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Alexander Duyck 4a3c6433e4 igb: don't read eicr when responding to legacy interrupts
The interrupt handler was reading eicr and then doing nothing with the
result.  I have removed the variable and the register read since they
provide no value to the legacy interrupt handler.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:13 -08:00
Alexander Duyck 28b0759c22 igb: remove unnecessary adapter->hw calls when just hw-> will do.
There were several spots in the code making calls to adapter->hw when they
could have just been accessing hw-> directly.  I cleaned up the spots where
this was visibly apparent.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07 02:43:13 -08:00
Alexander Duyck 8a900862a2 igb: rename igb_update_mc_addr_list_82575 to not include the 82575
There isn't much point in having the _82575 hanging off the end of this
function since there aren't any other version of this function running
around within this driver.  This also allows for a bit of whitespace
cleanup due to a shorter function name.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:12 -08:00
Alexander Duyck 4b1a987736 igb: remove redundant timer updates and cleanup watchdog_task
The igb watchdog task is modifying the watchdog timer twice duing a single
run.  It only needs to be called once to reschedule itself for 2 seconds from
the last time it ran.

In addition I removed the allocation of the mac_info structure since it is
only called twice and is easier to access via the e1000_hw struct.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:10 -08:00
Alexander Duyck eebbbdba5e igb: cleanup igb_netpoll to be more friendly with napi & GRO
This patch cleans up igb_netpoll so that it is more friendly with both the
current napi and newly introduced GRO features.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:09 -08:00
Alexander Duyck dda0e0834c igb: add counter for dma out of sync errors
Add a counter for dma out of sync errors reported via interrupt.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:08 -08:00
Alexander Duyck 2753f4cebf igb: update testing done by ethtool
Most of the code for the testing has pretty much become stale at this point
and is need of update.  This update just streamlines most of the code,
widens the range of interrupt testing.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:08 -08:00
Alexander Duyck 7d8eb29e6e igb: update feature flags supported in ethtool
This driver is currently using HW_CSUM which is not correct.  Update this
to use the IP_CSUM and IPV6_CSUM flags.  In addition consolidate the TSO
flag setting.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:07 -08:00
Alexander Duyck 0fbe67af3e igb: remove unused rx_hdr_split statistic
This statistic is not used and so it is safe to remove

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:07 -08:00
Alexander Duyck 312c75aee7 igb: rename nvm ops
All of the nvm ops have the tag _nvm added to the end which is redundant
since all of the calls to the ops have to go through the nvm ops struct
anyway.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:06 -08:00
Alexander Duyck a8d2a0c27f igb: rename phy ops
This patch renames write_phy_reg to write_reg and read_phy_reg to read_reg.
It seems redundant to call out phy in an operation that is part of the
phy_ops struct.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:05 -08:00
Alexander Duyck 40a70b3889 igb: read address from RAH/RAL instead of from EEPROM
Instead of pulling the mac address from EEPROM it is easier to pull it from
the RAL/RAH registers and then just copy it into the address structures.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:05 -08:00
Alexander Duyck c1889bfe68 igb: make dev_spec a union and remove dynamic allocation
This patch makes dev_spec a union and simplifies it so that it does not
require dynamic allocation and freeing in the driver.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:04 -08:00
Alexander Duyck 4d6b725e4d igb: add link check function
Add a link check function to contain all activities related to verifying
that the link is present.  The current approach is a bit cludgy and needs
to be cleaned up.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:04 -08:00
Alexander Duyck aed5dec370 igb: remove check for needing an io port
Since igb supports only pci-e nics and there is no plan to support any
legacy pci parts in the driver there isn't really much need for checking to
see if an io port is needed.

In the unlikely event that we do begin supporting legacy pci parts then we
can see about adding this code back to the driver.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:03 -08:00
Alexander Duyck 83b7180d0d igb: move initialization of number of queues into set_interrupt_capability
This patch moves the initialization of the number of queues into
set_interrupt_capability.  This allows the number of queues to increase in
the unlikely event that the system initially fails to allocate enough msi-x
interrupts, does a suspend/resume, and then can allocate enough interrupts
on resume.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:02 -08:00
Alexander Duyck db76176215 igb: move setting of buffsz out of repeated path in alloc_rx_buffers
buffsz is being repeatedly set when allocaing buffers.  Since this value
should only need to be set once in the function I am moving it out of the
looped portion of the path.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:02 -08:00
Alexander Duyck 69d3ca5357 igb: optimize/refactor receive path
While cleaning up the skb_over panic with small frames I found there was
room for improvement in the ordering of operations within the rx receive
flow.  These changes will place the prefetch for the next descriptor to a
point earlier in the rx path.

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>
2009-02-07 02:43:01 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr 3e450669cc ixgbe: Fix a set_num_queues() bug that can result in num_(r|t)x_queues = 0
Now that our set_num_queues() routines for each feature are re-entrant, and
can be called at any point, they shouldn't zero out the feature's indices
or mask bits.  Subsequent calls into those routines for those features can
result in zero Rx and Tx queues being assigned, causing a panic later in
driver reinitialization.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07 02:16:59 -08:00
Ayaz Abdulla 2813ddd1bf forcedeth: bump version to 63
This patch bumps the version up to 63

Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07 00:25:18 -08:00
Ayaz Abdulla daa91a9d24 forcedeth: recover error support
This patch adds another type of recoverable error to the driver. It also
modifies the sequence for recovery to include a mac reset and clearing
of interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07 00:25:00 -08:00
Ayaz Abdulla c1086cda7d forcedeth: ethtool tx csum fix
This patch fixes the ethtool tx csum "set" command. A recent patch was
submitted to remove HW_CSUM and use IP_CSUM instead. Therefore, the
corresponding ethtool command should also be modified.

Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07 00:24:39 -08:00
Ayaz Abdulla b6e4405bf7 forcedeth: msi interrupt fix
This patch fixes an issue with the suspend/resume cycle with msi
interrupts. See bugzilla number 10487 for more details. The fix is to
re-setup a private msi pci config offset field.

Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07 00:24:15 -08:00
Ayaz Abdulla cac1c52c36 forcedeth: mgmt unit interface
This patch updates the logic used to communicate with the mgmt unit. It
also adds a version check for a newer mgmt unit firmware.

* Fixed udelay to schedule_timeout_uninterruptible

Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07 00:23:57 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 1f0fa15432 net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c: some common code found
$ diff-funcs xs_udp_write_space net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c xs_tcp_write_space
 --- net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c:xs_udp_write_space()
 +++ net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c:xs_tcp_write_space()
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
- * xs_udp_write_space - callback invoked when socket buffer space
+ * xs_tcp_write_space - callback invoked when socket buffer space
  *                             becomes available
  * @sk: socket whose state has changed
  *
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
  * progress, otherwise we'll waste resources thrashing kernel_sendmsg
  * with a bunch of small requests.
  */
-static void xs_udp_write_space(struct sock *sk)
+static void xs_tcp_write_space(struct sock *sk)
 {
 	read_lock(&sk->sk_callback_lock);

-	/* from net/core/sock.c:sock_def_write_space */
-	if (sock_writeable(sk)) {
+	/* from net/core/stream.c:sk_stream_write_space */
+	if (sk_stream_wspace(sk) >= sk_stream_min_wspace(sk)) {
 		struct socket *sock;
 		struct rpc_xprt *xprt;


$ codiff net/sunrpc/xprtsock.o net/sunrpc/xprtsock.o.new
net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c:
  xs_tcp_write_space | -163
  xs_udp_write_space | -163
 2 functions changed, 326 bytes removed

net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c:
  xs_write_space | +179
 1 function changed, 179 bytes added

net/sunrpc/xprtsock.o.new:
 3 functions changed, 179 bytes added, 326 bytes removed, diff: -147

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 23:48:33 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen b5f348e5a4 ipv6/addrconf: common code located
$ codiff net/ipv6/addrconf.o net/ipv6/addrconf.o.new
net/ipv6/addrconf.c:
 addrconf_notify | -267
1 function changed, 267 bytes removed

net/ipv6/addrconf.c:
 add_addr |  +86
1 function changed, 86 bytes added

net/ipv6/addrconf.o.new:
2 functions changed, 86 bytes added, 267 bytes removed, diff: -181

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 23:48:01 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen d73f08011b ipv6/ndisc: join error paths
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 23:47:37 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 910d30b704 ax25: more common return path joining
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 23:47:14 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 69ebbf58f3 ipmr: use goto to common label instead of opencoding
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 23:46:51 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr 12207e498b ixgbe: Defeature Tx Head writeback
Tx Head writeback is causing multi-microsecond stalls on PCIe chipsets, due
to partial cacheline writebacks.  Removing this feature removes these
issues.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 21:47:24 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr 0ecc061d19 ixgbe: Update flow control state machine in link setup
The flow control handling is overly complicated and difficult to maintain.
This patch cleans up the flow control handling and makes it much more
explicit.  It also adds 1G flow control autonegotiation, for 1G copper
links, 1G KX links, and 1G fiber links.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 21:46:54 -08:00
Yinghai Lu 394827913e forcedeth: enable msix to default
Impact: change default

msix and napic can work again

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 01:31:12 -08:00
Yinghai Lu 033e97b24a forcedeth: ck804 and mcp55 doesn't need timerirq
Impact: cleanup

so get less irq.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 01:30:56 -08:00
Yinghai Lu 0335ef5d59 forcedeth: disable irq at first before schedule rx
Impact: clean up

schedule it later after disable it.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 01:30:36 -08:00
Yinghai Lu 79d30a581f forcedeth: don't clear nic_poll_irq too early
Impact: fix bug

for msix, we still need that flag to enable irq respectively

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 01:30:01 -08:00
Yinghai Lu ddb213f076 forcedeth: make msi-x different name for rx-tx
Impact: make /proc/interrupts could show more info which irq is rx or other for msi-x

add three name fields for rx, tx, other

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 01:29:23 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso ff491a7334 netlink: change return-value logic of netlink_broadcast()
Currently, netlink_broadcast() reports errors to the caller if no
messages at all were delivered:

1) If, at least, one message has been delivered correctly, returns 0.
2) Otherwise, if no messages at all were delivered due to skb_clone()
   failure, return -ENOBUFS.
3) Otherwise, if there are no listeners, return -ESRCH.

With this patch, the caller knows if the delivery of any of the
messages to the listeners have failed:

1) If it fails to deliver any message (for whatever reason), return
   -ENOBUFS.
2) Otherwise, if all messages were delivered OK, returns 0.
3) Otherwise, if no listeners, return -ESRCH.

In the current ctnetlink code and in Netfilter in general, we can add
reliable logging and connection tracking event delivery by dropping the
packets whose events were not successfully delivered over Netlink. Of
course, this option would be settable via /proc as this approach reduces
performance (in terms of filtered connections per seconds by a stateful
firewall) but providing reliable logging and event delivery (for
conntrackd) in return.

This patch also changes some clients of netlink_broadcast() that
may report ENOBUFS errors via printk. This error handling is not
of any help. Instead, the userspace daemons that are listening to
those netlink messages should resync themselves with the kernel-side
if they hit ENOBUFS.

