Datagram coalescing is an integral part of the NCM and MBIM
protocols, intended to reduce the interrupt load primarily
on the device end of the USB link. As with all coalescing
solutions, there is a trade-off between buffering and
interrupts.
The current defaults are based on the assumption that device
side buffers should be the limiting factor. However, many
modern high speed LTE modems suffers from buffer-bloat,
making this assumption fail. This results in sub-optimal
performance due to excessive coalescing. And in cases where
such modems are connected to cheap embedded hosts there is
often severe buffer allocation issues, giving very noticeable
performance degradation .
A start on improving this is going from build time hard
coded limits to per device user configurable limits. The
ethtool coalescing API was selected as user interface
because, although the tuned values are buffer sizes, these
settings directly control datagram coalescing.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Finish the rx_max/tx_max setup by flushing buffers and
informing usbnet about the changes. This way, the settings
can be modified while the netdev is up and running.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that we have split out the part of the device setup
which MUST be done with the data interface in altsetting 0,
we can delay the rest of the initialization. This allows us
to move some of post-init buffer size config from bind to
the appropriate setup function.
The purpose of this refactoring is to collect all code
adjusting the rx_max and tx_max buffers in one place, so
that it is easier to call it from multiple call sites.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Split the parts of setup dealing with device initialization from
parts just setting defaults for attributes which might be
changed after initialization.
Some commands of the device initialization are only allowed when
the data interface is in its disabled altsetting, so we must
separate them out of we are to allow rerunning parts of setup.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Split out the part of setup dealing with updating the rx_max
and tx_max buffer sizes so that this code can be reused for
dynamically updating the limits.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Phoebe Buckheister says:
====================
802154: implement link-layer security
This patch series implements 802.15.4-2011 link layer security.
Patches 1 and 2 prepare for llsec by adding data structures to represent the
llsec PIB as specified in 802.15.4-2011. I've changed some structures from
their specification to be more sensible, since 802.15.4 specifies some
structures in not-exactly-useful ways. Nested lists are common, but not very
accessible for netlink methods, and not very fast to traverse when searching
for specific elements either.
Patch 3 implements backends for these structures in mac802154.
Patch 4 and 5 implement the encryption and decryption methods, split from patch
3 to ease review. The encryption and decryption methods are almost entirely
compliant with the specified outgoing/incoming frame procedures. Decryption
deviates from the specification slightly where the specification makes no
sense, i.e. encrypted frames with security level 0 may be sent, but must be
dropped an reception - but transforms for processing such frames are given a
few lines in the standard. I've opted to not drop these frames instead of not
implementing the transforms that wouldn't be used if they were dropped.
Patch 6 links the mac802154 llsec with the SoftMAC devices. This is mainly
init//fini code for llsec context, handling of security subheaders and calling
the encryption/decryption methods.
Patch 7 adds sockopts to 802.15.4 dgram sockets to modifiy outgoing security
parameters on a per-socket basis. Ideally, this would also be available for
sockets on 6lowpan devices, but I'm not sure how to do that nicely.
Patch 8 adds forwarders to the llsec configuration methods for netlink, patch
10 implements these netlink accessors. This is mainly mechanical.
Patch 11, implements a key tracking option for devices that previous patches
haven't, because I'm not entirely sure whether this is the best approach to the
problem. It performs reasonably well though, so I decided to include it as a
separate patch in this series instead of sending an RFC just for this one
option.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The 802.15.4-2011 standard states that for each key, a list of devices
that use this key shall be kept. Previous patches have only considered
two options:
* a device "uses" (or may use) all keys, rendering the list useless
* a device is restricted to a certain set of keys
Another option would be that a device *may* use all keys, but need not
do so, and we are interested in the actual set of keys the device uses.
Recording keys used by any given device may have a noticable performance
impact and might not be needed as often. The common case, in which a
device will not switch keys too often, should still perform well.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds user-visible interfaces for the llsec infrastructure.
For the added methods, the only major difference between all add/remove
implementation lies in how the specific object is parsed, and for dump
requests, how objects are written into netlink messages.
To save on boilerplate code, table dumps are routed through a helper
function that handles netlink dump state, leaving the actual dumping
code to care only about iterating over the table to be dumped and
filling netlink messages. For add/remove methods, the boilerplate
required to work is not quite as large, but still enough to also move
into a local helper.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allow datagram sockets to override the security settings of the device
they send from on a per-socket basis. Requires CAP_NET_ADMIN or
CAP_NET_RAW, since raw sockets can send arbitrary packets anyway.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds containers and mutators for the major ieee802154_llsec
structures to mac802154. Most of the (rather simple) ieee802154_llsec
structs are wrapped only to provide an rcu_head for orderly disposal,
but some structs - llsec keys notably - require more complex
bookkeeping.
Since each llsec key may be referenced by a number of llsec key table
entries (with differing key ids, but the same actual key), we want to
save memory and not allocate crypto transforms for each entry in the
table. Thus, the mac802154 llsec key is reference-counted instead.
Further, each key will have four associated crypto transforms - three
CCM transforms for the authsizes 4/8/16 and one CTR transform for
unauthenticated encryption. If we had a CCM* transform that allowed
authsize 0, and authsize as part of requests instead of transforms, this
would not be necessary.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Link-layer security requires AES CCM for authenticated modes and AES CTR
for the unauthenticated encryption mode.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The added structures match 802.15.4-2011 link-layer security PIBs as
closely as is reasonable. Some lists required by the standard were
modeled as bitmaps (frame_types and command_frame_ids in *llsec_key,
802.15.4-2011 7.5/Table 61), since using lists for those seems a bit
excessive and not particularly useful. The DeviceDescriptorHandleList
was inverted and is here a per-device list, since operations on this
list are likely to have both a key and a device at hand, and per-device
lists of keys are shorter than per-key lists of devices.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jesse Gross says:
====================
A set of OVS changes for net-next/3.16.
The major change here is a switch from per-CPU to per-NUMA flow
statistics. This improves scalability by reducing kernel overhead
in flow setup and maintenance.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thomas Petazzoni says:
====================
Add DT support for fixed PHYs
Here is a fourth version of the patch set that adds a Device Tree
binding and the related code to support fixed PHYs. I'm hoping to get
this merged in 3.16.
Changes since v3:
* Rebased on top of v3.15-rc5
* In patch "net: phy: decouple PHY id and PHY address in fixed PHY
driver", changed the PHY ID of fixed PHYs from 0xdeadbeef to 0x0,
as suggested by Grant Likely.
* Fixed the !CONFIG_PHY_FIXED case in patch "net: phy: extend fixed
driver with fixed_phy_register()". Noticed by Florian Fainelli.
* Added Acked-by from Grant Likely and Florian Fainelli on patch
"net: phy: extend fixed driver with fixed_phy_register()".
* Reworked the new fixed-link DT binding to be just a sub-node of the
Ethernet MAC node, and not a node referenced by the 'phy'
property. This was requested by Grant Likely.
* Reworked the code implementing the new DT binding to also make it
accept the old, single property based, DT binding.
* Added a patch that actually uses the new fixed link DT binding for
the Armada XP Matrix board.
Changes since v2:
* Rebased on top of v3.14-rc1, and re-tested on hardware.
* Removed the RFC tag, since there seems to be some real interest in
this feature, and the code has gone through several iterations
already.
* The error handling in fixed_phy_register() has been fixed.
Changes since v1:
* Instead of using a 'fixed-link' property inside the Ethernet device
DT node, with a fairly cryptic succession of integer values, we now
use a PHY subnode under the Ethernet device DT node, with explicit
properties to configure the duplex, speed, pause and other PHY
properties.
* The PHY address is automatically allocated by the kernel and no
longer visible in the Device Tree binding.
* The PHY device is created directly when the network driver calls
of_phy_connect_fixed_link(), and associated to the PHY DT node,
which allows the existing of_phy_connect() function to work,
without the need to use the deprecated of_phy_connect_fixed_link().
Posts of previous versions:
RFCv1: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg243253.html
RFCv2: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-September/196919.html
PATCHv3: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg273117.html
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The Armada XP Matrix board has an Ethernet PHY that isn't configurable
through the MDIO bus, so we use the newly introduced fixed-link PHY DT
binding to represent the PHY of this platform and get network working.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Following the introduction of of_phy_register_fixed_link(), this patch
introduces fixed link support in the mvneta driver, for Marvell Armada
370/XP SOCs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some Ethernet MACs have a "fixed link", and are not connected to a
normal MDIO-managed PHY device. For those situations, a Device Tree
binding allows to describe a "fixed link" using a special PHY node.
This patch adds:
* A documentation for the fixed PHY Device Tree binding.
* An of_phy_is_fixed_link() function that an Ethernet driver can call
on its PHY phandle to find out whether it's a fixed link PHY or
not. It should typically be used to know if
of_phy_register_fixed_link() should be called.
* An of_phy_register_fixed_link() function that instantiates the
fixed PHY into the PHY subsystem, so that when the driver calls
of_phy_connect(), the PHY device associated to the OF node will be
found.
These two additional functions also support the old fixed-link Device
Tree binding used on PowerPC platforms, so that ultimately, the
network device drivers for those platforms could be converted to use
of_phy_is_fixed_link() and of_phy_register_fixed_link() instead of
of_phy_connect_fixed_link(), while keeping compatibility with their
respective Device Tree bindings.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The existing fixed_phy_add() function has several drawbacks that
prevents it from being used as is for OF-based declaration of fixed
PHYs:
* The address of the PHY on the fake bus needs to be passed, while a
dynamic allocation is desired.
* Since the phy_device instantiation is post-poned until the next
mdiobus scan, there is no way to associate the fixed PHY with its
OF node, which later prevents of_phy_connect() from finding this
fixed PHY from a given OF node.
To solve this, this commit introduces fixed_phy_register(), which will
allocate an available PHY address, add the PHY using fixed_phy_add()
and instantiate the phy_device structure associated with the provided
OF node.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Until now, the fixed_phy_add() function was taking as argument
'phy_id', which was used both as the PHY address on the fake fixed
MDIO bus, and as the PHY id, as available in the MII_PHYSID1 and
MII_PHYSID2 registers. However, those two informations are completely
unrelated.
This patch decouples them. The PHY id of fixed PHYs is hardcoded to be
0x0. Ideally, a really reserved value would be nicer, but there
doesn't seem to be an easy of making sure a dummy value can be
assigned to the Linux kernel for such usage.
The PHY address remains passed by the caller of phy_fixed_add().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Bjørn Mork
Thomas Graf
David S. Miller
Phoebe Buckheister
Thomas Petazzoni