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Eric Dumazet 3183606469 [NETFILTER] ip_tables: NUMA-aware allocation
Part of a performance problem with ip_tables is that memory allocation
is not NUMA aware, but 'only' SMP aware (ie each CPU normally touch
separate cache lines)

Even with small iptables rules, the cost of this misplacement can be
high on common workloads.  Instead of using one vmalloc() area
(located in the node of the iptables process), we now allocate an area
for each possible CPU, using vmalloc_node() so that memory should be
allocated in the CPU's node if possible.

Port to arp_tables and ip6_tables by Harald Welte.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:29 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger df3271f336 [TCP] BIC: CUBIC window growth (2.0)
Replace existing BIC version 1.1 with new version 2.0.
The main change is to replace the window growth function
with a cubic function as described in:
  http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:28 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 05d054503a [TCP] BIC: spelling and whitespace
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:27 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 018da8f44c [TCP] BIC: remove low utilization code.
The latest BICTCP patch at:
http://www.csc.ncsu.edu:8080/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/index_files/Page546.htm

disables the low_utilization feature of BICTCP because it doesn't work
in some cases. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:26 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 9e999993c7 [XFRM]: Handle DCCP in xfrm{4,6}_decode_session
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-19 14:03:46 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 0476f171af [NETFILTER]: Fix NAT init order
As noticed by Phil Oester, the GRE NAT protocol helper is initialized
before the NAT core, which makes registration fail.

Change the linking order to make NAT be initialized first.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-19 13:53:09 -08:00
Herbert Xu 1542272a60 [GRE]: Fix hardware checksum modification
The skb_postpull_rcsum introduced a bug to the checksum modification.
Although the length pulled is offset bytes, the origin of the pulling
is the GRE header, not the IP header.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-14 12:55:24 -08:00
Marcus Sundberg 2f9616d4c4 [NETFILTER]: ip_nat_tftp: Fix expectation NAT
When a TFTP client is SNATed so that the port is also changed, the
port is never changed back for the expected connection.

Signed-off-by: Marcus Sundberg <marcus@ingate.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-12 15:02:48 -08:00
David S. Miller dfb4b9dceb [TCP] Vegas: timestamp before clone
We have to store the congestion control timestamp on the SKB before we
clone it, not after.  Else we get no timestamping information at all.

tcp_transmit_skb() has been reworked so that we can do the timestamp
still in one spot, instead of at all the call sites.

Problem discovered, and initial fix, from Tom Young
<tyo@ee.unimelb.edu.au>.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-06 16:24:52 -08:00
Thomas Young 0d7bef600a [TCP] Vegas: Remove extra call to tcp_vegas_rtt_calc
Remove unneeded call to tcp_vegas_rtt_calc. The more accurate
microsecond value has already been registered prior to calling
tcp_vegas_cong_avoid.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Young <tyo@ee.mu.oz.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-06 16:17:11 -08:00
Thomas Young 5b49561381 [TCP] Vegas: stop resetting rtt every ack
Move the resetting of rtt measurements to inside the once per RTT
block of code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Young <tyo@ee.mu.oz.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-06 16:16:34 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 2fdf1faa8e [NETFILTER]: Don't use conntrack entry after dropping the reference
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:38:16 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 266c854348 [NETFILTER]: Fix unbalanced read_unlock_bh in ctnetlink
NFA_NEST calls NFA_PUT which jumps to nfattr_failure if the skb has no
room left. We call read_unlock_bh at nfattr_failure for the NFA_PUT inside
the locked section, so move NFA_NEST inside the locked section too.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:37:33 -08:00
Patrick McHardy a795756333 [NETFILTER]: Mark ctnetlink as EXPERIMENTAL
Should have been marked EXPERIMENTAL from the beginning, as the current
bunch of fixes show.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:36:25 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 0be7fa92ca [NETFILTER]: Fix CTA_PROTO_NUM attribute size in ctnetlink
CTA_PROTO_NUM is a u_int8_t.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:34:51 -08:00
Patrick McHardy afe5c6bb03 [NETFILTER]: Fix ip_conntrack_flush abuse in ctnetlink
ip_conntrack_flush() used to be part of ip_conntrack_cleanup(), which needs
to drop _all_ references on module unload. Table flushed using ctnetlink
just needs to clean the table and doesn't need to flush the event cache or
wait for any references attached to skbs. Move everything but pure table
flushing back to ip_conntrack_cleanup().

