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2012-08-07net: output path optimizationsEric Dumazet
1) Avoid dirtying neighbour's confirmed field. TCP workloads hits this cache line for each incoming ACK. Lets write n->confirmed only if there is a jiffie change. 2) Optimize neigh_hh_output() for the common Ethernet case, were hh_len is less than 16 bytes. Replace the memcpy() call by two inlined 64bit load/stores on x86_64. Bench results using udpflood test, with -C option (MSG_CONFIRM flag added to sendto(), to reproduce the n->confirmed dirtying on UDP) 24 threads doing 1.000.000 UDP sendto() on dummy device, 4 runs. before : 2.247s, 2.235s, 2.247s, 2.318s after : 1.884s, 1.905s, 1.891s, 1.895s Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-05net: Do delayed neigh confirmation.David S. Miller
When a dst_confirm() happens, mark the confirmation as pending in the dst. Then on the next packet out, when we have the neigh in-hand, do the update. This removes the dependency in dst_confirm() of dst's having an attached neigh. While we're here, remove the explicit 'dst' NULL check, all except 2 or 3 call sites ensure it's not NULL. So just fix those cases up. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-05ipv4: Make neigh lookups directly in output packet path.David S. Miller
Do not use the dst cached neigh, we'll be getting rid of that. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-15net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned intEric Dumazet
Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-13neighbour: Make neigh_table_init_no_netlink() static.Hiroaki SHIMODA
neigh_table_init_no_netlink() is only used in net/core/neighbour.c file. Signed-off-by: Hiroaki SHIMODA <shimoda.hiroaki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-28ipv6: Use universal hash for NDISC.David S. Miller
In order to perform a proper universal hash on a vector of integers, we have to use different universal hashes on each vector element. Which means we need 4 different hash randoms for ipv6. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-19Revert "net: Remove unused neighbour layer ops."David S. Miller
This reverts commit 5c3ddec73d01a1fae9409c197078cb02c42238c3. S390 qeth driver actually still uses the setup ops. Reported-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-13net: Remove unused neighbour layer ops.David S. Miller
It's simpler to just keep these things out until there is a real user of them, so we can see what the needs actually are, rather than keep these things around as useless overhead. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-30neigh: Get rid of neigh_table->kmem_cachepDavid Miller
We are going to alloc for device specific private areas for neighbour entries, and in order to do that we have to move away from the fixed allocation size enforced by using neigh_table->kmem_cachep As a nice side effect we can now use kfree_rcu(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-30neigh: Create mechanism for generic neigh private areas.David Miller
The implementation private sits right after the primary_key memory. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-14neigh: new unresolved queue limitsEric Dumazet
Le mercredi 09 novembre 2011 à 16:21 -0500, David Miller a écrit : > From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:16:44 -0500 (EST) > > > From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> > > Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:14:09 +0100 > > > >> unres_qlen is the number of frames we are able to queue per unresolved > >> neighbour. Its default value (3) was never changed and is responsible > >> for strange drops, especially if IP fragments are used, or multiple > >> sessions start in parallel. Even a single tcp flow can hit this limit. > > ... > > > > Ok, I've applied this, let's see what happens :-) > > Early answer, build fails. > > Please test build this patch with DECNET enabled and resubmit. The > decnet neigh layer still refers to the removed ->queue_len member. > > Thanks. Ouch, this was fixed on one machine yesterday, but not the other one I used this morning, sorry. [PATCH V5 net-next] neigh: new unresolved queue limits unres_qlen is the number of frames we are able to queue per unresolved neighbour. Its default value (3) was never changed and is responsible for strange drops, especially if IP fragments are used, or multiple sessions start in parallel. Even a single tcp flow can hit this limit. $ arp -d 192.168.20.108 ; ping -c 2 -s 8000 192.168.20.108 PING 192.168.20.108 (192.168.20.108) 8000(8028) bytes of data. 8008 bytes from 192.168.20.108: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.322 ms Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-18neigh: Pass neighbour entry to output ops.David S. Miller
This will get us closer to being able to do "neigh stuff" completely independent of the underlying dst_entry for protocols (ipv4/ipv6) that wish to do so. We will also be able to make dst entries neigh-less. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-17neigh: Kill ndisc_ops->queue_xmitDavid S. Miller
It is always dev_queue_xmit(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-17neigh: Kill hh_cache->hh_outputDavid S. Miller
It's just taking on one of two possible values, either neigh_ops->output or dev_queue_xmit(). And this is purely depending upon whether nud_state has NUD_CONNECTED set or not. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-17neigh: Kill neigh_ops->hh_outputDavid S. Miller
It's always dev_queue_xmit(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-17net: Create and use new helper, neigh_output().David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-14net: Embed hh_cache inside of struct neighbour.David S. Miller
Now that there is a one-to-one correspondance between neighbour and hh_cache entries, we no longer need: 1) dynamic allocation 2) attachment to dst->hh 3) refcounting Initialization of the hh_cache entry is indicated by hh_len being non-zero, and such initialization is always done with the neighbour's lock held as a writer. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-11neigh: Store hash shift instead of mask.David S. Miller
And mask the hash function result by simply shifting down the "->hash_shift" most significant bits. Currently which bits we use is arbitrary since jhash produces entropy evenly across the whole hash function result. But soon we'll be using universal hashing functions, and in those cases more entropy exists in the higher bits than the lower bits, because they use multiplies. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-19Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c net/core/net-sysfs.c net/ipv6/addrconf.c
2010-11-18net: Fix duplicate volatile warning.Tetsuo Handa
jiffies is defined as "volatile". extern unsigned long volatile __jiffy_data jiffies; ACCESS_ONCE() uses "volatile". As a result, some compilers warn duplicate `volatile' for ACCESS_ONCE(jiffies). Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-11neigh: reorder struct neighbourEric Dumazet
It is important to move nud_state outside of the often modified cache line (because of refcnt), to reduce false sharing in neigh_event_send() This is a followup of commit 0ed8ddf4045f (neigh: Protect neigh->ha[] with a seqlock) This gives a 7% speedup on routing test with IP route cache disabled. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-11neigh: reorder struct neighbour fieldsEric Dumazet
Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 à 00:02 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit : > Here is the followup patch. > > Thanks ! > Oops, this was an old version, the up2date ones also took care of "used" field. I guess its time for a sleep, sorry again. [PATCH net-next V2] neigh: reorder struct neighbour fields (refcnt) and (ha_lock, ha, used, dev, output, ops, primary_key) should be placed on a separate cache lines. refcnt can be often written, while other fields are mostly read. This gave me good result on stress test : before: real 0m45.570s user 0m15.525s sys 9m56.669s After: real 0m41.841s user 0m15.261s sys 8m45.949s Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-11neigh: Protect neigh->ha[] with a seqlockEric Dumazet
Add a seqlock in struct neighbour to protect neigh->ha[], and avoid dirtying neighbour in stress situation (many different flows / dsts) Dirtying takes place because of read_lock(&n->lock) and n->used writes. Switching to a seqlock, and writing n->used only on jiffies changes permits less dirtying. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-07neigh: RCU conversion of struct neighbourEric Dumazet
This is the second step for neighbour RCU conversion. (first was commit d6bf7817 : RCU conversion of neigh hash table) neigh_lookup() becomes lockless, but still take a reference on found neighbour. (no more read_lock()/read_unlock() on tbl->lock) struct neighbour gets an additional rcu_head field and is freed after an RCU grace period. Future work would need to eventually not take a reference on neighbour for temporary dst (DST_NOCACHE), but this would need dst->_neighbour to use a noref bit like we did for skb->_dst. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05net neigh: RCU conversion of neigh hash tableEric Dumazet
David This is the first step for RCU conversion of neigh code. Next patches will convert hash_buckets[] and "struct neighbour" to RCU protected objects. Thanks [PATCH net-next] net neigh: RCU conversion of neigh hash table Instead of storing hash_buckets, hash_mask and hash_rnd in "struct neigh_table", a new structure is defined : struct neigh_hash_table { struct neighbour **hash_buckets; unsigned int hash_mask; __u32 hash_rnd; struct rcu_head rcu; }; And "struct neigh_table" has an RCU protected pointer to such a neigh_hash_table. This means the signature of (*hash)() function changed: We need to add a third parameter with the actual hash_rnd value, since this is not anymore a neigh_table field. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-01neigh: reorder fields in struct neighbourEric Dumazet
On 64bit arches, there are two 32bit holes that we can remove. sizeof(struct neighbour) shrinks from 0xf8 to 0xf0 bytes Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-30net/neighbour.h: fix typoKulikov Vasiliy
'Shoul' must be 'should'. Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-15netfilter: bridge-netfilter: Fix MAC header handling with IP DNATBart De Schuymer
- fix IP DNAT on vlan- or pppoe-encapsulated traffic: The functions neigh_hh_output() or dst->neighbour->output() overwrite the complete Ethernet header, although we only need the destination MAC address. For encapsulated packets, they ended up overwriting the encapsulating header. The new code copies the Ethernet source MAC address and protocol number before calling dst->neighbour->output(). The Ethernet source MAC and protocol number are copied back in place in br_nf_pre_routing_finish_bridge_slow(). This also makes the IP DNAT more transparent because in the old scheme the source MAC of the bridge was copied into the source address in the Ethernet header. We also let skb->protocol equal ETH_P_IP resp. ETH_P_IPV6 during the execution of the PF_INET resp. PF_INET6 hooks. - Speed up IP DNAT by calling neigh_hh_bridge() instead of neigh_hh_output(): if dst->hh is available, we already know the MAC address so we can just copy it. Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-17percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to netTejun Heo
Add __percpu sparse annotations to net. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. The macro and type tricks around snmp stats make things a bit interesting. DEFINE/DECLARE_SNMP_STAT() macros mark the target field as __percpu and SNMP_UPD_PO_STATS() macro is updated accordingly. All snmp_mib_*() users which used to cast the argument to (void **) are updated to cast it to (void __percpu **). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-16net neigh: Decouple per interface neighbour table controls from binary sysctlsEric W. Biederman
Stop computing the number of neighbour table settings we have by counting the number of binary sysctls. This behaviour was silly and meant that we could not add another neighbour table setting without also adding another binary sysctl. Don't pass the binary sysctl path for neighour table entries into neigh_sysctl_register. These parameters are no longer used and so are just dead code. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits) m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique percpu: remove some sparse warnings percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var() this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics ... Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c mm/slab.c
2009-12-08Merge 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: (1815 commits) mac80211: fix reorder buffer release iwmc3200wifi: Enable wimax core through module parameter iwmc3200wifi: Add wifi-wimax coexistence mode as a module parameter iwmc3200wifi: Coex table command does not expect a response iwmc3200wifi: Update wiwi priority table iwlwifi: driver version track kernel version iwlwifi: indicate uCode type when fail dump error/event log iwl3945: remove duplicated event logging code b43: fix two warnings ipw2100: fix rebooting hang with driver loaded cfg80211: indent regulatory messages with spaces iwmc3200wifi: fix NULL pointer dereference in pmkid update mac80211: Fix TX status reporting for injected data frames ath9k: enable 2GHz band only if the device supports it airo: Fix integer overflow warning rt2x00: Fix padding bug on L2PAD devices. WE: Fix set events not propagated b43legacy: avoid PPC fault during resume b43: avoid PPC fault during resume tcp: fix a timewait refcnt race ... Fix up conflicts due to sysctl cleanups (dead sysctl_check code and CTL_UNNUMBERED removed) in kernel/sysctl_check.c net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c net/ipv6/addrconf.c net/sctp/sysctl.c
2009-11-12sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl codeEric W. Biederman
Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be revmoed. In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not to pass one. Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-04net: cleanup include/netEric Dumazet
This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces, in first line to ease grep games. struct something { becomes : struct something { Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-03this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for network statisticsChristoph Lameter
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-09-02net: make neigh_ops constantStephen Hemminger
These tables are never modified at runtime. Move to read-only section. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-03neigh: Convert garbage collection from softirq to workqueueEric Dumazet
Current neigh_periodic_timer() function is fired by timer IRQ, and scans one hash bucket each round (very litle work in fact) As we are supposed to scan whole hash table in 15 seconds, this means neigh_periodic_timer() can be fired very often. (depending on the number of concurrent hash entries we stored in this table) Converting this to a workqueue permits scanning whole table, minimizing icache pollution, and firing this work every 15 seconds, independantly of hash table size. This 15 seconds delay is not a hard number, as work is a deferrable one. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12net: Cleanup of neighbour codeEric Dumazet
Using read_pnet() and write_pnet() in neighbour code ease the reading of code. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12net: remove struct neigh_table::pdeAlexey Dobriyan
->pde isn't actually needed, since name is stashed in ->id. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-17core: add stat to track unresolved discards in neighbor cacheNeil Horman
