linux.git/net/decnet, branch v2.6.39

decnet: Convert to use flowidn where applicable.

2011-03-12T23:08:55+00:00

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Put flowi_* prefix on AF independent members of struct flowi

2011-03-12T23:08:44+00:00

I intend to turn struct flowi into a union of AF specific flowi
structs.  There will be a common structure that each variant includes
first, much like struct sock_common.

This is the first step to move in that direction.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xfrm: Return dst directly from xfrm_lookup()

2011-03-02T21:27:41+00:00

Instead of on the stack.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xfrm: Kill XFRM_LOOKUP_WAIT flag.

2011-03-01T22:36:37+00:00

This can be determined from the flow flags instead.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Add initial_ref arg to dst_alloc().

2011-02-17T23:44:00+00:00

This allows avoiding multiple writes to the initial __refcnt.

The most simplest cases of wanting an initial reference of "1"
in ipv4 and ipv6 have been converted, the rest have been left
along and kept at the existing "0".

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Implement read-only protection and COW'ing of metrics.

2011-01-27T04:51:05+00:00

Routing metrics are now copy-on-write.

Initially a route entry points it's metrics at a read-only location.
If a routing table entry exists, it will point there.  Else it will
point at the all zero metric place-holder called 'dst_default_metrics'.

The writeability state of the metrics is stored in the low bits of the
metrics pointer, we have two bits left to spare if we want to store
more states.

For the initial implementation, COW is implemented simply via kmalloc.
However future enhancements will change this to place the writable
metrics somewhere else, in order to increase sharing.  Very likely
this "somewhere else" will be the inetpeer cache.

Note also that this means that metrics updates may transiently fail
if we cannot COW the metrics successfully.

But even by itself, this patch should decrease memory usage and
increase cache locality especially for routing workloads.  In those
cases the read-only metric copies stay in place and never get written
to.

TCP workloads where metrics get updated, and those rare cases where
PMTU triggers occur, will take a very slight performance hit.  But
that hit will be alleviated when the long-term writable metrics
move to a more sharable location.

Since the metrics storage went from a u32 array of RTAX_MAX entries to
what is essentially a pointer, some retooling of the dst_entry layout
was necessary.

Most importantly, we need to preserve the alignment of the reference
count so that it doesn't share cache lines with the read-mostly state,
as per Eric Dumazet's alignment assertion checks.

The only non-trivial bit here is the move of the 'flags' member into
the writeable cacheline.  This is OK since we are always accessing the
flags around the same moment when we made a modification to the
reference count.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: cleanup unused macros in net directory

2011-01-20T07:20:04+00:00

Clean up some unused macros in net/*.
1. be left for code change. e.g. PGV_FROM_VMALLOC, PGV_FROM_VMALLOC, KMEM_SAFETYZONE.
2. never be used since introduced to kernel.
   e.g. P9_RDMA_MAX_SGE, UTIL_CTRL_PKT_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei 
Acked-by: Sjur Braendeland 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2011-01-13T18:05:56+00:00

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
  writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
  ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
  drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
  remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
  Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
  Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  Revert conflicting V4L changes
  i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
  mm/rmap.c: fix comment
  sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
  hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
  init/Kconfig: fix typo
  anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
  fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
  poll: fix a typo in comment
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
 - fs/ext4/ext4.h

Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.

Merge branch 'master' into for-next

2010-12-22T17:57:02+00:00

Conflicts:
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	arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
	drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c

Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.

net: Abstract default MTU metric calculation behind an accessor.

2010-12-14T21:01:14+00:00

Like RTAX_ADVMSS, make the default calculation go through a dst_ops
method rather than caching the computation in the routing cache
entries.

Now dst metrics are pretty much left as-is when new entries are
created, thus optimizing metric sharing becomes a real possibility.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller