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* ipv4: improve documentation of ip_no_pmtu_discHannes Frederic Sowa2013-12-171-2/+6
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* packet: fix send path when running with proto == 0Daniel Borkmann2013-12-091-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit e40526cb20b5 introduced a cached dev pointer, that gets hooked into register_prot_hook(), __unregister_prot_hook() to update the device used for the send path. We need to fix this up, as otherwise this will not work with sockets created with protocol = 0, plus with sll_protocol = 0 passed via sockaddr_ll when doing the bind. So instead, assign the pointer directly. The compiler can inline these helper functions automagically. While at it, also assume the cached dev fast-path as likely(), and document this variant of socket creation as it seems it is not widely used (seems not even the author of TX_RING was aware of that in his reference example [1]). Tested with reproducer from e40526cb20b5. [1] http://wiki.ipxwarzone.com/index.php5?title=Linux_packet_mmap#Example Fixes: e40526cb20b5 ("packet: fix use after free race in send path when dev is released") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Tested-by: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@aristanetworks.com> Tested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tcp: tsq: restore minimal amount of queueingEric Dumazet2013-11-141-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After commit c9eeec26e32e ("tcp: TSQ can use a dynamic limit"), several users reported throughput regressions, notably on mvneta and wifi adapters. 802.11 AMPDU requires a fair amount of queueing to be effective. This patch partially reverts the change done in tcp_write_xmit() so that the minimal amount is sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes. It also remove the use of this sysctl while building skb stored in write queue, as TSO autosizing does the right thing anyway. Users with well behaving NICS and correct qdisc (like sch_fq), can then lower the default sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes value from 128KB to 8KB. This new usage of sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes permits each driver authors to check how their driver performs when/if the value is set to a minimum of 4KB. Normally, line rate for a single TCP flow should be possible, but some drivers rely on timers to perform TX completion and too long TX completion delays prevent reaching full throughput. Fixes: c9eeec26e32e ("tcp: TSQ can use a dynamic limit") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org> Reported-by: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org> Tested-by: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org> Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* bonding: document the new packets_per_slave optionNikolay Aleksandrov2013-11-071-0/+9
| | | | | | | | Add new documentation for the packets_per_slave option available for balance-rr mode. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://gitorious.org/linux-can/linux-can-nextDavid S. Miller2013-11-041-0/+217
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Marc Kleine-Budde says: ==================== here's a pull request for net-next. It includes a patch by Oliver Hartkopp et al. that adds documentation for the broadcast manager to Documentation/networking/can.txt. Three patches by me that clean up the netlink handling code in the CAN core. And another patch that removes a not needed function from the ti_hecc driver. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * can: add broadcast manager documentationOliver Hartkopp2013-10-311-0/+217
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds documentation about the broadcast manager. It's based on Brian Thorne's initial patch http://marc.info/?l=linux-can&m=138119382015496&w=2 and Daniele Venzano's work http://brownhat.org/docs/socketcan.html . Signed-off-by: Brian Thorne <hardbyte@gmail.com> Cc: Daniele Venzano <linux@brownhat.org> Cc: Andre Naujoks <nautsch2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
* | tcp: properly handle stretch acks in slow startYuchung Cheng2013-11-041-11/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Slow start now increases cwnd by 1 if an ACK acknowledges some packets, regardless the number of packets. Consequently slow start performance is highly dependent on the degree of the stretch ACKs caused by receiver or network ACK compression mechanisms (e.g., delayed-ACK, GRO, etc). But slow start algorithm is to send twice the amount of packets of packets left so it should process a stretch ACK of degree N as if N ACKs of degree 1, then exits when cwnd exceeds ssthresh. A follow up patch will use the remainder of the N (if greater than 1) to adjust cwnd in the congestion avoidance phase. In addition this patch retires the experimental limited slow start (LSS) feature. LSS has multiple drawbacks but questionable benefit. The fractional cwnd increase in LSS requires a loop in slow start even though it's rarely used. Configuring such an increase step via a global sysctl on different BDPS seems hard. Finally and most importantly the slow start overshoot concern is now better covered by the Hybrid slow start (hystart) enabled by default. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | tcp: enable sockets to use MSG_FASTOPEN by defaultYuchung Cheng2013-11-041-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Applications have started to use Fast Open (e.g., Chrome browser has such an optional flag) and the feature has gone through several generations of kernels since 3.7 with many real network tests. It's time to enable this flag by default for applications to test more conveniently and extensively. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller2013-11-0411-31/+31
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be.h drivers/net/netconsole.c net/bridge/br_private.h Three mostly trivial conflicts. The net/bridge/br_private.h conflict was a function signature (argument addition) change overlapping with the extern removals from Joe Perches. In drivers/net/netconsole.c we had one change adjusting a printk message whilst another changed "printk(KERN_INFO" into "pr_info(". Lastly, the emulex change was a new inline function addition overlapping with Joe Perches's extern removals. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | doc:net: Fix typo in Documentation/networkingMasanari Iida2013-10-3011-20/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Correct spelling typo in Documentation/networking Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | Documentation/networking: netdev-FAQ typo correctionsRandy Dunlap2013-10-271-11/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Various typo fixes to netdev-FAQ.txt: - capitalize Linux - hyphenate dual-word adjectives - minor punctuation fixes Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Acked-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc()Eric Dumazet2013-11-031-5/+5
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Joby Poriyath provided a xen-netback patch to reduce the size of xenvif structure as some netdev allocation could fail under memory pressure/fragmentation. This patch is handling the problem at the core level, allowing any netdev structures to use vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed. As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path, add __GFP_REPEAT to kzalloc() flags to do this fallback only when really needed. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Joby Poriyath <joby.poriyath@citrix.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | batman-adv: update email address for Marek LindnerMarek Lindner2013-10-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
* | batman-adv: update email address for Simon WunderlichSimon Wunderlich2013-10-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | My university will stop email service for alumni in january 2014, please use my new e-mail address instead. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
* | batman-adv: remove vis functionalitySimon Wunderlich2013-10-091-48/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is replaced by a userspace program, we don't need this functionality to bloat the kernel. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
* | bonding: document the new xmit policy modes and update the changed onesNikolay Aleksandrov2013-10-031-30/+36
|/ | | | | | | | Add new documentation for encap2+3 and encap3+4, also update the formula for the old modes due to the changes. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* bonding: Make alb learning packet interval configurableNeil Horman2013-09-151-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | running bonding in ALB mode requires that learning packets be sent periodically, so that the switch knows where to send responding traffic. However, depending on switch configuration, there may not be any need to send traffic at the default rate of 3 packets per second, which represents little more than wasted data. Allow the ALB learning packet interval to be made configurable via sysfs Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* i40e: include i40e in kernel properJesse Brandeburg2013-09-112-0/+117
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the changes for Kconfig, i40e.txt, MAINTAINERS, Kbuild and new i40e/Makefile to build i40e with the kernel. New driver build option is CONFIG_I40E Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> CC: PJ Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> CC: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
* net: ipv6: mld: document force_mld_version in ip-sysctl.txtDaniel Borkmann2013-09-041-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | Document force_mld_version parameter in ip-sysctl.txt. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* driver:net:stmmac: Disable DMA store and forward mode if platform data ↵Sonic Zhang2013-08-301-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | force_thresh_dma_mode is set. Some synopsys ip implementation doesn't support DMA store and forward mode, such as BF60x. So, set force_thresh_dma_mode to use DMA thresholds only. Update document and devicetree as well. Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com> Acked-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: packet: document available fanout policiesDaniel Borkmann2013-08-291-0/+8
| | | | | | | Update documentation to add fanout policies that are available. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tcp: TSO packets automatic sizingEric Dumazet2013-08-291-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After hearing many people over past years complaining against TSO being bursty or even buggy, we are proud to present automatic sizing of TSO packets. One part of the problem is that tcp_tso_should_defer() uses an heuristic relying on upcoming ACKS instead of a timer, but more generally, having big TSO packets makes little sense for low rates, as it tends to create micro bursts on the network, and general consensus is to reduce the buffering amount. This patch introduces a per socket sk_pacing_rate, that approximates the current sending rate, and allows us to size the TSO packets so that we try to send one packet every ms. This field could be set by other transports. Patch has no impact for high speed flows, where having large TSO packets makes sense to reach line rate. For other flows, this helps better packet scheduling and ACK clocking. This patch increases performance of TCP flows in lossy environments. A new sysctl (tcp_min_tso_segs) is added, to specify the minimal size of a TSO packet (default being 2). A follow-up patch will provide a new packet scheduler (FQ), using sk_pacing_rate as an input to perform optional per flow pacing. This explains why we chose to set sk_pacing_rate to twice the current rate, allowing 'slow start' ramp up. sk_pacing_rate = 2 * cwnd * mss / srtt v2: Neal Cardwell reported a suspect deferring of last two segments on initial write of 10 MSS, I had to change tcp_tso_should_defer() to take into account tp->xmit_size_goal_segs Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ipv6: drop fragmented ndisc packets by default (RFC 6980)Hannes Frederic Sowa2013-08-291-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements RFC6980: Drop fragmented ndisc packets by default. If a fragmented ndisc packet is received the user is informed that it is possible to disable the check. Cc: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2013-08-271-0/+40
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch Jesse Gross says: ==================== A number of significant new features and optimizations for net-next/3.12. Highlights are: * "Megaflows", an optimization that allows userspace to specify which flow fields were used to compute the results of the flow lookup. This allows for a major reduction in flow setups (the major performance bottleneck in Open vSwitch) without reducing flexibility. * Converting netlink dump operations to use RCU, allowing for additional parallelism in userspace. * Matching and modifying SCTP protocol fields. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * openvswitch: Mega flow implementationAndy Zhou2013-08-231-0/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add wildcarded flow support in kernel datapath. Wildcarded flow can improve OVS flow set up performance by avoid sending matching new flows to the user space program. The exact performance boost will largely dependent on wildcarded flow hit rate. In case all new flows hits wildcard flows, the flow set up rate is within 5% of that of linux bridge module. Pravin has made significant contributions to this patch. Including API clean ups and bug fixes. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
* | Documentation/networking/: Update Intel wired LAN driver documentationJeff Kirsher2013-08-278-43/+193
|/ | | | | | | | | Updates the documentation to the Intel wired LAN drivers. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2013-08-201-3/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next Conflicts: net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c The conflict had to do with overlapping changes dealing with fixing the use of an "s32" to hold the value returned by NAT_OFFSET(). Pablo Neira Ayuso says: ==================== The following batch contains Netfilter/IPVS updates for your net-next tree. More specifically, they are: * Trivial typo fix in xt_addrtype, from Phil Oester. * Remove net_ratelimit in the conntrack logging for consistency with other logging subsystem, from Patrick McHardy. * Remove unneeded includes from the recently added xt_connlabel support, from Florian Westphal. * Allow to update conntracks via nfqueue, don't need NFQA_CFG_F_CONNTRACK for this, from Florian Westphal. * Remove tproxy core, now that we have socket early demux, from Florian Westphal. * A couple of patches to refactor conntrack event reporting to save a good bunch of lines, from Florian Westphal. * Fix missing locking in NAT sequence adjustment, it did not manifested in any known bug so far, from Patrick McHardy. * Change sequence number adjustment variable to 32 bits, to delay the possible early overflow in long standing connections, also from Patrick. * Comestic cleanups for IPVS, from Dragos Foianu. * Fix possible null dereference in IPVS in the SH scheduler, from Daniel Borkmann. * Allow to attach conntrack expectations via nfqueue. Before this patch, you had to use ctnetlink instead, thus, we save the conntrack lookup. * Export xt_rpfilter and xt_HMARK header files, from Nicolas Dichtel. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * netfilter: tproxy: remove nf_tproxy_core, keep tw sk assigned to skbFlorian Westphal2013-07-311-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The module was "permanent", due to the special tproxy skb->destructor. Nowadays we have tcp early demux and its sock_edemux destructor in networking core which can be used instead. Thanks to early demux changes the input path now also handles "skb->sk is tw socket" correctly, so this no longer needs the special handling introduced with commit d503b30bd648b3cb4e5f50b65d27e389960cc6d9 (netfilter: tproxy: do not assign timewait sockets to skb->sk). Thus: - move assign_sock function to where its needed - don't prevent timewait sockets from being assigned to the skb - remove nf_tproxy_core. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* | ipv6: make unsolicited report intervals configurable for mldHannes Frederic Sowa2013-08-131-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit cab70040dfd95ee32144f02fade64f0cb94f31a0 ("net: igmp: Reduce Unsolicited report interval to 1s when using IGMPv3") and 2690048c01f32bf45d1c1e1ab3079bc10ad2aea7 ("net: igmp: Allow user-space configuration of igmp unsolicited report interval") by William Manley made igmp unsolicited report intervals configurable per interface and corrected the interval of unsolicited igmpv3 report messages resendings to 1s. Same needs to be done for IPv6: MLDv1 (RFC2710 7.10.): 10 seconds MLDv2 (RFC3810 9.11.): 1 second Both intervals are configurable via new procfs knobs mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval and mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval. (also added .force_mld_version to ipv6_devconf_dflt to bring structs in line without semantic changes) v2: a) Joined documentation update for IPv4 and IPv6 MLD/IGMP unsolicited_report_interval procfs knobs. b) incorporate stylistic feedback from William Manley v3: a) add new DEVCONF_* values to the end of the enum (thanks to David Miller) Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: William Manley <william.manley@youview.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Revert "net: sctp: convert sctp_checksum_disable module param into sctp sysctl"David S. Miller2013-08-091-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit cda5f98e36576596b9230483ec52bff3cc97eb21. As per Vlad's request. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: sctp: convert sctp_checksum_disable module param into sctp sysctlDaniel Borkmann2013-08-091-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Get rid of the last module parameter for SCTP and make this configurable via sysctl for SCTP like all the rest of SCTP's configuration knobs. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Documentation: add networking/netdev-FAQ.txtPaul Gortmaker2013-07-312-0/+226
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A collection of expectations and operational details about how networking development takes place in the context of the netdev mailing list. The content is meant to capture specific items that are unique to netdev workflow, and not re-document generic linux expectations that are already captured elsewhere. This was originally proposed[1] as a regular posting mailing list FAQ, but it probably is more universally accessible here in tree. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/559211/ Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | tcp: add tcp_syncookies mode to allow unconditionally generation of syncookiesHannes Frederic Sowa2013-07-301-0/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your | network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable | unconditionally generation of syncookies. Original idea and first implementation by Eric Dumazet. Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tcp: TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket optionEric Dumazet2013-07-241-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Idea of this patch is to add optional limitation of number of unsent bytes in TCP sockets, to reduce usage of kernel memory. TCP receiver might announce a big window, and TCP sender autotuning might allow a large amount of bytes in write queue, but this has little performance impact if a large part of this buffering is wasted : Write queue needs to be large only to deal with large BDP, not necessarily to cope with scheduling delays (incoming ACKS make room for the application to queue more bytes) For most workloads, using a value of 128 KB or less is OK to give applications enough time to react to POLLOUT events in time (or being awaken in a blocking sendmsg()) This patch adds two ways to set the limit : 1) Per socket option TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT 2) A sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat) for sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option (or setting a zero value) Default value being UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF), meaning this has no effect. This changes poll()/select()/epoll() to report POLLOUT only if number of unsent bytes is below tp->nosent_lowat Note this might increase number of sendmsg()/sendfile() calls when using non blocking sockets, and increase number of context switches for blocking sockets. Note this is not related to SO_SNDLOWAT (as SO_SNDLOWAT is defined as : Specify the minimum number of bytes in the buffer until the socket layer will pass the data to the protocol) Tested: netperf sessions, and watching /proc/net/protocols "memory" column for TCP With 200 concurrent netperf -t TCP_STREAM sessions, amount of kernel memory used by TCP buffers shrinks by ~55 % (20567 pages instead of 45458) lpq83:~# echo -1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat lpq83:~# (super_netperf 200 -t TCP_STREAM -H remote -l 90 &); sleep 60 ; grep TCP /proc/net/protocols TCPv6 1880 2 45458 no 208 yes ipv6 y y y y y y y y y y y y y n y y y y y TCP 1696 508 45458 no 208 yes kernel y y y y y y y y y y y y y n y y y y y lpq83:~# echo 131072 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat lpq83:~# (super_netperf 200 -t TCP_STREAM -H remote -l 90 &); sleep 60 ; grep TCP /proc/net/protocols TCPv6 1880 2 20567 no 208 yes ipv6 y y y y y y y y y y y y y n y y y y y TCP 1696 508 20567 no 208 yes kernel y y y y y y y y y y y y y n y y y y y Using 128KB has no bad effect on the throughput or cpu usage of a single flow, although there is an increase of context switches. A bonus is that we hold socket lock for a shorter amount of time and should improve latencies of ACK processing. lpq83:~# echo -1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat lpq83:~# perf stat -e context-switches ./netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3 OMNI Send TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : +/-2.500% @ 99% conf. Local Remote Local Elapsed Throughput Throughput Local Local Remote Remote Local Remote Service Send Socket Recv Socket Send Time Units CPU CPU CPU CPU Service Service Demand Size Size Size (sec) Util Util Util Util Demand Demand Units Final Final % Method % Method 1651584 6291456 16384 20.00 17447.90 10^6bits/s 3.13 S -1.00 U 0.353 -1.000 usec/KB Performance counter stats for './netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3': 412,514 context-switches 200.034645535 seconds time elapsed lpq83:~# echo 131072 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat lpq83:~# perf stat -e context-switches ./netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3 OMNI Send TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : +/-2.500% @ 99% conf. Local Remote Local Elapsed Throughput Throughput Local Local Remote Remote Local Remote Service Send Socket Recv Socket Send Time Units CPU CPU CPU CPU Service Service Demand Size Size Size (sec) Util Util Util Util Demand Demand Units Final Final % Method % Method 1593240 6291456 16384 20.00 17321.16 10^6bits/s 3.35 S -1.00 U 0.381 -1.000 usec/KB Performance counter stats for './netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3': 2,675,818 context-switches 200.029651391 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-By: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: sctp: trivial: update mailing list addressDaniel Borkmann2013-07-241-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | The SCTP mailing list address to send patches or questions to is linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org and not lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net anymore. Therefore, update all occurences. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds2013-07-0912-1270/+152
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull networking updates from David Miller: "This is a re-do of the net-next pull request for the current merge window. The only difference from the one I made the other day is that this has Eliezer's interface renames and the timeout handling changes made based upon your feedback, as well as a few bug fixes that have trickeled in. Highlights: 1) Low latency device polling, eliminating the cost of interrupt handling and context switches. Allows direct polling of a network device from socket operations, such as recvmsg() and poll(). Currently ixgbe, mlx4, and bnx2x support this feature. Full high level description, performance numbers, and design in commit 0a4db187a999 ("Merge branch 'll_poll'") From Eliezer Tamir. 2) With the routing cache removed, ip_check_mc_rcu() gets exercised more than ever before in the case where we have lots of multicast addresses. Use a hash table instead of a simple linked list, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Add driver for Atheros CQA98xx 802.11ac wireless devices, from Bartosz Markowski, Janusz Dziedzic, Kalle Valo, Marek Kwaczynski, Marek Puzyniak, Michal Kazior, and Sujith Manoharan. 4) Support reporting the TUN device persist flag to userspace, from Pavel Emelyanov. 5) Allow controlling network device VF link state using netlink, from Rony Efraim. 6) Support GRE tunneling in openvswitch, from Pravin B Shelar. 7) Adjust SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF and SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF for modern times, from Daniel Borkmann and Eric Dumazet. 8) Allow controlling of TCP quickack behavior on a per-route basis, from Cong Wang. 9) Several bug fixes and improvements to vxlan from Stephen Hemminger, Pravin B Shelar, and Mike Rapoport. In particular, support receiving on multiple UDP ports. 10) Major cleanups, particular in the area of debugging and cookie lifetime handline, to the SCTP protocol code. From Daniel Borkmann. 11) Allow packets to cross network namespaces when traversing tunnel devices. From Nicolas Dichtel. 12) Allow monitoring netlink traffic via AF_PACKET sockets, in a manner akin to how we monitor real network traffic via ptype_all. From Daniel Borkmann. 13) Several bug fixes and improvements for the new alx device driver, from Johannes Berg. 14) Fix scalability issues in the netem packet scheduler's time queue, by using an rbtree. From Eric Dumazet. 15) Several bug fixes in TCP loss recovery handling, from Yuchung Cheng. 16) Add support for GSO segmentation of MPLS packets, from Simon Horman. 17) Make network notifiers have a real data type for the opaque pointer that's passed into them. Use this to properly handle network device flag changes in arp_netdev_event(). From Jiri Pirko and Timo Teräs. 18) Convert several drivers over to module_pci_driver(), from Peter Huewe. 19) tcp_fixup_rcvbuf() can loop 500 times over loopback, just use a O(1) calculation instead. From Eric Dumazet. 20) Support setting of explicit tunnel peer addresses in ipv6, just like ipv4. From Nicolas Dichtel. 21) Protect x86 BPF JIT against spraying attacks, from Eric Dumazet. 22) Prevent a single high rate flow from overruning an individual cpu during RX packet processing via selective flow shedding. From Willem de Bruijn. 23) Don't use spinlocks in TCP md5 signing fast paths, from Eric Dumazet. 24) Don't just drop GSO packets which are above the TBF scheduler's burst limit, chop them up so they are in-bounds instead. Also from Eric Dumazet. 25) VLAN offloads are missed when configured on top of a bridge, fix from Vlad Yasevich. 26) Support IPV6 in ping sockets. From Lorenzo Colitti. 27) Receive flow steering targets should be updated at poll() time too, from David Majnemer. 28) Fix several corner case regressions in PMTU/redirect handling due to the routing cache removal, from Timo Teräs. 29) We have to be mindful of ipv4 mapped ipv6 sockets in upd_v6_push_pending_frames(). From Hannes Frederic Sowa. 30) Fix L2TP sequence number handling bugs, from James Chapman." * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1214 commits) drivers/net: caif: fix wrong rtnl_is_locked() usage drivers/net: enic: release rtnl_lock on error-path vhost-net: fix use-after-free in vhost_net_flush net: mv643xx_eth: do not use port number as platform device id net: sctp: confirm route during forward progress virtio_net: fix race in RX VQ processing virtio: support unlocked queue poll net/cadence/macb: fix bug/typo in extracting gem_irq_read_clear bit Documentation: Fix references to defunct linux-net@vger.kernel.org net/fs: change busy poll time accounting net: rename low latency sockets functions to busy poll bridge: fix some kernel warning in multicast timer sfc: Fix memory leak when discarding scattered packets sit: fix tunnel update via netlink dt:net:stmmac: Add dt specific phy reset callback support. dt:net:stmmac: Add support to dwmac version 3.610 and 3.710 dt:net:stmmac: Allocate platform data only if its NULL. net:stmmac: fix memleak in the open method ipv6: rt6_check_neigh should successfully verify neigh if no NUD information are available net: ipv6: fix wrong ping_v6_sendmsg return value ...
| * Documentation: Fix references to defunct linux-net@vger.kernel.orgGeert Uytterhoeven2013-07-092-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | linux-net@vger.kernel.org was replaced by netdev@oss.sgi.com was replaced by netdev@vger.kernel.org. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller2013-07-031-2/+2
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * \ Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2013-06-301-0/+13
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next Pablo Neira Ayuso says: ==================== The following batch contains Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next, they are: * Enforce policy to several nfnetlink subsystem, from Daniel Borkmann. * Use xt_socket to match the third packet (to perform simplistic socket-based stateful filtering), from Eric Dumazet. * Avoid large timeout for picked up from the middle TCP flows, from Florian Westphal. * Exclude IPVS from struct net if IPVS is disabled and removal of unnecessary included header file, from JunweiZhang. * Release SCTP connection immediately under load, to mimic current TCP behaviour, from Julian Anastasov. * Replace and enhance SCTP state machine, from Julian Anastasov. * Add tweak to reduce sync traffic in the presence of persistence, also from Julian Anastasov. * Add tweak for the IPVS SH scheduler not to reject connections directed to a server, choose a new one instead, from Alexander Frolkin. * Add support for sloppy TCP and SCTP modes, that creates state information on any packet, not only initial handshake packets, from Alexander Frolkin. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * | ipvs: add sync_persist_mode flagJulian Anastasov2013-06-261-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add sync_persist_mode flag to reduce sync traffic by syncing only persistent templates. Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Tested-by: Aleksey Chudov <aleksey.chudov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
| * | | bonding: add an option to fail when any of arp_ip_target is inaccessibleVeaceslav Falico2013-06-251-0/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, we fail only when all of the ips in arp_ip_target are gone. However, in some situations we might need to fail if even one host from arp_ip_target becomes unavailable. All situations, obviously, rely on the idea that we need *completely* functional network, with all interfaces/addresses working correctly. One real world example might be: vlans on top on bond (hybrid port). If bond and vlans have ips assigned and we have their peers monitored via arp_ip_target - in case of switch misconfiguration (trunk/access port), slave driver malfunction or tagged/untagged traffic dropped on the way - we will be able to switch to another slave. Though any other configuration needs that if we need to have access to all arp_ip_targets. This patch adds this possibility by adding a new parameter - arp_all_targets (both as a module parameter and as a sysfs knob). It can be set to: 0 or any (the default) - which works exactly as it's working now - the slave is up if any of the arp_ip_targets are up. 1 or all - the slave is up if all of the arp_ip_targets are up. This parameter can be changed on the fly (via sysfs), and requires the mode to be active-backup and arp_validate to be enabled (it obeys the arp_validate config on which slaves to validate). Internally it's done through: 1) Add target_last_arp_rx[BOND_MAX_ARP_TARGETS] array to slave struct. It's an array of jiffies, meaning that slave->target_last_arp_rx[i] is the last time we've received arp from bond->params.arp_targets[i] on this slave. 