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Yuchung Cheng
eed530b6c6 tcp: early retransmit
This patch implements RFC 5827 early retransmit (ER) for TCP.
It reduces DUPACK threshold (dupthresh) if outstanding packets are
less than 4 to recover losses by fast recovery instead of timeout.

While the algorithm is simple, small but frequent network reordering
makes this feature dangerous: the connection repeatedly enter
false recovery and degrade performance. Therefore we implement
a mitigation suggested in the appendix of the RFC that delays
entering fast recovery by a small interval, i.e., RTT/4. Currently
ER is conservative and is disabled for the rest of the connection
after the first reordering event. A large scale web server
experiment on the performance impact of ER is summarized in
section 6 of the paper "Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP”,
IMC 2011. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2011/docs/p155.pdf

Note that Linux has a similar feature called THIN_DUPACK. The
differences are THIN_DUPACK do not mitigate reorderings and is only
used after slow start. Currently ER is disabled if THIN_DUPACK is
enabled. I would be happy to merge THIN_DUPACK feature with ER if
people think it's a good idea.

ER is enabled by sysctl_tcp_early_retrans:
  0: Disables ER

  1: Reduce dupthresh to packets_out - 1 when outstanding packets < 4.

  2: (Default) reduce dupthresh like mode 1. In addition, delay
     entering fast recovery by RTT/4.

Note: mode 2 is implemented in the third part of this patch series.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-02 20:56:10 -04:00
Yuchung Cheng
1fbc340514 tcp: early retransmit: tcp_enter_recovery()
This a prepartion patch that refactors the code to enter recovery
into a new function tcp_enter_recovery(). It's needed to implement
the delayed fast retransmit in ER.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-02 20:56:09 -04:00
Stephen Rothwell
5c6239c8f8 net/pasemi: fix compiler warning
Fix this compiler warning (on PowerPC) by not marking a parameter as
const:

drivers/net/ethernet/pasemi/pasemi_mac.c: In function 'pasemi_mac_replenish_rx_ring':
drivers/net/ethernet/pasemi/pasemi_mac.c:646:3: warning: passing argument 1 of 'netdev_alloc_skb' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
include/linux/skbuff.h:1706:31: note: expected 'struct net_device *' but argument is of type 'const struct net_device *'

Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Pradeep A. Dalvi <netdev@pradeepdalvi.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-02 20:52:48 -04:00
Dmitry Kravkov
69c326b38f bnx2x: fix handling single MSIX mode for 57710/57711
commit 30a5de7723 added
ability to use single MSI-X vector, but lack proper
handling for 57710/57711 HW

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-02 20:03:51 -04:00
Greg Rose
6b42a9c5b5 ixgbe: Reset max_vfs to zero when user request is out of range
If the user request for the number of VFs in the max_vfs parameter is
out of range then reset the value to the default value of zero.  This
makes the behavior of the ixgbe driver the same as for the igb driver.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Robert Garrett <robertx.e.garrett@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-05-02 02:12:59 -07:00
Greg Rose
2ee7065fdd ixgbe: Deny MACVLAN requests from VFs with admin set MAC
If the host VMM administrator has set the virtual function device's
MAC address then also deny VF requests for MACVLAN filters.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Garrett, Robert <robertx.e.garrett@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-05-02 02:12:52 -07:00
Don Skidmore
3ca8bc6de2 ixgbe: add hwmon interface to export thermal data
Some of our adapters have thermal data available, this patch exports
this data via hwmon sysfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Ko <stephen.s.ko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-05-02 02:12:23 -07:00
Don Skidmore
e1ea9158e3 ixgbe: add support functions to access thermal data
Some 82599 adapters contain thermal data that we can get to via
an i2c interface.  These functions provide support to get at that
data.  A following patch will export this data.

Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-05-02 01:59:14 -07:00
Bruce Allan
69e1e0197c e1000e: fix .ndo_set_rx_mode for 82579
Secondary unicast and multicast addresses are added to the Receive
Address registers (RAR) for most parts supported by the driver.  For
82579, there is only one actual RAR and a number of Shared Receive Address
registers (SHRAR) that are shared among the driver and f/w which can be
reserved and write-protected by the f/w.  On this device, use the SHRARs
that are not taken by f/w for the additional addresses.

Add a MAC ops function pointer infrastructure (similar to other MAC
operations in the driver) for setting RARs, introduce a new rar_set
function for 82579 and convert the existing code that sets RARs on other
devices to a generic rar_set function.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-05-02 01:58:53 -07:00
Bruce Allan
cb17aab916 e1000e: PHY initialization flow changes for 82577/8/9
The PHY initialization flows and assorted workarounds for 82577/8/9 done
during driver load and resume from Sx should be the same yet they are not.
Combine the current flows/workarounds into a common set of functions that
are called during the different code paths.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-05-02 01:58:45 -07:00
Bruce Allan
62bc813e48 e1000e: workaround EEPROM configuration change on 82579
An update to the EEPROM on 82579 will extend a delay in hardware to fix an
issue with WoL not working after a G3->S5 transition which is unrelated to
the driver.  However, this extended delay conflicts with nominal operation
of the device when it is initialized by the driver and after every reset
of the hardware (i.e. the driver starts configuring the device before the
hardware is done with it's own configuration work).  The workaround for
when the driver is in control of the device is to tell the hardware after
every reset the configuration delay should be the original shorter one.

Some pre-existing variables are renamed generically to be re-used with
new register accesses.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-05-02 01:58:38 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
e4ae004b84 netem: add ECN capability
Add ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) marking capability to netem

tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem drop 0.5 ecn

Instead of dropping packets, try to ECN mark them.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:39:48 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
18d0700024 net: skb_peek()/skb_peek_tail() cleanups
remove useless casts and rename variables for less confusion.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:39:48 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
e4cbb02a10 net: add a prefetch in socket backlog processing
TCP or UDP stacks have big enough latencies that prefetching next
pointer is worth it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:39:48 -04:00
James Chapman
5dac94e109 l2tp: let iproute2 create L2TPv3 IP tunnels using IPv6
The netlink API lets users create unmanaged L2TPv3 tunnels using
iproute2. Until now, a request to create an unmanaged L2TPv3 IP
encapsulation tunnel over IPv6 would be rejected with
EPROTONOSUPPORT. Now that l2tp_ip6 implements sockets for L2TP IP
encapsulation over IPv6, we can add support for that tunnel type.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:30:55 -04:00
Chris Elston
a32e0eec70 l2tp: introduce L2TPv3 IP encapsulation support for IPv6
L2TPv3 defines an IP encapsulation packet format where data is carried
directly over IP (no UDP). The kernel already has support for L2TP IP
encapsulation over IPv4 (l2tp_ip). This patch introduces support for
L2TP IP encapsulation over IPv6.

The implementation is derived from ipv6/raw and ipv4/l2tp_ip.

Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <celston@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:30:55 -04:00
Chris Elston
a495f8364e ipv6: Export ipv6 functions for use by other protocols
For implementing other protocols on top of IPv6, such as L2TPv3's IP
encapsulation over ipv6, we'd like to call some IPv6 functions which
are not currently exported. This patch exports them.

Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <celston@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:30:55 -04:00
Chris Elston
f9bac8df90 l2tp: netlink api for l2tpv3 ipv6 unmanaged tunnels
This patch adds support for unmanaged L2TPv3 tunnels over IPv6 using
the netlink API. We already support unmanaged L2TPv3 tunnels over
IPv4. A patch to iproute2 to make use of this feature will be
submitted separately.

Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <celston@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:30:55 -04:00
Chris Elston
2121c3f571 l2tp: show IPv6 addresses in l2tp debugfs file
If an L2TP tunnel uses IPv6, make sure the l2tp debugfs file shows the
IPv6 address correctly.

Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <celston@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:30:55 -04:00
James Chapman
b79585f537 l2tp: pppol2tp_connect() handles ipv6 sockaddr variants
Userspace uses connect() to associate a pppol2tp socket with a tunnel
socket. This needs to allow the caller to supply the new IPv6
sockaddr_pppol2tp structures if IPv6 is used.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:30:55 -04:00
James Chapman
9d4ec1aeda pppox: Replace __attribute__((packed)) in if_pppox.h
Checkpatch warns about the use of __attribute__((packed)). So use the
recommended __packed syntax instead.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:30:55 -04:00
James Chapman
c8657fd50a l2tp: remove unused stats from l2tp_ip socket
The l2tp_ip socket currently maintains packet/byte stats in its
private socket structure. But these counters aren't exposed to
userspace and so serve no purpose. The counters were also
smp-unsafe. So this patch just gets rid of the stats.

While here, change a couple of internal __u32 variables to u32.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:30:54 -04:00
James Chapman
de3c7a1827 l2tp: Use ip4_datagram_connect() in l2tp_ip_connect()
Cleanup the l2tp_ip code to make use of an existing ipv4 support function.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:30:54 -04:00
James Chapman
5de7aee541 l2tp: fix locking of 64-bit counters for smp
L2TP uses 64-bit counters but since these are not updated atomically,
we need to make them safe for smp. This patch addresses that.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:30:54 -04:00
Huang, Xiong
80bcb4238d atl1c: remove PHY polling from atl1c_change_mtu
PHY polling code for FPGA is considered in every MDIO R/W API.
no need to add additional code to atl1c_change_mtu.

