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2007-07-18[NET]: move dev_mc_discard from dev_mcast.c to dev.cDenis Cheng
Because this function is only called by unregister_netdevice, this moving could make this non-global function static, and also remove its declaration in netdevice.h; Any further, function __dev_addr_discard is also just called by dev_mc_discard and dev_unicast_discard, keeping this two functions both in one c file could make __dev_addr_discard also static and remove its declaration in netdevice.h; Futhermore, the sequential call to dev_unicast_discard and then dev_mc_discard in unregister_netdevice have a similar mechanism that: (netif_tx_lock_bh / __dev_addr_discard / netif_tx_unlock_bh), they should merged into one to eliminate duplicates in acquiring and releasing the dev->_xmit_lock, this would be done in my following patch. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-16Revert "[NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll."Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 29578624e354f56143d92510fff33a8b2aaa2c03. Ingo Molnar reports complete breakage with his e1000 card (no networking, card reports transmit timeouts), and bisected it down to this commit. Let's figure out what went wrong, but not keep breaking machines until we do. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-14[NET]: Add macvlan driverPatrick McHardy
Add macvlan driver, which allows to create virtual ethernet devices based on MAC address. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[NET]: dev_mcast: add multicast list synchronization helpersPatrick McHardy
The method drivers currently use to synchronize multicast lists is not very pretty: - walk the multicast list - search each entry on a copy of the previous list - if new add to lower device - walk the copy of the previous list - search each entry on the current list - if removed delete from lower device - copy entire list This patch adds a new field to struct dev_addr_list to store the synchronization state and adds two helper functions for synchronization and cleanup. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[NET]: Add net_device change_rx_mode callbackPatrick McHardy
Currently the set_multicast_list (and set_rx_mode) callbacks are responsible for configuring the device according to the IFF_PROMISC, IFF_MULTICAST and IFF_ALLMULTI flags and the mc_list (and uc_list in case of set_rx_mode). These callbacks can be invoked from BH context without the rtnl_mutex by dev_mc_add/dev_mc_delete, which makes reading the device flags and promiscous/allmulti count racy. For real hardware drivers that just commit all changes to the hardware this is not a real problem since the stack guarantees to call them for every change, so at least the final call will not race and commit the correct configuration to the hardware. For software devices that want to synchronize promiscous and multicast state to an underlying device however this can cause corruption of the underlying device's flags or promisc/allmulti counts. When the software device is concurrently put in promiscous or allmulti mode while set_multicast_list is invoked from bottem half context, the device might synchronize the change to the underlying device without holding the rtnl_mutex, which races with concurrent changes to the underlying device. Add a dev->change_rx_flags hook that is invoked when any of the flags that affect rx filtering change (under the rtnl_mutex), which allows drivers to perform synchronization immediately and only synchronize the address lists in set_multicast_list/set_rx_mode. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11[NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll.Olaf Kirch
Keep netpoll/poll_napi from messing with the poll_list. Only net_rx_action is allowed to manipulate the list. Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: Fix secondary unicast/multicast address count maintenancePatrick McHardy
When a reference to an existing address is increased or decreased without hitting zero, the address count is incorrectly adjusted. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue hardware support APIPeter P Waskiewicz Jr
Add the multiqueue hardware device support API to the core network stack. Allow drivers to allocate multiple queues and manage them at the netdev level if they choose to do so. Added a new field to sk_buff, namely queue_mapping, for drivers to know which tx_ring to select based on OS classification of the flow. Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: dev: secondary unicast address supportPatrick McHardy
Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses on network devices. To support this devices capable of filtering multiple unicast addresses need to change their set_multicast_list function to configure unicast filters as well and assign it to dev->set_rx_mode instead of dev->set_multicast_list. Other devices are put into promiscous mode when secondary unicast addresses are present. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: dev_mcast: switch to generic net_device address listsPatrick McHardy
Use generic net_device address lists for multicast list handling. Some defines are used to keep drivers working. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: dev: introduce generic net_device address listsPatrick McHardy
Introduce struct dev_addr_list and list maintenance functions based on dev_mc_list and the related functions. This will be used by follow-up patches for both multicast and secondary unicast addresses. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: IPV6 checksum offloading in network devicesStephen Hemminger
The existing model for checksum offload does not correctly handle devices that can offload IPV4 and IPV6 only. The NETIF_F_HW_CSUM flag implies device can do any arbitrary protocol. This patch: * adds NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM for those devices * fixes bnx2 and tg3 devices that need it * add NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM to ipv6 output (incl GSO) * fixes assumptions about NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM in nat * adjusts bridge union of checksumming computation Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[RTNETLINK]: Link creation APIPatrick McHardy
Add rtnetlink API for creating, changing and deleting software devices. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: Mark struct net_device * argument to netdev_priv constPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-31[NET] napi: Call __netif_rx_complete in netif_rx_completeHerbert Xu
This patch kills a little bit of code duplication between the two variants of netif_rx_complete. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-10[NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_deviceHerbert Xu
These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the network subsystem as it manages the carrier status. So it now makes sense to allocate some memory for it in net_device rather than allocating it on demand. In fact, this is necessary because we can't tolerate a memory allocation failure since that means we'd have to potentially throw a link up event away. It also simplifies the code greatly. In doing so I discovered a subtle race condition in the use of singleevent. This race condition still exists (and is somewhat magnified) without singleevent but it's now plugged thanks to an smp_mb__before_clear_bit. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03[NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3)Pavel Emelianov
Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using first_netdev()/next_netdev(). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03[NET]: Add __dev_getfirstbyhwtypePatrick McHardy
Add __dev_getfirstbyhwtype for callers that don't want a reference but some data from the device and thus need to take the rtnl anyway. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-28[NET]: Remove NETIF_F_INTERNAL_STATS, default to internal stats.Rusty Russell
Herbert Xu conviced me that a new flag was overkill; every driver currently overrides get_stats, so we might as well make the internal one the default. If someone did fail to set get_stats, they would now get all 0 stats instead of "No statistics available". Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-28[NETPOLL]: Fix TX queue overflow in trapped mode.Sergei Shtylyov
CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP causes the TX queue controls to be completely bypassed in the netpoll's "trapped" mode which easily causes overflows in the drivers with short TX queues (most notably, in 8139too with its 4-deep queue). So, make this option more sensible by making it only bypass the TX softirq wakeup. Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26[WEXT] net_device: Don't include wext bits if not required.Johannes Berg
This patch makes the wext bits in struct net_device depend on CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[WIRELESS] cfg80211: New wireless config infrastructure.Johannes Berg
This patch creates the core cfg80211 code along with some sysfs bits. This is a stripped down version to allow mac80211 to function, but doesn't include any configuration yet except for creating and removing virtual interfaces. This patch includes the nl80211 header file but it only contains the interface types which the cfg80211 interface for creating virtual interfaces relies on. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NET]: Inline net_device_statsRusty Russell
Network drivers which keep stats allocate their own stats structure then write a get_stats() function to return them. It would be nice if this were done by default. 1) Add a new "stats" field to "struct net_device". 2) Add a new feature field to say "this driver uses the internal one" 3) Have a default "get_stats" which returns NULL if that feature not set. 4) Change callers to check result of get_stats call for NULL, not if ->get_stats is set. This should not break backwards compatibility with older drivers, yet allow modern drivers to shed some boilerplate code. Lightly tested: works for a modified lguest network driver. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08[NET]: unregister_netdevice as voidStephen Hemminger
There was no real useful information from the unregister_netdevice() return code, the only error occurred in a situation that was a driver bug. So change it to a void function. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-07Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_deviceGreg Kroah-Hartman
This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume issues, if it wants to. Thanks to Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> for the arm driver fixes. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-31[NET]: Add memory barrrier to netif_poll_enable()David S. Miller
When a driver writer calls this, they generally expect that all previous stores and modifications they've made will be visible before netif_poll_enable() executes, so ensure this. Noticed by Ben H. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08[NET]: Force a cache line split in hh_cache in SMP.Eric Dumazet
hh_lock was converted from rwlock to seqlock by Stephen. To have a 100% benefit of this change, I suggest to place read mostly fields of hh_cache in a separate cache line, because hh_refcnt may be changed quite frequently on some busy machines. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08[NET]: Convert hh_lock to seqlock.Stephen Hemminger
The hard header cache is in the main output path, so using seqlock instead of reader/writer lock should reduce overhead. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-04[PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> mm.hAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-02[NET]: Pack struct hh_cacheArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ pahole net/ipv4/tcp.o hh_cache /* /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/include/linux/netdevice.h:190 */ struct hh_cache { struct hh_cache * hh_next; /* 0 4 */ atomic_t hh_refcnt; /* 4 4 */ __be16 hh_type; /* 8 2 */ /* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */ int hh_len; /* 12 4 */ int (*hh_output)(); /* 16 4 */ rwlock_t hh_lock; /* 20 36 */ long unsigned int hh_data[24]; /* 56 96 */ }; /* size: 152, sum members: 150, holes: 1, sum holes: 2 */ [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ find net -name "*.[ch]" | xargs grep 'hh_len.\+=' | sort -u net/atm/br2684.c: hh->hh_len = PADLEN + ETH_HLEN; net/ethernet/eth.c: hh->hh_len = ETH_HLEN; net/ipv4/ipconfig.c: int hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev); net/ipv4/ip_output.c: hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(rt->u.dst.dev); net/ipv4/ip_output.c: int hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev); net/ipv4/netfilter.c: hh_len = (*pskb)->dst->dev->hard_header_len; net/ipv4/raw.c: hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(rt->u.dst.dev); net/ipv6/ip6_output.c: hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(rt->u.dst.dev); net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_REJECT.c: hh_len = (dst->dev->hard_header_len + 15)&~15; net/ipv6/raw.c: hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(rt->u.dst.dev); [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ find include -name "*.h" | xargs grep 'define ETH_HLEN' include/linux/if_ether.h:#define ETH_HLEN 14 /* Total octets in header. */ (((dev)->hard_header_len&~(HH_DATA_MOD - 1)) + HH_DATA_MOD) [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ pahole net/ipv4/tcp.o net_device | grep hard_header_len short unsigned int hard_header_len; /* 106 2 */ [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ So I think we're safe in turning hh_len an u16, end result: [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ codiff -sV /tmp/tcp.o.before net/ipv4/tcp.o /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/net/ipv4/tcp.c: struct hh_cache | -4 hh_len; from: int /* 12(0) 4(0) */ to: u16 /* 10(0) 2(0) */ 1 struct changed [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[TCP/DCCP]: Introduce net_xmit_evalGerrit Renker
Throughout the TCP/DCCP (and tunnelling) code, it often happens that the return code of a transmit function needs to be tested against NET_XMIT_CN which is a value that does not indicate a strict error condition. This patch uses a macro for these recurring situations which is consistent with the already existing macro net_xmit_errno, saving on duplicated code. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[NET]: The scheduled removal of the frame diverter.Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the scheduled removal of the frame diverter. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-28[NET]: Fix MAX_HEADER setting.David S. Miller
