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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-14 10:37:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-14 10:37:28 -0700
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits) netxen: update copyright netxen: fix tx timeout recovery netxen: fix file firmware leak netxen: improve pci memory access netxen: change firmware write size tg3: Fix return ring size breakage netxen: build fix for INET=n cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr() ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded ... Fixed up trivial conflicts: - arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine. - drivers/net/tun.c fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use. Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/00-INDEX2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt47
3 files changed, 50 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
index 1634c6dcecae..50189bf07d53 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ framerelay.txt
- info on using Frame Relay/Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI).
generic_netlink.txt
- info on Generic Netlink
+ieee802154.txt
+ - Linux IEEE 802.15.4 implementation, API and drivers
ip-sysctl.txt
- /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* variables
ip_dynaddr.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt b/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt
index a0280ad2edc9..23c995e64032 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ int sd = socket(PF_IEEE802154, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
.....
The address family, socket addresses etc. are defined in the
-include/net/ieee802154/af_ieee802154.h header or in the special header
+include/net/af_ieee802154.h header or in the special header
in our userspace package (see either linux-zigbee sourceforge download page
or git tree at git://linux-zigbee.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/linux-zigbee).
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ MLME - MAC Level Management
============================
Most of IEEE 802.15.4 MLME interfaces are directly mapped on netlink commands.
-See the include/net/ieee802154/nl802154.h header. Our userspace tools package
+See the include/net/nl802154.h header. Our userspace tools package
(see above) provides CLI configuration utility for radio interfaces and simple
coordinator for IEEE 802.15.4 networks as an example users of MLME protocol.
@@ -54,10 +54,14 @@ Those types of devices require different approach to be hooked into Linux kernel
HardMAC
=======
-See the header include/net/ieee802154/netdevice.h. You have to implement Linux
+See the header include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h. You have to implement Linux
net_device, with .type = ARPHRD_IEEE802154. Data is exchanged with socket family
-code via plain sk_buffs. The control block of sk_buffs will contain additional
-info as described in the struct ieee802154_mac_cb.
+code via plain sk_buffs. On skb reception skb->cb must contain additional
+info as described in the struct ieee802154_mac_cb. During packet transmission
+the skb->cb is used to provide additional data to device's header_ops->create
+function. Be aware, that this data can be overriden later (when socket code
+submits skb to qdisc), so if you need something from that cb later, you should
+store info in the skb->data on your own.
To hook the MLME interface you have to populate the ml_priv field of your
net_device with a pointer to struct ieee802154_mlme_ops instance. All fields are
@@ -69,8 +73,8 @@ We provide an example of simple HardMAC driver at drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c
SoftMAC
=======
-We are going to provide intermediate layer impelementing IEEE 802.15.4 MAC
+We are going to provide intermediate layer implementing IEEE 802.15.4 MAC
in software. This is currently WIP.
-See header include/net/ieee802154/mac802154.h and several drivers in
-drivers/ieee802154/
+See header include/net/mac802154.h and several drivers in drivers/ieee802154/.
+
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 8be76235fe67..fbe427a6580c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -311,9 +311,12 @@ tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
connections.
tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
- How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed
- by our side. Default value 7 corresponds to ~50sec-16min
- depending on RTO. If you machine is loaded WEB server,
+ This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
+ when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
+ See tcp_retries2 for more details.
+
+ The default value is 7.
+ If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
@@ -327,16 +330,28 @@ tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
certain TCP stacks.
tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
- How many times to retry before deciding that something is wrong
- and it is necessary to report this suspicion to network layer.
- Minimal RFC value is 3, it is default, which corresponds
- to ~3sec-8min depending on RTO.
+ This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
+ something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
+ and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
+ See tcp_retries2 for more details.
+
+ RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
+ default.
tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
- How may times to retry before killing alive TCP connection.
- RFC1122 says that the limit should be longer than 100 sec.
- It is too small number. Default value 15 corresponds to ~13-30min
- depending on RTO.
+ This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
+ when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
+ Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
+ exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
+ retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
+
+ The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
+ seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
+ TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
+ hypothetical timeout.
+
+ RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
+ which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
@@ -1282,6 +1297,16 @@ sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
See tcp_wmem for a description.
+addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
+ Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
+
+ 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping
+ 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping
+ 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
+ 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
+
+ Default: 1
+
/proc/sys/net/core/*
dev_weight - INTEGER
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