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<title>linux-stable.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch linux-2.6.16.y</title>
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<title>[NETPOLL]: Fix TX queue overflow in trapped mode.</title>
<updated>2007-05-22T22:41:22+00:00</updated>
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<name>Sergei Shtylyov</name>
<email>sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com</email>
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<published>2007-05-22T22:41:22+00:00</published>
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CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP causes the TX queue controls to be completely bypassed in
the netpoll's "trapped" mode which easily causes overflows in the drivers with
short TX queues (most notably, in 8139too with its 4-deep queue).  So, make
this option more sensible by making it only bypass the TX softirq wakeup.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP causes the TX queue controls to be completely bypassed in
the netpoll's "trapped" mode which easily causes overflows in the drivers with
short TX queues (most notably, in 8139too with its 4-deep queue).  So, make
this option more sensible by making it only bypass the TX softirq wakeup.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] sky2: change netif_rx_schedule_test to __netif_schedule_prep</title>
<updated>2005-12-01T07:20:20+00:00</updated>
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<name>shemminger@osdl.org</name>
<email>shemminger@osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-11-30T19:45:17+00:00</published>
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I didn't like the name netif_rx_schedule_test(), in earlier patches
and changed to __netif_rx_schedule_prep to be more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
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I didn't like the name netif_rx_schedule_test(), in earlier patches
and changed to __netif_rx_schedule_prep to be more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'bonding-sysfs' of git://git.tuxdriver.com/git/netdev-jwl</title>
<updated>2005-11-15T09:49:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jgarzik@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-11-15T09:49:03+00:00</published>
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<title>[PATCH] net: make dev_valid_name public</title>
<updated>2005-11-13T19:48:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mitch Williams</name>
<email>mitch.a.williams@intel.com</email>
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<published>2005-11-09T18:34:45+00:00</published>
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dev_valid_name() is a useful function.  Make it public.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams &lt;mitch.a.williams@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;fubar@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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dev_valid_name() is a useful function.  Make it public.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams &lt;mitch.a.williams@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;fubar@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'master'</title>
<updated>2005-11-11T10:51:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jgarzik@pobox.com</email>
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<published>2005-11-11T10:51:24+00:00</published>
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<title>[NET]: Detect hardware rx checksum faults correctly</title>
<updated>2005-11-10T21:01:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
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<published>2005-11-10T21:01:24+00:00</published>
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Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete
which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults.  If that happens,
it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack
trace with the device name.  In future it can turn off RX checksum.

I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to
use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the
exceptions of:

* Those places where checksums are done bit by bit.  These will call
netdev_rx_csum_fault directly.

* The following have not been completely checked/converted:

ipmr
ip_vs
netfilter
dccp

This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger
and David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete
which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults.  If that happens,
it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack
trace with the device name.  In future it can turn off RX checksum.

I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to
use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the
exceptions of:

* Those places where checksums are done bit by bit.  These will call
netdev_rx_csum_fault directly.

* The following have not been completely checked/converted:

ipmr
ip_vs
netfilter
dccp

This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger
and David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'master'</title>
<updated>2005-11-05T20:39:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jgarzik@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-11-05T20:39:24+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>[IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approach</title>
<updated>2005-10-28T18:30:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ananda Raju</name>
<email>ananda.raju@neterion.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-10-18T22:46:41+00:00</published>
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Attached is kernel patch for UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) feature.

1. This patch incorporate the review comments by Jeff Garzik.
2. Renamed USO as UFO (UDP Fragmentation Offload)
3. udp sendfile support with UFO

This patches uses scatter-gather feature of skb to generate large UDP
datagram. Below is a "how-to" on changes required in network device
driver to use the UFO interface.

UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) Interface:
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UFO is a feature wherein the Linux kernel network stack will offload the
IP fragmentation functionality of large UDP datagram to hardware. This
will reduce the overhead of stack in fragmenting the large UDP datagram to
MTU sized packets

1) Drivers indicate their capability of UFO using
dev-&gt;features |= NETIF_F_UFO | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG

NETIF_F_HW_CSUM is required for UFO over ipv6.

2) UFO packet will be submitted for transmission using driver xmit routine.
UFO packet will have a non-zero value for

"skb_shinfo(skb)-&gt;ufo_size"

skb_shinfo(skb)-&gt;ufo_size will indicate the length of data part in each IP
fragment going out of the adapter after IP fragmentation by hardware.

skb-&gt;data will contain MAC/IP/UDP header and skb_shinfo(skb)-&gt;frags[]
contains the data payload. The skb-&gt;ip_summed will be set to CHECKSUM_HW
indicating that hardware has to do checksum calculation. Hardware should
compute the UDP checksum of complete datagram and also ip header checksum of
each fragmented IP packet.

For IPV6 the UFO provides the fragment identification-id in
skb_shinfo(skb)-&gt;ip6_frag_id. The adapter should use this ID for generating
IPv6 fragments.

Signed-off-by: Ananda Raju &lt;ananda.raju@neterion.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt; (forwarded)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@mandriva.com&gt;
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Attached is kernel patch for UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) feature.

1. This patch incorporate the review comments by Jeff Garzik.
2. Renamed USO as UFO (UDP Fragmentation Offload)
3. udp sendfile support with UFO

This patches uses scatter-gather feature of skb to generate large UDP
datagram. Below is a "how-to" on changes required in network device
driver to use the UFO interface.

UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) Interface:
-------------------------------------------
UFO is a feature wherein the Linux kernel network stack will offload the
IP fragmentation functionality of large UDP datagram to hardware. This
will reduce the overhead of stack in fragmenting the large UDP datagram to
MTU sized packets

1) Drivers indicate their capability of UFO using
dev-&gt;features |= NETIF_F_UFO | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG

NETIF_F_HW_CSUM is required for UFO over ipv6.

2) UFO packet will be submitted for transmission using driver xmit routine.
UFO packet will have a non-zero value for

"skb_shinfo(skb)-&gt;ufo_size"

skb_shinfo(skb)-&gt;ufo_size will indicate the length of data part in each IP
fragment going out of the adapter after IP fragmentation by hardware.

skb-&gt;data will contain MAC/IP/UDP header and skb_shinfo(skb)-&gt;frags[]
contains the data payload. The skb-&gt;ip_summed will be set to CHECKSUM_HW
indicating that hardware has to do checksum calculation. Hardware should
compute the UDP checksum of complete datagram and also ip header checksum of
each fragmented IP packet.

For IPV6 the UFO provides the fragment identification-id in
skb_shinfo(skb)-&gt;ip6_frag_id. The adapter should use this ID for generating
IPv6 fragments.

Signed-off-by: Ananda Raju &lt;ananda.raju@neterion.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt; (forwarded)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@mandriva.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'master'</title>
<updated>2005-10-28T16:17:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jgarzik@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-10-28T16:17:52+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'</title>
<updated>2005-10-04T02:06:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jgarzik@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-10-04T02:06:19+00:00</published>
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