in __neigh_event_send, if we have a neighbour entry which is in NUD_INCOMPLETE state, we enqueue any outbound frames to that neighbour to the neighbours arp_queue, which is default capped to a length of 3 skbs. If that queue exceeds its set length, it will drop an skb on the queue to enqueue the newly arrived skb. This results in a drop for which we have no statistics incremented. This patch adds an unresolved_discards stat to /proc/net/stat/ndisc_cache to track these lost frames. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-28Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c net/ipv6/ndisc.c
2008-03-25[NET] NETNS: Omit neigh_parms->net and pneigh_entry->net without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Introduce neigh_parms/pneigh_entry inlines: neigh_parms_net(), pneigh_net(). Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists. Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-24[NEIGH]: Fix race between pneigh deletion and ipv6's ndisc_recv_ns (v3).Pavel Emelyanov
Proxy neighbors do not have any reference counting, so any caller of pneigh_lookup (unless it's a netlink triggered add/del routine) should _not_ perform any actions on the found proxy entry. There's one exception from this rule - the ipv6's ndisc_recv_ns() uses found entry to check the flags for NTF_ROUTER. This creates a race between the ndisc and pneigh_delete - after the pneigh is returned to the caller, the nd_tbl.lock is dropped and the deleting procedure may proceed. One of the fixes would be to add a reference counting, but this problem exists for ndisc only. Besides such a patch would be too big for -rc4. So I propose to introduce a __pneigh_lookup() which is supposed to be called with the lock held and use it in ndisc code to check the flags on alive pneigh entry. Changes from v2: As David noticed, Exported the __pneigh_lookup() to ipv6 module. The checkpatch generates a warning on it, since the EXPORT_SYMBOL does not follow the symbol itself, but in this file all the exports come at the end, so I decided no to break this harmony. Changes from v1: Fixed comments from YOSHIFUJI - indentation of prototype in header and the pndisc_check_router() name - and a compilation fix, pointed by Daniel - the is_routed was (falsely) considered as uninitialized by gcc. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-04[NET] NEIGHBOUR: Remove unpopular neigh_is_connected().YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
neigh_is_connected() is not popular at all, and the only user drivers/net/cxgb3/l2t.c:t3_l2t_update() also have raw (expanded) expression. Let's expand it and remove the inline function. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-01-28[ARP]: neigh_parms_put(destroy) are essentially local to core/neighbour.c.Denis V. Lunev
Make them static. [ Moved the inline before, instead of after, call sites. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NEIGH]: Add a comment describing what a NUD stands for.Pavel Emelyanov
When I studied the neighbor code I puzzled over what the NUD can mean for quite a long time. Finally I asked Alexey and he said that this was smth like "neighbor unreachability detection". Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NEIGH]: Make /proc/net/arp opening consistent with seq_net_open semanticsDenis V. Lunev
seq_open_net requires that first field of the seq->private data to be struct seq_net_private. In reality this is a single pointer to a struct net for now. The patch makes code consistent. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NEIGH]: Remove unused method from include/net/neighbour.hRami Rosen
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Modify the neighbour table code so it handles multiple network ↵Eric W. Biederman
namespaces I'm actually surprised at how much was involved. At first glance it appears that the neighbour table data structures are already split by network device so all that should be needed is to modify the user interface commands to filter the set of neighbours by the network namespace of their devices. However a couple things turned up while I was reading through the code. The proxy neighbour table allows entries with no network device, and the neighbour parms are per network device (except for the defaults) so they now need a per network namespace default. So I updated the two structures (which surprised me) with their very own network namespace parameter. Updated the relevant lookup and destroy routines with a network namespace parameter and modified the code that interacts with users to filter out neighbour table entries for devices of other namespaces. I'm a little concerned that we can modify and display the global table configuration and from all network namespaces. But this appears good enough for now. I keep thinking modifying the neighbour table to have per network namespace instances of each table type would should be cleaner. The hash table is already dynamically sized so there are it is not a limiter. The default parameter would be straight forward to take care of. However when I look at the how the network table is built and used I still find some assumptions that there is only a single neighbour table for each type of table in the kernel. The netlink operations, neigh_seq_start, the non-core network users that call neigh_lookup. So while it might be doable it would require more refactoring than my current approach of just doing a little extra filtering in the code. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>