talos-obmc-linux/net/ethernet, branch v5.0

net: ethernet: provide nvmem_get_mac_address()

2018-12-03T23:40:30+00:00

We already have of_get_nvmem_mac_address() but some non-DT systems want to read the MAC address from NVMEM too. Implement a generalized routine that takes struct device as argument. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: slightly optimize eth_type_trans

2018-11-15T23:10:59+00:00

netperf udp stream shows that eth_type_trans takes certain cpu, so adjust the mac address check order, and firstly check if it is device address, and only check if it is multicast address only if not the device address. After this change: To unicast, and skb dst mac is device mac, this is most of time reduce a comparision To unicast, and skb dst mac is not device mac, nothing change To multicast, increase a comparision Before: 1.03% [kernel] [k] eth_type_trans After: 0.78% [kernel] [k] eth_type_trans Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu Signed-off-by: Li RongQing Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Convert GRO SKB handling to list_head.

2018-06-26T02:33:04+00:00

Manage pending per-NAPI GRO packets via list_head. Return an SKB pointer from the GRO receive handlers. When GRO receive handlers return non-NULL, it means that this SKB needs to be completed at this time and removed from the NAPI queue. Several operations are greatly simplified by this transformation, especially timing out the oldest SKB in the list when gro_count exceeds MAX_GRO_SKBS, and napi_gro_flush() which walks the queue in reverse order. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: core: rework basic flow dissection helper

2018-05-08T04:02:36+00:00

When the core networking needs to detect the transport offset in a given packet and parse it explicitly, a full-blown flow_keys struct is used for storage. This patch introduces a smaller keys store, rework the basic flow dissect helper to use it, and apply this new helper where possible - namely in skb_probe_transport_header(). The used flow dissector data structures are renamed to match more closely the new role. The above gives ~50% performance improvement in micro benchmarking around skb_probe_transport_header() and ~30% around eth_get_headlen(), mostly due to the smaller memset. Small, but measurable improvement is measured also in macro benchmarking. v1 -> v2: use the new helper in eth_get_headlen() and skb_get_poff(), as per DaveM suggestion Suggested-by: David Miller Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

networking: make skb_push & __skb_push return void pointers

2017-06-16T15:48:40+00:00

It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *, and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not. Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer was used directly, all done with the following spatch: @@ expression SKB, LEN; typedef u8; identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum }; @@ - *(fn(SKB, LEN)) + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN) @@ expression E, SKB, LEN; identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum }; type T; @@ - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN))) + E = fn(SKB, LEN) @@ expression SKB, LEN; identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum }; @@ - fn(SKB, LEN)[0] + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN) Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next

2017-02-17T02:25:49+00:00

Steffen Klassert says: ==================== pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2017-02-16 1) Make struct xfrm_input_afinfo const, nothing writes to it. From Florian Westphal. 2) Remove all places that write to the afinfo policy backend and make the struct const then. From Florian Westphal. 3) Prepare for packet consuming gro callbacks and add ESP GRO handlers. ESP packets can be decapsulated at the GRO layer then. It saves a round through the stack for each ESP packet. Please note that this has a merge coflict between commit 63fca65d0863 ("net: add confirm_neigh method to dst_ops") from net-next and 3d7d25a68ea5 ("xfrm: policy: remove garbage_collect callback") a2817d8b279b ("xfrm: policy: remove family field") from ipsec-next. The conflict can be solved as it is done in linux-next. Please pull or let me know if there are problems. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Add a skb_gro_flush_final helper.

2017-02-15T08:39:39+00:00

Add a skb_gro_flush_final helper to prepare for consuming skbs in call_gro_receive. We will extend this helper to not touch the skb if the skb is consumed by a gro callback with a followup patch. We need this to handle the upcomming IPsec ESP callbacks as they reinject the skb to the napi_gro_receive asynchronous. The handler is used in all gro_receive functions that can call the ESP gro handlers. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2017-02-11T07:31:11+00:00

net: introduce device min_header_len

2017-02-08T18:56:37+00:00

The stack must not pass packets to device drivers that are shorter than the minimum link layer header length. Previously, packet sockets would drop packets smaller than or equal to dev->hard_header_len, but this has false positives. Zero length payload is used over Ethernet. Other link layer protocols support variable length headers. Support for validation of these protocols removed the min length check for all protocols. Introduce an explicit dev->min_header_len parameter and drop all packets below this value. Initially, set it to non-zero only for Ethernet and loopback. Other protocols can follow in a patch to net-next. Fixes: 9ed988cd5915 ("packet: validate variable length ll headers") Reported-by: Sowmini Varadhan Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Sowmini Varadhan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add devm version of alloc_etherdev_mqs function

2017-01-30T00:24:12+00:00

This patch adds devm_alloc_etherdev_mqs function and devm_alloc_etherdev macro. These can be used for simpler netdev allocation without having to care about calling free_netdev. Thanks to this change drivers, their error paths and removal paths may get simpler by a bit. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki Signed-off-by: David S. Miller