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2014-01-28net: Document promote_secondariesMartin Schwenke
From 038a821667f62c496f2bbae27081b1b612122a97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:16:49 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] net: Document promote_secondaries This option was added a long time ago... commit 8f937c6099858eee15fae14009dcbd05177fa91d Author: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> Date: Sun May 29 20:23:46 2005 -0700 [IPV4]: Primary and secondary addresses Signed-off-by: Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-27AF_PACKET: Add documentation for queue mapping fanout modeNeil Horman
Recently I added a new AF_PACKET fanout operation mode in commit 2d36097, but I forgot to document it. Add PACKET_FANOUT_QM as an available mode in the af_packet documentation. Applies to net-next. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-23bonding: update bonding.txt for primary descriptiondingtianhong
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-20net: stmmac: Allocate and pass soc/board specific data to callbacksChen-Yu Tsai
The current .init and .exit callbacks requires access to driver private data structures. This is not a good seperation and abstraction. Instead, we add a new .setup callback for allocating private data, and pass the returned pointer to the other callbacks. Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-20ipv6: add flowlabel_consistency sysctlFlorent Fourcot
With the introduction of IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT, there is no guarantee of flow label unicity. This patch introduces a new sysctl to protect the old behaviour, enable by default. Changelog of V3: * rename ip6_flowlabel_consistency to flowlabel_consistency * use net_info_ratelimited() * checkpatch cleanups Signed-off-by: Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@enst-bretagne.fr> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next Conflicts: net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c Steffen Klassert says: ==================== This pull request has a merge conflict between commits be7928d20bab ("net: xfrm: xfrm_policy: fix inline not at beginning of declaration") and da7c224b1baa ("net: xfrm: xfrm_policy: silence compiler warning") from the net-next tree and commit 2f3ea9a95c58 ("xfrm: checkpatch erros with inline keyword position") from the ipsec-next tree. The version from net-next can be used, like it is done in linux-next. 1) Checkpatch cleanups, from Weilong Chen. 2) Fix lockdep complaints when pktgen is used with IPsec, from Fan Du. 3) Update pktgen to allow any combination of IPsec transport/tunnel mode and AH/ESP/IPcomp type, from Fan Du. 4) Make pktgen_dst_metrics static, Fengguang Wu. 5) Compile fix for pktgen when CONFIG_XFRM is not set, from Fan Du. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-14Merge tag 'batman-adv-for-davem' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-mergeDavid S. Miller
Included changes: - drop dependency against CRC16 - move to new release version - add size check at compile time for packet structs - update copyright years in every file - implement new bonding/interface alternation feature Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-13packet: doc: describe PACKET_MMAP with one packet socket for rx and txNorbert van Bolhuis
Document how to use one AF_PACKET mmap socket for RX and TX. Signed-off-by: Norbert van Bolhuis <nvbolhuis@aimvalley.nl> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-13ipv4: introduce hardened ip_no_pmtu_disc modeHannes Frederic Sowa
This new ip_no_pmtu_disc mode only allowes fragmentation-needed errors to be honored by protocols which do more stringent validation on the ICMP's packet payload. This knob is useful for people who e.g. want to run an unmodified DNS server in a namespace where they need to use pmtu for TCP connections (as they are used for zone transfers or fallback for requests) but don't want to use possibly spoofed UDP pmtu information. Currently the whitelisted protocols are TCP, SCTP and DCCP as they check if the returned packet is in the window or if the association is valid. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-13ipv4: introduce ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward and protect forwarding path against ↵Hannes Frederic Sowa
pmtu spoofing While forwarding we should not use the protocol path mtu to calculate the mtu for a forwarded packet but instead use the interface mtu. We mark forwarded skbs in ip_forward with IPSKB_FORWARDED, which was introduced for multicast forwarding. But as it does not conflict with our usage in unicast code path it is perfect for reuse. I moved the functions ip_sk_accept_pmtu, ip_sk_use_pmtu and ip_skb_dst_mtu along with the new ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward to net/ip.h to fix circular dependencies because of IPSKB_FORWARDED. Because someone might have written a software which does probe destinations manually and expects the kernel to honour those path mtus I introduced a new per-namespace "ip_forward_use_pmtu" knob so someone can disable this new behaviour. We also still use mtus which are locked on a route for forwarding. The reason for this change is, that path mtus information can be injected into the kernel via e.g. icmp_err protocol handler without verification of local sockets. As such, this could cause the IPv4 forwarding path to wrongfully emit fragmentation needed notifications or start to fragment packets along a path. Tunnel and ipsec output paths clear IPCB again, thus IPSKB_FORWARDED won't be set and further fragmentation logic will use the path mtu to determine the fragmentation size. They also recheck packet size with help of path mtu discovery and report appropriate errors. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-12batman-adv: add missing sysfs attributes to READMEAntonio Quartulli
Add missing sysfs attributes in the proper section of the README Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-07IPv6: add the option to use anycast addresses as source addresses in echo replyFX Le Bail
This change allows to follow a recommandation of RFC4942. - Add "anycast_src_echo_reply" sysctl to control the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6 echo reply. This sysctl is false by default to preserve existing behavior. - Add inline check ipv6_anycast_destination(). - Use them in icmpv6_echo_reply(). Reference: RFC4942 - IPv6 Transition/Coexistence Security Considerations (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4942#section-2.1.6) 2.1.6. Anycast Traffic Identification and Security [...] To avoid exposing knowledge about the internal structure of the network, it is recommended that anycast servers now take advantage of the ability to return responses with the anycast address as the source address if possible. Signed-off-by: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@yahoo.com> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-03{pktgen, xfrm} Document IPsec usage in pktgen.txtFan Du
Update pktgen.txt for reference when using IPsec. Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2014-01-01i40evf: add driver to kernel build systemGreg Rose
Modify the existing Kconfig, Makefile, and MAINTAINERS to add the driver to the kernel. Add a Makefile and a documentation Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2013-12-31bonding: update Documentation/networking/bonding.txt for option lp_intervaldingtianhong
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-21packet: doc: add documentation for VLAN TPID deliveryAtzm Watanabe
Introduce TP_STATUS_VLAN_TPID_VALID bit into the documentation. Signed-off-by: Atzm Watanabe <atzm@stratosphere.co.jp> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-19Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next Steffen Klassert says: ==================== pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2013-12-19 1) Use the user supplied policy index instead of a generated one if present. From Fan Du. 2) Make xfrm migration namespace aware. From Fan Du. 3) Make the xfrm state and policy locks namespace aware. From Fan Du. 4) Remove ancient sleeping when the SA is in acquire state, we now queue packets to the policy instead. This replaces the sleeping code. 5) Remove FLOWI_FLAG_CAN_SLEEP. This was used to notify xfrm about the posibility to sleep. The sleeping code is gone, so remove it. 6) Check user specified spi for IPComp. Thr spi for IPcomp is only 16 bit wide, so check for a valid value. From Fan Du. 7) Export verify_userspi_info to check for valid user supplied spi ranges with pfkey and netlink. From Fan Du. 8) RFC3173 states that if the total size of a compressed payload and the IPComp header is not smaller than the size of the original payload, the IP datagram must be sent in the original non-compressed form. These packets are dropped by the inbound policy check because they are not transformed. Document the need to set 'level use' for IPcomp to receive such packets anyway. From Fan Du. Please pull or let me know if there are problems. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-19Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://gitorious.org/linux-can/linux-can-nextDavid S. Miller
Marc Kleine-Budde says: ==================== this is a pull request of four patches for net-next/master. There is one patch by Markus Pargmann, which speeds up the c_can driver, a patch by John Whitmore which updates the in tree documentation. A patch by Jeff Kirsher which replaces the FSF's address by a link and a patch by Alexander Shiyan which converts the mcp251x driver to make use of managed resources. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-18ipv4: new ip_no_pmtu_disc mode to always discard incoming frag needed msgsHannes Frederic Sowa
