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Cong Wang
200b916f35 rtnetlink: wait for unregistering devices in rtnl_link_unregister()
From: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>

commit 50624c934d (net: Delay default_device_exit_batch until no
devices are unregistering) introduced rtnl_lock_unregistering() for
default_device_exit_batch(). Same race could happen we when rmmod a driver
which calls rtnl_link_unregister() as we call dev->destructor without rtnl
lock.

For long term, I think we should clean up the mess of netdev_run_todo()
and net namespce exit code.

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-15 15:30:33 -04:00
John Fastabend
85328240c6 net: allow netdev_all_upper_get_next_dev_rcu with rtnl lock held
It is useful to be able to walk all upper devices when bringing
a device online where the RTNL lock is held. In this case it
is safe to walk the all_adj_list because the RTNL lock is used
to protect the write side as well.

This patch adds a check to see if the rtnl lock is held before
throwing a warning in netdev_all_upper_get_next_dev_rcu().

Also because we now have a call site for lockdep_rtnl_is_held()
outside COFIG_LOCK_PROVING an inline definition returning 1 is
needed. Similar to the rcu_read_lock_is_held().

Fixes: 2a47fa45d4 ("ixgbe: enable l2 forwarding acceleration for macvlans")
CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2013-12-17 21:19:08 -08:00
Alexei Starovoitov
7f29405403 net: fix rtnl notification in atomic context
commit 991fb3f74c "dev: always advertise rx_flags changes via netlink"
introduced rtnl notification from __dev_set_promiscuity(),
which can be called in atomic context.

Steps to reproduce:
ip tuntap add dev tap1 mode tap
ifconfig tap1 up
tcpdump -nei tap1 &
ip tuntap del dev tap1 mode tap

[  271.627994] device tap1 left promiscuous mode
[  271.639897] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:940
[  271.664491] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 3394, name: ip
[  271.677525] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
[  271.690503] CPU: 0 PID: 3394 Comm: ip Tainted: G        W    3.12.0-rc3+ #73
[  271.703996] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/P8Z77 WS, BIOS 3007 07/26/2012
[  271.731254]  ffffffff81a58506 ffff8807f0d57a58 ffffffff817544e5 ffff88082fa0f428
[  271.760261]  ffff8808071f5f40 ffff8807f0d57a88 ffffffff8108bad1 ffffffff81110ff8
[  271.790683]  0000000000000010 00000000000000d0 00000000000000d0 ffff8807f0d57af8
[  271.822332] Call Trace:
[  271.838234]  [<ffffffff817544e5>] dump_stack+0x55/0x76
[  271.854446]  [<ffffffff8108bad1>] __might_sleep+0x181/0x240
[  271.870836]  [<ffffffff81110ff8>] ? rcu_irq_exit+0x68/0xb0
[  271.887076]  [<ffffffff811a80be>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x4e/0x2a0
[  271.903368]  [<ffffffff810b4ddc>] ? vprintk_emit+0x1dc/0x5a0
[  271.919716]  [<ffffffff81614d67>] ? __alloc_skb+0x57/0x2a0
[  271.936088]  [<ffffffff810b4de0>] ? vprintk_emit+0x1e0/0x5a0
[  271.952504]  [<ffffffff81614d67>] __alloc_skb+0x57/0x2a0
[  271.968902]  [<ffffffff8163a0b2>] rtmsg_ifinfo+0x52/0x100
[  271.985302]  [<ffffffff8162ac6d>] __dev_notify_flags+0xad/0xc0
[  272.001642]  [<ffffffff8162ad0c>] __dev_set_promiscuity+0x8c/0x1c0
[  272.017917]  [<ffffffff81731ea5>] ? packet_notifier+0x5/0x380
[  272.033961]  [<ffffffff8162b109>] dev_set_promiscuity+0x29/0x50
[  272.049855]  [<ffffffff8172e937>] packet_dev_mc+0x87/0xc0
[  272.065494]  [<ffffffff81732052>] packet_notifier+0x1b2/0x380
[  272.080915]  [<ffffffff81731ea5>] ? packet_notifier+0x5/0x380
[  272.096009]  [<ffffffff81761c66>] notifier_call_chain+0x66/0x150
[  272.110803]  [<ffffffff8108503e>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10
[  272.125468]  [<ffffffff81085056>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20
[  272.139984]  [<ffffffff81620190>] call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x40/0x70
[  272.154523]  [<ffffffff816201d6>] call_netdevice_notifiers+0x16/0x20
[  272.168552]  [<ffffffff816224c5>] rollback_registered_many+0x145/0x240
[  272.182263]  [<ffffffff81622641>] rollback_registered+0x31/0x40
[  272.195369]  [<ffffffff816229c8>] unregister_netdevice_queue+0x58/0x90
[  272.208230]  [<ffffffff81547ca0>] __tun_detach+0x140/0x340
[  272.220686]  [<ffffffff81547ed6>] tun_chr_close+0x36/0x60

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-25 19:03:45 -04:00
Vlad Yasevich
090096bf3d net: generic fdb support for drivers without ndo_fdb_<op>
If the driver does not support the ndo_op use the generic
handler for it. This should work in the majority of cases.
Eventually the fdb_dflt_add call gets translated into a
__dev_set_rx_mode() call which should handle hardware
support for filtering via the IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag.

Namely IFF_UNICAST_FLT indicates if the hardware can do
unicast address filtering. If no support is available
the device is put into promisc mode.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-07 15:29:45 -05:00
John Fastabend
815cccbf10 ixgbe: add setlink, getlink support to ixgbe and ixgbevf
This adds support for the net device ops to manage the embedded
hardware bridge on ixgbe devices. With this patch the bridge
mode can be toggled between VEB and VEPA to support stacking
macvlan devices or using the embedded switch without any SW
component in 802.1Qbg/br environments.

Additionally, this adds source address pruning to the ixgbevf
driver to prune any frames sent back from a reflective relay on
the switch. This is required because the existing hardware does
not support this. Without it frames get pushed into the stack
with its own src mac which is invalid per 802.1Qbg VEPA
definition.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-31 13:18:29 -04:00
David Howells
607ca46e97 UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-13 10:46:48 +01:00
David S. Miller
87a50699cb rtnetlink: Remove ts/tsage args to rtnl_put_cacheinfo().
Nobody provides non-zero values any longer.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-10 22:40:13 -07:00
Thomas Graf
4c3af034fa netlink: Get rid of obsolete rtnetlink macros
Removes all RTA_GET*() and RTA_PUT*() variations, as well as the
the unused rtattr_strcmp(). Get rid of rtm_get_table() by moving
it to its only user decnet.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-27 15:36:44 -07:00
John Fastabend
77162022ab net: add generic PF_BRIDGE:RTM_ FDB hooks
This adds two new flags NTF_MASTER and NTF_SELF that can
now be used to specify where PF_BRIDGE netlink commands should
be sent. NTF_MASTER sends the commands to the 'dev->master'
device for parsing. Typically this will be the linux net/bridge,
or open-vswitch devices. Also without any flags set the command
will be handled by the master device as well so that current user
space tools continue to work as expected.

The NTF_SELF flag will push the PF_BRIDGE commands to the
device. In the basic example below the commands are then parsed
and programmed in the embedded bridge.

Note if both NTF_SELF and NTF_MASTER bits are set then the
command will be sent to both 'dev->master' and 'dev' this allows
user space to easily keep the embedded bridge and software bridge
in sync.

There is a slight complication in the case with both flags set
when an error occurs. To resolve this the rtnl handler clears
the NTF_ flag in the netlink ack to indicate which sets completed
successfully. The add/del handlers will abort as soon as any
error occurs.

To support this new net device ops were added to call into
the device and the existing bridging code was refactored
to use these. There should be no required changes in user space
to support the current bridge behavior.

A basic setup with a SR-IOV enabled NIC looks like this,

          veth0  veth2
            |      |
          ------------
          |  bridge0 |   <---- software bridging
          ------------
               /
               /
  ethx.y      ethx
    VF         PF
     \         \          <---- propagate FDB entries to HW
     \         \
  --------------------
  |  Embedded Bridge |    <---- hardware offloaded switching
  --------------------

In this case the embedded bridge must be managed to allow 'veth0'
to communicate with 'ethx.y' correctly. At present drivers managing
the embedded bridge either send frames onto the network which
then get dropped by the switch OR the embedded bridge will flood
these frames. With this patch we have a mechanism to manage the
embedded bridge correctly from user space. This example is specific
to SR-IOV but replacing the VF with another PF or dropping this
into the DSA framework generates similar management issues.

Examples session using the 'br'[1] tool to add, dump and then
delete a mac address with a new "embedded" option and enabled
ixgbe driver:

# br fdb add 22:35:19:ac:60:59 dev eth3
# br fdb
port    mac addr                flags
veth0   22:35:19:ac:60:58       static
veth0   9a:5f:81:f7:f6:ec       local
eth3    00:1b:21:55:23:59       local
eth3    22:35:19:ac:60:59       static
veth0   22:35:19:ac:60:57       static
#br fdb add 22:35:19:ac:60:59 embedded dev eth3
#br fdb
port    mac addr                flags
veth0   22:35:19:ac:60:58       static
veth0   9a:5f:81:f7:f6:ec       local
eth3    00:1b:21:55:23:59       local
eth3    22:35:19:ac:60:59       static
veth0   22:35:19:ac:60:57       static
eth3    22:35:19:ac:60:59       local embedded
#br fdb del 22:35:19:ac:60:59 embedded dev eth3

I added a couple lines to 'br' to set the flags correctly is all. It
is my opinion that the merit of this patch is now embedded and SW
bridges can both be modeled correctly in user space using very nearly
the same message passing.

[1] 'br' tool was published as an RFC here and will be renamed 'bridge'
    http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/117664/

Thanks to Jamal Hadi Salim, Stephen Hemminger and Ben Hutchings for
valuable feedback, suggestions, and review.

v2: fixed api descriptions and error case with both NTF_SELF and
    NTF_MASTER set plus updated patch description.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-15 13:06:04 -04:00
Greg Rose
115c9b8192 rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation
Implement a new netlink attribute type IFLA_EXT_MASK.  The mask
is a 32 bit value that can be used to indicate to the kernel that
certain extended ifinfo values are requested by the user application.
At this time the only mask value defined is RTEXT_FILTER_VF to
indicate that the user wants the ifinfo dump to send information
about the VFs belonging to the interface.

This patch fixes a bug in which certain applications do not have
large enough buffers to accommodate the extra information returned
by the kernel with large numbers of SR-IOV virtual functions.
Those applications will not send the new netlink attribute with
the interface info dump request netlink messages so they will
not get unexpectedly large request buffers returned by the kernel.

Modifies the rtnl_calcit function to traverse the list of net
devices and compute the minimum buffer size that can hold the
info dumps of all matching devices based upon the filter passed
in via the new netlink attribute filter mask.  If no filter
mask is sent then the buffer allocation defaults to NLMSG_GOODSIZE.

With this change it is possible to add yet to be defined netlink
attributes to the dump request which should make it fairly extensible
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-21 16:56:45 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
d3ec4844d4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  fs: Merge split strings
  treewide: fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions
  uwb: Fix misspelling of neighbourhood in comment
  net, netfilter: Remove redundant goto in ebt_ulog_packet
  trivial: don't touch files that are removed in the staging tree
  lib/vsprintf: replace link to Draft by final RFC number
  doc: Kconfig: `to be' -> `be'
  doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -> squared
  doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm => apm-acpi}.txt
  drivers/net: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/media: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/i2c: static should be at beginning of declaration
  XTENSA: static should be at beginning of declaration
  SH: static should be at beginning of declaration
  MIPS: static should be at beginning of declaration
  ARM: static should be at beginning of declaration
  rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check
  Update my e-mail address
  PCIe ASPM: forcedly -> forcibly
  gma500: push through device driver tree
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts:
 - arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/dma-m2p.c (deleted)
 - drivers/gpio/gpio-ep93xx.c (renamed and context nearby)
 - drivers/net/r8169.c (just context changes)
2011-07-25 13:56:39 -07:00
Michal Hocko
d8bf4ca9ca rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check
Since ca5ecddf (rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse)
rcu_dereference_check use rcu_read_lock_held as a part of condition
automatically so callers do not have to do that as well.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-07-08 22:21:58 +02:00
John Fastabend
314b4778ed net: dcbnl, add multicast group for DCB
Now that dcbnl is being used in many cases by more
than a single agent it is beneficial to be notified
when some entity either driver or user space has
changed the DCB attributes.

Today applications either end up polling the interface
or relying on a user space database to maintain the DCB
state and post events. Polling is a poor solution for
obvious reasons. And relying on a user space database
has its own downside. Namely it has created strange
boot dependencies requiring the database be populated
before any applications dependent on DCB attributes
starts or the application goes into a polling loop.
Populating the database requires negotiating link
setting with the peer and can take anywhere from less
than a second up to a few seconds depending on the switch
implementation.

Perhaps more importantly if another application or an
embedded agent sets a DCB link attribute the database
has no way of knowing other than polling the kernel.
This prevents applications from responding quickly to
changes in link events which at least in the FCoE case
and probably any other protocols expecting a lossless
link may result in IO errors.

By adding a multicast group for DCB we have clean way
to disseminate kernel DCB link attributes up to user
space. Avoiding the need for user space to maintain
a coherant database and disperse events that potentially
do not reflect the current link state.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-21 16:06:11 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
3b42a96dc7 net: rtnetlink.h -- only include linux/netdevice.h when used by the kernel
The commit below added a new helper dev_ingress_queue to cleanly obtain the
ingress queue pointer.  This necessitated including 'linux/netdevice.h':

  commit 24824a09e3
  Author: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
  Date:   Sat Oct 2 06:11:55 2010 +0000

    net: dynamic ingress_queue allocation

However this include triggers issues for applications in userspace
which use the rtnetlink interfaces.  Commonly this requires they include
'net/if.h' and 'linux/rtnetlink.h' leading to a compiler error as below:

  In file included from /usr/include/linux/netdevice.h:28:0,
                   from /usr/include/linux/rtnetlink.h:9,
                   from t.c:2:
  /usr/include/linux/if.h:135:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifmap’
  /usr/include/net/if.h:112:8: note: originally defined here
  /usr/include/linux/if.h:169:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifreq’
  /usr/include/net/if.h:127:8: note: originally defined here
  /usr/include/linux/if.h:218:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifconf’
  /usr/include/net/if.h:177:8: note: originally defined here

The new helper is only defined for the kernel and protected by __KERNEL__
therefore we can simply pull the include down into the same protected
section.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-15 11:29:30 -08:00
David S. Miller
29fa060eab net: relax rtnl_dereference()
rtnl_dereference() is used in contexts where RTNL is held, to fetch an
RCU protected pointer.

Updates to this pointer are prevented by RTNL, so we dont need
smp_read_barrier_depends() and the ACCESS_ONCE() provided in
rcu_dereference_check().

rtnl_dereference() is mainly a macro to document the locking invariant.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05 00:29:48 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
24824a09e3 net: dynamic ingress_queue allocation
ingress being not used very much, and net_device->ingress_queue being
quite a big object (128 or 256 bytes), use a dynamic allocation if
needed (tc qdisc add dev eth0 ingress ...)

dev_ingress_queue(dev) helper should be used only with RTNL taken.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05 00:23:44 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
7dff59efbb net: add rtnl_dereference()
We sometime want to dereference an rcu protected pointer while
holding RTNL. Use a macro to hide all lockdep details.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-15 19:29:45 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
a6e0fc8514 net: introduce rcu_dereference_rtnl
We use rcu_dereference_check(p, rcu_read_lock_held() ||
lockdep_rtnl_is_held()) several times in network stack.

More usages to come too, so its time to create a helper.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-08 14:15:32 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
963bfeeeec net: RTA_MARK addition
Add a new rt attribute, RTA_MARK, and use it in
rt_fill_info()/inet_rtm_getroute() to support following commands :

ip route get 192.168.20.110 mark NUMBER
ip route get 192.168.20.108 from 192.168.20.110 iif eth1 mark NUMBER
ip route list cache [192.168.20.110] mark NUMBER

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-22 13:46:21 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
d1db275dd3 ipv6: ip6mr: support multiple tables
This patch adds support for multiple independant multicast routing instances,
named "tables".

