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2010-04-23Merge branch 'master' into for-davemJohn W. Linville
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/phy.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c
2010-04-22X25: Add if_x25.h and x25 to device identifiersAndrew Hendry
V2 Feedback from John Hughes. - Add header for userspace implementations such as xot/xoe to use - Use explicit values for interface stability - No changes to driver patches V1 - Use identifiers instead of magic numbers for X25 layer 3 to device interface. - Also fixed checkpatch notes on updated code. [ Add new user header to include/linux/Kbuild -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-22net: Socket filter ancilliary data access for skb->dev->typePaul LeoNerd Evans
Add an SKF_AD_HATYPE field to the packet ancilliary data area, giving access to skb->dev->type, as reported in the sll_hatype field. When capturing packets on a PF_PACKET/SOCK_RAW socket bound to all interfaces, there doesn't appear to be a way for the filter program to actually find out the underlying hardware type the packet was captured on. This patch adds such ability. This patch also handles the case where skb->dev can be NULL, such as on netlink sockets. Signed-off-by: Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-22tcp: fix outsegs stat for TSO segmentsTom Herbert
Account for TSO segments of an skb in TCP_MIB_OUTSEGS counter. Without doing this, the counter can be off by orders of magnitude from the actual number of segments sent. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-22IPv6: Generic TTL Security Mechanism (final version)Stephen Hemminger
This patch adds IPv6 support for RFC5082 Generalized TTL Security Mechanism. Not to users of mapped address; the IPV6 and IPV4 socket options are seperate. The server does have to deal with both IPv4 and IPv6 socket options and the client has to handle the different for each family. On client: int ttl = 255; getaddrinfo(argv[1], argv[2], &hint, &result); for (rp = result; rp != NULL; rp = rp->ai_next) { s = socket(rp->ai_family, rp->ai_socktype, rp->ai_protocol); if (s < 0) continue; if (rp->ai_family == AF_INET) { setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_IP, IP_TTL, &ttl, sizeof(ttl)); } else if (rp->ai_family == AF_INET6) { setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS, &ttl, sizeof(ttl))) } if (connect(s, rp->ai_addr, rp->ai_addrlen) == 0) { ... On server: int minttl = 255 - maxhops; getaddrinfo(NULL, port, &hints, &result); for (rp = result; rp != NULL; rp = rp->ai_next) { s = socket(rp->ai_family, rp->ai_socktype, rp->ai_protocol); if (s < 0) continue; if (rp->ai_family == AF_INET6) setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_MINHOPCOUNT, &minttl, sizeof(minttl)); setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_IP, IP_MINTTL, &minttl, sizeof(minttl)); if (bind(s, rp->ai_addr, rp->ai_addrlen) == 0) break ... Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-22net: Orphan and de-dst skbs earlier in xmit path.David S. Miller
This way GSO packets don't get handled differently. With help from Eric Dumazet. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
2010-04-22rps: immediate send IPI in process_backlog()Eric Dumazet
If some skb are queued to our backlog, we are delaying IPI sending at the end of net_rx_action(), increasing latencies. This defeats the queueing, since we want to quickly dispatch packets to the pool of worker cpus, then eventually deeply process our packets. It's better to send IPI before processing our packets in upper layers, from process_backlog(). Change the _and_disable_irq suffix to _and_enable_irq(), since we enable local irq in net_rps_action(), sorry for the confusion. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21ethernet: print protocol in host byte orderJohannes Berg
Eric's recent patch added __force, but this place would seem to require actually doing a byte order conversion so the printk is consistent across architectures. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21net: Introduce skb_orphan_try()Eric Dumazet
At this point, skb->destructor is not the original one (stored in DEV_GSO_CB(skb)->destructor) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21fasync: RCU and fine grained lockingEric Dumazet
kill_fasync() uses a central rwlock, candidate for RCU conversion, to avoid cache line ping pongs on SMP. fasync_remove_entry() and fasync_add_entry() can disable IRQS on a short section instead during whole list scan. Use a spinlock per fasync_struct to synchronize kill_fasync_rcu() and fasync_{remove|add}_entry(). This spinlock is IRQ safe, so sock_fasync() doesnt need its own implementation and can use fasync_helper(), to reduce code size and complexity. We can remove __kill_fasync() direct use in net/socket.c, and rename it to kill_fasync_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21tcp: Mark v6 response packets as CHECKSUM_PARTIALDavid S. Miller
Otherwise we only get the checksum right for data-less TCP responses. Noticed by Herbert Xu. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21tcp: Fix ipv6 checksumming on response packets for real.David S. Miller
Commit 6651ffc8e8bdd5fb4b7d1867c6cfebb4f309512c ("ipv6: Fix tcp_v6_send_response transport header setting.") fixed one half of why ipv6 tcp response checksums were invalid, but it's not the whole story. If we're going to use CHECKSUM_PARTIAL for these things (which we are since commit 2e8e18ef52e7dd1af0a3bd1f7d990a1d0b249586 "tcp: Set CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY in tcp_init_nondata_skb"), we can't be setting buff->csum as we always have been here in tcp_v6_send_response. We need to leave it at zero. Kill that line and checksums are good again. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c net/core/dev.c
2010-04-21net: Fix an RCU warning in dev_pick_tx()David Howells
Fix the following RCU warning in dev_pick_tx(): =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- net/core/dev.c:1993 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 2 locks held by swapper/0: #0: (&idev->mc_ifc_timer){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81039e65>] run_timer_softirq+0x17b/0x278 #1: (rcu_read_lock_bh){.+....}, at: [<ffffffff812ea3eb>] dev_queue_xmit+0x14e/0x4dc stack backtrace: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.34-rc5-cachefs #4 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff810516c4>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb2 [<ffffffff812ea4f6>] dev_queue_xmit+0x259/0x4dc [<ffffffff812ea3eb>] ? dev_queue_xmit+0x14e/0x4dc [<ffffffff81052324>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [<ffffffff81035362>] ? local_bh_enable_ip+0xbc/0xc1 [<ffffffff812f0954>] neigh_resolve_output+0x24b/0x27c [<ffffffff8134f673>] ip6_output_finish+0x7c/0xb4 [<ffffffff81350c34>] ip6_output2+0x256/0x261 [<ffffffff81052324>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [<ffffffff813517fb>] ip6_output+0xbbc/0xbcb [<ffffffff8135bc5d>] ? fib6_force_start_gc+0x2b/0x2d [<ffffffff81368acb>] mld_sendpack+0x273/0x39d [<ffffffff81368858>] ? mld_sendpack+0x0/0x39d [<ffffffff81052099>] ? mark_held_locks+0x52/0x70 [<ffffffff813692fc>] mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x24f/0x288 [<ffffffff81039ed6>] run_timer_softirq+0x1ec/0x278 [<ffffffff81039e65>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x17b/0x278 [<ffffffff813690ad>] ? mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x0/0x288 [<ffffffff81035531>] ? __do_softirq+0x69/0x140 [<ffffffff8103556a>] __do_softirq+0xa2/0x140 [<ffffffff81002e0c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28 [<ffffffff81004b54>] do_softirq+0x38/0x80 [<ffffffff81034f06>] irq_exit+0x45/0x47 [<ffffffff810177c3>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x88/0x96 [<ffffffff810028d3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20 <EOI> [<ffffffff810488dd>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x86 [<ffffffff810096bf>] ? mwait_idle+0x6e/0x78 [<ffffffff810096b6>] ? mwait_idle+0x65/0x78 [<ffffffff810011cb>] cpu_idle+0x4d/0x83 [<ffffffff81380b05>] rest_init+0xb9/0xc0 [<ffffffff81380a4c>] ? rest_init+0x0/0xc0 [<ffffffff8168dcf0>] start_kernel+0x392/0x39d [<ffffffff8168d2a3>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xb3/0xb7 [<ffffffff8168d38b>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe4/0xeb An rcu_dereference() should be an rcu_dereference_bh(). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
2010-04-21ipv6: Fix tcp_v6_send_response transport header setting.Herbert Xu
My recent patch to remove the open-coded checksum sequence in tcp_v6_send_response broke it as we did not set the transport header pointer on the new packet. Actually, there is code there trying to set the transport header properly, but it sets it for the wrong skb ('skb' instead of 'buff'). This bug was introduced by commit a8fdf2b331b38d61fb5f11f3aec4a4f9fb2dedcb ("ipv6: Fix tcp_v6_send_response(): it didn't set skb transport header") Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20net: Remove two unnecessary exports (skbuff).Rami Rosen
There is no need to export skb_under_panic() and skb_over_panic() in skbuff.c, since these methods are used only in skbuff.c ; this patch removes these two exports. It also marks these functions as 'static' and removeS the extern declarations of them from include/linux/skbuff.h Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20net: Fix various endianness glitchesEric Dumazet
Sparse can help us find endianness bugs, but we need to make some cleanups to be able to more easily spot real bugs. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20bridge: add a missing ntohs()Eric Dumazet
grec_nsrcs is in network order, we should convert to host horder in br_multicast_igmp3_report() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
2010-04-20net: sk_sleep() helperEric Dumazet
Define a new function to return the waitqueue of a "struct sock". static inline wait_queue_head_t *sk_sleep(struct sock *sk) { return sk->sk_sleep; } Change all read occurrences of sk_sleep by a call to this function. Needed for a future RCU conversion. sk_sleep wont be a field directly available. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20mac80211: Fix ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer with hw connection monitoringJuuso Oikarinen
When IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR is configured by the driver, starting of ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer should be prevented, as it is then not needed. This is currently partially the case. As it seems, when a probe-response is received from the AP the timer is still restarted, thus restarting the host based connection keep-alive mechanism. These probe-responses happen at least when scanning while associated. Fix this by preventing starting of the ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer in the ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp function. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20mac80211: sample survey implementation for mac80211 & hwsimHolger Schurig
This adds the survey function to both mac80211 itself and to mac80211_hwsim. For the latter driver, we simply invent some noise level.A real driver which cannot determine the real channel noise MUST NOT report any noise, especially not a magically conjured one :-) Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20ath9k: Group Key fix for VAPsDaniel Yingqiang Ma
When I set up multiple VAPs with ath9k, I encountered an issue that the traffic may be lost after a while. The detailed phenomenon is 1. After a while the clients connected to one of these VAPs will get into a state that no broadcast/multicast packets can be transfered successfully while the unicast packets can be transfered normally. 2. Minutes latter the unitcast packets transfer will fail as well, because the ARP entry is expired and it can't be freshed due to the broadcast trouble. It's caused by the group key overwritten and someone discussed this issue in ath9k-devel maillist before, but haven't work out a fix yet. I referred the method in madwifi, and made a patch for ath9k. The method is to set the high bit of the sender(AP)'s address, and associated that mac and the group key. It requires the hardware supports multicast frame key search. It seems true for AR9160. Not sure whether it's the correct way to fix this issue. But it seems to work in my test. The patch is attached, feel free to revise it. Signed-off-by: Daniel Yingqiang ma <yma.cool@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20net: emphasize rtnl lock required in call_netdevice_notifiersJiri Pirko
Since netdev_chain is guarded by rtnl_lock, ASSERT_RTNL should be present here to make sure that all callers of call_netdevice_notifiers does the locking properly. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20rps: consistent rxhashEric Dumazet
In case we compute a software skb->rxhash, we can generate a consistent hash : Its value will be the same in both flow directions. This helps some workloads, like conntracking, since the same state needs to be accessed in both directions. tbench + RFS + this patch gives better results than tbench with default kernel configuration (no RPS, no RFS) Also fixed some sparse warnings. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20rps: cleanupsEric Dumazet
struct softnet_data holds many queues, so consistent use "sd" name instead of "queue" is better. Adds a rps_ipi_queued() helper to cleanup enqueue_to_backlog() Adds a _and_irq_disable suffix to net_rps_action() name, as David suggested. incr_input_queue_head() becomes input_queue_head_incr() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-19rps: static functionsEric Dumazet
store_rps_map() & store_rps_dev_flow_table_cnt() are static. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-19mac80211: add missing newlineJohannes Berg
One HT debugging printk is missing a newline, add it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-19mac80211: Prevent running sta_cleanup timer unnecessarilyJuuso Oikarinen
The sta_cleanup timer is used to periodically expire buffered frames from the tx buf. The timer is executing periodically, regardless of the need for it. This is wasting resources. Fix this simply by not restarting the sta_cleanup timer if the tx buffer was empty. Restart the timer when there is some more tx-traffic. Cc: Janne Ylälehto <janne.ylalehto@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-19mac80211: fix stopping RX BA session from timerJohannes Berg
Kalle reported that his system deadlocks since my recent work in this area. The reason quickly became apparent: we try to cancel_timer_sync() a timer from within itself. Fix that by making the function aware of the context it is called from. Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-19mac80211: pass HT changes to driver when off channelReinette Chatre
Since "mac80211: make off-channel work generic" drivers have not been notified of configuration changes after association or authentication. This caused more dependence on current state to ensure driver will be notified when configuration changes occur. One such problem arises if off-channel is in progress when HT information changes. Since HT is only enabled on the "oper_channel" the driver will never be notified of this change. Usually the driver is notified soon after of a BSS information change (BSS_CHANGED_HT) ... but since the driver did not get a notification that this is a HT channel the new BSS information does not make sense. Fix this by also changing the off-channel information when HT is enabled and thus cause driver to be notified correctly. This fixes a problem in 4965 when associated with 5GHz 40MHz channel. Without this patch the system can associate but is unable to transfer any data, not even ping. See http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2158 Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-19mac80211: remove bogus TX agg state assignmentJohannes Berg
When the addba timer expires but has no work to do, it should not affect the state machine. If it does, TX will not see the successfully established and we can also crash trying to re-establish the session. Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.32, 2.6.33] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-19rps: shortcut net_rps_action()Eric Dumazet
net_rps_action() is a bit expensive on NR_CPUS=64..4096 kernels, even if RPS is not active. Tom Herbert used two bitmasks to hold information needed to send IPI, but a single LIFO list seems more appropriate. Move all RPS logic into net_rps_action() to cleanup net_rx_action() code (remove two ifdefs) Move rps_remote_softirq_cpus into softnet_data to share its first cache line, filling an existing hole. In a future patch, we could call net_rps_action() from process_backlog() to make sure we send IPI before handling this cpu backlog. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: gigaset: include cleanup cleanup packet : remove init_net restriction WAN: flush tx_queue in hdlc_ppp to prevent panic on rmmod hw_driver. ip: Fix ip_dev_loopback_xmit() net: dev_pick_tx() fix fib: suppress lockdep-RCU false positive in FIB trie. tun: orphan an skb on tx forcedeth: fix tx limit2 flag check iwlwifi: work around bogus active chains detection
2010-04-18net: Introduce skb_orphan_try()Eric Dumazet
Transmitted skb might be attached to a socket and a destructor, for memory accounting purposes. Traditionally, this destructor is called at tx completion time, when skb is freed. When tx completion is performed by another cpu than the sender, this forces some cache lines to change ownership. XPS was an attempt to give tx completion to initial cpu. David idea is to call destructor right before giving skb to device (call to ndo_start_xmit()). Because device queues are usually small, orphaning skb before tx completion is not a big deal. Some drivers already do this, we could do it in upper level. There is one known exception to this early orphaning, called tx timestamping. It needs to keep a reference to socket until device can give a hardware or software timestamp. This patch adds a skb_orphan_try() helper, to centralize all exceptions to early orphaning in one spot, and use it in dev_hard_start_xmit(). "tbench 16" results on a Nehalem machine (2 X5570 @ 2.93GHz) before: Throughput 4428.9 MB/sec 16 procs after: Throughput 4448.14 MB/sec 16 procs UDP should get even better results, its destructor being more complex, since SOCK_USE_WRITE_QUEUE is not set (four atomic ops instead of one) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-18net: remove time limit in process_backlog()Eric Dumazet
- There is no point to enforce a time limit in process_backlog(), since other napi instances dont follow same rule. We can exit after only one packet processed... The normal quota of 64 packets per napi instance should be the norm, and net_rx_action() already has its own time limit. Note : /proc/net/core/dev_weight can be used to tune this 64 default value. - Use DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED for softnet_data definition. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-17rps: rps_sock_flow_table is mostly readEric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-16rfs: Receive Flow SteeringTom Herbert
This patch implements receive flow steering (RFS). RFS steers received packets for layer 3 and 4 processing to the CPU where the application for the corresponding flow is running. RFS is an extension of Receive Packet Steering (RPS). The basic idea of RFS is that when an application calls recvmsg (or sendmsg) the application's running CPU is stored in a hash table that is indexed by the connection's rxhash which is stored in the socket structure. The rxhash is passed in skb's received on the connection from netif_receive_skb. For each received packet, the associated rxhash is used to look up the CPU in the hash table, if a valid CPU is set then the packet is steered to that CPU using the RPS mechanisms. The convolution of the simple approach is that it would potentially allow OOO packets. If threads are thrashing around CPUs or multiple threads are trying to read from the same sockets, a quickly changing CPU value in the hash table could cause rampant OOO packets-- we consider this a non-starter. To avoid OOO packets, this solution implements two types of hash tables: rps_sock_flow_table and rps_dev_flow_table. rps_sock_table is a global hash table. Each entry is just a CPU number and it is populated in recvmsg and sendmsg as described above. This table contains the "desired" CPUs for flows. rps_dev_flow_table is specific to each device queue. Each entry contains a CPU and a tail queue counter. The CPU is the "current" CPU for a matching flow. The tail queue counter holds the value of a tail queue counter for the associated CPU's backlog queue at the time of last enqueue for a flow matching the entry. Each backlog queue has a queue head counter which is incremented on dequeue, and so a queue tail counter is computed as queue head count + queue length. When a packet is enqueued on a backlog queue, the current value of the queue tail counter is saved in the hash entry of the rps_dev_flow_table. And now the trick: when selecting the CPU for RPS (get_rps_cpu) the rps_sock_flow table and the rps_dev_flow table for the RX queue are consulted. When the desired CPU for the flow (found in the rps_sock_flow table) does not match the current CPU (found in the rps_dev_flow table), the current CPU is changed to the desired CPU if one of the following is true: - The current CPU is unset (equal to RPS_NO_CPU) - Current CPU is offline - The current CPU's queue head counter >= queue tail counter in the rps_dev_flow table. This checks if the queue tail has advanced beyond the last packet that was enqueued using this table entry. This guarantees that all packets queued using this entry have been dequeued, thus preserving in order delivery. Making each queue have its own rps_dev_flow table has two advantages: 1) the tail queue counters will be written on each receive, so keeping the table local to interrupting CPU s good for locality. 2) this allows lockless access to the table-- the CPU number and queue tail counter need to be accessed together under mutual exclusion from netif_receive_skb, we assume that this is only called from device napi_poll which is non-reentrant. This patch implements RFS for TCP and connected UDP sockets. It should be usable for other flow oriented protocols. There are two configuration parameters for RFS. The "rps_flow_entries" kernel init parameter sets the number of entries in the rps_sock_flow_table, the per rxqueue sysfs entry "rps_flow_cnt" contains the number of entries in the rps_dev_flow table for the rxqueue. Both are rounded to power of two. The obvious benefit of RFS (over just RPS) is that it achieves CPU locality between the receive processing for a flow and the applications processing; this can result in increased performance (higher pps, lower latency). The benefits of RFS are dependent on cache hierarchy, application load, and other factors. On simple benchmarks, we don't necessarily see improvement and sometimes see degradation. However, for more complex benchmarks and for applications where cache pressure is much higher this technique seems to perform very well. Below are some benchmark results which show the potential benfit of this patch. The netperf test has 500 instances of netperf TCP_RR test with 1 byte req. and resp. The RPC test is an request/response test similar in structure to netperf RR test ith 100 threads on each host, but does more work in userspace that netperf. e1000e on 8 core Intel No RFS or RPS 104K tps at 30% CPU No RFS (best RPS config): 290K tps at 63% CPU RFS 303K tps at 61% CPU RPC test tps CPU% 50/90/99% usec latency Latency StdDev No RFS/RPS 103K 48% 757/900/3185 4472.35 RPS only: 174K 73% 415/993/2468 491.66 RFS 223K 73% 379/651/1382 315.61 Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-16packet : remove init_net restrictionDaniel Lezcano
The af_packet protocol is used by Perl to do ioctls as reported by Stephane Riviere: "Net::RawIP relies on SIOCGIFADDR et SIOCGIFHWADDR to get the IP and MAC addresses of the network interface." But in a new network namespace these ioctl fail because it is disabled for a namespace different from the init_net_ns. These two lines should not be there as af_inet and af_packet are namespace aware since a long time now. I suppose we forget to remove these lines because we sent the af_packet first, before af_inet was supported. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Reported-by: Stephane Riviere <stephane.riviere@regis-dgac.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-16cfg80211: Avoid sending IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE events with NULL ↵Nishant Sarmukadam
event body In a scenario, where a cfg80211 driver (station mode) does not send assoc request and assoc response IEs in cfg80211_connect_result after a successful association to an AP, cfg80211 sends IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE to the user space application with NULL data. This can cause an issue at the event recipient. An example of this is when cfg80211 sends IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE events with NULL event body to wpa_supplicant. The wpa_supplicant overwrites the assoc request and assoc response IEs for this station with NULL data. If the association is WPA/WPA2, the wpa_supplicant is not able to generate EAPOL handshake messages, since the IEs are NULL. With the patch, req_ie and resp_ie will be NULL by avoiding the assignment if the driver has not sent the IEs to cfg80211. The event sending code sends the events only if resp_ie and req_ie are not NULL. This will ensure that the events are not sent with NULL event body. Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-15ipv6: fix the comment of ip6_xmit()Shan Wei
ip6_xmit() is used by upper transport protocol. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-15net: replace ipfragok with skb->local_dfShan Wei
As Herbert Xu said: we should be able to simply replace ipfragok with skb->local_df. commit f88037(sctp: Drop ipfargok in sctp_xmit function) has droped ipfragok and set local_df value properly. The patch kills the ipfragok parameter of .queue_xmit(). Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-15ipv6: cancel to setting local_df in ip6_xmit()Shan Wei
commit f88037(sctp: Drop ipfargok in sctp_xmit function) has droped ipfragok and set local_df value properly. So the change of commit 77e2f1(ipv6: Fix ip6_xmit to send fragments if ipfragok is true) is not needed. So the patch remove them. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-15net/l2tp/l2tp_debugfs.c: Convert NIPQUAD to %pI4Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-15Merge branch 'for-davem' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2010-04-15ip: Fix ip_dev_loopback_xmit()Eric Dumazet
Eric Paris got following trace with a linux-next kernel [ 14.203970] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: avahi-daemon/2093 [ 14.204025] caller is netif_rx+0xfa/0x110 [ 14.204035] Call Trace: [ 14.204064] [<ffffffff81278fe5>] debug_smp_processor_id+0x105/0x110 [ 14.204070] [<ffffffff8142163a>] netif_rx+0xfa/0x110 [ 14.204090] [<ffffffff8145b631>] ip_dev_loopback_xmit+0x71/0xa0 [ 14.204095] [<ffffffff8145b892>] ip_mc_output+0x192/0x2c0 [ 14.204099] [<ffffffff8145d610>] ip_local_out+0x20/0x30 [ 14.204105] [<ffffffff8145d8ad>] ip_push_pending_frames+0x28d/0x3d0 [ 14.204119] [<ffffffff8147f1cc>] udp_push_pending_frames+0x14c/0x400 [ 14.204125] [<ffffffff814803fc>] udp_sendmsg+0x39c/0x790 [ 14.204137] [<ffffffff814891d5>] inet_sendmsg+0x45/0x80 [ 14.204149] [<ffffffff8140af91>] sock_sendmsg+0xf1/0x110 [ 14.204189] [<ffffffff8140dc6c>] sys_sendmsg+0x20c/0x380 [ 14.204233] [<ffffffff8100ad82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b While current linux-2.6 kernel doesnt emit this warning, bug is latent and might cause unexpected failures. ip_dev_loopback_xmit() runs in process context, preemption enabled, so must call netif_rx_ni() instead of netif_rx(), to make sure that we process pending software interrupt. Same change for ip6_dev_loopback_xmit() Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-15Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/ipmr-2.6
2010-04-15Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
2010-04-15ipv4: ipmr: fix NULL pointer deref during unres queue destructionPatrick McHardy
Fix an oversight in ipmr_destroy_unres() - the net pointer is unconditionally initialized to NULL, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference later on. Fix by adding a net pointer to struct mr_table and using it in ipmr_destroy_unres(). Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>