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2005-10-28[IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approachAnanda Raju
Attached is kernel patch for UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) feature. 1. This patch incorporate the review comments by Jeff Garzik. 2. Renamed USO as UFO (UDP Fragmentation Offload) 3. udp sendfile support with UFO This patches uses scatter-gather feature of skb to generate large UDP datagram. Below is a "how-to" on changes required in network device driver to use the UFO interface. UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) Interface: ------------------------------------------- UFO is a feature wherein the Linux kernel network stack will offload the IP fragmentation functionality of large UDP datagram to hardware. This will reduce the overhead of stack in fragmenting the large UDP datagram to MTU sized packets 1) Drivers indicate their capability of UFO using dev->features |= NETIF_F_UFO | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG NETIF_F_HW_CSUM is required for UFO over ipv6. 2) UFO packet will be submitted for transmission using driver xmit routine. UFO packet will have a non-zero value for "skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size" skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size will indicate the length of data part in each IP fragment going out of the adapter after IP fragmentation by hardware. skb->data will contain MAC/IP/UDP header and skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[] contains the data payload. The skb->ip_summed will be set to CHECKSUM_HW indicating that hardware has to do checksum calculation. Hardware should compute the UDP checksum of complete datagram and also ip header checksum of each fragmented IP packet. For IPV6 the UFO provides the fragment identification-id in skb_shinfo(skb)->ip6_frag_id. The adapter should use this ID for generating IPv6 fragments. Signed-off-by: Ananda Raju <ananda.raju@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (forwarded) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-03Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'Jeff Garzik
2005-09-27[NET]: Reorder some hot fields of struct net_deviceEric Dumazet
Place them on separate cache lines in SMP to lower memory bouncing between multiple CPU accessing the device. - One part is mostly used on receive path (including eth_type_trans()) (poll_list, poll, quota, weight, last_rx, dev_addr, broadcast) - One part is mostly used on queue transmit path (qdisc) (queue_lock, qdisc, qdisc_sleeping, qdisc_list, tx_queue_len) - One part is mostly used on xmit path (device) (xmit_lock, xmit_lock_owner, priv, hard_start_xmit, trans_start) 'features' is placed outside of these hot points, in a location that may be shared by all cpus (because mostly read) name_hlist is moved close to name[IFNAMSIZ] to speedup __dev_get_by_name() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-14[PATCH] drivers/net: fix-up schedule_timeout() usageNishanth Aravamudan
Use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-29[NET]: Add support for getting the permanent hardware address.Jon Wetzel
This patch adds a new field to net device to hold the permanent hardware address, and adds a new generic ethtool_op function to get that address. Signed-off-by: Jon Wetzel <jon_wetzel@dell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NET]: Fix sparse warningsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Of this type, mostly: CHECK net/ipv6/netfilter.c net/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_init' was not declared. Should it be static? net/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_fini' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NET]: Deinline netif_carrier_{on,off}().Denis Vlasenko
# grep -r 'netif_carrier_o[nf]' linux-2.6.12 | wc -l 246 # size vmlinux.org vmlinux.carrier text data bss dec hex filename 4339634 1054414 259296 5653344 564360 vmlinux.org 4337710 1054414 259296 5651420 563bdc vmlinux.carrier And this ain't an allyesconfig kernel! Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NET]: Kill skb->real_devDavid S. Miller
Bonding just wants the device before the skb_bond() decapsulation occurs, so simply pass that original device into packet_type->func() as an argument. It remains to be seen whether we can use this same exact thing to get rid of skb->input_dev as well. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[NET]: Eliminate netif_rx massive packet drops.Stephen Hemminger
Eliminate the throttling behaviour when the netif receive queue fills because it behaves badly when using high speed networks under load. The throttling cause multiple packet drops that cause TCP to go into slow start mode. The same effective patch has been part of BIC TCP and H-TCP as well as part of Web100. The existing code drops 100's of packets when the queue fills; this changes it to individual packet drop-tail. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemmminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[NET]: Remove obsolete netif_rx congestion sensing mechanism.Stephen Hemminger
Remove the congestion sensing mechanism from netif_rx, and always return either full or empty. Almost no driver checks the return value from netif_rx, and those that do only use it for debug messages. The original design of netif_rx was to do flow control based on the receive queue, but NAPI has supplanted this and no driver uses the feedback. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[NET]: Remove obsolete fastroute stats.Stephen Hemminger
Remove last vestiages of fastroute code that is no longer used. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[PATCH] create a kstrdup library functionPaulo Marques
This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the "local" implementations in several places to use this function. Most of the changes come from the sound and net subsystems. The sound part had already been acknowledged by Takashi Iwai and the net part by David S. Miller. I left UML alone for now because I would need more time to read the code carefully before making changes there. Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-22[NETPOLL]: Introduce a netpoll_info structJeff Moyer
This patch introduces a netpoll_info structure, which the struct net_device will now point to instead of pointing to a struct netpoll. The reason for this is two-fold: 1) fields such as the rx_flags, poll_owner, and poll_lock should be maintained per net_device, not per netpoll; and 2) this is a first step in providing support for multiple netpoll clients to register against the same net_device. The struct netpoll is now pointed to by the netpoll_info structure. As such, the previous behaviour of the code is preserved. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-02[NET]: Fix HH_DATA_OFF.Jiri Benc
When the hardware header size is a multiple of HH_DATA_MOD, HH_DATA_OFF() incorrectly returns HH_DATA_MOD (instead of 0). This affects ieee80211 layer as 802.11 header is 32 bytes long. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-29[BRIDGE]: make dev->features unsignedStephen Hemminger
The features field in netdevice is really a bitmask, and bitmask's should be unsigned. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-29[BRIDGE]: features change notificationStephen Hemminger
Resend of earlier patch (no changes) from Catalin used to provide device feature change notification. Signed-off-by: Catalin BOIE <catab at umbrella.ro> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-23[NET]: netdevice.h: be'ify packet_typeAlexey Dobriyan
Everybody does struct packet_type foo_packet_type = { .type = __constant_htons(ETH_P_FOO); }; 5 introduced warnings will be properly fixed later. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-05[PATCH] update Ross Biro bouncing email addressJesper Juhl
Ross moved. Remove the bad email address so people will find the correct one in ./CREDITS. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!