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209949 Commits

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Peter Meerwald
c688399634 net: Improve comments in include/linux/phy.h
Correct state range of PHY bus addresses (i.e. 0-31) in comment,
make spelling of PHY consistent in comments.

Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-02 10:12:05 -07:00
Julian Anastasov
8ed2163ff3 ipvs: use pkts for SCTP too
Use correctly the in_pkts packet counter also for SCTP

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-02 10:04:18 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
95f4b45bc6 net: another last_rx round
Kill last_rx use in l2tp and two net drivers

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-02 09:19:32 -07:00
David S. Miller
3e502e6358 starfire: Temporary kludge to fix powerpc build.
Add a dma_addr_t 64-bit case for powerpc with 64-bit phys addresses.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 19:19:54 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
0705c6f0e2 tcp: update also tcp_output with regard to RFC 5681
Thanks to Ilpo Jarvinen, this updates also the initial window
setting for tcp_output with regard to RFC 5681.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 18:15:00 -07:00
stephen hemminger
fa50d64576 net: make rx_queue sysfs_ops const
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 18:12:20 -07:00
Huang Weiyi
6267300e97 pxa168_eth: remove duplicated #include
Remove duplicated #include('s) in
  drivers/net/pxa168_eth.c

Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 14:33:47 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
6602cebb5b net: skbuff.c cleanup
(skb->data - skb->head) can be changed by skb_headroom(skb)

Remove some uses of NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSET, using
(skb_end_pointer(skb) - skb->head) or
(skb_tail_pointer(skb) - skb->head) : compiler does the right thing,
and this is more readable for us ;)

(struct skb_shared_info *) casts in pskb_expand_head() to help memcpy()
to use aligned moves.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:57:55 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
86cac58b71 skge: add GRO support
- napi_gro_flush() is exported from net/core/dev.c, to avoid
  an irq_save/irq_restore in the packet receive path.
- use napi_gro_receive() instead of netif_receive_skb()
- use napi_gro_flush() before calling __napi_complete()
- turn on NETIF_F_GRO by default
- Tested on a Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit NIC

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:57:55 -07:00
Julia Lawall
aed5029ead drivers/net/can/mscan/mpc5xxx_can.c: Add of_node_put to avoid memory leak
Add a call to of_node_put in the error handling code following a call to
of_find_matching_node.

This patch also moves the existing call to of_node_put after the call to
iounmap in the error handling code, to make it possible to jump to
of_node_put without doing iounmap.  These appear to be disjoint operations,
so the ordering doesn't matter.

This patch furthermore changes the -ENODEV result in the error handling
code for of_find_matching_node to a return of 0, as found in the error
handling code for of_iomap, because the return type of the function is
unsigned.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression x;
expression E,E1,E2;
statement S;
@@

*x =
(of_find_node_by_path
|of_find_node_by_name
|of_find_node_by_phandle
|of_get_parent
|of_get_next_parent
|of_get_next_child
|of_find_compatible_node
|of_match_node
|of_find_node_by_type
|of_find_node_with_property
|of_find_matching_node
|of_parse_phandle
)(...);
...
if (x == NULL) S
<... when != x = E
*if (...) {
  ... when != of_node_put(x)
      when != if (...) { ... of_node_put(x); ... }
(
  return <+...x...+>;
|
*  return ...;
)
}
...>
(
E2 = x;
|
of_node_put(x);
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:57:54 -07:00
Denis Kirjanov
1a9f28c8f9 ns83820: Use helper to disable chip interrupts
Use helper routine to disable chip interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:57:54 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
875168a933 net: tunnels should use rcu_dereference
tunnel4_handlers, tunnel64_handlers, tunnel6_handlers and
tunnel46_handlers are protected by RCU, but we dont use appropriate rcu
primitives to scan them. rcu_lock() is already held by caller.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:57:53 -07:00
Yaniv Rosner
0642701326 bnx2x: Update version to 1.52.53-5
Update version to 1.52.53-5

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:44:35 -07:00
Yaniv Rosner
9a8a97e88e bnx2x: Add BCM84823 to the supported PHYs
Add BCM84823 to the supported PHYs

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:44:34 -07:00
Yaniv Rosner
a1e4be39dc bnx2x: Change BCM848xx LED configuration
Change 848xx LED configuration according to the new microcode (Boards
were shipped with only with the new microcode)

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:44:34 -07:00
Yaniv Rosner
6f4ca066bc bnx2x: Remove unneeded setting of XAUI low power to BCM8727
Remove unneeded setting of XAUI low power to BCM8727. This was required
only in older microcode which is not in the field.