This new mode discards all incoming fragmentation-needed notifications as I guess was originally intended with this knob. To not break backward compatibility too much, I only added a special case for mode 2 in the receiving path. Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-18Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c drivers/net/macvtap.c Both minor merge hassles, simple overlapping changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-17ipv4: improve documentation of ip_no_pmtu_discHannes Frederic Sowa
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-17can: update MAINTAINERS and DocumentationJohn Whitmore
Changed MAINTAINERS file to add Documentation/networking/can.txt to the list of maintained files. can.txt: - Globally changed Socket CAN to SocketCAN - Removed section 3.3 from the document - Updated Section 7 - Corrected a few simple typos Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: John Whitmore <johnfwhitmore@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2013-12-16xfrm: Add file to document IPsec corner caseFan Du
Create Documentation/networking/ipsec.txt to document IPsec corner issues and other info, which will be useful when user deploying IPsec. Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2013-12-12filter: doc: improve BPF documentationDaniel Borkmann
This patch significantly updates the BPF documentation and describes its internal architecture, Linux extensions, and handling of the kernel's BPF and JIT engine, plus documents how development can be facilitated with the help of bpf_dbg, bpf_asm, bpf_jit_disasm. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-10net: phy: consolidate PHY reset in phy_init_hw()Florian Fainelli
There are quite a lot of drivers touching a PHY device MII_BMCR register to reset the PHY without taking care of: 1) ensuring that BMCR_RESET is cleared after a given timeout 2) the PHY state machine resuming to the proper state and re-applying potentially changed settings such as auto-negotiation Introduce phy_poll_reset() which will take care of polling the MII_BMCR for the BMCR_RESET bit to be cleared after a given timeout or return a timeout error code. In order to make sure the PHY is in a correct state, phy_init_hw() first issues a software reset through MII_BMCR and then applies any fixups. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-10packet: introduce PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS socket optionDaniel Borkmann
This patch introduces a PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS socket option, that allows for using a similar xmit() function as in pktgen instead of taking the dev_queue_xmit() path. This can be very useful when PF_PACKET applications are required to be used in a similar scenario as pktgen, but with full, flexible packet payload that needs to be provided, for example. On default, nothing changes in behaviour for normal PF_PACKET TX users, so everything stays as is for applications. New users, however, can now set PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS if needed to prevent own packets from i) reentering packet_rcv() and ii) to directly push the frame to the driver. In doing so we can increase pps (here 64 byte packets) for PF_PACKET a bit: # CPUs -- QDISC_BYPASS -- qdisc path -- qdisc path[**] 1 CPU == 1,509,628 pps -- 1,208,708 -- 1,247,436 2 CPUs == 3,198,659 pps -- 2,536,012 -- 1,605,779 3 CPUs == 4,787,992 pps -- 3,788,740 -- 1,735,610 4 CPUs == 6,173,956 pps -- 4,907,799 -- 1,909,114 5 CPUs == 7,495,676 pps -- 5,956,499 -- 2,014,422 6 CPUs == 9,001,496 pps -- 7,145,064 -- 2,155,261 7 CPUs == 10,229,776 pps -- 8,190,596 -- 2,220,619 8 CPUs == 11,040,732 pps -- 9,188,544 -- 2,241,879 9 CPUs == 12,009,076 pps -- 10,275,936 -- 2,068,447 10 CPUs == 11,380,052 pps -- 11,265,337 -- 1,578,689 11 CPUs == 11,672,676 pps -- 11,845,344 -- 1,297,412 [...] 20 CPUs == 11,363,192 pps -- 11,014,933 -- 1,245,081 [**]: qdisc path with packet_rcv(), how probably most people seem to use it (hopefully not anymore if not needed) The test was done using a modified trafgen, sending a simple static 64 bytes packet, on all CPUs. The trick in the fast "qdisc path" case, is to avoid reentering packet_rcv() by setting the RAW socket protocol to zero, like: socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, 0); Tradeoffs are documented as well in this patch, clearly, if queues are busy, we will drop more packets, tc disciplines are ignored, and these packets are not visible to taps anymore. For a pktgen like scenario, we argue that this is acceptable. The pointer to the xmit function has been placed in packet socket structure hole between cached_dev and prot_hook that is hot anyway as we're working on cached_dev in each send path. Done in joint work together with Jesper Dangaard Brouer. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-10Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Merge 'net' into 'net-next' to get the AF_PACKET bug fix that Daniel's direct transmit changes depend upon. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-10packet: fix send path when running with proto == 0Daniel Borkmann
