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<title>net: Move rx skb_orphan call to where needed</title>
<updated>2009-08-16T21:18:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-26T18:31:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 329c44e3948473916bccd253a37ac2a66dad9862 ]

In order to get the tun driver to account packets, we need to be
able to receive packets with destructors set.  To be on the safe
side, I added an skb_orphan call for all protocols by default since
some of them (IP in particular) cannot handle receiving packets
destructors properly.

Now it seems that at least one protocol (CAN) expects to be able
to pass skb-&gt;sk through the rx path without getting clobbered.

So this patch attempts to fix this properly by moving the skb_orphan
call to where it's actually needed.  In particular, I've added it
to skb_set_owner_[rw] which is what most users of skb-&gt;destructor
call.

This is actually an improvement for tun too since it means that
we only give back the amount charged to the socket when the skb
is passed to another socket that will also be charged accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;olver@hartkopp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 329c44e3948473916bccd253a37ac2a66dad9862 ]

In order to get the tun driver to account packets, we need to be
able to receive packets with destructors set.  To be on the safe
side, I added an skb_orphan call for all protocols by default since
some of them (IP in particular) cannot handle receiving packets
destructors properly.

Now it seems that at least one protocol (CAN) expects to be able
to pass skb-&gt;sk through the rx path without getting clobbered.

So this patch attempts to fix this properly by moving the skb_orphan
call to where it's actually needed.  In particular, I've added it
to skb_set_owner_[rw] which is what most users of skb-&gt;destructor
call.

This is actually an improvement for tun too since it means that
we only give back the amount charged to the socket when the skb
is passed to another socket that will also be charged accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;olver@hartkopp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>gro: Flush GRO packets in napi_disable_pending path</title>
<updated>2009-08-16T21:18:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-27T02:27:04+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ff780cd8f2fa928b193554f593b36d1243554212 ]

When NAPI is disabled while we're in net_rx_action, we end up
calling __napi_complete without flushing GRO packets.  This is
a bug as it would cause the GRO packets to linger, of course it
also literally BUGs to catch error like this :)

This patch changes it to napi_complete, with the obligatory IRQ
reenabling.  This should be safe because we've only just disabled
IRQs and it does not materially affect the test conditions in
between.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ff780cd8f2fa928b193554f593b36d1243554212 ]

When NAPI is disabled while we're in net_rx_action, we end up
calling __napi_complete without flushing GRO packets.  This is
a bug as it would cause the GRO packets to linger, of course it
also literally BUGs to catch error like this :)

This patch changes it to napi_complete, with the obligatory IRQ
reenabling.  This should be safe because we've only just disabled
IRQs and it does not materially affect the test conditions in
between.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Fix skb_tx_hash() for forwarding workloads.</title>
<updated>2009-05-01T16:05:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>dada1@cosmosbay.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-01T16:05:06+00:00</published>
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When skb_rx_queue_recorded() is true, we dont want to use jash distribution
as the device driver exactly told us which queue was selected at RX time.
jhash makes a statistical shuffle, but this wont work with 8 static inputs.

Later improvements would be to compute reciprocal value of real_num_tx_queues
to avoid a divide here. But this computation should be done once,
when real_num_tx_queues is set. This needs a separate patch, and a new
field in struct net_device.

Reported-by: Andrew Dickinson &lt;andrew@whydna.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When skb_rx_queue_recorded() is true, we dont want to use jash distribution
as the device driver exactly told us which queue was selected at RX time.
jhash makes a statistical shuffle, but this wont work with 8 static inputs.

Later improvements would be to compute reciprocal value of real_num_tx_queues
to avoid a divide here. But this computation should be done once,
when real_num_tx_queues is set. This needs a separate patch, and a new
field in struct net_device.

Reported-by: Andrew Dickinson &lt;andrew@whydna.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix GRO for multiple page fragments</title>
<updated>2009-04-20T09:20:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>bhutchings@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-16T08:04:20+00:00</published>
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This loop over fragments in napi_fraginfo_skb() was "interesting".

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This loop over fragments in napi_fraginfo_skb() was "interesting".

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: fix "compatibility" typos</title>
<updated>2009-04-20T09:15:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcin Slusarz</name>
<email>marcin.slusarz@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-19T07:24:24+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz &lt;marcin.slusarz@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz &lt;marcin.slusarz@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: sch_netem: Fix an inconsistency in ingress netem timestamps.</title>
<updated>2009-04-20T09:14:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jarek Poplawski</name>
<email>jarkao2@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-17T10:08:49+00:00</published>
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Alex Sidorenko reported:

"while experimenting with 'netem' we have found some strange behaviour. It
seemed that ingress delay as measured by 'ping' command shows up on some
hosts but not on others.

After some investigation I have found that the problem is that skbuff-&gt;tstamp
field value depends on whether there are any packet sniffers enabled. That
is:

- if any ptype_all handler is registered, the tstamp field is as expected
- if there are no ptype_all handlers, the tstamp field does not show the delay"

This patch prevents unnecessary update of tstamp in dev_queue_xmit_nit()
on ingress path (with act_mirred) adding a check, so minimal overhead on
the fast path, but only when sniffers etc. are active.

Since netem at ingress seems to logically emulate a network before a host,
tstamp is zeroed to trigger the update and pretend delays are from the
outside.

Reported-by: Alex Sidorenko &lt;alexandre.sidorenko@hp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alex Sidorenko &lt;alexandre.sidorenko@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski &lt;jarkao2@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Alex Sidorenko reported:

"while experimenting with 'netem' we have found some strange behaviour. It
seemed that ingress delay as measured by 'ping' command shows up on some
hosts but not on others.

