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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-04-11 22:27:19 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-04-11 22:27:19 -0400
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parentnew helper: msg_data_left() (diff)
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-queues8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/apm-xgene-enet.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/dsa.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ieee802154/cc2520.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/keystone-netcp.txt34
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/input/alps.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/input/event-codes.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/can.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/filter.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt49
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt62
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/s2io.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/scaling.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/vxge.txt2
21 files changed, 248 insertions, 54 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net
index beb8ec4dabbc..5ecfd72ba684 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net
@@ -188,6 +188,14 @@ Description:
Indicates the interface unique physical port identifier within
the NIC, as a string.
+What: /sys/class/net/<iface>/phys_port_name
+Date: March 2015
+KernelVersion: 4.0
+Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+ Indicates the interface physical port name within the NIC,
+ as a string.
+
What: /sys/class/net/<iface>/speed
Date: October 2009
KernelVersion: 2.6.33
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-queues b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-queues
index 5e9aeb91d355..0c0df91b1516 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-queues
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-queues
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ Description:
Indicates the number of transmit timeout events seen by this
network interface transmit queue.
+What: /sys/class/<iface>/queues/tx-<queue>/tx_maxrate
+Date: March 2015
+KernelVersion: 4.1
+Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+ A Mbps max-rate set for the queue, a value of zero means disabled,
+ default is disabled.
+
What: /sys/class/<iface>/queues/tx-<queue>/xps_cpus
Date: November 2010
KernelVersion: 2.6.38
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/apm-xgene-enet.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/apm-xgene-enet.txt
index 6151999c5dca..f55aa280d34f 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/apm-xgene-enet.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/apm-xgene-enet.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ Required properties for all the ethernet interfaces:
- "enet_csr": Ethernet control and status register address space
- "ring_csr": Descriptor ring control and status register address space
- "ring_cmd": Descriptor ring command register address space
-- interrupts: Ethernet main interrupt
+- interrupts: Two interrupt specifiers can be specified.
+ - First is the Rx interrupt. This irq is mandatory.
+ - Second is the Tx completion interrupt.
+ This is supported only on SGMII based 1GbE and 10GbE interfaces.
+- port-id: Port number (0 or 1)
- clocks: Reference to the clock entry.
- local-mac-address: MAC address assigned to this device
- phy-connection-type: Interface type between ethernet device and PHY device
@@ -49,6 +53,7 @@ Example:
<0x0 0X10000000 0x0 0X200>;
reg-names = "enet_csr", "ring_csr", "ring_cmd";
interrupts = <0x0 0x3c 0x4>;
+ port-id = <0>;
clocks = <&menetclk 0>;
local-mac-address = [00 01 73 00 00 01];
phy-connection-type = "rgmii";
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/dsa.txt
index e124847443f8..f0b4cd72411d 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/dsa.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/dsa.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ the parent DSA node. The maximum number of allowed child nodes is 4
(DSA_MAX_SWITCHES).
Each of these switch child nodes should have the following required properties:
-- reg : Describes the switch address on the MII bus
+- reg : Contains two fields. The first one describes the
+ address on the MII bus. The second is the switch
+ number that must be unique in cascaded configurations
- #address-cells : Must be 1
- #size-cells : Must be 0
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.txt
index d3bbdded4cbe..168f1be50912 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ieee802154/at86rf230.txt
@@ -6,11 +6,14 @@ Required properties:
- spi-max-frequency: maximal bus speed, should be set to 7500000 depends
sync or async operation mode
- reg: the chipselect index
- - interrupts: the interrupt generated by the device
+ - interrupts: the interrupt generated by the device. Non high-level
+ can occur deadlocks while handling isr.
