In the existing code, we only stop queue when the ringbuffer is full,
so the current packet has to be dropped or retried from upper layer.
This patch stops the tx queue when available ringbuffer is below
the low watermark. So the ringbuffer still has small amount of space
available for the current packet. This will reduce the overhead of
retries on sending.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Instead of dropping the packet, we keep the skb buffer, and return
NETDEV_TX_BUSY to let upper layer retry send. This will not cause
endless loop, because the host is taking data away from ring buffer,
and we have called the stop_queue before returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY.
The stop_queue was called in the function netvsc_send() in file
netvsc.c, then it returns to rndis_filter_send(), which returns to
netvsc_start_xmit() in file netvsc_drv.c. So the NETDEV_TX_BUSY is
indeed returned AFTER queue is stopped.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A driver start_xmit() method cannot free skb and return NETDEV_TX_BUSY,
since caller is going to reuse freed skb.
This is mostly a revert of commit bf769375c (staging: hv: fix the return
status of netvsc_start_xmit())
In fact netif_tx_stop_queue() / netif_stop_queue() is needed before
returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY or you can trigger a ksoftirqd fatal loop.
In case of memory allocation error, only safe way is to drop the packet
and return NETDEV_TX_OK
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
With this feature, a Linux guest can now configure multiple vlans through
a single synthetic NIC on Win8 Hyper-V host.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The first assignment to variable "net" is wrong, but overridden by the
latter assignments. So the bug isn't manifested.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There is a possible data corruption if an RNDIS message goes beyond page
boundary in the sending code path. This patch fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
For code path not on the xmit, use netif_tx_disable() instead of
netif_stop_queue() to ensure other CPUs are not doing xmit.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
skb->len after call eth_type_trans() does not include the ether
header size, but rx_bytes should account it.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
do_set_multicast() may not free the memory malloc in
netvsc_set_multicast_list().
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allow the user set the MTU up to 65536 for Linux guests running on
Hyper-V 2008 R2 or later.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
__get_free_pages() doesn't return HI memory, so the memory is always mapped.
kmap_atomic() is not necessary here. This patch removes the kmap_atomic()
calls and related code for locking and page manipulation.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The ring buffer is only used to pass meta data for outbound packets. The
actual payload is accessed by DMA from the host. So the stop/wake queue
mechanism based on counting and comparing number of pages sent v.s. number
of pages in the ring buffer is wrong. Also, there is a race condition in
the stop/wake queue calls, which can stop xmit queue forever.
The new stop/wake queue mechanism is based on the actual bytes used by
outbound packets in the ring buffer. The check for number of outstanding
sends after stop queue prevents the race condition that can cause wake
queue happening earlier than stop queue.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reported-by: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add code to accept promiscuous mode setting, and pass it to
RNDIS filter.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
hv_netvsc has been reviewed on netdev mailing list on 6/09/2011.
All recommended changes have been made. We are requesting to move
it out of staging area.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Sterling <Mike.Sterling@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
