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* sk-filter: Add ability to lock a socket filter programVincent Bernat2013-01-171-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While a privileged program can open a raw socket, attach some restrictive filter and drop its privileges (or send the socket to an unprivileged program through some Unix socket), the filter can still be removed or modified by the unprivileged program. This commit adds a socket option to lock the filter (SO_LOCK_FILTER) preventing any modification of a socket filter program. This is similar to OpenBSD BIOCLOCK ioctl on bpf sockets, except even root is not allowed change/drop the filter. The state of the lock can be read with getsockopt(). No error is triggered if the state is not changed. -EPERM is returned when a user tries to remove the lock or to change/remove the filter while the lock is active. The check is done directly in sk_attach_filter() and sk_detach_filter() and does not affect only setsockopt() syscall. Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller2013-01-151-4/+10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c Both conflicts were simply overlapping context. A build fix for qlcnic is in here too, simply removing the added devinit annotations which no longer exist. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * ip-sysctl: fix spelling errorsstephen hemminger2013-01-041-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * ipv6: document ndisc_notify in networking/ip-sysctl.txtHannes Frederic Sowa2013-01-041-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I slipped in a new sysctl without proper documentation. I would like to make up for this now. Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: phy: remove flags argument from phy_{attach, connect, connect_direct}Florian Fainelli2013-01-141-5/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The flags argument of the phy_{attach,connect,connect_direct} functions is then used to assign a struct phy_device dev_flags with its value. All callers but the tg3 driver pass the flag 0, which results in the underlying PHY drivers in drivers/net/phy/ not being able to actually use any of the flags they would set in dev_flags. This patch gets rid of the flags argument, and passes phydev->dev_flags to the internal PHY library call phy_attach_direct() such that drivers which actually modify a phy device dev_flags get the value preserved for use by the underlying phy driver. Acked-by: Kosta Zertsekel <konszert@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | networking/cs89x0.txt: delete stale information about hand patchingPaul Gortmaker2013-01-111-79/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Output of a git grep happened to make me look into this file, and I found instructions about how to hand patch (without using patch) the driver into the kernel tree. Since the driver has been a part of the mainline kernel for years, we can dump this whole section. Fortunately it doesn't even cause a renumbering of the sections to do so. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | doc: Clarify behavior when sysctl tcp_ecn = 1Vijay Subramanian2013-01-101-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Recent commit (commit 7e3a2dc52953 doc: make the description of how tcp_ecn works more explicit and clear ) clarified the behavior of tcp_ecn sysctl variable but description is inconsistent. When requested by incoming conections, ECN is enabled with not just tcp_ecn = 2 but also with tcp_ecn = 1. This patch makes it clear that with tcp_ecn = 1, ECN is enabled when requested by incoming connections. Also fix spelling of 'incoming'. Signed-off-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | netconsole: add IPv6 example in docCong Wang2013-01-081-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the netconsole document as well. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | rtnl: expose carrier value with possibility to set itJiri Pirko2012-12-281-0/+4
|/ | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* doc: Tighten-up and clarify description of tcp_fin_timeoutRick Jones2012-12-101-9/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | The description for tcp_fin_timeout should be tigher and more clear. In addition to being tighter, we should make the spelling of the state name consistent with what utilities report, remove the now dated reference to 2.2 and put the default in the consistent place. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: doc : use more suitable word 'unexpected' to replace 'secluded'Shan Wei2012-12-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | 'secluded' is used to describe places, not suitable here. Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: doc: add default value for neighbour parametersShan Wei2012-12-051-0/+8
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* doc: make the description of how tcp_ecn works more explicit and clearRick Jones2012-11-291-8/+9
| | | | | | | Make the description of how tcp_ecn works a bit more explicit and clear. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* stmmac: update the doc with new IRQ mitigationGiuseppe CAVALLARO2012-11-261-13/+15
