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2013-08-29net: packet: add randomized fanout schedulerDaniel Borkmann
We currently allow for different fanout scheduling policies in pf_packet such as scheduling by skb's rxhash, round-robin, by cpu, and rollover. Also allow for a random, equidistributed selection of the socket from the fanout process group. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-25packet: if hw/sw ts enabled in rx/tx ring, report which ts we gotDaniel Borkmann
Currently, there is no way to find out which timestamp is reported in tpacket{,2,3}_hdr's tp_sec, tp_{n,u}sec members. It can be one of SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE, SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE, SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE, or a fallback variant late call from the PF_PACKET code in software. Therefore, report in the tp_status member of the ring buffer which timestamp has been reported for RX and TX path. This should not break anything for the following reasons: i) in RX ring path, the user needs to test for tp_status & TP_STATUS_USER, and later for other flags as well such as TP_STATUS_VLAN_VALID et al, so adding other flags will do no harm; ii) in TX ring path, time stamps with PACKET_TIMESTAMP socketoption are not available resp. had no effect except that the application setting this is buggy. Next to TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE, the user also should check for other flags such as TP_STATUS_WRONG_FORMAT to reclaim frames to the application. Thus, in case TX ts are turned off (default case), nothing happens to the application logic, and in case we want to use this new feature, we now can also check which of the ts source is reported in the status field as provided in the docs. Reported-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-25packet: minor: convert status bits into shifting formatDaniel Borkmann
This makes it more readable and clearer what bits are still free to use. The compiler reduces this to a constant for us anyway. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-19packet: packet fanout rollover during socket overloadWillem de Bruijn
Changes: v3->v2: rebase (no other changes) passes selftest v2->v1: read f->num_members only once fix bug: test rollover mode + flag Minimize packet drop in a fanout group. If one socket is full, roll over packets to another from the group. Maintain flow affinity during normal load using an rxhash fanout policy, while dispersing unexpected traffic storms that hit a single cpu, such as spoofed-source DoS flows. Rollover breaks affinity for flows arriving at saturated sockets during those conditions. The patch adds a fanout policy ROLLOVER that rotates between sockets, filling each socket before moving to the next. It also adds a fanout flag ROLLOVER. If passed along with any other fanout policy, the primary policy is applied until the chosen socket is full. Then, rollover selects another socket, to delay packet drop until the entire system is saturated. Probing sockets is not free. Selecting the last used socket, as rollover does, is a greedy approach that maximizes chance of success, at the cost of extreme load imbalance. In practice, with sufficiently long queues to absorb bursts, sockets are drained in parallel and load balance looks uniform in `top`. To avoid contention, scales counters with number of sockets and accesses them lockfree. Values are bounds checked to ensure correctness. Tested using an application with 9 threads pinned to CPUs, one socket per thread and sufficient busywork per packet operation to limits each thread to handling 32 Kpps. When sent 500 Kpps single UDP stream packets, a FANOUT_CPU setup processes 32 Kpps in total without this patch, 270 Kpps with the patch. Tested with read() and with a packet ring (V1). Also, passes psock_fanout.c unit test added to selftests. Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-07packet: tx_ring: allow the user to choose tx data offsetPaul Chavent
The tx data offset of packet mmap tx ring used to be : (TPACKET2_HDRLEN - sizeof(struct sockaddr_ll)) The problem is that, with SOCK_RAW socket, the payload (14 bytes after the beginning of the user data) is misaligned. This patch allows to let the user gives an offset for it's tx data if he desires. Set sock option PACKET_TX_HAS_OFF to 1, then specify in each frame of your tx ring tp_net for SOCK_DGRAM, or tp_mac for SOCK_RAW. Signed-off-by: Paul Chavent <paul.chavent@onera.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-13UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linuxDavid Howells
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>