After some investigation I have found that the problem is that skbuff-&gt;tstamp
field value depends on whether there are any packet sniffers enabled. That
is:

- if any ptype_all handler is registered, the tstamp field is as expected
- if there are no ptype_all handlers, the tstamp field does not show the delay"

This patch prevents unnecessary update of tstamp in dev_queue_xmit_nit()
on ingress path (with act_mirred) adding a check, so minimal overhead on
the fast path, but only when sniffers etc. are active.

Since netem at ingress seems to logically emulate a network before a host,
tstamp is zeroed to trigger the update and pretend delays are from the
outside.

Reported-by: Alex Sidorenko &lt;alexandre.sidorenko@hp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alex Sidorenko &lt;alexandre.sidorenko@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski &lt;jarkao2@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>gro: Restore correct value to gso_size</title>
<updated>2009-04-14T22:11:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-14T22:11:06+00:00</published>
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Since everybody has been focusing on baremetal GRO performance
no one noticed when I added a bug that zapped gso_size for all
GRO packets.  This only gets picked up when you forward the skb
out of an interface.

Thanks to Mark Wagner for noticing this bug when testing kvm.

Reported-by: Mark Wagner &lt;mwagner@redhat.com&gt;
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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Since everybody has been focusing on baremetal GRO performance
no one noticed when I added a bug that zapped gso_size for all
GRO packets.  This only gets picked up when you forward the skb
out of an interface.

Thanks to Mark Wagner for noticing this bug when testing kvm.

Reported-by: Mark Wagner &lt;mwagner@redhat.com&gt;
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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<entry>
<title>net: netif_device_attach/detach should start/stop all queues</title>
<updated>2009-04-11T08:43:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>alexander.h.duyck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-08T13:15:22+00:00</published>
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Currently netif_device_attach/detach are only stopping one queue.  They
should be starting and stopping all the queues on a given device.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Currently netif_device_attach/detach are only stopping one queue.  They
should be starting and stopping all the queues on a given device.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: allow multiple dev per napi with GRO</title>
<updated>2009-04-02T08:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@vyatta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-01T11:20:20+00:00</published>
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GRO assumes that there is a one-to-one relationship between NAPI
structure and network device. Some devices like sky2 share multiple
devices on a single interrupt so only have one NAPI handler. Rather than
split GRO from NAPI, just have GRO assume if device changes that
it is a different flow.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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GRO assumes that there is a one-to-one relationship between NAPI
structure and network device. Some devices like sky2 share multiple
devices on a single interrupt so only have one NAPI handler. Rather than
split GRO from NAPI, just have GRO assume if device changes that
it is a different flow.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.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/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-03-28T20:30:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-28T20:30:43+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (119 commits)
  [SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Retry for NOT_READY check condition
  [SCSI] mpt2sas: make global symbols unique
  [SCSI] sd: Make revalidate less chatty
  [SCSI] sd: Try READ CAPACITY 16 first for SBC-2 devices
  [SCSI] sd: Refactor sd_read_capacity()
  [SCSI] mpt2sas v00.100.11.15
  [SCSI] mpt2sas: add MPT2SAS_MINOR(221) to miscdevice.h
  [SCSI] ch: Add scsi type modalias
  [SCSI] 3w-9xxx: add power management support
  [SCSI] bsg: add linux/types.h include to bsg.h
  [SCSI] cxgb3i: fix function descriptions
  [SCSI] libiscsi: fix possbile null ptr session command cleanup
  [SCSI] iscsi class: remove host no argument from session creation callout
  [SCSI] libiscsi: pass session failure a session struct
  [SCSI] iscsi lib: remove qdepth param from iscsi host allocation
  [SCSI] iscsi lib: have lib create work queue for transmitting IO
  [SCSI] iscsi class: fix lock dep warning on logout
  [SCSI] libiscsi: don't cap queue depth in iscsi modules
  [SCSI] iscsi_tcp: replace scsi_debug/tcp_debug logging with iscsi conn logging
  [SCSI] libiscsi_tcp: replace tcp_debug/scsi_debug logging with session/conn logging
  ...
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (119 commits)
  [SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Retry for NOT_READY check condition
  [SCSI] mpt2sas: make global symbols unique
  [SCSI] sd: Make revalidate less chatty
  [SCSI] sd: Try READ CAPACITY 16 first for SBC-2 devices
  [SCSI] sd: Refactor sd_read_capacity()
  [SCSI] mpt2sas v00.100.11.15
  [SCSI] mpt2sas: add MPT2SAS_MINOR(221) to miscdevice.h
  [SCSI] ch: Add scsi type modalias
  [SCSI] 3w-9xxx: add power management support
  [SCSI] bsg: add linux/types.h include to bsg.h
  [SCSI] cxgb3i: fix function descriptions
  [SCSI] libiscsi: fix possbile null ptr session command cleanup
  [SCSI] iscsi class: remove host no argument from session creation callout
  [SCSI] libiscsi: pass session failure a session struct
  [SCSI] iscsi lib: remove qdepth param from iscsi host allocation
  [SCSI] iscsi lib: have lib create work queue for transmitting IO
  [SCSI] iscsi class: fix lock dep warning on logout
  [SCSI] libiscsi: don't cap queue depth in iscsi modules
  [SCSI] iscsi_tcp: replace scsi_debug/tcp_debug logging with iscsi conn logging
  [SCSI] libiscsi_tcp: replace tcp_debug/scsi_debug logging with session/conn logging
  ...
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