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<title>Merge tag 'for-4.21/block-20181221' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T21:19:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2018-12-28T21:19:59+00:00</published>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block/storage for 4.21.

  Larger than usual, it was a busy round with lots of goodies queued up.
  Most notable is the removal of the old IO stack, which has been a long
  time coming. No new features for a while, everything coming in this
  week has all been fixes for things that were previously merged.

  This contains:

   - Use atomic counters instead of semaphores for mtip32xx (Arnd)

   - Cleanup of the mtip32xx request setup (Christoph)

   - Fix for circular locking dependency in loop (Jan, Tetsuo)

   - bcache (Coly, Guoju, Shenghui)
      * Optimizations for writeback caching
      * Various fixes and improvements

   - nvme (Chaitanya, Christoph, Sagi, Jay, me, Keith)
      * host and target support for NVMe over TCP
      * Error log page support
      * Support for separate read/write/poll queues
      * Much improved polling
      * discard OOM fallback
      * Tracepoint improvements

   - lightnvm (Hans, Hua, Igor, Matias, Javier)
      * Igor added packed metadata to pblk. Now drives without metadata
        per LBA can be used as well.
      * Fix from Geert on uninitialized value on chunk metadata reads.
      * Fixes from Hans and Javier to pblk recovery and write path.
      * Fix from Hua Su to fix a race condition in the pblk recovery
        code.
      * Scan optimization added to pblk recovery from Zhoujie.
      * Small geometry cleanup from me.

   - Conversion of the last few drivers that used the legacy path to
     blk-mq (me)

   - Removal of legacy IO path in SCSI (me, Christoph)

   - Removal of legacy IO stack and schedulers (me)

   - Support for much better polling, now without interrupts at all.
     blk-mq adds support for multiple queue maps, which enables us to
     have a map per type. This in turn enables nvme to have separate
     completion queues for polling, which can then be interrupt-less.
     Also means we're ready for async polled IO, which is hopefully
     coming in the next release.

   - Killing of (now) unused block exports (Christoph)

   - Unification of the blk-rq-qos and blk-wbt wait handling (Josef)

   - Support for zoned testing with null_blk (Masato)

   - sx8 conversion to per-host tag sets (Christoph)

   - IO priority improvements (Damien)

   - mq-deadline zoned fix (Damien)

   - Ref count blkcg series (Dennis)

   - Lots of blk-mq improvements and speedups (me)

   - sbitmap scalability improvements (me)

   - Make core inflight IO accounting per-cpu (Mikulas)

   - Export timeout setting in sysfs (Weiping)

   - Cleanup the direct issue path (Jianchao)

   - Export blk-wbt internals in block debugfs for easier debugging
     (Ming)

   - Lots of other fixes and improvements"

* tag 'for-4.21/block-20181221' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (364 commits)
  kyber: use sbitmap add_wait_queue/list_del wait helpers
  sbitmap: add helpers for add/del wait queue handling
  block: save irq state in blkg_lookup_create()
  dm: don't reuse bio for flushes
  nvme-pci: trace SQ status on completions
  nvme-rdma: implement polling queue map
  nvme-fabrics: allow user to pass in nr_poll_queues
  nvme-fabrics: allow nvmf_connect_io_queue to poll
  nvme-core: optionally poll sync commands
  block: make request_to_qc_t public
  nvme-tcp: fix spelling mistake "attepmpt" -&gt; "attempt"
  nvme-tcp: fix endianess annotations
  nvmet-tcp: fix endianess annotations
  nvme-pci: refactor nvme_poll_irqdisable to make sparse happy
  nvme-pci: only set nr_maps to 2 if poll queues are supported
  nvmet: use a macro for default error location
  nvmet: fix comparison of a u16 with -1
  blk-mq: enable IO poll if .nr_queues of type poll &gt; 0
  blk-mq: change blk_mq_queue_busy() to blk_mq_queue_inflight()
  blk-mq: skip zero-queue maps in blk_mq_map_swqueue
  ...
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block/storage for 4.21.

  Larger than usual, it was a busy round with lots of goodies queued up.
  Most notable is the removal of the old IO stack, which has been a long
  time coming. No new features for a while, everything coming in this
  week has all been fixes for things that were previously merged.

  This contains:

   - Use atomic counters instead of semaphores for mtip32xx (Arnd)

   - Cleanup of the mtip32xx request setup (Christoph)

   - Fix for circular locking dependency in loop (Jan, Tetsuo)

   - bcache (Coly, Guoju, Shenghui)
      * Optimizations for writeback caching
      * Various fixes and improvements

   - nvme (Chaitanya, Christoph, Sagi, Jay, me, Keith)
      * host and target support for NVMe over TCP
      * Error log page support
      * Support for separate read/write/poll queues
      * Much improved polling
      * discard OOM fallback
      * Tracepoint improvements

   - lightnvm (Hans, Hua, Igor, Matias, Javier)
      * Igor added packed metadata to pblk. Now drives without metadata
        per LBA can be used as well.
      * Fix from Geert on uninitialized value on chunk metadata reads.
      * Fixes from Hans and Javier to pblk recovery and write path.
      * Fix from Hua Su to fix a race condition in the pblk recovery
        code.
      * Scan optimization added to pblk recovery from Zhoujie.
      * Small geometry cleanup from me.

   - Conversion of the last few drivers that used the legacy path to
     blk-mq (me)

   - Removal of legacy IO path in SCSI (me, Christoph)

   - Removal of legacy IO stack and schedulers (me)

   - Support for much better polling, now without interrupts at all.
     blk-mq adds support for multiple queue maps, which enables us to
     have a map per type. This in turn enables nvme to have separate
     completion queues for polling, which can then be interrupt-less.
     Also means we're ready for async polled IO, which is hopefully
     coming in the next release.

   - Killing of (now) unused block exports (Christoph)

   - Unification of the blk-rq-qos and blk-wbt wait handling (Josef)

   - Support for zoned testing with null_blk (Masato)

   - sx8 conversion to per-host tag sets (Christoph)

   - IO priority improvements (Damien)

   - mq-deadline zoned fix (Damien)

   - Ref count blkcg series (Dennis)

   - Lots of blk-mq improvements and speedups (me)

   - sbitmap scalability improvements (me)

   - Make core inflight IO accounting per-cpu (Mikulas)

   - Export timeout setting in sysfs (Weiping)

   - Cleanup the direct issue path (Jianchao)

   - Export blk-wbt internals in block debugfs for easier debugging
     (Ming)

   - Lots of other fixes and improvements"

* tag 'for-4.21/block-20181221' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (364 commits)
  kyber: use sbitmap add_wait_queue/list_del wait helpers
  sbitmap: add helpers for add/del wait queue handling
  block: save irq state in blkg_lookup_create()
  dm: don't reuse bio for flushes
  nvme-pci: trace SQ status on completions
  nvme-rdma: implement polling queue map
  nvme-fabrics: allow user to pass in nr_poll_queues
  nvme-fabrics: allow nvmf_connect_io_queue to poll
  nvme-core: optionally poll sync commands
  block: make request_to_qc_t public
  nvme-tcp: fix spelling mistake "attepmpt" -&gt; "attempt"
  nvme-tcp: fix endianess annotations
  nvmet-tcp: fix endianess annotations
  nvme-pci: refactor nvme_poll_irqdisable to make sparse happy
  nvme-pci: only set nr_maps to 2 if poll queues are supported
  nvmet: use a macro for default error location
  nvmet: fix comparison of a u16 with -1
  blk-mq: enable IO poll if .nr_queues of type poll &gt; 0
  blk-mq: change blk_mq_queue_busy() to blk_mq_queue_inflight()
  blk-mq: skip zero-queue maps in blk_mq_map_swqueue
  ...
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<title>net: drop the unused helper skb_ext_get()</title>
<updated>2018-12-21T18:24:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-21T18:03:14+00:00</published>
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Such helper is currently unused, and skb extension users are
better off using skb_ext_add()/skb_ext_del(). So let's drop
it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Such helper is currently unused, and skb extension users are
better off using skb_ext_add()/skb_ext_del(). So let's drop
it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: switch secpath to use skb extension infrastructure</title>
<updated>2018-12-19T19:21:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-18T16:15:27+00:00</published>
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Remove skb-&gt;sp and allocate secpath storage via extension
infrastructure.  This also reduces sk_buff by 8 bytes on x86_64.

Total size of allyesconfig kernel is reduced slightly, as there is
less inlined code (one conditional atomic op instead of two on
skb_clone).

No differences in throughput in following ipsec performance tests:
- transport mode with aes on 10GB link
- tunnel mode between two network namespaces with aes and null cipher

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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Remove skb-&gt;sp and allocate secpath storage via extension
infrastructure.  This also reduces sk_buff by 8 bytes on x86_64.

Total size of allyesconfig kernel is reduced slightly, as there is
less inlined code (one conditional atomic op instead of two on
skb_clone).

No differences in throughput in following ipsec performance tests:
- transport mode with aes on 10GB link
- tunnel mode between two network namespaces with aes and null cipher

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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<title>net: use skb_sec_path helper in more places</title>
<updated>2018-12-19T19:21:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-18T16:15:20+00:00</published>
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skb_sec_path gains 'const' qualifier to avoid
xt_policy.c: 'skb_sec_path' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type

same reasoning as previous conversions: Won't need to touch these
spots anymore when skb-&gt;sp is removed.

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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skb_sec_path gains 'const' qualifier to avoid
xt_policy.c: 'skb_sec_path' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type

same reasoning as previous conversions: Won't need to touch these
spots anymore when skb-&gt;sp is removed.

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>
<title>net: move secpath_exist helper to sk_buff.h</title>
<updated>2018-12-19T19:21:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-18T16:15:19+00:00</published>
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Future patch will remove skb-&gt;sp pointer.
To reduce noise in those patches, move existing helper to
sk_buff and use it in more places to ease skb-&gt;sp replacement later.

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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Future patch will remove skb-&gt;sp pointer.
To reduce noise in those patches, move existing helper to
sk_buff and use it in more places to ease skb-&gt;sp replacement later.

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>
<title>net: convert bridge_nf to use skb extension infrastructure</title>
<updated>2018-12-19T19:21:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-18T16:15:17+00:00</published>
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This converts the bridge netfilter (calling iptables hooks from bridge)
facility to use the extension infrastructure.

The bridge_nf specific hooks in skb clone and free paths are removed, they
have been replaced by the skb_ext hooks that do the same as the bridge nf
allocations hooks did.

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 converts the bridge netfilter (calling iptables hooks from bridge)
facility to use the extension infrastructure.

The bridge_nf specific hooks in skb clone and free paths are removed, they
have been replaced by the skb_ext hooks that do the same as the bridge nf
allocations hooks did.

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>
<title>sk_buff: add skb extension infrastructure</title>
<updated>2018-12-19T19:21:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-18T16:15:16+00:00</published>
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This adds an optional extension infrastructure, with ispec (xfrm) and
bridge netfilter as first users.
objdiff shows no changes if kernel is built without xfrm and br_netfilter
support.

The third (planned future) user is Multipath TCP which is still
out-of-tree.
MPTCP needs to map logical mptcp sequence numbers to the tcp sequence
numbers used by individual subflows.

This DSS mapping is read/written from tcp option space on receive and
written to tcp option space on transmitted tcp packets that are part of
and MPTCP connection.

Extending skb_shared_info or adding a private data field to skb fclones
doesn't work for incoming skb, so a different DSS propagation method would
be required for the receive side.

mptcp has same requirements as secpath/bridge netfilter:

1. extension memory is released when the sk_buff is free'd.
2. data is shared after cloning an skb (clone inherits extension)
3. adding extension to an skb will COW the extension buffer if needed.

The "MPTCP upstreaming" effort adds SKB_EXT_MPTCP extension to store the
mapping for tx and rx processing.

Two new members are added to sk_buff:
1. 'active_extensions' byte (filling a hole), telling which extensions
   are available for this skb.
   This has two purposes.
   a) avoids the need to initialize the pointer.
   b) allows to "delete" an extension by clearing its bit
   value in -&gt;active_extensions.

   While it would be possible to store the active_extensions byte
   in the extension struct instead of sk_buff, there is one problem
   with this:
    When an extension has to be disabled, we can always clear the
    bit in skb-&gt;active_extensions.  But in case it would be stored in the
    extension buffer itself, we might have to COW it first, if
    we are dealing with a cloned skb.  On kmalloc failure we would
    be unable to turn an extension off.

2. extension pointer, located at the end of the sk_buff.
   If the active_extensions byte is 0, the pointer is undefined,
   it is not initialized on skb allocation.

