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David S. Miller 67ddc87f16 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
	drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/pcie.c
	net/ipv6/sit.c

The SIT driver conflict consists of a bug fix being done by hand
in 'net' (missing u64_stats_init()) whilst in 'net-next' a helper
was created (netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats()) which takes care of this.

The two wireless conflicts were overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-05 20:32:02 -05:00
Eric Dumazet 363ec39235 net: add skb_mstamp infrastructure
ktime_get() is too expensive on some cases, and we'd like to get
usec resolution timestamps in TCP stack.

This patch adds a light weight facility using a combination of
local_clock() and jiffies samples.

Instead of :

        u64 t0, t1;

        t0 = ktime_get();
        // stuff
        t1 = ktime_get();
        delta_us = ktime_us_delta(t1, t0);

use :
        struct skb_mstamp t0, t1;

        skb_mstamp_get(&t0);
        // stuff
        skb_mstamp_get(&t1);
        delta_us = skb_mstamp_us_delta(&t1, &t0);

Note : local_clock() might have a (bounded) drift between cpus.

Do not use this infra in place of ktime_get() without understanding the
issues.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Larry Brakmo <brakmo@google.com>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-26 17:08:39 -05:00
David S. Miller 1f5a7407e4 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next
Steffen Klassert says:

====================
1) Introduce skb_to_sgvec_nomark function to add further data to the sg list
   without calling sg_unmark_end first. Needed to add extended sequence
   number informations. From Fan Du.

2) Add IPsec extended sequence numbers support to the Authentication Header
   protocol for ipv4 and ipv6. From Fan Du.

3) Make the IPsec flowcache namespace aware, from Fan Du.

4) Avoid creating temporary SA for every packet when no key manager is
   registered. From Horia Geanta.

5) Support filtering of SA dumps to show only the SAs that match a
   given filter. From Nicolas Dichtel.

6) Remove caching of xfrm_policy_sk_bundles. The cached socket policy bundles
   are never used, instead we create a new cache entry whenever xfrm_lookup()
   is called on a socket policy. Most protocols cache the used routes to the
   socket, so this caching is not needed.

7)  Fix a forgotten SADB_X_EXT_FILTER length check in pfkey, from Nicolas
    Dichtel.

8) Cleanup error handling of xfrm_state_clone.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-24 18:13:33 -05:00
Jiri Kosina d4263348f7 Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2014-02-20 14:54:28 +01:00
David S. Miller 2e99c07fbe Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf
Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter fixes for net

The following patchset contains Netfilter fixes for your net tree,
they are:

* Fix nf_trace in nftables if XT_TRACE=n, from Florian Westphal.

* Don't use the fast payload operation in nf_tables if the length is
  not power of 2 or it is not aligned, from Nikolay Aleksandrov.

* Fix missing break statement the inet flavour of nft_reject, which
  results in evaluating IPv4 packets with the IPv6 evaluation routine,
  from Patrick McHardy.

* Fix wrong kconfig symbol in nft_meta to match the routing realm,
  from Paul Bolle.

* Allocate the NAT null binding when creating new conntracks via
  ctnetlink to avoid that several packets race at initializing the
  the conntrack NAT extension, original patch from Florian Westphal,
  revisited version from me.

* Fix DNAT handling in the snmp NAT helper, the same handling was being
  done for SNAT and DNAT and 2.4 already contains that fix, from
  Francois-Xavier Le Bail.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-19 13:12:53 -05:00
Masanari Iida e227867f12 treewide: Fix typo in Documentation/DocBook
This patch fix spelling typo in Documentation/DocBook.
It is because .html and .xml files are generated by make htmldocs,
I have to fix a typo within the source files.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-02-19 14:58:17 +01:00
Florian Westphal 478b360a47 netfilter: nf_tables: fix nf_trace always-on with XT_TRACE=n
When using nftables with CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_TRACE=n, we get
lots of "TRACE: filter:output:policy:1 IN=..." warnings as several
places will leave skb->nf_trace uninitialised.

Unlike iptables tracing functionality is not conditional in nftables,
so always copy/zero nf_trace setting when nftables is enabled.

Move this into __nf_copy() helper.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2014-02-17 11:20:12 +01:00
Florian Westphal fe6cc55f3a net: ip, ipv6: handle gso skbs in forwarding path
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner reported problems when the forwarding link path
has a lower mtu than the incoming one if the inbound interface supports GRO.

Given:
Host <mtu1500> R1 <mtu1200> R2

Host sends tcp stream which is routed via R1 and R2.  R1 performs GRO.

In this case, the kernel will fail to send ICMP fragmentation needed
messages (or pkt too big for ipv6), as GSO packets currently bypass dstmtu
checks in forward path. Instead, Linux tries to send out packets exceeding
the mtu.

When locking route MTU on Host (i.e., no ipv4 DF bit set), R1 does
not fragment the packets when forwarding, and again tries to send out
packets exceeding R1-R2 link mtu.

This alters the forwarding dstmtu checks to take the individual gso
segment lengths into account.

For ipv6, we send out pkt too big error for gso if the individual
segments are too big.

For ipv4, we either send icmp fragmentation needed, or, if the DF bit
is not set, perform software segmentation and let the output path
create fragments when the packet is leaving the machine.
It is not 100% correct as the error message will contain the headers of
the GRO skb instead of the original/segmented one, but it seems to
work fine in my (limited) tests.

Eric Dumazet suggested to simply shrink mss via ->gso_size to avoid
sofware segmentation.

However it turns out that skb_segment() assumes skb nr_frags is related
to mss size so we would BUG there.  I don't want to mess with it considering
Herbert and Eric disagree on what the correct behavior should be.

Hannes Frederic Sowa notes that when we would shrink gso_size
skb_segment would then also need to deal with the case where
SKB_MAX_FRAGS would be exceeded.

This uses sofware segmentation in the forward path when we hit ipv4
non-DF packets and the outgoing link mtu is too small.  Its not perfect,
but given the lack of bug reports wrt. GRO fwd being broken this is a
rare case anyway.  Also its not like this could not be improved later
once the dust settles.

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Reported-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-13 17:17:02 -05:00
Fan Du 25a91d8d91 skbuff: Introduce skb_to_sgvec_nomark to map skb without mark new end
As compared with skb_to_sgvec, skb_to_sgvec_nomark only map skb to given sglist
without mark the sg which contain last skb data as the end. So the caller can
mannipulate sg list as will when padding new data after the first call without
calling sg_unmark_end to expend sg list.

Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2014-02-12 07:02:09 +01:00
Florian Westphal de960aa9ab net: add and use skb_gso_transport_seglen()
This moves part of Eric Dumazets skb_gso_seglen helper from tbf sched to
skbuff core so it may be reused by upcoming ip forwarding path patch.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-26 22:38:23 -08:00
Tom Herbert 57bdf7f42b net: Add skb_get_hash_raw
Function to just return skb->rxhash without checking to see if it needs
to be recomputed.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-16 16:22:54 -08:00
Paul Durrant ed1f50c3a7 net: add skb_checksum_setup
This patch adds a function to set up the partial checksum offset for IP
packets (and optionally re-calculate the pseudo-header checksum) into the
core network code.
The implementation was previously private and duplicated between xen-netback
and xen-netfront, however it is not xen-specific and is potentially useful
to any network driver.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-14 14:24:19 -08:00
Daniel Borkmann fd44b93cb5 net: skbuff: const-ify casts in skb_queue_* functions
We should const-ify comparisons on skb_queue_* inline helper
functions as their parameters are const as well, so lets not
drop that.

Suggested-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-07 18:34:00 -05:00
David S. Miller 39b6b2992f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch
Jesse Gross says:

====================
[GIT net-next] Open vSwitch

Open vSwitch changes for net-next/3.14. Highlights are:
 * Performance improvements in the mechanism to get packets to userspace
   using memory mapped netlink and skb zero copy where appropriate.
 * Per-cpu flow stats in situations where flows are likely to be shared
   across CPUs. Standard flow stats are used in other situations to save
   memory and allocation time.
 * A handful of code cleanups and rationalization.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-06 19:48:38 -05:00
Thomas Graf af2806f8f9 net: Export skb_zerocopy() to zerocopy from one skb to another
Make the skb zerocopy logic written for nfnetlink queue available for
use by other modules.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-01-06 15:52:42 -08:00
David S. Miller 56a4342dfe Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov_pf.c
	net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
	net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c

ipv6 tunnel statistic bug fixes conflicting with consolidation into
generic sw per-cpu net stats.

qlogic conflict between queue counting bug fix and the addition
of multiple MAC address support.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-06 17:37:45 -05:00
David S. Miller 73409f3b0f net: Add some clarification to skb_tx_timestamp() comment.
We've seen so many instances of people invoking skb_tx_timestamp()
after the device already has been given the packet, that it's worth
being a little bit more verbose and explicit in this comment.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-27 13:04:33 -05:00
Daniel Borkmann 78ea85f17b net: skbuff: improve comment on checksumming
It can be a bit confusing when looking for checksumming flags that
the actual comment for this resides elsewhere further below in the
header file.

Thus, bring the documentation where we define these flags, and
slightly improve the doc text to make it a bit more clear/readable.

Also, whitespace-align values of the define while at it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-19 14:51:32 -05:00
Timo Teräs 0e3da5bb8d ip_gre: fix msg_name parsing for recvfrom/recvmsg
ipgre_header_parse() needs to parse the tunnel's ip header and it
uses mac_header to locate the iphdr. This got broken when gre tunneling
was refactored as mac_header is no longer updated to point to iphdr.
Introduce skb_pop_mac_header() helper to do the mac_header assignment
and use it in ipgre_rcv() to fix msg_name parsing.

Bug introduced in commit c544193214 (GRE: Refactor GRE tunneling code.)

Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-18 17:44:33 -05:00
Tom Herbert 3df7a74e79 net: Add utility function to copy skb hash
Adds skb_copy_hash to copy rxhash and l4_rxhash from one skb to another.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-17 16:36:22 -05:00
Tom Herbert 09323cc479 net: Add function to set the rxhash
The function skb_set_rxash was added for drivers to call to set
the rxhash in an skb. The type of hash is also specified as
a parameter (L2, L3, L4, or unknown type).

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-17 16:36:22 -05:00
Tom Herbert 7539fadcb8 net: Add utility functions to clear rxhash
In several places 'skb->rxhash = 0' is being done to clear the
rxhash value in an skb.  This does not clear l4_rxhash which could
still be set so that the rxhash wouldn't be recalculated on subsequent
call to skb_get_rxhash.  This patch adds an explict function to clear
all the rxhash related information in the skb properly.

skb_clear_hash_if_not_l4 clears the rxhash only if it is not marked as
l4_rxhash.

Fixed up places where 'skb->rxhash = 0' was being called.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-17 16:36:21 -05:00
Tom Herbert 3958afa1b2 net: Change skb_get_rxhash to skb_get_hash
Changing name of function as part of making the hash in skbuff to be
generic property, not just for receive path.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-17 16:36:21 -05:00
Daniel Borkmann 4262e5ccbb net: dev: move inline skb_needs_linearize helper to header
As we need it elsewhere, move the inline helper function of
skb_needs_linearize() over to skbuff.h include file. While
at it, also convert the return to 'bool' instead of 'int'
and add a proper kernel doc.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-09 20:23:33 -05:00
David S. Miller 7ce5a27f2e Revert "net: Handle CHECKSUM_COMPLETE more adequately in pskb_trim_rcsum()."
This reverts commit 018c5bba05.

It causes regressions for people using chips driven by the sungem
driver.  Suspicion is that the skb->csum value isn't being adjusted
properly.

The change also has a bug in that if __pskb_trim() fails, we'll leave
a corruped skb->csum value in there.  We would really need to revert
it to it's original value in that case.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-02 17:26:05 -05:00
David S. Miller 018c5bba05 net: Handle CHECKSUM_COMPLETE more adequately in pskb_trim_rcsum().
Currently pskb_trim_rcsum() just balks on CHECKSUM_COMPLETE packets
and remarks them as CHECKSUM_NONE, forcing a software checksum
validation later.

We have all of the mechanics available to fixup the skb->csum value,
even for complicated fragmented packets, via the helpers
skb_checksum() and csum_sub().

So just use them.

Based upon a suggestion by Herbert Xu.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-15 21:11:16 -05:00
Jiri Pirko 6aafeef03b netfilter: push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs
Pushing original fragments through causes several problems. For example
for matching, frags may not be matched correctly. Take following
example:

<example>
On HOSTA do:
ip6tables -I INPUT -p icmpv6 -j DROP
ip6tables -I INPUT -p icmpv6 -m icmp6 --icmpv6-type 128 -j ACCEPT

and on HOSTB you do:
ping6 HOSTA -s2000    (MTU is 1500)

Incoming echo requests will be filtered out on HOSTA. This issue does
not occur with smaller packets than MTU (where fragmentation does not happen)
</example>

As was discussed previously, the only correct solution seems to be to use
reassembled skb instead of separete frags. Doing this has positive side
effects in reducing sk_buff by one pointer (nfct_reasm) and also the reams
dances in ipvs and conntrack can be removed.

Future plan is to remove net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c
entirely and use code in net/ipv6/reassembly.c instead.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-11 00:19:35 -05:00
Mathias Krause bc32383cd6 net: skbuff - kernel-doc fixes
Use "@" to refer to parameters in the kernel-doc description. According
to Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt "&" shall be used to refer to
structures only.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <mathias.krause@secunet.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-07 19:28:59 -05:00
Mathias Krause 0c7ddf36c2 net: move pskb_put() to core code
This function has usage beside IPsec so move it to the core skbuff code.
While doing so, give it some documentation and change its return type to
'unsigned char *' to be in line with skb_put().

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <mathias.krause@secunet.com>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-07 19:28:58 -05:00
Jason Wang f8e617e100 net: introduce skb_coalesce_rx_frag()
Sometimes we need to coalesce the rx frags to avoid frag list. One example is
virtio-net driver which tries to use small frags for both MTU sized packet and
GSO packet. So this patch introduce skb_coalesce_rx_frag() to do this.

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Dalton <mwdalton@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-04 20:03:52 -05:00
Daniel Borkmann 2817a336d4 net: skb_checksum: allow custom update/combine for walking skb
Currently, skb_checksum walks over 1) linearized, 2) frags[], and
3) frag_list data and calculats the one's complement, a 32 bit
result suitable for feeding into itself or csum_tcpudp_magic(),
but unsuitable for SCTP as we're calculating CRC32c there.

Hence, in order to not re-implement the very same function in
SCTP (and maybe other protocols) over and over again, use an
update() + combine() callback internally to allow for walking
over the skb with different algorithms.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-03 23:04:57 -05:00
Eric Dumazet 61c1db7fae ipv6: sit: add GSO/TSO support
Now ipv6_gso_segment() is stackable, its relatively easy to
implement GSO/TSO support for SIT tunnels

Performance results, when segmentation is done after tunnel
device (as no NIC is yet enabled for TSO SIT support) :

Before patch :

lpq84:~# ./netperf -H 2002:af6:1153:: -Cc
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from ::0 (::) port 0 AF_INET6 to 2002:af6:1153:: () port 0 AF_INET6
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

 87380  16384  16384    10.00      3168.31   4.81     4.64     2.988   2.877

After patch :

lpq84:~# ./netperf -H 2002:af6:1153:: -Cc
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from ::0 (::) port 0 AF_INET6 to 2002:af6:1153:: () port 0 AF_INET6
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

 87380  16384  16384    10.00      5525.00   7.76     5.17     2.763   1.840

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-21 18:49:39 -04:00
Eric Dumazet cb32f511a7 ipip: add GSO/TSO support
Now inet_gso_segment() is stackable, its relatively easy to
implement GSO/TSO support for IPIP

Performance results, when segmentation is done after tunnel
device (as no NIC is yet enabled for TSO IPIP support) :

Before patch :

lpq83:~# ./netperf -H 7.7.9.84 -Cc
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.9.84 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

 87380  16384  16384    10.00      3357.88   5.09     3.70     2.983   2.167

After patch :

lpq83:~# ./netperf -H 7.7.9.84 -Cc
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.9.84 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

 87380  16384  16384    10.00      7710.19   4.52     6.62     1.152   1.687

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-19 19:36:19 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 3347c96029 ipv4: gso: make inet_gso_segment() stackable
In order to support GSO on IPIP, we need to make
inet_gso_segment() stackable.

It should not assume network header starts right after mac
header.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-19 19:36:18 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 400dfd3ae8 net: refactor sk_page_frag_refill()
While working on virtio_net new allocation strategy to increase
payload/truesize ratio, we found that refactoring sk_page_frag_refill()
was needed.

This patch splits sk_page_frag_refill() into two parts, adding
skb_page_frag_refill() which can be used without a socket.

While we are at it, add a minimum frag size of 32 for
sk_page_frag_refill()

Michael will either use netdev_alloc_frag() from softirq context,
or skb_page_frag_refill() from process context in refill_work()
 (GFP_KERNEL allocations)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Michael Dalton <mwdalton@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-18 00:08:51 -04:00
Denis Kirjanov 0b3d8e087b include/linux/skbuff.h: move CONFIG_XFRM check inside the skb_sec_path()
And thus we have only one function definition

Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-02 16:50:40 -04:00
David S. Miller 4fbef95af4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be.h
	drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_bus.h
	include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_synproxy.h
	include/net/secure_seq.h

The conflicts are of two varieties:

1) Conflicts with Joe Perches's 'extern' removal from header file
   function declarations.  Usually it's an argument signature change
   or a function being added/removed.  The resolutions are trivial.

2) Some overlapping changes in qmi_wwan.c and be.h, one commit adds
   a new value, another changes an existing value.  That sort of
   thing.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-01 17:06:14 -04:00
Nicolas Dichtel 4590672357 skbuff: size of hole is wrong in a comment
Since commit c93bdd0e03 ("netvm: allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC
reserves"), hole size is one bit less than what is written in the comment.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-30 22:32:39 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 36a8f39e05 net: skb_is_gso_v6() requires skb_is_gso()
bnx2x makes a dangerous use of skb_is_gso_v6().

It should first make sure skb is a gso packet

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-30 22:09:00 -07:00
Joe Perches 7965bd4d71 net.h/skbuff.h: Remove extern from function prototypes
There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern
in the kernel sources.  Standardize on not using extern for
function prototypes.

Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern.
extern is assumed by the compiler.  Its use is as unnecessary as
using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2013-09-26 14:53:19 -07:00
Nicolas Dichtel 8b27f27797 skb: allow skb_scrub_packet() to be used by tunnels
This function was only used when a packet was sent to another netns. Now, it can
also be used after tunnel encapsulation or decapsulation.

Only skb_orphan() should not be done when a packet is not crossing netns.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-04 00:27:25 -04:00
Florian Fainelli bc6fc9fa0e net: fix comment typo for __skb_alloc_pages()
The name of the function in the comment is __skb_alloc_page() while we
are actually commenting __skb_alloc_pages(). Fix this typo and make it
a valid kernel doc comment.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-03 22:17:40 -04:00
Jason Wang c3bdeb5c7c net: move zerocopy_sg_from_iovec() to net/core/datagram.c
To let it be reused and reduce code duplication. Also document this function.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-07 16:52:34 -07:00
David S. Miller 0e76a3a587 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Merge net into net-next to setup some infrastructure Eric
Dumazet needs for usbnet changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-03 21:36:46 -07:00
Cong Wang e0d1095ae3 net: rename CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL to CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL
Eliezer renames several *ll_poll to *busy_poll, but forgets
CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL, so in case of confusion, rename it too.

Cc: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-01 15:11:17 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 376c7311bd net: add a temporary sanity check in skb_orphan()
David suggested to add a BUG_ON() to catch if some layer
sets skb->sk pointer without a corresponding destructor.

As skb can sit in a queue, it's mandatory to make sure the
socket cannot disappear, and it's usually done by taking a
reference on the socket, then releasing it from the skb
destructor.

This patch is a follow-up to commit c34a761231
("net: skb_orphan() changes") and will be reverted after
catching all possible offenders if any.

Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-01 12:49:28 -07:00
Eric Dumazet c34a761231 net: skb_orphan() changes
It is illegal to set skb->sk without corresponding destructor.

Its therefore safe for skb_orphan() to not clear skb->sk if
skb->destructor is not set.

Also avoid clearing skb->destructor if already NULL.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-31 15:24:08 -07:00
David S. Miller 0c1072ae02 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
	net/ipv4/gre.c

The GRE conflict is between a bug fix (kfree_skb --> kfree_skb_list)
and the splitting of the gre.c code into seperate files.

The FEC conflict was two sets of changes adding ethtool support code
in an "!CONFIG_M5272" CPP protected block.

Finally the sh_eth.c conflict was between one commit add bits set
in the .eesr_err_check mask whilst another commit removed the
.tx_error_check member and assignments.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-03 14:55:13 -07:00
Nicolas Dichtel 621e84d6f3 dev: introduce skb_scrub_packet()
The goal of this new function is to perform all needed cleanup before sending
an skb into another netns.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-27 22:29:05 -07:00
Eric Dumazet bd8a7036c0 gre: fix a possible skb leak
commit 68c3316311 ("v4 GRE: Add TCP segmentation offload for GRE")
added a possible skb leak, because it frees only the head of segment
list, in case a skb_linearize() call fails.

This patch adds a kfree_skb_list() helper to fix the bug.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-25 16:07:44 -07:00
Cong Wang 30f3a40f9a net: remove last caller of skb_tail_offset() and itself
Similar to the following commits:

commit 00f97da17a (netpoll: fix position of network header)
commit 525cebedb3 (pktgen: Fix position of ip and udp header)

using skb_tail_offset() seems not correct since the offset
is based on head pointer.

With the last caller removed, skb_tail_offset() can be killed
finally.

Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkmann@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-10 22:22:23 -07:00
Eliezer Tamir 0602129286 net: add low latency socket poll
Adds an ndo_ll_poll method and the code that supports it.
This method can be used by low latency applications to busy-poll
Ethernet device queues directly from the socket code.
sysctl_net_ll_poll controls how many microseconds to poll.
Default is zero (disabled).
Individual protocol support will be added by subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-10 21:22:35 -07:00
David S. Miller 6bc19fb82d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Merge 'net' bug fixes into 'net-next' as we have patches
that will build on top of them.

This merge commit includes a change from Emil Goode
(emilgoode@gmail.com) that fixes a warning that would
have been introduced by this merge.  Specifically it
fixes the pingv6_ops method ipv6_chk_addr() to add a
"const" to the "struct net_device *dev" argument and
likewise update the dummy_ipv6_chk_addr() declaration.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-05 16:37:30 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar 1e2bd517c1 udp6: Fix udp fragmentation for tunnel traffic.
udp6 over GRE tunnel does not work after to GRE tso changes. GRE
tso handler passes inner packet but keeps track of outer header
start in SKB_GSO_CB(skb)->mac_offset.  udp6 fragment need to
take care of outer header, which start at the mac_offset, while
adding fragment header.
This bug is introduced by commit 68c3316311 (GRE: Add TCP
segmentation offload for GRE).

Reported-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dkravkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-31 17:06:07 -07:00
Cong Wang 35d0461061 net: clean up skb headers code
commit 1a37e412a0 (net: Use 16bits for *_headers
fields of struct skbuff) converts skb->*_header to u16,
some #if NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSET are now useless,
and to be safe, we could just use "X = (typeof(X)) ~0U;"
as suggested by David.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-31 17:02:47 -07:00
Simon Horman 7cc4619005 net, ipv4, ipv6: Correct assignment of skb->network_header to skb->tail
This corrects an regression introduced by "net: Use 16bits for *_headers
fields of struct skbuff" when NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSET is not set. In
that case skb->tail will be a pointer however skb->network_header is now
an offset.

This patch corrects the problem by adding a wrapper to return skb tail as
an offset regardless of the value of NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSET. It seems
that skb->tail that this offset may be more than 64k and some care has been
taken to treat such cases as an error.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-28 23:49:07 -07:00
Simon Horman 0d89d2035f MPLS: Add limited GSO support
In the case where a non-MPLS packet is received and an MPLS stack is
added it may well be the case that the original skb is GSO but the
NIC used for transmit does not support GSO of MPLS packets.

The aim of this code is to provide GSO in software for MPLS packets
whose skbs are GSO.

SKB Usage:

When an implementation adds an MPLS stack to a non-MPLS packet it should do
the following to skb metadata:

* Set skb->inner_protocol to the old non-MPLS ethertype of the packet.
  skb->inner_protocol is added by this patch.

* Set skb->protocol to the new MPLS ethertype of the packet.

* Set skb->network_header to correspond to the
  end of the L3 header, including the MPLS label stack.

I have posted a patch, "[PATCH v3.29] datapath: Add basic MPLS support to
kernel" which adds MPLS support to the kernel datapath of Open vSwtich.
That patch sets the above requirements in datapath/actions.c:push_mpls()
and was used to exercise this code.  The datapath patch is against the Open
vSwtich tree but it is intended that it be added to the Open vSwtich code
present in the mainline Linux kernel at some point.

Features:

I believe that the approach that I have taken is at least partially
consistent with the handling of other protocols.  Jesse, I understand that
you have some ideas here.  I am more than happy to change my implementation.

This patch adds dev->mpls_features which may be used by devices
to advertise features supported for MPLS packets.

A new NETIF_F_MPLS_GSO feature is added for devices which support
hardware MPLS GSO offload.  Currently no devices support this
and MPLS GSO always falls back to software.

Alternate Implementation:

One possible alternate implementation is to teach netif_skb_features()
and skb_network_protocol() about MPLS, in a similar way to their
understanding of VLANs. I believe this would avoid the need
for net/mpls/mpls_gso.c and in particular the calls to
__skb_push() and __skb_push() in mpls_gso_segment().

I have decided on the implementation in this patch as it should
not introduce any overhead in the case where mpls_gso is not compiled
into the kernel or inserted as a module.

MPLS GSO suggested by Jesse Gross.
Based in part on "v4 GRE: Add TCP segmentation offload for GRE"
by Pravin B Shelar.

Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-27 22:50:59 -07:00
Simon Horman 1a37e412a0 net: Use 16bits for *_headers fields of struct skbuff
In order to mitigate ongoing incresase in the size of struct skbuff
use 16 bit integer offsets rather than pointers for inner_*_headers.

This appears to reduce the size of struct skbuff from 0xd0 to 0xc0
bytes on x86_64 with the following all unset.

	CONFIG_XFRM
	CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK
	CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MODULE
	NET_SKBUFF_NF_DEFRAG_NEEDED
	CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER
	CONFIG_NET_SCHED
	CONFIG_IPV6_NDISC_NODETYPE
	CONFIG_NET_DMA
	CONFIG_NETWORK_SECMARK

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-27 22:50:59 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 0ebd0ac5ff net: add function to allocate sk_buff head without data area
Add a function to allocate a sk_buff head without any data. This will
be used by memory mapped netlink to attach data from the mmaped area
to the skb.

Additionally change skb_release_all() to check whether the skb has a
data area to allow the skb destructor to clear the data pointer in case
only a head has been allocated.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-19 14:57:57 -04:00
Patrick McHardy 86a9bad3ab net: vlan: add protocol argument to packet tagging functions
Add a protocol argument to the VLAN packet tagging functions. In case of HW
tagging, we need that protocol available in the ndo_start_xmit functions,
so it is stored in a new field in the skb. The new field fits into a hole
(on 64 bit) and doesn't increase the sks's size.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-19 14:46:06 -04:00
David S. Miller d978a6361a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/nfc/microread/mei.c
	net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c

Pull in 'net' to get Eric Biederman's AF_UNIX fix, upon which
some cleanups are going to go on-top.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-07 18:37:01 -04:00
Patrick McHardy 124dff01af netfilter: don't reset nf_trace in nf_reset()
Commit 130549fe ("netfilter: reset nf_trace in nf_reset") added code
to reset nf_trace in nf_reset(). This is wrong and unnecessary.

nf_reset() is used in the following cases:

- when passing packets up the the socket layer, at which point we want to
  release all netfilter references that might keep modules pinned while
  the packet is queued. nf_trace doesn't matter anymore at this point.

- when encapsulating or decapsulating IPsec packets. We want to continue
  tracing these packets after IPsec processing.

- when passing packets through virtual network devices. Only devices on
  that encapsulate in IPv4/v6 matter since otherwise nf_trace is not
  used anymore. Its not entirely clear whether those packets should
  be traced after that, however we've always done that.

- when passing packets through virtual network devices that make the
  packet cross network namespace boundaries. This is the only cases
  where we clearly want to reset nf_trace and is also what the
  original patch intended to fix.

Add a new function nf_reset_trace() and use it in dev_forward_skb() to
fix this properly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-05 15:38:10 -04:00
Julian Anastasov 932bc4d7a5 net: add skb_dst_set_noref_force
Rename skb_dst_set_noref to __skb_dst_set_noref and
add force flag as suggested by David Miller. The new wrapper
skb_dst_set_noref_force will force dst entries that are not
cached to be attached as skb dst without taking reference
as long as provided dst is reclaimed after RCU grace period.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off by: Hans Schillstrom <hans@schillstrom.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2013-04-02 00:22:53 +02:00
Ying Xue fbbdb8f096 net: fix compile error of implicit declaration of skb_probe_transport_header
The commit 40893fd(net: switch to use skb_probe_transport_header())
involes a new error accidently. When NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSE is
not enabled, below compile error happens:

  CC      net/packet/af_packet.o
  net/packet/af_packet.c: In function ‘packet_sendmsg_spkt’:
  net/packet/af_packet.c:1516:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘skb_probe_transport_header’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
  make[2]: *** [net/packet/af_packet.o] Error 1
  make[1]: *** [net/packet] Error 2
  make: *** [net] Error 2

As it seems skb_probe_transport_header() is not related to
NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSE, we should move the definition of
skb_probe_transport_header() out of scope of
NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSE macro.

Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-27 23:21:58 -04:00
Jason Wang 5203cd28db net: core: introduce skb_probe_transport_header()
Sometimes, we need probe and set the transport header for packets (e.g from
untrusted source). This patch introduces a new helper
skb_probe_transport_header() which tries to probe and set the l4 header through
skb_flow_dissect(), if not just set the transport header to the hint passed by
caller.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-27 12:48:31 -04:00
Gao feng 130549fed8 netfilter: reset nf_trace in nf_reset
We forgot to clear the nf_trace of sk_buff in nf_reset,
When we use veth device, this nf_trace information will
be leaked from one net namespace to another net namespace.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2013-03-25 14:21:23 +01:00
Daniel Borkmann f77668dc25 net: flow_dissector: add __skb_get_poff to get a start offset to payload
__skb_get_poff() returns the offset to the payload as far as it could
be dissected. The main user is currently BPF, so that we can dynamically
truncate packets without needing to push actual payload to the user
space and instead can analyze headers only.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-20 13:15:45 -04:00
David S. Miller 61816596d1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull in the 'net' tree to get Daniel Borkmann's flow dissector
infrastructure change.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-20 12:46:26 -04:00
Pavel Emelyanov cca7af3889 skb: Propagate pfmemalloc on skb from head page only
Hi.

I'm trying to send big chunks of memory from application address space via
TCP socket using vmsplice + splice like this

   mem = mmap(128Mb);
   vmsplice(pipe[1], mem); /* splice memory into pipe */
   splice(pipe[0], tcp_socket); /* send it into network */

When I'm lucky and a huge page splices into the pipe and then into the socket
_and_ client and server ends of the TCP connection are on the same host,
communicating via lo, the whole connection gets stuck! The sending queue
becomes full and app stops writing/splicing more into it, but the receiving
queue remains empty, and that's why.

