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The driver name and bus address for a net_device can normally be found
through the driver model now. Instead of requiring drivers to provide
this information redundantly through the ethtool_ops::get_drvinfo
operation, use the driver model to do so if the driver does not define
the operation. Since ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO no longer requires the driver
to implement any operations, do not require net_device::ethtool_ops to
be set either.
Remove implementations of get_drvinfo and ethtool_ops that provide
only this information.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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I often use "ethtool -i" command to check what driver controls the
ehternet device. But because current virtio_net driver doesn't
support "ethtool -i", it becomes the following:
# ethtool -i eth3
Cannot get driver information: Operation not supported
This patch simply adds the "ethtool -i" support. The following is the
result when using the virtio_net driver with my patch applied to.
# ethtool -i eth3
driver: virtio_net
version: N/A
firmware-version: N/A
bus-info: virtio0
Personally, "-i" is one of the most frequently-used option, and most
network drivers support "ethtool -i", so I think virtio_net also
should do.
Signed-off-by: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (use ARRAY_SIZE)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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virtio net will never try to overflow the TX ring, so the only reason
add_buf may fail is out of memory. Thus, we can not stop the
device until some request completes - there's no guarantee anything
at all is outstanding.
Make the error message clearer as well: error here does not
indicate queue full.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (...and avoid TX_BUSY)
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .34.x (s/virtqueue_/vi->svq->vq_ops->/)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We currently fill all of RX ring, then add_buf
returns ENOSPC, which gets mis-detected as an out of
memory condition and causes us to reschedule the work,
and so on forever. Fix this by oom = err == -ENOMEM;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .34.x
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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virtio-net bounces buffer allocations off to
a thread if it can't allocate buffers from the atomic
pool. However, if posting buffers still requires atomic
buffers, this is unlikely to succeed.
Fix by passing in the proper gfp_t parameter.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* 'virtio' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (27 commits)
drivers/char: Eliminate use after free
virtio: console: Accept console size along with resize control message
virtio: console: Store each console's size in the console structure
virtio: console: Resize console port 0 on config intr only if multiport is off
virtio: console: Add support for nonblocking write()s
virtio: console: Rename wait_is_over() to will_read_block()
virtio: console: Don't always create a port 0 if using multiport
virtio: console: Use a control message to add ports
virtio: console: Move code around for future patches
virtio: console: Remove config work handler
virtio: console: Don't call hvc_remove() on unplugging console ports
virtio: console: Return -EPIPE to hvc_console if we lost the connection
virtio: console: Let host know of port or device add failures
virtio: console: Add a __send_control_msg() that can send messages without a valid port
virtio: Revert "virtio: disable multiport console support."
virtio: add_buf_gfp
trans_virtio: use virtqueue_xxx wrappers
virtio-rng: use virtqueue_xxx wrappers
virtio_ring: remove a level of indirection
virtio_net: use virtqueue_xxx wrappers
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Fix up conflicts in drivers/net/virtio_net.c due to new virtqueue_xxx
wrappers changes conflicting with some other cleanups.
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Switch virtio_net to new virtqueue_xxx wrappers.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Pointed out by Stephen Rothwell.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.c
drivers/net/virtio_net.c
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Add missing sg_init_table for sg_set_buf in virtio_net which
induced in defer skb patch.
Reported-by: Thomas Müller <thomas@mathtm.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Müller <thomas@mathtm.de>
Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
net/core/ethtool.c
net/mac80211/scan.c
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Move sg structure off stack and into virtnet_info structure.
This helps remove extra sg_init_table calls as well as reduce
stack usage.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Converts the list and the core manipulating with it to be the same as uc_list.
+uses two functions for adding/removing mc address (normal and "global"
variant) instead of a function parameter.
+removes dev_mcast.c completely.
+exposes netdev_hw_addr_list_* macros along with __hw_addr_* functions for
manipulation with lists on a sandbox (used in bonding and 80211 drivers)
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add missing sg_init_table for sg_set_buf in virtio_net which
induced in defer skb patch.
