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Alex Sidorenko reported:
"while experimenting with 'netem' we have found some strange behaviour. It
seemed that ingress delay as measured by 'ping' command shows up on some
hosts but not on others.
After some investigation I have found that the problem is that skbuff->tstamp
field value depends on whether there are any packet sniffers enabled. That
is:
- if any ptype_all handler is registered, the tstamp field is as expected
- if there are no ptype_all handlers, the tstamp field does not show the delay"
This patch prevents unnecessary update of tstamp in dev_queue_xmit_nit()
on ingress path (with act_mirred) adding a check, so minimal overhead on
the fast path, but only when sniffers etc. are active.
Since netem at ingress seems to logically emulate a network before a host,
tstamp is zeroed to trigger the update and pretend delays are from the
outside.
Reported-by: Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidorenko@hp.com>
Tested-by: Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidorenko@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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It turns out that copying a 16-byte area at ~800k times a second
can be really expensive :) This patch redesigns the frags GRO
interface to avoid copying that area twice.
The two disciples of the frags interface have been converted.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Since everybody has been focusing on baremetal GRO performance
no one noticed when I added a bug that zapped gso_size for all
GRO packets. This only gets picked up when you forward the skb
out of an interface.
Thanks to Mark Wagner for noticing this bug when testing kvm.
Reported-by: Mark Wagner <mwagner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Currently netif_device_attach/detach are only stopping one queue. They
should be starting and stopping all the queues on a given device.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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GRO assumes that there is a one-to-one relationship between NAPI
structure and network device. Some devices like sky2 share multiple
devices on a single interrupt so only have one NAPI handler. Rather than
split GRO from NAPI, just have GRO assume if device changes that
it is a different flow.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (119 commits)
[SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Retry for NOT_READY check condition
[SCSI] mpt2sas: make global symbols unique
[SCSI] sd: Make revalidate less chatty
[SCSI] sd: Try READ CAPACITY 16 first for SBC-2 devices
[SCSI] sd: Refactor sd_read_capacity()
[SCSI] mpt2sas v00.100.11.15
[SCSI] mpt2sas: add MPT2SAS_MINOR(221) to miscdevice.h
[SCSI] ch: Add scsi type modalias
[SCSI] 3w-9xxx: add power management support
[SCSI] bsg: add linux/types.h include to bsg.h
[SCSI] cxgb3i: fix function descriptions
[SCSI] libiscsi: fix possbile null ptr session command cleanup
[SCSI] iscsi class: remove host no argument from session creation callout
[SCSI] libiscsi: pass session failure a session struct
[SCSI] iscsi lib: remove qdepth param from iscsi host allocation
[SCSI] iscsi lib: have lib create work queue for transmitting IO
[SCSI] iscsi class: fix lock dep warning on logout
[SCSI] libiscsi: don't cap queue depth in iscsi modules
[SCSI] iscsi_tcp: replace scsi_debug/tcp_debug logging with iscsi conn logging
[SCSI] libiscsi_tcp: replace tcp_debug/scsi_debug logging with session/conn logging
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When I fixed the GRO crash in the legacy receive path I used
napi_complete to replace __napi_complete. Unfortunately they're
not the same when NETPOLL is enabled, which may result in us
not calling __napi_complete at all.
What's more, we really do need to keep the __napi_complete call
within the IRQ-off section since in theory an IRQ can occur in
between and fill up the backlog to the maximum, causing us to
lock up.
Since we can't seem to find a fix that works properly right now,
this patch reverts all the GRO support from the netif_rx path.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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There is no gain using prefetch() in dev_hard_start_xmit(), since
we already had to read ops->ndo_select_queue pointer in dev_pick_tx(),
and both pointers are probably located in the same cache line.
This prefetch call slows down fast path because of a stall in address
computation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Some minor changes to queue hashing:
1. Use const on accessor functions
2. Export skb_tx_hash for use in drivers (see ixgbe)
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/virtio_net.c
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struct sk_buff pointers should be freed with kfree_skb.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.h
drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.h
drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c
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On the legacy netif_rx path, I incorrectly tried to optimise
the napi_complete call by using __napi_complete before we reenable
IRQs. This simply doesn't work since we need to flush the held
GRO packets first.
This patch fixes it by doing the obvious thing of reenabling
IRQs first and then calling napi_complete.
Reported-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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As my netpoll fix for net doesn't really work for net-next, we
need this update to move the checks into the right place. As it
stands we may pass freed skbs to netpoll_receive_skb.
This patch also introduces a netpoll_rx_on function to avoid GRO
completely if we're invoked through netpoll. This might seem
paranoid but as netpoll may have an external receive hook it's
better to be safe than sorry. I don't think we need this for
2.6.29 though since there's nothing immediately broken by it.
This patch also moves the GRO_* return values to netdevice.h since
VLAN needs them too (I tried to avoid this originally but alas
this seems to be the easiest way out). This fixes a bug in VLAN
where it continued to use the old return value 2 instead of the
correct GRO_DROP.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add FC CRC offload check for ETH_P_FCOE.
Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c
drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
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As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's
netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this
leaves the compat method pointers stale.
Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code.
Any other driver which changes ->netdev_ops after register_netdevice()
will need to call this new function after doing so too.
With help from Patrick McHardy.
Tested-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem
that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought
it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets
while there were still packets in the network namespace.
Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves
this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee
that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided
by net_alive in netif_receive_skb. So remove net_alive allowing
packet reception run a little faster.
Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup
is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have
a chance of figuring it out.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
net/8021q/vlan_core.c
net/core/dev.c
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The netpoll entry checks are required to ensure that we don't
receive normal packets when invoked via netpoll. Unfortunately
it only ever worked for the netif_receive_skb/netif_rx entry
points. The VLAN (and subsequently GRO) entry point didn't
have the check and therefore can trigger all sorts of weird
problems.
This patch adds the netpoll check to all entry points.
I'm still uneasy with receiving at all under netpoll (which
apparently is only used by the out-of-tree kdump code). The
reason is it is perfectly legal to receive all data including
headers into highmem if netpoll is off, but if you try to do
that with netpoll on and someone gets a printk in an IRQ handler
you're going to get a nice BUG_ON.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem
that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought
it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets
while there were still packets in the network namespace.
Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves
this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee
that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided
by net_alive in netif_receive_skb. So remove net_alive allowing
packet reception run a little faster.
Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup
is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have
a chance of figuring it out.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The current implementation of the TX software time stamping fallback is
faulty because it accesses the skb after ndo_start_xmit() returns
successfully. This patch removes the fallback, which fixes kernel panics
seen during stress tests. Hardware time stamping is not affected by this
removal.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparison that executes for
every packet. skb_tx_hashrnd initialization is moved to a later part of
the startup sequence, namely after the "random" driver is initialized.
Rebooted the system three times and verified that the code generates
different random numbers each time.
Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The additional per-packet information (16 bytes for time stamps, 1
byte for flags) is stored for all packets in the skb_shared_info
struct. This implementation detail is hidden from users of that
information via skb_* accessor functions. A separate struct resp.
union is used for the additional information so that it can be
stored/copied easily outside of skb_shared_info.
Compared to previous implementations (reusing the tstamp field
depending on the context, optional additional structures) this
is the simplest solution. It does not extend sk_buff itself.
TX time stamping is implemented in software if the device driver
doesn't support hardware time stamping.
The new semantic for hardware/software time stamping around
ndo_start_xmit() is based on two assumptions about existing
network device drivers which don't support hardware time
stamping and know nothing about it:
- they leave the new skb_shared_tx unmodified
- the keep the connection to the originating socket in skb->sk
alive, i.e., don't call skb_orphan()
Given that skb_shared_tx is new, the first assumption is safe.
The second is only true for some drivers. As a result, software
TX time stamping currently works with the bnx2 driver, but not
with the unmodified igb driver (the two drivers this patch series
was tested with).
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch optimises the Ethernet header comparison to use 2-byte
and 4-byte xors instead of memcmp. In order to facilitate this,
the actual comparison is now carried out by the callers of the
shared dev_gro_receive function.
This has a significant impact when receiving 1500B packets through
10GbE.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch prepares for the move of the same_flow checks out of
dev_gro_receive. As such we need to remember the number of held
packets since doing a loop just to count them every time is silly.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
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Based upon a patch from Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
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The commit 649274d993212e7c23c0cb734572c2311c200872 ("net_dma:
acquire/release dma channels on ifup/ifdown") added unconditional call
of dmaengine_get() to net_dma. The API should be called only if
NET_DMA was enabled.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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The previous fix ad0f9904444de1309dedd2b9e365cae8af77d9b1 (gro:
Fix handling of imprecisely split packets) only fixed the case
of frags merging, frag_list merging in the same circumstances
were still broken.
In particular, the packet headers end up in the data stream.
This patch fixes this plus another issue where an imprecisely
split packet header may be read incorrectly (this is mostly
harmless since it'll simply cause the packet to not match and
be rejected for GRO).
Thanks to Emil Tantilov and Jeff Kirsher for helping to track
this down.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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As it currently stands, skb destructors are forbidden on the
receive path because the protocol end-points will overwrite
any existing destructor with their own.
This is the reason why we have to call skb_orphan in the loopback
driver before we reinject the packet back into the stack, thus
creating a period during which loopback traffic isn't charged
to any socket.
With virtualisation, we have a similar problem in that traffic
is reinjected into the stack without being associated with any
socket entity, thus providing no natural congestion push-back
for those poor folks still stuck with UDP.
Now had we been consistent in telling them that UDP simply has
no congestion feedback, I could just fob them off. Unfortunately,
we appear to have gone to some length in catering for this on
the standard UDP path, with skb/socket accounting so that has
created a very unhealthy dependency.
Alas habits are difficult to break out of, so we may just have
to allow skb destructors on the receive path.
It turns out that making skb destructors useable on the receive path
isn't as easy as it seems. For instance, simply adding skb_orphan
to skb_set_owner_r isn't enough. This is because we assume all
over the IP stack that skb->sk is an IP socket if present.
The new transparent proxy code goes one step further and assumes
that skb->sk is the receiving socket if present.
Now all of this can be dealt with by adding simple checks such
as only treating skb->sk as an IP socket if skb->sk->sk_family
matches. However, it turns out that for bridging at least we
don't need to do all of this work.
This is of interest because most virtualisation setups use bridging
so we don't actually go through the IP stack on the host (with
the exception of our old nemesis the bridge netfilter, but that's
easily taken care of).
So this patch simply adds skb_orphan to the point just before we
enter the IP stack, but after we've gone through the bridge on the
receive path. It also adds an skb_orphan to the one place in
netfilter that touches skb->sk/skb->destructor, that is, tproxy.
One word of caution, because of the internal code structure, anyone
wishing to deploy this must use skb_set_owner_w as opposed to
skb_set_owner_r since many functions that create a new skb from
an existing one will invoke skb_set_owner_w on the new skb.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The commit 89a1b249edcf9be884e71f92df84d48355c576aa (gro: Avoid
copying headers of unmerged packets) only worked for packets
which are either completely linear, completely non-linear, or
packets which exactly split at the boundary between headers and
payload.
Anything else would cause bits in the header to go missing if
the packet is held by GRO.
This may have broken drivers such as ixgbe.
This patch fixes the places that assumed or only worked with
the above cases.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch optimises napi_fraginfo_skb to only copy the bits
necessary. We also open-code the memcpy so that the alignment
information is always available to gcc.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Unfortunately simplicity isn't always the best. The fraginfo
interface turned out to be suboptimal. The problem was quite
obvious. For every packet, we have to copy the headers from
the frags structure into skb->head, even though for 99% of the
packets this part is immediately thrown away after the merge.
LRO didn't have this problem because it directly read the headers
from the frags structure.
This patch attempts to address this by creating an interface
that allows GRO to access the headers in the first frag without
having to copy it. Because all drivers that use frags place the
headers in the first frag this optimisation should be enough.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Currently VLAN still has a bit of common code handling the aftermath
of GRO that's shared with the common path. This patch moves them
into shared helpers to reduce code duplication.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We now only TX hash on pre-computed SKB properties.
The thinking is:
1) High performance routing and firewalling setups will
have a multiqueue capable card used for receive, and
therefore would have RX queue recordings made into
the SKB which can be used for the TX side hash.
2) Locally generated packets will have an attached socket
and thus a valid sk->sk_hash to make use of.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The idea is that drivers which implement multiqueue RX
pre-seed the SKB by recording the RX queue selected by
the hardware.
If such a seed is found on TX, we'll use that to select
the outgoing TX queue.
This helps get more consistent load balancing on router
and firewall loads.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When a frag is shorter than an Ethernet header, we'd return a
zeroed packet instead of aborting. This patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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I'm trying to track down why people're hitting the checksum warning
in skb_gso_segment. As the problem seems to be hitting lots of
people and I can't reproduce it or locate the bug, here is a patch
to print out more details which hopefully should help us to track
this down.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This adds an init_dummy_netdev() function that gets a network device
structure (allocation and lifetime entirely under caller's control) and
initialize the minimum amount of fields so it can be used to schedule
NAPI polls without registering a full blown interface. This is to be
used by drivers that need to tie several hardware interfaces to a single
NAPI poll scheduler due to HW limitations.
It also updates the ibm_newemac driver to use that, this fixing the
oops on 2.6.29 due to passing NULL as "dev" to netif_napi_add()
Symbol is exported GPL only a I don't think we want binary drivers doing
that sort of acrobatics (if we want them at all).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When an skb with page frags is merged into an existing one, we
cannibalise its reference count. This is OK when the skb is
reused because we set nr_frags to zero in that case. However,
for the case where the skb is freed through kfree_skb, we didn't
clear nr_frags which causes the page to be freed prematurely.
This is fixed by moving the skb resetting into skb_gro_receive.
Reported-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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As GRO cannot be applied to packets with frag_list we need to
make sure that we reject such packets if they are fed to us,
e.g., through a tunnel device.
Also there is no point in applying GRO on GSO packets so they
too should be rejected. This allows GRO to be used in virtio-net
which may produce GSO packets directly but may still benefit
from GRO if the other end of it doesn't support GSO.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The recent dmaengine rework removed the capability to remove dma device
driver modules while net_dma is active. Rather than notify
dmaengine-clients that channels are trying to be removed, we now rely on
clients to notify dmaengine when they no longer have a need for
channels. Teach net_dma to release channels by taking dmaengine
references at netdevice open and dropping references at netdevice close.
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (22 commits)
ioat: fix self test for multi-channel case
dmaengine: bump initcall level to arch_initcall
dmaengine: advertise all channels on a device to dma_filter_fn
dmaengine: use idr for registering dma device numbers
dmaengine: add a release for dma class devices and dependent infrastructure
ioat: do not perform removal actions at shutdown
iop-adma: enable module removal
iop-adma: kill debug BUG_ON
iop-adma: let devm do its job, don't duplicate free
dmaengine: kill enum dma_state_client
dmaengine: remove 'bigref' infrastructure
dmaengine: kill struct dma_client and supporting infrastructure
dmaengine: replace dma_async_client_register with dmaengine_get
atmel-mci: convert to dma_request_channel and down-level dma_slave
dmatest: convert to dma_request_channel
dmaengine: introduce dma_request_channel and private channels
net_dma: convert to dma_find_channel
dmaengine: provide a common 'issue_pending_all' implementation
dmaengine: centralize channel allocation, introduce dma_find_channel
dmaengine: up-level reference counting to the module level
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Previously GRO's only entry point from the outside is through
napi_gro_receive and napi_gro_frags. These interfaces are for
device drivers.
This patch rearranges things to provide a new set of interfaces
for VLANs. These interfaces are for internal use only. The
VLAN code itself can then provide a set of entry points for
device drivers.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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All users have been converted to either the general-purpose allocator,
dma_find_channel, or dma_request_channel.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Now that clients no longer need to be notified of channel arrival
dma_async_client_register can simply increment the dmaengine_ref_count.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Jarek Poplawski
David S. Miller
Herbert Xu
Alexander Duyck
Stephen Hemminger
Linus Torvalds
Eric Dumazet
Roel Kluin
Yi Zou
Eric W. Biederman
Patrick Ohly
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