit_lock and xmit_lock_owner into netdev_queue.David S. Miller
Accesses are mostly structured such that when there are multiple TX queues the code transformations will be a little bit simpler. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08vlan: avoid header copying and linearisation where possiblePatrick McHardy
- vlan_dev_reorder_header() is only called on the receive path after calling skb_share_check(). This means we can use skb_cow() since all we need is a writable header. - vlan_dev_hard_header() includes a work-around for some apparently broken out of tree MPLS code. The hard_header functions can expect to always have a headroom of at least there own hard_header_len available, so the reallocation check is unnecessary. - __vlan_put_tag() can use skb_cow_head() to avoid the skb_unshare() copy when the header is writable. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08vlan: TCI related type and naming cleanupsPatrick McHardy
The VLAN code contains multiple spots that use tag, id and tci as identifiers for arguments and variables incorrectly and they actually contain or are expected to contain something different. Additionally types are used inconsistently (unsigned short vs u16) and identifiers are sometimes capitalized. - consistently use u16 for storing TCI, ID or QoS values - consistently use vlan_id and vlan_tci for storing the respective values - remove capitalization - add kdoc comment to netif_hwaccel_{rx,receive_skb} Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08vlan: move struct vlan_dev_info to private headerPatrick McHardy
Hide struct vlan_dev_info from drivers to prevent them from growing more creative ways to use it. Provide accessors for the two drivers that currently use it. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08vlan: uninline __vlan_hwaccel_rxPatrick McHardy
The function is huge and included at least once in every VLAN acceleration capable driver. Uninline it; to avoid having drivers depend on the VLAN module, the function is always built in statically when VLAN is enabled. With all VLAN acceleration capable drivers that build on x86_64 enabled, this results in: text data bss dec hex filename 6515227 854044 343968 7713239 75b1d7 vmlinux.inlined 6505637 854044 343968 7703649 758c61 vmlinux.uninlined ---------------------------------------------------------- -9590 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08vlan: Add ethtool supportPatrick McHardy
Add ethtool support for querying the device for offload settings. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08vlan: Use is_vlan_dev()Joonwoo Park
Use simplified is_vlan_dev function. Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>