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Olaf Kirch 29578624e3 [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll.
Keep netpoll/poll_napi from messing with the poll_list.
Only net_rx_action is allowed to manipulate the list.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11 19:32:02 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 61cbc2fca6 [NET]: Fix secondary unicast/multicast address count maintenance
When a reference to an existing address is increased or decreased without
hitting zero, the address count is incorrectly adjusted.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:23 -07:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr f25f4e4480 [CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue hardware support API
Add the multiqueue hardware device support API to the core network
stack.  Allow drivers to allocate multiple queues and manage them at
the netdev level if they choose to do so.

Added a new field to sk_buff, namely queue_mapping, for drivers to
know which tx_ring to select based on OS classification of the flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:21 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 4417da668c [NET]: dev: secondary unicast address support
Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses on network
devices. To support this devices capable of filtering multiple
unicast addresses need to change their set_multicast_list function
to configure unicast filters as well and assign it to dev->set_rx_mode
instead of dev->set_multicast_list. Other devices are put into promiscous
mode when secondary unicast addresses are present.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:56 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 3fba5a8b1e [NET]: dev_mcast: switch to generic net_device address lists
Use generic net_device address lists for multicast list handling.
Some defines are used to keep drivers working.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:55 -07:00
Patrick McHardy bf742482d7 [NET]: dev: introduce generic net_device address lists
Introduce struct dev_addr_list and list maintenance functions
based on dev_mc_list and the related functions. This will be
used by follow-up patches for both multicast and secondary
unicast addresses.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:54 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger d212f87b06 [NET]: IPV6 checksum offloading in network devices
The existing model for checksum offload does not correctly handle
devices that can offload IPV4 and IPV6 only. The NETIF_F_HW_CSUM flag
implies device can do any arbitrary protocol.

This patch:
 * adds NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM for those devices
 * fixes bnx2 and tg3 devices that need it
 * add NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM to ipv6 output (incl GSO)
 * fixes assumptions about NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM in nat
 * adjusts bridge union of checksumming computation

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:52 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 38f7b870d4 [RTNETLINK]: Link creation API
Add rtnetlink API for creating, changing and deleting software devices.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:20 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 6472ce6096 [NET]: Mark struct net_device * argument to netdev_priv const
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:13 -07:00
Herbert Xu b0ba66671a [NET] napi: Call __netif_rx_complete in netif_rx_complete
This patch kills a little bit of code duplication between the two
variants of netif_rx_complete.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-31 01:23:35 -07:00
Herbert Xu 572a103ded [NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device
These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the
network subsystem as it manages the carrier status.  So it now
makes sense to allocate some memory for it in net_device rather
than allocating it on demand.

In fact, this is necessary because we can't tolerate a memory
allocation failure since that means we'd have to potentially
throw a link up event away.

It also simplifies the code greatly.

In doing so I discovered a subtle race condition in the use
of singleevent.  This race condition still exists (and is
somewhat magnified) without singleevent but it's now plugged
thanks to an smp_mb__before_clear_bit.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-10 23:45:07 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov 7562f876cd [NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3)
Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device
list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable
and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev
loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using
first_netdev()/next_netdev().

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03 15:13:45 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 4e9cac2ba4 [NET]: Add __dev_getfirstbyhwtype
Add __dev_getfirstbyhwtype for callers that don't want a reference but
some data from the device and thus need to take the rtnl anyway.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03 03:28:13 -07:00
Rusty Russell 5a1b5898ee [NET]: Remove NETIF_F_INTERNAL_STATS, default to internal stats.
Herbert Xu conviced me that a new flag was overkill; every driver
currently overrides get_stats, so we might as well make the internal
one the default.  If someone did fail to set get_stats, they would now
get all 0 stats instead of "No statistics available".

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-28 21:04:03 -07:00
Sergei Shtylyov 5f286e113f [NETPOLL]: Fix TX queue overflow in trapped mode.
CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP causes the TX queue controls to be completely bypassed in
the netpoll's "trapped" mode which easily causes overflows in the drivers with
short TX queues (most notably, in 8139too with its 4-deep queue).  So, make
this option more sensible by making it only bypass the TX softirq wakeup.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-28 20:57:37 -07:00
Johannes Berg b86e0280bb [WEXT] net_device: Don't include wext bits if not required.
This patch makes the wext bits in struct net_device depend on
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 20:48:23 -07:00
Johannes Berg 704232c271 [WIRELESS] cfg80211: New wireless config infrastructure.
This patch creates the core cfg80211 code along with some sysfs bits.
This is a stripped down version to allow mac80211 to function, but
doesn't include any configuration yet except for creating and removing
virtual interfaces.

This patch includes the nl80211 header file but it only contains the
interface types which the cfg80211 interface for creating virtual
interfaces relies on.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:41 -07:00
Rusty Russell c45d286e72 [NET]: Inline net_device_stats
Network drivers which keep stats allocate their own stats structure
then write a get_stats() function to return them.  It would be nice if
this were done by default.

1) Add a new "stats" field to "struct net_device".
2) Add a new feature field to say "this driver uses the internal one"
3) Have a default "get_stats" which returns NULL if that feature not set.
4) Change callers to check result of get_stats call for NULL, not if
   ->get_stats is set.

This should not break backwards compatibility with older drivers, yet
allow modern drivers to shed some boilerplate code.

Lightly tested: works for a modified lguest network driver.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:26 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 22f8cde5bc [NET]: unregister_netdevice as void
There was no real useful information from the unregister_netdevice() return
code, the only error occurred in a situation that was a driver bug. So
change it to a void function.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08 12:39:06 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 43cb76d91e Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device
This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume
issues, if it wants to.

Thanks to Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> for the arm
driver fixes.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:11 -08:00
David S. Miller e44c39bd84 [NET]: Add memory barrrier to netif_poll_enable()
When a driver writer calls this, they generally expect that
all previous stores and modifications they've made will be
visible before netif_poll_enable() executes, so ensure this.

Noticed by Ben H.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-31 14:06:48 -08:00
Eric Dumazet f0490980a1 [NET]: Force a cache line split in hh_cache in SMP.
hh_lock was converted from rwlock to seqlock by Stephen.

To have a 100% benefit of this change, I suggest to place read mostly fields
of hh_cache in a separate cache line, because hh_refcnt may be changed quite
frequently on some busy machines.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08 17:19:29 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 3644f0cee7 [NET]: Convert hh_lock to seqlock.
The hard header cache is in the main output path, so using
seqlock instead of reader/writer lock should reduce overhead.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08 17:19:20 -08:00
Al Viro d7fe0f241d [PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> mm.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-04 02:00:34 -05:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo d5c42c0ec4 [NET]: Pack struct hh_cache
[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ pahole net/ipv4/tcp.o hh_cache
/* /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/include/linux/netdevice.h:190 */
struct hh_cache {
        struct hh_cache *          hh_next;              /*     0     4 */
        atomic_t                   hh_refcnt;            /*     4     4 */
        __be16                     hh_type;              /*     8     2 */

        /* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */

        int                        hh_len;               /*    12     4 */
        int                        (*hh_output)();       /*    16     4 */
        rwlock_t                   hh_lock;              /*    20    36 */
        long unsigned int          hh_data[24];          /*    56    96 */
}; /* size: 152, sum members: 150, holes: 1, sum holes: 2 */

[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ find net -name "*.[ch]" | xargs grep 'hh_len.\+=' | sort -u
net/atm/br2684.c:               hh->hh_len = PADLEN + ETH_HLEN;
net/ethernet/eth.c:     hh->hh_len = ETH_HLEN;
net/ipv4/ipconfig.c:    int hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev);
net/ipv4/ip_output.c:   hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(rt->u.dst.dev);
net/ipv4/ip_output.c:   int hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev);
net/ipv4/netfilter.c:   hh_len = (*pskb)->dst->dev->hard_header_len;
net/ipv4/raw.c: hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(rt->u.dst.dev);
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:  hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(rt->u.dst.dev);
net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_REJECT.c:       hh_len = (dst->dev->hard_header_len + 15)&~15;
net/ipv6/raw.c: hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(rt->u.dst.dev);
[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$

[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ find include -name "*.h" | xargs grep 'define ETH_HLEN'
include/linux/if_ether.h:#define ETH_HLEN       14              /* Total octets in header.       */

        (((dev)->hard_header_len&~(HH_DATA_MOD - 1)) + HH_DATA_MOD)

[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ pahole net/ipv4/tcp.o net_device | grep hard_header_len
        short unsigned int         hard_header_len;      /*   106     2 */
[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$

So I think we're safe in turning hh_len an u16, end result:

[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ codiff -sV /tmp/tcp.o.before net/ipv4/tcp.o
/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/net/ipv4/tcp.c:
  struct hh_cache |   -4
    hh_len;
     from: int                   /*    12(0)     4(0) */
     to:   u16                   /*    10(0)     2(0) */
 1 struct changed
[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02 21:30:47 -08:00
Gerrit Renker b9df3cb8cf [TCP/DCCP]: Introduce net_xmit_eval
Throughout the TCP/DCCP (and tunnelling) code, it often happens that the
return code of a transmit function needs to be tested against NET_XMIT_CN
which is a value that does not indicate a strict error condition.

This patch uses a macro for these recurring situations which is consistent
with the already existing macro net_xmit_errno, saving on duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02 21:22:27 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 90833aa4f4 [NET]: The scheduled removal of the frame diverter.
This patch contains the scheduled removal of the frame diverter.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:22:23 -08:00
David S. Miller e81c735967 [NET]: Fix MAX_HEADER setting.
MAX_HEADER is either set to LL_MAX_HEADER or LL_MAX_HEADER + 48, and
this is controlled by a set of CONFIG_* ifdef tests.

It is trying to use LL_MAX_HEADER + 48 when any of the tunnels are
enabled which set hard_header_len like this:

dev->hard_header_len = LL_MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct xxx);

The correct set of tunnel drivers which do this are:

ipip
ip_gre
ip6_tunnel
sit

so make the ifdef test match.

Noticed by Patrick McHardy and with help from Herbert Xu.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-28 20:59:39 -08:00
Al Viro d77072ecfb [NET]: Annotate dst_ops protocol
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-28 18:02:58 -07:00
Jeff Garzik b0df3bd1e5 Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into tmp 2006-09-25 20:09:14 -04:00
Jay Vosburgh f5b2b966f0 [PATCH] bonding: Validate probe replies in ARP monitor
Add logic to check ARP request / reply packets used for ARP
monitor link integrity checking.

	The current method simply examines the slave device to see if it
has sent and received traffic; this can be fooled by extraneous traffic.
For example, if multiple hosts running bonding are behind a common
switch, the probe traffic from the multiple instances of bonding will
update the tx/rx times on each other's slave devices.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-25 20:08:09 -04:00
John W. Linville baef186519 [PATCH] WE-21 support (core API)
This is version 21 of the Wireless Extensions. Changelog :
	o finishes migrating the ESSID API (remove the +1)
	o netdev->get_wireless_stats is no more
	o long/short retry

This is a redacted version of a patch originally submitted by Jean
Tourrilhes.  I removed most of the additions, in order to minimize
future support requirements for nl80211 (or other WE successor).

CC: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-09-25 16:52:14 -04:00
Linus Torvalds a319a2773a Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (217 commits)
  net/ieee80211: fix more crypto-related build breakage
  [PATCH] Spidernet: add ethtool -S (show statistics)
  [NET] GT96100: Delete bitrotting ethernet driver
  [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: restrict to 32-bit PPC_MULTIPLATFORM
  [PATCH] Cirrus Logic ep93xx ethernet driver
  r8169: the MMIO region of the 8167 stands behin BAR#1
  e1000, ixgb: Remove pointless wrappers
  [PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver
  [PATCH] s2io: Switch to pci_get_device
  [PATCH] gt96100: move to pci_get_device API
  [PATCH] ehea: bugfix for register access functions
  [PATCH] e1000 disable device on PCI error
  drivers/net/phy/fixed: #if 0 some incomplete code
  drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations
  [PATCH] ethtool: allow const ethtool_ops
  [PATCH] sky2: big endian
  [PATCH] sky2: fiber support
  [PATCH] sky2: tx pause bug fix
  drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace
  [PATCH] ehea: IBM eHEA Ethernet Device Driver
  ...

Manually resolved conflicts in drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c and
drivers/net/sky2.c related to CHECKSUM_HW/CHECKSUM_PARTIAL changes by
commit 84fa7933a3 that just happened to be
next to unrelated changes in this update.
2006-09-24 10:15:13 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 84fa7933a3 [NET]: Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL/CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL (for outgoing packets, whose
checksum still needs to be completed) and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE (for
incoming packets, device supplied full checksum).