Optional properties:
- reset-gpio: GPIO spec for the rstn pin
- sleep-gpio: GPIO spec for the slp_tr pin
+ - xtal-trim: u8 value for fine tuning the internal capacitance
+ arrays of xtal pins: 0 = +0 pF, 0xf = +4.5 pF
Example:
@@ -18,6 +21,7 @@ Example:
compatible = "atmel,at86rf231";
spi-max-frequency = <7500000>;
reg = <0>;
- interrupts = <19 1>;
+ interrupts = <19 4>;
interrupt-parent = <&gpio3>;
+ xtal-trim = /bits/ 8 <0x06>;
};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ieee802154/cc2520.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ieee802154/cc2520.txt
index 0071883c08d8..fb6d49f184ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ieee802154/cc2520.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ieee802154/cc2520.txt
@@ -13,11 +13,15 @@ Required properties:
- cca-gpio: GPIO spec for the CCA pin
- vreg-gpio: GPIO spec for the VREG pin
- reset-gpio: GPIO spec for the RESET pin
+Optional properties:
+ - amplified: include if the CC2520 is connected to a CC2591 amplifier
+
Example:
cc2520@0 {
compatible = "ti,cc2520";
reg = <0>;
spi-max-frequency = <4000000>;
+ amplified;
pinctrl-names = "default";
pinctrl-0 = <&cc2520_cape_pins>;
fifo-gpio = <&gpio1 18 0>;
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/keystone-netcp.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/keystone-netcp.txt
index f9c07710478d..d0e6fa38f335 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/keystone-netcp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/keystone-netcp.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ Required properties:
- compatible: Should be "ti,netcp-1.0"
- clocks: phandle to the reference clocks for the subsystem.
- dma-id: Navigator packet dma instance id.
+- ranges: address range of NetCP (includes, Ethernet SS, PA and SA)
Optional properties:
- reg: register location and the size for the following register
@@ -64,10 +65,30 @@ NetCP device properties: Device specification for NetCP sub-modules.
1Gb/10Gb (gbe/xgbe) ethernet switch sub-module specifications.
Required properties:
- label: Must be "netcp-gbe" for 1Gb & "netcp-xgbe" for 10Gb.
+- compatible: Must be one of below:-
+ "ti,netcp-gbe" for 1GbE on NetCP 1.4
+ "ti,netcp-gbe-5" for 1GbE N NetCP 1.5 (N=5)
+ "ti,netcp-gbe-9" for 1GbE N NetCP 1.5 (N=9)
+ "ti,netcp-gbe-2" for 1GbE N NetCP 1.5 (N=2)
+ "ti,netcp-xgbe" for 10 GbE
+
- reg: register location and the size for the following register
regions in the specified order.
- - subsystem registers
- - serdes registers
+ - switch subsystem registers
+ - sgmii port3/4 module registers (only for NetCP 1.4)
+ - switch module registers
+ - serdes registers (only for 10G)
+
+ NetCP 1.4 ethss, here is the order
+ index #0 - switch subsystem registers
+ index #1 - sgmii port3/4 module registers
+ index #2 - switch module registers
+
+ NetCP 1.5 ethss 9 port, 5 port and 2 port
+ index #0 - switch subsystem registers
+ index #1 - switch module registers
+ index #2 - serdes registers
+
- tx-channel: the navigator packet dma channel name for tx.
- tx-queue: the navigator queue number associated with the tx dma channel.
- interfaces: specification for each of the switch port to be registered as a
@@ -120,14 +141,13 @@ Optional properties:
Example binding:
-netcp: netcp@2090000 {
+netcp: netcp@2000000 {
reg = <0x2620110 0x8>;
reg-names = "efuse";
compatible = "ti,netcp-1.0";
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <1>;
- ranges;
-
+ ranges = <0 0x2000000 0xfffff>;
clocks = <&papllclk>, <&clkcpgmac>, <&chipclk12>;
dma-coherent;
/* big-endian; */
@@ -137,9 +157,9 @@ netcp: netcp@2090000 {
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <1>;
ranges;
- gbe@0x2090000 {
+ gbe@90000 {
label = "netcp-gbe";
- reg = <0x2090000 0xf00>;
+ reg = <0x90000 0x300>, <0x90400 0x400>, <0x90800 0x700>;
/* enable-ale; */
tx-queue = <648>;
tx-channel = <8>;
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt
index aaa696414f57..ba19d671e808 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt
@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@
Required properties:
- compatible: Should be "cdns,[<chip>-]{macb|gem}"
- Use "cdns,at91sam9260-macb" Atmel at91sam9260 and at91sam9263 SoCs.
+ Use "cdns,at91sam9260-macb" for Atmel at91sam9 SoCs or the 10/100Mbit IP
+ available on sama5d3 SoCs.
Use "cdns,at32ap7000-macb" for other 10/100 usage or use the generic form: "cdns,macb".
Use "cdns,pc302-gem" for Picochip picoXcell pc302 and later devices based on
the Cadence GEM, or the generic form: "cdns,gem".
+ Use "cdns,sama5d3-gem" for the Gigabit IP available on Atmel sama5d3 SoCs.
+ Use "cdns,sama5d4-gem" for the Gigabit IP available on Atmel sama5d4 SoCs.
- reg: Address and length of the register set for the device
- interrupts: Should contain macb interrupt
- phy-mode: See ethernet.txt file in the same directory.
diff --git a/Documentation/input/alps.txt b/Documentation/input/alps.txt
index a63e5e013a8c..92ae734c00c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/alps.txt
+++ b/Documentation/input/alps.txt
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ ALPS Absolute Mode - Protocol Version 2
byte 4: 0 y6 y5 y4 y3 y2 y1 y0
byte 5: 0 z6 z5 z4 z3 z2 z1 z0
+Protocol Version 2 DualPoint devices send standard PS/2 mouse packets for
+the DualPoint Stick.
+
Dualpoint device -- interleaved packet format
---------------------------------------------
@@ -127,6 +130,11 @@ Dualpoint device -- interleaved packet format
byte 7: 0 y6 y5 y4 y3 y2 y1 y0
byte 8: 0 z6 z5 z4 z3 z2 z1 z0
+Devices which use the interleaving format normally send standard PS/2 mouse
+packets for the DualPoint Stick + ALPS Absolute Mode packets for the
+touchpad, switching to the interleaved packet format when both the stick and
+the touchpad are used at the same time.
+
ALPS Absolute Mode - Protocol Version 3
---------------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt b/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
index c587a966413e..96705616f582 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
@@ -294,6 +294,12 @@ accordingly. This property does not affect kernel behavior.
The kernel does not provide button emulation for such devices but treats
them as any other INPUT_PROP_BUTTONPAD device.
+INPUT_PROP_ACCELEROMETER
+-------------------------
+Directional axes on this device (absolute and/or relative x, y, z) represent
+accelerometer data. All other axes retain their meaning. A device must not mix
+regular directional axes and accelerometer axes on the same event node.
+
Guidelines:
==========
The guidelines below ensure proper single-touch and multi-finger functionality.
diff --git a/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt b/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt
index 7b4f59c09ee2..b85d000faeb4 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt
@@ -312,9 +312,12 @@ ABS_MT_TOOL_TYPE
The type of approaching tool. A lot of kernel drivers cannot distinguish
between different tool types, such as a finger or a pen. In such cases, the
-event should be omitted. The protocol currently supports MT_TOOL_FINGER and
-MT_TOOL_PEN [2]. For type B devices, this event is handled by input core;
-drivers should instead use input_mt_report_slot_state().
+event should be omitted. The protocol currently supports MT_TOOL_FINGER,
+MT_TOOL_PEN, and MT_TOOL_PALM [2]. For type B devices, this event is handled
+by input core; drivers should instead use input_mt_report_slot_state().
+A contact's ABS_MT_TOOL_TYPE may change over time while still touching the
+device, because the firmware may not be able to determine which tool is being
+used when it first appears.
ABS_MT_BLOB_ID
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/can.txt b/Documentation/networking/can.txt
index 0a2859a8ee7e..5abad1e921ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/can.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/can.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ This file contains
4.1.3 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_LOOPBACK
4.1.4 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS
4.1.5 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES
- 4.1.6 RAW socket returned message flags
+ 4.1.6 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS
+ 4.1.7 RAW socket returned message flags
4.2 Broadcast Manager protocol sockets (SOCK_DGRAM)
4.2.1 Broadcast Manager operations
4.2.2 Broadcast Manager message flags
@@ -601,7 +602,22 @@ solution for a couple of reasons:
CAN FD frames by checking if the device maximum transfer unit is CANFD_MTU.
The CAN device MTU can be retrieved e.g. with a SIOCGIFMTU ioctl() syscall.
- 4.1.6 RAW socket returned message flags
+ 4.1.6 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS
+
+ The CAN_RAW socket can set multiple CAN identifier specific filters that
+ lead to multiple filters in the af_can.c filter processing. These filters
+ are indenpendent from each other which leads to logical OR'ed filters when
+ applied (see 4.1.1).
+
+ This socket option joines the given CAN filters in the way that only CAN
+ frames are passed to user space that matched *all* given CAN filters. The
+ semantic for the applied filters is therefore changed to a logical AND.
+
+ This is useful especially when the filterset is a combination of filters
+ where the CAN_INV_FILTER flag is set in order to notch single CAN IDs or
+ CAN ID ranges from the incoming traffic.
+
+ 4.1.7 RAW socket returned message flags
When using recvmsg() call, the msg->msg_flags may contain following flags:
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt
index 9930ecfbb465..135581f015e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt
@@ -280,7 +280,8 @@ Possible BPF extensions are shown in the following table:
rxhash skb->hash
cpu raw_smp_processor_id()
vlan_tci skb_vlan_tag_get(skb)
- vlan_pr skb_vlan_tag_present(skb)
+ vlan_avail skb_vlan_tag_present(skb)
+ vlan_tpid skb->vlan_proto
rand prandom_u32()
These extensions can also be prefixed with '#'.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 1b8c964b0d17..071fb18dc57c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -388,6 +388,16 @@ tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
+tcp_probe_interval - INTEGER
+ Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
+ Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
+ per RFC4821.
+
+tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
+ Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
+ will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
+ is 8 bytes.
+
tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
@@ -1116,11 +1126,23 @@ arp_accept - BOOLEAN
gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
if this setting is on or off.
+mcast_solicit - INTEGER
+ The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state,
+ when the associated hardware address is unknown. Defaults
+ to 3.
+
+ucast_solicit - INTEGER
+ The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when
+ the hardware address is being reconfirmed. Defaults to 3.
app_solicit - INTEGER
The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
- mcast_solicit). Defaults to 0.
+ mcast_resolicit). Defaults to 0.
+
+mcast_resolicit - INTEGER
+ The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and
+ app probes in PROBE state. Defaults to 0.
disable_policy - BOOLEAN
Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
@@ -1198,6 +1220,17 @@ anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN
FALSE: disabled
Default: FALSE
+idgen_delay - INTEGER
+ Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry
+ privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is
+ detected.
+ Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217)
+
+idgen_retries - INTEGER
+ Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy
+ address if a DAD conflict is detected.
+ Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217)
+
mld_qrv - INTEGER
Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1).
Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1)
@@ -1518,6 +1551,20 @@ use_optimistic - BOOLEAN
0: disabled (default)
1: enabled
+stable_secret - IPv6 address
+ This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6
+ addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured
+ ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will
+ be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the
+ addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the
+ secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can
+ overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused.
+
+ It is recommended to generate this secret during installation
+ of a system and keep it stable after that.
+
+ By default the stable secret is unset.
+
icmp/*:
ratelimit - INTEGER
Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
index 7a3c04729591..3ba709531adb 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,27 @@ backup_only - BOOLEAN
If set, disable the director function while the server is
in backup mode to avoid packet loops for DR/TUN methods.
+conn_reuse_mode - INTEGER
+ 1 - default
+
+ Controls how ipvs will deal with connections that are detected
+ port reuse. It is a bitmap, with the values being:
+
+ 0: disable any special handling on port reuse. The new
+ connection will be delivered to the same real server that was
+ servicing the previous connection. This will effectively
+ disable expire_nodest_conn.
+
+ bit 1: enable rescheduling of new connections when it is safe.
+ That is, whenever expire_nodest_conn and for TCP sockets, when
+ the connection is in TIME_WAIT state (which is only possible if
+ you use NAT mode).
+
+ bit 2: it is bit 1 plus, for TCP connections, when connections
+ are in FIN_WAIT state, as this is the last state seen by load
+ balancer in Direct Routing mode. This bit helps on adding new
+ real servers to a very busy cluster.
+
conntrack - BOOLEAN
0 - disabled (default)
not 0 - enabled
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..639ddf0ece9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/proc/sys/net/mpls/* Variables:
+
+platform_labels - INTEGER
+ Number of entries in the platform label table. It is not
+ possible to configure forwarding for label values equal to or
+ greater than the number of platform labels.
