- 09 Jan, 2014 12 commits
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Mitch Williams authored
Fix some badly formatted lines, long lines and a mis-formatted else. Change-ID: Iac2eef064ae27c55a0c3d9c15c525bf8fed8ab6f Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Mitch Williams authored
The alloc_rx_buff_failed and alloc_rx_page_failed variables are both part of an rx specific structure so just remove the _rx part of the name. No functional changes. Change-ID: Icffa2f5d13c6f2b1e09cf45b9472b83c9dae8fc6 Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Shannon Nelson authored
The admin queue can be used to send messages among the physical function interfaces. This adds the code to handle that case. Change-ID: I0700fcc47e41433131a381f0eb72fc7b01b6bd87 Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Shannon Nelson authored
Since nearly everything we do is synchronous, using the interrupt-on-error bit is unnecessary and causing unneeded interrupts. If anyone wants to use the bit they can turn it on in individual AQ requests using the cmd_details parameter. Change-ID: I4690a9c561d3e0836aeadb4f88f8a8702b1d1366 Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Shannon Nelson authored
Call AQ to release any reservation held by this PF on the NVM resource lock on startup, in order to clear anything that might have been left over from a previous run. The lock is only cleared by the requestor calling for it to be cleared, on power-on, or firmware reset. This should help limit the need for rebooting a customer machine if something goes wrong on a firmware update or some other action. Change-ID: I8c8473e601d4ef512dda7baa77a6e75f2e5fea49 Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Anjali Singhai Jain authored
RSS initialization was doing some extra work, remove the extra work and any bugs it created when managing number of queues. Change-ID: Iea75b04a70d73ce76947b6a177ce89ab4899d4c6 Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Jesse Brandeburg authored
The driver and hardware support splitting packets on headers but with the use of GRO we don't need the extra bus overhead, so make this driver more like igb and ixgbe and disable packet split. Change-ID: Id42f2c3736baa9d5bdfe1f72d64226e7d8ebd737 Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Greg Rose authored
The memory barrier used in maybe_stop_tx can use a comment. Also add checks to VSI->rx_rings to ensure a kernel panic is not induced. Change-ID: I48cc1bf1d6cf301818155b737edeef77c0d790c7 Change-ID: I1363a8445fbf521a26267849966296ed55f43ad8 Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Kamil Krawczyk authored
The MAC address format expected by the hardware is in a very specific format, and the driver was filling in the data incorrectly. Change-ID: I7bc66505ef459ee347dd3bda68051004c141c689 Signed-off-by: Kamil Krawczyk <kamil.krawczyk@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Greg Rose authored
The GPL header included in each file in the i40e driver doesn't need to include the "this program" text since this driver is already part of the larger kernel. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Jesse Brandeburg authored
Replace uses of I40E_LENGTH_OF_ADDRESS with ETH_ALEN. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Anjali Singhai Jain authored
The hardware can occasionally give an interrupt on the misc queue for which there is no driver work to do. In that case the driver was not re-enabling interrupts even though they were auto masked by hardware. This left interrupts disabled on this queue. Re-enable the interrupt whenever leaving this function. Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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- 08 Jan, 2014 18 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-nextDavid S. Miller authored
Pablo Neira Ayuso says: ==================== Netfilter updates for net-next The following patchset contains three Netfilter updates, they are: * Fix wrong usage of skb_header_pointer in the DCCP protocol helper that has been there for quite some time. It was resulting in copying the dccp header to a pointer allocated in the stack. Fortunately, this pointer provides room for the dccp header is 4 bytes long, so no crashes have been reported so far. From Daniel Borkmann. * Use format string to print in the invocation of nf_log_packet(), again in the DCCP helper. Also from Daniel Borkmann. * Revert "netfilter: avoid get_random_bytes call" as prandom32 does not guarantee enough entropy when being calling this at boot time, that may happen when reloading the rule. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-nextDavid S. Miller authored
Jeff Kirsher says: ==================== Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates This series contains updates to i40e only. Anjali adds more functionality to debugfs to assist development and testing of admin queue commands. Greg makes sure broadcast promiscuous is disabled by default, otherwise VLAN tagged packets out of the assigned VLAN domain are received. Also provides a fix when the 8021q driver is loaded, so that VLAN 0 tagged packets are accepted so that upper layers can interpret the priority bits. Then provides a fix to let the VF to request the PF to set its already assigned MAC address without generating an error. Greg also adds helper functions to enable or disable internal switch loopback when VFs are created or destroyed via the sysfs interface. Shannon provides most of the changes, where he adds code to ensure that the hardware waits to make sure that the firmware is ready as well after reset. Also updates the code to use the new features in the firmware. Provides a fix while in MFP mode where resources are reduced, so use a smaller range of test registers than when in SFP mode. Moves the PF ID initialization code to earlier in the driver initialization function since a few operations need the information before the first PF reset is called. Shannon adds a check for MAC type before reading anything from the registers to ensure we dealing with the correct MAC type. Then reworks Shadow RAM read word/buffer functions as to not block whole NVM resources for SR read operations. Mitch lastly provides a fix to correctly setup ARQ descriptors in the cleanup code. Catherine bumps the driver version due to all the recent changes. v2: - Added blank lines after local variable declarations to patch 01 as suggested by David Miller - Used the suggested memset() line in patch 15 as suggested by David Miller ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Mitch Williams authored
When cleaning descriptors, we must set up ALL fields, not just the DMA address. The initial setup does this correctly, but not the cleanup code, so the firmware would process the ring exactly once and then fail. Change-ID: I2930b83c76194b3016a8ac0fa693f9a573995640 Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Kamil Krawczyk authored
The admin queue length register is updated in config_a<sq|rq>_regs functions. We should not update it again, as we will trigger firmware to init the AQ again. In this case firmware will lose the information about the AQ Rx tail position and will see Rx queue as full (no free desc for FW to use). Signed-off-by: Kamil Krawczyk <kamil.krawczyk@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Greg Rose authored
The PF VSI was never updated to enable or disable internal switch loopback when VFs were created or destroyed via the sysfs interface. Add some helper functions to take care of that. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Shannon Nelson authored
Addresses a few code format issues that have crept in over time. Change-Id: I1a62cbd16b29a218a933b0f7176abe748f9615e8 Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Shannon Nelson authored
Rework Shadow RAM read word/buffer functions to not use AQ Request Resource commands. Requesting resource is not needed for SR read operations which are done through SRCTL register. Access to SR through register is controlled through DONE bit within SRCTL. With this change we do not block whole NVM resource for SR read operations. Change-Id: I73e96cdea39a45ee7b5bdf038e527308de2d9efe Signed-off-by: Kamil Krawczyk <kamil.krawczyk@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Shannon Nelson authored
We need to check if we are dealing with the correct MAC type before we try to read anything from the registers. Change-Id: I3989516999d06c3009e87d6a2eafc20af305c5c2 Signed-off-by: Kamil Krawczyk <kamil.krawczyk@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Shannon Nelson authored
Move PF ID initialization code from PF reset routine to earlier driver initialization function. There are a few operations which need the PF ID before the first PF reset is called. Change-Id: I7e971f7556b46a837149850ec05ce115c35db575 Signed-off-by: Kamil Krawczyk <kamil.krawczyk@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Shannon Nelson authored
Use a smaller range of test registers in MFP mode as there are fewer resources than when in SFP mode. Change-Id: I08424890c3f57b5dde5ee99e99724ce252e0875a Signed-off-by: Kamil Krawczyk <kamil.krawczyk@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Shannon Nelson authored
The firmware's AdminQ interface has matured a little, so update the code to use the new fields and values. Change-Id: I8fcd7b443f268dcf9346bd6a9e940fe9c2958891 Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Shannon Nelson authored
The RSTAT comes back with DEVICE READY to indicate that the HW is ready, but we still have to wait for the FW to indicate that the Core and Global modules are back up again. This needs a read of the NVM_ULD register. Change-Id: I88276165f9cd446d2f166fb4b8cff00521af4bec Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Catherine Sullivan authored
Version update to 0.3.25-k Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Greg Rose authored
The VF is allowed to request the PF to set its already assigned MAC address without generating an error. Change-Id: I8dfdf353396995dbbb26cafab4e42b451911da3d Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Greg Rose authored
When the 8021q driver is loaded it sets VLAN 0 filters on all devices. This does not mean that any VLAN tagged packet should be accepted. Instead accept only VLAN 0 tagged packets so that upper layers can interpret the priority bits. Change-Id: I17274a540b613749612ffe23a3aef2b8ee6ff6a4 Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Greg Rose authored
Broadcast promiscuous should only be turned on when general promiscuous mode is turned on, otherwise VLAN tagged packets out of the assigned VLAN domain are received. Add a broadcast MAC filter in order to continue to receive broadcast traffic on VLANs, MAIN or VMDQ VSI. Change-Id: I99d8e382a082ee51201228f1226af3b46452ac55 Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Anjali Singhai Jain authored
Add more functionality to debugfs to assist development and testing of AQ commands. adds: send aq_cmd send indirect aq_cmd Change-Id: I01710cddd33110a6c1e1aabf84cb6e93cda4c42a Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Ying Xue authored
Fix below compiler warning: net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:1644:12: warning: ‘xfrm_dst_alloc_copy’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function] Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 07 Jan, 2014 10 commits
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David S. Miller authored
Jon Maloy says: ==================== tipc: link setup and failover improvements This series consists of four unrelated commits with different purposes. - Commit #1 is purely cosmetic and pedagogic, hopefully making the failover/tunneling logics slightly easier to understand. - Commit #2 fixes a bug that has always been in the code, but was not discovered until very recently. - Commit #3 fixes a non-fatal race issue in the neighbour discovery code. - Commit #4 removes an unnecessary indirection step during link startup. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jon Paul Maloy authored
When a link is created we delay the start event by launching it to be executed later in a tasklet. As we hold all the necessary locks at the moment of creation, and there is no risk of deadlock or contention, this delay serves no purpose in the current code. We remove this obsolete indirection step, and the associated function link_start(). At the same time, we rename the function tipc_link_stop() to the more appropriate tipc_link_purge_queues(). Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ying Xue authored
Currently, only 'bearer_lock' is used to protect struct link_req in the function disc_timeout(). This is unsafe, since the member fields 'num_nodes' and 'timer_intv' might be accessed by below three different threads simultaneously, none of them grabbing bearer_lock in the critical region: link_activate() tipc_bearer_add_dest() tipc_disc_add_dest() req->num_nodes++; tipc_link_reset() tipc_bearer_remove_dest() tipc_disc_remove_dest() req->num_nodes-- disc_update() read req->num_nodes write req->timer_intv disc_timeout() read req->num_nodes read/write req->timer_intv Without lock protection, the only symptom of a race is that discovery messages occasionally may not be sent out. This is not fatal, since such messages are best-effort anyway. On the other hand, since discovery messages are not time critical, adding a protecting lock brings no serious overhead either. So we add a new, dedicated spinlock in order to guarantee absolute data consistency in link_req objects. This also helps reduce the overall role of the bearer_lock, which we want to remove completely in a later commit series. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jon Paul Maloy authored
The flag 'has_redundant_link' is defined only in RESET and ACTIVATE protocol messages. Due to an ambiguity in the protocol specification it is currently also transferred in STATE messages. Its value is used to initialize a link state variable, 'permit_changeover', which is used to inhibit futile link failover attempts when it is known that the peer node has no working links at the moment, although the local node may still think it has one. The fact that 'has_redundant_link' incorrectly is read from STATE messages has the effect that 'permit_changeover' sometimes gets a wrong value, and permanently blocks any links from being re-established. Such failures can only occur in in dual-link systems, and are extremely rare. This bug seems to have always been present in the code. Furthermore, since commit b4b56102 ("tipc: Ensure both nodes recognize loss of contact between them"), the 'permit_changeover' field serves no purpose any more. The task of enforcing 'lost contact' cycles at both peer endpoints is now taken by a new mechanism, using the flags WAIT_NODE_DOWN and WAIT_PEER_DOWN in struct tipc_node to abort unnecessary failover attempts. We therefore remove the 'has_redundant_link' flag from STATE messages, as well as the now redundant 'permit_changeover' variable. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jon Paul Maloy authored
The functionality related to link addition and failover is unnecessarily hard to understand and maintain. We try to improve this by renaming some of the functions, at the same time adding or improving the explanatory comments around them. Names such as "tipc_rcv()" etc. also align better with what is used in other networking components. The changes in this commit are purely cosmetic, no functional changes are made. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Daniel Borkmann authored
We should const-ify comparisons on skb_queue_* inline helper functions as their parameters are const as well, so lets not drop that. Suggested-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Daniel Borkmann authored
Fix three warnings related to: net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:1644:1: warning: 'inline' is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration] net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:1656:1: warning: 'inline' is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration] net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:1668:1: warning: 'inline' is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration] Just removing the inline keyword is sufficient as the compiler will decide on its own about inlining or not. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Shawn Bohrer authored
Now that mlx4_en includes a PHC driver it must select PTP_1588_CLOCK. drivers/built-in.o: In function `mlx4_en_get_ts_info': >> en_ethtool.c:(.text+0x391a11): undefined reference to `ptp_clock_index' drivers/built-in.o: In function `mlx4_en_remove_timestamp': >> (.text+0x397913): undefined reference to `ptp_clock_unregister' drivers/built-in.o: In function `mlx4_en_init_timestamp': >> (.text+0x397b20): undefined reference to `ptp_clock_register' Fixes: ad7d4eae ("mlx4_en: Add PTP hardware clock") Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jerry Chu authored
This patch built on top of Commit 299603e8 ("net-gro: Prepare GRO stack for the upcoming tunneling support") to add the support of the standard GRE (RFC1701/RFC2784/RFC2890) to the GRO stack. It also serves as an example for supporting other encapsulation protocols in the GRO stack in the future. The patch supports version 0 and all the flags (key, csum, seq#) but will flush any pkt with the S (seq#) flag. This is because the S flag is not support by GSO, and a GRO pkt may end up in the forwarding path, thus requiring GSO support to break it up correctly. Currently the "packet_offload" structure only contains L3 (ETH_P_IP/ ETH_P_IPV6) GRO offload support so the encapped pkts are limited to IP pkts (i.e., w/o L2 hdr). But support for other protocol type can be easily added, so is the support for GRE variations like NVGRE. The patch also support csum offload. Specifically if the csum flag is on and the h/w is capable of checksumming the payload (CHECKSUM_COMPLETE), the code will take advantage of the csum computed by the h/w when validating the GRE csum. Note that commit 60769a5d "ipv4: gre: add GRO capability" already introduces GRO capability to IPv4 GRE tunnels, using the gro_cells infrastructure. But GRO is done after GRE hdr has been removed (i.e., decapped). The following patch applies GRO when pkts first come in (before hitting the GRE tunnel code). There is some performance advantage for applying GRO as early as possible. Also this approach is transparent to other subsystem like Open vSwitch where GRE decap is handled outside of the IP stack hence making it harder for the gro_cells stuff to apply. On the other hand, some NICs are still not capable of hashing on the inner hdr of a GRE pkt (RSS). In that case the GRO processing of pkts from the same remote host will all happen on the same CPU and the performance may be suboptimal. I'm including some rough preliminary performance numbers below. Note that the performance will be highly dependent on traffic load, mix as usual. Moreover it also depends on NIC offload features hence the following is by no means a comprehesive study. Local testing and tuning will be needed to decide the best setting. All tests spawned 50 copies of netperf TCP_STREAM and ran for 30 secs. (super_netperf 50 -H 192.168.1.18 -l 30) An IP GRE tunnel with only the key flag on (e.g., ip tunnel add gre1 mode gre local 10.246.17.18 remote 10.246.17.17 ttl 255 key 123) is configured. The GRO support for pkts AFTER decap are controlled through the device feature of the GRE device (e.g., ethtool -K gre1 gro on/off). 1.1 ethtool -K gre1 gro off; ethtool -K eth0 gro off thruput: 9.16Gbps CPU utilization: 19% 1.2 ethtool -K gre1 gro on; ethtool -K eth0 gro off thruput: 5.9Gbps CPU utilization: 15% 1.3 ethtool -K gre1 gro off; ethtool -K eth0 gro on thruput: 9.26Gbps CPU utilization: 12-13% 1.4 ethtool -K gre1 gro on; ethtool -K eth0 gro on thruput: 9.26Gbps CPU utilization: 10% The following tests were performed on a different NIC that is capable of csum offload. I.e., the h/w is capable of computing IP payload csum (CHECKSUM_COMPLETE). 2.1 ethtool -K gre1 gro on (hence will use gro_cells) 2.1.1 ethtool -K eth0 gro off; csum offload disabled thruput: 8.53Gbps CPU utilization: 9% 2.1.2 ethtool -K eth0 gro off; csum offload enabled thruput: 8.97Gbps CPU utilization: 7-8% 2.1.3 ethtool -K eth0 gro on; csum offload disabled thruput: 8.83Gbps CPU utilization: 5-6% 2.1.4 ethtool -K eth0 gro on; csum offload enabled thruput: 8.98Gbps CPU utilization: 5% 2.2 ethtool -K gre1 gro off 2.2.1 ethtool -K eth0 gro off; csum offload disabled thruput: 5.93Gbps CPU utilization: 9% 2.2.2 ethtool -K eth0 gro off; csum offload enabled thruput: 5.62Gbps CPU utilization: 8% 2.2.3 ethtool -K eth0 gro on; csum offload disabled thruput: 7.69Gbps CPU utilization: 8% 2.2.4 ethtool -K eth0 gro on; csum offload enabled thruput: 8.96Gbps CPU utilization: 5-6% Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Benjamin Poirier authored
There are many cases where this feature does not improve performance or even reduces it. For example, here are the results from tests that I've run using 3.12.6 on one Intel Xeon W3565 and one i7 920 connected by ixgbe adapters. The results are from the Xeon, but they're similar on the i7. All numbers report the mean±stddev over 10 runs of 10s. 1) latency tests similar to what is described in "c6e1a0d1 net: Allow no-cache copy from user on transmit" There is no statistically significant difference between tx-nocache-copy on/off. nic irqs spread out (one queue per cpu) 200x netperf -r 1400,1 tx-nocache-copy off 692000±1000 tps 50/90/95/99% latency (us): 275±2/643.8±0.4/799±1/2474.4±0.3 tx-nocache-copy on 693000±1000 tps 50/90/95/99% latency (us): 274±1/644.1±0.7/800±2/2474.5±0.7 200x netperf -r 14000,14000 tx-nocache-copy off 86450±80 tps 50/90/95/99% latency (us): 334.37±0.02/838±1/2100±20/3990±40 tx-nocache-copy on 86110±60 tps 50/90/95/99% latency (us): 334.28±0.01/837±2/2110±20/3990±20 2) single stream throughput tests tx-nocache-copy leads to higher service demand throughput cpu0 cpu1 demand (Gb/s) (Gcycle) (Gcycle) (cycle/B) nic irqs and netperf on cpu0 (1x netperf -T0,0 -t omni -- -d send) tx-nocache-copy off 9402±5 9.4±0.2 0.80±0.01 tx-nocache-copy on 9403±3 9.85±0.04 0.838±0.004 nic irqs on cpu0, netperf on cpu1 (1x netperf -T1,1 -t omni -- -d send) tx-nocache-copy off 9401±5 5.83±0.03 5.0±0.1 0.923±0.007 tx-nocache-copy on 9404±2 5.74±0.03 5.523±0.009 0.958±0.002 As a second example, here are some results from Eric Dumazet with latest net-next. tx-nocache-copy also leads to higher service demand (cpu is Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz) lpq83:~# ./ethtool -K eth0 tx-nocache-copy on lpq83:~# perf stat ./netperf -H lpq84 -c MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to lpq84.prod.google.com () port 0 AF_INET Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % U us/KB us/KB 87380 16384 16384 10.00 9407.44 2.50 -1.00 0.522 -1.000 Performance counter stats for './netperf -H lpq84 -c': 4282.648396 task-clock # 0.423 CPUs utilized 9,348 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec 88 CPU-migrations # 0.021 K/sec 355 page-faults # 0.083 K/sec 11,812,797,651 cycles # 2.758 GHz [82.79%] 9,020,522,817 stalled-cycles-frontend # 76.36% frontend cycles idle [82.54%] 4,579,889,681 stalled-cycles-backend # 38.77% backend cycles idle [67.33%] 6,053,172,792 instructions # 0.51 insns per cycle # 1.49 stalled cycles per insn [83.64%] 597,275,583 branches # 139.464 M/sec [83.70%] 8,960,541 branch-misses # 1.50% of all branches [83.65%] 10.128990264 seconds time elapsed lpq83:~# ./ethtool -K eth0 tx-nocache-copy off lpq83:~# perf stat ./netperf -H lpq84 -c MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to lpq84.prod.google.com () port 0 AF_INET Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % U us/KB us/KB 87380 16384 16384 10.00 9412.45 2.15 -1.00 0.449 -1.000 Performance counter stats for './netperf -H lpq84 -c': 2847.375441 task-clock # 0.281 CPUs utilized 11,632 context-switches # 0.004 M/sec 49 CPU-migrations # 0.017 K/sec 354 page-faults # 0.124 K/sec 7,646,889,749 cycles # 2.686 GHz [83.34%] 6,115,050,032 stalled-cycles-frontend # 79.97% frontend cycles idle [83.31%] 1,726,460,071 stalled-cycles-backend # 22.58% backend cycles idle [66.55%] 2,079,702,453 instructions # 0.27 insns per cycle # 2.94 stalled cycles per insn [83.22%] 363,773,213 branches # 127.757 M/sec [83.29%] 4,242,732 branch-misses # 1.17% of all branches [83.51%] 10.128449949 seconds time elapsed CC: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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