The netpoll beast was still not happy. If the beast got
clogged pipes, it tended to stare blankly off in space
for a long time.

The problem couldn't be completely fixed because the
beast talked with irq's disabled. But it could be made
less painful and shorter.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

When the netpoll beast got really busy, it tended to clog
things, so it stored them for later. But the beast was putting
all it's skb's in one basket. This was bad because maybe some
pipes were clogged and others were not.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

After looking harder, Steve noticed that the netpoll
beast leaked a little every time it shutdown for a nap.
Not a big leak, but a nuisance kind of thing.

He took out his refcount duct tape and patched the
leak. It was overkill since there was already other
locking in that area, but it looked clean and wouldn't
attract fleas.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

The netpoll system currently has a rx to tx path via:

netpoll_rx
 __netpoll_rx
  arp_reply
   netpoll_send_skb
    dev->hard_start_tx

This rx->tx loop places network drivers at risk of inadvertently causing a
deadlock or BUG halt by recursively trying to acquire a spinlock that is
used in both their rx and tx paths (this problem was origionally reported
to me in the 3c59x driver, which shares a spinlock between the
boomerang_interrupt and boomerang_start_xmit routines).

This patch breaks this loop, by queueing arp frames, so that they can be
responded to after all receive operations have been completed.  Tested by
myself and the reported with successful results.

Specifically it was tested with netdump.  Heres the BZ with details:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194055Signed-off-by: NNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: NMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When netpoll is not being used, the macro that
defines the removed routing netpoll_poll_lock
defines the return as zero, but the real
routine returns a `void *`
Signed-off-by: NBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This fixes a race during initialization with the NAPI softirq
processing by using an RCU approach.

This race was discovered when refill_skbs() was added to
the setup code.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add limited retry logic to netpoll_send_skb

Each time we attempt to send, decrement our per-device retry counter.
On every successful send, we reset the counter. 

We delay 50us between attempts with up to 20000 retries for a total of
1 second. After we've exhausted our retries, subsequent failed
attempts will try only once until reset by success.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch provides support for registering multiple netpoll clients to the
same network device.  Only one of these clients may register an rx_hook,
however.  In practice, this restriction has not been problematic.  It is
worth mentioning, though, that the current design can be easily extended to
allow for the registration of multiple rx_hooks.

The basic idea of the patch is that the rx_np pointer in the netpoll_info
structure points to the struct netpoll that has rx_hook filled in.  Aside
from this one case, there is no need for a pointer from the struct
net_device to an individual struct netpoll.

A lock is introduced to protect the setting and clearing of the np_rx
pointer.  The pointer will only be cleared upon netpoll client module
removal, and the lock should be uncontested.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch introduces a netpoll_info structure, which the struct net_device
will now point to instead of pointing to a struct netpoll.  The reason for
this is two-fold: 1) fields such as the rx_flags, poll_owner, and poll_lock
should be maintained per net_device, not per netpoll;  and 2) this is a first
step in providing support for multiple netpoll clients to register against the
same net_device.

The struct netpoll is now pointed to by the netpoll_info structure.  As
such, the previous behaviour of the code is preserved.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This trivial patch moves the assignment of poll_owner to -1 inside of
the lock.  This fixes a potential SMP race in the code.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!