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<title>net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support</title>
<updated>2014-10-07T17:22:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-06T01:38:35+00:00</published>
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Testing xmit_more support with netperf and connected UDP sockets,
I found strange dst refcount false sharing.

Current handling of IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE is not optimal.

Dropping dst in validate_xmit_skb() is certainly too late in case
packet was queued by cpu X but dequeued by cpu Y

The logical point to take care of drop/force is in __dev_queue_xmit()
before even taking qdisc lock.

As Julian Anastasov pointed out, need for skb_dst() might come from some
packet schedulers or classifiers.

This patch adds new helper to cleanly express needs of various drivers
or qdiscs/classifiers.

Drivers that need skb_dst() in their ndo_start_xmit() should call
following helper in their setup instead of the prior :

	dev-&gt;priv_flags &amp;= ~IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE;
-&gt;
	netif_keep_dst(dev);

Instead of using a single bit, we use two bits, one being
eventually rebuilt in bonding/team drivers.

The other one, is permanent and blocks IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE being
rebuilt in bonding/team. Eventually, we could add something
smarter later.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Testing xmit_more support with netperf and connected UDP sockets,
I found strange dst refcount false sharing.

Current handling of IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE is not optimal.

Dropping dst in validate_xmit_skb() is certainly too late in case
packet was queued by cpu X but dequeued by cpu Y

The logical point to take care of drop/force is in __dev_queue_xmit()
before even taking qdisc lock.

As Julian Anastasov pointed out, need for skb_dst() might come from some
packet schedulers or classifiers.

This patch adds new helper to cleanly express needs of various drivers
or qdiscs/classifiers.

Drivers that need skb_dst() in their ndo_start_xmit() should call
following helper in their setup instead of the prior :

	dev-&gt;priv_flags &amp;= ~IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE;
-&gt;
	netif_keep_dst(dev);

Instead of using a single bit, we use two bits, one being
eventually rebuilt in bonding/team drivers.

The other one, is permanent and blocks IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE being
rebuilt in bonding/team. Eventually, we could add something
smarter later.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>atm: Convert pr_warning to pr_warn</title>
<updated>2014-09-10T19:40:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-10T04:17:28+00:00</published>
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Use the more common pr_warn.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Use the more common pr_warn.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Pass a "more" indication down into netdev_start_xmit() code paths.</title>
<updated>2014-09-02T00:39:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-30T04:55:22+00:00</published>
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For now it will always be false.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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For now it will always be false.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Add ops-&gt;ndo_xmit_flush()</title>
<updated>2014-08-25T06:02:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-22T23:21:53+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lec: Use rtnl lock/unlock when updating MTU</title>
<updated>2014-08-21T23:31:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>chas williams - CONTRACTOR</name>
<email>chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-14T13:19:47+00:00</published>
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The LECS response contains the MTU that should be used.  Correctly
synchronize with other layers when updating.

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams - CONTRACTOR &lt;chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The LECS response contains the MTU that should be used.  Correctly
synchronize with other layers when updating.

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams - CONTRACTOR &lt;chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lec: Fix bug introduced by b67bfe0d42cac56c512dd5da4b1b347a23f4b70a</title>
<updated>2014-08-14T03:04:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>chas williams - CONTRACTOR</name>
<email>chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-12T13:00:36+00:00</published>
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b67bfe0d42cac56c512dd5da4b1b347a23f4b70a (hlist: drop the node
parameter from iterators) dropped the node parameter from
iterators which lec_tbl_walk() was using to iterate the list.

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams &lt;chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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b67bfe0d42cac56c512dd5da4b1b347a23f4b70a (hlist: drop the node
parameter from iterators) dropped the node parameter from
iterators which lec_tbl_walk() was using to iterate the list.