Userspace multicast routing daemons can bind to a specific table instance by
issuing a setsockopt call using a new option MRT6_TABLE. The table number is
stored in the raw socket data and affects all following ip6mr setsockopt(),
getsockopt() and ioctl() calls. By default, a single table (RT6_TABLE_DFLT)
is created with a default routing rule pointing to it. Newly created pim6reg
devices have the table number appended ("pim6regX"), with the exception of
devices created in the default table, which are named just "pim6reg" for
compatibility reasons.

Packets are directed to a specific table instance using routing rules,
similar to how regular routing rules work. Currently iif, oif and mark
are supported as keys, source and destination addresses could be supported
additionally.

Example usage:

- bind pimd/xorp/... to a specific table:

uint32_t table = 123;
setsockopt(fd, SOL_IPV6, MRT6_TABLE, &table, sizeof(table));

- create routing rules directing packets to the new table:

# ip -6 mrule add iif eth0 lookup 123
# ip -6 mrule add oif eth0 lookup 123

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-05-11 14:40:55 +02:00
Patrick McHardy
25239cee7e net: rtnetlink: decouple rtnetlink address families from real address families
Decouple rtnetlink address families from real address families in socket.h to
be able to add rtnetlink interfaces to code that is not a real address family
without increasing AF_MAX/NPROTO.

This will be used to add support for multicast route dumping from all tables
as the proc interface can't be extended to support anything but the main table
without breaking compatibility.

This partialy undoes the patch to introduce independant families for routing
rules and converts ipmr routing rules to a new rtnetlink family. Similar to
that patch, values up to 127 are reserved for real address families, values
above that may be used arbitrarily.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-04-26 16:13:54 +02:00
David S. Miller
47871889c6 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c
2010-02-28 19:23:06 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
a898def29e net: Add checking to rcu_dereference() primitives
Update rcu_dereference() primitives to use new lockdep-based
checking. The rcu_dereference() in __in6_dev_get() may be
protected either by rcu_read_lock() or RTNL, per Eric Dumazet.
The rcu_dereference() in __sk_free() is protected by the fact
that it is never reached if an update could change it.  Check
for this by using rcu_dereference_check() to verify that the
struct sock's ->sk_wmem_alloc counter is zero.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-5-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 09:41:03 +01:00
laurent chavey
31d12926e3 net: Add rtnetlink init_rcvwnd to set the TCP initial receive window
Add rtnetlink init_rcvwnd to set the TCP initial receive window size
advertised by passive and active TCP connections.
The current Linux TCP implementation limits the advertised TCP initial
receive window to the one prescribed by slow start. For short lived
TCP connections used for transaction type of traffic (i.e. http
requests), bounding the advertised TCP initial receive window results
in increased latency to complete the transaction.
Support for setting initial congestion window is already supported
using rtnetlink init_cwnd, but the feature is useless without the
ability to set a larger TCP initial receive window.
The rtnetlink init_rcvwnd allows increasing the TCP initial receive
window, allowing TCP connection to advertise larger TCP receive window
than the ones bounded by slow start.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-23 14:13:30 -08:00
David S. Miller
bb5b7c1126 tcp: Revert per-route SACK/DSACK/TIMESTAMP changes.
It creates a regression, triggering badness for SYN_RECV
sockets, for example:

[19148.022102] Badness at net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:293
[19148.022570] NIP: c02a0914 LR: c02a0904 CTR: 00000000
[19148.023035] REGS: eeecbd30 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (2.6.32)
[19148.023496] MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR>  CR: 24002442  XER: 00000000
[19148.024012] TASK = eee9a820[1756] 'privoxy' THREAD: eeeca000

This is likely caused by the change in the 'estab' parameter
passed to tcp_parse_options() when invoked by the functions
in net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c

But even if that is fixed, the ->conn_request() changes made in
this patch series is fundamentally wrong.  They try to use the
listening socket's 'dst' to probe the route settings.  The
listening socket doesn't even have a route, and you can't
get the right route (the child request one) until much later
after we setup all of the state, and it must be done by hand.

This stuff really isn't ready, so the best thing to do is a
full revert.  This reverts the following commits:

f55017a93f
022c3f7d82
1aba721eba
cda42ebd67
345cda2fd6
dc343475ed
05eaade278
6a2a2d6bf8

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-15 20:56:42 -08:00