linux.git/net/core/dev.c, branch v4.0-rc2

net/core: Fix warning while make xmldocs caused by dev.c

2015-02-15T04:34:49+00:00

This patch fix following warning wile make xmldocs.

  Warning(.//net/core/dev.c:5345): No description found
  for parameter 'bonding_info'
  Warning(.//net/core/dev.c:5345): Excess function parameter
  'netdev_bonding_info' description in 'netdev_bonding_info_change'

This warning starts to appear after following patch was added
into Linus's tree during merger period.

commit 61bd3857ff2c7daf756d49b41e6277bbdaa8f789
net/core: Add event for a change in slave state

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Infrastructure for CHECKSUM_PARTIAL with remote checsum offload

2015-02-11T23:12:12+00:00

This patch adds infrastructure so that remote checksum offload can
set CHECKSUM_PARTIAL instead of calling csum_partial and writing
the modfied checksum field.

Add skb_remcsum_adjust_partial function to set an skb for using
CHECKSUM_PARTIAL with remote checksum offload.  Changed
skb_remcsum_process and skb_gro_remcsum_process to take a boolean
argument to indicate if checksum partial can be set or the
checksum needs to be modified using the normal algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2015-02-09T22:35:57+00:00

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: rfs: add hash collision detection

2015-02-09T00:53:57+00:00

Receive Flow Steering is a nice solution but suffers from
hash collisions when a mix of connected and unconnected traffic
is received on the host, when flow hash table is populated.

Also, clearing flow in inet_release() makes RFS not very good
for short lived flows, as many packets can follow close().
(FIN , ACK packets, ...)

This patch extends the information stored into global hash table
to not only include cpu number, but upper part of the hash value.

I use a 32bit value, and dynamically split it in two parts.

For host with less than 64 possible cpus, this gives 6 bits for the
cpu number, and 26 (32-6) bits for the upper part of the hash.

Since hash bucket selection use low order bits of the hash, we have
a full hash match, if /proc/sys/net/core/rps_sock_flow_entries is big
enough.

If the hash found in flow table does not match, we fallback to RPS (if
it is enabled for the rxqueue).

This means that a packet for an non connected flow can avoid the
IPI through a unrelated/victim CPU.

This also means we no longer have to clear the table at socket
close time, and this helps short lived flows performance.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Tom Herbert 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use netif_rx_ni() from process context

2015-02-08T06:43:52+00:00

Hotpluging a cpu might be rare, yet we have to use proper
handlers when taking over packets found in backlog queues.

dev_cpu_callback() runs from process context, thus we should
call netif_rx_ni() to properly invoke softirq handler.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2015-02-05T22:33:28+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/vxlan.c
	drivers/vhost/net.c
	include/linux/if_vlan.h
	net/core/dev.c

The net/core/dev.c conflict was the overlap of one commit marking an
existing function static whilst another was adding a new function.

In the include/linux/if_vlan.h case, the type used for a local
variable was changed in 'net', whereas the function got rewritten
to fix a stacked vlan bug in 'net-next'.

In drivers/vhost/net.c, Al Viro's iov_iter conversions in 'net-next'
overlapped with an endainness fix for VHOST 1.0 in 'net'.

In drivers/net/vxlan.c, vxlan_find_vni() added a 'flags' parameter
in 'net-next' whereas in 'net' there was a bug fix to pass in the
correct network namespace pointer in calls to this function.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: remove some sparse warnings

2015-02-05T08:41:17+00:00

netdev_adjacent_add_links() and netdev_adjacent_del_links()
are static.

queue->qdisc has __rcu annotation, need to use RCU_INIT_POINTER()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net/core: Add event for a change in slave state

2015-02-05T00:14:24+00:00

Add event which provides an indication on a change in the state
of a bonding slave. The event handler should cast the pointer to the
appropriate type (struct netdev_bonding_info) in order to get the
full info about the slave.

Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua 
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix vlan_get_protocol for stacked vlan

2015-01-31T02:03:47+00:00

vlan_get_protocol() could not get network protocol if a skb has a 802.1ad
vlan tag or multiple vlans, which caused incorrect checksum calculation
in several drivers.

Fix vlan_get_protocol() to retrieve network protocol instead of incorrect
vlan protocol.

As the logic is the same as skb_network_protocol(), create a common helper
function __vlan_get_protocol() and call it from existing functions.

Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

dev: add per net_device packet type chains

2015-01-29T22:41:39+00:00

When many pf_packet listeners are created on a lot of interfaces the
current implementation using global packet type lists scales poorly.
This patch adds per net_device packet type lists to fix this problem.

The patch was originally written by Eric Biederman for linux-2.6.29.
Tested on linux-3.16.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Salam Noureddine 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller