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* [IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approachAnanda Raju2005-10-281-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1Al Viro2005-10-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | - added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t; - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with typedef) and documents what's going on far better. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [NET]: Prefetch dev->qdisc_lock in dev_queue_xmit()Eric Dumazet2005-09-271-0/+2
| | | | | | | We know the lock is going to be taken. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [LLC]: Fix for Bugzilla ticket #5156Jochen Friedrich2005-09-221-0/+2
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
* [NET]: Fix sparse warningsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2005-08-291-6/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [NET]: Store skb->timestamp as offset to a base timestampPatrick McHardy2005-08-291-9/+19
| | | | | | | Reduces skb size by 8 bytes on 64-bit. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Remove explicit initializations of skb->input_devDavid S. Miller2005-08-291-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | Instead, set it in one place, namely the beginning of netif_receive_skb(). Based upon suggestions from Jamal Hadi Salim. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Kill skb->real_devDavid S. Miller2005-08-291-16/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [NETPOLL]: fix initialization/NAPI raceMatt Mackall2005-08-111-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a race during initialization with the NAPI softirq processing by using an RCU approach. This race was discovered when refill_skbs() was added to the setup code. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Fix busy waiting in dev_close().David S. Miller2005-07-281-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | If the current task has signal_pending(), the loop we have to wait for the __LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED bit to clear becomes a pure busy-loop. Fixed by using msleep() instead of the hand-crafted version. Noticed by Andrew Morton. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Fix sparse warningsVictor Fusco2005-07-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | From: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br> Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type" Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: improve readability of dev_set_promiscuity() in net/core/dev.cDavid Chau2005-07-051-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | A trivial patch to improve the readability of dev_set_promiscuity() in net/core/dev.c. New code does exactly the same thing as original code. Signed-off-by: David Chau <ddcc@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Separate two usages of netdev_max_backlog.Stephen Hemminger2005-06-231-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | Separate out the two uses of netdev_max_backlog. One controls the upper bound on packets processed per softirq, the new name for this is netdev_budget; the other controls the limit on packets queued via netif_rx. Increase the max_backlog default to account for faster processors. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Eliminate netif_rx massive packet drops.Stephen Hemminger2005-06-231-19/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [NET]: Remove obsolete netif_rx congestion sensing mechanism.Stephen Hemminger2005-06-231-87/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [NET]: Remove obsolete fastroute stats.Stephen Hemminger2005-06-231-8/+2
| | | | | | | 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>
* [NET]: Fix sysctl net.core.dev_weightStephen Hemminger2005-06-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Changing the sysctl net.core.dev_weight has no effect because the weight of the backlog devices is set during initialization and never changed. This patch propagates any changes to the global value affected by sysctl to the per-cpu devices. It is done every time the packet handler function is run. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [BRIDGE]: features change notificationStephen Hemminger2005-05-291-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] update Ross Biro bouncing email addressJesper Juhl2005-05-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _schedPaul E. McKenney2005-05-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | This patch changes calls to synchronize_kernel(), deprecated in the earlier "Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement" patch to instead call the new synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() APIs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [NET]: Document ->hard_start_xmit() locking in comments.Ben Greear2005-04-241-0/+13
| | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+3359
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!
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