linux.git/include/net, branch v3.11-rc7

ipv6: handle Redirect ICMP Message with no Redirected Header option

2013-08-23T03:08:21+00:00

rfc 4861 says the Redirected Header option is optional, so
the kernel should not drop the Redirect Message that has no
Redirected Header option. In this patch, the function
ip6_redirect_no_header() is introduced to deal with that
condition.

Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong 
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa

net_sched: restore "linklayer atm" handling

2013-08-15T08:43:08+00:00

commit 56b765b79 ("htb: improved accuracy at high rates")
broke the "linklayer atm" handling.

 tc class add ... htb rate X ceil Y linklayer atm

The linklayer setting is implemented by modifying the rate table
which is send to the kernel.  No direct parameter were
transferred to the kernel indicating the linklayer setting.

The commit 56b765b79 ("htb: improved accuracy at high rates")
removed the use of the rate table system.

To keep compatible with older iproute2 utils, this patch detects
the linklayer by parsing the rate table.  It also supports future
versions of iproute2 to send this linklayer parameter to the
kernel directly. This is done by using the __reserved field in
struct tc_ratespec, to convey the choosen linklayer option, but
only using the lower 4 bits of this field.

Linklayer detection is limited to speeds below 100Mbit/s, because
at high rates the rtab is gets too inaccurate, so bad that
several fields contain the same values, this resembling the ATM
detect.  Fields even start to contain "0" time to send, e.g. at
1000Mbit/s sending a 96 bytes packet cost "0", thus the rtab have
been more broken than we first realized.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ip_tunnel: Do not use inner ip-header-id for tunnel ip-header-id.

2013-08-13T23:52:50+00:00

Using inner-id for tunnel id is not safe in some rare cases.
E.g. packets coming from multiple sources entering same tunnel
can have same id. Therefore on tunnel packet receive we
could have packets from two different stream but with same
source and dst IP with same ip-id which could confuse ip packet
reassembly.

Following patch reverts optimization from commit
490ab08127 (IP_GRE: Fix IP-Identification.)

CC: Jarno Rajahalme 
CC: Ansis Atteka 
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: rename busy poll MIB counter

2013-08-09T18:39:08+00:00

Rename mib counter from "low latency" to "busy poll"

v1 also moved the counter to the ip MIB (suggested by Shawn Bohrer)
Eric Dumazet suggested that the current location is better.

So v2 just renames the counter to fit the new naming convention.

Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

busy_poll: cleanup do-nothing placeholders

2013-08-05T02:41:27+00:00

When renaming ll_poll to busy poll, I introduced a typo
in the name of the do-nothing placeholder for sk_busy_loop
and called it sk_busy_poll.
This broke compile when busy poll was not configured.
Cong Wang submitted a patch to fixed that.
This patch removes the now redundant, misspelled placeholder.

Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: rename CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL to CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL

2013-08-01T22:11:17+00:00

Eliezer renames several *ll_poll to *busy_poll, but forgets
CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL, so in case of confusion, rename it too.

Cc: Eliezer Tamir 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix a compile error when CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL is not set

2013-08-01T22:10:58+00:00

When CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL is not set, I got:

net/socket.c: In function ‘sock_poll’:
net/socket.c:1165:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘sk_busy_loop’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Fix this by adding a nop when !CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL.

Cc: Eliezer Tamir 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: prevent fib6_run_gc() contention

2013-08-01T21:16:20+00:00

On a high-traffic router with many processors and many IPv6 dst
entries, soft lockup in fib6_run_gc() can occur when number of
entries reaches gc_thresh.

This happens because fib6_run_gc() uses fib6_gc_lock to allow
only one thread to run the garbage collector but ip6_dst_gc()
doesn't update net->ipv6.ip6_rt_last_gc until fib6_run_gc()
returns. On a system with many entries, this can take some time
so that in the meantime, other threads pass the tests in
ip6_dst_gc() (ip6_rt_last_gc is still not updated) and wait for
the lock. They then have to run the garbage collector one after
another which blocks them for quite long.

Resolve this by replacing special value ~0UL of expire parameter
to fib6_run_gc() by explicit "force" parameter to choose between
spin_lock_bh() and spin_trylock_bh() and call fib6_run_gc() with
force=false if gc_thresh is reached but not max_size.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem

2013-08-01T18:30:59+00:00

ndisc: Add missing inline to ndisc_addr_option_pad

2013-07-31T22:18:17+00:00

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller