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<title>tcp: stretch ACK fixes prep</title>
<updated>2015-01-29T06:18:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neal Cardwell</name>
<email>ncardwell@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T01:01:35+00:00</published>
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LRO, GRO, delayed ACKs, and middleboxes can cause "stretch ACKs" that
cover more than the RFC-specified maximum of 2 packets. These stretch
ACKs can cause serious performance shortfalls in common congestion
control algorithms that were designed and tuned years ago with
receiver hosts that were not using LRO or GRO, and were instead
politely ACKing every other packet.

This patch series fixes Reno and CUBIC to handle stretch ACKs.

This patch prepares for the upcoming stretch ACK bug fix patches. It
adds an "acked" parameter to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to allow for future
fixes to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to correctly handle stretch ACKs, and
changes all congestion control algorithms to pass in 1 for the ACKed
count. It also changes tcp_slow_start() to return the number of packet
ACK "credits" that were not processed in slow start mode, and can be
processed by the congestion control module in additive increase mode.

In future patches we will fix tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to handle stretch
ACKs, and fix Reno and CUBIC handling of stretch ACKs in slow start
and additive increase mode.

Reported-by: Eyal Perry &lt;eyalpe@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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LRO, GRO, delayed ACKs, and middleboxes can cause "stretch ACKs" that
cover more than the RFC-specified maximum of 2 packets. These stretch
ACKs can cause serious performance shortfalls in common congestion
control algorithms that were designed and tuned years ago with
receiver hosts that were not using LRO or GRO, and were instead
politely ACKing every other packet.

This patch series fixes Reno and CUBIC to handle stretch ACKs.

This patch prepares for the upcoming stretch ACK bug fix patches. It
adds an "acked" parameter to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to allow for future
fixes to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to correctly handle stretch ACKs, and
changes all congestion control algorithms to pass in 1 for the ACKed
count. It also changes tcp_slow_start() to return the number of packet
ACK "credits" that were not processed in slow start mode, and can be
processed by the congestion control module in additive increase mode.

In future patches we will fix tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to handle stretch
ACKs, and fix Reno and CUBIC handling of stretch ACKs in slow start
and additive increase mode.

Reported-by: Eyal Perry &lt;eyalpe@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: allow setting ecn via routing table</title>
<updated>2014-11-04T21:06:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-03T16:35:03+00:00</published>
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This patch allows to set ECN on a per-route basis in case the sysctl
tcp_ecn is not set to 1. In other words, when ECN is set for specific
routes, it provides a tcp_ecn=1 behaviour for that route while the rest
of the stack acts according to the global settings.

One can use 'ip route change dev $dev $net features ecn' to toggle this.

Having a more fine-grained per-route setting can be beneficial for various
reasons, for example, 1) within data centers, or 2) local ISPs may deploy
ECN support for their own video/streaming services [1], etc.

There was a recent measurement study/paper [2] which scanned the Alexa's
publicly available top million websites list from a vantage point in US,
Europe and Asia:

Half of the Alexa list will now happily use ECN (tcp_ecn=2, most likely
blamed to commit 255cac91c3 ("tcp: extend ECN sysctl to allow server-side
only ECN") ;)); the break in connectivity on-path was found is about
1 in 10,000 cases. Timeouts rather than receiving back RSTs were much
more common in the negotiation phase (and mostly seen in the Alexa
middle band, ranks around 50k-150k): from 12-thousand hosts on which
there _may_ be ECN-linked connection failures, only 79 failed with RST
when _not_ failing with RST when ECN is not requested.

It's unclear though, how much equipment in the wild actually marks CE
when buffers start to fill up.

We thought about a fallback to non-ECN for retransmitted SYNs as another
global option (which could perhaps one day be made default), but as Eric
points out, there's much more work needed to detect broken middleboxes.

Two examples Eric mentioned are buggy firewalls that accept only a single
SYN per flow, and middleboxes that successfully let an ECN flow establish,
but later mark CE for all packets (so cwnd converges to 1).

 [1] http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/89/slides/slides-89-tsvarea-1.pdf, p.15
 [2] http://ecn.ethz.ch/

Joint work with Daniel Borkmann.

Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/335797
Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch allows to set ECN on a per-route basis in case the sysctl
tcp_ecn is not set to 1. In other words, when ECN is set for specific
routes, it provides a tcp_ecn=1 behaviour for that route while the rest
of the stack acts according to the global settings.

One can use 'ip route change dev $dev $net features ecn' to toggle this.

Having a more fine-grained per-route setting can be beneficial for various
reasons, for example, 1) within data centers, or 2) local ISPs may deploy
ECN support for their own video/streaming services [1], etc.

There was a recent measurement study/paper [2] which scanned the Alexa's
publicly available top million websites list from a vantage point in US,
Europe and Asia:

Half of the Alexa list will now happily use ECN (tcp_ecn=2, most likely
blamed to commit 255cac91c3 ("tcp: extend ECN sysctl to allow server-side
only ECN") ;)); the break in connectivity on-path was found is about
1 in 10,000 cases. Timeouts rather than receiving back RSTs were much
more common in the negotiation phase (and mostly seen in the Alexa
middle band, ranks around 50k-150k): from 12-thousand hosts on which
there _may_ be ECN-linked connection failures, only 79 failed with RST
when _not_ failing with RST when ECN is not requested.

It's unclear though, how much equipment in the wild actually marks CE
when buffers start to fill up.

We thought about a fallback to non-ECN for retransmitted SYNs as another
global option (which could perhaps one day be made default), but as Eric
points out, there's much more work needed to detect broken middleboxes.

Two examples Eric mentioned are buggy firewalls that accept only a single
SYN per flow, and middleboxes that successfully let an ECN flow establish,
but later mark CE for all packets (so cwnd converges to 1).

 [1] http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/89/slides/slides-89-tsvarea-1.pdf, p.15
 [2] http://ecn.ethz.ch/

Joint work with Daniel Borkmann.

Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/335797
Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>syncookies: split cookie_check_timestamp() into two functions</title>
<updated>2014-11-04T21:06:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-03T16:35:02+00:00</published>
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The function cookie_check_timestamp(), both called from IPv4/6 context,
is being used to decode the echoed timestamp from the SYN/ACK into TCP
options used for follow-up communication with the peer.

We can remove ECN handling from that function, split it into a separate
one, and simply rename the original function into cookie_decode_options().
cookie_decode_options() just fills in tcp_option struct based on the
echoed timestamp received from the peer. Anything that fails in this
function will actually discard the request socket.

While this is the natural place for decoding options such as ECN which
commit 172d69e63c7f ("syncookies: add support for ECN") added, we argue
that in particular for ECN handling, it can be checked at a later point
in time as the request sock would actually not need to be dropped from
this, but just ECN support turned off.

Therefore, we split this functionality into cookie_ecn_ok(), which tells
us if the timestamp indicates ECN support AND the tcp_ecn sysctl is enabled.

This prepares for per-route ECN support: just looking at the tcp_ecn sysctl
won't be enough anymore at that point; if the timestamp indicates ECN
and sysctl tcp_ecn == 0, we will also need to check the ECN dst metric.

This would mean adding a route lookup to cookie_check_timestamp(), which
we definitely want to avoid. As we already do a route lookup at a later
point in cookie_{v4,v6}_check(), we can simply make use of that as well
for the new cookie_ecn_ok() function w/o any additional cost.

Joint work with Daniel Borkmann.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The function cookie_check_timestamp(), both called from IPv4/6 context,
is being used to decode the echoed timestamp from the SYN/ACK into TCP
options used for follow-up communication with the peer.

We can remove ECN handling from that function, split it into a separate
one, and simply rename the original function into cookie_decode_options().
cookie_decode_options() just fills in tcp_option struct based on the
echoed timestamp received from the peer. Anything that fails in this
function will actually discard the request socket.

While this is the natural place for decoding options such as ECN which
commit 172d69e63c7f ("syncookies: add support for ECN") added, we argue
that in particular for ECN handling, it can be checked at a later point
in time as the request sock would actually not need to be dropped from
this, but just ECN support turned off.

Therefore, we split this functionality into cookie_ecn_ok(), which tells
us if the timestamp indicates ECN support AND the tcp_ecn sysctl is enabled.

This prepares for per-route ECN support: just looking at the tcp_ecn sysctl
won't be enough anymore at that point; if the timestamp indicates ECN
and sysctl tcp_ecn == 0, we will also need to check the ECN dst metric.

This would mean adding a route lookup to cookie_check_timestamp(), which
we definitely want to avoid. As we already do a route lookup at a later
point in cookie_{v4,v6}_check(), we can simply make use of that as well
for the new cookie_ecn_ok() function w/o any additional cost.

Joint work with Daniel Borkmann.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: allow for bigger reordering level</title>
<updated>2014-10-29T19:05:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-28T04:45:24+00:00</published>
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While testing upcoming Yaogong patch (converting out of order queue
into an RB tree), I hit the max reordering level of linux TCP stack.

Reordering level was limited to 127 for no good reason, and some
network setups [1] can easily reach this limit and get limited
throughput.

Allow a new max limit of 300, and add a sysctl to allow admins to even
allow bigger (or lower) values if needed.

[1] Aggregation of links, per packet load balancing, fabrics not doing
 deep packet inspections, alternative TCP congestion modules...

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yaogong Wang &lt;wygivan@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While testing upcoming Yaogong patch (converting out of order queue
into an RB tree), I hit the max reordering level of linux TCP stack.

Reordering level was limited to 127 for no good reason, and some
network setups [1] can easily reach this limit and get limited
throughput.

Allow a new max limit of 300, and add a sysctl to allow admins to even
allow bigger (or lower) values if needed.

[1] Aggregation of links, per packet load balancing, fabrics not doing
 deep packet inspections, alternative TCP congestion modules...

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yaogong Wang &lt;wygivan@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Remove trailing whitespace in tcp.h icmp.c syncookies.c</title>
<updated>2014-10-24T04:13:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kenjiro Nakayama</name>
<email>nakayamakenjiro@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-20T09:15:50+00:00</published>
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Remove trailing whitespace in tcp.h icmp.c syncookies.c

Signed-off-by: Kenjiro Nakayama &lt;nakayamakenjiro@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Remove trailing whitespace in tcp.h icmp.c syncookies.c

Signed-off-by: Kenjiro Nakayama &lt;nakayamakenjiro@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: fix build error if IPv6 is not enabled</title>
<updated>2014-10-18T17:01:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-18T15:34:37+00:00</published>
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$ make M=net/ipv4
  CC      net/ipv4/route.o
In file included from net/ipv4/route.c:102:0:
include/net/tcp.h: In function ‘tcp_v6_iif’:
include/net/tcp.h:738:32: error: ‘union &lt;anonymous&gt;’ has no member named ‘h6’
  return TCP_SKB_CB(skb)-&gt;header.h6.iif;

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 870c3151382c ("ipv6: introduce tcp_v6_iif()")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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$ make M=net/ipv4
  CC      net/ipv4/route.o
In file included from net/ipv4/route.c:102:0:
include/net/tcp.h: In function ‘tcp_v6_iif’:
include/net/tcp.h:738:32: error: ‘union &lt;anonymous&gt;’ has no member named ‘h6’
  return TCP_SKB_CB(skb)-&gt;header.h6.iif;

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 870c3151382c ("ipv6: introduce tcp_v6_iif()")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6: introduce tcp_v6_iif()</title>
<updated>2014-10-18T03:48:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-17T16:17:20+00:00</published>
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Commit 971f10eca186 ("tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB layout to reduce cache line
misses") added a regression for SO_BINDTODEVICE on IPv6.

This is because we still use inet6_iif() which expects that IP6 control
block is still at the beginning of skb-&gt;cb[]

This patch adds tcp_v6_iif() helper and uses it where necessary.

Because __inet6_lookup_skb() is used by TCP and DCCP, we add an iif
parameter to it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 971f10eca186 ("tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB layout to reduce cache line misses")
Acked-by: Cong Wang &lt;cwang@twopensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Commit 971f10eca186 ("tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB layout to reduce cache line
misses") added a regression for SO_BINDTODEVICE on IPv6.

This is because we still use inet6_iif() which expects that IP6 control
block is still at the beginning of skb-&gt;cb[]

This patch adds tcp_v6_iif() helper and uses it where necessary.

Because __inet6_lookup_skb() is used by TCP and DCCP, we add an iif
parameter to it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 971f10eca186 ("tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB layout to reduce cache line misses")
Acked-by: Cong Wang &lt;cwang@twopensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: clean up cookie_v4_check()</title>
<updated>2014-10-17T16:02:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>cwang@twopensource.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-15T21:33:22+00:00</published>
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We can retrieve opt from skb, no need to pass it as a parameter.
And opt should always be non-NULL, no need to check.

Cc: Krzysztof Kolasa &lt;kkolasa@winsoft.pl&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Krzysztof Kolasa &lt;kkolasa@winsoft.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;cwang@twopensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We can retrieve opt from skb, no need to pass it as a parameter.
And opt should always be non-NULL, no need to check.

