Paolo Abeni says:
====================
bridge/ovs: avoid skb head copy on frame forwarding
Currently, while when an OVS or Linux bridge is used to forward frames towards
some tunnel device, a skb_head_copy() may occur if the ingress device do not
provide enough headroom for the tx encapsulation.
This patch series tries to address the issue implementing a new ndo operation to
allow the master device to control the headroom used when allocating the skb on
frame reception.
Said operation is used by the Linux bridge to notify the bridged ports of
needed_headroom changes, and similar bookkeeping and behaviour is also added to
openvswitch, on a per datapath basis.
Finally, the operation is implemented for veth and tun device, which give
performance improvement in the 6-12% range when forwarding frames from said
devices towards a vxlan tunnel.
v2:
- fix netdev_get_fwd_headroom() behaviour
- remove some code duplication with the netdev_set_rx_headroom() and
netdev_reset_rx_headroom() helpers
- handle headroom reset on [v]port removal/deletion
- initialize tun align to the old default value
v3:
- fix a comment typo
====================
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The rx headroom for veth dev is the peer device needed_headroom.
Avoid ping-pong updates setting the private flag IFF_PHONY_HEADROOM.
This avoids skb head reallocation when forwarding from a veth dev
towards a device adding some kind of encapsulation.
When transmitting frames below the MTU size towards a vxlan device,
this gives about 10% performance speed-up when OVS is used to connect
the veth and the vxlan device and a little more when using a
plain Linux bridge.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ndo_set_rx_headroom controls the align value used by tun devices to
allocate skbs on frame reception.
When the xmit device adds a large encapsulation, this avoids an skb
head reallocation on forwarding.
The measured improvement when forwarding towards a vxlan dev with
frame size below the egress device MTU is as follow:
vxlan over ipv6, bridged: +6%
vxlan over ipv6, ovs: +7%
In case of ipv4 tunnels there is no improvement, since the tun
device default alignment provides enough headroom to avoid the skb
head reallocation.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch implements bookkeeping support to compute the maximum
headroom for all the devices in each datapath. When said value
changes, the underlying devs are notified via the
ndo_set_rx_headroom method.
This also increases the internal vports xmit performance.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
On bridge needed_headroom changes, the enslaved devices are
notified via the ndo_set_rx_headroom method
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This method allows the controlling device (i.e. the bridge) to specify
additional headroom to be allocated for skb head on frame reception.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Michael Chan says:
====================
bnxt_en: updates for net-next.
Miscellaneous updates covering SRIOV, IRQ coalescing, firmware logging and
package version for net-next. Thanks.
v2: Updated description and added more comments for patch 1. Fixed
function parameters formatting for patch 4.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is used to send NVM_FIND_DIR_ENTRY messages which can return error
if the entry is not found. This is normal and the error message will
cause unnecessary alarm, so silence it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a new function bnxt_do_send_msg() to do essentially the same thing
with an additional paramter to silence error response messages. All
current callers will set silent to false.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
For everything to fit, we remove the PHY microcode version and replace it
with the firmware package version in the fw_version string.
Signed-off-by: Rob Swindell <swindell@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use appropriate firmware request header structure to prepare the
firmware messages. This avoids the unnecessary conversion of the
fields to 32-bit fields. Add appropriate endian conversion when
printing out the message fields in dmesg so that they appear correct
in the log.
Reported-by: Rob Swindell <swindell@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Before this patch, we used a hardcoded value of 500 msec as the default
value for firmware message response timeout. For better portability with
future hardware or debug platforms, use the value provided by firmware in
the first response and store it for all susequent messages. Redefine the
macro HWRM_CMD_TIMEOUT to the stored value. Since we don't have the
value yet in the first message, use the 500 ms default if the stored value
is zero.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When tx and rx rings don't share the same completion ring, tx coalescing
parameters can be set differently from the rx coalescing parameters.
Otherwise, use rx coalescing parameters on shared completion rings.