2) If we successfully validate an arp from bond->params.arp_targets[i] in bond_validate_arp() - update the slave->target_last_arp_rx[i] with the current jiffies value. 3) When getting slave's last_rx via slave_last_rx(), we return the oldest time when we've received an arp from any address in bond->params.arp_targets[]. If the value of arp_all_targets == 0 - we still work the same way as before. Also, update the documentation to reflect the new parameter. v3->v4: Kill the forgotten rtnl_unlock(), rephrase the documentation part to be more clear, don't fail setting arp_all_targets if arp_validate is not set - it has no effect anyway but can be easier to set up. Also, print a warning if the last arp_ip_target is removed while the arp_interval is on, but not the arp_validate. v2->v3: Use _bh spinlock, remove useless rtnl_lock() and use jiffies for new arp_ip_target last arp, instead of slave_last_rx(). On bond_enslave(), use the same initialization value for target_last_arp_rx[] as is used for the default last_arp_rx, to avoid useless interface flaps. Also, instead of failing to remove the last arp_ip_target just print a warning - otherwise it might break existing scripts. v1->v2: Correctly handle adding/removing hosts in arp_ip_target - we need to shift/initialize all slave's target_last_arp_rx. Also, don't fail module loading on arp_all_targets misconfiguration, just disable it, and some minor style fixes. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | bonding: doc: some details on backup slave arp validationVeaceslav Falico2013-06-251-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some details to bonding documentation on how backup slave arp validation works. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | doc: fix some syntax errors in netlink mmap sample codeCong Wang2013-06-251-2/+2
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | net: add doc for ip_early_demux sysctlCong Wang2013-06-121-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 6648bd7e0e62c0c8c03b (ipv4: Add sysctl knob to control early socket demux) introduced such sysctl, but forgot to add doc into Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt. This patch adds it. Basically I grab the doc from the description of commit 41063e9dd11956f2d285 (ipv4: Early TCP socket demux.) and the above commit. Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@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>
| * | doc:networking: Fix default value (icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses).Rami Rosen2013-06-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses default value to be 1 instead of FALSE. It is initialized to 1 in icmp_sk_init(). Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | doc: packet: simplify tpacket example codeDaniel Borkmann2013-06-071-105/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch simplifies the tpacket_v3 example code a bit by getting rid of unecessary macro wrappers, removing some debugging code so that it is more to the point, and also adds a header comment. Now this example code is the very minimum one needs to start from when dealing with tpacket_v3 and ~100 lines smaller than before. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | bonding: remove ifenslave.c from kernel sourceCong Wang2013-05-275-1157/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As Stephen proposed: Since bonding supports configuration via iproute (netlink) and sysfs, I think it is time to purge the old ifenslave code out of Documentation/networking and update the documentation. Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.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>
| * | doc:networking: Fix typo in documentation/networkingMasanari Iida2013-05-273-9/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Correct spelling typo Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | rps: document flow limit in scaling.txtWillem de Bruijn2013-05-231-0/+58
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Explain the mechanism and API of the recently merged rps flow limit patch. Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-07-043-8/+8
|\ \ \ | |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "The usual stuff from trivial tree" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits) treewide: relase -> release Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt: fix stat file documentation sysctl/net.txt: delete reference to obsolete 2.4.x kernel spinlock_api_smp.h: fix preprocessor comments treewide: Fix typo in printk doc: device tree: clarify stuff in usage-model.txt. open firmware: "/aliasas" -> "/aliases" md: bcache: Fixed a typo with the word 'arithmetic' irq/generic-chip: fix a few kernel-doc entries frv: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table sgi: xpc: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table doc: clk: Fix incorrect wording Documentation/arm/IXP4xx fix a typo Documentation/networking/ieee802154 fix a typo Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l fix a typo Documentation/video4linux/si476x.txt fix a typo Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt fix a typo Documentation/early-userspace/README fix a typo Documentation/video4linux/soc-camera.txt fix a typo lguest: fix CONFIG_PAE -> CONFIG_x86_PAE in comment ...
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