+
+ A dense utliziation of the entries in the platform label table
+ is possible and expected aas the platform labels are locally
+ allocated.
+
+ If the number of platform label table entries is set to 0 no
+ label will be recognized by the kernel and mpls forwarding
+ will be disabled.
+
+ Reducing this value will remove all label routing entries that
+ no longer fit in the table.
+
+ Possible values: 0 - 1048575
+ Default: 0
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
index a6d7cb91069e..daa015af16a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
@@ -440,9 +440,10 @@ and the following flags apply:
+++ Capture process:
from include/linux/if_packet.h
- #define TP_STATUS_COPY 2
- #define TP_STATUS_LOSING 4
- #define TP_STATUS_CSUMNOTREADY 8
+ #define TP_STATUS_COPY (1 << 1)
+ #define TP_STATUS_LOSING (1 << 2)
+ #define TP_STATUS_CSUMNOTREADY (1 << 3)
+ #define TP_STATUS_CSUM_VALID (1 << 7)
TP_STATUS_COPY : This flag indicates that the frame (and associated
meta information) has been truncated because it's
@@ -466,6 +467,12 @@ TP_STATUS_CSUMNOTREADY: currently it's used for outgoing IP packets which
reading the packet we should not try to check the
checksum.
+TP_STATUS_CSUM_VALID : This flag indicates that at least the transport
+ header checksum of the packet has been already
+ validated on the kernel side. If the flag is not set
+ then we are free to check the checksum by ourselves
+ provided that TP_STATUS_CSUMNOTREADY is also not set.
+
for convenience there are also the following defines:
#define TP_STATUS_KERNEL 0
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
index 6915c6b27869..0344f1d45b37 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
@@ -3,13 +3,11 @@
HOWTO for the linux packet generator
------------------------------------
-Date: 041221
-
-Enable CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN to compile and build pktgen.o either in kernel
-or as module. Module is preferred. insmod pktgen if needed. Once running
-pktgen creates a thread on each CPU where each thread has affinity to its CPU.
-Monitoring and controlling is done via /proc. Easiest to select a suitable
-a sample script and configure.
+Enable CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN to compile and build pktgen either in-kernel
+or as a module. A module is preferred; modprobe pktgen if needed. Once
+running, pktgen creates a thread for each CPU with affinity to that CPU.
+Monitoring and controlling is done via /proc. It is easiest to select a
+suitable sample script and configure that.
On a dual CPU:
@@ -27,7 +25,7 @@ For monitoring and control pktgen creates:
Tuning NIC for max performance
==============================
-The default NIC setting are (likely) not tuned for pktgen's artificial
+The default NIC settings are (likely) not tuned for pktgen's artificial
overload type of benchmarking, as this could hurt the normal use-case.
Specifically increasing the TX ring buffer in the NIC:
@@ -35,20 +33,20 @@ Specifically increasing the TX ring buffer in the NIC:
A larger TX ring can improve pktgen's performance, while it can hurt
in the general case, 1) because the TX ring buffer might get larger
-than the CPUs L1/L2 cache, 2) because it allow more queueing in the
+than the CPU's L1/L2 cache, 2) because it allows more queueing in the
NIC HW layer (which is bad for bufferbloat).
-One should be careful to conclude, that packets/descriptors in the HW
+One should hesitate to conclude that packets/descriptors in the HW
TX ring cause delay. Drivers usually delay cleaning up the
-ring-buffers (for various performance reasons), thus packets stalling
-the TX ring, might just be waiting for cleanup.
+ring-buffers for various performance reasons, and packets stalling
+the TX ring might just be waiting for cleanup.
-This cleanup issues is specifically the case, for the driver ixgbe
-(Intel 82599 chip). This driver (ixgbe) combine TX+RX ring cleanups,
+This cleanup issue is specifically the case for the driver ixgbe
+(Intel 82599 chip). This driver (ixgbe) combines TX+RX ring cleanups,
and the cleanup interval is affected by the ethtool --coalesce setting
of parameter "rx-usecs".
-For ixgbe use e.g "30" resulting in approx 33K interrupts/sec (1/30*10^6):
+For ixgbe use e.g. "30" resulting in approx 33K interrupts/sec (1/30*10^6):
# ethtool -C ethX rx-usecs 30
@@ -60,15 +58,16 @@ Running:
Stopped: eth1
Result: OK: max_before_softirq=10000
-Most important the devices assigned to thread. Note! A device can only belong
-to one thread.
