David Miller says:

====================
net: Make dev_hard_start_xmit() work fundamentally on lists

After this patch set, dev_hard_start_xmit() will work fundemantally on
any and all SKB lists.

This opens the path for a clean implementation of pulling multiple
packets out during qdisc_restart(), and then passing that blob in one
shot to dev_hard_start_xmit().

There were two main architectural blockers to this:

1) The GSO handling, we kept the original GSO head SKB around simply
   because dev_hard_start_xmit() had no way to communicate to the
   caller how far into the segmented list it was able to go.  Now it
   can, so the head GSO can be liberated immediately.

   All of the special GSO head SKB destructor et al. handling goes
   away too.

2) Validate of VLAN, CSUM, and segmentation characteristics was being
   performed inside of dev_hard_start_xmit().  If want to truly batch,
   we have to let the higher levels to this.  In particular, this is
   now dequeue_skb()'s job.

And with those two issues out of the way, it should now be trivial to
build experiments on top of this patch set, all of the framework
should be there now.  You could do something as simple as:

	skb = q->dequeue(q);
	if (skb)
		skb = validate_xmit_skb(skb, qdisc_dev(q));
	if (skb) {
		struct sk_buff *new, *head = skb;
		int limit = 5;

		do {
			new = q->dequeue(q);
			if (new)
				new = validate_xmit_skb(new, qdisc_dev(q));
			if (new) {
				skb->next = new;
				skb = new;
			}
		} while (new && --limit);
		skb = head;
	}

inside of the else branch of dequeue_skb().
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Now fundamentally we can process lists of SKBs as cheaply
as single packets.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Just maintain the list properly by returning the head of the remaining
SKB list from dev_hard_start_xmit().
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

dev_hard_start_xmit() does two things, it first validates and
canonicalizes the SKB, then it actually sends it.

Make a set of helper functions for doing the first part.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

For now it will always be false.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

There is a slight policy change happening here as well.

The previous code would drop the entire rest of the GSO skb if any of
them got, for example, a congestion notification.

That makes no sense, anything NET_XMIT_MASK and below is something
like congestion or policing.  And in the congestion case it doesn't
even mean the packet was actually dropped.

Just continue until dev_xmit_complete() evaluates to false.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Hopefully making the code a bit easier to read and digest.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

That way we don't have to audit every call site to make sure it is
doing this properly.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Warning:
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-socfpga.c:122:41:
sparse: cast removes address space of expression
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-socfpga.c:122:38:
sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
Signed-off-by: NLey Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Acked-by: NGiuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Tom Herbert says:

====================
net: Checksum offload changes - Part VI

I am working on overhauling RX checksum offload. Goals of this effort
are:

- Specify what exactly it means when driver returns CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
- Preserve CHECKSUM_COMPLETE through encapsulation layers
- Don't do skb_checksum more than once per packet
- Unify GRO and non-GRO csum verification as much as possible
- Unify the checksum functions (checksum_init)
- Simplify code

What is in this sixth patch set:

- Clarify the specific requirements of devices returning
  CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY (comments in skbuff.h).
- Add csum_level field to skbuff. This is used to express how
  many checksums are covered by CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY (stores n - 1).
- Change __skb_checksum_validate_needed to "consume" each checksum
  as indicated by csum_level as layers of the the packet are parsed.
- Remove skb_pop_rcv_encapsulation, no longer needed in the new
  csum_level model.
- Allow GRO path to "consume" checksums provided in CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
  and to report new verfied checksums for use in normal path fallback.
- Add proper support to SCTP to accept CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY to validate
  header CRC.
- Modify drivers to set skb->csum_level instead of setting
  skb->encapsulation to indicate validation of an encapsulated
  checksum on receive.

v2:

Allocate a new 16 bits for flags in skbuff.

Please review carefully and test if possible, mucking with basic
checksum functions is always a little precarious :-)
====================
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Set skb->csum_level instead of skb->encapsulation when indicating
CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY for an encapsulated checksum.
Signed-off-by: NTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Set skb->csum_level instead of skb->encapsulation when indicating
CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY for an encapsulated checksum.
Signed-off-by: NTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Set skb->csum_level instead of skb->encapsulation when indicating
CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY for an encapsulated checksum.
Signed-off-by: NTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Set skb->csum_level instead of skb->encapsulation when indicating
CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY for an encapsulated checksum.
Signed-off-by: NTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Set skb->csum_level instead of skb->encapsulation when indicating
CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY for an encapsulated checksum.
Signed-off-by: NTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY may be applied to the SCTP CRC so we need to
appropriate account for this by decrementing csum_level. This is
done by calling __skb_dec_checksum_unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: NTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Allow GRO path to "consume" checksums provided in CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
and to report new checksums verfied for use in fallback to normal
path.

Change GRO checksum path to track csum_level using a csum_cnt field
in NAPI_GRO_CB. On GRO initialization, if ip_summed is
CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->csum_cnt to
skb->csum_level + 1. For each checksum verified, decrement
NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->csum_cnt while its greater than zero. If a checksum
is verfied and NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->csum_cnt == 0, we have verified a
deeper checksum than originally indicated in skbuf so increment
csum_level (or initialize to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY if ip_summed is
CHECKSUM_NONE or CHECKSUM_COMPLETE).
Signed-off-by: NTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch:
 - Clarifies the specific requirements of devices returning
   CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY (comments in skbuff.h).
 - Adds csum_level field to skbuff. This is used to express how
   many checksums are covered by CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY (stores n - 1).
   This replaces the overloading of skb->encapsulation, that field is
   is now only used to indicate inner headers are valid.
 - Change __skb_checksum_validate_needed to "consume" each checksum
   as indicated by csum_level as layers of the the packet are parsed.
 - Remove skb_pop_rcv_encapsulation, no longer needed in the new
   csum_level model.
Signed-off-by: NTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The be2net driver was still using dev_kfree_skb_any() in a "normal"
skb freeing path.  This rather clutters perf top -G -e skb_kfree_skb
profiling.
Signed-off-by: NRick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This fixes a sprase warning introduced recently by commit
eeed018c ("bnx2x: Add timestamping and PTP hardware clock support"),
as well as another unrelated sparse endian issue.
Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The header file include/rxrpc/types.h does not seem to be used
anywhere. It was orphaned by 63b6be55 "[AF_RXRPC]: Delete the old
RxRPC code.". Remove it.
Signed-off-by: NRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The header file include/linux/phonedev.h does not seem to be used
anywhere. It was orphaned by 7326446c "Staging: remove telephony
drivers". Remove it.
Signed-off-by: NRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The header file include/linux/i82593.h does not seem to be used
anywhere. It was orphaned by 8a594170 "drivers/net: delete intel
i825xx based znet notebook driver". Remove it.
Signed-off-by: NRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The header file include/linux/cycx_x25.h does not seem to be used
anywhere. It was orphaned by 6fcdf4fa "wanrouter: delete now
orphaned header content, files/drivers". Remove it.
Signed-off-by: NRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Commit 6c9808ce ("tipc: remove port_lock") accidentally involves
a potential bug: when tipc socket instance(tsk) is not got with given
reference number in tipc_sk_get(), tsk is set to NULL. Subsequently
we jump to exit label where to decrease socket reference counter
pointed by tsk pointer in tipc_sk_put(). However, As now tsk is NULL,
oops may happen because of touching a NULL pointer.
Signed-off-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: NErik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Internal PHYs may not have a valid PHY interface defined, which will
show up in sysfs as "". Add an explicit check of internal PHYs to report
their interface correctly.

Fixes: 3d055d8d ("net: phy: expose PHY device interface mode")
Signed-off-by: NFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Shahed Shaikh says:

====================
qlcnic: Feature addition and enhancements

This series contains following feature addition and enhancements,
- Update Link speed and Port type information for 83xx series adapters
- Support 0x8830 device ID
- Support for Power on Self Test (POST) feature for 83xx
- Use usleep_range() instead of msleep() for values less than 20ms
====================
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NShahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NShahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds support to run Power On Self Test (POST) for 83xx adapters.
POST can be run in 3 different speed modes :
	i)  Fast mode (takes about 690 ms)
	ii) Medium mode (takes about 2930 ms)
	iii) Slow mode (takes about 7500 ms)

To run POST, firmware file with name "83xx_post_fw.bin" should be present under
/lib/firmware directory. load_fw_file module parameter is used to specify
POST operation and its speed mode.
load_fw_file = 2 : Fast mode
load_fw_file = 3 : Medium mode
load_fw_file = 4 : Slow mode
Signed-off-by: NShahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

As per recommendation, msleep() may sleep longer than intended time for
values less than 20ms. So, use usleep_range() instead of msleep()
Signed-off-by: NJitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NShahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NShahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

o Update the port type information
o Advertise correct link modes and autonegotiation
o Add support to change link speed
Signed-off-by: NJitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NShahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Replace occurences of skb_get_queue_mapping() and follow-up
netdev_get_tx_queue() with an actual helper function.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Leftover from 6e1d0b89 ("r8169:add
support for RTL8168H and RTL8107E").
Signed-off-by: NFrancois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Chun-Hao Lin <hau@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Jeff Kirsher says:

====================
Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2014-08-27

This series contains updates to i40e and i40evf.

Carolyn provides two patches, first changes the wording of the flow
director add/remove and asynchronous failure messages to include the
fd_id to try and add some way to track the operations on a given fd_id.
Second adds a check during handle_link_event for unqualified modules
when link is down and there is a module plugged in.

Anjali provides four patches to i40e/i40evf.  First update flow director
messages so that a user can tell if a filter was added or deleted.  Then
updates the ATR policy to not auto-disable ATR when we have errors in
programming.  The disabling of ATR when we got programming errors was
buggy and was still adding new rules and causing continuous errors.
With this policy change, we flush instead when we see too many errors.
In addition she adds a flow director flush counter to ethtool to help
know how many times the interface had to flush and replay the flow
director filter table.  Updates the driver to ignores a driver
perceived transmit hang if the number of descriptors pending is less
than 4, and instead log a stat when this situation happens.  This is
because the queue progresses forward and the stack never experiences
a real hang in these situations.

Shannon provides three patches for i40e/i40evf, first enables the
l2tsel bit on receive queue contexts that are assigned to VFs so that
the VF can get the stripped VLAN tag.  Then adds a max buffer size
parameter to the print helper to be sure the code knows when to stop.
Lastly, remove the complaint when removing the default MAC VLAN filter.
This was because old firmware had an incorrect MAC VLAN filter that
needed to be replaced at startup, and now newer firmware does not have
this problem.  So now we only add the new filter if the removal
succeeded and no need to complain if the removal fails.

Ashish provides a change to vsi->num_queue_pairs to equal the number
that is configured by the VF.  This limits the number of queues that
are enabled/disabled and fixes the mismatch case for when a VF
configures fewer queues than is allocated to it by the PF.
====================
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Mirror the changes made to ixgbe in commit 2367a173
("ixgbe: flush when in xmit_more mode and under descriptor pressure")
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>