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<title>ipvs: add support for sync threads</title>
<updated>2012-05-08T17:40:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-08T17:40:30+00:00</published>
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	Allow master and backup servers to use many threads
for sync traffic. Add sysctl var "sync_ports" to define the
number of threads. Every thread will use single UDP port,
thread 0 will use the default port 8848 while last thread
will use port 8848+sync_ports-1.

	The sync traffic for connections is scheduled to many
master threads based on the cp address but one connection is
always assigned to same thread to avoid reordering of the
sync messages.

	Remove ip_vs_sync_switch_mode because this check
for sync mode change is still risky. Instead, check for mode
change under sync_buff_lock.

	Make sure the backup socks do not block on reading.

Special thanks to Aleksey Chudov for helping in all tests.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Tested-by: Aleksey Chudov &lt;aleksey.chudov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
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	Allow master and backup servers to use many threads
for sync traffic. Add sysctl var "sync_ports" to define the
number of threads. Every thread will use single UDP port,
thread 0 will use the default port 8848 while last thread
will use port 8848+sync_ports-1.

	The sync traffic for connections is scheduled to many
master threads based on the cp address but one connection is
always assigned to same thread to avoid reordering of the
sync messages.

	Remove ip_vs_sync_switch_mode because this check
for sync mode change is still risky. Instead, check for mode
change under sync_buff_lock.

	Make sure the backup socks do not block on reading.

Special thanks to Aleksey Chudov for helping in all tests.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Tested-by: Aleksey Chudov &lt;aleksey.chudov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipvs: reduce sync rate with time thresholds</title>
<updated>2012-05-08T17:40:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julian Anastasov</name>
<email>ja@ssi.bg</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-24T20:46:40+00:00</published>
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	Add two new sysctl vars to control the sync rate with the
main idea to reduce the rate for connection templates because
currently it depends on the packet rate for controlled connections.
This mechanism should be useful also for normal connections
with high traffic.

sync_refresh_period: in seconds, difference in reported connection
	timer that triggers new sync message. It can be used to
	avoid sync messages for the specified period (or half of
	the connection timeout if it is lower) if connection state
	is not changed from last sync.

sync_retries: integer, 0..3, defines sync retries with period of
	sync_refresh_period/8. Useful to protect against loss of
	sync messages.

	Allow sysctl_sync_threshold to be used with
sysctl_sync_period=0, so that only single sync message is sent
if sync_refresh_period is also 0.

	Add new field "sync_endtime" in connection structure to
hold the reported time when connection expires. The 2 lowest
bits will represent the retry count.

	As the sysctl_sync_period now can be 0 use ACCESS_ONCE to
avoid division by zero.

	Special thanks to Aleksey Chudov for being patient with me,
for his extensive reports and helping in all tests.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Tested-by: Aleksey Chudov &lt;aleksey.chudov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
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	Add two new sysctl vars to control the sync rate with the
main idea to reduce the rate for connection templates because
currently it depends on the packet rate for controlled connections.
This mechanism should be useful also for normal connections
with high traffic.

sync_refresh_period: in seconds, difference in reported connection
	timer that triggers new sync message. It can be used to
	avoid sync messages for the specified period (or half of
	the connection timeout if it is lower) if connection state
	is not changed from last sync.

sync_retries: integer, 0..3, defines sync retries with period of
	sync_refresh_period/8. Useful to protect against loss of
	sync messages.

	Allow sysctl_sync_threshold to be used with
sysctl_sync_period=0, so that only single sync message is sent
if sync_refresh_period is also 0.

	Add new field "sync_endtime" in connection structure to
hold the reported time when connection expires. The 2 lowest
bits will represent the retry count.

	As the sysctl_sync_period now can be 0 use ACCESS_ONCE to
avoid division by zero.

	Special thanks to Aleksey Chudov for being patient with me,
for his extensive reports and helping in all tests.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Tested-by: Aleksey Chudov &lt;aleksey.chudov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipvs: wakeup master thread</title>
<updated>2012-05-08T17:39:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-08T17:39:49+00:00</published>
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	High rate of sync messages in master can lead to
overflowing the socket buffer and dropping the messages.
Fixed sleep of 1 second without wakeup events is not suitable
for loaded masters,

	Use delayed_work to schedule sending for queued messages
and limit the delay to IPVS_SYNC_SEND_DELAY (20ms). This will
reduce the rate of wakeups but to avoid sending long bursts we
wakeup the master thread after IPVS_SYNC_WAKEUP_RATE (8) messages.

	Add hard limit for the queued messages before sending
by using "sync_qlen_max" sysctl var. It defaults to 1/32 of
the memory pages but actually represents number of messages.
It will protect us from allocating large parts of memory
when the sending rate is lower than the queuing rate.

	As suggested by Pablo, add new sysctl var
"sync_sock_size" to configure the SNDBUF (master) or
RCVBUF (slave) socket limit. Default value is 0 (preserve
system defaults).

