- 27 5月, 2009 3 次提交
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
By caching frag0_len, we can avoid checking both frag0 and the length separately in skb_gro_header. This helps as skb_gro_header is called four times per packet which amounts to a few million times at 10Gb/s. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
Currently skb_gro_header is used for packets which put the hardware header in skb->data with the rest in frags. Since the drivers that need this optimisation all provide completely non-linear packets, we can gain extra optimisations by only performing the frag0 optimisation for completely non-linear packets. In particular, we can simply test frag0 (instead of skb_headlen) to see whether the optimisation is in force. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
The function skb_gro_header is called four times per packet which quickly adds up at 10Gb/s. This patch inlines it to allow better optimisations. Some architectures perform multiplication for page_address, which is done by each skb_gro_header invocation. This patch caches that value in skb->cb to avoid the unnecessary multiplications. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 26 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Eric Dumazet 提交于
We would like to get rid of netdev->trans_start = jiffies; that about all net drivers have to use in their start_xmit() function, and use txq->trans_start instead. This can be done generically in core network, as suggested by David. Some devices, (particularly loopback) dont need trans_start update, because they dont have transmit watchdog. We could add a new device flag, or rely on fact that txq->tran_start can be updated is txq->xmit_lock_owner is different than -1. Use a helper function to hide our choice. Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 25 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Alexander Beregalov 提交于
All drivers are already converted to new net_device_ops API and nobody uses old API anymore. Signed-off-by: NAlexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 19 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Eric Dumazet 提交于
offsetof(struct net_device, features)=0x44 offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_packets)=0x54 offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_bytes)=0x5c offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_dropped)=0x6c Network drivers that touch dev->stats.tx_packets/stats.tx_bytes in their tx path can slow down SMP operations, since they dirty a cache line that should stay shared (dev->features is needed in rx and tx paths) We could move away stats field in net_device but it wont help that much. (Two cache lines dirtied in tx path, we can do one only) Better solution is to add tx_packets/tx_bytes/tx_dropped in struct netdev_queue because this structure is already touched in tx path and counters updates will then be free (no increase in size) Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 18 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Eric Dumazet 提交于
struct net_device trans_start field is a hot spot on SMP and high performance devices, particularly multi queues ones, because every transmitter dirties it. Is main use is tx watchdog and bonding alive checks. But as most devices dont use NETIF_F_LLTX, we have to lock a netdev_queue before calling their ndo_start_xmit(). So it makes sense to move trans_start from net_device to netdev_queue. Its update will occur on a already present (and in exclusive state) cache line, for free. We can do this transition smoothly. An old driver continue to update dev->trans_start, while an updated one updates txq->trans_start. Further patches could also put tx_bytes/tx_packets counters in netdev_queue to avoid dirtying dev->stats (vlan device comes to mind) Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 07 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 David S. Miller 提交于
Otherwise list_for_each_entry_rcu() et al. aren't visible and we get build failures in some configurations. Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 06 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jiri Pirko 提交于
v5 -> v6 (current): -removed so far unused static functions -corrected dev_addr_del_multiple to call del instead of add v4 -> v5: -added device address type (suggested by davem) -removed refcounting (better to have simplier code then safe potentially few bytes) v3 -> v4: -changed kzalloc to kmalloc in __hw_addr_add_ii() -ASSERT_RTNL() avoided in dev_addr_flush() and dev_addr_init() v2 -> v3: -removed unnecessary rcu read locking -moved dev_addr_flush() calling to ensure no null dereference of dev_addr v1 -> v2: -added forgotten ASSERT_RTNL to dev_addr_init and dev_addr_flush -removed unnecessary rcu_read locking in dev_addr_init -use compare_ether_addr_64bits instead of compare_ether_addr -use L1_CACHE_BYTES as size for allocating struct netdev_hw_addr -use call_rcu instead of rcu_synchronize -moved is_etherdev_addr into __KERNEL__ ifdef This patch introduces a new list in struct net_device and brings a set of functions to handle the work with device address list. The list is a replacement for the original dev_addr field and because in some situations there is need to carry several device addresses with the net device. To be backward compatible, dev_addr is made to point to the first member of the list so original drivers sees no difference. Signed-off-by: NJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 28 4月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Eric Dumazet 提交于
netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq) is most of the time false. Yet its cost is very expensive on SMP. static inline int netif_tx_queue_stopped(const struct netdev_queue *dev_queue) { return test_bit(__QUEUE_STATE_XOFF, &dev_queue->state); } I saw this on oprofile hunting and bnx2 driver bnx2_tx_int(). We probably should split "struct netdev_queue" in two parts, one being read mostly. __netif_tx_lock() touches _xmit_lock & xmit_lock_owner, these deserve a separate cache line. Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Jesse Brandeburg 提交于
this is the sctp code to enable hardware crc32c offload for adapters that support it. Originally by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> modified by Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 27 4月, 2009 4 次提交
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由 Mike Rapoport 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
On a brand new GRO skb, we cannot call ip_hdr since the header may lie in the non-linear area. This patch adds the helper skb_gro_network_header to handle this. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
The skb_gro_* code fails to handle the case where a header starts in the linear area but ends in the frags area. Since the goal of skb_gro_* is to optimise the case of completely non-linear packets, we can simply bail out if we have anything in the linear area. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
Unless I miss anything this should fix a bug. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 21 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Patrick McHardy 提交于
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 16 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
It turns out that copying a 16-byte area at ~800k times a second can be really expensive :) This patch redesigns the frags GRO interface to avoid copying that area twice. The two disciples of the frags interface have been converted. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 28 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Dmitri Vorobiev 提交于
The inline function skb_gro_mac_header defined in include/linux/netdevice.h makes use of page_address(). Depending on configuration options, the latter is either defined as a macro or is declared as a function in another header file, namely include/linux/mm.h. However, include/linux/netdevice.h does not include include/linux/mm.h. On MIPS, this has produced the following build error: CC kernel/sysctl_check.o In file included from include/linux/icmpv6.h:173, from include/linux/ipv6.h:208, from include/net/ip_vs.h:26, from kernel/sysctl_check.c:6: include/linux/netdevice.h: In function 'skb_gro_mac_header': include/linux/netdevice.h:1132: error: implicit declaration of function 'page_address' include/linux/netdevice.h:1133: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in conditional expression make[1]: *** [kernel/sysctl_check.o] Error 1 make: *** [kernel] Error 2 The patch adds the missing include and fixes the build error. Signed-off-by: NDmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 17 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
As my netpoll fix for net doesn't really work for net-next, we need this update to move the checks into the right place. As it stands we may pass freed skbs to netpoll_receive_skb. This patch also introduces a netpoll_rx_on function to avoid GRO completely if we're invoked through netpoll. This might seem paranoid but as netpoll may have an external receive hook it's better to be safe than sorry. I don't think we need this for 2.6.29 though since there's nothing immediately broken by it. This patch also moves the GRO_* return values to netdevice.h since VLAN needs them too (I tried to avoid this originally but alas this seems to be the easiest way out). This fixes a bug in VLAN where it continued to use the old return value 2 instead of the correct GRO_DROP. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 14 3月, 2009 3 次提交
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由 Yi Zou 提交于
This adds support to provide Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offload through net_device's net_device_ops struct. The offload through net_device for FCoE is enabled in kernel as built-in or module driver. Signed-off-by: NYi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Acked-by: NDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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由 Chris Leech 提交于
Define feature flags for FCoE offloads. Signed-off-by: NChris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NYi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Acked-by: NDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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由 Chris Leech 提交于
Reclaim 8 upper bits of netdev->features from GSO. Signed-off-by: NChris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NYi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Acked-by: NDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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- 05 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 David S. Miller 提交于
As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this leaves the compat method pointers stale. Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code. Any other driver which changes ->netdev_ops after register_netdevice() will need to call this new function after doing so too. With help from Patrick McHardy. Tested-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 15 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Harvey Harrison 提交于
Base versions handle constant folding now. For headers exposed to userspace, we must only expose the __ prefixed versions. Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 09 2月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