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:44:33 -07:00
Yaniv Rosner
ac4d944910 bnx2x: Change BCM848xx configuration according to IEEE
Change BCM848xx behavior to fit IEEE such that setting 10Mb/100Mb will
use force speed, and setting 1Gb/10Gb will use auto-negotiation with the
specific speed advertised

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:44:33 -07:00
Yaniv Rosner
54c2fb7859 bnx2x: Reset link before any new link settings
Reset link before any new link settings to avoid potential link issue
caused by previous link settings

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:44:32 -07:00
Yaniv Rosner
eb80ce740a bnx2x: Fix potential link issue In BCM8727 based boards
In BCM8727 based boards, setting default 10G link speed after link was
set to 1G may lead to link down issue. The problem was setting the right
value, but to the wrong registers

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:44:31 -07:00
Yaniv Rosner
8ca60a68a9 bnx2x: Fix potential link issue of BCM8073/BCM8727
Fix potential link issue caused by insufficient delay time during SPIROM
load of BCM8073/BCM8727

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:44:31 -07:00
Amit Kumar Salecha
d807b3f728 qlcnic: add cksum flag
o New CKSUM flag added by fw to notify cksum is verified.
o Update version to 5.0.9

Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:41:58 -07:00
Amit Kumar Salecha
03c5d770c2 qlcnic: mac vlan learning support
Hypervisor allows, two VM's interfaces to have same mac address.
These VM's interfaces get differentiate with Vlan tag.
This patch add support to learn and configure mac+vlan filter on device.

Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:41:57 -07:00
Amit Kumar Salecha
b5e5492c0d qlcnic: support mac learning
Device eswitch need to configure with VM's mac address.
Hypervisor doesn't provide any utility/callbacks to get VM's mac address.
Unicast mac address filter improves performance and also provide
packet loopback capability i.e communication between VM.

Above features is by default off, can be turned on with module parameter
'mac_learn'.

Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:41:57 -07:00
Rajesh Borundia
7373373d10 qlcnic: fix mac override capability
o Rename mac_learning to mac_override
o Added check in set_mac to return error if mac override is disabled.
o Disabling mac_override only supported for Non priviledged functions.

Signed-off-by: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:41:56 -07:00
Rajesh Borundia
dcb50afff7 qlcnic: fix panic while using eth_hdr
o skb->mac_header is not set, so machine panics while using function eth_hdr.

Signed-off-by: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:41:56 -07:00
Rajesh Borundia
7613c87b2d qlcnic: fix mac anti spoof policy
o Allow enabling/disabling mac anti spoof policy only for
  Non privilege functions.

Signed-off-by: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:41:55 -07:00
Rajesh Borundia
174240a8ef qlcnic: fix for setting default eswitch config
o Default eswitch config was set, even before eswitch capabilty get detected.
As a result setting default config was getting fail.

Signed-off-by: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:41:54 -07:00
Rajesh Borundia
da48e6c362 qlcnic: fix mac addr read
o Mac addr was read from flash for every fw reset
for Non-priviledge function.It should be read only once.
o Remove unnecessary get_mac_addr callback

Signed-off-by: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:41:54 -07:00
Rajesh Borundia
2cffcdbf76 qlcnic: add api version in reg dump
o ethtool reg version bumped to 2

Signed-off-by: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:41:53 -07:00
Sony Chacko
4e70812b3d qlcnic: backout firmware initialization update
o Backing out "firmware initialization update" changes, commit-id
  "d4066833bb1b35fefb1dd45eb2b10659d46bf151".
o fix heartbit spelling, it should be heartbeat

Signed-off-by: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:41:53 -07:00
David S. Miller
74af4c7df3 stmmac: Fix another build warning.
drivers/net/stmmac/dwmac100_core.c: In function 'dwmac100_dump_mac_regs':
drivers/net/stmmac/dwmac100_core.c:47: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31 20:56:48 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
1639ab6f78 gro: unexport tcp4_gro_receive and tcp4_gro_complete
tcp4_gro_receive() and tcp4_gro_complete() dont need to be exported.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31 13:37:07 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
4dc89133f4 net: add a comment on netdev->last_rx
As some driver authors seem to reintroduce dev->last_rx use,
add a comment to strongly discourage this.

Since commit 6cf3f41e6c (bonding, net: Move last_rx update into bonding
recv logic), network drivers dont need to update last_rx themselves,
unless they use this field to implement a timeout.

Not updating last_rx helps not dirtying a cache line, improving
performance in SMP.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31 13:37:06 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
ba4fd9d828 pktgen: remove non used variable
remove non used variable "queue" in pg_cleanup

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31 13:37:06 -07:00
Jiri Pirko
72ed62f7c9 vlan: Use vlan_dev_real_dev in vlan_hwaccel_do_receive
[patch net-next-2.6] vlan: Use vlan_dev_real_dev in vlan_hwaccel_do_receive

Use helper as in other places.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31 13:37:05 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
01b38606bd Phonet: do not set POLLOUT in case of send buffer overflow
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31 13:04:33 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
02ac3268a5 Phonet: correct sendmsg() error code from sock_alloc_send_skb()
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31 13:04:32 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
1a98214fee Phonet: restore flow control credits when sending fails
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31 13:04:32 -07:00
David S. Miller
1f0f638856 stmmac: Fix build warnings.
In file included from drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_ethtool.c:30:
drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac.h:111: warning: 'struct platform_device' declared inside parameter list
drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac.h:111: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c: In function 'stmmac_dvr_probe':
drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c:1744: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
In file included from drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c:31:
drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac.h:111: warning: 'struct platform_device' declared inside parameter list
drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac.h:111: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
drivers/net/stmmac/dwmac1000_core.c: In function 'dwmac1000_dump_regs':
drivers/net/stmmac/dwmac1000_core.c:56: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 21:55:17 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
3ff2cfa55f ipv6: struct xfrm6_tunnel in read_mostly section
tunnel6_handlers chain being scanned for each incoming packet,
make sure it doesnt share an often dirtied cache line.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:50:46 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
6dcd814bd0 net: struct xfrm_tunnel in read_mostly section
tunnel4_handlers chain being scanned for each incoming packet,
make sure it doesnt share an often dirtied cache line.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:50:45 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
c274f29120 net/m68k: Hydra Ethernet - print whole resource instead of start address
resource_size_t changed from `unsigned long' to `phys_addr_t`, which is either
`u32' or `u64'.
Print the whole resource to remove the cast and to make it future-proof.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:50:45 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
3d5b99ae82 TCP: update initial windows according to RFC 5681
This updates the use of larger initial windows, as originally specified in
RFC 3390, to use the newer IW values specified in RFC 5681, section 3.1.

The changes made in RFC 5681 are:
 a) the setting now is more clearly specified in units of segments (as the
    comments  by John Heffner emphasized, this was not very clear in RFC 3390);
 b) for connections with 1095 < SMSS <= 2190 there is now a change:
    - RFC 3390 says that IW <= 4380,
    - RFC 5681 says that IW = 3 * SMSS <= 6570.

Since RFC 3390 is older and "only" proposed standard, whereas the newer RFC 5681
is already draft standard, it seems preferable to use the newer IW variant.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:50:44 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
89858ad143 dccp ccid-3: use per-route RTO or TCP RTO as fallback
This makes RTAX_RTO_MIN also available to CCID-3, replacing the compile-time
RTO lower bound with a per-route tunable value.

The original Kconfig option solved the problem that a very low RTT (in the
order of HZ) can trigger too frequent and unnecessary reductions of the
sending rate.

This tunable does not affect the initial RTO value of 2 seconds specified in
RFC 5348, section 4.2 and Appendix B. But like the hardcoded Kconfig value,
it allows to adapt to network conditions.

The same effect as the original Kconfig option of 100ms is now achieved by

> ip route replace to unicast 192.168.0.0/24 rto_min 100j dev eth0

(assuming HZ=1000).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:45:28 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
4886fcad6e dccp ccid-2: Share TCP's minimum RTO code
Using a fixed RTO_MIN of 0.2 seconds was found to cause problems for CCID-2
over 802.11g: at least once per session there was a spurious timeout. It
helped to then increase the the value of RTO_MIN over this link.

Since the problem is the same as in TCP, this patch makes the solution from
commit "05bb1fad1cde025a864a90cfeb98dcbefe78a44a"
       "[TCP]: Allow minimum RTO to be configurable via routing metrics."
available to DCCP.

This avoids reinventing the wheel, so that e.g. the following works in the
expected way now also for CCID-2:

> ip route change 10.0.0.2 rto_min 800 dev ath0

Luckily this useful rto_min function was recently moved to net/tcp.h,
which simplifies sharing code originating from TCP.

Documentation also updated (plus minor whitespace fixes).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:45:27 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
22b71c8f4f tcp/dccp: Consolidate common code for RFC 3390 conversion
This patch consolidates initial-window code common to TCP and CCID-2:
 * TCP uses RFC 3390 in a packet-oriented manner (tcp_input.c) and
 * CCID-2 uses RFC 3390 in packet-oriented manner (RFC 4341).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:45:26 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
d26eeb07fd dccp ccid-2: Remove wrappers around sk_{reset,stop}_timer()
This removes the wrappers around the sk timer functions, since not much is
gained from using them: the BUG_ON in start_rto_timer will never trigger
since that function is called only if:

 * the RTO timer expires (rto_expire, and then timer_pending() is false);
 * in tx_packet_sent only if !timer_pending() (BUG_ON is redundant here);
 * previously in new_ack, after stopping the timer (timer_pending() false).

Removing the wrappers also clears the way for eventually replacing the
RTO timer with the icsk-retransmission-timer, as it is already part of the
DCCP socket.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:45:26 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
d82b6f85c1 dccp ccid-2: Use u32 timestamps uniformly
Since CCID-2 is de facto a mini implementation of TCP, it makes sense to share
as much code as possible.

Hence this patch aligns CCID-2 timestamping with TCP timestamping.
This also halves the space consumption (on 64-bit systems).

The necessary include file <net/tcp.h> is already included by way of
net/dccp.h. Redundant includes have been removed.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:45:25 -07:00
Jerry Chu
dca43c75e7 tcp: Add TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option.
This patch provides a "user timeout" support as described in RFC793. The
socket option is also needed for the the local half of RFC5482 "TCP User
Timeout Option".

TCP_USER_TIMEOUT is a TCP level socket option that takes an unsigned int,
when > 0, to specify the maximum amount of time in ms that transmitted
data may remain unacknowledged before TCP will forcefully close the
corresponding connection and return ETIMEDOUT to the application. If
0 is given, TCP will continue to use the system default.

Increasing the user timeouts allows a TCP connection to survive extended
periods without end-to-end connectivity. Decreasing the user timeouts
allows applications to "fail fast" if so desired. Otherwise it may take
upto 20 minutes with the current system defaults in a normal WAN
environment.

The socket option can be made during any state of a TCP connection, but
is only effective during the synchronized states of a connection
(ESTABLISHED, FIN-WAIT-1, FIN-WAIT-2, CLOSE-WAIT, CLOSING, or LAST-ACK).
Moreover, when used with the TCP keepalive (SO_KEEPALIVE) option,
TCP_USER_TIMEOUT will overtake keepalive to determine when to close a
connection due to keepalive failure.

The option does not change in anyway when TCP retransmits a packet, nor
when a keepalive probe will be sent.

This option, like many others, will be inherited by an acceptor from its
listener.

Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:23:33 -07:00
Simon Horman
409456b10f net: fix datapath typo
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-29 21:57:55 -07:00