Adjust rx coalescing default values to lower interrupt rate.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a function to set all the coalescing parameters. The function can
be used later to set both rx and tx coalescing parameters.
v2: Fixed function parameters formatting requested by DaveM.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Don't convert these to internal hardware tick values before storing
them. This avoids the confusion of ethtool -c returning slightly
different values than the ones set using ethtool -C when we convert
hardware tick values back to micro seconds. Add better comments for
the hardware settings.
Also, rename the current set of coalescing fields with rx_ prefix.
The next patch will add support of tx coalescing values.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
During remove_one() when SRIOV is enabled, the PF driver
should broadcast PF driver unload notification to all
VFs that are attached to VMs. Upon receiving the PF
driver unload notification, the VF driver should print
a warning message to message log. Certain operations on the
VF may not succeed after the PF has unloaded.
Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Huang <huangjw@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allow the VF to setup its own MAC address if the PF has not administratively
set it for the VF. To do that, we should always store the MAC address
from the firmware. There are 2 cases:
1. The MAC address is valid. This MAC address is assigned by the PF and
it needs to override the current VF MAC address.
2. The MAC address is zero. The VF will use a random MAC address by default.
By storing this 0 MAC address in the VF structure, it will allow the VF
user to change the MAC address later using ndo_set_mac_address() when
it sees that the stored MAC address is 0.
v2: Expanded descriptions and added more comments.
Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Huang <huangjw@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Merge tag 'linux-can-next-for-4.6-20160226' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkl/linux-can-next
Marc Kleine-Budde says:
====================
pull-request: can-next 2016-02-26
this is a pull request of 3 patch for net-next/master.
There are two patches by Simon Horman, in which the device tree support
for the rcar_can driver is improved. One patch by me fixes the bad
coding style of the ems_usb driver which was introduced recently.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Woojung Huh says:
====================
lan78xx: driver update
This patch series add new ethtool functions of set_pauseparam & get_pauseparam
and MAINTAINERS entry.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add maintainers for Microchip LAN78XX.
UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com is alias email which goes to current
developers work for Microchip Network related products.
Signed-off-by: Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add ethtool operations of set_pauseram and get_pauseparm.
Signed-off-by: Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It is not required after commit cd772de358
("phy: keep pause flags in phy driver features")
Signed-off-by: Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Replace devid to chipid & chiprev for easy access.
Signed-off-by: Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch allows the user to set and retrieve speed and duplex of the
hv_netvsc device via ethtool.
Example:
$ ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
...
Speed: Unknown!
Duplex: Unknown! (255)
...
$ ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full
$ ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
...
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
...
This is based on patches by Roopa Prabhu and Nikolay Aleksandrov.
Signed-off-by: Simon Xiao <sixiao@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cong Wang says:
====================
net_sched: update backlog for hierarchical qdisc's
For hierarchical qdisc like HTB, we currently only update its qlen
but leave its backlog as zero:
qdisc htb 1: dev eth0 root refcnt 2 r2q 10 default 1 direct_packets_stat 0 ver 3.17
Sent 172680457356 bytes 222469449 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 123575834 requeues 0)
backlog 0b 72p requeues 0
This patchset makes backlog as accurate as qlen.
v3: rebase and fix the n==0 case for qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()
v2: rebase and update changelog, not code change
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Similarly, we need to update backlog too when we update qlen.
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We saw qlen!=0 but backlog==0 on our production machine:
qdisc htb 1: dev eth0 root refcnt 2 r2q 10 default 1 direct_packets_stat 0 ver 3.17
Sent 172680457356 bytes 222469449 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 123575834 requeues 0)
backlog 0b 72p requeues 0
The problem is we only count qlen for HTB qdisc but not backlog.
We need to update backlog too when we update qlen, so that we
can at least know the average packet length.
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When the bottom qdisc decides to, for example, drop some packet,
it calls qdisc_tree_decrease_qlen() to update the queue length
for all its ancestors, we need to update the backlog too to
keep the stats on root qdisc accurate.
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove nearly duplicated code and prepare for the following patch.
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In commit 5b6490def9 ("3c59x: Use setup_timer()") Amitoj
removed add_timer which sets up the epires timer. In this patch
the behavior is restore but it uses mod_timer which is a bit more
compact.
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We intended to return PTR_ERR() here instead of 1.