Patch originally from Herbert Xu, updated by myself for 2.6.18-rc3.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:53 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 76fd859370 [PATCH] ethtool: allow const ethtool_ops
The ethtool_ops structure is immutable, it expected to be setup
by the driver and is never changed. This patch allows drivers to
declare there ethtool_ops structure read-only.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-13 13:30:47 -04:00
Herbert Xu 78eb887733 [BRIDGE]: Disable SG/GSO if TX checksum is off
When the bridge recomputes features, it does not maintain the
constraint that SG/GSO must be off if TX checksum is off.
This patch adds that constraint.

On a completely unrelated note, I've also added TSO6 and TSO_ECN
feature bits if GSO is enabled on the underlying device through
the new NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE macro.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-17 18:22:32 -07:00
David S. Miller 7ea49ed73c [VLAN]: Make sure bonding packet drop checks get done in hwaccel RX path.
Since __vlan_hwaccel_rx() is essentially bypassing the
netif_receive_skb() call that would have occurred if we did the VLAN
decapsulation in software, we are missing the skb_bond() call and the
assosciated checks it does.

Export those checks via an inline function, skb_bond_should_drop(),
and use this in __vlan_hwaccel_rx().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-17 16:29:46 -07:00
Herbert Xu 53c4b2cc7a [NET]: Fix reversed error test in netif_tx_trylock
A non-zero return value indicates success from spin_trylock,
not error.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-21 14:55:38 -07:00
Herbert Xu a430a43d08 [NET] gso: Fix up GSO packets with broken checksums
Certain subsystems in the stack (e.g., netfilter) can break the partial
checksum on GSO packets.  Until they're fixed, this patch allows this to
work by recomputing the partial checksums through the GSO mechanism.

Once they've all been converted to update the partial checksum instead of
clearing it, this workaround can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-08 13:34:56 -07:00
Herbert Xu 89114afd43 [NET] gso: Add skb_is_gso
This patch adds the wrapper function skb_is_gso which can be used instead
of directly testing skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size.  This makes things a little
nicer and allows us to change the primary key for indicating whether an skb
is GSO (if we ever want to do that).

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-08 13:34:32 -07:00
Herbert Xu f83ef8c0b5 [IPV6]: Added GSO support for TCPv6
This patch adds GSO support for IPv6 and TCPv6.  This is based on a patch
by Ananda Raju <Ananda.Raju@neterion.com>.  His original description is:

	This patch enables TSO over IPv6. Currently Linux network stacks
	restricts TSO over IPv6 by clearing of the NETIF_F_TSO bit from
	"dev->features". This patch will remove this restriction.

	This patch will introduce a new flag NETIF_F_TSO6 which will be used
	to check whether device supports TSO over IPv6. If device support TSO
	over IPv6 then we don't clear of NETIF_F_TSO and which will make the
	TCP layer to create TSO packets. Any device supporting TSO over IPv6
	will set NETIF_F_TSO6 flag in "dev->features" along with NETIF_F_TSO.

	In case when user disables TSO using ethtool, NETIF_F_TSO will get
	cleared from "dev->features". So even if we have NETIF_F_TSO6 we don't
	get TSO packets created by TCP layer.

	SKB_GSO_TCPV4 renamed to SKB_GSO_TCP to make it generic GSO packet.
	SKB_GSO_UDPV4 renamed to SKB_GSO_UDP as UFO is not a IPv4 feature.
	UFO is supported over IPv6 also

	The following table shows there is significant improvement in
	throughput with normal frames and CPU usage for both normal and jumbo.

	--------------------------------------------------
	|          |     1500        |      9600         |
	|          ------------------|-------------------|
	|          | thru     CPU    |  thru     CPU     |
	--------------------------------------------------
	| TSO OFF  | 2.00   5.5% id  |  5.66   20.0% id  |
	--------------------------------------------------
	| TSO ON   | 2.63   78.0 id  |  5.67   39.0% id  |
	--------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-30 14:12:10 -07:00
Herbert Xu bcd7611117 [NET]: Generalise TSO-specific bits from skb_setup_caps
This patch generalises the TSO-specific bits from sk_setup_caps by adding
the sk_gso_type member to struct sock.  This makes sk_setup_caps generic
so that it can be used by TCPv6 or UFO.

The only catch is that whoever uses this must provide a GSO implementation
for their protocol which I think is a fair deal :) For now UFO continues to
live without a GSO implementation which is OK since it doesn't use the sock
caps field at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-30 14:12:08 -07:00
Michael Chan b0da853703 [NET]: Add ECN support for TSO
In the current TSO implementation, NETIF_F_TSO and ECN cannot be
turned on together in a TCP connection.  The problem is that most
hardware that supports TSO does not handle CWR correctly if it is set
in the TSO packet.  Correct handling requires CWR to be set in the
first packet only if it is set in the TSO header.

