This patch add support for keeping an additional character alias
associated with an network interface. This is useful for maintaining
the SNMP ifAlias value which is a user defined value. Routers use this
to hold information like which circuit or line it is connected to. It
is just an arbitrary text label on the network device.
There are two exposed interfaces with this patch, the value can be
read/written either via netlink or sysfs.
This could be maintained just by the snmp daemon, but it is more
generally useful for other management tools, and the kernel is good
place to act as an agreed upon interface to store it.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As it stands users of netdev_compute_features (e.g., bridges/bonding)
will only enable TSO if all consituent devices support it. This
is unnecessarily pessimistic since even on devices that do not
support hardware TSO and SG, emulated TSO still performs to a par
with TSO off.
This patch enables TSO if at least on constituent device supports
it in hardware.
The direct beneficiaries will be virtualisation that uses bridging
since this means that TSO will always be enabled for communication
from the host to the guests.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net_tx_action() can skip __QDISC_STATE_SCHED bit clearing while qdisc
is neither ran nor rescheduled, which may cause endless loop in
dev_deactivate().
Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Tested-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If dev_deactivate() is trying to quiesce the queue, it
is theoretically possible for another cpu to livelock
trying to process that queue. This happens because
dev_deactivate() grabs the queue spinlock as it checks
the queue state, whereas net_tx_action() does a trylock
and reschedules the qdisc if it hits the lock.
This breaks the livelock by adding a check on
__QDISC_STATE_DEACTIVATED to net_tx_action() when
the trylock fails.
Based upon feedback from Herbert Xu and Jarek Poplawski.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Change handling of the __QDISC_STATE_SCHED flag in net_tx_action() to
enable proper control in dev_deactivate(). Now, if this flag is seen
as unset under root_lock means a qdisc can't be netif_scheduled.
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This new state lets dev_deactivate() mark a qdisc as having been
deactivated.
dev_queue_xmit() and ing_filter() check for this bit and do not
try to process the qdisc if the bit is set.
dev_deactivate() polls the qdisc after setting the bit, waiting
for both __QDISC_STATE_RUNNING and __QDISC_STATE_SCHED to clear.
This isn't perfect yet, but subsequent changesets will make it so.
This part is just one piece of the puzzle.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If a packet_type specifies an active slave to bonding and not just any
interface, allow it to receive frames that came in on that interface.
Signed-off-by: Joe Eykholt <jre@nuovasystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Allow a packet_type that specifies the exact device to receive
even on an inactive bonding slave devices. This is important for some
L2 protocols such as LLDP and FCoE. This can eventually be used
for the bonding special cases as well.
Signed-off-by: Joe Eykholt <jre@nuovasystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> noticed that it would be nice to
handle NET_XMIT_BYPASS by NET_XMIT_SUCCESS with an internal qdisc flag
__NET_XMIT_BYPASS and to remove the mapping from dev_queue_xmit().
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> spotted a serious bug in the first
version of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Avoid the overhead of atomic increment/decrement on each received packet.
This helps performance of non-NAPI devices (like loopback).
Use cleanup function to walk queue on each cpu and clean out any
left over packets.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If a netdevice does not support hardware GSO, allowing the stack to
use GSO anyway and then splitting the GSO skb into MSS-sized pieces
as it is handed to the netdevice for transmitting is likely still
a win as far as throughput and/or CPU usage are concerned, since it
reduces the number of trips through the output path.
This patch enables the use of GSO on any netdevice that supports SG.
If a GSO skb is then sent to a netdevice that supports SG but does not
support hardware GSO, net/core/dev.c:dev_hard_start_xmit() will take
care of doing the necessary GSO segmentation in software.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Based upon a bug report by Jeff Kirsher.
Don't use qdisc_root_lock() in these cases as the root
qdisc could have been changed, and we'd thus lock the
wrong object.
Tested by Emil S Tantilov who confirms that this seems
to fix the problem.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When support for multiple TX queues were added, the
netif_tx_lock() routines we converted to iterate over
all TX queues and grab each queue's spinlock.
This causes heartburn for lockdep and it's not a healthy
thing to do with lots of TX queues anyways.
So modify this to use a top-level lock and a "frozen"
state for the individual TX queues.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Bug report from Steven Jan Springl:
Issuing the following command causes a kernel oops:
tc qdisc add dev eth0 handle ffff: ingress
The problem mostly stems from all of the special case handling of
ingress qdiscs.
So, to fix this, do the grafting operation the same way we do for TX
qdiscs. Which means that dev_activate() and dev_deactivate() now do
the "qdisc_sleeping <--> qdisc" transitions on dev->rx_queue too.
Future simplifications are possible now, mainly because it is
impossible for dev_queue->{qdisc,qdisc_sleeping} to be NULL. There
are NULL checks all over to handle the ingress qdisc special case
that used to exist before this commit.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
netns: fix ip_rt_frag_needed rt_is_expired
netfilter: nf_conntrack_extend: avoid unnecessary "ct->ext" dereferences
netfilter: fix double-free and use-after free
netfilter: arptables in netns for real
netfilter: ip{,6}tables_security: fix future section mismatch
selinux: use nf_register_hooks()
netfilter: ebtables: use nf_register_hooks()
Revert "pkt_sched: sch_sfq: dump a real number of flows"
qeth: use dev->ml_priv instead of dev->priv
syncookies: Make sure ECN is disabled
net: drop unused BUG_TRAP()
net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON
drivers/net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON
Removes legacy reinvent-the-wheel type thing. The generic
machinery integrates much better to automated debugging aids
such as kerneloops.org (and others), and is unambiguous due to
better naming. Non-intuively BUG_TRAP() is actually equal to
WARN_ON() rather than BUG_ON() though some might actually be
promoted to BUG_ON() but I left that to future.
I could make at least one BUILD_BUG_ON conversion.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
pkt_sched: sch_sfq: dump a real number of flows
atm: [fore200e] use MODULE_FIRMWARE() and other suggested cleanups
netfilter: make security table depend on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
tcp: Clear probes_out more aggressively in tcp_ack().
e1000e: fix e1000_netpoll(), remove extraneous e1000_clean_tx_irq() call
net: Update entry in af_family_clock_key_strings
netdev: Remove warning from __netif_schedule().
sky2: don't stop queue on shutdown
* 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in speedstep-centrino.c
cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros, FIXUP
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in cpufreq userspace routines
NR_CPUS: Replace per_cpu(..., smp_processor_id()) with __get_cpu_var
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genapic_flat_64.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c, fix
cpumask: Use optimized CPUMASK_ALLOC macros in the centrino_target
cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in kernel/time/tick-common.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_main.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
cpumask: Replace cpumask_of_cpu with cpumask_of_cpu_ptr
Revert "cpumask: introduce new APIs"
cpumask: make for_each_cpu_mask a bit smaller
net: Pass reference to cpumask variable in net/sunrpc/svc.c
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c manually
It isn't helping anything and we aren't going to be able to change all
the drivers that do queue wakeups in strange situations.
Just letting a noop_qdisc get scheduled will work because when
qdisc_run() executes via net_tx_work() it will simply find no packets
pending when it makes the ->dequeue() call in qdisc_restart.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The new address list lock needs to handle the same device layering
issues that the _xmit_lock one does.
This integrates work done by Patrick McHardy.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The function header comments have to go with the functions
they are documenting, or things go horribly wrong when we
try to process them with the docbook tools.
Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1006): No description found for parameter 'dev_queue'
Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1033): No description found for parameter 'dev_queue'
Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1067): No description found for parameter 'dev_queue'
Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1093): No description found for parameter 'dev_queue'
Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1474): No description found for parameter 'txq'
Error(net/core/dev.c:1674): cannot understand prototype: 'u32 simple_tx_hashrnd; '
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemminger
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
David S. Miller
Herbert Xu
Jarek Poplawski
Joe Eykholt
Lennert Buytenhek
Linus Torvalds
Ilpo Järvinen
Dave Jones