BTW, netlink_broadcast() clients include those that call
cn_netlink_send(), nlmsg_multicast() and genlmsg_multicast() since they
internally call netlink_broadcast() and return its error value.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:56:36 -08:00
Alex Chiang 612e244c12 e1000e: normalize usage of serdes_has_link
Cosmetic change to use struct e1000_mac_info.serdes_has_link
consistently as the 'bool' that it's declared as.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <Jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:55:45 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr 34b0368c68 ixgbe: Display EEPROM version in ethtool -i queries
Currently ixgbe does not display the EEPROM version in ethtool -i, where
other drivers do.  The EEPROM version is located at offset 0x29.  This
patch adds support to display it.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:54:42 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr 3201d3130e ixgbe: Update link setup code to better support autonegotiation of speed
The current code has some flaws in it when performing autonegotiation,
especially on KX/KX4 links.  This patch updates the code to better handle
the autonegotiation states on link setup.  The patch also removes a redundant
link configuration call on driver load, and moves link configuration to
the ->open() path.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:54:21 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr bc97114d3f ixgbe: Refactor set_num_queues() and cache_ring_register()
The current code to determine the number of queues the device will want
on driver initialization is ugly and difficult to maintain.  It also
doesn't allow for easy expansion for future features or future hardware.
This patch refactors these routines, and make them easier to deal with.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:53:59 -08:00
Herbert Xu 56035022d8 gro: Fix frag_list merging on imprecisely split packets
The previous fix ad0f990444 (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>
2009-02-05 21:26:52 -08:00
Graf Yang fe2918b098 net: fix some trailing whitespaces
Signed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 21:26:19 -08:00
Herbert Xu 33dccbb050 tun: Limit amount of queued packets per device
Unlike a normal socket path, the tuntap device send path does
not have any accounting.  This means that the user-space sender
may be able to pin down arbitrary amounts of kernel memory by
continuing to send data to an end-point that is congested.

Even when this isn't an issue because of limited queueing at
most end points, this can also be a problem because its only
response to congestion is packet loss.  That is, when those
local queues at the end-point fills up, the tuntap device will
start wasting system time because it will continue to send
data there which simply gets dropped straight away.

Of course one could argue that everybody should do congestion
control end-to-end, unfortunately there are people in this world
still hooked on UDP, and they don't appear to be going away
anywhere fast.  In fact, we've always helped them by performing
accounting in our UDP code, the sole purpose of which is to
provide congestion feedback other than through packet loss.

This patch attempts to apply the same bandaid to the tuntap device.
It creates a pseudo-socket object which is used to account our
packets just as a normal socket does for UDP.  Of course things
are a little complex because we're actually reinjecting traffic
back into the stack rather than out of the stack.

The stack complexities however should have been resolved by preceding
patches.  So this one can simply start using skb_set_owner_w.

For now the accounting is essentially disabled by default for
backwards compatibility.  In particular, we set the cap to INT_MAX.
This is so that existing applications don't get confused by the
sudden arrival EAGAIN errors.

In future we may wish (or be forced to) do this by default.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 21:25:32 -08:00
Herbert Xu 4cc7f68d65 net: Reexport sock_alloc_send_pskb
The function sock_alloc_send_pskb is completely useless if not
exported since most of the code in it won't be used as is.  In
fact, this code has already been duplicated in the tun driver.

Now that we need accounting in the tun driver, we can in fact
use this function as is.  So this patch marks it for export again.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:55:54 -08:00
Herbert Xu 9a279bcbe3 net: Partially allow skb destructors to be used on receive path
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>
2009-02-04 16:55:27 -08:00
David S. Miller 7870389478 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-02-04 16:52:41 -08:00
David S. Miller 005c79b3d4 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-02-04 16:51:58 -08:00
Andy Fleming 4d7902f22b gianfar: Fix stashing support
Stashing is only supported on the 85xx (e500-based) SoCs.  The 83xx and 86xx
chips don't have a proper cache for this.  U-Boot has been updated to add
stashing properties to the device tree nodes of gianfar devices on 85xx.  So
now we modify Linux to keep stashing off unless those properties are there.

Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:43:44 -08:00
Andy Fleming 0fd56bb5be gianfar: Add support for skb recycling
Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:43:16 -08:00