This patch adds the ability to turn on NETIF_F_TSO and ECN using
GSO if necessary to handle TSO packets with CWR set.  Hardware
that handles CWR correctly can turn on NETIF_F_TSO_ECN in the dev->
features flag.

All TSO packets with CWR set will have the SKB_GSO_TCPV4_ECN set.  If
the output device does not have the NETIF_F_TSO_ECN feature set, GSO
will split the packet up correctly with CWR only set in the first
segment.

With help from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>.

Since ECN can always be enabled with TSO, the SOCK_NO_LARGESEND sock
flag is completely removed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:58:08 -07:00
Herbert Xu d6b4991ad5 [NET]: Fix logical error in skb_gso_ok
The test in skb_gso_ok is backwards.  Noticed by Michael Chan
<mchan@broadcom.com>.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:58:04 -07:00
Herbert Xu 576a30eb64 [NET]: Added GSO header verification
When GSO packets come from an untrusted source (e.g., a Xen guest domain),
we need to verify the header integrity before passing it to the hardware.

Since the first step in GSO is to verify the header, we can reuse that
code by adding a new bit to gso_type: SKB_GSO_DODGY.  Packets with this
bit set can only be fed directly to devices with the corresponding bit
NETIF_F_GSO_ROBUST.  If the device doesn't have that bit, then the skb
is fed to the GSO engine which will allow the packet to be sent to the
hardware if it passes the header check.

This patch changes the sg flag to a full features flag.  The same method
can be used to implement TSO ECN support.  We simply have to mark packets
with CWR set with SKB_GSO_ECN so that only hardware with a corresponding
NETIF_F_TSO_ECN can accept them.  The GSO engine can either fully segment
the packet, or segment the first MTU and pass the rest to the hardware for
further segmentation.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:57:53 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 6048126440 [NET]: make net/core/dev.c:netdev_nit static
netdev_nit can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-25 23:58:10 -07:00
Herbert Xu 37c3185a02 [NET]: Added GSO toggle
This patch adds a generic segmentation offload toggle that can be turned
on/off for each net device.  For now it only supports in TCPv4.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 02:07:36 -07:00
Herbert Xu f6a78bfcb1 [NET]: Add generic segmentation offload
This patch adds the infrastructure for generic segmentation offload.
The idea is to tap into the potential savings of TSO without hardware
support by postponing the allocation of segmented skb's until just
before the entry point into the NIC driver.

The same structure can be used to support software IPv6 TSO, as well as
UFO and segmentation offload for other relevant protocols, e.g., DCCP.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 02:07:31 -07:00
Herbert Xu 7967168cef [NET]: Merge TSO/UFO fields in sk_buff
Having separate fields in sk_buff for TSO/UFO (tso_size/ufo_size) is not
going to scale if we add any more segmentation methods (e.g., DCCP).  So
let's merge them.

They were used to tell the protocol of a packet.  This function has been
subsumed by the new gso_type field.  This is essentially a set of netdev
feature bits (shifted by 16 bits) that are required to process a specific
skb.  As such it's easy to tell whether a given device can process a GSO
skb: you just have to and the gso_type field and the netdev's features
field.

I've made gso_type a conjunction.  The idea is that you have a base type
(e.g., SKB_GSO_TCPV4) that can be modified further to support new features.
For example, if we add a hardware TSO type that supports ECN, they would
declare NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO_ECN.  All TSO packets with CWR set would
have a gso_type of SKB_GSO_TCPV4 | SKB_GSO_TCPV4_ECN while all other TSO
packets would be SKB_GSO_TCPV4.  This means that only the CWR packets need
to be emulated in software.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 02:07:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a4cfae13ce Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [ATM]: fix broken uses of NIPQUAD in net/atm
  [SCTP]: sctp_unpack_cookie() fix
  [SCTP]: Fix unintentional change to SCTP_ASSERT when !SCTP_DEBUG
  [NET]: Prevent multiple qdisc runs
  [CONNECTOR]: Initialize subsystem earlier.
  [NETFILTER]: xt_sctp: fix endless loop caused by 0 chunk length
2006-06-20 17:39:53 -07:00