This patch optimises the Ethernet header comparison to use 2-byte and 4-byte xors instead of memcmp. In order to facilitate this, the actual comparison is now carried out by the callers of the shared dev_gro_receive function. This has a significant impact when receiving 1500B packets through 10GbE. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
This patch prepares for the move of the same_flow checks out of dev_gro_receive. As such we need to remember the number of held packets since doing a loop just to count them every time is silly. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 06 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Graf Yang 提交于
Signed-off-by: NGraf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 30 1月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
Unfortunately simplicity isn't always the best. The fraginfo interface turned out to be suboptimal. The problem was quite obvious. For every packet, we have to copy the headers from the frags structure into skb->head, even though for 99% of the packets this part is immediately thrown away after the merge. LRO didn't have this problem because it directly read the headers from the frags structure. This patch attempts to address this by creating an interface that allows GRO to access the headers in the first frag without having to copy it. Because all drivers that use frags place the headers in the first frag this optimisation should be enough. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
Currently VLAN still has a bit of common code handling the aftermath of GRO that's shared with the common path. This patch moves them into shared helpers to reduce code duplication. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 22 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Ben Hutchings 提交于
Following the removal of the unused struct net_device * parameter from the NAPI functions named *netif_rx_* in commit 908a7a16, they are exactly equivalent to the corresponding *napi_* functions and are therefore redundant. Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Acked-by: NNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 15 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
This adds an init_dummy_netdev() function that gets a network device structure (allocation and lifetime entirely under caller's control) and initialize the minimum amount of fields so it can be used to schedule NAPI polls without registering a full blown interface. This is to be used by drivers that need to tie several hardware interfaces to a single NAPI poll scheduler due to HW limitations. It also updates the ibm_newemac driver to use that, this fixing the oops on 2.6.29 due to passing NULL as "dev" to netif_napi_add() Symbol is exported GPL only a I don't think we want binary drivers doing that sort of acrobatics (if we want them at all). Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 13 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Krzysztof Hałasa 提交于
Fix a comment in include/linux/netdevice.h. Signed-off-by: NKrzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 07 1月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
Previously GRO's only entry point from the outside is through napi_gro_receive and napi_gro_frags. These interfaces are for device drivers. This patch rearranges things to provide a new set of interfaces for VLANs. These interfaces are for internal use only. The VLAN code itself can then provide a set of entry points for device drivers. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Dan Williams 提交于
Use the general-purpose channel allocation provided by dmaengine. Reviewed-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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- 05 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
This patch allows GRO to merge page frags (skb_shinfo(skb)->frags) in one skb, rather than using the less efficient frag_list. It also adds a new interface, napi_gro_frags to allow drivers to inject page frags directly into the stack without allocating an skb. This is intended to be the GRO equivalent for LRO's lro_receive_frags interface. The existing GSO interface can already handle page frags with or without an appended frag_list so nothing needs to be changed there. The merging itself is rather simple. We store any new frag entries after the last existing entry, without checking whether the first new entry can be merged with the last existing entry. Making this check would actually be easy but since no existing driver can produce contiguous frags anyway it would just be mental masturbation. If the total number of entries would exceed the capacity of a single skb, we simply resort to using frag_list as we do now. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 23 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Neil Horman 提交于
When the napi api was changed to separate its 1:1 binding to the net_device struct, the netif_rx_[prep|schedule|complete] api failed to remove the now vestigual net_device structure parameter. This patch cleans up that api by properly removing it.. Signed-off-by: NNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 16 12月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
This patch adds the top-level GRO (Generic Receive Offload) infrastructure. This is pretty similar to LRO except that this is protocol-independent. Instead of holding packets in an lro_mgr structure, they're now held in napi_struct. For drivers that intend to use this, they can set the NETIF_F_GRO bit and call napi_gro_receive instead of netif_receive_skb or just call netif_rx. The latter will call napi_receive_skb automatically. When napi_gro_receive is used, the driver must either call napi_complete/napi_rx_complete, or call napi_gro_flush in softirq context if the driver uses the primitives __napi_complete/__napi_rx_complete. Protocols will set the gro_receive and gro_complete function pointers in order to participate in this scheme. In addition to the packet, gro_receive will get a list of currently held packets. Each packet in the list has a same_flow field which is non-zero if it is a potential match for the new packet. For each packet that may match, they also have a flush field which is non-zero if the held packet must not be merged with the new packet. Once gro_receive has determined that the new skb matches a held packet, the held packet may be processed immediately if the new skb cannot be merged with it. In this case gro_receive should return the pointer to the existing skb in gro_list. Otherwise the new skb should be merged into the existing packet and NULL should be returned, unless the new skb makes it impossible for any further merges to be made (e.g., FIN packet) where the merged skb should be returned. Whenever the skb is merged into an existing entry, the gro_receive function should set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->same_flow. Note that if an skb merely matches an existing entry but can't be merged with it, then this shouldn't be set. If gro_receive finds it pointless to hold the new skb for future merging, it should set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush. Held packets will be flushed by napi_gro_flush which is called by napi_complete and napi_rx_complete. Currently held packets are stored in a singly liked list just like LRO. The list is limited to a maximum of 8 entries. In future, this may be expanded to use a hash table to allow more flows to be held for merging. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
This patch allows GSO to handle frag_list in a limited way for the purposes of allowing packets merged by GRO to be refragmented on output. Most hardware won't (and aren't expected to) support handling GRO frag_list packets directly. Therefore we will perform GSO in software for those cases. However, for drivers that can support it (such as virtual NICs) we may not have to segment the packets at all. Whether the added overhead of GRO/GSO is worthwhile for bridges and routers when weighed against the benefit of potentially increasing the MTU within the host is still an open question. However, for the case of host nodes this is undoubtedly a win. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 10 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Neil Horman 提交于
A few months back a race was discused between the netpoll napi service path, and the fast path through net_rx_action: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2007/10/16/345470 A patch was submitted for that bug, but I think we missed a case. Consider the following scenario: INITIAL STATE CPU0 has one napi_struct A on its poll_list CPU1 is calling netpoll_send_skb and needs to call poll_napi on the same napi_struct A that CPU0 has on its list CPU0 CPU1 net_rx_action poll_napi !list_empty (returns true) locks poll_lock for A poll_one_napi napi->poll netif_rx_complete __napi_complete (removes A from poll_list) list_entry(list->next) In the above scenario, net_rx_action assumes that the per-cpu poll_list is exclusive to that cpu. netpoll of course violates that, and because the netpoll path can dequeue from the poll list, its possible for CPU0 to detect a non-empty list at the top of the while loop in net_rx_action, but have it become empty by the time it calls list_entry. Since the poll_list isn't surrounded by any other structure, the returned data from that list_entry call in this situation is garbage, and any number of crashes can result based on what exactly that garbage is. Given that its not fasible for performance reasons to place exclusive locks arround each cpus poll list to provide that mutal exclusion, I think the best solution is modify the netpoll path in such a way that we continue to guarantee that the poll_list for a cpu is in fact exclusive to that cpu. To do this I've implemented the patch below. It adds an additional bit to the state field in the napi_struct. When executing napi->poll from the netpoll_path, this bit will be set. When a driver calls netif_rx_complete, if that bit is set, it will not remove the napi_struct from the poll_list. That work will be saved for the next iteration of net_rx_action. I've tested this and it seems to work well. About the biggest drawback I can see to it is the fact that it might result in an extra loop through net_rx_action in the event that the device is actually contended for (i.e. the netpoll path actually preforms all the needed work no the device, and the call to net_rx_action winds up doing nothing, except removing the napi_struct from the poll_list. However I think this is probably a small price to pay, given that the alternative is a crash. Signed-off-by: NNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 08 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Wang Chen 提交于
This is the last shoot of this series. After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing "priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs. Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly. If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv() instead. If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private data. Signed-off-by: NWang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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