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2008-04-16[NETNS]: Add netns refcnt debug for network devices.Denis V. Lunev1-1/+2
dev_set_net is called for - just allocated devices - devices moving from one namespace to another release_net has proper check inside to distinguish these cases. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-03[NETNS]: Declare init_net even without CONFIG_NET defined.Denis V. Lunev1-4/+0
This does not look good, but there is no other choice. The compilation without CONFIG_NET is broken and can not be fixed with ease. After that there is no need for the following commits: 1567ca7eec7664b8be3b07755ac59dc1b1ec76cb 3edf8fa5ccf10688a9280b5cbca8ed3947c42866 2d38f9a4f8d2ebdc799f03eecf82345825495711 Revert them. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-02Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6David S. Miller1-2/+4
Conflicts: drivers/net/s2io.c
2008-03-31[NET]: Fix allnoconfig build on powerpc and avr32David S. Miller1-0/+2
As reported by Haavard Skinnemoen and Stephen Rothwell: > allnoconfig fails with > > include/linux/netdevice.h:843: error: implicit declaration of function 'dev_net' > > which seems to be because the definition of dev_net is inside #ifdef > CONFIG_NET, while next_net_device, which calls it, is not. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-28net: Comment dev_kfree_skb_irq and dev_kfree_skb_any betterMatti Linnanvuori1-2/+4
Comment dev_kfree_skb_irq and dev_kfree_skb_any better. Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-28[NET]: Protect device namespace inlines with CONFIG_NETDavid S. Miller1-0/+2
Include sites should not be bothered by whether CONFIG_NET is set or not when trying to include benign files like linux/etherdevice.h et al. From a report by Stephen Rothwell. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-27Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6David S. Miller1-2/+4
Conflicts: drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c net/ipv6/ndisc.c
2008-03-27[NET]: Use local_irq_{save,restore}() in napi_complete().David S. Miller1-2/+4
Based upon a lockdep report. Since ->poll() can be invoked from netpoll with interrupts disabled, we must not unconditionally enable interrupts in napi_complete(). Instead we must use local_irq_{save,restore}(). Noticed by Peter Zijlstra: <irqs disabled> netpoll_poll() poll_napi() spin_trylock(&napi->poll_lock) poll_one_napi() napi->poll() := sky2_poll() napi_complete() local_irq_disable() local_irq_enable() <--- *BUG* <irq> irq_exit() do_softirq() net_rx_action() spin_lock(&napi->poll_lock) <--- Deadlock! Because we still hold the lock.... Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-26[NETNS]: Compilation warnings under CONFIG_NET_NS.Denis V. Lunev1-1/+1
Recent commits from YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> have been introduced a several compilation warnings 'assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type' due to extra const modifier in the inline call parameters of {dev|sock|twsk}_net_set. Drop it. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-26[NETNS]: Compilation fix for include/linux/netdevice.h.Denis V. Lunev1-1/+1
Commit commit c346dca10840a874240c78efe3f39acf4312a1f2 ([NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS) breaks compilation with CONFIG_NET_NS set. Fix the typo. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-26[NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki1-1/+24
Introduce per-net_device inlines: dev_net(), dev_net_set(). Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists. Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-21[NET]: Add per-connection option to set max TSO frame sizePeter P Waskiewicz Jr1-0/+10
Update: My mailer ate one of Jarek's feedback mails... Fixed the parameter in netif_set_gso_max_size() to be u32, not u16. Fixed the whitespace issue due to a patch import botch. Changed the types from u32 to unsigned int to be more consistent with other variables in the area. Also brought the patch up to the latest net-2.6.26 tree. Update: Made gso_max_size container 32 bits, not 16. Moved the location of gso_max_size within netdev to be less hotpath. Made more consistent names between the sock and netdev layers, and added a define for the max GSO size. Update: Respun for net-2.6.26 tree. Update: changed max_gso_frame_size and sk_gso_max_size from signed to unsigned - thanks Stephen! This patch adds the ability for device drivers to control the size of the TSO frames being sent to them, per TCP connection. By setting the netdevice's gso_max_size value, the socket layer will set the GSO frame size based on that value. This will propogate into the TCP layer, and send TSO's of that size to the hardware. This can be desirable to help tune the bursty nature of TSO on a per-adapter basis, where one may have 1 GbE and 10 GbE devices coexisting in a system, one running multiqueue and the other not, etc. This can also be desirable for devices that cannot support full 64 KB TSO's, but still want to benefit from some level of segmentation offloading. Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds1-4/+4
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (82 commits) [NET]: Make sure sockets implement splice_read netconsole: avoid null pointer dereference at show_local_mac() [IPV6]: Fix reversed local_df test in ip6_fragment [XFRM]: Avoid bogus BUG() when throwing new policy away. [AF_KEY]: Fix bug in spdadd [NETFILTER] nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c: Mistyped state corrected. net: xfrm statistics depend on INET [NETFILTER]: make secmark_tg_destroy() static [INET]: Unexport inet_listen_wlock [INET]: Unexport __inet_hash_connect [NET]: Improve cache line coherency of ingress qdisc [NET]: Fix race in dev_close(). (Bug 9750) [IPSEC]: Fix bogus usage of u64 on input sequence number [RTNETLINK]: Send a single notification on device state changes. [NETLABLE]: Hide netlbl_unlabel_audit_addr6 under ifdef CONFIG_IPV6. [NETLABEL]: Don't produce unused variables when IPv6 is off. [NETLABEL]: Compilation for CONFIG_AUDIT=n case. [GENETLINK]: Relax dances with genl_lock. [NETLABEL]: Fix lookup logic of netlbl_domhsh_search_def. [IPV6]: remove unused method declaration (net/ndisc.h). ...
2008-02-13include/linux: Remove all users of FASTCALL() macroHarvey Harrison1-1/+1
FASTCALL() is always expanded to empty, remove it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-12[NET]: Improve cache line coherency of ingress qdiscNeil Turton1-4/+4
Move the ingress qdisc members of struct net_device from the transmit cache line to the receive cache line to avoid cache line ping-pong. These members are only used on the receive path. Signed-off-by: Neil Turton <nturton@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31[VLAN]: set_rx_mode support for unicast address listChris Leech1-0/+4
Reuse the existing logic for multicast list synchronization for the unicast address list. The core of dev_mc_sync/unsync are split out as __dev_addr_sync/unsync and moved from dev_mcast.c to dev.c. These are then used to implement dev_unicast_sync/unsync as well. I'm working on cleaning up Intel's FCoE stack, which generates new MAC addresses from the fibre channel device id assigned by the fabric as per the current draft specification in T11. When using such a protocol in a VLAN environment it would be nice to not always be forced into promiscuous mode, assuming the underlying Ethernet driver supports multiple unicast addresses as well. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-01-08[NET]: Add NAPI_STATE_DISABLE.David S. Miller1-3/+13
Create a bit to signal that a napi_disable() is in progress. This sets up infrastructure such that net_rx_action() can generically break out of the ->poll() loop on a NAPI context that has a pending napi_disable() yet is being bombed with packets (and thus would otherwise poll endlessly and not allow the napi_disable() to finish). Now, what napi_disable() does is first set the NAPI_STATE_DISABLE bit (to indicate that a disable is pending), then it polls for the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit, and once the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit is acquired the NAPI_STATE_DISABLE bit is cleared. Here, the test_and_set_bit() provides the necessary memory barrier between the various bitops. napi_schedule_prep() now tests for a pending disable as it's first action and won't try to obtain the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit if a disable is pending. As a result, we can remove the netif_running() check in netif_rx_schedule_prep() because the NAPI disable pending state serves this purpose. And, it does so in a NAPI centric manner which is what we really want. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-08[NET]: Do not grab device reference when scheduling a NAPI poll.David S. Miller1-2/+0
It is pointless, because everything that can make a device go away will do a napi_disable() first. The main impetus behind this is that now we can legally do a NAPI completion in generic code like net_rx_action() which a following changeset needs to do. net_rx_action() can only perform actions in NAPI centric ways, because there may be a one to many mapping between NAPI contexts and network devices (SKY2 is one example). We also want to get rid of this because it's an extra atomic in the NAPI paths, and also because it is one of the last instances where the NAPI interfaces care about net devices. The one remaining netdev detail the NAPI stuff cares about is the netif_running() check which will be killed off in a subsequent changeset. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-01[NET]: docbook fixes for netif_ functionsStephen Hemminger1-0/+10
Documentation updates for network interfaces. 1. Add doc for netif_napi_add 2. Remove doc for unused returns from netif_rx 3. Add doc for netif_receive_skb [ Incorporated minor mods from Randy Dunlap -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-26[NET] napi: use non-interruptible sleep in napi_disableBenjamin Herrenschmidt1-1/+1
The current napi_disable() uses msleep_interruptible() but doesn't (and can't) exit in case there's a signal, thus ending up doing a hot spin without a cpu_relax. Use uninterruptible sleep instead. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-23[NET]: Validate device addr prior to interface-upJeff Garzik1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-23remove header_ops bug in qeth driverUrsula Braun1-1/+1
Remove qeth bug caused by commit: [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice. This is the second part of the qeth header_ops patch, since first patch sent 10/19 has been insufficient. Nevertheless first patch is still valid and should be kept. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-22[NET]: Hide the queue_mapping field inside netif_subqueue_stoppedPavel Emelyanov1-1/+6
Many places get the queue_mapping field from skb to pass it to the netif_subqueue_stopped() which will be 0 in any case. Make the helper that works with sk_buff Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-18Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6Linus Torvalds1-0/+18
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: pcnet32: remove private net_device_stats structure vortex_up should initialize "err" pcnet32: remove compile warnings in non-napi mode pcnet32: fix non-napi packet reception fix EMAC driver for proper napi_synchronize API sky2: shutdown cleanup napi_synchronize: waiting for NAPI forcedeth msi bugfix gianfar: fix obviously wrong #ifdef CONFIG_GFAR_NAPI placement fs_enet: Update for API changes gianfar: remove orphan struct. forcedeth: fix rx-work condition in nv_rx_process_optimized() too
2007-10-18[NET]: Fix OOPS due to missing check in dev_parse_header().Patrick McHardy1-1/+1
[ This is kernel bugzilla 9174 "linux-2.6.23-git11 kernel panic" ] The device in question is an IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel, which doesn't have any header_ops, so the crash happens in dev_parse_header when dereferencing them. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17napi_synchronize: waiting for NAPIStephen Hemminger1-0/+18
Some drivers with shared NAPI need a synchronization barrier. Also suggested by Benjamin Herrenschmidt for EMAC. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-13net core: fix kernel-doc for new function parametersRandy Dunlap1-0/+1
Fix networking code kernel-doc for newly added parameters. Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/sock.c:879): No description found for parameter 'net' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:570): No description found for parameter 'net' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:594): No description found for parameter 'net' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:617): No description found for parameter 'net' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:641): No description found for parameter 'net' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:667): No description found for parameter 'net' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:722): No description found for parameter 'net' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:959): No description found for parameter 'net' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:1195): No description found for parameter 'dev' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:2105): No description found for parameter 'n' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:3272): No description found for parameter 'net' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:3445): No description found for parameter 'net' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//include/linux/netdevice.h:1301): No description found for parameter 'cpu' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-10[NET]: Fix dev_put() and dev_hold() commentsBenjamin Thery1-2/+2
Trivial fix: Swap comments for dev_put() and dev_hold() to get them at the right place. Typo introduced by 4fa57c9ea9f36f9ca852f3a88ca5d2f1aebbc960. Signed-of-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10ibm_emac: Convert to use napi_struct independent of struct net_deviceRoland Dreier1-0/+10
Commit da3dedd9 ("[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.") changed the interface to NAPI polling. Fix up the ibm_emac driver so that it works with this new interface. This is actually a nice cleanup because ibm_emac is one of the drivers that wants to have multiple NAPI structures for a single net_device. Tested with the internal MAC of a PowerPC 440SPe SoC with an AMCC 'Yucca' evaluation board. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.Stephen Hemminger1-20/+23
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[NET]: Wrap hard_header_parseStephen Hemminger1-1/+11
Wrap the hard_header_parse function to simplify next step of header_ops conversion. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.Stephen Hemminger1-0/+9
Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space was available,(ie -N bytes). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make the loopback device per network namespace.Eric W. Biederman1-1/+0
This patch makes loopback_dev per network namespace. Adding code to create a different loopback device for each network namespace and adding the code to free a loopback device when a network namespace exits. This patch modifies all users the loopback_dev so they access it as init_net.loopback_dev, keeping all of the code compiling and working. A later pass will be needed to update the users to use something other than the initial network namespace. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: note that NETIF_F_LLTX is deprecatedChristian Borntraeger1-1/+2
Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Herbert Xu: > Please don't use LLTX in new drivers. We're trying to get rid > of it since it's > > 1) unnecessary; > 2) causes problems with AF_PACKET seeing things twice. I suggest to document that LLTX is deprecated. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.Daniel Lezcano1-1/+1
This patch replaces all occurences to the static variable loopback_dev to a pointer loopback_dev. That provides the mindless, trivial, uninteressting change part for the dynamic allocation for the loopback. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Fix the prototype of call_netdevice_notifiers.Eric W. Biederman1-1/+1
This replaces the void * parameter with a struct net_device * which is what is actually required. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: migrate HARD_TX_LOCK to header fileJamal Hadi Salim1-2/+19
HARD_TX_LOCK micro is a nice aggregation that could be used in other spots. move it to netdevice.h Also makes sure the previously superflous cpu arguement is used. Thanks to DaveM for the suggestions. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.Ralf Baechle1-1/+0
It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to remove it. The number of people that could object because they're maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small. [ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NETNS]: Fix bad macro definition.Daniel Lezcano1-18/+17
The macro definition is bad. When calling next_net_device with parameter name "dev", the resulting code is: struct net_device *dev = dev and that leads to an unexpected behavior. Especially when llc_core is compiled in, the kernel panics at boot time. The patchset change macro definition with static inline functions as they were defined before. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Implement network device movement between namespacesEric W. Biederman1-0/+3
This patch introduces NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL a flag to indicate a network device is local to a single network namespace and should never be moved. Useful for pseudo devices that we need an instance in each network namespace (like the loopback device) and for any device we find that cannot handle multiple network namespaces so we may trap them in the initial network namespace. This patch introduces the function dev_change_net_namespace a function used to move a network device from one network namespace to another. To the network device nothing special appears to happen, to the components of the network stack it appears as if the network device was unregistered in the network namespace it is in, and a new device was registered in the network namespace the device was moved to. This patch sets up a namespace device destructor that upon the exit of a network namespace moves all of the movable network devices to the initial network namespace so they are not lost. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.Eric W. Biederman1-31/+35
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network namespace safe. This patch makes dev_base_head a network namespace variable, and then it picks up a few associated variables. The functions: dev_getbyhwaddr dev_getfirsthwbytype dev_get_by_flags dev_get_by_name __dev_get_by_name dev_get_by_index __dev_get_by_index dev_ioctl dev_ethtool dev_load wireless_process_ioctl were modified to take a network namespace argument, and deal with it. vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their hooks will receive a network namespace argument. So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle multiple network namespaces. The rest of the network stack was simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network namespace. This can be fixed when those components of the network stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces. For now the ifindex generator is left global. Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else we will have corner case problems with migration when we get that far. At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack that the ifindex of a network device won't change. Making the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when you change namespaces, and the like. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Add a network namespace tag to struct net_deviceEric W. Biederman1-0/+4
Please note that network devices do not increase the count count on the network namespace. The are inside the network namespace and so the network namespace tag is in the nature of a back pointer and so getting and putting the network namespace is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[ETHTOOL]: Add ETHTOOL_[GS]FLAGS sub-ioctlsJeff Garzik1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.Stephen Hemminger1-72/+289
Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several queues. In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the structure representing the poll is independant from the net device itself. The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from: int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget) to int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the caller upon return. The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data structures. Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures, only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances it may have per-device. With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier, Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim. Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra, Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan. [ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13[NET]: Share correct feature code between bridging and bondingHerbert Xu1-0/+2
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8797 shows that the bonding driver may produce bogus combinations of the checksum flags and SG/TSO. For example, if you bond devices with NETIF_F_HW_CSUM and NETIF_F_IP_CSUM you'll end up with a bonding device that has neither flag set. If both have TSO then this produces an illegal combination. The bridge device on the other hand has the correct code to deal with this. In fact, the same code can be used for both. So this patch moves that logic into net/core/dev.c and uses it for both bonding and bridging. In the process I've made small adjustments such as only setting GSO_ROBUST if at least one constituent device supports it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20[NET]: Fix loopback crashes when multiqueue is enabled.Patrick McHardy1-1/+1
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-18[NET]: move dev_mc_discard from dev_mcast.c to dev.cDenis Cheng1-2/+0
Because this function is only called by unregister_netdevice, this moving could make this non-global function static, and also remove its declaration in netdevice.h; Any further, function __dev_addr_discard is also just called by dev_mc_discard and dev_unicast_discard, keeping this two functions both in one c file could make __dev_addr_discard also static and remove its declaration in netdevice.h; Futhermore, the sequential call to dev_unicast_discard and then dev_mc_discard in unregister_netdevice have a similar mechanism that: (netif_tx_lock_bh / __dev_addr_discard / netif_tx_unlock_bh), they should merged into one to eliminate duplicates in acquiring and releasing the dev->_xmit_lock, this would be done in my following patch. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-16Revert "[NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll."Linus Torvalds1-10/+0
This reverts commit 29578624e354f56143d92510fff33a8b2aaa2c03. Ingo Molnar reports complete breakage with his e1000 card (no networking, card reports transmit timeouts), and bisected it down to this commit. Let's figure out what went wrong, but not keep breaking machines until we do. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-14[NET]: Add macvlan driverPatrick McHardy1-0/+2
Add macvlan driver, which allows to create virtual ethernet devices based on MAC address. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[NET]: dev_mcast: add multicast list synchronization helpersPatrick McHardy1-0/+3
The method drivers currently use to synchronize multicast lists is not very pretty: - walk the multicast list - search each entry on a copy of the previous list - if new add to lower device - walk the copy of the previous list - search each entry on the current list - if removed delete from lower device - copy entire list This patch adds a new field to struct dev_addr_list to store the synchronization state and adds two helper functions for synchronization and cleanup. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>