MAX_HEADER is either set to LL_MAX_HEADER or LL_MAX_HEADER + 48, and this is controlled by a set of CONFIG_* ifdef tests. It is trying to use LL_MAX_HEADER + 48 when any of the tunnels are enabled which set hard_header_len like this: dev->hard_header_len = LL_MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct xxx); The correct set of tunnel drivers which do this are: ipip ip_gre ip6_tunnel sit so make the ifdef test match. Noticed by Patrick McHardy and with help from Herbert Xu. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-28[NET]: Annotate dst_ops protocolAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-25Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Jeff Garzik
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into tmp
2006-09-25[PATCH] bonding: Validate probe replies in ARP monitorJay Vosburgh
Add logic to check ARP request / reply packets used for ARP monitor link integrity checking. The current method simply examines the slave device to see if it has sent and received traffic; this can be fooled by extraneous traffic. For example, if multiple hosts running bonding are behind a common switch, the probe traffic from the multiple instances of bonding will update the tx/rx times on each other's slave devices. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-25[PATCH] WE-21 support (core API)John W. Linville
This is version 21 of the Wireless Extensions. Changelog : o finishes migrating the ESSID API (remove the +1) o netdev->get_wireless_stats is no more o long/short retry This is a redacted version of a patch originally submitted by Jean Tourrilhes. I removed most of the additions, in order to minimize future support requirements for nl80211 (or other WE successor). CC: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-09-24Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (217 commits) net/ieee80211: fix more crypto-related build breakage [PATCH] Spidernet: add ethtool -S (show statistics) [NET] GT96100: Delete bitrotting ethernet driver [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: restrict to 32-bit PPC_MULTIPLATFORM [PATCH] Cirrus Logic ep93xx ethernet driver r8169: the MMIO region of the 8167 stands behin BAR#1 e1000, ixgb: Remove pointless wrappers [PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver [PATCH] s2io: Switch to pci_get_device [PATCH] gt96100: move to pci_get_device API [PATCH] ehea: bugfix for register access functions [PATCH] e1000 disable device on PCI error drivers/net/phy/fixed: #if 0 some incomplete code drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations [PATCH] ethtool: allow const ethtool_ops [PATCH] sky2: big endian [PATCH] sky2: fiber support [PATCH] sky2: tx pause bug fix drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace [PATCH] ehea: IBM eHEA Ethernet Device Driver ... Manually resolved conflicts in drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c and drivers/net/sky2.c related to CHECKSUM_HW/CHECKSUM_PARTIAL changes by commit 84fa7933a33f806bbbaae6775e87459b1ec584c0 that just happened to be next to unrelated changes in this update.
2006-09-22[NET]: Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL/CHECKSUM_COMPLETEPatrick McHardy
Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL (for outgoing packets, whose checksum still needs to be completed) and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE (for incoming packets, device supplied full checksum). Patch originally from Herbert Xu, updated by myself for 2.6.18-rc3. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-13[PATCH] ethtool: allow const ethtool_opsStephen Hemminger
The ethtool_ops structure is immutable, it expected to be setup by the driver and is never changed. This patch allows drivers to declare there ethtool_ops structure read-only. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-17[BRIDGE]: Disable SG/GSO if TX checksum is offHerbert Xu
When the bridge recomputes features, it does not maintain the constraint that SG/GSO must be off if TX checksum is off. This patch adds that constraint. On a completely unrelated note, I've also added TSO6 and TSO_ECN feature bits if GSO is enabled on the underlying device through the new NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE macro. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-17[VLAN]: Make sure bonding packet drop checks get done in hwaccel RX path.David S. Miller
Since __vlan_hwaccel_rx() is essentially bypassing the netif_receive_skb() call that would have occurred if we did the VLAN decapsulation in software, we are missing the skb_bond() call and the assosciated checks it does. Export those checks via an inline function, skb_bond_should_drop(), and use this in __vlan_hwaccel_rx(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-21[NET]: Fix reversed error test in netif_tx_trylockHerbert Xu
A non-zero return value indicates success from spin_trylock, not error. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-08[NET] gso: Fix up GSO packets with broken checksumsHerbert Xu