	Change the master thread to detect and block on
SNDBUF overflow, so that we do not drop messages when
the socket limit is low but the sync_qlen_max limit is
not reached. On ENOBUFS or other errors just drop the
messages.

	Change master thread to enter TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
state early, so that we do not miss wakeups due to messages or
kthread_should_stop event.

Thanks to Pablo Neira Ayuso for his valuable feedback!

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
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	High rate of sync messages in master can lead to
overflowing the socket buffer and dropping the messages.
Fixed sleep of 1 second without wakeup events is not suitable
for loaded masters,

	Use delayed_work to schedule sending for queued messages
and limit the delay to IPVS_SYNC_SEND_DELAY (20ms). This will
reduce the rate of wakeups but to avoid sending long bursts we
wakeup the master thread after IPVS_SYNC_WAKEUP_RATE (8) messages.

	Add hard limit for the queued messages before sending
by using "sync_qlen_max" sysctl var. It defaults to 1/32 of
the memory pages but actually represents number of messages.
It will protect us from allocating large parts of memory
when the sending rate is lower than the queuing rate.

	As suggested by Pablo, add new sysctl var
"sync_sock_size" to configure the SNDBUF (master) or
RCVBUF (slave) socket limit. Default value is 0 (preserve
system defaults).

	Change the master thread to detect and block on
SNDBUF overflow, so that we do not drop messages when
the socket limit is low but the sync_qlen_max limit is
not reached. On ENOBUFS or other errors just drop the
messages.

	Change master thread to enter TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
state early, so that we do not miss wakeups due to messages or
kthread_should_stop event.

Thanks to Pablo Neira Ayuso for his valuable feedback!

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2012-05-08T03:35:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-08T03:35:40+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/param.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-rx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h

Resolved the iwlwifi conflict with mainline using 3-way diff posted
by John Linville and Stephen Rothwell.  In 'net' we added a bug
fix to make iwlwifi report a more accurate skb-&gt;truesize but this
conflicted with RX path changes that happened meanwhile in net-next.

In e1000e a conflict arose in the validation code for settings of
adapter-&gt;itr.  'net-next' had more sophisticated logic so that
logic was used.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/param.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-rx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h

Resolved the iwlwifi conflict with mainline using 3-way diff posted
by John Linville and Stephen Rothwell.  In 'net' we added a bug
fix to make iwlwifi report a more accurate skb-&gt;truesize but this
conflicted with RX path changes that happened meanwhile in net-next.

In e1000e a conflict arose in the validation code for settings of
adapter-&gt;itr.  'net-next' had more sophisticated logic so that
logic was used.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipvs: kernel oops - do_ip_vs_get_ctl</title>
<updated>2012-04-30T08:40:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans Schillstrom</name>
<email>hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-26T05:47:44+00:00</published>
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Change order of init so netns init is ready
when register ioctl and netlink.

Ver2
	Whitespace fixes and __init added.

Reported-by: "Ryan O'Hara" &lt;rohara@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Schillstrom &lt;hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
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Change order of init so netns init is ready
when register ioctl and netlink.

Ver2
	Whitespace fixes and __init added.

Reported-by: "Ryan O'Hara" &lt;rohara@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Schillstrom &lt;hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipvs: take care of return value from protocol init_netns</title>
<updated>2012-04-30T08:40:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans Schillstrom</name>
<email>hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-26T07:45:35+00:00</published>
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ip_vs_create_timeout_table() can return NULL
All functions protocol init_netns is affected of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Hans Schillstrom &lt;hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
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ip_vs_create_timeout_table() can return NULL
All functions protocol init_netns is affected of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Hans Schillstrom &lt;hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Delete all remaining instances of ctl_path</title>
<updated>2012-04-21T01:22:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-19T13:45:29+00:00</published>
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We don't use struct ctl_path anymore so delete the exported constants.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We don't use struct ctl_path anymore so delete the exported constants.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int</title>
<updated>2012-04-15T16:44:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-15T05:58:06+00:00</published>
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Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h</title>
<updated>2012-03-04T22:54:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-24T01:12:59+00:00</published>
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If a header file is making use of BUG, BUG_ON, BUILD_BUG_ON, or any
other BUG variant in a static inline (i.e. not in a #define) then
that header really should be including &lt;linux/bug.h&gt; and not just
expecting it to be implicitly present.

We can make this change risk-free, since if the files using these
headers didn't have exposure to linux/bug.h already, they would have
been causing compile failures/warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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If a header file is making use of BUG, BUG_ON, BUILD_BUG_ON, or any
other BUG variant in a static inline (i.e. not in a #define) then
that header really should be including &lt;linux/bug.h&gt; and not just
expecting it to be implicitly present.

We can make this change risk-free, since if the files using these
headers didn't have exposure to linux/bug.h already, they would have
been causing compile failures/warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2012-01-02T23:56:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-02T23:56:49+00:00</published>
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