linux-stable.git/include/net/sock.h, branch linux-3.1.y

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2011-07-25T20:56:39+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  fs: Merge split strings
  treewide: fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions
  uwb: Fix misspelling of neighbourhood in comment
  net, netfilter: Remove redundant goto in ebt_ulog_packet
  trivial: don't touch files that are removed in the staging tree
  lib/vsprintf: replace link to Draft by final RFC number
  doc: Kconfig: `to be' -> `be'
  doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -> squared
  doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm => apm-acpi}.txt
  drivers/net: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/media: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/i2c: static should be at beginning of declaration
  XTENSA: static should be at beginning of declaration
  SH: static should be at beginning of declaration
  MIPS: static should be at beginning of declaration
  ARM: static should be at beginning of declaration
  rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check
  Update my e-mail address
  PCIe ASPM: forcedly -> forcibly
  gma500: push through device driver tree
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts:
 - arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/dma-m2p.c (deleted)
 - drivers/gpio/gpio-ep93xx.c (renamed and context nearby)
 - drivers/net/r8169.c (just context changes)

rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check

2011-07-08T20:21:58+00:00

Since ca5ecddf (rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse)
rcu_dereference_check use rcu_read_lock_held as a part of condition
automatically so callers do not have to do that as well.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

sock.h: Add a new sock zero-copy flag

2011-07-07T11:40:21+00:00

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2011-07-06T06:23:37+00:00

treewide: fix kernel-doc warnings

2011-06-28T08:48:34+00:00

Fix 'make htmldocs' warnings:

Warning(/include/linux/hrtimer.h:153): No description found for
parameter 'clockid'
Warning(/include/linux/device.h:604): Excess struct/union/enum/typedef
member 'of_match' description in 'device'
Warning(/include/net/sock.h:349): Excess struct/union/enum/typedef
member 'sk_rmem_alloc' description in 'sock'

Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Ivanov 
Acked-by: Grant Likely 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Fix some kernel-doc warnings

2011-06-27T23:06:19+00:00

Fix 'make htmldocs' warnings:

  Warning(/include/linux/hrtimer.h:153): No description found for parameter 'clockid'
  Warning(/include/linux/device.h:604): Excess struct/union/enum/typedef member 'of_match' description in 'device'
  Warning(/include/net/sock.h:349): Excess struct/union/enum/typedef member 'sk_rmem_alloc' description in 'sock'

Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Ivanov 
Acked-by: Grant Likely 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

net: remove interrupt.h inclusion from netdevice.h

2011-06-07T05:55:11+00:00

* remove interrupt.g inclusion from netdevice.h -- not needed
* fixup fallout, add interrupt.h and hardirq.h back where needed.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2011-04-11T20:44:25+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/smsc911x.c

net: fix skb_add_data_nocache() to calc csum correctly

2011-04-07T06:05:01+00:00

commit c6e1a0d12ca7b4f22c58e55a16beacfb7d3d8462 broken the calc
 (net: Allow no-cache copy from user on transmit)
of checksum, which may cause some tcp packets be dropped because
incorrect checksum. ssh does not work under today's net-next-2.6
tree.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun 
Acked-by: Tom Herbert 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Allow no-cache copy from user on transmit

2011-04-05T05:30:30+00:00

This patch uses __copy_from_user_nocache on transmit to bypass data
cache for a performance improvement.  skb_add_data_nocache and
skb_copy_to_page_nocache can be called by sendmsg functions to use
this feature, initial support is in tcp_sendmsg.  This functionality is
configurable per device using ethtool.

Presumably, this feature would only be useful when the driver does
not touch the data.  The feature is turned on by default if a device
indicates that it does some form of checksum offload; it is off by
default for devices that do no checksum offload or indicate no checksum
is necessary.  For the former case copy-checksum is probably done
anyway, in the latter case the device is likely loopback in which case
the no cache copy is probably not beneficial.

This patch was tested using 200 instances of netperf TCP_RR with
1400 byte request and one byte reply.  Platform is 16 core AMD x86.

No-cache copy disabled:
   672703 tps, 97.13% utilization
   50/90/99% latency:244.31 484.205 1028.41

No-cache copy enabled:
   702113 tps, 96.16% utilization,
   50/90/99% latency 238.56 467.56 956.955

Using 14000 byte request and response sizes demonstrate the
effects more dramatically:

No-cache copy disabled:
   79571 tps, 34.34 %utlization
   50/90/95% latency 1584.46 2319.59 5001.76

No-cache copy enabled:
   83856 tps, 34.81% utilization
   50/90/95% latency 2508.42 2622.62 2735.88

Note especially the effect on latency tail (95th percentile).

This seems to provide a nice performance improvement and is
consistent in the tests I ran.  Presumably, this would provide
the greatest benfits in the presence of an application workload
stressing the cache and a lot of transmit data happening.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller