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Rafał Miłecki 40be0dda07 net: add devm version of alloc_etherdev_mqs function
This patch adds devm_alloc_etherdev_mqs function and devm_alloc_etherdev
macro. These can be used for simpler netdev allocation without having to
care about calling free_netdev.

Thanks to this change drivers, their error paths and removal paths may
get simpler by a bit.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-29 19:24:12 -05:00
Andrew Lunn 5952758101 dsa: mv88e6xxx: Optimise atu_get
Lookup in the ATU can be performed starting from a given MAC
address. This is faster than starting with the first possible MAC
address and iterating all entries.

Entries are returned in numeric order. So if the MAC address returned
is bigger than what we are searching for, we know it is not in the
ATU.

Using the benchmark provided by Volodymyr Bendiuga
<volodymyr.bendiuga@gmail.com>,

https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg411550.html

on an Marvell Armada 370 RD, the test to add a number of static fdb
entries went from 1.616531 seconds to 0.312052 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-04 16:34:34 -05:00
Joe Perches 4ae89ad924 etherdevice.h & bridge: netfilter: Add and use ether_addr_equal_masked
There are code duplications of a masked ethernet address comparison here
so make it a separate function instead.

Miscellanea:

o Neaten alignment of FWINV macro uses to make it clearer for the reader

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2016-07-01 16:37:06 +02:00
David S. Miller c7f5d10549 net: Add eth_platform_get_mac_address() helper.
A repeating pattern in drivers has become to use OF node information
and, if not found, platform specific host information to extract the
ethernet address for a given device.

Currently this is done with a call to of_get_mac_address() and then
some ifdef'd stuff for SPARC.

Consolidate this into a portable routine, and provide the
arch_get_platform_mac_address() weak function hook for all
architectures to implement if they want.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-06 16:31:56 -05:00
Jesse Brandeburg fbaff3ef85 net: fix endian check warning in etherdevice.h
Sparse builds have been warning for a really long time now
that etherdevice.h has a conversion that is unsafe.

  include/linux/etherdevice.h:79:32: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer

This code change fixes the issue and generates the exact
same assembly before/after (checked on x86_64)

Fixes: 2c722fe1c8 (etherdevice: Optimize a few is_<foo>_ether_addr functions)
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
CC: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-17 12:14:53 -07:00
Alexander Duyck 2c7a88c252 etherdev: Fix sparse error, make test usable by other functions
This change does two things.  First it fixes a sparse error for the fact
that the __be16 degrades to an integer.  Since that is actually what I am
kind of doing I am simply working around that by forcing both sides of the
comparison to u16.

Also I realized on some compilers I was generating another instruction for
big endian systems such as PowerPC since it was masking the value before
doing the comparison.  So to resolve that I have simply pulled the mask out
and wrapped it in an #ifndef __BIG_ENDIAN.

Lastly I pulled this all out into its own function.  I notices there are
similar checks in a number of other places so this function can be reused
there to help reduce overhead in these paths as well.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-05 19:24:42 -04:00
Alexander Duyck d54385ce68 etherdev: Process is_multicast_ether_addr at same size as other operations
This change makes it so that we process the address in
is_multicast_ether_addr at the same size as the other calls.  This allows
us to avoid duplicate reads when used with other calls such as
is_zero_ether_addr or eth_addr_copy.  In addition I have added a 64 bit
version of the function so in eth_type_trans we can process the destination
address as a 64 bit value throughout.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-03 22:30:36 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman d476059e77 net: Kill dev_rebuild_header
Now that there are no more users kill dev_rebuild_header and all of it's
implementations.

This is long overdue.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-02 16:43:41 -05:00
Jesse Gross 9b174d88c2 net: Add Transparent Ethernet Bridging GRO support.
Currently the only tunnel protocol that supports GRO with encapsulated
Ethernet is VXLAN. This pulls out the Ethernet code into a proper layer
so that it can be used by other tunnel protocols such as GRE and Geneve.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-02 15:46:41 -05:00
Alexander Duyck 9c0c112422 net: Add functions for handling padding frame and adding to length
This patch adds two new helper functions skb_put_padto and eth_skb_pad.
These functions deviate from the standard skb_pad or skb_padto in that they
will also update the length and tail pointers so that they reflect the
padding added to the frame.