Certain subsystems in the stack (e.g., netfilter) can break the partial checksum on GSO packets. Until they're fixed, this patch allows this to work by recomputing the partial checksums through the GSO mechanism. Once they've all been converted to update the partial checksum instead of clearing it, this workaround can be removed. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-08[NET] gso: Add skb_is_gsoHerbert Xu
This patch adds the wrapper function skb_is_gso which can be used instead of directly testing skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size. This makes things a little nicer and allows us to change the primary key for indicating whether an skb is GSO (if we ever want to do that). Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-30[IPV6]: Added GSO support for TCPv6Herbert Xu
This patch adds GSO support for IPv6 and TCPv6. This is based on a patch by Ananda Raju <Ananda.Raju@neterion.com>. His original description is: This patch enables TSO over IPv6. Currently Linux network stacks restricts TSO over IPv6 by clearing of the NETIF_F_TSO bit from "dev->features". This patch will remove this restriction. This patch will introduce a new flag NETIF_F_TSO6 which will be used to check whether device supports TSO over IPv6. If device support TSO over IPv6 then we don't clear of NETIF_F_TSO and which will make the TCP layer to create TSO packets. Any device supporting TSO over IPv6 will set NETIF_F_TSO6 flag in "dev->features" along with NETIF_F_TSO. In case when user disables TSO using ethtool, NETIF_F_TSO will get cleared from "dev->features". So even if we have NETIF_F_TSO6 we don't get TSO packets created by TCP layer. SKB_GSO_TCPV4 renamed to SKB_GSO_TCP to make it generic GSO packet. SKB_GSO_UDPV4 renamed to SKB_GSO_UDP as UFO is not a IPv4 feature. UFO is supported over IPv6 also The following table shows there is significant improvement in throughput with normal frames and CPU usage for both normal and jumbo. -------------------------------------------------- | | 1500 | 9600 | | ------------------|-------------------| | | thru CPU | thru CPU | -------------------------------------------------- | TSO OFF | 2.00 5.5% id | 5.66 20.0% id | -------------------------------------------------- | TSO ON | 2.63 78.0 id | 5.67 39.0% id | -------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-30[NET]: Generalise TSO-specific bits from skb_setup_capsHerbert Xu
This patch generalises the TSO-specific bits from sk_setup_caps by adding the sk_gso_type member to struct sock. This makes sk_setup_caps generic so that it can be used by TCPv6 or UFO. The only catch is that whoever uses this must provide a GSO implementation for their protocol which I think is a fair deal :) For now UFO continues to live without a GSO implementation which is OK since it doesn't use the sock caps field at the moment. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29[NET]: Add ECN support for TSOMichael Chan
In the current TSO implementation, NETIF_F_TSO and ECN cannot be turned on together in a TCP connection. The problem is that most hardware that supports TSO does not handle CWR correctly if it is set in the TSO packet. Correct handling requires CWR to be set in the first packet only if it is set in the TSO header. This patch adds the ability to turn on NETIF_F_TSO and ECN using GSO if necessary to handle TSO packets with CWR set. Hardware that handles CWR correctly can turn on NETIF_F_TSO_ECN in the dev-> features flag. All TSO packets with CWR set will have the SKB_GSO_TCPV4_ECN set. If the output device does not have the NETIF_F_TSO_ECN feature set, GSO will split the packet up correctly with CWR only set in the first segment. With help from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>. Since ECN can always be enabled with TSO, the SOCK_NO_LARGESEND sock flag is completely removed. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29[NET]: Fix logical error in skb_gso_okHerbert Xu
The test in skb_gso_ok is backwards. Noticed by Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29[NET]: Added GSO header verificationHerbert Xu
When GSO packets come from an untrusted source (e.g., a Xen guest domain), we need to verify the header integrity before passing it to the hardware. Since the first step in GSO is to verify the header, we can reuse that code by adding a new bit to gso_type: SKB_GSO_DODGY. Packets with this bit set can only be fed directly to devices with the corresponding bit NETIF_F_GSO_ROBUST. If the device doesn't have that bit, then the skb is fed to the GSO engine which will allow the packet to be sent to the hardware if it passes the header check. This patch changes the sg flag to a full features flag. The same method can be used to implement TSO ECN support. We simply have to mark packets with CWR set with SKB_GSO_ECN so that only hardware with a corresponding NETIF_F_TSO_ECN can accept them. The GSO engine can either fully segment the packet, or segment the first MTU and pass the rest to the hardware for further segmentation. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>