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Oliver Hartkopp
1e55659ce6 can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local traffic
CAN has no addressing scheme. It is currently impossible for userspace
to tell is a received CAN frame comes from another process on the local
host, or from a remote CAN device.

This patch add support for userspace applications to distinguish between
'own', 'local' and 'remote' CAN traffic. The distinction is made by returning
flags in msg->msg_flags in the call to recvmsg().

The added documentation explains the introduced flags.

Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 04:27:03 -07:00
stephen hemminger
32a875adcd 9p: client code cleanup
Make p9_client_version static since only used in one file.
Remove p9_client_auth because it is defined but never used.
Compile tested only.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 04:26:39 -07:00
stephen hemminger
ff51bf8415 rds: make local functions/variables static
The RDS protocol has lots of functions that should be
declared static. rds_message_get/add_version_extension is
removed since it defined but never used.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 04:26:39 -07:00
stephen hemminger
d0c2b0d265 napi: unexport napi_reuse_skb
The function napi_reuse_skb is only used inside core.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 04:26:38 -07:00
Allan Stephens
a0e00369f1 tipc: delete needless memset from bearer enabling.
Eliminates zeroing out of the new bearer structure at the start of
activation, since it is already in that state.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 04:25:51 -07:00
Benjamin Poirier
1e253c3b8a bridge: Forward reserved group addresses if !STP
Make all frames sent to reserved group MAC addresses (01:80:c2:00:00:00 to
01:80:c2:00:00:0f) be forwarded if STP is disabled. This enables
forwarding EAPOL frames, among other things.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 04:25:48 -07:00
Tejun Heo
a5c30b349b net/neighbour: cancel_delayed_work() + flush_scheduled_work() -> cancel_delayed_work_sync()
flush_scheduled_work() is going away.  Prepare for it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 04:25:48 -07:00
Changli Gao
3511c9132f net_sched: remove the unused parameter of qdisc_create_dflt()
The first parameter dev isn't in use in qdisc_create_dflt().

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 03:09:47 -07:00
stephen hemminger
1c4c40c42d xfrm: make xfrm_bundle_ok local
Only used in one place.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 03:09:46 -07:00
stephen hemminger
8d8a0b1cc2 rtnetlink: remove rtnl_kill_links
The function rtnl_kill_links is defined but never used.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 03:09:45 -07:00
stephen hemminger
6f747aca5e xfrm6: make xfrm6_tunnel_free_spi local
Function only defined and used in one file.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 03:09:45 -07:00
stephen hemminger
d028023281 bridge: make br_parse_ip_options static
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 03:09:42 -07:00
stephen hemminger
11165f1457 socket: localize functions
A couple of functions in socket.c are only used there and
should be localized.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 03:09:42 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
9b0c290e78 fib: introduce fib_alias_accessed() helper
Perf tools session at NFWS 2010 pointed out a false sharing on struct
fib_alias that can be avoided pretty easily, if we set FA_S_ACCESSED bit
only if needed (ie : not already set)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 03:09:41 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
7b5edbc4cf net/sched: fix missing spinlock init
Under network load, doing :

tc qdisc del dev eth0 root

triggers :

[  167.193087] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#3, udpflood/4928
[  167.193139]  lock: c15bc324, .magic: 00000000, .owner:
<none>/-1, .owner_cpu: -1
[  167.193193] Pid: 4928, comm: udpflood Not tainted
2.6.36-rc7-11417-g215340c-dirty #323
[  167.193245] Call Trace:
[  167.193292]  [<c13abaa0>] ? printk+0x18/0x20
[  167.193342]  [<c11afb53>] spin_bug+0xa3/0xf0
[  167.193389]  [<c11afcdd>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x7d/0x160
[  167.193440]  [<c1313d4e>] ? __dev_xmit_skb+0x27e/0x2b0
[  167.193496]  [<c107382b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
[  167.193545]  [<c13ae99a>] _raw_spin_lock+0x3a/0x40
[  167.193593]  [<c1313d4e>] ? __dev_xmit_skb+0x27e/0x2b0
[  167.193641]  [<c1313d4e>] __dev_xmit_skb+0x27e/0x2b0

commit 79640a4ca6 (add additional lock to qdisc to increase
throughput) forgot to initialize  noop_qdisc and noqueue_qdisc busylock

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 03:09:40 -07:00
Jesse Gross
361ff8a6cf bridge: Add support for TX vlan offload.
If some of the underlying devices support it, enable vlan offload on
transmit for bridge devices.  This allows senders to take advantage of the
hardware support, similar to other forms of acceleration.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 01:26:54 -07:00
Jesse Gross
d5dbda2380 ethtool: Add support for vlan accleration.
Now that vlan acceleration is handled consistently regardless of usage,
it is possible to enable and disable it at will.  This adds support for
Ethtool operations that change the offloading status for debugging
purposes, similar to other forms of hardware acceleration.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 01:26:54 -07:00
Jesse Gross
3701e51382 vlan: Centralize handling of hardware acceleration.
Currently each driver that is capable of vlan hardware acceleration
must be aware of the vlan groups that are configured and then pass
the stripped tag to a specialized receive function.  This is

different from other types of hardware offload in that it places a
significant amount of knowledge in the driver itself rather keeping
it in the networking core.

This makes vlan offloading function more similarly to other forms
of offloading (such as checksum offloading or TSO) by doing the
following:
* On receive, stripped vlans are passed directly to the network
core, without attempting to check for vlan groups or reconstructing
the header if no group
* vlans are made less special by folding the logic into the main
receive routines
* On transmit, the device layer will add the vlan header in software
if the hardware doesn't support it, instead of spreading that logic
out in upper layers, such as bonding.

There are a number of advantages to this:
* Fixes all bugs with drivers incorrectly dropping vlan headers at once.
* Avoids having to disable VLAN acceleration when in promiscuous mode
(good for bridging since it always puts devices in promiscuous mode).
* Keeps VLAN tag separate until given to ultimate consumer, which
avoids needing to do header reconstruction as in tg3 unless absolutely
necessary.
* Consolidates common code in core networking.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 01:26:53 -07:00
Jesse Gross
65ac6a5fa6 vlan: Avoid hash table lookup to find group.
A struct net_device always maps to zero or one vlan groups and we
always know the device when we are looking up a group.  We currently
do a hash table lookup on the device to find the group but it is
much simpler to just store a pointer.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 01:26:53 -07:00
Jesse Gross
7b9c609037 vlan: Enable software emulation for vlan accleration.
Currently users of hardware vlan accleration need to know whether
the device supports it before generating packets.  However, vlan
acceleration will soon be available in a more flexible manner so
knowing ahead of time becomes much more difficult.  This adds
a software fallback path for vlan packets on devices without the
necessary offloading support, similar to other types of hardware
accleration.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 01:26:52 -07:00
Jesse Gross
b738127dfb vlan: Rename VLAN_GROUP_ARRAY_LEN to VLAN_N_VID.
VLAN_GROUP_ARRAY_LEN is simply the number of possible vlan VIDs.
Since vlan groups will soon be more of an implementation detail
for vlan devices, rename the constant to be descriptive of its
actual purpose.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 01:26:50 -07:00
Jesse Gross
13937911f9 ebtables: Allow filtering of hardware accelerated vlan frames.
An upcoming commit will allow packets with hardware vlan acceleration
information to be passed though more parts of the network stack, including
packets trunked through the bridge.  This adds support for matching and
filtering those packets through ebtables.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 01:26:49 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
27b75c95f1 net: avoid RCU for NOCACHE dst
There is no point using RCU for dst we allocate for a very short time
(used once).

Change dst_release() to take DST_NOCACHE into account, but also change
skb_dst_set_noref() to force a refcount increment for such dst.

This is a _huge_ gain, because we dont waste memory to store xx thousand
of dsts. Instead of queueing them to RCU, we can free them instantly.

CPU caches can stay hot, re-using same memory blocks to hold temporary
dsts.

Note : remove unneeded smp_mb__before_atomic_dec(); in dst_release(),
since atomic_dec_return() implies a full memory barrier.

Stress test, 160.000.000 udp frames sent, IP route cache disabled
(DDOS).

Before:

real    0m38.091s
user    0m13.189s
sys     7m53.018s

After:

real	0m29.946s
user	0m12.157s
sys	7m40.605s

For reference, if IP route cache was enabled :

real	0m32.030s
user	0m10.521s
sys	8m15.243s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-20 03:02:23 -07:00
Tom Herbert
e6484930d7 net: allocate tx queues in register_netdevice
This patch introduces netif_alloc_netdev_queues which is called from
register_device instead of alloc_netdev_mq.  This makes TX queue
allocation symmetric with RX allocation.  Also, queue locks allocation
is done in netdev_init_one_queue.  Change set_real_num_tx_queues to
fail if requested number < 1 or greater than number of allocated
queues.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-20 02:27:59 -07:00
Tom Herbert
bd25fa7ba5 net: cleanups in RX queue allocation
Clean up in RX queue allocation.  In netif_set_real_num_rx_queues
return error on attempt to set zero queues, or requested number is
greater than number of allocated queues.  In netif_alloc_rx_queues,
do BUG_ON if queue_count is zero.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-20 02:27:59 -07:00
Tom Herbert
55513fb428 net: fail alloc_netdev_mq if queue count < 1
In alloc_netdev_mq fail if requested queue_count < 1.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-20 02:27:58 -07:00
David S. Miller
5eeaa2db16 Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-10-20 01:59:48 -07:00
Changli Gao
c5e90f5620 phonet: remove the unused variable pn
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-20 01:55:54 -07:00
Neil Horman
f13d493d9c netpoll: Revert napi_poll fix for bonding driver
In an erlier patch I modified napi_poll so that devices with IFF_MASTER polled
the per_cpu list instead of the device list for napi.  I did this because the
bonding driver has no napi instances to poll, it instead expects to check the
slave devices napi instances, which napi_poll was unaware of.  Looking at this
more closely however, I now see this isn't strictly needed.  As the bond driver
poll_controller calls the slaves poll_controller via netpoll_poll_dev, which
recursively calls poll_napi on each slave, allowing those napi instances to get
serviced.  The earlier patch isn't at all harmfull, its just not needed, so lets
revert it to make the code cleaner.  Sorry for the noise,

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-20 01:44:30 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
8723e1b4ad inet: RCU changes in inetdev_by_index()
Convert inetdev_by_index() to not increment in_dev refcount.

Callers hold RCU or RTNL, and should not decrement in_dev refcount.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-19 03:50:48 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
9e917dca74 net: avoid a dev refcount in ip_mc_find_dev()
We hold RTNL in ip_mc_find_dev(), no need to touch device refcount.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-19 03:50:47 -07:00
Neil Horman
990c3d6f9c bonding: Fix napi poll for bonding driver
Usually the netpoll path, when preforming a napi poll can get away with just
polling all the napi instances of the configured device.  Thats not the case for
the bonding driver however, as the napi instances which may wind up getting
flagged as needing polling after the poll_controller call don't belong to the
bonded device, but rather to the slave devices.  Fix this by checking the device
in question for the IFF_MASTER flag, if set, we know we need to check the full
poll list for this cpu, rather than just the devices napi instance list.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-18 08:32:08 -07:00
Neil Horman
c2355e1ab9 bonding: Fix bonding drivers improper modification of netpoll structure
The bonding driver currently modifies the netpoll structure in its xmit path
while sending frames from netpoll.  This is racy, as other cpus can access the
netpoll structure in parallel. Since the bonding driver points np->dev to a
slave device, other cpus can inadvertently attempt to send data directly to
slave devices, leading to improper locking with the bonding master, lost frames,
and deadlocks.  This patch fixes that up.

This patch also removes the real_dev pointer from the netpoll structure as that
data is really only used by bonding in the poll_controller, and we can emulate
its behavior by check each slave for IS_UP.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-18 08:32:07 -07:00
Andy Walls
27a954bd56 IPv4: route.c: Change checks against 0xffffffff to ipv4_is_lbcast()
Change a few checks against the hardcoded broadcast address,
0xffffffff, to ipv4_is_lbcast().  Remove some existing checks
using ipv4_is_lbcast() that are now obviously superfluous.

Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-18 07:22:50 -07:00
Allan Stephens
ccc901ee58 tipc: Simplify bearer shutdown logic
Optimize processing in TIPC's bearer shutdown code, including:

1. Remove an unnecessary check to see if TIPC bearer's can exist.
2. Don't release spinlocks before calling a media-specific disabling
routine, since the routine can't sleep.
3. Make bearer_disable() operate directly on a struct bearer, instead
of needlessly taking a name and then mapping that to the struct.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-18 01:50:49 -07:00
David S. Miller
724829b3ad tipc: Kill tipc_get_mode() completely.
It's completely unused and exporting a static symbol
makes no sense and breaks the build.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-18 01:06:20 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
19f572565e fib_hash: RCU conversion phase 2
Get rid of fib_hash_lock rwlock.

The fn_zone hash table resize is the noticeable part of this patch.

I added a seqlock per fn_zone, so that readers can restart their lookup
in the (very rare) case a writer expanded the hash table.

Add rcu heads in fib_alias and fib_node, use call_rcu() to defer their
freeing, and use appropriate _rcu list manipulations.

Stress test (160.000.000 udp frames sent, IP route cache disabled to
mimic DDOS attack, FIB_HASH)

Before:
real	0m41.191s
user	0m13.137s
sys	8m55.241s

After:
real	0m38.091s
user	0m13.189s
sys	7m53.018s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-17 13:53:16 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
117a8cdea3 fib_hash: RCU conversion phase 1
First step for RCU conversion of fib_hash :

struct fn_zone are created and never deleted.

Very classic conversion, using rcu_assign_pointer(), rcu_dereference()
and rtnl_dereference() verbs.

__rcu markers on fz_next and fn_zone_list

They are created under RTNL, we dont need fib_hash_lock anymore in
fn_new_zone().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-17 13:53:15 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
9bef83edfb fib_hash: embed initial hash table in fn_zone
While looking for false sharing problems, I noticed
sizeof(struct fn_zone) was small (28 bytes) and possibly sharing a cache
line with an often written kernel structure.

Most of the time, fn_zone uses its initial hash table of 16 slots.

We can avoid the false sharing problem by embedding this initial hash
table in fn_zone itself, so that sizeof(fn_zone) > L1_CACHE_BYTES

We did a similar optimization in commit a6501e080c (Reduce memory needs
and speedup lookups)

Add a fz_revorder field to speedup fn_hash() a bit.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-17 13:53:15 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
c60ce4e265 tcp: use correct counters in CA_CWR state too
As CWR is stronger than CA_Disorder state, we can miscount
SACK/Reno failure into other timeouts. Not a bad problem as
it can happen only due to ECN, FRTO detecting spurious RTO
or xmit error which are the only callers of tcp_enter_cwr.
And even then losses and RTO must still follow thereafter
to actually end up into the relevant code paths.

Compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-17 13:46:33 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
1fdb936101 tcp: sack lost marking fixes
When only fast rexmit should be done, tcp_mark_head_lost marks
L too far. Also, sacked_upto below 1 is perfectly valid number,
the packets == 0 then needs to be trapped elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-17 13:46:33 -07:00
stephen hemminger
31e3c3f6f1 tipc: cleanup function namespace
Do some cleanups of TIPC based on make namespacecheck
  1. Don't export unused symbols
  2. Eliminate dead code
  3. Make functions and variables local
  4. Rename buf_acquire to tipc_buf_acquire since it is used in several files

Compile tested only.
This make break out of tree kernel modules that depend on TIPC routines.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-16 11:13:24 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
10da66f755 fib: avoid false sharing on fib_table_hash
While doing profile analysis, I found fib_hash_table was sometime in a
cache line shared by a possibly often written kernel structure.

(CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH || !CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES)

It's hard to detect because not easily reproductible.

Make sure we allocate a full cache line to keep this shared in all cpus
caches.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-16 11:13:23 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
874ffa8f72 fib_trie: use fls() instead of open coded loop
fib_table_lookup() might use fls() to speedup an open coded loop.

Noticed while doing a profile analysis.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-16 11:13:22 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
a0a4a85a15 fib: remove a useless synchronize_rcu() call
fib_nl_delrule() calls synchronize_rcu() for no apparent reason,
while rtnl is held.

I suspect it was done to avoid an atomic_inc_not_zero() in
fib_rules_lookup(), which commit 7fa7cb7109 added anyway.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-16 11:13:22 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
2c1c00040a fib6: use FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF in fib6_rule_lookup()
Avoid two atomic ops on found rule in fib6_rule_lookup()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-16 11:13:21 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
564824b0c5 net: allocate skbs on local node
commit b30973f877 (node-aware skb allocation) spread a wrong habit of
allocating net drivers skbs on a given memory node : The one closest to
the NIC hardware. This is wrong because as soon as we try to scale
network stack, we need to use many cpus to handle traffic and hit
slub/slab management on cross-node allocations/frees when these cpus
have to alloc/free skbs bound to a central node.

skb allocated in RX path are ephemeral, they have a very short
lifetime : Extra cost to maintain NUMA affinity is too expensive. What
appeared as a nice idea four years ago is in fact a bad one.

In 2010, NIC hardwares are multiqueue, or we use RPS to spread the load,
and two 10Gb NIC might deliver more than 28 million packets per second,
needing all the available cpus.

Cost of cross-node handling in network and vm stacks outperforms the
small benefit hardware had when doing its DMA transfert in its 'local'
memory node at RX time. Even trying to differentiate the two allocations
done for one skb (the sk_buff on local node, the data part on NIC
hardware node) is not enough to bring good performance.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-16 11:13:19 -07:00
John W. Linville
c64557d666 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2010-10-15 16:11:56 -04:00
John W. Linville
1a63c353c8 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/padovan/bluetooth-next-2.6 into for-davem 2010-10-15 16:00:02 -04:00
Johannes Berg
9ebad4ab87 radiotap: fix vendor namespace parsing
There's a bug with radiotap vendor namespace
parsing if you don't register for the given
namespace extensions. Fix this by passing
only the unknown vendor namespaces and the
registered data to frontends, but not both.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-15 15:57:34 -04:00