- 16 6月, 2017 19 次提交
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由 Johannes Berg 提交于
A common pattern with skb_put() is to just want to memcpy() some data into the new space, introduce skb_put_data() for this. An spatch similar to the one for skb_put_zero() converts many of the places using it: @@ identifier p, p2; expression len, skb, data; type t, t2; @@ ( -p = skb_put(skb, len); +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len); | -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len); +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len); ) ( p2 = (t2)p; -memcpy(p2, data, len); | -memcpy(p, data, len); ) @@ type t, t2; identifier p, p2; expression skb, data; @@ t *p; ... ( -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t)); +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t)); | -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t)); +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t)); ) ( p2 = (t2)p; -memcpy(p2, data, sizeof(*p)); | -memcpy(p, data, sizeof(*p)); ) @@ expression skb, len, data; @@ -memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len); +skb_put_data(skb, data, len); (again, manually post-processed to retain some comments) Reviewed-by: NStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Johannes Berg 提交于
There were many places that my previous spatch didn't find, as pointed out by yuan linyu in various patches. The following spatch found many more and also removes the now unnecessary casts: @@ identifier p, p2; expression len; expression skb; type t, t2; @@ ( -p = skb_put(skb, len); +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len); | -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len); +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len); ) ... when != p ( p2 = (t2)p; -memset(p2, 0, len); | -memset(p, 0, len); ) @@ type t, t2; identifier p, p2; expression skb; @@ t *p; ... ( -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t)); +p = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t)); | -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t)); +p = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t)); ) ... when != p ( p2 = (t2)p; -memset(p2, 0, sizeof(*p)); | -memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); ) @@ expression skb, len; @@ -memset(skb_put(skb, len), 0, len); +skb_put_zero(skb, len); Apply it to the tree (with one manual fixup to keep the comment in vxlan.c, which spatch removed.) Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Tariq Toukan 提交于
Some code re-ordering, functionally equivalent. - The !tx_info->inl check is evaluated anyway in both flows (common case/end case). Run it first, this might finish the flows earlier. - dma_unmap calls are identical in both flows, get it out of the if block into the common area. Performance tests: Tested on ConnectX3Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz Gain is too small to be measurable, no degradation sensed. Results are similar for IPv4 and IPv6. Signed-off-by: NTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: NSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Tariq Toukan 提交于
Define LOG_TXBB_SIZE, log of TXBB_SIZE, and use it with a shift operation instead of a multiplication with TXBB_SIZE. Operations are equivalent as TXBB_SIZE is a power of two. Performance tests: Tested on ConnectX3Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz Gain is too small to be measurable, no degradation sensed. Results are similar for IPv4 and IPv6. Signed-off-by: NTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: NSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Tariq Toukan 提交于
Increase the default TX ring size (from 512 to 1024) to match the RX ring size. This gives the XDP TX ring a better chance to keep up with the rate of its RX ring in case of a high load of XDP_TX actions. Tested: Ethtool counter rx_xdp_tx_full used to increase, after applying this patch it stopped. Signed-off-by: NTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: NSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Tariq Toukan 提交于
Instead of having their own NAPIs, XDP TX completion queues get polled within the corresponding RX NAPI. This prevents any possible race on TX ring prod/cons indices, between the context that issues the transmits (RX NAPI) and the context that handles the completions (was previously done in a separate NAPI). This also improves performance, as it decreases the number of NAPIs running on a CPU, saving the overhead of syncing and switching between the contexts. Performance tests: Tested on ConnectX3Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz Single queue no-RSS optimization ON. XDP_TX packet rate: ------------------------------------- | Before | After | Gain | IPv4 | 12.0 Mpps | 13.8 Mpps | 15% | IPv6 | 12.0 Mpps | 13.8 Mpps | 15% | ------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: NTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: NSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Tariq Toukan 提交于
Several performance improvements in XDP TX datapath, including: - Ring a single doorbell for XDP TX ring per NAPI budget, instead of doing it per a lower threshold (was 8). This includes removing the flow of immediate doorbell ringing in case of a full TX ring. - Compiler branch predictor hints. - Calculate values in compile time rather than in runtime. Performance tests: Tested on ConnectX3Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz Single queue no-RSS optimization ON. XDP_TX packet rate: ------------------------------------- | Before | After | Gain | IPv4 | 10.3 Mpps | 12.0 Mpps | 17% | IPv6 | 10.3 Mpps | 12.0 Mpps | 17% | ------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: NTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: NSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Tariq Toukan 提交于
Several small code and performance improvements in stack TX datapath, including: - Compiler branch predictor hints. - Minimize variables scope. - Move tx_info non-inline flow handling to a separate function. - Calculate data_offset in compile time rather than in runtime (for !lso_header_size branch). - Avoid trinary-operator ("?") when value can be preset in a matching branch. Performance tests: Tested on ConnectX3Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz Gain is too small to be measurable, no degradation sensed. Results are similar for IPv4 and IPv6. Signed-off-by: NTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: NSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Tariq Toukan 提交于
Several small performance improvements in TX CQ polling, including: - Compiler branch predictor hints. - Minimize variables scope. - More proper check of cq type. - Use boolean instead of int for a binary indication. Performance tests: Tested on ConnectX3Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz Packet-rate tests for both regular stack and XDP use cases: No noticeable gain, no degradation. Signed-off-by: NTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: NSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Tariq Toukan 提交于
Several small performance improvements in RX datapath, including: - Compiler branch predictor hints. - Replace a multiplication with a shift operation. - Minimize variables scope. - Write-prefetch for packet header. - Avoid trinary-operator ("?") when value can be preset in a matching branch. - Save a branch by updating RX ring doorbell within mlx4_en_refill_rx_buffers(), which now returns void. Performance tests: Tested on ConnectX3Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz Single queue no-RSS optimization ON (enable by ethtool -L <interface> rx 1). XDP_DROP packet rate: Same (28.1 Mpps), lower CPU utilization (from ~100% to ~92%). Drop packets in TC: ------------------------------------- | Before | After | Gain | IPv4 | 4.14 Mpps | 4.18 Mpps | 1% | ------------------------------------- XDP_TX packet rate: ------------------------------------- | Before | After | Gain | IPv4 | 10.1 Mpps | 10.3 Mpps | 2% | IPv6 | 10.1 Mpps | 10.3 Mpps | 2% | ------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: NTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: NSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Saeed Mahameed 提交于
Avoid touching RX QP RSS context when loading with only one RX ring, to allow optimized A0 RX steering. Enable by: - loading mlx4_core with module param: log_num_mgm_entry_size = -6. - then: ethtool -L <interface> rx 1 Performance tests: Tested on ConnectX3Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz XDP_DROP packet rate: ------------------------------------- | Before | After | Gain | IPv4 | 20.5 Mpps | 28.1 Mpps | 37% | IPv6 | 18.4 Mpps | 28.1 Mpps | 53% | ------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: NSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: NTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Tariq Toukan 提交于
Remove owner argument, as it is obsolete and unused. This also saves the overhead of calculating its value in data-path. Signed-off-by: NTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: NSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Thomas Falcon 提交于
This patch fixes a bug where, in the case of a device reset, the polling routine will never complete, causing napi_disable to sleep indefinitely when attempting to close the device. Signed-off-by: NThomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Thomas Falcon 提交于
Fix a kernel panic resulting from data access of a NULL pointer during device close. The pending_scrq routine is meant to determine whether there is a valid sub-CRQ message awaiting processing. When the device is closing, however, there is a possibility that NULL messages can be processed because pending_scrq will always return 1 even if there no valid message in the queue. It's not clear what this closing state check was originally meant to accomplish, so just remove it. Signed-off-by: NThomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Thomas Falcon 提交于
Fixup a typo so that the entire SCRQ buffer is cleaned. Signed-off-by: NThomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Thomas Falcon 提交于
Use netif_tx_disable to guarantee that TX queues are disabled when __ibmvnic_close is called by the device reset routine. Signed-off-by: NThomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Thomas Falcon 提交于
RX buffer pools are disabled while awaiting a device reset if firmware indicates that the resource is closed. This patch fixes a bug where pools were not being subsequently enabled after the device reset, causing the device to become inoperable. Signed-off-by: NThomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Shannon Nelson 提交于
As much as we'd like to play well with others, we really aren't handling the checksums on non-IP protocol packets very well. This is easily seen when trying to do TCP over ipv6 - the checksums are garbage. Here we restrict the checksum feature flag to just IP traffic so that we aren't given work we can't yet do. Orabug: 26175391, 26259755 Signed-off-by: NShannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Gustavo A. R. Silva 提交于
Remove useless variable rxd_index and code related. Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1397691 Signed-off-by: NGustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 15 6月, 2017 6 次提交
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由 Jia-Ju Bai 提交于
The driver may sleep under a spin lock, and the function call path is: i40e_ndo_set_vf_port_vlan (acquire the lock by spin_lock_bh) i40e_vsi_remove_pvid i40e_vlan_stripping_disable i40e_aq_update_vsi_params i40e_asq_send_command mutex_lock --> may sleep To fixed it, the spin lock is released before "i40e_vsi_remove_pvid", and the lock is acquired again after this function. Signed-off-by: NJia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com> Tested-by: NAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Weilin Chang 提交于
Signed-off-by: NWeilin Chang <weilin.chang@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: NDerek Chickles <derek.chickles@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: NFelix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Dan Carpenter 提交于
If we hit this error path we end up returning ERR_PTR(0) which is NULL. The caller is not expecting that so it results in a NULL dereference. Fixes: 410ed13c ("Add the mlxfw module for Mellanox firmware flash process") Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: NYotam Gigi <yotamg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Dan Carpenter 提交于
The p_l2_info->pp_qid_usage[] array has "p_l2_info->queues" elements so the > here should be a >= or we write beyond the end of the array. Fixes: bbe3f233 ("qed: Assign a unique per-queue index to queue-cid") Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: NYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Arkadi Sharshevsky 提交于
Add support for access cable info via ethtool. Signed-off-by: NArkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: NJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Arkadi Sharshevsky 提交于
The MCIA register is used to access the SFP+ and QSFP connector's EPROM. It will be used to query the cable info. Signed-off-by: NArkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: NJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 14 6月, 2017 15 次提交
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由 Jeff Mahoney 提交于
We call pci_set_drvdata immediately after calling register_netdev, which leaves a window where tasks writing to the sriov_numvfs sysfs attribute can sneak in and crash the kernel. register_netdev cleans up after itself so placing pci_set_drvdata immediately before it should preserve the intent of commit 0fb6a55c ("ixgbe: fix crash on rmmod after probe fail"). Fixes: 0fb6a55c ("ixgbe: fix crash on rmmod after probe fail") Signed-off-by: NJeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Tested-by: NAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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由 Tony Nguyen 提交于
cppcheck warns that the format string is incorrect in the function ixgbe_get_strings(). Since the value cannot be negative, change the variable to unsigned which matches the format specifier. Signed-off-by: NTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com> Tested-by: NAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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由 Emil Tantilov 提交于
ixgbe_write_qde() was ignoring the qde parameter which resulted in PFQDE.HIDE_VLAN not being set for X550. Signed-off-by: NEmil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com> Tested-by: NAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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由 Tony Nguyen 提交于
Update ixgbevf version number. Signed-off-by: NTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com> Tested-by: NAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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由 Tony Nguyen 提交于
Update ixgbe version number. Signed-off-by: NTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com> Tested-by: NAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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由 Jacob Keller 提交于
The ixgbe driver has logic to handle only one Tx timestamp at a time, using a state bit lock to avoid multiple requests at once. It may be possible, if incredibly unlikely, that a Tx timestamp event is requested but never completes. Since we use an interrupt scheme to determine when the Tx timestamp occurred we would never clear the state bit in this case. Add an ixgbe_ptp_tx_hang() function similar to the already existing ixgbe_ptp_rx_hang() function. This function runs in the watchdog routine and makes sure we eventually recover from this case instead of permanently disabling Tx timestamps. Note: there is no currently known way to cause this without hacking the driver code to force it. Signed-off-by: NJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Tested-by: NAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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由 Jacob Keller 提交于
The ixgbe driver can only handle one Tx timestamp request at a time. This means it is possible for an application timestamp request to be ignored. There is no easy way for an administrator to determine if this occurred. Add a new statistic which tracks this, tx_hwtstamp_skipped. Signed-off-by: NJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Tested-by: NAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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由 Jacob Keller 提交于
The ixgbe driver uses a state bit lock to avoid handling more than one Tx timestamp request at once. This is required because hardware is limited to a single set of registers for Tx timestamps. The state bit lock is not properly cleaned up during ixgbe_xmit_frame_ring() if the transmit fails such as due to DMA or TSO failure. In some hardware this results in blocking timestamps until the service task times out. In other hardware this results in a permanent lock of the timestamp bit because we never receive an interrupt indicating the timestamp occurred, since indeed the packet was never transmitted. Fix this by checking for DMA and TSO errors in ixgbe_xmit_frame_ring() and properly cleaning up after ourselves when these occur. Reported-by: NReported-by: David Mirabito <davidm@metamako.com> Signed-off-by: NJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Tested-by: NAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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由 Jacob Keller 提交于
Hardware related to the ixgbe driver is limited to handling a single Tx timestamp request at a time. Thus, the driver ignores requests for Tx timestamp while waiting for the current request to finish. It uses a state bit lock which enforces that only one timestamp request is honored at a time. Unfortunately this suffers from a simple race condition. The bit lock is not cleared until after skb_tstamp_tx() is called notifying applications of a new Tx timestamp. Even a well behaved application sending only one packet at a time and waiting for a response can wake up and send a new packet before the bit lock is cleared. This results in needlessly dropping some Tx timestamp requests. We can fix this by unlocking the state bit as soon as we read the Timestamp register, as this is the first point at which it is safe to unlock. To avoid issues with the skb pointer, we'll use a copy of the pointer and set the global variable in the driver structure to NULL first. This ensures that the next timestamp request does not modify our local copy of the skb pointer. This ensures that well behaved applications do not accidentally race with the unlock bit. Obviously an application which sends multiple Tx timestamp requests at once will still only timestamp one packet at a time. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about this. Reported-by: NDavid Mirabito <davidm@metamako.com> Signed-off-by: NJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Tested-by: NAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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由 Ganesh Goudar 提交于
If SF bit is not cleared in PL_INT_CAUSE, subsequent non-data interrupts are not raised. Enable SF bit in Global Interrupt Mask and handle it as non-fatal and hence eventually clear it. Signed-off-by: NRahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: NGanesh Goudar <ganeshgr@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Johannes Berg 提交于
Use the recently introduced helper to replace the pattern of skb_put() && memset(), this transformation was done with the following spatch: @@ identifier p; expression len; expression skb; @@ -p = skb_put(skb, len); -memset(p, 0, len); +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len); Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Tayar, Tomer 提交于
Currently when dumping a context data only word number '1' is read for the entire context. Fixes: c965db44 ("qed: Add support for debug data collection") Signed-off-by: NTomer Tayar <Tomer.Tayar@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 yuval.shaia@oracle.com 提交于
Make return value void since function never return meaningfull value Signed-off-by: NYuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@oracle.com> Acked-by: NSergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Nathan Fontenot 提交于
When handling a driver reset due to a failover of the backing server on the vios, doing the netdev_notify_peers() can cause network traffic to stall or halt. Remove the netdev notify call for failover resets. Signed-off-by: NNathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Thomas Falcon 提交于
The IBM vNIC protocol provides support for the user to initiate a failover from the client LPAR in case the current backing infrastructure is deemed inadequate or in an error state. Support for two H_VIOCTL sub-commands for vNIC devices are required to implement this function. These commands are H_GET_SESSION_TOKEN and H_SESSION_ERR_DETECTED. "[H_GET_SESSION_TOKEN] is used to obtain a session token from a VNIC client adapter. This token is opaque to the caller and is intended to be used in tandem with the SESSION_ERROR_DETECTED vioctl subfunction." "[H_SESSION_ERR_DETECTED] is used to report that the currently active backing device for a VNIC client adapter is behaving poorly, and that the hypervisor should attempt to fail over to a different backing device, if one is available." To provide tools access to this functionality the vNIC driver creates a sysfs file that, when written to, will send a request to pHyp to failover to a different backing device. Signed-off-by: NThomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NNathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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