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:33:50 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 8d1ca69984 [NETFILTER]: Fix incorrect argument to ip_nat_initialized() in ctnetlink
ip_nat_initialized() takes enum ip_nat_manip_type as it's second argument,
not a hook number.

Noticed and initial patch by Marcus Sundberg <marcus@ingate.com>.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:32:14 -08:00
Herbert Xu 86c8f9d158 [IPV4] Fix EPROTONOSUPPORT error in inet_create
There is a coding error in inet_create that causes it to always return
ESOCKTNOSUPPORT.  It should return EPROTONOSUPPORT when there are
protocols registered for a given socket type but none of them match
the requested protocol.

This is based on a patch by Jayachandran C.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-02 20:43:26 -08:00
David Stevens 24c6927505 [IGMP]: workaround for IGMP v1/v2 bug
From: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>

As explained at:

	http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~krishna/igmp_dos/

With IGMP version 1 and 2 it is possible to inject a unicast
report to a client which will make it ignore multicast
reports sent later by the router.

The fix is to only accept the report if is was sent to a
multicast or unicast address.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-02 20:32:59 -08:00
Thomas Graf ea86575eaf [NETLINK]: Fix processing of fib_lookup netlink messages
The receive path for fib_lookup netlink messages is lacking sanity
checks for header and payload and is thus vulnerable to malformed
netlink messages causing illegal memory references.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-01 14:30:00 -08:00
Phil Oester 2a43c4af3f [NETFILTER]: Fix recent match jiffies wrap mismatches
Around jiffies wrap time (i.e. within first 5 mins after boot), recent
match rules which contain both --seconds and --hitcount arguments
experience false matches.

This is because the last_pkts array is filled with zeros on creation, and
when comparing 'now' to 0 (+ --seconds argument), time_before_eq thinks it
has found a hit.

Below patch adds a break if the packet value is zero.  This has the
unfortunate side effect of causing mismatches if a packet was received
when jiffies really was equal to zero.  The odds of that happening are
slim compared to the problems caused by not adding the break however.
Plus, the author used this same method just below, so it is "good enough".

This fixes netfilter bugs #383 and #395.

Signed-off-by: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-01 14:29:24 -08:00
Jozsef Kadlecsik 73f306024c [NETFILTER]: Ignore ACKs ACKs on half open connections in TCP conntrack
Mounting NFS file systems after a (warm) reboot could take a long time if
firewalling and connection tracking was enabled.

The reason is that the NFS clients tends to use the same ports (800 and
counting down). Now on reboot, the server would still have a TCB for an
existing TCP connection client:800 -> server:2049. The client sends a
SYN from port 800 to server:2049, which elicits an ACK from the server.
The firewall on the client drops the ACK because (from its point of
view) the connection is still in half-open state, and it expects to see
a SYNACK.

The client will eventually time out after several minutes.

The following patch corrects this, by accepting ACKs on half open
connections as well.

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-01 14:28:58 -08:00
Adrian Bunk d127e94a5c [NETFILTER] ipv4: small cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_flush() -> ip_conntrack_flush(void)

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-29 16:28:18 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 4b30b1c6a3 [IPV4]: make two functions static
This patch makes two needlessly global functions static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-29 16:27:20 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 9b5b5cff9a [NET]: Add const markers to various variables.
the patch below marks various variables const in net/; the goal is to
move them to the .rodata section so that they can't false-share
cachelines with things that get written to, as well as potentially
helping gcc a bit with optimisations.  (these were found using a gcc
patch to warn about such variables)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-29 16:21:38 -08:00
Mike Stroyan 18955cfcb2 [IPV4] tcp/route: Another look at hash table sizes
The tcp_ehash hash table gets too big on systems with really big memory.
It is worse on systems with pages larger than 4KB.  It wastes memory that
could be better used.  It also makes the netstat command slow because reading
/proc/net/tcp and /proc/net/tcp6 needs to go through the full hash table.

  The default value should not be larger for larger page sizes.  It seems
that the effect of page size is an unintended error dating back a long
time.  I also wonder if the default value really should be a larger
fraction of memory for systems with more memory.  While systems with
really big ram can afford more space for hash tables, it is not clear to
me that they benefit from increasing the allocation ratio for this table.

  The amount of memory allocated is determined by net/ipv4/tcp.c:tcp_init and
mm/page_alloc.c:alloc_large_system_hash.

tcp_init calls alloc_large_system_hash passing parameters-
    bucketsize=sizeof(struct tcp_ehash_bucket)
    numentries=thash_entries
    scale=(num_physpages >= 128 * 1024) ? (25-PAGE_SHIFT) : (27-PAGE_SHIFT)
    limit=0

On i386, PAGE_SHIFT is 12 for a page size of 4K
On ia64, PAGE_SHIFT defaults to 14 for a page size of 16K

The num_physpages test above makes the allocation take a larger fraction
of the total memory on systems with larger memory.  The threshold size
for a i386 system is 512MB.  For an ia64 system with 16KB pages the
threshold is 2GB.

For smaller memory systems-
On i386, scale = (27 - 12) = 15
On ia64, scale = (27 - 14) = 13
For larger memory systems-
On i386, scale = (25 - 12) = 13
On ia64, scale = (25 - 14) = 11

  For the rest of this discussion, I'll just track the larger memory case.

  The default behavior has numentries=thash_entries=0, so the allocated
size is determined by either scale or by the default limit of 1/16 of
total memory.

In alloc_large_system_hash-
|	numentries = (flags & HASH_HIGHMEM) ? nr_all_pages : nr_kernel_pages;
|	numentries += (1UL << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT)) - 1;
|	numentries >>= 20 - PAGE_SHIFT;
|	numentries <<= 20 - PAGE_SHIFT;

  At this point, numentries is pages for all of memory, rounded up to the
nearest megabyte boundary.

|	/* limit to 1 bucket per 2^scale bytes of low memory */
|	if (scale > PAGE_SHIFT)
|		numentries >>= (scale - PAGE_SHIFT);
|	else
|		numentries <<= (PAGE_SHIFT - scale);

On i386, numentries >>= (13 - 12), so numentries is 1/8196 of
bytes of total memory.
On ia64, numentries <<= (14 - 11), so numentries is 1/2048 of
bytes of total memory.

|        log2qty = long_log2(numentries);
|
|        do {
|                size = bucketsize << log2qty;

bucketsize is 16, so size is 16 times numentries, rounded
down to a power of two.

On i386, size is 1/512 of bytes of total memory.
On ia64, size is 1/128 of bytes of total memory.

For smaller systems the results are
On i386, size is 1/2048 of bytes of total memory.
On ia64, size is 1/512 of bytes of total memory.

  The large page effect can be removed by just replacing
the use of PAGE_SHIFT with a constant of 12 in the calls to
alloc_large_system_hash.  That makes them more like the other uses of
that function from fs/inode.c and fs/dcache.c

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-29 16:12:55 -08:00
Benoit Boissinot de919820cf [NETFILTER]: ip_conntrack_netlink.c needs linux/interrupt.h
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c: In function 'ctnetlink_dump_table':
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c:409: warning: implicit declaration of function 'local_bh_disable'
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c:427: warning: implicit declaration of function 'local_bh_enable'

Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-23 19:03:46 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 00cb277a4a [NETFILTER] ctnetlink: Fix refcount leak ip_conntrack/nat_proto
Remove proto == NULL checking since ip_conntrack_[nat_]proto_find_get
always returns a valid pointer.