Signed-off-by: xiong <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: David Liu <dwliu@qca.qaulcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:44:16 -04:00
Huang, Xiong
4fc363528c atl1c: Disable L0S when no cable link
L0S might be unstable if no cable link, only enable it when link up.

Signed-off-by: xiong <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Liu David <dwliu@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:44:16 -04:00
Huang, Xiong
5e5c0964d9 atl1c: do MAC-reset when PHY link down
There may be tx-skbs still pending in HW when PHY link down.
Reset MAC will make the DMA engine go to the start point.
and release all pending skbs.
Note: Reset MAC will clear any interrupt status and mask.

Signed-off-by: xiong <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Liu David <dwliu@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:44:15 -04:00
Huang, Xiong
0aa76ce332 atl1c: cancel task when interface closed
common_task might be running while close routine is called,
wait/cancel it.

Signed-off-by: xiong <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Liu David <dwliu@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:44:15 -04:00
Huang, Xiong
f56fa56737 atl1c: enlarge L1 response waiting timer
The hardware incorrectly process L0S/L1 entrance if the chipset/root
response after specific/shorter timer and cause system hang.
Enlarge the timeout value to avoid this issue.

Signed-off-by: xiong <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Liu David <dwliu@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:44:14 -04:00
Huang, Xiong
229e6b6e9c atl1c: refine mac address related code
On some platform with EEPROM/OTP existing, the BIOS could overwrite
a new MAC address for the NIC. so, the permanent mac address should
be from BIOS. the address is restored when driver removing.
Voltage raising isn't applicable for l1d.
Replace swab32 with htonl for big/little endian platform.
related Registers are refined as well.

Signed-off-by: xiong <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Liu David <dwliu@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:44:14 -04:00
Huang, Xiong
e119258009 atl1c: remove code of closing register writable attribution
The Close-action is done by atl1c_reset_pcie, remove it from
atl1c_get_permanent_address.

Signed-off-by: xiong <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Liu David <dwliu@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:44:14 -04:00
Huang, Xiong
87eabe6bf0 atl1c: clear WoL status when reset pcie
WoL status is read-clear and should be cleared when in S0
status.
putting it in atl1c_reset_pcie is more suitable than
in atl1c_get_permanent_address.

Signed-off-by: xiong <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Liu David <dwliu@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:44:13 -04:00
Huang, Xiong
903d7ce0cc atl1c: add PHY link event(up/down) patch
On some platforms the PHY settings need to change depending on the
cable link status to get better stability.

Signed-off-by: xiong <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Liu David <dwliu@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:44:13 -04:00
Huang, Xiong
7cb6a291ef atl1c: add workaround for issue of bit INTX-disable for MSI interrupt
All supported devices have one issue that msi interrupt doesn't assert
if pci command register bit (PCI_COMMAND_INTX_DISABLE) is set.
Add workaround in drivers/pci/quirks.c

Signed-off-by: xiong <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:44:12 -04:00
David S. Miller
b6d151bb82 Merge branch 'tipc_net-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2012-04-30 21:42:30 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
1191cb8348 bnx2x: remove some bloat
Before doing skb->head_frag work on bnx2x driver, I found too much stuff
was inlined in bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.h for no good reason and made my work not
very easy.

Move some big functions out of this include file to the respective .c
file.

A lot of inline keywords are not needed at all in this huge driver.

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Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:38:17 -04:00
RongQing.Li
d344c4f310 pch_gbe: reprogram multicast address register on reset
The reset logic after a Rx FIFO overrun will clear the programmed
multicast addresses. This patch fixes the issue by reprogramming the
registers after the reset.

The commit eefc48b ("pch_gbe: reprogram multicast address register on
reset") tried to fix this problem, but it introduces unnecessary
codes. In fact, all multicast addresses have been saved in netdev->mc,
So we can call pch_gbe_set_multi() directly after reset_hw and
reset_rx.

This commit kills 50+ line codes

Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Takahiro Shimizu <tshimizu818@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:37:27 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
1d0c0b328a net: makes skb_splice_bits() aware of skb->head_frag
__skb_splice_bits() can check if skb to be spliced has its skb->head
mapped to a page fragment, instead of a kmalloc() area.

If so we can avoid a copy of the skb head and get a reference on
underlying page.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:35:50 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
329033f645 tcp: makes tcp_try_coalesce aware of skb->head_frag
TCP coalesce can check if skb to be merged has its skb->head mapped to a
page fragment, instead of a kmalloc() area.

We had to disable coalescing in this case, for performance reasons.

We 'upgrade' skb->head as a fragment in itself.

This reduces number of cache misses when user makes its copies, since a
less sk_buff are fetched.

