I found the PPP subsystem to not work properly when connecting channels
with different speeds to the same bundle.
Problem Description:
As the "ppp_mp_explode" function fragments the sk_buff buffer evenly
among the PPP channels that are connected to a certain PPP unit to
make up a bundle, if we are transmitting using an upper layer protocol
that requires an Ack before sending the next packet (like TCP/IP for
example), we will have a bandwidth bottleneck on the slowest channel
of the bundle.
Let's clarify by an example. Let's consider a scenario where we have
two PPP links making up a bundle: a slow link (10KB/sec) and a fast
link (1000KB/sec) working at the best (full bandwidth). On the top we
have a TCP/IP stack sending a 1000 Bytes sk_buff buffer down to the
PPP subsystem. The "ppp_mp_explode" function will divide the buffer in
two fragments of 500B each (we are neglecting all the headers, crc,
flags etc?.). Before the TCP/IP stack sends out the next buffer, it
will have to wait for the ACK response from the remote peer, so it
will have to wait for both fragments to have been sent over the two
PPP links, received by the remote peer and reconstructed. The
resulting behaviour is that, rather than having a bundle working
@1010KB/sec (the sum of the channels bandwidths), we'll have a bundle
working @20KB/sec (the double of the slowest channels bandwidth).
Problem Solution:
The problem has been solved by redesigning the "ppp_mp_explode"
function in such a way to make it split the sk_buff buffer according
to the speeds of the underlying PPP channels (the speeds of the serial
interfaces respectively attached to the PPP channels). Referring to
the above example, the redesigned "ppp_mp_explode" function will now
divide the 1000 Bytes buffer into two fragments whose sizes are set
according to the speeds of the channels where they are going to be
sent on (e.g . 10 Byets on 10KB/sec channel and 990 Bytes on
1000KB/sec channel). The reworked function grants the same
performances of the original one in optimal working conditions (i.e. a
bundle made up of PPP links all working at the same speed), while
greatly improving performances on the bundles made up of channels
working at different speeds.
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
skb->len is an unsigned int, so the test in x25_rx_call_request() always
evaluates to true.
len in x25_sendmsg() is unsigned as well. so -ERRORS returned by x25_output()
are not noticed.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Windows (XP at least) hosts on boot, with configured static ip, performing
address conflict detection, which is defined in RFC3927.
Here is quote of important information:
"
An ARP announcement is identical to the ARP Probe described above,
except that now the sender and target IP addresses are both set
to the host's newly selected IPv4 address.
"
But it same time this goes wrong with RFC5227.
"
The 'sender IP address' field MUST be set to all zeroes; this is to avoid
polluting ARP caches in other hosts on the same link in the case
where the address turns out to be already in use by another host.
"
When ARP proxy configured, it must not answer to both cases, because
it is address conflict verification in any case. For Windows it is just
causing to detect false "ip conflict". Already there is code for RFC5227, so
just trivially we just check also if source ip == target ip.
Signed-off-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When mv643xx_eth_open() is called to up an interface, port_start()
will first re-program the unicast address filter, and then
re-initialise the PORT_CONFIG register, but that will disable unicast
promiscuous mode if it was enabled by the unicast address filter setup.
This isn't a problem on ifconfig up, as ->set_rx_mode() will be called
shortly afterwards which will program the filters again, but it does
trigger when changing the MTU, which calls mv643xx_eth_stop() and then
mv643xx_eth_open() by hand to repopulate the receive rings with skbuffs
of the new size.
Swap the initialisation of the PORT_START register and the call to
the unicast filter setup function to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The original patch was submitted last year but wasn't discussed or applied
because of missing maintainer's CCs. I only fixed some formatting errors,
but as I saw tulip is very badly formatted and needs further work.
Original description:
This patch fixes MTU problem, which occurs when using 802.1q VLANs. We
should allow receiving frames of up to 1518 bytes in length, instead of
1514.
Based on patch written by Ben McKeegan for 2.4.x kernels. It is archived
at http://www.candelatech.com/~greear/vlan/howto.html#tulip
I've adjusted a few things to make it apply on 2.6.x kernels.
Tested on D-Link DFE-570TX quad-fastethernet card.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Lemiech <szpajder@staszic.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben McKeegan <ben@netservers.co.uk>
Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It closes a race in phy_stop_machine when reprogramming of phy_timer
(from phy_state_machine) happens between del_timer_sync and cancel_work_sync.
Without this change it could lead to crash if phy_device would be freed after
phy_stop_machine (timer would fire and schedule freed work).
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The change to make xfrm_state objects hash on source address
broke the case where such source addresses are wildcarded.
Fix this by doing a two phase lookup, first with fully specified
source address, next using saddr wildcarded.
Reported-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@dev.6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch fixes the circular locking problem by changing the locking strategy
concerning the logging of firmware handles.
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The EMAC variant in the 405EX and 405EXr chips needs the "440EP" type clock
control workaround to avoid lockups of the Rx side during reset.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Felix Radensky <felix@embedded-sol.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Multiple unicast address support appears to have been broken with the
change to support net_device_ops. This a regression from 2.6.28 to 2.6.29.
I'm not 100% on whether ndo_set_multicast_list can be NULL after this
or not. If ndo_set_rx_mode is set everything _should_ be using it.
Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The dma-debug changes caught that this driver uses the
wrong DMA mapping length when skb_padto() does something.
With suggestions from Eric Dumazet.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Changing the mac address when a macvlan device is up will leave the
device on the wrong hash chain making it impossible to receive
packets.
There is no checking of the mac address set on the macvlan. Allowing
a misconfiguration to grab packets from the the underlying device or
another macvlan.
To resolve these problems I update the hash table of macvlans when the
mac address of a macvlan changes, and when updating the hash table
I verify that the new mac address is usable.
The result is well defined and predictable if not perfect handling of
mac vlan mac addresses.
To keep the code clear I have created a set of hash table maintenance
in macvlan so I am not open coding the hash function and the logic
needed to update the hash table all over the place.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When running in a network namespace whose only link to
the outside world is a macvlan device, not being
able to create another macvlan is a real pain.
So modify macvlan creation to allow automatically forward
a creation of a macvlan on a macvlan to become a creation
of a macvlan on the underlying network device.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch from Juha Leppanen suppresses a false warning if the eeprom
load succeeds on the very last attempt.
Juha> In function smsc911x_open smsc911x_reg_read+udelay can be run 50
Juha> times with timeout reaching -1, and the following if statetement
Juha> does not catch the timeout and no warning is issued. Also if the
Juha> 50th smsc911x_reg_read is GOOD, loop is exited with timeout as 0
Juha> and bogus warning issued. Replace testing order and --timeout
Juha> instead of timeout-- and now max 50 smsc911x_reg_read's are done,
Juha> with max 49 udelays.
Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch from Juha Leppanen suppresses a false warning if a fast
forward operation succeeds on the very last attempt.
Juha> If smsc911x_reg_read loop is executed 500 times, timeout reaches 0
Juha> and the 500th smsc911x_reg_read result in val is ignored. If
Juha> testing order is changed, then val is checked first. The 500th
Juha> reg_read might be GOOD, why ignore it!
Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
commit 1577ecef76
Author: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 16:42:12 2009 -0800
netdev: Merge UCC and gianfar MDIO bus drivers
left out the deletion of gianfar_mii.c.
Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Similar patch as for 8139cp posted yesterday, so the same comment:
So far there was not a chance to set a mac address on running 8139too device.
This is for example needed when you want to use this NIC as a bonding slave in
bonding device in mode balance-alb. This simple patch allows it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
So far there was not a chance to set a mac address on running 8139cp device.
This is for example needed when you want to use this NIC as a bonding slave in
bonding device in mode balance-alb. This simple patch allows it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Gabriele Paoloni
Roel Kluin
Denys Fedoryshchenko
Lennert Buytenhek
Tomasz Lemiech
Marcin Slusarz
David S. Miller
Pavel Roskin
Jan-Bernd Themann
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Chris Leech
Dave Jones
Eric Biederman
Steve Glendinning
Neil Horman
Andy Fleming
Jiri Pirko