| | | | | | | | This patch updates the stmmac.txt adding some information about the new rx/tx mitigation schema adopted in the driver. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller2012-11-251-2/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c Minor iwlwifi conflict in TX queue disabling between 'net', which removed a bogus warning, and 'net-next' which added some status register poking code. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * vxlan: fix command usage in its docZhi Yong Wu2012-11-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some commands don't work in its example doc. The patch will fix it. Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller2012-11-171-1/+1
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | Minor line offset auto-merges. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * doc/net: Fix typo in netdev-features.txtKirill Smelkov2012-11-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | doc: packet_mmap: update doc to implementation statusDaniel Borkmann2012-11-091-24/+209
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This improves the packet_mmap.txt document in the following ways: * Add initial information about different TPACKET versions * Add initial information about packet fanout * Add pointer to BPF document (since this also could be of interest) * 'Fix' minor, rather cosmetic things Information partially taken from related commit messages. Reported-by: Ronny Meeus <ronny.meeus@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel.borkmann@tik.ee.ethz.ch> Cc: Ulisses Alonso Camaró <uaca@alumni.uv.es> Cc: Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@gnu-log.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge tag 'batman-adv-for-davem' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-mergeDavid S. Miller2012-11-071-1/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Included changes: - minimal fixes to the packet layout to avoid the __packed attribute when not needed - new packet type called UNICAST_4ADDR: in this packet it is possible to find both source and destination node (in the classic UNICAST header only the destination field exists). - a new feature: Distributed ARP Table (D.A.T.). It aims to reduce ARP lookups latency by means of a simil-DHT approach.
| * | batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add a new debug log levelAntonio Quartulli2012-11-071-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A new log level has been added to concentrate messages regarding DAT: ARP snooping, requests, response and DHT related messages. The new log level is named BATADV_DBG_DAT Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
* | | packet: tx_ring: allow the user to choose tx data offsetPaul Chavent2012-11-071-0/+13
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The tx data offset of packet mmap tx ring used to be : (TPACKET2_HDRLEN - sizeof(struct sockaddr_ll)) The problem is that, with SOCK_RAW socket, the payload (14 bytes after the beginning of the user data) is misaligned. This patch allows to let the user gives an offset for it's tx data if he desires. Set sock option PACKET_TX_HAS_OFF to 1, then specify in each frame of your tx ring tp_net for SOCK_DGRAM, or tp_mac for SOCK_RAW. Signed-off-by: Paul Chavent <paul.chavent@onera.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | sctp: Make hmac algorithm selection for cookie generation dynamicNeil Horman2012-10-261-0/+14
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently sctp allows for the optional use of md5 of sha1 hmac algorithms to generate cookie values when establishing new connections via two build time config options. Theres no real reason to make this a static selection. We can add a sysctl that allows for the dynamic selection of these algorithms at run time, with the default value determined by the corresponding crypto library availability. This comes in handy when, for example running a system in FIPS mode, where use of md5 is disallowed, but SHA1 is permitted. Note: This new sysctl has no corresponding socket option to select the cookie hmac algorithm. I chose not to implement that intentionally, as RFC 6458 contains no option for this value, and I opted not to pollute the socket option namespace. Change notes: v2) * Updated subject to have the proper sctp prefix as per Dave M. * Replaced deafult selection options with new options that allow developers to explicitly select available hmac algs at build time as per suggestion by Vlad Y. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* vxlan: virtual extensible lanstephen hemminger2012-10-011-0/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is an implementation of Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network as described in draft RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 The driver integrates a Virtual Tunnel Endpoint (VTEP) functionality that learns MAC to IP address mapping. This implementation has not been tested only against the Linux userspace implementation using TAP, not against other vendor's equipment. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tcp: TCP Fast Open Server - header & support functionsJerry Chu2012-08-311-7/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds all the necessary data structure and support functions to implement TFO server side. It also documents a number of flags for the sysctl_tcp_fastopen knob, and adds a few Linux extension MIBs. In addition, it includes the following: 1. a new TCP_FASTOPEN socket option an application must call to supply a max backlog allowed in order to enable TFO on its listener. 