+Most important are the devices assigned to the thread. Note that a
+device can only belong to one thread.
Viewing devices
===============
-Parm section holds configured info. Current hold running stats.
-Result is printed after run or after interruption. Example:
+The Params section holds configured information. The Current section
+holds running statistics. The Result is printed after a run or after
+interruption. Example:
/proc/net/pktgen/eth1
@@ -93,7 +92,8 @@ Result: OK: 13101142(c12220741+d880401) usec, 10000000 (60byte,0frags)
Configuring threads and devices
================================
-This is done via the /proc interface easiest done via pgset in the scripts
+This is done via the /proc interface, and most easily done via pgset
+as defined in the sample scripts.
Examples:
@@ -192,10 +192,11 @@ Examples:
pgset "rate 300M" set rate to 300 Mb/s
pgset "ratep 1000000" set rate to 1Mpps
-Example scripts
-===============
+Sample scripts
+==============
-A collection of small tutorial scripts for pktgen is in examples dir.
+A collection of small tutorial scripts for pktgen is in the
+samples/pktgen directory:
pktgen.conf-1-1 # 1 CPU 1 dev
pktgen.conf-1-2 # 1 CPU 2 dev
@@ -206,25 +207,26 @@ pktgen.conf-1-1-ip6 # 1 CPU 1 dev ipv6
pktgen.conf-1-1-ip6-rdos # 1 CPU 1 dev ipv6 w. route DoS
pktgen.conf-1-1-flows # 1 CPU 1 dev multiple flows.
-Run in shell: ./pktgen.conf-X-Y It does all the setup including sending.
+Run in shell: ./pktgen.conf-X-Y
+This does all the setup including sending.
Interrupt affinity
===================
-Note when adding devices to a specific CPU there good idea to also assign
-/proc/irq/XX/smp_affinity so the TX-interrupts gets bound to the same CPU.
-as this reduces cache bouncing when freeing skb's.
+Note that when adding devices to a specific CPU it is a good idea to
+also assign /proc/irq/XX/smp_affinity so that the TX interrupts are bound
+to the same CPU. This reduces cache bouncing when freeing skbs.
Enable IPsec
============
-Default IPsec transformation with ESP encapsulation plus Transport mode
-could be enabled by simply setting:
+Default IPsec transformation with ESP encapsulation plus transport mode
+can be enabled by simply setting:
pgset "flag IPSEC"
pgset "flows 1"
To avoid breaking existing testbed scripts for using AH type and tunnel mode,
-user could use "pgset spi SPI_VALUE" to specify which formal of transformation
+you can use "pgset spi SPI_VALUE" to specify which transformation mode
to employ.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
index d2a9f43b5546..0362a42f7cf4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The corresponding adapter's LED will blink multiple times.
3. Features supported:
a. Jumbo frames. Xframe I/II supports MTU up to 9600 bytes,
-modifiable using ifconfig command.
+modifiable using ip command.
b. Offloads. Supports checksum offload(TCP/UDP/IP) on transmit
and receive, TSO.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
index 99ca40e8e810..cbfac0949635 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
@@ -421,6 +421,15 @@ best CPUs to share a given queue are probably those that share the cache
with the CPU that processes transmit completions for that queue
(transmit interrupts).
+Per TX Queue rate limitation:
+=============================
+
+These are rate-limitation mechanisms implemented by HW, where currently
+a max-rate attribute is supported, by setting a Mbps value to
+
+/sys/class/net/<dev>/queues/tx-<n>/tx_maxrate
+
+A value of zero means disabled, and this is the default.
Further Information
===================
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vxge.txt b/Documentation/networking/vxge.txt
index bb76c667a476..abfec245f97c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/vxge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/vxge.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ iii) PCI-SIG's I/O Virtualization
iv) Jumbo frames
X3100 Series supports MTU up to 9600 bytes, modifiable using
- ifconfig command.
+ ip command.
v) Offloads supported: (Enabled by default)
Checksum offload (TCP/UDP/IP) on transmit and receive paths