Fixes: 1f9993f682 ('rocker: fix a neigh entry leak issue')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jeff Kirsher says:
====================
1GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2016-02-24
This series contains updates to e1000e, igb and igbvf.
Raanan provides updates for e1000e, first increases the ULP timer since it
now takes longer for the ULP exit to complete on Skylake. Fixes the
configuration of the internal hardware PHY clock gating mechanism, which was
causing packet loss due to mis configuring. Fixed additional ULP
configuration settings which were not being properly cleared after cable
connect in V-Pro capable systems. Added support for more i219 devices.
Takuma Ueba provides a fix for I210 where IPv6 autoconf test sometimes
fails due to DAD NS for link-local is not transmitted. To avoid this
issue, we need to wait until 1000BASE-T status register "Remote receiver
status OK".
Todd provides a patch to override EEPROM WoL settings for specific OEM
devices. Then renamed igb defines to be more generic, since the define
E1000_MRQC_ENABLE_RSS_4Q enables 4 and 8 queues depending on the part.
Roland Hii fixes an issue where only the half cycle time of less than or
equal to 70 millisecond uses the I210 clock output function. His patch
adds additional conditions when half cycle time is equal to 125 or 250 or
500 millisecond to use the clock output function.
Alex Duyck adds support for generic transmit checksums for igb and igbvf.
Jon Maxwell fixes an issues where customer applications are registering
and un-registering multicast addresses every few seconds which is leading
to many "Link is up" messages in the logs as a result of the
netif_carrier_off(netdev) in igbvf_msix_other(). So remove the
link is up message when registering multicast addresses.
Corinna Vinschen provides a fix for when switching off VLAN offloading on
i350, the VLAN interface becomes unusable.
Stefan Assmann updates the driver to use ndo_stop() instead of
dev_close() when running ethtool offline self test. Since dev_close()
causes IFF_UP to be cleared which will remove the interfaces routes
and some addresses.
v2: Dropped patches 6-10 in the original series. Patch 6-7 added support
for character device for AVB and based on community feedback, we do not
want to do this. Patches 8-10 provided fixes to the problematic code
added in patches 6 & 7. So all of them must go!
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
On reviewing the code I realized that GRE and UDP tunnels could cause a
kernel panic if we used GSO to segment a large UDP frame that was sent
through the tunnel with an outer checksum and hardware offloads were not
available.
In order to correct this we need to update the feature flags that are
passed to the skb_segment function so that in the event of UDP
fragmentation being requested for the inner header the segmentation
function will correctly generate the checksum for the payload if we cannot
segment the outer header.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David Ahern says:
====================
net: l3mdev: Fix source address for unnumbered deployments
David Lamparter noted a use case where the source address selection fails
to pick an address from a VRF interface - unnumbered interfaces. The use
case has the VRF device as the VRF local loopback with addresses and
interfaces enslaved without an address themselves. e.g,
ip addr add 9.9.9.9/32 dev lo
ip link set lo up
ip link add name vrf0 type vrf table 101
ip rule add oif vrf0 table 101
ip rule add iif vrf0 table 101
ip link set vrf0 up
ip addr add 10.0.0.3/32 dev vrf0
ip link add name dummy2 type dummy
ip link set dummy2 master vrf0 up
--> note dummy2 has no address - unnumbered device
ip route add 10.2.2.2/32 dev dummy2 table 101
ip neigh add 10.2.2.2 dev dummy2 lladdr 02:00:00:00:00:02
ping to the 10.2.2.2 through the L3 domain:
$ ping -I vrf0 -c1 10.2.2.2
ping: Warning: source address might be selected on device other than vrf0.
PING 10.2.2.2 (10.2.2.2) from 9.9.9.9 vrf0: 56(84) bytes of data.
picks up the wrong address -- the one from 'lo' not vrf0. And from tcpdump:
12:57:29.449128 IP 9.9.9.9 > 10.2.2.2: ICMP echo request, id 2491, seq 1, length 64
This patch series changes address selection to only consider devices in
the same L3 domain and to use the VRF device as the L3 domains loopback.