The eth_skb_pad helper is meant to be used with Ethernet devices to update
either Rx or Tx frames so that they report the correct size.  The
skb_put_padto helper is meant to be used primarily in the transmit path for
network devices that need frames to be padded up to some minimum size and
don't wish to simply update the length somewhere external to the frame.

The motivation behind this is that there are a number of implementations
throughout the network device drivers that are all doing the same thing,
but each a little bit differently and as a result several implementations
contain bugs such as updating the length without updating the tail offset
and other similar issues.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-08 20:47:41 -05:00
Alexander Duyck 56193d1bce net: Add function for parsing the header length out of linear ethernet frames
This patch updates some of the flow_dissector api so that it can be used to
parse the length of ethernet buffers stored in fragments.  Most of the
changes needed were to __skb_get_poff as it needed to be updated to support
sending a linear buffer instead of a skb.

I have split __skb_get_poff into two functions, the first is skb_get_poff
and it retains the functionality of the original __skb_get_poff.  The other
function is __skb_get_poff which now works much like __skb_flow_dissect in
relation to skb_flow_dissect in that it provides the same functionality but
works with just a data buffer and hlen instead of needing an skb.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-05 17:47:02 -07:00
Joe Perches 286ab723d4 etherdevice: Use ether_addr_copy to copy an Ethernet address
Some systems can use the normally known u16 alignment of
Ethernet addresses to save some code/text bytes and cycles.

This does not change currently emitted code on x86 by gcc 4.8.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-15 15:39:33 -08:00
Joe Perches 2c722fe1c8 etherdevice: Optimize a few is_<foo>_ether_addr functions
If CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set,
several is_<foo>_ether_addr functions can be slightly
improved by using u32 dereferences.

I believe all current uses of is_zero_ether_addr and
is_broadcast_ether_addr are u16 aligned, so always use
u16 references to improve those functions performance.

Document the u16 alignment requirements.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-09 20:58:11 -05:00
Joe Perches 73eaef87e9 etherdevice: Add ether_addr_equal_unaligned
Add a generic routine to test if possibly unaligned
to u16 Ethernet addresses are equal.

If CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set,
this uses the slightly faster generic routine
ether_addr_equal, otherwise this uses memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-09 20:58:10 -05:00
Joe Perches 0d74c42f78 ether_addr_equal: Optimize implementation, remove unused compare_ether_addr
Add a new check for CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to reduce
the number of or's used in the ether_addr_equal comparison to very
slightly improve function performance.

Simplify the ether_addr_equal_64bits implementation.
Integrate and remove the zap_last_2bytes helper as it's now
used only once.

Remove the now unused compare_ether_addr function.

Update the unaligned-memory-access documentation to remove the
compare_ether_addr description and show how unaligned accesses
could occur with ether_addr_equal.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-06 16:37:43 -05:00
Joe Perches f629d208d2 [networking]device.h: Remove extern from function prototypes
There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern
in the kernel sources.  Standardize on not using extern for
function prototypes.

Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern.
extern is assumed by the compiler.  Its use is as unnecessary as
using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2013-09-26 15:06:58 -07:00
Bjørn Mork 83a093b486 net: etherdevice: add address inherit helper
Some etherdevices inherit their address from a parent or
master device. The addr_assign_type should be updated along
with the address in these cases.  Adding a helper function
to simplify this.

Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-03 20:57:49 -04:00
Stefan Hajnoczi fa0879e37b net: split eth_mac_addr for better error handling
When we set mac address, software mac address in system and hardware mac
address all need to be updated. Current eth_mac_addr() doesn't allow
callers to implement error handling nicely.

This patch split eth_mac_addr() to prepare part and real commit part,
then we can prepare first, and try to change hardware address, then do
the real commit if hardware address is set successfully.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-21 14:07:44 -05:00
Jiri Pirko e41b2d7fe7 net: set dev->addr_assign_type correctly
Not a bitfield, but a plain value.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-03 22:37:35 -08:00
Ben Hutchings 2bc80059fe eth: Rename and properly align br_reserved_address array
Since this array is no longer part of the bridge driver, it should
have an 'eth' prefix not 'br'.

We also assume that either it's 16-bit-aligned or the architecture has
efficient unaligned access.  Ensure the first of these is true by
explicitly aligning it.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-02 21:34:05 -04:00
Ben Hutchings 46acc460c0 eth: Make is_link_local() consistent with other address tests
Function name should include '_ether_addr'.
Return type should be bool.
Parameter name should be 'addr' not 'dest' (also matching kernel-doc).

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-02 21:34:05 -04:00
John Fastabend b3343a2a2c net, ixgbe: handle link local multicast addresses in SR-IOV mode
In SR-IOV mode the PF driver acts as the uplink port and is
used to send control packets e.g. lldpad, stp, etc.

   eth0.1     eth0.2     eth0
   VF         VF         PF
   |          |          |   <-- stand-in for uplink
   |          |          |
  --------------------------
  |  Embedded Switch       |
  --------------------------
              |
             MAC   <-- uplink

But the embedded switch is setup to forward multicast addresses
to all interfaces both VFs and PF and onto the physical link.
This results in reserved MAC addresses used by control protocols
to be forwarded over the switch onto the VF.

In the LLDP case the PF sends an LLDPDU and it is currently
being forwarded to all the VFs who then see the PF as a peer.
This is incorrect.

This patch adds the multicast addresses to the RAR table in the
hardware to prevent this behavior.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-10-29 22:31:49 -07:00
Duan Jiong 6d57e9078e etherdevice: introduce help function eth_zero_addr()
a lot of code has either the memset or an inefficient copy
from a static array that contains the all-zeros Ethernet address.
Introduce help function eth_zero_addr() to fill an address with
all zeros, making the code clearer and allowing us to get rid of
some constant arrays.

Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <djduanjiong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-10 15:49:54 -04:00
Joe Perches 0a4dd59498 etherdevice: Rename random_ether_addr to eth_random_addr
Add some API symmetry to eth_broadcast_addr and
add a #define to the old name for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-16 22:38:27 -07:00
Johannes Berg ad7eee98be etherdevice: introduce eth_broadcast_addr
A lot of code has either the memset or an inefficient copy
from a static array that contains the all-ones broadcast
address. Introduce eth_broadcast_addr() to fill an address
with all ones, making the code clearer and allowing us to
get rid of some constant arrays.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-10 18:06:44 -07:00
stephen hemminger 048b899ce3 etherdevice: fix comments
Fix some minor problems in comments of etherdevice.h
 * Warning is out dated, file hasn't moved or disappeared in many years and
    is unlikely to do so soon.
 * Capitalize Ethernet consistently since it is a proper name
 * Fix descriptive comment of padding
 * Spelling and grammar fix for alignment comment

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-17 15:36:35 -04:00
Joe Perches e550ba1af9 etherdevice: Remove now unused compare_ether_addr_64bits
Move and invert the logic from the otherwise unused
compare_ether_addr_64bits to ether_addr_equal_64bits.

Neaten the logic in is_etherdev_addr.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-12 23:34:50 -04:00
Joe Perches baf523c9ba etherdevice.h: Add ether_addr_equal_64bits
Add an optimized boolean function to check if
2 ethernet addresses are the same.

This is to avoid any confusion about compare_ether_addr_64bits
returning an unsigned, and not being able to use the
compare_ether_addr_64bits function for sorting ala memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-10 23:33:01 -04:00
Joe Perches a599b0f54d etherdevice.h: Add ether_addr_equal
Add a boolean function to check if 2 ethernet addresses
are the same.