2. A number of key data structures: "fastopen_rsk" in tcp_sock - for a big socket to access its request_sock for retransmission and ack processing purpose. It is non-NULL iff 3WHS not completed. "fastopenq" in request_sock_queue - points to a per Fast Open listener data structure "fastopen_queue" to keep track of qlen (# of outstanding Fast Open requests) and max_qlen, among other things. "listener" in tcp_request_sock - to point to the original listener for book-keeping purpose, i.e., to maintain qlen against max_qlen as part of defense against IP spoofing attack. 3. various data structure and functions, many in tcp_fastopen.c, to support server side Fast Open cookie operations, including /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen_key to allow manual rekeying. Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net:stmmac: Remove bus_id from mdio platform data.Srinivas Kandagatla2012-08-311-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes bus_id from mdio platform data, The reason to remove bus_id is, stmmac mdio bus_id is always same as stmmac bus-id, so there is no point in passing this in different variable. Also stmmac ethernet driver connects to phy with bus_id passed its platform data. So, having single bus-id is much simpler. Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tcp: Increase timeout for SYN segmentsAlex Bergmann2012-08-311-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 9ad7c049 ("tcp: RFC2988bis + taking RTT sample from 3WHS for the passive open side") changed the initRTO from 3secs to 1sec in accordance to RFC6298 (former RFC2988bis). This reduced the time till the last SYN retransmission packet gets sent from 93secs to 31secs. RFC1122 is stating that the retransmission should be done for at least 3 minutes, but this seems to be quite high. "However, the values of R1 and R2 may be different for SYN and data segments. In particular, R2 for a SYN segment MUST be set large enough to provide retransmission of the segment for at least 3 minutes. The application can close the connection (i.e., give up on the open attempt) sooner, of course." This patch increases the value of TCP_SYN_RETRIES to the value of 6, providing a retransmission window of 63secs. The comments for SYN and SYNACK retries have also been updated to describe the current settings. The same goes for the documentation file "Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt". Signed-off-by: Alexander Bergmann <alex@linlab.net> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* batman-adv: Add the backbone gateway list to debugfsSimon Wunderlich2012-08-231-3/+4
| | | | | | | | This is especially useful if there are no claims yet, but we still want to know which gateways are using bridge loop avoidance in the network. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
* bonding: support for IPv6 transmit hashingJohn Eaglesham2012-08-221-5/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the "bonding" driver does not support load balancing outgoing traffic in LACP mode for IPv6 traffic. IPv4 (and TCP or UDP over IPv4) are currently supported; this patch adds transmit hashing for IPv6 (and TCP or UDP over IPv6), bringing IPv6 up to par with IPv4 support in the bonding driver. In addition, bounds checking has been added to all transmit hashing functions. The algorithm chosen (xor'ing the bottom three quads of the source and destination addresses together, then xor'ing each byte of that result into the bottom byte, finally xor'ing with the last bytes of the MAC addresses) was selected after testing almost 400,000 unique IPv6 addresses harvested from server logs. This algorithm had the most even distribution for both big- and little-endian architectures while still using few instructions. Its behavior also attempts to closely match that of the IPv4 algorithm. The IPv6 flow label was intentionally not included in the hash as it appears to be unset in the vast majority of IPv6 traffic sampled, and the current algorithm not using the flow label already offers a very even distribution. Fragmented IPv6 packets are handled the same way as fragmented IPv4 packets, ie, they are not balanced based on layer 4 information. Additionally, IPv6 packets with intermediate headers are not balanced based on layer 4 information. In practice these intermediate headers are not common and this should not cause any problems, and the alternative (a packet-parsing loop and look-up table) seemed slow and complicated for little gain. Tested-by: John Eaglesham <linux@8192.net> Signed-off-by: John Eaglesham <linux@8192.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netconsole.txt: revision of examples for the receiver of kernel messagesDirk Gouders2012-08-141-2/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | There are at least 4 implementations of netcat with the BSD-based being the only one that has to be used without the -p switch to specify the listening port. Jan Engelhardt suggested to add an example for socat(1). Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ipv4: remove rt_cache_rebuild_countEric Dumazet2012-07-301-6/+0