This makes receive and ofo queues shorter and thus reduce cache line
misses in TCP stack.

This is a followup of patch "net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment"

Tested with tg3 nic, with GRO on or off. We can see "TCPRcvCoalesce"
counter being incremented.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:35:49 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
d7e8883cfc net: make GRO aware of skb->head_frag
GRO can check if skb to be merged has its skb->head mapped to a page
fragment, instead of a kmalloc() area.

We 'upgrade' skb->head as a fragment in itself

This avoids the frag_list fallback, and permits to build true GRO skb
(one sk_buff and up to 16 fragments), using less memory.

This reduces number of cache misses when user makes its copy, since a
single sk_buff is fetched.

This is a followup of patch "net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment"

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:35:49 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
8d4057a938 tg3: provide frags as skb head
This patch converts tg3 driver, one of our reference drivers, to use new
build_skb() api in frag mode.

Instead of using kmalloc() to allocate the memory block that will be
used by build_skb() as skb->head, we use a page fragment.

This is a followup of patch "net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment"

This allows GRO, TCP coalescing, and splice() to be more efficient.

Incidentally, this also removes SLUB slow path contention in kfree()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:35:42 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
d3836f21b0 net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment
skb->head is currently allocated from kmalloc(). This is convenient but
has the drawback the data cannot be converted to a page fragment if
needed.

We have three spots were it hurts :

1) GRO aggregation

 When a linear skb must be appended to another skb, GRO uses the
frag_list fallback, very inefficient since we keep all struct sk_buff
around. So drivers enabling GRO but delivering linear skbs to network
stack aren't enabling full GRO power.

2) splice(socket -> pipe).

 We must copy the linear part to a page fragment.
 This kind of defeats splice() purpose (zero copy claim)

3) TCP coalescing.

 Recently introduced, this permits to group several contiguous segments
into a single skb. This shortens queue lengths and save kernel memory,
and greatly reduce probabilities of TCP collapses. This coalescing
doesnt work on linear skbs (or we would need to copy data, this would be
too slow)

Given all these issues, the following patch introduces the possibility
of having skb->head be a fragment in itself. We use a new skb flag,
skb->head_frag to carry this information.

build_skb() is changed to accept a frag_size argument. Drivers willing
to provide a page fragment instead of kmalloc() data will set a non zero
value, set to the fragment size.

Then, on situations we need to convert the skb head to a frag in itself,
we can check if skb->head_frag is set and avoid the copies or various
fallbacks we have.

This means drivers currently using frags could be updated to avoid the
current skb->head allocation and reduce their memory footprint (aka skb
truesize). (thats 512 or 1024 bytes saved per skb). This also makes
bpf/netfilter faster since the 'first frag' will be part of skb linear
part, no need to copy data.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:35:11 -04:00
Willem de Bruijn
49cbb1c1e6 forcedeth: add transmit timestamping support
Insert an skb_tx_timestamp call in both ndo_start_xmit routines
Tested to work for the nv_start_xmit_optimized case

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:33:27 -04:00
Willem de Bruijn
8373c57d6f bnx2x: add transmit timestamping support
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:33:27 -04:00
Willem de Bruijn
80be3129d7 e1000e: add transmit timestamping support
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:33:26 -04:00
Willem de Bruijn
eab467f563 e1000: add transmit timestamping support
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:33:25 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker
617d3c7a50 tipc: compress out gratuitous extra carriage returns
Some of the comment blocks are floating in limbo between two
functions, or between blocks of code.  Delete the extra line
feeds between any comment and its associated following block
of code, to be consistent with the majority of the rest of
the kernel.  Also delete trailing newlines at EOF and fix
a couple trivial typos in existing comments.

This is a 100% cosmetic change with no runtime impact.  We get
rid of over 500 lines of non-code, and being blank line deletes,
they won't even show up as noise in git blame.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-04-30 15:53:56 -04:00
Herbert Xu
bb63f1f8a0 bridge: Fix fatal typo in setup of multicast_querier_expired
Unfortunately it seems that I didn't properly test the case of
an expired external querier in the recent multicast bridge series.

The setup of the timer in that case is completely broken and leads
to a NULL-pointer dereference.  This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 13:30:56 -04:00
David S. Miller
d499bd2ee9 l2tp: Add missing net/net/ip6_checksum.h include.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 13:21:28 -04:00
Benjamin LaHaise
d2cf336167 net/l2tp: add support for L2TP over IPv6 UDP
Now that encap_rcv() works on IPv6 UDP sockets, wire L2TP up to IPv6.
Support has been tested with and without hardware offloading.  This
version fixes the L2TP over localhost issue with incorrect checksums
being reported.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-28 22:21:51 -04:00