This is to avoid any confusion about compare_ether_addr
returning an unsigned, and not being able to use the
compare_ether_addr function for sorting ala memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-09 20:49:16 -04:00
Joe Perches b44907e64c etherdev.h: Convert int is_<foo>_ether_addr to bool
Make the return value explicitly true or false.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-08 13:06:16 -04:00
Johannes Berg 1c430a727f net: compare_ether_addr[_64bits]() has no ordering
Neither compare_ether_addr() nor compare_ether_addr_64bits()
(as it can fall back to the former) have comparison semantics
like memcmp() where the sign of the return value indicates sort
order. We had a bug in the wireless code due to a blind memcmp
replacement because of this.

A cursory look suggests that the wireless bug was the only one
due to this semantic difference.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-07 19:21:29 -04:00
Danny Kukawka 1a0d6ae579 rename dev_hw_addr_random and remove redundant second
Renamed dev_hw_addr_random to eth_hw_addr_random() to reflect that
this function only assign a random ethernet address (MAC). Removed
the second parameter (u8 *hwaddr), it's redundant since the also
given net_device already contains net_device->dev_addr.
Set it directly.

Adapt igbvf and ixgbevf to the changed function.

Small fix for ixgbevf_probe(): if ixgbevf_sw_init() fails
(which means the device got no dev_addr) handle the error and
jump to err_sw_init as already done by igbvf in similar case.

Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-13 00:46:41 -05:00
David S. Miller e69dd336ee net: Push protocol type directly down to header_ops->cache()
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-13 02:29:59 -07:00
Tobias Klauser 51e7eed79c etherdevice.h: Add is_unicast_ether_addr function
From a check for !is_multicast_ether_addr it is not always obvious that
we're checking for a unicast address. So add this helper function to
make those code paths easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-13 21:49:56 -08:00
Tom Herbert 36909ea438 net: Add alloc_netdev_mqs function
Added alloc_netdev_mqs function which allows the number of transmit and
receive queues to be specified independenty.  alloc_netdev_mq was
changed to a macro to call the new function.  Also added
alloc_etherdev_mqs with same purpose.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-10 16:05:30 -08:00
Eric Dumazet a02cec2155 net: return operator cleanup
Change "return (EXPR);" to "return EXPR;"

return is not a function, parentheses are not required.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 40d0802b3e gro: __napi_gro_receive() optimizations
compare_ether_header() can have a special implementation on 64 bit
arches if CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is defined.

__napi_gro_receive() and vlan_gro_common() can avoid a conditional
branch to perform device match.

On x86_64, __napi_gro_receive() has now 38 instructions instead of 53

As gcc-4.4.3 still choose to not inline it, add inline keyword to this
performance critical function.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-26 22:03:08 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 7ed24e8da7 etherdevice.h: fix kernel-doc typo
Fix etherdevice.h parameter name typo in kernel-doc:

Warning(include/linux/etherdevice.h:138): No description found for parameter 'hwaddr'
Warning(include/linux/etherdevice.h:138): Excess function parameter 'addr' description in 'dev_hw_addr_random'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-10 00:09:20 -07:00
Stefan Assmann c1f79426e2 sysfs: add attribute to indicate hw address assignment type
Add addr_assign_type to struct net_device and expose it via sysfs.
This new attribute has the purpose of giving user-space the ability to
distinguish between different assignment types of MAC addresses.

For example user-space can treat NICs with randomly generated MAC
addresses differently than NICs that have permanent (locally assigned)
MAC addresses.
For the former udev could write a persistent net rule by matching the
device path instead of the MAC address.
There's also the case of devices that 'steal' MAC addresses from slave
devices. In which it is also be beneficial for user-space to be aware
of the fact.