Reported-by: Thomas Müller <thomas@mathtm.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Müller <thomas@mathtm.de>
Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
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This is no longer needed. I missed to remove this in
567ec874d15b478c8eda7e9a5d2dcb05f13f1fb5 ("net: convert multiple
drivers to use netdev_for_each_mc_addr, part6")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Now we have a virtio detach API (in commit
f9bfbebf34eab707b065116cdc9699d25ba4252a), we don't need to track xmit
skbs in the virio_net driver, which improves transmission performance.
Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch replaces dev->mc_count in all drivers (hopefully I didn't miss
anything). Used spatch and did small tweaks and conding style changes when
it was suitable.
Jirka
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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12:53:38 -0800
virtio_net receives packets from its pre-allocated vring buffers, then it
delivers these packets to upper layer protocols as skb buffs. So it's not
necessary to pre-allocate skb for each mergable buffer, then frees extra
skbs when buffers are merged into a large packet. This patch has deferred
skb allocation in receiving packets for both big packets and mergeable buffers
to reduce skb pre-allocations and skb frees. It frees unused buffers by calling
detach_unused_buf in vring, so recv skb queue is not needed.
Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
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I have seen RX stalls on a machine that experienced a suspected
OOM. After the stall, the RX buffer is empty on the guest side
and there are exactly 16 entries available on the host side. As
the number of entries is less than that required by a maximal
skb, the host cannot proceed.
The guest did not have a refill job scheduled.
My diagnosis is that an OOM had occured, with the delayed refill
job scheduled. The job was able to allocate at least one skb, but
not enough to overcome the minimum required by the host to proceed.
As the refill job would only reschedule itself if it failed completely
to allocate any skbs, this would lead to an RX stall.
The following patch removes this stall possibility by always
rescheduling the refill job until the ring is totally refilled.
Testing has shown that the RX stall no longer occurs whereas
previously it would occur within a day.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch introduces three macros to work with uc list from net drivers.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Only files where David Miller is the primary git-signer.
wireless, wimax, ixgbe, etc are not modified.
Compile tested x86 allyesconfig only
Not all files compiled (not x86 compatible)
Added a few > 80 column lines, which I ignored.
Existing checkpatch complaints ignored.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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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
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (34 commits)
net/fsl_pq_mdio: add module license GPL
can: fix WARN_ON dump in net/core/rtnetlink.c:rtmsg_ifinfo()
can: should not use __dev_get_by_index() without locks
hisax: remove bad udelay call to fix build error on ARM
ipip: Fix handling of DF packets when pmtudisc is OFF
qlge: Set PCIe reset type for EEH to fundamental.
qlge: Fix early exit from mbox cmd complete wait.
ixgbe: fix traffic hangs on Tx with ioatdma loaded
ixgbe: Fix checking TFCS register for TXOFF status when DCB is enabled
ixgbe: Fix gso_max_size for 82599 when DCB is enabled
macsonic: fix crash on PowerBook 520
NET: cassini, fix lock imbalance
ems_usb: Fix byte order issues on big endian machines
be2net: Bug fix to send config commands to hardware after netdev_register
be2net: fix to set proper flow control on resume
netfilter: xt_connlimit: fix regression caused by zero family value
rt2x00: Don't queue ieee80211 work after USB removal
Revert "ipw2200: fix oops on missing firmware"
decnet: netdevice refcount leak
netfilter: nf_nat: fix NAT issue in 2.6.30.4+
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c
All CDC ethernet devices of type USB_CLASS_COMM need to use
'&mbm_info'.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Commit
3d1285b (move virtnet_remove to .devexit.text)
introduced the first reference to __devexit in struct virtio_driver
virtio_net which upset modpost ("Section mismatch in reference from the
variable virtio_net to the function .devexit.text:virtnet_remove()").
Fix this by renaming virtio_net to virtio_net_driver.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Blame-taken-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (43 commits)
net: Fix 'Re: PACKET_TX_RING: packet size is too long'
netdev: usb: dm9601.c can drive a device not supported yet, add support for it
qlge: Fix firmware mailbox command timeout.
qlge: Fix EEH handling.
AF_RAW: Augment raw_send_hdrinc to expand skb to fit iphdr->ihl (v2)
bonding: fix a race condition in calls to slave MII ioctls
virtio-net: fix data corruption with OOM
sfc: Set ip_summed correctly for page buffers passed to GRO
cnic: Fix L2CTX_STATUSB_NUM offset in context memory.
MAINTAINERS: rt2x00 list is moderated
airo: Reorder tests, check bounds before element
mac80211: fix for incorrect sequence number on hostapd injected frames
libertas spi: fix sparse errors
mac80211: trivial: fix spelling in mesh_hwmp
cfg80211: sme: deauthenticate on assoc failure
mac80211: keep auth state when assoc fails
mac80211: fix ibss joining
b43: add 'struct b43_wl' missing declaration
b43: Fix Bugzilla #14181 and the bug from the previous 'fix'
rt2x00: Fix crypto in TX frame for rt2800usb
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virtio net used to unlink skbs from send queues on error,
but ever since 48925e372f04f5e35fec6269127c62b2c71ab794
we do not do this. This causes guest data corruption and crashes
with vhost since net core can requeue the skb or free it without
it being taken off the list.
This patch fixes this by queueing the skb after successful
transmit.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/sh_eth.c
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
move virtrng_remove to .devexit.text
move virtballoon_remove to .devexit.text
virtio_blk: Revert serial number support
virtio: let header files include virtio_ids.h
virtio_blk: revert QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT addition
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Rusty,
commit 3ca4f5ca73057a617f9444a91022d7127041970a
virtio: add virtio IDs file
moved all device IDs into a single file. While the change itself is
a very good one, it can break userspace applications. For example
if a userspace tool wanted to get the ID of virtio_net it used to
include virtio_net.h. This does no longer work, since virtio_net.h
does not include virtio_ids.h.
This patch moves all "#include <linux/virtio_ids.h>" from the C
files into the header files, making the header files compatible with
the old ones.
In addition, this patch exports virtio_ids.h to userspace.
CC: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Because netpoll can call netdevice start_xmit() method with
irqs disabled, drivers should not call kfree_skb() from
their start_xmit(), but use dev_kfree_skb_any() instead.
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] ------------[ cut here ]------------
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] WARNING: at net/core/skbuff.c:398 \
skb_release_head_state+0x64/0xc8()
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] Hardware name:
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] Modules linked in: netconsole ocfs2 jbd2 quota_tree \
ocfs2_dlmfs ocfs2_stack_o2cb ocfs2_dlm ocfs2_nodemanager ocfs2_stackglue configfs crc32c drbd cn loop \
serio_raw psmouse snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc virtio_net pcspkr parport_pc parport \
i2c_piix4 i2c_core button processor evdev ext3 jbd mbcache dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_snapshot \
dm_mod ide_cd_mod cdrom ata_generic ata_piix virtio_blk libata scsi_mod piix ide_pci_generic ide_core \
virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio floppy thermal fan thermal_sys [last unloaded: netconsole]
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] Pid: 11132, comm: php5-cgi Tainted: G W \
2.6.31.2-vserver #1
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] Call Trace:
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] <IRQ> [<ffffffff81253cd5>] ? \
skb_release_head_state+0x64/0xc8
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff81253cd5>] ? skb_release_head_state+0x64/0xc8
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff81049ae1>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa3
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff81253cd5>] ? skb_release_head_state+0x64/0xc8
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff81253a1a>] ? __kfree_skb+0x9/0x7d
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffffa01cb139>] ? free_old_xmit_skbs+0x51/0x6e \
[virtio_net]
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffffa01cbc85>] ? start_xmit+0x26/0xf2 [virtio_net]
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff8126934f>] ? netpoll_send_skb+0xd2/0x205
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffffa0429216>] ? write_msg+0x90/0xeb [netconsole]
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff81049f06>] ? __call_console_drivers+0x5e/0x6f
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff8102b49d>] ? kvm_clock_read+0x4d/0x52
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff8104a082>] ? release_console_sem+0x115/0x1ba
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff8104a632>] ? vprintk+0x2f2/0x34b
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff8106b142>] ? vx_update_load+0x18/0x13e
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff81308309>] ? printk+0x4e/0x5d
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff8102b49d>] ? kvm_clock_read+0x4d/0x52
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff81070b62>] ? getnstimeofday+0x55/0xaf
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff81062683>] ? ktime_get_ts+0x21/0x49
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff810626b7>] ? ktime_get+0xc/0x41
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff81062788>] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x9c/0x146
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff81024a4b>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x80/0x93
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] [<ffffffff81011663>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
Oct 8 11:16:52 172.30.1.31 [113074.791813] <EOI> [<ffffffff8130a9eb>] ? _spin_unlock_irq+0xd/0x31
Reported-and-tested-by: Massimo Cetra <mcetra@navynet.it>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Bug-Entry: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14378
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The function virtnet_remove is used only wrapped by __devexit_p so define
it using __devexit.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Saves us one cycle of alloc-add-free if the queue was full.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (modified)
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Now we can tell the theoretical capacity remaining in the output
queue, virtio_net can waste entries by stopping the queue early.
It doesn't work in the case of indirect buffers and kmalloc failure,
but that's rare (we could drop the packet in that case, but other
drivers return TX_BUSY for similar reasons).
For the record, I think this patch reflects poorly on the linux
network API.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dinesh Subhraveti <dineshs@us.ibm.com>
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We put the virtio_net_hdr into the skb's cb region; turn this into a
union to clean up the code slightly and allow future expansion.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Dinesh Subhraveti <dineshs@us.ibm.com>
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The virtio_net driver is complicated by the two methods of freeing old
xmit buffers (in addition to freeing old ones at the start of the xmit
path).
The original code used a 1/10 second timer attached to xmit_free(),
reset on every xmit. Before we orphaned skbs on xmit, the
transmitting userspace could block with a full socket until the timer
fired, the skb destructor was called, and they were re-woken.
So we added the VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY feature: supporting devices
send an interrupt (even if normally suppressed) on an empty xmit ring
which makes us schedule xmit_tasklet(). This was a benchmark win.
Unfortunately, VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY makes quite a lot of work: a
host which is faster than the guest will fire the interrupt every xmit
packet (slowing the guest down further). Attempting mitigation in the
host adds overhead of userspace timers (possibly with the additional
pain of signals), and risks increasing latency anyway if you get it
wrong.
In practice, this effect was masked by benchmarks which take advantage
of GSO (with its inherent transmit batching), but it's still there.
Now we orphan xmitted skbs, the pressure is off: remove both paths and
no longer request VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY. Note that the current
QEMU will notify us even if we don't negotiate this feature (legal,
but suboptimal); a patch is outstanding to improve that.
Move the skb_orphan/nf_reset to after we've done the send and notified
the other end, for a slight optimization.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
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This effectively reverts 99ffc696d10b28580fe93441d627cf290ac4484c
"virtio: wean net driver off NETDEV_TX_BUSY".
The complexity of queuing an skb (setting a tasklet to re-xmit) is
questionable, especially once we get rid of the other reason for the
tasklet in the next patch.
If the skb won't fit in the tx queue, just return NETDEV_TX_BUSY.
This is frowned upon, so a followup patch uses a more complex solution.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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The complex transmit free logic was introduced to avoid hangs on
removing the ip_conntrack module and also because drivers aren't
generally supposed to keep stale skbs for unbounded times.
After some debate, it was decided that while doing skb_orphan()
generally is a rat's nest, we can do it in this driver. Following
patches take advantage of this.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Virtio IDs are spread all over the tree which makes assigning new IDs
bothersome. Putting them together should make the process less error-prone.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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This API change means that virtio_net can tell how much capacity
remains for buffers. It's necessarily fuzzy, since
VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC means we can fit any number of descriptors
in one, *if* we can kmalloc.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dinesh Subhraveti <dineshs@us.ibm.com>
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No need to put ethtool_ops in data, they should be const.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/yellowfin.c
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These are all drivers that don't touch real hardware.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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If we run out of memory, use keventd to fill the buffer. There's a
report of this happening: "Page allocation failures in guest",
Message-ID: <20090713115158.0a4892b0@mjolnir.ossman.eu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- Allow setting UFO on virtio-net and advertise to host.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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