The __skb_fill_page_desc observes a tail page of a huge page and erroneously
propagates its page->pfmemalloc value onto socket (the pfmemalloc on tail pages
contain garbage). Then this skb->pfmemalloc leaks through lo and due to the

    tcp_v4_rcv
    sk_filter
        if (skb->pfmemalloc && !sock_flag(sk, SOCK_MEMALLOC)) /* true */
            return -ENOMEM
        goto release_and_discard;

no packets reach the socket. Even TCP re-transmits are dropped by this, as skb
cloning clones the pfmemalloc flag as well.

That said, here's the proper page->pfmemalloc propagation onto socket: we
must check the huge-page's head page only, other pages' pfmemalloc and mapping
values do not contain what is expected in this place. However, I'm not sure
whether this fix is _complete_, since pfmemalloc propagation via lo also
oesn't look great.

Both, bit propagation from page to skb and this check in sk_filter, were
introduced by c48a11c7 (netvm: propagate page->pfmemalloc to skb), in v3.5 so
Mel and stable@ are in Cc.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-14 11:53:32 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 16fad69cfe tcp: fix skb_availroom()
Chrome OS team reported a crash on a Pixel ChromeBook in TCP stack :

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=182056

commit a21d45726a (tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and tx
path) did a poor choice adding an 'avail_size' field to skb, while
what we really needed was a 'reserved_tailroom' one.

It would have avoided commit 22b4a4f22d (tcp: fix retransmit of
partially acked frames) and this commit.

Crash occurs because skb_split() is not aware of the 'avail_size'
management (and should not be aware)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Mukesh Agrawal <quiche@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-14 11:49:45 -04:00
Pravin B Shelar 7313626745 tunneling: Add generic Tunnel segmentation.
Adds generic tunneling offloading support for IPv4-UDP based
tunnels.
GSO type is added to request this offload for a skb.
netdev feature NETIF_F_UDP_TUNNEL is added for hardware offloaded
udp-tunnel support. Currently no device supports this feature,
software offload is used.

This can be used by tunneling protocols like VXLAN.

CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-09 16:09:17 -05:00
Pravin B Shelar aefbd2b3c2 tunneling: Capture inner mac header during encapsulation.
This patch adds inner mac header. This will be used in next patch
to find tunner header length. Header len is required to copy tunnel
header to each gso segment.
This patch does not change any functionality.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-09 16:08:57 -05:00
Pravin B Shelar 68c3316311 v4 GRE: Add TCP segmentation offload for GRE
Following patch adds GRE protocol offload handler so that
skb_gso_segment() can segment GRE packets.
SKB GSO CB is added to keep track of total header length so that
skb_segment can push entire header. e.g. in case of GRE, skb_segment
need to push inner and outer headers to every segment.
New NETIF_F_GRE_GSO feature is added for devices which support HW
GRE TSO offload. Currently none of devices support it therefore GRE GSO
always fall backs to software GSO.

[ Compute pkt_len before ip_local_out() invocation. -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-15 15:17:11 -05:00
Pravin B Shelar 14bbd6a565 net: Add skb_unclone() helper function.
This function will be used in next GRE_GSO patch. This patch does
not change any functionality.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
2013-02-15 15:10:37 -05:00
Pravin B Shelar c9af6db4c1 net: Fix possible wrong checksum generation.
Patch cef401de7b (net: fix possible wrong checksum
generation) fixed wrong checksum calculation but it broke TSO by
defining new GSO type but not a netdev feature for that type.
net_gso_ok() would not allow hardware checksum/segmentation
offload of such packets without the feature.

Following patch fixes TSO and wrong checksum. This patch uses
same logic that Eric Dumazet used. Patch introduces new flag
SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG if at least one frag can be modified by
the user. but SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG flag is kept in skb shared
info tx_flags rather than gso_type.

tx_flags is better compared to gso_type since we can have skb with
shared frag without gso packet. It does not link SHARED_FRAG to
GSO, So there is no need to define netdev feature for this.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-13 13:30:10 -05:00
Alexander Duyck e5e6730588 skbuff: Move definition of NETDEV_FRAG_PAGE_MAX_SIZE
In order to address the fact that some devices cannot support the full 32K
frag size we need to have the value accessible somewhere so that we can use it
to do comparisons against what the device can support.  As such I am moving
the values out of skbuff.c and into skbuff.h.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-08 17:33:35 -05:00
Eric Dumazet cef401de7b net: fix possible wrong checksum generation
Pravin Shelar mentioned that GSO could potentially generate
wrong TX checksum if skb has fragments that are overwritten
by the user between the checksum computation and transmit.

He suggested to linearize skbs but this extra copy can be
avoided for normal tcp skbs cooked by tcp_sendmsg().

This patch introduces a new SKB_GSO_SHARED_FRAG flag, set
in skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type if at least one frag can be
modified by the user.

Typical sources of such possible overwrites are {vm}splice(),
sendfile(), and macvtap/tun/virtio_net drivers.

Tested:

$ netperf -H 7.7.8.84
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to
7.7.8.84 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 87380  16384  16384    10.00    3959.52

$ netperf -H 7.7.8.84 -t TCP_SENDFILE
TCP SENDFILE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.8.84 ()
port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 87380  16384  16384    10.00    3216.80

Performance of the SENDFILE is impacted by the extra allocation and
copy, and because we use order-0 pages, while the TCP_STREAM uses
bigger pages.

Reported-by: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-28 00:27:15 -05:00
Eric Dumazet fda55eca5a net: introduce skb_transport_header_was_set()
We have skb_mac_header_was_set() helper to tell if mac_header
was set on a skb. We would like the same for transport_header.

__netif_receive_skb() doesn't reset the transport header if already
set by GRO layer.

Note that network stacks usually reset the transport header anyway,
after pulling the network header, so this change only allows
a followup patch to have more precise qdisc pkt_len computation
for GSO packets at ingress side.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-08 17:51:54 -08:00
Joseph Gasparakis 6a674e9c75 net: Add support for hardware-offloaded encapsulation
This patch adds support in the kernel for offloading in the NIC Tx and Rx
checksumming for encapsulated packets (such as VXLAN and IP GRE).

For Tx encapsulation offload, the driver will need to set the right bits
in netdev->hw_enc_features. The protocol driver will have to set the
skb->encapsulation bit and populate the inner headers, so the NIC driver will
use those inner headers to calculate the csum in hardware.

For Rx encapsulation offload, the driver will need to set again the
skb->encapsulation flag and the skb->ip_csum to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.
In that case the protocol driver should push the decapsulated packet up
to the stack, again with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. In ether case, the protocol
driver should set the skb->encapsulation flag back to zero. Finally the
protocol driver should have NETIF_F_RXCSUM flag set in its features.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Gasparakis <joseph.gasparakis@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-09 00:20:28 -05:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 25121173f7 skb: api to report errors for zero copy skbs
Orphaning frags for zero copy skbs needs to allocate data in atomic
context so is has a chance to fail. If it does we currently discard
the skb which is safe, but we don't report anything to the caller,
so it can not recover by e.g. disabling zero copy.

Add an API to free skb reporting such errors: this is used
by tun in case orphaning frags fails.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-02 21:29:57 -04:00
Michael S. Tsirkin e19d6763cc skb: report completion status for zero copy skbs
Even if skb is marked for zero copy, net core might still decide
to copy it later which is somewhat slower than a copy in user context:
besides copying the data we need to pin/unpin the pages.

Add a parameter reporting such cases through zero copy callback:
if this happens a lot, device can take this into account
and switch to copying in user context.

This patch updates all users but ignores the passed value for now:
it will be used by follow-up patches.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-02 21:29:57 -04:00
Willem de Bruijn ecd5cf5dc5 net: compute skb->rxhash if nic hash may be 3-tuple
Network device drivers can communicate a Toeplitz hash in skb->rxhash,
but devices differ in their hashing capabilities. All compute a 5-tuple
hash for TCP over IPv4, but for other connection-oriented protocols,
they may compute only a 3-tuple. This breaks RPS load balancing, e.g.,
for TCP over IPv6 flows. Additionally, for GRE and other tunnels,
the kernel computes a 5-tuple hash over the inner packet if possible,
but devices do not.

This patch recomputes the rxhash in software in all cases where it
cannot be certain that a 5-tuple was computed. Device drivers can avoid
recomputation by setting the skb->l4_rxhash flag.

Recomputing adds cycles to each packet when RPS is enabled or the
packet arrives over a tunnel. A comparison of 200x TCP_STREAM between
two servers running unmodified netnext with rxhash computation
in hardware vs software (using ethtool -K eth0 rxhash [on|off]) shows
how much time is spent in __skb_get_rxhash in this worst case:

     0.03%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __skb_get_rxhash
     0.03%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __skb_get_rxhash
     0.05%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __skb_get_rxhash

With 200x TCP_RR it increases to

     0.10%          netperf  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __skb_get_rxhash
     0.10%          netperf  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __skb_get_rxhash
     0.10%          netperf  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __skb_get_rxhash

I considered having the patch explicitly skips recomputation when it knows
that it will not improve the hash (TCP over IPv4), but that conditional
complicates code without saving many cycles in practice, because it has
to take place after flow dissector.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-31 13:56:40 -04:00
Eric Dumazet acb600def2 net: remove skb recycling
Over time, skb recycling infrastructure got litle interest and
many bugs. Generic rx path skb allocation is now using page
fragments for efficient GRO / TCP coalescing, and recyling
a tx skb for rx path is not worth the pain.

Last identified bug is that fat skbs can be recycled
and it can endup using high order pages after few iterations.

With help from Maxime Bizon, who pointed out that commit
87151b8689 (net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom)
introduced this regression for recycled skbs.

Instead of fixing this bug, lets remove skb recycling.

Drivers wanting really hot skbs should use build_skb() anyway,
to allocate/populate sk_buff right before netif_receive_skb()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 47061bc440 net: skb_share_check() should use consume_skb()
In order to avoid false drop_monitor indications, we should
call consume_skb() if skb_clone() was successful.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-04 01:27:57 -07:00
Mel Gorman 0614002bb5 netvm: propagate page->pfmemalloc from skb_alloc_page to skb
The skb->pfmemalloc flag gets set to true iff during the slab allocation
of data in __alloc_skb that the the PFMEMALLOC reserves were used.  If
page splitting is used, it is possible that pages will be allocated from
the PFMEMALLOC reserve without propagating this information to the skb.
This patch propagates page->pfmemalloc from pages allocated for fragments
to the skb.

It works by reintroducing and expanding the skb_alloc_page() API to take
an skb.  If the page was allocated from pfmemalloc reserves, it is
automatically copied.  If the driver allocates the page before the skb, it
should call skb_propagate_pfmemalloc() after the skb is allocated to
ensure the flag is copied properly.

Failure to do so is not critical.  The resulting driver may perform slower
if it is used for swap-over-NBD or swap-over-NFS but it should not result
in failure.

[davem@davemloft.net: API rename and consistency]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
Mel Gorman c48a11c7ad netvm: propagate page->pfmemalloc to skb
The skb->pfmemalloc flag gets set to true iff during the slab allocation
of data in __alloc_skb that the the PFMEMALLOC reserves were used.  If the
packet is fragmented, it is possible that pages will be allocated from the
PFMEMALLOC reserve without propagating this information to the skb.  This
patch propagates page->pfmemalloc from pages allocated for fragments to
the skb.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
Mel Gorman c93bdd0e03 netvm: allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves
Change the skb allocation API to indicate RX usage and use this to fall
back to the PFMEMALLOC reserve when needed.  SKBs allocated from the
reserve are tagged in skb->pfmemalloc.  If an SKB is allocated from the
reserve and the socket is later found to be unrelated to page reclaim, the
packet is dropped so that the memory remains available for page reclaim.
Network protocols are expected to recover from this packet loss.

[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Ideas taken from various patches]
[davem@davemloft.net: Use static branches, coding style corrections]
[sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Avoid unnecessary cast, fix !CONFIG_NET build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin a353e0ce0f skbuff: add an api to orphan frags
Many places do
       if ((skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY))
		skb_copy_ubufs(skb, gfp_mask);
to copy and invoke frag destructors if necessary.
Add an inline helper for this.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-22 12:39:33 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 62b1a8ab9b net: remove skb_orphan_try()
Orphaning skb in dev_hard_start_xmit() makes bonding behavior
unfriendly for applications sending big UDP bursts : Once packets
pass the bonding device and come to real device, they might hit a full
qdisc and be dropped. Without orphaning, the sender is automatically
throttled because sk->sk_wmemalloc reaches sk->sk_sndbuf (assuming
sk_sndbuf is not too big)

We could try to defer the orphaning adding another test in
dev_hard_start_xmit(), but all this seems of little gain,
now that BQL tends to make packets more likely to be parked
in Qdisc queues instead of NIC TX ring, in cases where performance
matters.