This patch also introduces a helper function to assist adoption of
drivers that generate MAC addresses randomly.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-24 20:49:29 -07:00
Jiri Pirko f001fde5ea net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6)
v5 -> v6 (current):
-removed so far unused static functions
-corrected dev_addr_del_multiple to call del instead of add

v4 -> v5:
-added device address type (suggested by davem)
-removed refcounting (better to have simplier code then safe potentially few
 bytes)

v3 -> v4:
-changed kzalloc to kmalloc in __hw_addr_add_ii()
-ASSERT_RTNL() avoided in dev_addr_flush() and dev_addr_init()

v2 -> v3:
-removed unnecessary rcu read locking
-moved dev_addr_flush() calling to ensure no null dereference of dev_addr

v1 -> v2:
-added forgotten ASSERT_RTNL to dev_addr_init and dev_addr_flush
-removed unnecessary rcu_read locking in dev_addr_init
-use compare_ether_addr_64bits instead of compare_ether_addr
-use L1_CACHE_BYTES as size for allocating struct netdev_hw_addr
-use call_rcu instead of rcu_synchronize
-moved is_etherdev_addr into __KERNEL__ ifdef

This patch introduces a new list in struct net_device and brings a set of
functions to handle the work with device address list. The list is a replacement
for the original dev_addr field and because in some situations there is need to
carry several device addresses with the net device. To be backward compatible,
dev_addr is made to point to the first member of the list so original drivers
sees no difference.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-05 12:26:24 -07:00
Herbert Xu aa4b9f533e gro: Optimise Ethernet header comparison
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>
2009-02-08 20:22:18 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 1f87e235e6 eth: Declare an optimized compare_ether_addr_64bits() function
Linus mentioned we could try to perform long word operations, even
on potentially unaligned addresses, on x86 at least. David mentioned
the HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS test to handle this on all
arches that have efficient unailgned accesses.

I tried this idea and got nice assembly on 32 bits:

158:   33 82 38 01 00 00       xor    0x138(%edx),%eax
15e:   33 8a 34 01 00 00       xor    0x134(%edx),%ecx
164:   c1 e0 10                shl    $0x10,%eax
167:   09 c1                   or     %eax,%ecx
169:   74 0b                   je     176 <eth_type_trans+0x87>

And very nice assembly on 64 bits of course (one xor, one shl)

Nice oprofile improvement in eth_type_trans(), 0.17 % instead of 0.41 %,
expected since we remove 8 instructions on a fast path.

This patch implements a compare_ether_addr_64bits() function, that
uses the CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS ifdef to efficiently
perform the 6 bytes comparison on all capable arches.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-23 23:24:32 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger ccad637b0c netdev: expose ethernet address primitives
When ethernet devices are converted, the function pointer setup
by eth_setup() need to be done during intialization.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19 22:42:31 -08:00
Randy Dunlap bc2cda1ebd docbook: make a networking book and fix a few errors
Move networking (core and drivers) docbook to its own networking book.
Fix a few kernel-doc errors in header and source files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13 16:21:19 -08:00
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
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
David S. Miller 8c7b7faaa6 [NET]: Kill eth_copy_and_sum().
It hasn't "summed" anything in over 7 years, and it's
just a straight mempcy ala skb_copy_to_linear_data()
so just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:08:12 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso e024715f5f uml: improve checking and diagnostics of ethernet MACs
Improve checking and diagnostics for broadcast and multicast Ethernet MAC
addresses, and distinguish between those cases in output; also make sure the
device is assigned a MAC address valid only locally to avoid collisions.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:13:02 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 88df8ef59a [NET]: Don't exclude broadcast addresses from is_multicast_ether_addr()
The check for multicast shouldn't exclude broadcast type addresses.
This reverts the incorrect change done in 2.6.13.

The broadcast address is a multicast address and should be excluded
from being a valid_ether_address for use in bridging or device address.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 15:25:45 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger c2da8acaf4 [ETHERNET]: Add ether stuff to docbook
Fix up etherdevice docbook comments and make them (and other networking stuff)
get dragged into the kernel-api. Delete the old 8390 stuff, it really isn't
interesting anymore.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-11-02 22:08:52 -02:00