Fix missing ip_conntrack_proto_put in some paths.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-22 14:54:34 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim 0ff60a4567 [IPV4]: Fix secondary IP addresses after promotion
This patch fixes the problem with promoting aliases when:
a) a single primary and > 1 secondary addresses
b) multiple primary addresses each with at least one secondary address

Based on earlier efforts from Brian Pomerantz <bapper@piratehaven.org>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> and Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-22 14:47:37 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 2b8f2ff6f4 [NETFILTER]: fixed dependencies between modules related with ip_conntrack
- IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK is bool and depends on only IP_NF_CONNTRACK
  which is tristate. If a variable depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK and
  doesn't care about IP_NF_CONNTRACK, it can be y. This must be avoided.
- IP_NF_CT_ACCT has same problem.
- IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP also depends on IP_NF_MANGLE.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-20 21:09:55 -08:00
Patrick McHardy c9e53cbe7a [FIB_TRIE]: Don't show local table in /proc/net/route output
Don't show local table to behave similar to fib_hash.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-20 21:09:00 -08:00
Harald Welte 2fce76afdb [NETFILTER] ip_conntrack: fix ftp/irc/tftp helpers on ports >= 32768
Since we've converted the ftp/irc/tftp helpers to use the new
module_parm_array() some time ago, we ware accidentially using signed data
types - thus preventing those modules from being used on ports >= 32768.

This patch fixes it by using 'ushort' module parameters.

Thanks to Jan Nijs for reporting this bug.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-17 15:06:47 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger bd6af700a7 [TCP]: TCP highspeed build error
There is a compile error that crept in with the last patch of
TCP patches.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-17 14:11:18 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai e7c8a41e81 [IPV4,IPV6]: replace handmade list with hlist in IPv{4,6} reassembly
Both of ipq and frag_queue have *next and **prev, and they can be replaced
with hlist. Thanks Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo for the suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-16 12:55:37 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 31f3426904 [TCP]: More spelling fixes.
From Joe Perches

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-15 15:17:10 -08:00
Harald Welte 37d2e7a20d [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: unconditionally require CAP_NET_ADMIN
This patch unconditionally requires CAP_NET_ADMIN for all nfnetlink
messages.  It also removes the per-message cap_required field, since all
existing subsystems use CAP_NET_ADMIN for all their messages anyway.

Patrick McHardy owes me a beer if we ever need to re-introduce this.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:24:59 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 5655820852 [NETFILTER] ctnetlink: More thorough size checking of attributes
Add missing size checks. Thanks Patrick McHardy for the hint.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:22:11 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso dbd36ea496 [NETFILTER] ctnetlink: use size_t to make gcc-4.x happy
Make gcc-4.x happy. Use size_t instead of int. Thanks to Patrick McHardy
for the hint.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:21:01 -08:00
Vlad Drukker a2d7222f0f [NETFILTER] {ip,nf}_conntrack TCP: Accept SYN+PUSH like SYN
Some devices (e.g. Qlogic iSCSI HBA hardware like QLA4010 up to firmware
3.0.0.4) initiates TCP with SYN and PUSH flags set.

The Linux TCP/IP stack deals fine with that, but the connection tracking
code doesn't.

This patch alters TCP connection tracking to accept SYN+PUSH as a valid
flag combination.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Drukker <vlad@storewiz.com>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-12 12:13:14 -08:00
Jeff Garzik c050970a25 [PATCH] TCP: fix vegas build
Recent TCP changes broke the build.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-11 09:21:28 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 6a438bbe68 [TCP]: speed up SACK processing
Use "hints" to speed up the SACK processing. Various forms 
of this have been used by TCP developers (Web100, STCP, BIC)
to avoid the 2x linear search of outstanding segments.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:14:59 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger caa20d9abe [TCP]: spelling fixes
Minor spelling fixes for TCP code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:13:47 -08:00
John Heffner 326f36e9e7 [TCP]: receive buffer growth limiting with mixed MTU
This is a patch for discussion addressing some receive buffer growing issues.
This is partially related to the thread "Possible BUG in IPv4 TCP window
handling..." last week.

Specifically it addresses the problem of an interaction between rcvbuf
moderation (receiver autotuning) and rcv_ssthresh.  The problem occurs when
sending small packets to a receiver with a larger MTU.  (A very common case I
have is a host with a 1500 byte MTU sending to a host with a 9k MTU.)  In
such a case, the rcv_ssthresh code is targeting a window size corresponding
to filling up the current rcvbuf, not taking into account that the new rcvbuf
moderation may increase the rcvbuf size.

One hunk makes rcv_ssthresh use tcp_rmem[2] as the size target rather than
rcvbuf.  The other changes the behavior when it overflows its memory bounds
with in-order data so that it tries to grow rcvbuf (the same as with
out-of-order data).

These changes should help my problem of mixed MTUs, and should also help the
case from last week's thread I think.  (In both cases though you still need
tcp_rmem[2] to be set much larger than the TCP window.)  One question is if
this is too aggressive at trying to increase rcvbuf if it's under memory
stress.

Orignally-from: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:11:48 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 9772efb970 [TCP]: Appropriate Byte Count support
This is an updated version of the RFC3465 ABC patch originally
for Linux 2.6.11-rc4 by Yee-Ting Li. ABC is a way of counting
bytes ack'd rather than packets when updating congestion control.

The orignal ABC described in the RFC applied to a Reno style
algorithm. For advanced congestion control there is little
change after leaving slow start.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:09:53 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 7faffa1c7f [TCP]: add tcp_slow_start helper
Move all the code that does linear TCP slowstart to one
inline function to ease later patch to add ABC support.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:07:24 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 2d2abbab63 [TCP]: simplify microsecond rtt sampling
Simplify the code that comuputes microsecond rtt estimate used
by TCP Vegas. Move the callback out of the RTT sampler and into
the end of the ack cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 16:56:12 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger f4805eded7 [TCP]: fix congestion window update when using TSO deferal
TCP peformance with TSO over networks with delay is awful.
On a 100Mbit link with 150ms delay, we get 4Mbits/sec with TSO and
50Mbits/sec without TSO.

The problem is with TSO, we intentionally do not keep the maximum
number of packets in flight to fill the window, we hold out to until 
we can send a MSS chunk. But, we also don't update the congestion window 
unless we have filled, as per RFC2861.

This patch replaces the check for the congestion window being full
with something smarter that accounts for TSO.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 16:53:30 -08:00
Herbert Xu fb286bb299 [NET]: Detect hardware rx checksum faults correctly
Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete
which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults.  If that happens,
it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack
trace with the device name.  In future it can turn off RX checksum.

I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to
use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the
exceptions of:

* Those places where checksums are done bit by bit.  These will call
netdev_rx_csum_fault directly.

* The following have not been completely checked/converted:

ipmr
ip_vs
netfilter
dccp

This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger
and David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 13:01:24 -08:00
Thomas Graf a8f74b2288 [NETLINK]: Make netlink_callback->done() optional
Most netlink families make no use of the done() callback, making
it optional gets rid of all unnecessary dummy implementations.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 9fb9cbb108 [NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.
The existing connection tracking subsystem in netfilter can only
handle ipv4.  There were basically two choices present to add
connection tracking support for ipv6.  We could either duplicate all
of the ipv4 connection tracking code into an ipv6 counterpart, or (the
choice taken by these patches) we could design a generic layer that
could handle both ipv4 and ipv6 and thus requiring only one sub-protocol
(TCP, UDP, etc.) connection tracking helper module to be written.

In fact nf_conntrack is capable of working with any layer 3
protocol.

The existing ipv4 specific conntrack code could also not deal
with the pecularities of doing connection tracking on ipv6,
which is also cured here.  For example, these issues include:

1) ICMPv6 handling, which is used for neighbour discovery in
   ipv6 thus some messages such as these should not participate
   in connection tracking since effectively they are like ARP
   messages

2) fragmentation must be handled differently in ipv6, because
   the simplistic "defrag, connection track and NAT, refrag"
   (which the existing ipv4 connection tracking does) approach simply
   isn't feasible in ipv6

3) ipv6 extension header parsing must occur at the correct spots
   before and after connection tracking decisions, and there were
   no provisions for this in the existing connection tracking
   design

4) ipv6 has no need for stateful NAT

The ipv4 specific conntrack layer is kept around, until all of
the ipv4 specific conntrack helpers are ported over to nf_conntrack
and it is feature complete.  Once that occurs, the old conntrack
stuff will get placed into the feature-removal-schedule and we will
fully kill it off 6 months later.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-11-09 16:38:16 -08:00