1. 13 Nov, 2011 9 commits
  2. 12 Nov, 2011 4 commits
  3. 09 Nov, 2011 2 commits
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      ipv4: PKTINFO doesnt need dst reference · d826eb14
      Eric Dumazet authored
      Le lundi 07 novembre 2011 à 15:33 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
      
      > At least, in recent kernels we dont change dst->refcnt in forwarding
      > patch (usinf NOREF skb->dst)
      >
      > One particular point is the atomic_inc(dst->refcnt) we have to perform
      > when queuing an UDP packet if socket asked PKTINFO stuff (for example a
      > typical DNS server has to setup this option)
      >
      > I have one patch somewhere that stores the information in skb->cb[] and
      > avoid the atomic_{inc|dec}(dst->refcnt).
      >
      
      OK I found it, I did some extra tests and believe its ready.
      
      [PATCH net-next] ipv4: IP_PKTINFO doesnt need dst reference
      
      When a socket uses IP_PKTINFO notifications, we currently force a dst
      reference for each received skb. Reader has to access dst to get needed
      information (rt_iif & rt_spec_dst) and must release dst reference.
      
      We also forced a dst reference if skb was put in socket backlog, even
      without IP_PKTINFO handling. This happens under stress/load.
      
      We can instead store the needed information in skb->cb[], so that only
      softirq handler really access dst, improving cache hit ratios.
      
      This removes two atomic operations per packet, and false sharing as
      well.
      
      On a benchmark using a mono threaded receiver (doing only recvmsg()
      calls), I can reach 720.000 pps instead of 570.000 pps.
      
      IP_PKTINFO is typically used by DNS servers, and any multihomed aware
      UDP application.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      d826eb14
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      ipv4: reduce percpu needs for icmpmsg mibs · acb32ba3
      Eric Dumazet authored
      Reading /proc/net/snmp on a machine with a lot of cpus is very expensive
      (can be ~88000 us).
      
      This is because ICMPMSG MIB uses 4096 bytes per cpu, and folding values
      for all possible cpus can read 16 Mbytes of memory.
      
      ICMP messages are not considered as fast path on a typical server, and
      eventually few cpus handle them anyway. We can afford an atomic
      operation instead of using percpu data.
      
      This saves 4096 bytes per cpu and per network namespace.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      acb32ba3
  4. 08 Nov, 2011 19 commits
  5. 07 Nov, 2011 6 commits
    • Al Viro's avatar
      VFS: we need to set LOOKUP_JUMPED on mountpoint crossing · a3fbbde7
      Al Viro authored
      Mountpoint crossing is similar to following procfs symlinks - we do
      not get ->d_revalidate() called for dentry we have arrived at, with
      unpleasant consequences for NFS4.
      
      Simple way to reproduce the problem in mainline:
      
          cat >/tmp/a.c <<'EOF'
          #include <unistd.h>
          #include <fcntl.h>
          #include <stdio.h>
          main()
          {
                  struct flock fl = {.l_type = F_RDLCK, .l_whence = SEEK_SET, .l_len = 1};
                  if (fcntl(0, F_SETLK, &fl))
                          perror("setlk");
          }
          EOF
          cc /tmp/a.c -o /tmp/test
      
      then on nfs4:
      
          mount --bind file1 file2
          /tmp/test < file1		# ok
          /tmp/test < file2		# spews "setlk: No locks available"...
      
      What happens is the missing call of ->d_revalidate() after mountpoint
      crossing and that's where NFS4 would issue OPEN request to server.
      
      The fix is simple - treat mountpoint crossing the same way we deal with
      following procfs-style symlinks.  I.e.  set LOOKUP_JUMPED...
      
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a3fbbde7
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 54a0f913
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
        perf top: Fix live annotation in the --stdio interface
        perf top tui: Don't recalc column widths considering just the first page
        perf report: Add progress bar when processing time ordered events
        perf hists browser: Warn about lost events
        perf tools: Fix a typo of command name as trace-cmd
        perf hists: Fix recalculation of total_period when sorting entries
        perf header: Fix build on old systems
        perf ui browser: Handle K_RESIZE in dialog windows
        perf ui browser: No need to switch char sets that often
        perf hists browser: Use K_TIMER
        perf ui: Rename ui__warning_paranoid to ui__error_paranoid
        perf ui: Reimplement the popup windows using libslang
        perf ui: Reimplement ui__popup_menu using ui__browser
        perf ui: Reimplement ui_helpline using libslang
        perf ui: Improve handling sigwinch a bit
        perf ui progress: Reimplement using slang
        perf evlist: Fix grouping of multiple events
      54a0f913
    • Tony Lindgren's avatar
      d30cc16c
    • Tony Lindgren's avatar
      ARM: OMAP: Fix export.h or module.h includes · a1bcc1dc
      Tony Lindgren authored
      Commit 32aaeffb (Merge branch
      'modsplit-Oct31_2011'...) caused some build errors. Fix these
      and make sure we always have export.h or module.h included
      for MODULE_ and EXPORT_SYMBOL users:
      
      $ grep -rl ^MODULE_ arch/arm/*omap*/*.c | xargs \
        grep -L linux/module.h
        arch/arm/mach-omap2/dsp.c
        arch/arm/mach-omap2/mailbox.c
        arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-iommu.c
        arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c
      
      Also check we either have export.h or module.h included
      for the files exporting symbols:
      
      $ grep -rl EXPORT_SYMBOL arch/arm/*omap*/*.c | xargs \
        grep -L linux/export.h | xargs grep -L linux/module.h
      
      Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
      a1bcc1dc
    • Axel Lin's avatar
      ARM: OMAP: omap_device: Include linux/export.h · 55581415
      Axel Lin authored
      Include linux/export.h to fix below build warning:
      
        CC      arch/arm/plat-omap/omap_device.o
      arch/arm/plat-omap/omap_device.c:1055: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
      arch/arm/plat-omap/omap_device.c:1055: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL'
      arch/arm/plat-omap/omap_device.c:1055: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAxel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
      55581415
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net · 94956eed
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (47 commits)
        forcedeth: fix a few sparse warnings (variable shadowing)
        forcedeth: Improve stats counters
        forcedeth: remove unneeded stats updates
        forcedeth: Acknowledge only interrupts that are being processed
        forcedeth: fix race when unloading module
        MAINTAINERS/rds: update maintainer
        wanrouter: Remove kernel_lock annotations
        usbnet: fix oops in usbnet_start_xmit
        ixgbe: Fix compile for kernel without CONFIG_PCI_IOV defined
        etherh: Add MAINTAINERS entry for etherh
        bonding: comparing a u8 with -1 is always false
        sky2: fix regression on Yukon Optima
        netlink: clarify attribute length check documentation
        netlink: validate NLA_MSECS length
        i825xx:xscale:8390:freescale: Fix Kconfig dependancies
        macvlan: receive multicast with local address
        tg3: Update version to 3.121
        tg3: Eliminate timer race with reset_task
        tg3: Schedule at most one tg3_reset_task run
        tg3: Obtain PCI function number from device
        ...
      94956eed