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2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-16net: introduce rx_handler results and logic around thatJiri Pirko
This patch allows rx_handlers to better signalize what to do next to it's caller. That makes skb->deliver_no_wcard no longer needed. kernel-doc for rx_handler_result is taken from Nicolas' patch. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-01inet: Remove unused sk_sndmsg_* from UFOHerbert Xu
UFO doesn't really use the sk_sndmsg_* parameters so touching them is pointless. It can't use them anyway since the whole point of UFO is to use the original pages without copying. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-27Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2011-01-27net: add kmemcheck annotation in __alloc_skb()Eric Dumazet
pskb_expand_head() triggers a kmemcheck warning when copy of skb_shared_info is done in pskb_expand_head() This is because destructor_arg field is not necessarily initialized at this point. Add kmemcheck_annotate_variable() call in __alloc_skb() to instruct kmemcheck this is a normal situation. Resolves bugzilla.kernel.org 27212 Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27212 Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-26Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2011-01-24net: change netdev->features to u32Michał Mirosław
Quoting Ben Hutchings: we presumably won't be defining features that can only be enabled on 64-bit architectures. Occurences found by `grep -r` on net/, drivers/net, include/ [ Move features and vlan_features next to each other in struct netdev, as per Eric Dumazet's suggestion -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-24GRO: fix merging a paged skb after non-paged skbsMichal Schmidt
Suppose that several linear skbs of the same flow were received by GRO. They were thus merged into one skb with a frag_list. Then a new skb of the same flow arrives, but it is a paged skb with data starting in its frags[]. Before adding the skb to the frag_list skb_gro_receive() will of course adjust the skb to throw away the headers. It correctly modifies the page_offset and size of the frag, but it leaves incorrect information in the skb: ->data_len is not decreased at all. ->len is decreased only by headlen, as if no change were done to the frag. Later in a receiving process this causes skb_copy_datagram_iovec() to return -EFAULT and this is seen in userspace as the result of the recv() syscall. In practice the bug can be reproduced with the sfc driver. By default the driver uses an adaptive scheme when it switches between using napi_gro_receive() (with skbs) and napi_gro_frags() (with pages). The bug is reproduced when under rx load with enough successful GRO merging the driver decides to switch from the former to the latter. Manual control is also possible, so reproducing this is easy with netcat: - on machine1 (with sfc): nc -l 12345 > /dev/null - on machine2: nc machine1 12345 < /dev/zero - on machine1: echo 1 > /sys/module/sfc/parameters/rx_alloc_method # use skbs echo 2 > /sys/module/sfc/parameters/rx_alloc_method # use pages - See that nc has quit suddenly. [v2: Modified by Eric Dumazet to avoid advancing skb->data past the end and to use a temporary variable.] Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-12netfilter: fix compilation when conntrack is disabled but tproxy is enabledKOVACS Krisztian
The IPv6 tproxy patches split IPv6 defragmentation off of conntrack, but failed to update the #ifdef stanzas guarding the defragmentation related fields and code in skbuff and conntrack related code in nf_defrag_ipv6.c. This patch adds the required #ifdefs so that IPv6 tproxy can truly be used without connection tracking. Original report: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129010118516341&w=2 Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2010-12-16net: Use skb_checksum_start_offset()Michał Mirosław
Replace skb->csum_start - skb_headroom(skb) with skb_checksum_start_offset(). Note for usb/smsc95xx: skb->data - skb->head == skb_headroom(skb). Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-03net: don't reallocate skb->head unless the current one hasn't the needed ↵Changli Gao
extra size or is shared skb head being allocated by kmalloc(), it might be larger than what actually requested because of discrete kmem caches sizes. Before reallocating a new skb head, check if the current one has the needed extra size. Do this check only if skb head is not shared. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1699 commits) bnx2/bnx2x: Unsupported Ethtool operations should return -EINVAL. vlan: Calling vlan_hwaccel_do_receive() is always valid. tproxy: use the interface primary IP address as a default value for --on-ip tproxy: added IPv6 support to the socket match cxgb3: function namespace cleanup tproxy: added IPv6 support to the TPROXY target tproxy: added IPv6 socket lookup function to nf_tproxy_core be2net: Changes to use only priority codes allowed by f/w tproxy: allow non-local binds of IPv6 sockets if IP_TRANSPARENT is enabled tproxy: added tproxy sockopt interface in the IPV6 layer tproxy: added udp6_lib_lookup function tproxy: added const specifiers to udp lookup functions tproxy: split off ipv6 defragmentation to a separate module l2tp: small cleanup nf_nat: restrict ICMP translation for embedded header can: mcp251x: fix generation of error frames can: mcp251x: fix endless loop in interrupt handler if CANINTF_MERRF is set can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local traffic 9p: client code cleanup rds: make local functions/variables static ... Fix up conflicts in net/core/dev.c, drivers/net/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.c and drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c as per David
2010-10-16net: allocate skbs on local nodeEric Dumazet
commit b30973f877 (node-aware skb allocation) spread a wrong habit of allocating net drivers skbs on a given memory node : The one closest to the NIC hardware. This is wrong because as soon as we try to scale network stack, we need to use many cpus to handle traffic and hit slub/slab management on cross-node allocations/frees when these cpus have to alloc/free skbs bound to a central node. skb allocated in RX path are ephemeral, they have a very short lifetime : Extra cost to maintain NUMA affinity is too expensive. What appeared as a nice idea four years ago is in fact a bad one. In 2010, NIC hardwares are multiqueue, or we use RPS to spread the load, and two 10Gb NIC might deliver more than 28 million packets per second, needing all the available cpus. Cost of cross-node handling in network and vm stacks outperforms the small benefit hardware had when doing its DMA transfert in its 'local' memory node at RX time. Even trying to differentiate the two allocations done for one skb (the sk_buff on local node, the data part on NIC hardware node) is not enough to bring good performance. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-15Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
2010-09-10Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: net/mac80211/main.c
2010-09-08gro: Re-fix different skb headroomsJarek Poplawski
The patch: "gro: fix different skb headrooms" in its part: "2) allocate a minimal skb for head of frag_list" is buggy. The copied skb has p->data set at the ip header at the moment, and skb_gro_offset is the length of ip + tcp headers. So, after the change the length of mac header is skipped. Later skb_set_mac_header() sets it into the NET_SKB_PAD area (if it's long enough) and ip header is misaligned at NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN offset. There is no reason to assume the original skb was wrongly allocated, so let's copy it as it was. bugzilla : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16626 fixes commit: 3d3be4333fdf6faa080947b331a6a19bce1a4f57 Reported-by: Plamen Petrov <pvp-lsts@fs.uni-ruse.bg> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Tested-by: Plamen Petrov <pvp-lsts@fs.uni-ruse.bg> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-07skb: Add tracepoints to freeing skbKoki Sanagi
This patch adds tracepoint to consume_skb and add trace_kfree_skb before __kfree_skb in skb_free_datagram_locked and net_tx_action. Combinating with tracepoint on dev_hard_start_xmit, we can check how long it takes to free transmitted packets. And using it, we can calculate how many packets driver had at that time. It is useful when a drop of transmitted packet is a problem. sshd-6828 [000] 112689.258154: consume_skb: skbaddr=f2d99bb8 Signed-off-by: Koki Sanagi <sanagi.koki@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Kaneshige Kenji <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Izumo Taku <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Scott Mcmillan <scott.a.mcmillan@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4C724364.50903@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-09-07net: pskb_expand_head() optimizationEric Dumazet
pskb_expand_head() blindly takes references on fragments before calling skb_release_data(), potentially releasing these references. We can add a fast path, avoiding these atomic operations, if we own the last reference on skb->head. Based on a previous patch from David Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-03net: remove two kmemcheck annotationsEric Dumazet
__alloc_skb() uses a memset() to clear all the beginning of skb, including bitfields contained in 'flags1' & 'flags2'. We dont need any more to use kmemcheck_annotate_bitfield() on these fields. However, we still need it for the clone part, which is not cleared. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-02gro: fix different skb headroomsEric Dumazet
Packets entering GRO might have different headrooms, even for a given flow (because of implementation details in drivers, like copybreak). We cant force drivers to deliver packets with a fixed headroom. 1) fix skb_segment() skb_segment() makes the false assumption headrooms of fragments are same than the head. When CHECKSUM_PARTIAL is used, this can give csum_start errors, and crash later in skb_copy_and_csum_dev() 2) allocate a minimal skb for head of frag_list skb_gro_receive() uses netdev_alloc_skb(headroom + skb_gro_offset(p)) to allocate a fresh skb. This adds NET_SKB_PAD to a padding already provided by netdevice, depending on various things, like copybreak. Use alloc_skb() to allocate an exact padding, to reduce cache line needs: NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN bugzilla : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16626 Many thanks to Plamen Petrov, testing many debugging patches ! With help of Jarek Poplawski. Reported-by: Plamen Petrov <pvp-lsts@fs.uni-ruse.bg> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01net: skbuff.c cleanupEric Dumazet
(skb->data - skb->head) can be changed by skb_headroom(skb) Remove some uses of NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSET, using (skb_end_pointer(skb) - skb->head) or (skb_tail_pointer(skb) - skb->head) : compiler does the right thing, and this is more readable for us ;) (struct skb_shared_info *) casts in pskb_expand_head() to help memcpy() to use aligned moves. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-23net: Rename skb_has_frags to skb_has_frag_listDavid S. Miller
SKBs can be "fragmented" in two ways, via a page array (called skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[]) and via a list of SKBs (called skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list). Since skb_has_frags() tests the latter, it's name is confusing since it sounds more like it's testing the former. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-19net: simplify flags for tx timestampingOliver Hartkopp
This patch removes the abstraction introduced by the union skb_shared_tx in the shared skb data. The access of the different union elements at several places led to some confusion about accessing the shared tx_flags e.g. in skb_orphan_try(). http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128084897415886&w=2 Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-28Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c Merge bnx2x bug fixes in by hand... :-/ Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-25net: pskb_expand_head() optimizationEric Dumazet
Move frags[] at the end of struct skb_shared_info, and make pskb_expand_head() copy only the used part of it instead of whole array. This should avoid kmemcheck warnings and speedup pskb_expand_head() as well, avoiding a lot of cache misses. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-22net: Fix skb_copy_expand() handling of ->csum_startDavid S. Miller
It should only be adjusted if ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-22net: Fix corruption of skb csum field in pskb_expand_head() of net/core/skbuff.cAndrea Shepard
Make pskb_expand_head() check ip_summed to make sure csum_start is really csum_start and not csum before adjusting it. This fixes a bug I encountered using a Sun Quad-Fast Ethernet card and VLANs. On my configuration, the sunhme driver produces skbs with differing amounts of headroom on receive depending on the packet size. See line 2030 of drivers/net/sunhme.c; packets smaller than RX_COPY_THRESHOLD have 52 bytes of headroom but packets larger than that cutoff have only 20 bytes. When these packets reach the VLAN driver, vlan_check_reorder_header() calls skb_cow(), which, if the packet has less than NET_SKB_PAD (== 32) bytes of headroom, uses pskb_expand_head() to make more. Then, pskb_expand_head() needs to adjust a lot of offsets into the skb, including csum_start. Since csum_start is a union with csum, if the packet has a valid csum value this will corrupt it, which was the effect I observed. The sunhme hardware computes receive checksums, so the skbs would be created by the driver with ip_summed == CHECKSUM_COMPLETE and a valid csum field, and then pskb_expand_head() would corrupt the csum field, leading to an "hw csum error" message later on, for example in icmp_rcv() for pings larger than the sunhme RX_COPY_THRESHOLD. On the basis of the comment at the beginning of include/linux/skbuff.h, I believe that the csum_start skb field is only meaningful if ip_csummed is CSUM_PARTIAL, so this patch makes pskb_expand_head() adjust it only in that case to avoid corrupting a valid csum value. Please see my more in-depth disucssion of tracking down this bug for more details if you like: http://puellavulnerata.livejournal.com/112186.html http://puellavulnerata.livejournal.com/112567.html http://puellavulnerata.livejournal.com/112891.html http://puellavulnerata.livejournal.com/113096.html http://puellavulnerata.livejournal.com/113591.html I am not subscribed to this list, so please CC me on replies. Signed-off-by: Andrea Shepard <andrea@persephoneslair.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-12net/core: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanupsEric Dumazet
CodingStyle cleanups EXPORT_SYMBOL should immediately follow the symbol declaration. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-14net: rxhash already set in __copy_skb_headerEric Dumazet
No need to copy rxhash again in __skb_clone() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-14net: fix deliver_no_wcard regression on loopback deviceJohn Fastabend
deliver_no_wcard is not being set in skb_copy_header. In the skb_cloned case it is not being cleared and may cause the skb to be dropped when the loopback device pushes it back up the stack. Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-01net: sock_queue_err_skb() dont mess with sk_forward_allocEric Dumazet
Correct sk_forward_alloc handling for error_queue would need to use a backlog of frames that softirq handler could not deliver because socket is owned by user thread. Or extend backlog processing to be able to process normal and error packets. Another possibility is to not use mem charge for error queue, this is what I implemented in this patch. Note: this reverts commit 29030374 (net: fix sk_forward_alloc corruptions), since we dont need to lock socket anymore. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-31Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
2010-05-29net: fix sk_forward_alloc corruptionsEric Dumazet
As David found out, sock_queue_err_skb() should be called with socket lock hold, or we risk sk_forward_alloc corruption, since we use non atomic operations to update this field. This patch adds bh_lock_sock()/bh_unlock_sock() pair to three spots. (BH already disabled) 1) skb_tstamp_tx() 2) Before calling ip_icmp_error(), in __udp4_lib_err() 3) Before calling ipv6_icmp_error(), in __udp6_lib_err() Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-29skb: make skb_recycle_check() return a bool valueChangli Gao
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (63 commits) drivers/net/usb/asix.c: Fix pointer cast. be2net: Bug fix to avoid disabling bottom half during firmware upgrade. proc_dointvec: write a single value hso: add support for new products Phonet: fix potential use-after-free in pep_sock_close() ath9k: remove VEOL support for ad-hoc ath9k: change beacon allocation to prefer the first beacon slot sock.h: fix kernel-doc warning cls_cgroup: Fix build error when built-in macvlan: do proper cleanup in macvlan_common_newlink() V2 be2net: Bug fix in init code in probe net/dccp: expansion of error code size ath9k: Fix rx of mcast/bcast frames in PS mode with auto sleep wireless: fix sta_info.h kernel-doc warnings wireless: fix mac80211.h kernel-doc warnings iwlwifi: testing the wrong variable in iwl_add_bssid_station() ath9k_htc: rare leak in ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_tx_urbs() ath9k_htc: dereferencing before check in hif_usb_tx_cb() rt2x00: Fix rt2800usb TX descriptor writing. rt2x00: Fix failed SLEEP->AWAKE and AWAKE->SLEEP transitions. ...
2010-05-21Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35Jens Axboe
Conflicts: fs/ext3/fsync.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipesJens Axboe
This patch adds F_GETPIPE_SZ and F_SETPIPE_SZ fcntl() actions for growing and shrinking the size of a pipe and adjusts pipe.c and splice.c (and relay and network splice) usage to work with these larger (or smaller) pipes. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21gro: Fix bogus gso_size on the first fraglist entryHerbert Xu
When GRO produces fraglist entries, and the resulting skb hits an interface that is incapable of TSO but capable of FRAGLIST, we end up producing a bogus packet with gso_size non-zero. This was reported in the field with older versions of KVM that did not set the TSO bits on tuntap. This patch fixes that. Reported-by: Igor Zhang <yugzhang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-18net: add a noref bit on skb dstEric Dumazet
Use low order bit of skb->_skb_dst to tell dst is not refcounted. Change _skb_dst to _skb_refdst to make sure all uses are catched. skb_dst() returns the dst, regardless of noref bit set or not, but with a lockdep check to make sure a noref dst is not given if current user is not rcu protected. New skb_dst_set_noref() helper to set an notrefcounted dst on a skb. (with lockdep check) skb_dst_drop() drops a reference only if skb dst was refcounted. skb_dst_force() helper is used to force a refcount on dst, when skb is queued and not anymore RCU protected. Use skb_dst_force() in __sk_add_backlog(), __dev_xmit_skb() if !IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE or skb enqueued on qdisc queue, in sock_queue_rcv_skb(), in __nf_queue(). Use skb_dst_force() in dev_requeue_skb(). Note: dst_use_noref() still dirties dst, we might transform it later to do one dirtying per jiffies. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-05net: __alloc_skb() speedupEric Dumazet
With following patch I can reach maximum rate of my pktgen+udpsink simulator : - 'old' machine : dual quad core E5450 @3.00GHz - 64 UDP rx flows (only differ by destination port) - RPS enabled, NIC interrupts serviced on cpu0 - rps dispatched on 7 other cores. (~130.000 IPI per second) - SLAB allocator (faster than SLUB in this workload) - tg3 NIC - 1.080.000 pps without a single drop at NIC level. Idea is to add two prefetchw() calls in __alloc_skb(), one to prefetch first sk_buff cache line, the second to prefetch the shinfo part. Also using one memset() to initialize all skb_shared_info fields instead of one by one to reduce number of instructions, using long word moves. All skb_shared_info fields before 'dataref' are cleared in __alloc_skb(). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-02net: Inline skb_pull() in eth_type_trans().David S. Miller
In commit 6be8ac2f ("[NET]: uninline skb_pull, de-bloats a lot") we uninlined skb_pull. But in some critical paths it makes sense to inline this thing and it helps performance significantly. Create an skb_pull_inline() so that we can do this in a way that serves also as annotation. Based upon a patch by Eric Dumazet. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21net: Remove two unnecessary exports (skbuff).Rami Rosen
There is no need to export skb_under_panic() and skb_over_panic() in skbuff.c, since these methods are used only in skbuff.c ; this patch removes these two exports. It also marks these functions as 'static' and removeS the extern declarations of them from include/linux/skbuff.h Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-17rps: Receive Packet SteeringTom Herbert
This patch implements software receive side packet steering (RPS). RPS distributes the load of received packet processing across multiple CPUs. Problem statement: Protocol processing done in the NAPI context for received packets is serialized per device queue and becomes a bottleneck under high packet load. This substantially limits pps that can be achieved on a single queue NIC and provides no scaling with multiple cores. This solution queues packets early on in the receive path on the backlog queues of other CPUs. This allows protocol processing (e.g. IP and TCP) to be performed on packets in parallel. For each device (or each receive queue in a multi-queue device) a mask of CPUs is set to indicate the CPUs that can process packets. A CPU is selected on a per packet basis by hashing contents of the packet header (e.g. the TCP or UDP 4-tuple) and using the result to index into the CPU mask. The IPI mechanism is used to raise networking receive softirqs between CPUs. This effectively emulates in software what a multi-queue NIC can provide, but is generic requiring no device support. Many devices now provide a hash over the 4-tuple on a per packet basis (e.g. the Toeplitz hash). This patch allow drivers to set the HW reported hash in an skb field, and that value in turn is used to index into the RPS maps. Using the HW generated hash can avoid cache misses on the packet when steering it to a remote CPU. The CPU mask is set on a per device and per queue basis in the sysfs variable /sys/class/net/<device>/queues/rx-<n>/rps_cpus. This is a set of canonical bit maps for receive queues in the device (numbered by <n>). If a device does not support multi-queue, a single variable is used for the device (rx-0). Generally, we have found this technique increases pps capabilities of a single queue device with good CPU utilization. Optimal settings for the CPU mask seem to depend on architectures and cache hierarcy. Below are some results running 500 instances of netperf TCP_RR test with 1 byte req. and resp. Results show cumulative transaction rate and system CPU utilization. e1000e on 8 core Intel Without RPS: 108K tps at 33% CPU With RPS: 311K tps at 64% CPU forcedeth on 16 core AMD Without RPS: 156K tps at 15% CPU With RPS: 404K tps at 49% CPU bnx2x on 16 core AMD Without RPS 567K tps at 61% CPU (4 HW RX queues) Without RPS 738K tps at 96% CPU (8 HW RX queues) With RPS: 854K tps at 76% CPU (4 HW RX queues) Caveats: - The benefits of this patch are dependent on architecture and cache hierarchy. Tuning the masks to get best performance is probably necessary. - This patch adds overhead in the path for processing a single packet. In a lightly loaded server this overhead may eliminate the advantages of increased parallelism, and possibly cause some relative performance degradation. We have found that masks that are cache aware (share same caches with the interrupting CPU) mitigate much of this. - The RPS masks can be changed dynamically, however whenever the mask is changed this introduces the possibility of generating out of order packets. It's probably best not change the masks too frequently. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> include/linux/netdevice.h | 32 ++++- include/linux/skbuff.h | 3 + net/core/dev.c | 335 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- net/core/net-sysfs.c | 225 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- net/core/skbuff.c | 2 + 5 files changed, 538 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-16const: constify remaining pipe_buf_operationsAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-20net: rename skb->iif to skb->skb_iifEric Dumazet
To help grep games, rename iif to skb_iif Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-19Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/sfc/sfe4001.c drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c drivers/staging/Kconfig drivers/staging/Makefile drivers/staging/rtl8187se/Kconfig drivers/staging/rtl8192e/Kconfig
2009-11-17gro: Fix illegal merging of trailer trashHerbert Xu
When we've merged skb's with page frags, and subsequently receive a trailer skb (< MSS) that is not completely non-linear (this can occur on Intel NICs if the packet size falls below the threshold), GRO ends up producing an illegal GSO skb with a frag_list. This is harmless unless the skb is then forwarded through an interface that requires software GSO, whereupon the GSO code will BUG. This patch detects this case in GRO and avoids merging the trailer skb. Reported-by: Mark Wagner <mwagner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-12skbuff: Do not allow skb recycling with disabled IRQsAnton Vorontsov
NAPI drivers try to recycle SKBs in their polling routine, but we generally don't know the context in which the polling will be called, and the skb recycling itself may require IRQs to be enabled. This patch adds irqs_disabled() test to the skb_recycle_check() routine, so that we'll not let the drivers hit the skb recycling path with IRQs disabled. As a side effect, this patch actually disables skb recycling for some [broken] drivers. E.g. gianfar driver grabs an irqsave spinlock during TX ring processing, and then tries to recycle an skb, and that caused the following badness: nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (1008 buckets, 4032 max) ------------[ cut here ]------------ Badness at kernel/softirq.c:143 NIP: c003e3c4 LR: c423a528 CTR: c003e344 ... NIP [c003e3c4] local_bh_enable+0x80/0xc4 LR [c423a528] destroy_conntrack+0xd4/0x13c [nf_conntrack] Call Trace: [c15d1b60] [c003e32c] local_bh_disable+0x1c/0x34 (unreliable) [c15d1b70] [c423a528] destroy_conntrack+0xd4/0x13c [nf_conntrack] [c15d1b80] [c02c6370] nf_conntrack_destroy+0x3c/0x70 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-24net: remove unused skb->do_not_encryptJohannes Berg
mac80211 required this due to the master netdev, but now it can put all information into skb->cb and this can go. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-18Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (55 commits) netxen: fix tx ring accounting netxen: fix detection of cut-thru firmware mode forcedeth: fix dma api mismatches atm: sk_wmem_alloc initial value is one net: correct off-by-one write allocations reports via-velocity : fix no link detection on boot Net / e100: Fix suspend of devices that cannot be power managed TI DaVinci EMAC : Fix rmmod error net: group address list and its count ipv4: Fix fib_trie rebalancing, part 2 pkt_sched: Update drops stats in act_police sky2: version 1.23 sky2: add GRO support sky2: skb recycling sky2: reduce default transmit ring sky2: receive counter update sky2: fix shutdown synchronization sky2: PCI irq issues sky2: more receive shutdown sky2: turn off pause during shutdown ... Manually fix trivial conflict in net/core/skbuff.c due to kmemcheck