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2006-12-05WorkQueue: Fix up arch-specific work items where possibleDavid Howells
Fix up arch-specific work items where possible to use the new work_struct and delayed_work structs. Three places that enqueue bits of their stack and then return have been marked with #error as this is not permitted. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-03netpoll header cleanupStephen Hemminger
As Steve left netpoll beast, hopefully not to return soon. He noticed that the header was messy. He straightened it up and polished it a little, then waved goodbye. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-12-03netpoll queue cleanupStephen Hemminger
The beast had a long and not very happy history. At one point, a friend (netdump) had asked that he open up a little. Well, the friend was long gone now, and the beast had this dangling piece hanging (netpoll_queue). It wasn't hard to stitch the netpoll_queue back in where it belonged and make everything tidy. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-12-03netpoll retry cleanupStephen Hemminger
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: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-12-03netpoll per device txqStephen Hemminger
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: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-12-03netpoll info leakStephen Hemminger
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: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[NET] netpoll: break recursive loop in netpoll rx pathNeil Horman
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=194055 Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-12[NETPOLL]: wrong return for null netpoll_poll_lock()Ben Dooks
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: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-12[NETPOLL]: fix initialization/NAPI raceMatt Mackall
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: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-12[NETPOLL]: add retry timeoutMatt Mackall
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: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[NETPOLL]: allow multiple netpoll_clients to register against one interfaceJeff Moyer
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: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[NETPOLL]: Introduce a netpoll_info structJeff Moyer
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: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[NETPOLL]: Set poll_owner to -1 before unlocking in netpoll_poll_unlock()Jeff Moyer
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: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
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!