Commit e40526cb20b5 introduced a cached dev pointer, that gets hooked into register_prot_hook(), __unregister_prot_hook() to update the device used for the send path. We need to fix this up, as otherwise this will not work with sockets created with protocol = 0, plus with sll_protocol = 0 passed via sockaddr_ll when doing the bind. So instead, assign the pointer directly. The compiler can inline these helper functions automagically. While at it, also assume the cached dev fast-path as likely(), and document this variant of socket creation as it seems it is not widely used (seems not even the author of TX_RING was aware of that in his reference example [1]). Tested with reproducer from e40526cb20b5. [1] http://wiki.ipxwarzone.com/index.php5?title=Linux_packet_mmap#Example Fixes: e40526cb20b5 ("packet: fix use after free race in send path when dev is released") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Tested-by: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@aristanetworks.com> Tested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-06Merge branch 'for-davem' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next John W. Linville says: ==================== Please pull this batch of updates intended for the 3.14 stream... For the mac80211 bits, Johannes says: "I have various improvements/cleanups/fixes all over, but the shortlog shows that Luis's regulatory work and mesh work from the cozybit folks are the biggest ones, along with the CSA fixes." Along with that, we have big batches of updates to brcmfmac, rtlwifi, and ath9k. There are updates to wcn36xx, rt2x00, and a handful of others as well. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-06tcp: auto corkingEric Dumazet
With the introduction of TCP Small Queues, TSO auto sizing, and TCP pacing, we can implement Automatic Corking in the kernel, to help applications doing small write()/sendmsg() to TCP sockets. Idea is to change tcp_push() to check if the current skb payload is under skb optimal size (a multiple of MSS bytes) If under 'size_goal', and at least one packet is still in Qdisc or NIC TX queues, set the TCP Small Queue Throttled bit, so that the push will be delayed up to TX completion time. This delay might allow the application to coalesce more bytes in the skb in following write()/sendmsg()/sendfile() system calls. The exact duration of the delay is depending on the dynamics of the system, and might be zero if no packet for this flow is actually held in Qdisc or NIC TX ring. Using FQ/pacing is a way to increase the probability of autocorking being triggered. Add a new sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_autocorking) to control this feature and default it to 1 (enabled) Add a new SNMP counter : nstat -a | grep TcpExtTCPAutoCorking This counter is incremented every time we detected skb was under used and its flush was deferred. Tested: Interesting effects when using line buffered commands under ssh. Excellent performance results in term of cpu usage and total throughput. lpq83:~# echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_autocorking lpq83:~# perf stat ./super_netperf 4 -t TCP_STREAM -H lpq84 -- -m 128 9410.39 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 4 -t TCP_STREAM -H lpq84 -- -m 128': 35209.439626 task-clock # 2.901 CPUs utilized 2,294 context-switches # 0.065 K/sec 101 CPU-migrations # 0.003 K/sec 4,079 page-faults # 0.116 K/sec 97,923,241,298 cycles # 2.781 GHz [83.31%] 51,832,908,236 stalled-cycles-frontend # 52.93% frontend cycles idle [83.30%] 25,697,986,603 stalled-cycles-backend # 26.24% backend cycles idle [66.70%] 102,225,978,536 instructions # 1.04 insns per cycle # 0.51 stalled cycles per insn [83.38%] 18,657,696,819 branches # 529.906 M/sec [83.29%] 91,679,646 branch-misses # 0.49% of all branches [83.40%] 12.136204899 seconds time elapsed lpq83:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_autocorking lpq83:~# perf stat ./super_netperf 4 -t TCP_STREAM -H lpq84 -- -m 128 6624.89 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 4 -t TCP_STREAM -H lpq84 -- -m 128': 40045.864494 task-clock # 3.301 CPUs utilized 171 context-switches # 0.004 K/sec 53 CPU-migrations # 0.001 K/sec 4,080 page-faults # 0.102 K/sec 111,340,458,645 cycles # 2.780 GHz [83.34%] 61,778,039,277 stalled-cycles-frontend # 55.49% frontend cycles idle [83.31%] 29,295,522,759 stalled-cycles-backend # 26.31% backend cycles idle [66.67%] 108,654,349,355 instructions # 0.98 insns per cycle # 0.57 stalled cycles per insn [83.34%] 19,552,170,748 branches # 488.244 M/sec [83.34%] 157,875,417 branch-misses # 0.81% of all branches [83.34%] 12.130267788 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-06Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
2013-12-02Merge branch 'for-john' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
2013-11-25cfg80211: consolidate passive-scan and no-ibss flagsLuis R. Rodriguez
These two flags are used for the same purpose, just combine them into a no-ir flag to annotate no initiating radiation is allowed. Old userspace sending either flag will have it treated as the no-ir flag. To be considerate to older userspace we also send both the no-ir flag and the old no-ibss flags. Newer userspace will have to be aware of older kernels. Update all places in the tree using these flags with the following semantic patch: @@ @@ -NL80211_RRF_PASSIVE_SCAN +NL80211_RRF_NO_IR @@ @@ -NL80211_RRF_NO_IBSS +NL80211_RRF_NO_IR @@ @@ -IEEE80211_CHAN_PASSIVE_SCAN +IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR @@ @@ -IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS +IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR @@ @@ -NL80211_RRF_NO_IR | NL80211_RRF_NO_IR +NL80211_RRF_NO_IR @@ @@ -IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR | IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR +IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR @@ @@ -(NL80211_RRF_NO_IR) +NL80211_RRF_NO_IR @@ @@ -(IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR) +IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR Along with some hand-optimisations in documentation, to remove duplicates and to fix some indentation. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> [do all the driver updates in one go] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-11-22net_tstamp,doc: Add test program for SIOC{G,S}HWTSTAMPBen Hutchings
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2013-11-19net_tstamp: Add SIOCGHWTSTAMP ioctl to match SIOCSHWTSTAMPBen Hutchings
SIOCSHWTSTAMP returns the real configuration to the application using it, but there is currently no way for any other application to find out the configuration non-destructively. Add a new ioctl for this, making it unprivileged. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2013-11-14tcp: tsq: restore minimal amount of queueingEric Dumazet
After commit c9eeec26e32e ("tcp: TSQ can use a dynamic limit"), several users reported throughput regressions, notably on mvneta and wifi adapters. 802.11 AMPDU requires a fair amount of queueing to be effective. This patch partially reverts the change done in tcp_write_xmit() so that the minimal amount is sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes. It also remove the use of this sysctl while building skb stored in write queue, as TSO autosizing does the right thing anyway. Users with well behaving NICS and correct qdisc (like sch_fq), can then lower the default sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes value from 128KB to 8KB. This new usage of sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes permits each driver authors to check how their driver performs when/if the value is set to a minimum of 4KB. Normally, line rate for a single TCP flow should be possible, but some drivers rely on timers to perform TX completion and too long TX completion delays prevent reaching full throughput. Fixes: c9eeec26e32e ("tcp: TSQ can use a dynamic limit") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org> Reported-by: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org> Tested-by: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org> Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-07bonding: document the new packets_per_slave optionNikolay Aleksandrov
Add new documentation for the packets_per_slave option available for balance-rr mode. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-05Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://gitorious.org/linux-can/linux-can-nextDavid S. Miller
Marc Kleine-Budde says: ==================== here's a pull request for net-next. It includes a patch by Oliver Hartkopp et al. that adds documentation for the broadcast manager to Documentation/networking/can.txt. Three patches by me that clean up the netlink handling code in the CAN core. And another patch that removes a not needed function from the ti_hecc driver. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-05tcp: properly handle stretch acks in slow startYuchung Cheng