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams &lt;chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>atm/svc: Fix blocking in wait loop</title>
<updated>2014-08-14T03:04:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>chas williams - CONTRACTOR</name>
<email>chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-12T12:12:26+00:00</published>
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One should not call blocking primitives inside a wait loop, since both
require task_struct::state to sleep, so the inner will destroy the
outer state.

sigd_enq() will possibly sleep for alloc_skb().  Move sigd_enq() before
prepare_to_wait() to avoid sleeping while waiting interruptibly.  You do
not actually need to call sigd_enq() after the initial prepare_to_wait()
because we test the termination condition before calling schedule().

Based on suggestions from Peter Zijlstra.

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams &lt;chas@cmf.n4rl.navy.mil&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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One should not call blocking primitives inside a wait loop, since both
require task_struct::state to sleep, so the inner will destroy the
outer state.

sigd_enq() will possibly sleep for alloc_skb().  Move sigd_enq() before
prepare_to_wait() to avoid sleeping while waiting interruptibly.  You do
not actually need to call sigd_enq() after the initial prepare_to_wait()
because we test the termination condition before calling schedule().

Based on suggestions from Peter Zijlstra.

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams &lt;chas@cmf.n4rl.navy.mil&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: set name_assign_type in alloc_netdev()</title>
<updated>2014-07-15T23:12:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Gundersen</name>
<email>teg@jklm.no</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-14T14:37:24+00:00</published>
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Extend alloc_netdev{,_mq{,s}}() to take name_assign_type as argument, and convert
all users to pass NET_NAME_UNKNOWN.

Coccinelle patch:

@@
expression sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs, count;
@@

(
-alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs)
+alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, txqs, rxqs)
|
-alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, setup, count)
+alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, count)
|
-alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, setup)
+alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup)
)

v9: move comments here from the wrong commit

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Extend alloc_netdev{,_mq{,s}}() to take name_assign_type as argument, and convert
all users to pass NET_NAME_UNKNOWN.

Coccinelle patch:

@@
expression sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs, count;
@@

(
-alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs)
+alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, txqs, rxqs)
|
-alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, setup, count)
+alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, count)
|
-alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, setup)
+alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup)
)

v9: move comments here from the wrong commit

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2014-06-12T21:27:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-12T21:27:40+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov.

 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J
    Benniston.

 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn
    Mork.

 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez.

 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee.

 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software
    TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers.  From Ezequiel Garcia.

 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy.

 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli.

10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large
    numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu.

11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses,
    from Lorenzo Colitti.

12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal
    Cardwell.

13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman.

14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru.

15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich.

16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it
    performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits)
  rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 &lt; v3.9.0
  tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
  net: fec: Add software TSO support
  net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support
  net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number
  net: fec: Factorize feature setting
  net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum
  net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function
  bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support
  bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference
  via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable
  bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs
  bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch
  bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link
  bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane
  sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
  net/core: Add VF link state control policy
  net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO
  net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful
  net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov.

 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J
    Benniston.

 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn
    Mork.

 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez.

 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee.

 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software
    TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers.  From Ezequiel Garcia.

 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy.

 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli.

10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large
    numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu.

11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses,
    from Lorenzo Colitti.

12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal
    Cardwell.

13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman.

14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru.

15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich.

16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it
    performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits)
  rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 &lt; v3.9.0
  tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
  net: fec: Add software TSO support
  net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support
  net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number
  net: fec: Factorize feature setting
  net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum
  net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function
  bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support
  bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference
  via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable
  bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs
  bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch
  bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link
  bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane
  sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
  net/core: Add VF link state control policy
  net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO
  net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful
  net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving
  ...
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<entry>
<title>atm: remove commented out check</title>
<updated>2014-05-31T00:17:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Bolle</name>
<email>pebolle@tiscali.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-27T15:07:12+00:00</published>
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This preprocessor check is commented out ever since this file was added
during the v2.3 development cycle. It is unclear what it purpose might
have been. Whatever it was, it can safely be removed now.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This preprocessor check is commented out ever since this file was added
during the v2.3 development cycle. It is unclear what it purpose might
have been. Whatever it was, it can safely be removed now.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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