- 24 Nov, 2010 21 commits
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Tom Herbert authored
This patch implements transmit packet steering (XPS) for multiqueue devices. XPS selects a transmit queue during packet transmission based on configuration. This is done by mapping the CPU transmitting the packet to a queue. This is the transmit side analogue to RPS-- where RPS is selecting a CPU based on receive queue, XPS selects a queue based on the CPU (previously there was an XPS patch from Eric Dumazet, but that might more appropriately be called transmit completion steering). Each transmit queue can be associated with a number of CPUs which will use the queue to send packets. This is configured as a CPU mask on a per queue basis in: /sys/class/net/eth<n>/queues/tx-<n>/xps_cpus The mappings are stored per device in an inverted data structure that maps CPUs to queues. In the netdevice structure this is an array of num_possible_cpu structures where each structure holds and array of queue_indexes for queues which that CPU can use. The benefits of XPS are improved locality in the per queue data structures. Also, transmit completions are more likely to be done nearer to the sending thread, so this should promote locality back to the socket on free (e.g. UDP). The benefits of XPS are dependent on cache hierarchy, application load, and other factors. XPS would nominally be configured so that a queue would only be shared by CPUs which are sharing a cache, the degenerative configuration woud be that each CPU has it's own queue. Below are some benchmark results which show the potential benfit of this patch. The netperf test has 500 instances of netperf TCP_RR test with 1 byte req. and resp. bnx2x on 16 core AMD XPS (16 queues, 1 TX queue per CPU) 1234K at 100% CPU No XPS (16 queues) 996K at 100% CPU Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tom Herbert authored
In dev_pick_tx, don't do work in calculating queue index or setting the index in the sock unless the device has more than one queue. This allows the sock to be set only with a queue index of a multi-queue device which is desirable if device are stacked like in a tunnel. We also allow the mapping of a socket to queue to be changed. To maintain in order packet transmission a flag (ooo_okay) has been added to the sk_buff structure. If a transport layer sets this flag on a packet, the transmit queue can be changed for the socket. Presumably, the transport would set this if there was no possbility of creating OOO packets (for instance, there are no packets in flight for the socket). This patch includes the modification in TCP output for setting this flag. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
dev_base_lock is the legacy way to lock the device list, and is planned to disappear. (writers hold RTNL, readers hold RCU lock) Convert rdma_translate_ip() and update_ipv6_gids() to RCU locking. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Lower SCM_MAX_FD from 255 to 253 so that allocations for scm_fp_list are halved. (commit f8d570a4 added two pointers in this structure) scm_fp_dup() should not copy whole structure (and trigger kmemcheck warnings), but only the used part. While we are at it, only allocate needed size. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
ipv6_sk_mc_lock rwlock becomes a spinlock. readers (inet6_mc_check()) now takes rcu_read_lock() instead of read lock. Writers dont need to disable BH anymore. struct ipv6_mc_socklist objects are reclaimed after one RCU grace period. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Giuseppe CAVALLARO authored
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Giuseppe CAVALLARO authored
This patch updates the PM support using the dev_pm_ops and reviews the hibernation support. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Giuseppe CAVALLARO authored
This patch adds in the plat_stmmacenet_data the init and exit callbacks that can be used for invoking specific platform functions. For example, on ST targets, these call the PAD manager functions to set PIO lines and syscfg registers. The patch removes the stmmac_claim_resource only used on STM Kernels as well. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Giuseppe CAVALLARO authored
This patch tidies-up the stmmac_priv structure that had many fileds alredy defined in the plat_stmmacenet_data structure. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Vladislav Zolotarov authored
Move the interrupt mode configuration and NAPIs adding before a register_netdev() call to prevent netdev->open() from running before these functions are done. Advance a driver version number. Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Reported-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
According to Eric's suggestion: Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation between sch_direct_xmit() (Soft_IRQ context) and bnx2x_tx_int (called by bnx2x_run_loopback() - syscall context), as both are taking a netif_tx_lock(). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matt Carlson authored
This structure isn't used anywhere in the driver. Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matt Carlson authored
This patch enables the gphy autopowerdown feature in the phy for all new devices that support it. Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matt Carlson authored
Using dma_alloc_coherent() permits to use GFP_KERNEL allocations instead of GFP_ATOMIC ones. Its better when a machine is out of memory, because this allows driver to sleep to get its memory and succeed its init, especially when allocating high order pages. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matt Carlson authored
All TSS bugs have been fixed in the 5719. This patch reenables the feature. Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matt Carlson authored
The multiple DMA read engine bugs have been fixed on the 5719. This patch reenables support for this feature. Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matt Carlson authored
This patch reorders and realigns the tg3_napi members for a ~3-4% performance improvement on small packet performance tests. Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matt Carlson authored
Under load, there an internal FIFO can overflow on the 5719. The fix is to scale back the PCIe maximum read request size based on the current link speed and width. Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matt Carlson authored
The APE needs certain bits in the mac_mode register to be enabled for traffic to flow correctly. This patch changes the code to always enable these bits in the presence of the APE. Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matt Carlson authored
Commit d309a46e, entitled "tg3: 5719: Prevent tx data corruption", was supposed to contain the tx margin adjustment but it looks like it somehow was omitted. This patch fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matt Carlson authored
Commit a977dbe8, entitled "tg3: Reduce 57765 core clock when link at 10Mbps" needs to be applied to all revisions of the 57765 asic rev, not just the A0 revision. Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 23 Nov, 2010 2 commits
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Eric Paris authored
The SELinux ip postroute code indicates when policy rejected a packet and passes the error back up the stack. The compat code does not. This patch sends the same kind of error back up the stack in the compat code. Based-on-patch-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Paris authored
Some of the SELinux netlink code returns a fatal error when the error might actually be transient. This patch just silently drops packets on potentially transient errors but continues to return a permanant error indicator when the denial was because of policy. Based-on-comments-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 22 Nov, 2010 17 commits
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Sridhar Samudrala authored
With the current default 'vepa' mode, a KVM guest using virtio with macvtap backend has the following limitations. - cannot change/add a mac address on the guest virtio-net - cannot create a vlan device on the guest virtio-net - cannot enable promiscuous mode on guest virtio-net To address these limitations, this patch introduces a new mode called 'passthru' when creating a macvlan device which allows takeover of the underlying device and passing it to a guest using virtio with macvtap backend. Only one macvlan device is allowed in passthru mode and it inherits the mac address from the underlying device and sets it in promiscuous mode to receive and forward all the packets. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Also, use the ccflags-$ flag instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS because EXTRA_CFLAGS is deprecated and should now be switched. Last but not least, took out if-conditionals. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tracey Dent authored
Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because -objs is deprecated and not mentioned in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Also, use the ccflags-$ flag instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS because EXTRA_CFLAGS is deprecated and should now be switched. Last but not least, took out if-conditionals. Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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