| | | | | | | | After IP route cache removal, rt_cache_rebuild_count is no longer used. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net-next: minor cleanups for bonding documentationRick Jones2012-07-221-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | The section titled "Configuring Bonding for Maximum Throughput" is actually section twelve not thirteen, and there are a couple of words spelled incorrectly. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* sctp: Implement quick failover draft from tsvwgNeil Horman2012-07-221-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've seen several attempts recently made to do quick failover of sctp transports by reducing various retransmit timers and counters. While its possible to implement a faster failover on multihomed sctp associations, its not particularly robust, in that it can lead to unneeded retransmits, as well as false connection failures due to intermittent latency on a network. Instead, lets implement the new ietf quick failover draft found here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05 This will let the sctp stack identify transports that have had a small number of errors, and avoid using them quickly until their reliability can be re-established. I've tested this out on two virt guests connected via multiple isolated virt networks and believe its in compliance with the above draft and works well. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com> CC: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org CC: joe@perches.com Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2012-07-201-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch Jesse Gross says: ==================== A few bug fixes and small enhancements for net-next/3.6. ... Ansis Atteka (1): openvswitch: Do not send notification if ovs_vport_set_options() failed Ben Pfaff (1): openvswitch: Check gso_type for correct sk_buff in queue_gso_packets(). Jesse Gross (2): openvswitch: Enable retrieval of TCP flags from IPv6 traffic. openvswitch: Reset upper layer protocol info on internal devices. Leo Alterman (1): openvswitch: Fix typo in documentation. Pravin B Shelar (1): openvswitch: Check currect return value from skb_gso_segment() Raju Subramanian (1): openvswitch: Replace Nicira Networks. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * openvswitch: Fix typo in documentation.Leo Alterman2012-07-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Leo Alterman <lalterman@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
* | net-tcp: Fast Open client - cookie-less modeYuchung Cheng2012-07-191-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In trusted networks, e.g., intranet, data-center, the client does not need to use Fast Open cookie to mitigate DoS attacks. In cookie-less mode, sendmsg() with MSG_FASTOPEN flag will send SYN-data regardless of cookie availability. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net-tcp: Fast Open client - sendmsg(MSG_FASTOPEN)Yuchung Cheng2012-07-191-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sendmsg() (or sendto()) with MSG_FASTOPEN is a combo of connect(2) and write(2). The application should replace connect() with it to send data in the opening SYN packet. For blocking socket, sendmsg() blocks until all the data are buffered locally and the handshake is completed like connect() call. It returns similar errno like connect() if the TCP handshake fails. For non-blocking socket, it returns the number of bytes queued (and transmitted in the SYN-data packet) if cookie is available. If cookie is not available, it transmits a data-less SYN packet with Fast Open cookie request option and returns -EINPROGRESS like connect(). Using MSG_FASTOPEN on connecting or connected socket will result in simlar errno like repeating connect() calls. Therefore the application should only use this flag on new sockets. The buffer size of sendmsg() is independent of the MSS of the connection. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | bridge: update documentation referencesstephen hemminger2012-07-191-3/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the references to bridge utilities and web pages to current locations Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2Eric Dumazet2012-07-171-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind Reset attack using RST bit. Idea is to validate incoming RST sequence, to match RCV.NXT value, instead of previouly accepted window : (RCV.NXT <= SEG.SEQ < RCV.NXT+RCV.WND) If sequence is in window but not an exact match, send a "challenge ACK", so that the other part can resend an RST with the appropriate sequence. Add a new sysctl, tcp_challenge_ack_limit, to limit number of challenge ACK sent per second. Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent. (netstat -s | grep TCPChallengeACK) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella <kkiran@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | tcp: TCP Small QueuesEric Dumazet2012-07-111-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This introduce TSQ (TCP Small Queues) TSQ goal is to reduce number of TCP packets in xmit queues (qdisc & device queues), to reduce RTT and cwnd bias, part of the bufferbloat problem. sk->sk_wmem_alloc not allowed to grow above a given limit, allowing no more than ~128KB [1] per tcp socket in qdisc/dev layers at a given time. TSO packets are sized/capped to half the limit, so that we have two TSO packets in flight, allowing better bandwidth use. As a side effect, setting the limit to 40000 automatically reduces the standard gso max limit (65536) to 40000/2 : It can help to reduce latencies of high prio packets, having smaller TSO packets. This means we divert sock_wfree() to a tcp_wfree() handler, to queue/send following frames when skb_orphan() [2] is called for the already queued skbs. Results on my dev machines (tg3/ixgbe nics) are really impressive, using standard pfifo_fast, and with or without TSO/GSO. Without reduction of nominal bandwidth, we have reduction of buffering per bulk sender : < 1ms on Gbit (instead of 50ms with TSO) < 8ms on 100Mbit (instead of 132 ms) I no longer have 4 MBytes backlogged in qdisc by a single netperf session, and both side socket autotuning no longer use 4 Mbytes. As skb destructor cannot restart xmit itself ( as qdisc lock might be taken at this point ), we delegate the work to a tasklet. We use one tasklest per cpu for performance reasons. If tasklet finds a socket owned by the user, it sets TSQ_OWNED flag. This flag is tested in a new protocol method called from release_sock(), to eventually send new segments. [1] New /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_limit_output_bytes tunable [2] skb_orphan() is usually called at TX completion time, but some drivers call it in their start_xmit() handler. These drivers should at least use BQL, or else a single TCP session can still fill the whole NIC TX ring, since TSQ will have no effect. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Dave Taht <dave.taht@bufferbloat.net> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Matt Mathis <mattmathis@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | vxge/s2io: remove dead URLsJon Mason2012-07-102-19/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | URLs to neterion.com and s2io.com no longer resolve. Remove all references to these URLs in the driver source and documentation. Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | stmmac: update the driver Documentation and add EEEGiuseppe CAVALLARO2012-07-011-6/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch updates the stmmac's documentation adding some missing files in the section used to describe the internal driver's structure. Also the patch adds a new section to describe the EEE support. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | ipv4: Clarify in docs that accept_local requires rp_filter.David S. Miller2012-06-301-3/+8
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Documentation/networking/caif: Update documentationSjur Brændeland2012-06-251-64/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update drawing and remove description of old features. Add HSI and USB link layers to the drawing. Reported-by: Joerg Reisenweber <joerg.reisenweber@stericssion.com> Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericssion.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | canfd: update documentation according to CAN FD extensionsOliver Hartkopp2012-06-191-8/+146
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
* | batman-adv: Add get_ethtool_stats() supportMartin Hundebøll2012-06-181-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added additional counters in a bat_stats structure, which are exported through the ethtool api. The counters are specific to batman-adv and includes: forwarded packets and bytes management packets and bytes (aggregated OGMs at this point) translation table packets New counters are added by extending "enum bat_counters" in types.h and adding corresponding descriptive string(s) to bat_counters_strings in soft-iface.c. Counters are increased by calling batadv_add_counter() and incremented by one by calling batadv_inc_counter(). Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* | ipv4: Add interface option to enable routing of 127.0.0.0/8Thomas Graf2012-06-121-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Routing of 127/8 is tradtionally forbidden, we consider packets from that address block martian when routing and do not process corresponding ARP requests. This is a sane default but renders a huge address space practically unuseable. The RFC states that no address within the 127/8 block should ever appear on any network anywhere but it does not forbid the use of such addresses outside of the loopback device in particular. For example to address a pool of virtual guests behind a load balancer. This patch adds a new interface option 'route_localnet' enabling routing of the 127/8 address block and processing of ARP requests on a specific interface. Note that for the feature to work, the default local route covering 127/8 dev lo needs to be removed. Example: $ sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.eth0.route_localnet=1 $ ip route del 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo table local $ ip addr add 127.1.0.1/16 dev eth0 $ ip route flush cache V2: Fix invalid check to auto flush cache (thanks davem) Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller2012-06-061-19/+25
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| * | stmmac: update driver's docGiuseppe CAVALLARO2012-06-061-19/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixed the driver's documentation that was obsolete and didn't report new platform fields (recently added). Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Merge branch 'master' of git://gitorious.org/linux-can/linux-can-nextDavid S. Miller2012-06-061-16/+16
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