$ ping -I vrf0 -c1 10.2.2.2
PING 10.2.2.2 (10.2.2.2) from 10.0.0.3 vrf0: 56(84) bytes of data.
From tcpdump:
12:59:25.096426 IP 10.0.0.3 > 10.2.2.2: ICMP echo request, id 2113, seq 1, length 64
Now the source address comes from vrf0.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When selecting an address in context of a VRF, the vrf master should be
preferred for address selection. If it isn't, the user has a hard time
getting the system to select to their preference - the code will pick
the address off the first in-VRF interface it can find, which on a
router could well be a non-routable address.
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
[dsa: Fixed comment style and removed extra blank link ]
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David Lamparter noted a use case where the source address selection fails
to pick an address from a VRF interface - unnumbered interfaces.
Relevant commands from his script:
ip addr add 9.9.9.9/32 dev lo
ip link set lo up
ip link add name vrf0 type vrf table 101
ip rule add oif vrf0 table 101
ip rule add iif vrf0 table 101
ip link set vrf0 up
ip addr add 10.0.0.3/32 dev vrf0
ip link add name dummy2 type dummy
ip link set dummy2 master vrf0 up
--> note dummy2 has no address - unnumbered device
ip route add 10.2.2.2/32 dev dummy2 table 101
ip neigh add 10.2.2.2 dev dummy2 lladdr 02:00:00:00:00:02
tcpdump -ni dummy2 &
And using ping instead of his socat example:
$ ping -I vrf0 -c1 10.2.2.2
ping: Warning: source address might be selected on device other than vrf0.
PING 10.2.2.2 (10.2.2.2) from 9.9.9.9 vrf0: 56(84) bytes of data.
>From tcpdump:
12:57:29.449128 IP 9.9.9.9 > 10.2.2.2: ICMP echo request, id 2491, seq 1, length 64
Note the source address is from lo and is not a VRF local address. With
this patch:
$ ping -I vrf0 -c1 10.2.2.2
PING 10.2.2.2 (10.2.2.2) from 10.0.0.3 vrf0: 56(84) bytes of data.
>From tcpdump:
12:59:25.096426 IP 10.0.0.3 > 10.2.2.2: ICMP echo request, id 2113, seq 1, length 64
Now the source address comes from vrf0.
The ipv4 function for selecting source address takes a const argument.
Removing the const requires touching a lot of places, so instead
l3mdev_master_ifindex_rcu is changed to take a const argument and then
do the typecast to non-const as required by netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu.
This is similar to what l3mdev_fib_table_rcu does.
IPv6 for unnumbered interfaces appears to be selecting the addresses
properly.
Cc: David Lamparter <david@opensourcerouting.org>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Simply document new compatibility string.
As a previous patch adds a generic R-Car Gen2 compatibility string
there appears to be no need for a driver updates.
By documenting these compat stings they may be used in DTSs shipped, for
example as part of ROMs. They must be used in conjunction with the Gen2
fallback compat string. At this time there are no known differences between
the r8a779[234] IP blocks and that implemented by the driver for the Gen2
fallback compat string. Thus there is no need to update the driver as the
use of the Gen2 fallback compat string will activate the correct code in
the current driver while leaving the option for r8a779[234]-specific driver
code to be activated in an updated driver should the need arise.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Add fallback compatibility string for R-Car Gen 1 and Gen2.
In the case of Renesas R-Car hardware we know that there are generations of
SoCs, e.g. Gen 1 and Gen 2. But beyond that its not clear what the
relationship between IP blocks might be. For example, I believe that
r8a7779 is older than r8a7778 but that doesn't imply that the latter is a
descendant of the former or vice versa.
We can, however, by examining the documentation and behaviour of the
hardware at run-time observe that the current driver implementation appears
to be compatible with the IP blocks on SoCs within a given generation.
For the above reasons and convenience when enabling new SoCs a
per-generation fallback compatibility string scheme being adopted for
drivers for Renesas SoCs.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
This patch fixes the coding style issues introduced in commit:
90cfde4658 can: ems_usb: Fix possible tx overflow
Reported-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
David Decotigny says:
====================
new ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS/SLINKSETTINGS API
History:
v9
- add 'link' in macro, struct and function names
- rename ethtool_link_ksettings::parent -> ::base
- remove un-needed mlx4 en_dbg_enabled() companion patch
- note: bitmap u32[] API patches were merged separately by Kan Liang
v8
- bitmap u32 API returns number of bits copied, unit tests updated
v7
- module_exit in test_bitmap
v6
- fix copy_from_user in user/kernel handshake
v5
note: please see v4 bullets for a question regarding bitmap.c
- minor fix to make allyesconfig/allmodconfig
v4
- removed typedef for link mode bitmaps
- moved bitmap<->u32[] conversion routines to bitmap.c . This is the
naive implementation. I have an endian-aware version that uses
memcpy/memset as much as possible, but I find it harder to follow
(see http://paste.ubuntu.com/13863722/). Please let me know if I
should use it instead.
- fixes suggested by Ben Hutchings
v3
- rebased v2 on top of latest net-next, minor checkpatch/printf %*pb
updates
v2
- keep return 0 in get_settings when successful, instead of
propagating positive result from driver's get_settings callback.
v1
- original submission
The main goal of this series is to support ethtool link mode masks
larger than 32 bits. It implements a new ioctl pair
(ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS/SLINKSETTINGS), its associated callbacks
(get/set_link_ksettings) and a new struct ethtool_link_settings, which
should eventually replace legacy ethtool_cmd. Internally, the kernel
uses fixed length link mode masks defined at compilation time in
ethtool.h (for now: 31 bits), that can be increased by changing
__ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_LAST in ethtool.h (absolute max is 4064 bits,
checked at compile time), and the user/kernel interface allows this
length to be arbitrary within 1..4064. This should allow some
flexibility without using too much heap/stack space, at the cost of a
small kernel/user handshake for the user to determine the sizes of
those bitmaps.
Along the way, I chose to drop in the new structure the 3 ethtool_cmd
fields marked "deprecated" (transceiver/maxrxpkt/maxtxpkt). They are
still available for old drivers via the (old) ETHTOOL_GSET/SSET API,
but are not available to drivers that switch to new API. Of those 3
fields, ethtool_cmd::transceiver seems to be still actively used by
several drivers, maybe we should not consider this field deprecated?
The 2 other fields are basically not used. This transition requires
some care in the way old and new ethtool talk to the kernel.
More technical details provided in the description for main patch. In
particular details about backward compatibility properties.
Some open questions:
- the kernel/interface multiplexes the "tell me the bitmap length"
handshake and the "give me the settings" inside the new
ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS cmd. I was thinking of making this into 2
separate cmds: 1 cmd ETHTOOL_GKERNELPROPERTIES which would be
kernel-wide rather than device-specific, would return properties
like "length of the link mode bitmaps", and possibly others. And
ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS would expect the proper bitmaps
- the link mode bitmaps are piggybacked at tail of the new struct
ethtool_link_settings. Since its user-visible definition does not
assume specific bitmap width, I am using a 0-length array as the
publicly visible placeholder. But then, the kernel needs to
specialize it (struct ethtool_link_ksettings) to specify its
current link mode masks. This means that kernel code is "littered"
with "ksettings->base.field" to access "field" inside
ethtool_settings:
+ I could use ethtool_link_settings everywhere (instead of a new
ethtool_ksettings) and an container_of accessor (or a plain cast)
to retrieve the link mode masks?
+ or: we could decide to make the link mode masks statically
bounded again, ie. make their width public, but larger than
current 32, and unchangeable forever. This would make everything
straightforward, but we might hit limits later, or have an
unneeded memory/stack usage for unused bits.
any preference?
- I foresee bugs where people use the legacy/deprecated SUPPORTED_x
macros instead of the new ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_x_BIT enums in the new
get/set_link_ksettings callbacks. Not sure how to prevent problems
with this.
The only driver which was converted for now is mlx4. I am not
considering fcoe as fully converted, but I updated it a minima to be
able to remove __ethtool_get_settings, now known as
__ethtool_get_link_ksettings.
Tested with legacy and "future" ethtool on 64b x86 kernel and 32+64b
ethtool, and on a 32b x86 kernel + 32b ethtool.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