This adds extra code to skb clone and free paths (to deal with
refcount/free of extension area) but this replaces similar code that
manages skb-&gt;nf_bridge and skb-&gt;sp structs in the followup patches of
the series.

It is possible to add support for extensions that are not preseved on
clones/copies.

To do this, it would be needed to define a bitmask of all extensions that
need copy/cow semantics, and change __skb_ext_copy() to check
-&gt;active_extensions &amp; SKB_EXT_PRESERVE_ON_CLONE, then just set
-&gt;active_extensions to 0 on the new clone.

This isn't done here because all extensions that get added here
need the copy/cow semantics.

v2:
Allocate entire extension space using kmem_cache.
Upside is that this allows better tracking of used memory,
downside is that we will allocate more space than strictly needed in
most cases (its unlikely that all extensions are active/needed at same
time for same skb).
The allocated memory (except the small extension header) is not cleared,
so no additonal overhead aside from memory usage.

Avoid atomic_dec_and_test operation on skb_ext_put()
by using similar trick as kfree_skbmem() does with fclone_ref:
If recount is 1, there is no concurrent user and we can free right away.

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 adds an optional extension infrastructure, with ispec (xfrm) and
bridge netfilter as first users.
objdiff shows no changes if kernel is built without xfrm and br_netfilter
support.

The third (planned future) user is Multipath TCP which is still
out-of-tree.
MPTCP needs to map logical mptcp sequence numbers to the tcp sequence
numbers used by individual subflows.

This DSS mapping is read/written from tcp option space on receive and
written to tcp option space on transmitted tcp packets that are part of
and MPTCP connection.

Extending skb_shared_info or adding a private data field to skb fclones
doesn't work for incoming skb, so a different DSS propagation method would
be required for the receive side.

mptcp has same requirements as secpath/bridge netfilter:

1. extension memory is released when the sk_buff is free'd.
2. data is shared after cloning an skb (clone inherits extension)
3. adding extension to an skb will COW the extension buffer if needed.

The "MPTCP upstreaming" effort adds SKB_EXT_MPTCP extension to store the
mapping for tx and rx processing.

Two new members are added to sk_buff:
1. 'active_extensions' byte (filling a hole), telling which extensions
   are available for this skb.
   This has two purposes.
   a) avoids the need to initialize the pointer.
   b) allows to "delete" an extension by clearing its bit
   value in -&gt;active_extensions.

   While it would be possible to store the active_extensions byte
   in the extension struct instead of sk_buff, there is one problem
   with this:
    When an extension has to be disabled, we can always clear the
    bit in skb-&gt;active_extensions.  But in case it would be stored in the
    extension buffer itself, we might have to COW it first, if
    we are dealing with a cloned skb.  On kmalloc failure we would
    be unable to turn an extension off.

2. extension pointer, located at the end of the sk_buff.
   If the active_extensions byte is 0, the pointer is undefined,
   it is not initialized on skb allocation.

This adds extra code to skb clone and free paths (to deal with
refcount/free of extension area) but this replaces similar code that
manages skb-&gt;nf_bridge and skb-&gt;sp structs in the followup patches of
the series.

It is possible to add support for extensions that are not preseved on
clones/copies.

To do this, it would be needed to define a bitmask of all extensions that
need copy/cow semantics, and change __skb_ext_copy() to check
-&gt;active_extensions &amp; SKB_EXT_PRESERVE_ON_CLONE, then just set
-&gt;active_extensions to 0 on the new clone.

This isn't done here because all extensions that get added here
need the copy/cow semantics.

v2:
Allocate entire extension space using kmem_cache.
Upside is that this allows better tracking of used memory,
downside is that we will allocate more space than strictly needed in
most cases (its unlikely that all extensions are active/needed at same
time for same skb).
The allocated memory (except the small extension header) is not cleared,
so no additonal overhead aside from memory usage.

Avoid atomic_dec_and_test operation on skb_ext_put()
by using similar trick as kfree_skbmem() does with fclone_ref:
If recount is 1, there is no concurrent user and we can free right away.

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>
<title>datagram: introduce skb_copy_and_hash_datagram_iter helper</title>
<updated>2018-12-13T08:58:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sagi Grimberg</name>
<email>sagi@lightbitslabs.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-04T01:52:10+00:00</published>
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Introduce a helper to copy datagram into an iovec iterator
but also update a predefined hash. This is useful for
consumers of skb_copy_datagram_iter to also support inflight
data digest without having to finish to copy and only then
traverse the iovec and calculate the digest hash.

Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagi@lightbitslabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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Introduce a helper to copy datagram into an iovec iterator
but also update a predefined hash. This is useful for
consumers of skb_copy_datagram_iter to also support inflight
data digest without having to finish to copy and only then
traverse the iovec and calculate the digest hash.

Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagi@lightbitslabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>skbuff: Rename 'offload_mr_fwd_mark' to 'offload_l3_fwd_mark'</title>
<updated>2018-12-04T16:36:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ido Schimmel</name>
<email>idosch@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-04T08:15:10+00:00</published>
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Commit abf4bb6b63d0 ("skbuff: Add the offload_mr_fwd_mark field") added
the 'offload_mr_fwd_mark' field to indicate that a packet has already
undergone L3 multicast routing by a capable device. The field is used to
prevent the kernel from forwarding a packet through a netdev through
which the device has already forwarded the packet.

Currently, no unicast packet is routed by both the device and the
kernel, but this is about to change by subsequent patches and we need to
be able to mark such packets, so that they will no be forwarded twice.

Instead of adding yet another field to 'struct sk_buff', we can just
rename 'offload_mr_fwd_mark' to 'offload_l3_fwd_mark', as a packet
either has a multicast or a unicast destination IP.

While at it, add a comment about both 'offload_fwd_mark' and
'offload_l3_fwd_mark'.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Commit abf4bb6b63d0 ("skbuff: Add the offload_mr_fwd_mark field") added
the 'offload_mr_fwd_mark' field to indicate that a packet has already
undergone L3 multicast routing by a capable device. The field is used to
prevent the kernel from forwarding a packet through a netdev through
which the device has already forwarded the packet.

Currently, no unicast packet is routed by both the device and the
kernel, but this is about to change by subsequent patches and we need to
be able to mark such packets, so that they will no be forwarded twice.

Instead of adding yet another field to 'struct sk_buff', we can just
rename 'offload_mr_fwd_mark' to 'offload_l3_fwd_mark', as a packet
either has a multicast or a unicast destination IP.

While at it, add a comment about both 'offload_fwd_mark' and
'offload_l3_fwd_mark'.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>udp: elide zerocopy operation in hot path</title>
<updated>2018-12-03T23:58:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-30T20:32:40+00:00</published>
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With MSG_ZEROCOPY, each skb holds a reference to a struct ubuf_info.
Release of its last reference triggers a completion notification.

The TCP stack in tcp_sendmsg_locked holds an extra ref independent of
the skbs, because it can build, send and free skbs within its loop,
possibly reaching refcount zero and freeing the ubuf_info too soon.

The UDP stack currently also takes this extra ref, but does not need
it as all skbs are sent after return from __ip(6)_append_data.

Avoid the extra refcount_inc and refcount_dec_and_test, and generally
the sock_zerocopy_put in the common path, by passing the initial
reference to the first skb.

This approach is taken instead of initializing the refcount to 0, as
that would generate error "refcount_t: increment on 0" on the
next skb_zcopy_set.

Changes
  v3 -&gt; v4
    - Move skb_zcopy_set below the only kfree_skb that might cause
      a premature uarg destroy before skb_zerocopy_put_abort
      - Move the entire skb_shinfo assignment block, to keep that
        cacheline access in one place

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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With MSG_ZEROCOPY, each skb holds a reference to a struct ubuf_info.
Release of its last reference triggers a completion notification.

The TCP stack in tcp_sendmsg_locked holds an extra ref independent of
the skbs, because it can build, send and free skbs within its loop,
possibly reaching refcount zero and freeing the ubuf_info too soon.

The UDP stack currently also takes this extra ref, but does not need
it as all skbs are sent after return from __ip(6)_append_data.

Avoid the extra refcount_inc and refcount_dec_and_test, and generally
the sock_zerocopy_put in the common path, by passing the initial
reference to the first skb.

This approach is taken instead of initializing the refcount to 0, as
that would generate error "refcount_t: increment on 0" on the
next skb_zcopy_set.

Changes
  v3 -&gt; v4
    - Move skb_zcopy_set below the only kfree_skb that might cause
      a premature uarg destroy before skb_zerocopy_put_abort
      - Move the entire skb_shinfo assignment block, to keep that
        cacheline access in one place

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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