linux.git/drivers/net/veth.c, branch v3.13

Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-11-14T07:30:30+00:00

Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest changes:

   - add lockdep support for seqcount/seqlocks structures, this
     unearthed both bugs and required extra annotation.

   - move the various kernel locking primitives to the new
     kernel/locking/ directory"

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  block: Use u64_stats_init() to initialize seqcounts
  locking/lockdep: Mark __lockdep_count_forward_deps() as static
  lockdep/proc: Fix lock-time avg computation
  locking/doc: Update references to kernel/mutex.c
  ipv6: Fix possible ipv6 seqlock deadlock
  cpuset: Fix potential deadlock w/ set_mems_allowed
  seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures
  net: Explicitly initialize u64_stats_sync structures for lockdep
  locking: Move the percpu-rwsem code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the lglocks code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the semaphore core to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the lockdep code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the mutex code to kernel/locking/
  hung_task debugging: Add tracepoint to report the hang
  x86/locking/kconfig: Update paravirt spinlock Kconfig description
  lockstat: Report avg wait and hold times
  lockdep, x86/alternatives: Drop ancient lockdep fixup message
  ...

net: Explicitly initialize u64_stats_sync structures for lockdep

2013-11-06T11:40:25+00:00

In order to enable lockdep on seqcount/seqlock structures, we
must explicitly initialize any locks.

The u64_stats_sync structure, uses a seqcount, and thus we need
to introduce a u64_stats_init() function and use it to initialize
the structure.

This unfortunately adds a lot of fairly trivial initialization code
to a number of drivers. But the benefit of ensuring correctness makes
this worth while.

Because these changes are required for lockdep to be enabled, and the
changes are quite trivial, I've not yet split this patch out into 30-some
separate patches, as I figured it would be better to get the various
maintainers thoughts on how to best merge this change along with
the seqcount lockdep enablement.

Feedback would be appreciated!

Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: Jesse Gross 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 
Cc: Mirko Lindner 
Cc: Patrick McHardy 
Cc: Roger Luethi 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Simon Horman 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni 
Cc: Wensong Zhang 
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381186321-4906-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

veth: extend features to support tunneling

2013-10-28T04:57:29+00:00

While investigating on a recent vxlan regression, I found veth
was using a zero features set for vxlan tunnels.

We have to segment GSO frames, copy the payload, and do the checksum.

This patch brings a ~200% performance increase

We probably have to add hw_enc_features support
on other virtual devices.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

veth: allow to setup multicast address for veth device

2013-10-10T04:08:07+00:00

We can only setup multicast address for network device when
net_device_ops->ndo_set_rx_mode is not null.

Some configurations need to add multicast address for net
device, such as netfilter cluster match module.

Add a fake ndo_set_rx_mode function to allow this operation.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Revert "veth: Showing peer of veth type dev in ip link (kernel side)"

2013-10-09T01:52:03+00:00

This reverts commit 612c337306f00dc8d396830212de51c475844791.

As per Stephen Hemminger, the layout of the netlink attribute
is not implemented correctly so revert this for now.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

veth: Showing peer of veth type dev in ip link (kernel side)

2013-10-08T19:23:25+00:00

ip link has ability to show extra information of net work device if
kernel provides sunh information. With this patch veth driver can
provide its peer ifindex information to ip command via netlink
interface.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

veth: add vlan features

2013-07-20T00:36:03+00:00

The veth device doesn't provide the vlan features,
so TSO for example is disabled and that causes
performance issues when using tagged traffic.

The test topology looks like this:

    br0                     br1
  /   \                  /     \
vnet  veth0.10 ----- veth1.10   vnet
VM                               VM

The netperf results with current veth driver:
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 192.168.1.1 ()
port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.1.2 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 87380  16384  16384    10.01    2210.22

Now after applying the proposed patch:
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 192.168.1.1 ()
port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.1.2 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 87380  16384  16384    10.00    13067.47

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

veth: remove redundant call of dev_alloc_name

2013-06-12T08:21:20+00:00

it's called in the following register_netdevice. No need to call it
here.
Tested with "ip link add type veth" and "ip link add xxx%d type veth".

Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: vlan: announce STAG offload capability in some drivers

2013-04-19T18:46:06+00:00

- macvlan: propagate STAG filtering capabilities from underlying device
- ifb: announce STAG tagging support in addition to CTAG tagging support
- veth: announce STAG tagging/stripping support in addition to CTAG support

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: vlan: rename NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_* feature flags to NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_*

2013-04-19T18:45:26+00:00

Rename the hardware VLAN acceleration features to include "CTAG" to indicate
that they only support CTAGs. Follow up patches will introduce 802.1ad
server provider tagging (STAGs) and require the distinction for hardware not
supporting acclerating both.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller