The existing model for checksum offload does not correctly handle
devices that can offload IPV4 and IPV6 only. The NETIF_F_HW_CSUM flag
implies device can do any arbitrary protocol.
This patch:
* adds NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM for those devices
* fixes bnx2 and tg3 devices that need it
* add NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM to ipv6 output (incl GSO)
* fixes assumptions about NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM in nat
* adjusts bridge union of checksumming computation
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch makes MIPv6 loadable module named "mip6".
Here is a modprobe.conf(5) example to load it automatically
when user application uses XFRM state for MIPv6:
alias xfrm-type-10-43 mip6
alias xfrm-type-10-60 mip6
Some MIPv6 feature is not included by this modular, however,
it should not be affected to other features like either IPsec
or IPv6 with and without the patch.
We may discuss XFRM, MH (RAW socket) and ancillary data/sockopt
separately for future work.
Loadable features:
* MH receiving check (to send ICMP error back)
* RO header parsing and building (i.e. RH2 and HAO in DSTOPTS)
* XFRM policy/state database handling for RO
These are NOT covered as loadable:
* Home Address flags and its rule on source address selection
* XFRM sub policy (depends on its own kernel option)
* XFRM functions to receive RO as IPv6 extension header
* MH sending/receiving through raw socket if user application
opens it (since raw socket allows to do so)
* RH2 sending as ancillary data
* RH2 operation with setsockopt(2)
Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert
attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a
backwards compatible way.
The attribute looks like this:
struct {
[ compat contents ]
struct rtattr {
.rta_len = total size,
.rta_type = type,
} rta;
struct old_structure struct;
[ nested top-level attribute ]
struct rtattr {
.rta_len = nest size,
.rta_type = type,
} nest_attr;
[ optional 0 .. n nested attributes ]
struct rtattr {
.rta_len = private attribute len,
.rta_type = private attribute typ,
} nested_attr;
struct nested_data data;
};
Since both userspace and kernel deal correctly with attributes that are
larger than expected old versions will just parse the compat part and
ignore the rest.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently NAT (and others) that want to modify cloned skbs copy them,
even if in the vast majority of cases its not necessary because the
skb is a clone made by TCP and the portion NAT wants to modify is
actually writable because TCP release the header reference before
cloning.
The problem is that there is no clean way for NAT to find out how
long the writable header area is, so this patch introduces skb->hdr_len
to hold this length. When a headerless skb is cloned skb->hdr_len
is set to the current headroom, for regular clones it is copied from
the original. A new function skb_clone_writable(skb, len) returns
whether the skb is writable up to len bytes from skb->data. To avoid
enlarging the skb the mac_len field is reduced to 16 bit and the
new hdr_len field is put in the remaining 16 bit.
I've done a few rough benchmarks of NAT (not with this exact patch,
but a very similar one). As expected it saves huge amounts of system
time in case of sendfile, bringing it down to basically the same
amount as without NAT, with sendmsg it only helps on loopback,
probably because of the large MTU.
Transmit a 1GB file using sendfile/sendmsg over eth0/lo with and
without NAT:
- sendfile eth0, no NAT: sys 0m0.388s
- sendfile eth0, NAT: sys 0m1.835s
- sendfile eth0: NAT + path: sys 0m0.370s (~ -80%)
- sendfile lo, no NAT: sys 0m0.258s
- sendfile lo, NAT: sys 0m2.609s
- sendfile lo, NAT + patch: sys 0m0.260s (~ -90%)
- sendmsg eth0, no NAT: sys 0m2.508s
- sendmsg eth0, NAT: sys 0m2.539s
- sendmsg eth0, NAT + patch: sys 0m2.445s (no change)
- sendmsg lo, no NAT: sys 0m2.151s
- sendmsg lo, NAT: sys 0m3.557s
- sendmsg lo, NAT + patch: sys 0m2.159s (~ -40%)
I expect other users can see a similar performance improvement,
packet mangling iptables targets, ipip and ip_gre come to mind ..
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This provides a reusable time difference function which returns the difference in
microseconds, as often used in the DCCP code.
Commiter note: renamed ktime_delta to ktime_us_delta and put it in ktime.h.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Keep track of the number of configured ingress/egress QoS mappings to
avoid iteration while calculating the netlink attribute size.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
skb->priority has only 32 bits and even VLAN uses 32 bit values in its API.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add rtnetlink API for creating, changing and deleting software devices.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It hasn't "summed" anything in over 7 years, and it's
just a straight mempcy ala skb_copy_to_linear_data()
so just get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Many places in kernel use seq_file API to iterate over a regular list_head.
The code for such iteration is identical in all the places, so it's worth
introducing a common helpers.
This makes code about 300 lines smaller:
The first version of this patch made the helper functions static inline
in the seq_file.h header. This patch moves them to the fs/seq_file.c as
Andrew proposed. The vmlinux .text section sizes are as follows:
2.6.22-rc1-mm1: 0x001794d5
with the previous version: 0x00179505
with this patch: 0x00179135
The config file used was make allnoconfig with the "y" inclusion of all
the possible options to make the files modified by the patch compile plus
drivers I have on the test node.
This patch:
Many places in kernel use seq_file API to iterate over a regular list_head.
The code for such iteration is identical in all the places, so it's worth
introducing a common helpers.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a hybrid version of the patch to add the LZO1X compression
algorithm to the kernel. Nitin and myself have merged the best parts of
the various patches to form this version which we're both happy with (and
are jointly signing off).
The performance of this version is equivalent to the original minilzo code
it was based on. Bytecode comparisons have also been made on ARM, i386 and
x86_64 with favourable results.
There are several users of LZO lined up including jffs2, crypto and reiser4
since its much faster than zlib.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc:
mmc: at91_mci: fix hanging and rework to match flowcharts
mmc: at91_mci typo
sdhci: Fix "Unexpected interrupt" handling
mmc: fix silly copy-and-paste error
mmc: move layer init and workqueue to core file
mmc: refactor host class handling
mmc: refactor bus operations
sdhci: add ene controller id
mmc: bounce requests for simple hosts
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: (32 commits)
[libata] sata_mv: print out additional chip info during probe
[libata] Use ATA_UDMAx standard masks when filling driver's udma_mask info
[libata] AHCI: Add support for Marvell AHCI-like chips (initially 6145)
[libata] Clean up driver udma_mask initializers
libata: Support chips with 64K PRD quirk
Add a PCI ID for santa rosa's PATA controller.
sata_sil24: sil24_interrupt() micro-optimisation
Add irq_flags to struct pata_platform_info
sata_promise: cleanups
[libata] pata_ixp4xx: kill unused var
ata_piix: fix pio/mwdma programming
[libata] ahci: minor internal cleanups
[ATA] Add named constant for ATAPI command DEVICE RESET
[libata] sata_sx4, sata_via: minor documentation updates
[libata] ahci: minor internal cleanups
[libata] ahci: Factor out SATA port init into a separate function
[libata] pata_sil680: minor cleanups from benh
[libata] sata_sx4: named constant cleanup
[libata] pata_ixp4xx: convert to new EH
[libata] pdc_adma: Reorder initializers with a couple structs
...
* 'splice-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
pipe: add documentation and comments
pipe: change the ->pin() operation to ->confirm()
Remove remnants of sendfile()
xip sendfile removal
splice: completely document external interface with kerneldoc
sendfile: remove bad_sendfile() from bad_file_ops
shmem: convert to using splice instead of sendfile()
relay: use splice_to_pipe() instead of open-coding the pipe loop
pipe: allow passing around of ops private pointer
splice: divorce the splice structure/function definitions from the pipe header
splice: relay support
sendfile: convert nfsd to splice_direct_to_actor()
sendfile: convert nfs to using splice_read()
loop: convert to using splice_direct_to_actor() instead of sendfile()
splice: add void cookie to the actor data
sendfile: kill generic_file_sendfile()
sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile()
sys_sendfile: switch to using ->splice_read, if available
vmsplice: add vmsplice-to-user support
splice: abstract out actor data
* 'trivial-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
Documentation/block/barrier.txt is not in sync with the actual code: - blk_queue_ordered() no longer has a gfp_mask parameter - blk_queue_ordered_locked() no longer exists - sd_prepare_flush() looks slightly different
Use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each() in the block device
Make a "menuconfig" out of the Kconfig objects "menu, ..., endmenu",
block/Kconfig already has its own "menuconfig" so remove these
Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at once
cfq-iosched: fix async queue behaviour
unexport bio_{,un}map_user
Remove legacy CDROM drivers
[PATCH] fix request->cmd == INT cases
cciss: add new controller support for P700m
[PATCH] Remove acsi.c
[BLOCK] drop unnecessary bvec rewinding from flush_dry_bio_endio
[PATCH] cdrom_sysctl_info fix
blk_hw_contig_segment(): bad segment size checks
[TRIVIAL PATCH] Kill blk_congestion_wait() stub for !CONFIG_BLOCK