Cc: Krzysztof Kolasa &lt;kkolasa@winsoft.pl&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Krzysztof Kolasa &lt;kkolasa@winsoft.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;cwang@twopensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: share tcp_v4_save_options() with cookie_v4_check()</title>
<updated>2014-10-17T16:02:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>cwang@twopensource.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-15T21:33:21+00:00</published>
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cookie_v4_check() allocates ip_options_rcu in the same way
with tcp_v4_save_options(), we can just make it a helper function.

Cc: Krzysztof Kolasa &lt;kkolasa@winsoft.pl&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;cwang@twopensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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cookie_v4_check() allocates ip_options_rcu in the same way
with tcp_v4_save_options(), we can just make it a helper function.

Cc: Krzysztof Kolasa &lt;kkolasa@winsoft.pl&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;cwang@twopensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2014-10-09T01:40:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2014-10-09T01:40:54+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Most notable changes in here:

   1) By far the biggest accomplishment, thanks to a large range of
      contributors, is the addition of multi-send for transmit.  This is
      the result of discussions back in Chicago, and the hard work of
      several individuals.

      Now, when the -&gt;ndo_start_xmit() method of a driver sees
      skb-&gt;xmit_more as true, it can choose to defer the doorbell
      telling the driver to start processing the new TX queue entires.

      skb-&gt;xmit_more means that the generic networking is guaranteed to
      call the driver immediately with another SKB to send.

      There is logic added to the qdisc layer to dequeue multiple
      packets at a time, and the handling mis-predicted offloads in
      software is now done with no locks held.

      Finally, pktgen is extended to have a "burst" parameter that can
      be used to test a multi-send implementation.

      Several drivers have xmit_more support: i40e, igb, ixgbe, mlx4,
      virtio_net

      Adding support is almost trivial, so export more drivers to
      support this optimization soon.

      I want to thank, in no particular or implied order, Jesper
      Dangaard Brouer, Eric Dumazet, Alexander Duyck, Tom Herbert, Jamal
      Hadi Salim, John Fastabend, Florian Westphal, Daniel Borkmann,
      David Tat, Hannes Frederic Sowa, and Rusty Russell.

   2) PTP and timestamping support in bnx2x, from Michal Kalderon.

   3) Allow adjusting the rx_copybreak threshold for a driver via
      ethtool, and add rx_copybreak support to enic driver.  From
      Govindarajulu Varadarajan.

   4) Significant enhancements to the generic PHY layer and the bcm7xxx
      driver in particular (EEE support, auto power down, etc.) from
      Florian Fainelli.

   5) Allow raw buffers to be used for flow dissection, allowing drivers
      to determine the optimal "linear pull" size for devices that DMA
      into pools of pages.  The objective is to get exactly the
      necessary amount of headers into the linear SKB area pre-pulled,
      but no more.  The new interface drivers use is eth_get_headlen().
      From WANG Cong, with driver conversions (several had their own
      by-hand duplicated implementations) by Alexander Duyck and Eric
      Dumazet.

   6) Support checksumming more smoothly and efficiently for
      encapsulations, and add "foo over UDP" facility.  From Tom
      Herbert.

   7) Add Broadcom SF2 switch driver to DSA layer, from Florian
      Fainelli.

   8) eBPF now can load programs via a system call and has an extensive
      testsuite.  Alexei Starovoitov and Daniel Borkmann.

   9) Major overhaul of the packet scheduler to use RCU in several major
      areas such as the classifiers and rate estimators.  From John
      Fastabend.

  10) Add driver for Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch, from Alexander
      Duyck.

  11) Rearrange TCP_SKB_CB() to reduce cache line misses, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  12) Add Datacenter TCP congestion control algorithm support, From
      Florian Westphal.

  13) Reorganize sk_buff so that __copy_skb_header() is significantly
      faster.  From Eric Dumazet"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1558 commits)
  netlabel: directly return netlbl_unlabel_genl_init()
  net: add netdev_txq_bql_{enqueue, complete}_prefetchw() helpers
  net: description of dma_cookie cause make xmldocs warning
  cxgb4: clean up a type issue
  cxgb4: potential shift wrapping bug
  i40e: skb-&gt;xmit_more support
  net: fs_enet: Add NAPI TX
  net: fs_enet: Remove non NAPI RX
  r8169:add support for RTL8168EP
  net_sched: copy exts-&gt;type in tcf_exts_change()
  wimax: convert printk to pr_foo()
  af_unix: remove 0 assignment on static
  ipv6: Do not warn for informational ICMP messages, regardless of type.
  Update Intel Ethernet Driver maintainers list
  bridge: Save frag_max_size between PRE_ROUTING and POST_ROUTING
  tipc: fix bug in multicast congestion handling
  net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support
  net/mlx4_en: remove NETDEV_TX_BUSY
  3c59x: fix bad split of cpu_to_le32(pci_map_single())
  net: bcmgenet: fix Tx ring priority programming
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Most notable changes in here:

   1) By far the biggest accomplishment, thanks to a large range of
      contributors, is the addition of multi-send for transmit.  This is
      the result of discussions back in Chicago, and the hard work of
      several individuals.

      Now, when the -&gt;ndo_start_xmit() method of a driver sees
      skb-&gt;xmit_more as true, it can choose to defer the doorbell
      telling the driver to start processing the new TX queue entires.

      skb-&gt;xmit_more means that the generic networking is guaranteed to
      call the driver immediately with another SKB to send.

      There is logic added to the qdisc layer to dequeue multiple
      packets at a time, and the handling mis-predicted offloads in
      software is now done with no locks held.

      Finally, pktgen is extended to have a "burst" parameter that can
      be used to test a multi-send implementation.

      Several drivers have xmit_more support: i40e, igb, ixgbe, mlx4,
      virtio_net

      Adding support is almost trivial, so export more drivers to
      support this optimization soon.

      I want to thank, in no particular or implied order, Jesper
      Dangaard Brouer, Eric Dumazet, Alexander Duyck, Tom Herbert, Jamal
      Hadi Salim, John Fastabend, Florian Westphal, Daniel Borkmann,
      David Tat, Hannes Frederic Sowa, and Rusty Russell.

   2) PTP and timestamping support in bnx2x, from Michal Kalderon.

   3) Allow adjusting the rx_copybreak threshold for a driver via
      ethtool, and add rx_copybreak support to enic driver.  From
      Govindarajulu Varadarajan.

   4) Significant enhancements to the generic PHY layer and the bcm7xxx
      driver in particular (EEE support, auto power down, etc.) from
      Florian Fainelli.

   5) Allow raw buffers to be used for flow dissection, allowing drivers
      to determine the optimal "linear pull" size for devices that DMA
      into pools of pages.  The objective is to get exactly the
      necessary amount of headers into the linear SKB area pre-pulled,
      but no more.  The new interface drivers use is eth_get_headlen().
      From WANG Cong, with driver conversions (several had their own
      by-hand duplicated implementations) by Alexander Duyck and Eric
      Dumazet.

   6) Support checksumming more smoothly and efficiently for
      encapsulations, and add "foo over UDP" facility.  From Tom
      Herbert.

   7) Add Broadcom SF2 switch driver to DSA layer, from Florian
      Fainelli.

   8) eBPF now can load programs via a system call and has an extensive
      testsuite.  Alexei Starovoitov and Daniel Borkmann.

   9) Major overhaul of the packet scheduler to use RCU in several major
      areas such as the classifiers and rate estimators.  From John
      Fastabend.

  10) Add driver for Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch, from Alexander
      Duyck.

  11) Rearrange TCP_SKB_CB() to reduce cache line misses, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  12) Add Datacenter TCP congestion control algorithm support, From
      Florian Westphal.

  13) Reorganize sk_buff so that __copy_skb_header() is significantly
      faster.  From Eric Dumazet"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1558 commits)
  netlabel: directly return netlbl_unlabel_genl_init()
  net: add netdev_txq_bql_{enqueue, complete}_prefetchw() helpers
  net: description of dma_cookie cause make xmldocs warning
  cxgb4: clean up a type issue
  cxgb4: potential shift wrapping bug
  i40e: skb-&gt;xmit_more support
  net: fs_enet: Add NAPI TX
  net: fs_enet: Remove non NAPI RX
  r8169:add support for RTL8168EP
  net_sched: copy exts-&gt;type in tcf_exts_change()
  wimax: convert printk to pr_foo()
  af_unix: remove 0 assignment on static
  ipv6: Do not warn for informational ICMP messages, regardless of type.
  Update Intel Ethernet Driver maintainers list
  bridge: Save frag_max_size between PRE_ROUTING and POST_ROUTING
  tipc: fix bug in multicast congestion handling
  net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support
  net/mlx4_en: remove NETDEV_TX_BUSY
  3c59x: fix bad split of cpu_to_le32(pci_map_single())
  net: bcmgenet: fix Tx ring priority programming
  ...
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