Slow start now increases cwnd by 1 if an ACK acknowledges some packets, regardless the number of packets. Consequently slow start performance is highly dependent on the degree of the stretch ACKs caused by receiver or network ACK compression mechanisms (e.g., delayed-ACK, GRO, etc). But slow start algorithm is to send twice the amount of packets of packets left so it should process a stretch ACK of degree N as if N ACKs of degree 1, then exits when cwnd exceeds ssthresh. A follow up patch will use the remainder of the N (if greater than 1) to adjust cwnd in the congestion avoidance phase. In addition this patch retires the experimental limited slow start (LSS) feature. LSS has multiple drawbacks but questionable benefit. The fractional cwnd increase in LSS requires a loop in slow start even though it's rarely used. Configuring such an increase step via a global sysctl on different BDPS seems hard. Finally and most importantly the slow start overshoot concern is now better covered by the Hybrid slow start (hystart) enabled by default. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-05tcp: enable sockets to use MSG_FASTOPEN by defaultYuchung Cheng
Applications have started to use Fast Open (e.g., Chrome browser has such an optional flag) and the feature has gone through several generations of kernels since 3.7 with many real network tests. It's time to enable this flag by default for applications to test more conveniently and extensively. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be.h drivers/net/netconsole.c net/bridge/br_private.h Three mostly trivial conflicts. The net/bridge/br_private.h conflict was a function signature (argument addition) change overlapping with the extern removals from Joe Perches. In drivers/net/netconsole.c we had one change adjusting a printk message whilst another changed "printk(KERN_INFO" into "pr_info(". Lastly, the emulex change was a new inline function addition overlapping with Joe Perches's extern removals. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-04net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc()Eric Dumazet
Joby Poriyath provided a xen-netback patch to reduce the size of xenvif structure as some netdev allocation could fail under memory pressure/fragmentation. This patch is handling the problem at the core level, allowing any netdev structures to use vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed. As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path, add __GFP_REPEAT to kzalloc() flags to do this fallback only when really needed. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Joby Poriyath <joby.poriyath@citrix.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-31can: add broadcast manager documentationOliver Hartkopp
This patch adds documentation about the broadcast manager. It's based on Brian Thorne's initial patch http://marc.info/?l=linux-can&m=138119382015496&w=2 and Daniele Venzano's work http://brownhat.org/docs/socketcan.html . Signed-off-by: Brian Thorne <hardbyte@gmail.com> Cc: Daniele Venzano <linux@brownhat.org> Cc: Andre Naujoks <nautsch2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2013-10-30doc:net: Fix typo in Documentation/networkingMasanari Iida
Correct spelling typo in Documentation/networking Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-27Documentation/networking: netdev-FAQ typo correctionsRandy Dunlap
Various typo fixes to netdev-FAQ.txt: - capitalize Linux - hyphenate dual-word adjectives - minor punctuation fixes Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Acked-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-19batman-adv: update email address for Marek LindnerMarek Lindner
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-19batman-adv: update email address for Simon WunderlichSimon Wunderlich
My university will stop email service for alumni in january 2014, please use my new e-mail address instead. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2013-10-09batman-adv: remove vis functionalitySimon Wunderlich
This is replaced by a userspace program, we don't need this functionality to bloat the kernel. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-03bonding: document the new xmit policy modes and update the changed onesNikolay Aleksandrov
Add new documentation for encap2+3 and encap3+4, also update the formula for the old modes due to the changes. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-16bonding: Make alb learning packet interval configurableNeil Horman
running bonding in ALB mode requires that learning packets be sent periodically, so that the switch knows where to send responding traffic. However, depending on switch configuration, there may not be any need to send traffic at the default rate of 3 packets per second, which represents little more than wasted data. Allow the ALB learning packet interval to be made configurable via sysfs Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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