Reverts commits :
fc6055a5ba net: Introduce skb_orphan_try()
87fd308cfc net: skb_tx_hash() fix relative to skb_orphan_try()
and removes SKBTX_DRV_NEEDS_SK_REF flag

Reported-and-bisected-by: Jean-Michel Hautbois <jhautbois@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-15 15:30:15 -07:00
Felix Fietkau 617c8c1123 skb: avoid unnecessary reallocations in __skb_cow
At the beginning of __skb_cow, headroom gets set to a minimum of
NET_SKB_PAD. This causes unnecessary reallocations if the buffer was not
cloned and the headroom is just below NET_SKB_PAD, but still more than the
amount requested by the caller.
This was showing up frequently in my tests on VLAN tx, where
vlan_insert_tag calls skb_cow_head(skb, VLAN_HLEN).

Locally generated packets should have enough headroom, and for forward
paths, we already have NET_SKB_PAD bytes of headroom, so we don't need to
add any extra space here.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-29 17:30:08 -04:00
Eric Dumazet bad43ca832 net: introduce skb_try_coalesce()
Move tcp_try_coalesce() protocol independent part to
skb_try_coalesce().

skb_try_coalesce() can be used in IPv4 defrag and IPv6 reassembly,
to build optimized skbs (less sk_buff, and possibly less 'headers')

skb_try_coalesce() is zero copy, unless the copy can fit in destination
header (its a rare case)

kfree_skb_partial() is also moved to net/core/skbuff.c and exported,
because IPv6 will need it in patch (ipv6: use skb coalescing in
reassembly).

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-19 18:34:57 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 6f532612cc net: introduce netdev_alloc_frag()
Fix two issues introduced in commit a1c7fff7e1
( net: netdev_alloc_skb() use build_skb() )

- Must be IRQ safe (non NAPI drivers can use it)
- Must not leak the frag if build_skb() fails to allocate sk_buff

This patch introduces netdev_alloc_frag() for drivers willing to
use build_skb() instead of __netdev_alloc_skb() variants.

Factorize code so that :
__dev_alloc_skb() is a wrapper around __netdev_alloc_skb(), and
dev_alloc_skb() a wrapper around netdev_alloc_skb()

Use __GFP_COLD flag.

Almost all network drivers now benefit from skb->head_frag
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-18 13:31:25 -04:00
David S. Miller 0d6c4a2e46 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/param.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-rx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h

Resolved the iwlwifi conflict with mainline using 3-way diff posted
by John Linville and Stephen Rothwell.  In 'net' we added a bug
fix to make iwlwifi report a more accurate skb->truesize but this
conflicted with RX path changes that happened meanwhile in net-next.

In e1000e a conflict arose in the validation code for settings of
adapter->itr.  'net-next' had more sophisticated logic so that
logic was used.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-07 23:35:40 -04:00
Alexander Duyck ec47ea8247 skb: Add inline helper for getting the skb end offset from head
With the recent changes for how we compute the skb truesize it occurs to me
we are probably going to have a lot of calls to skb_end_pointer -
skb->head.  Instead of running all over the place doing that it would make
more sense to just make it a separate inline skb_end_offset(skb) that way
we can return the correct value without having gcc having to do all the
optimization to cancel out skb->head - skb->head.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-06 13:13:19 -04:00
Alexander Duyck 3a7c1ee4ab skb: Add skb_head_is_locked helper function
This patch adds support for a skb_head_is_locked helper function.  It is
meant to be used any time we are considering transferring the head from
skb->head to a paged frag.  If the head is locked it means we cannot remove
the head from the skb so it must be copied or we must take the skb as a
whole.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-03 13:18:37 -04:00
Eric Dumazet d961949660 net: fix two typos in skbuff.h
fix kernel doc typos in function names

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:40:19 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 18d0700024 net: skb_peek()/skb_peek_tail() cleanups
remove useless casts and rename variables for less confusion.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:39:48 -04:00
Eric Dumazet d7e8883cfc net: make GRO aware of skb->head_frag
GRO can check if skb to be merged has its skb->head mapped to a page
fragment, instead of a kmalloc() area.

We 'upgrade' skb->head as a fragment in itself

This avoids the frag_list fallback, and permits to build true GRO skb
(one sk_buff and up to 16 fragments), using less memory.

This reduces number of cache misses when user makes its copy, since a
single sk_buff is fetched.

This is a followup of patch "net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment"

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:35:49 -04:00
Eric Dumazet d3836f21b0 net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment
skb->head is currently allocated from kmalloc(). This is convenient but
has the drawback the data cannot be converted to a page fragment if
needed.

We have three spots were it hurts :

1) GRO aggregation

 When a linear skb must be appended to another skb, GRO uses the
frag_list fallback, very inefficient since we keep all struct sk_buff
around. So drivers enabling GRO but delivering linear skbs to network
stack aren't enabling full GRO power.

2) splice(socket -> pipe).

 We must copy the linear part to a page fragment.
 This kind of defeats splice() purpose (zero copy claim)

3) TCP coalescing.

 Recently introduced, this permits to group several contiguous segments
into a single skb. This shortens queue lengths and save kernel memory,
and greatly reduce probabilities of TCP collapses. This coalescing
doesnt work on linear skbs (or we would need to copy data, this would be
too slow)

Given all these issues, the following patch introduces the possibility
of having skb->head be a fragment in itself. We use a new skb flag,
skb->head_frag to carry this information.

build_skb() is changed to accept a frag_size argument. Drivers willing
to provide a page fragment instead of kmalloc() data will set a non zero
value, set to the fragment size.

Then, on situations we need to convert the skb head to a frag in itself,
we can check if skb->head_frag is set and avoid the copies or various
fallbacks we have.

This means drivers currently using frags could be updated to avoid the
current skb->head allocation and reduce their memory footprint (aka skb
truesize). (thats 512 or 1024 bytes saved per skb). This also makes
bpf/netfilter faster since the 'first frag' will be part of skb linear
part, no need to copy data.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30 21:35:11 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 38ba0a65fa net: skb_can_coalesce returns a boolean
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-24 00:18:02 -04:00