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Jon Paul Maloy af9b028e27 tipc: make media xmit call outside node spinlock context 
Currently, message sending is performed through a deep call chain,
where the node spinlock is grabbed and held during a significant
part of the transmission time. This is clearly detrimental to
overall throughput performance; it would be better if we could send
the message after the spinlock has been released.

In this commit, we do instead let the call revert on the stack after
the buffer chain has been added to the transmission queue, whereafter
clones of the buffers are transmitted to the device layer outside the
spinlock scope.

As a further step in our effort to separate the roles of the node
and link entities we also move the function tipc_link_xmit() to
node.c, and rename it to tipc_node_xmit().

Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-20 20:41:15 -07:00
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6lowpan
9p Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-07-04 19:36:06 -07:00
802
8021q vlan: Add GRO support for non hardware accelerated vlan 2015-06-01 16:50:52 -07:00
appletalk net: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_alloc 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
atm net: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_alloc 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
ax25 ax25: Stop using sock->sk_protinfo. 2015-06-28 16:55:44 -07:00
batman-adv batman-adv: change the MAC of each VLAN upon ndo_set_mac_address 2015-06-07 17:07:20 +02:00
bluetooth bluetooth: fix list handling 2015-07-04 19:11:33 -07:00
bridge bridge: mcast: fix br_multicast_dev_del warn when igmp snooping is not defined 2015-07-20 16:19:03 -07:00
caif Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-06-01 22:51:30 -07:00
can can: replace timestamp as unique skb attribute 2015-07-12 21:13:22 +02:00
ceph libceph: treat sockaddr_storage with uninitialized family as blank 2015-07-09 20:30:34 +03:00
core net: don't reforward packets already forwarded by offload device 2015-07-20 18:32:44 -07:00
dcb
dccp sock_diag: specify info_size per inet protocol 2015-06-15 19:49:22 -07:00
decnet net: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_alloc 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
dns_resolver
dsa net: dsa: Fix off-by-one in switch address parsing 2015-07-11 23:25:16 -07:00
ethernet net: Add full IPv6 addresses to flow_keys 2015-06-04 15:44:30 -07:00
hsr
ieee802154 nl802154: export supported commands 2015-06-04 12:27:15 +02:00
ipv4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-07-13 17:28:09 -07:00
ipv6 net/ipv6: update flowi6_oif in ip6_dst_lookup_flow if not set 2015-07-20 12:59:32 -07:00
ipx net: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_alloc 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
irda irda: use msecs_to_jiffies for conversion to jiffies 2015-05-25 17:46:21 -04:00
iucv net: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_alloc 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
key Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2015-06-24 16:49:49 -07:00
l2tp net: Modify sk_alloc to not reference count the netns of kernel sockets. 2015-05-11 10:50:18 -04:00
lapb
llc net: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_alloc 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
mac80211 Minor merge needed, due to function move. 2015-07-01 10:49:25 -07:00
mac802154 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2015-06-24 16:49:49 -07:00
mpls Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-06-13 23:56:52 -07:00
netfilter Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-07-13 17:28:09 -07:00
netlabel netlink: implement nla_put_in_addr and nla_put_in6_addr 2015-03-31 13:58:35 -04:00
netlink netlink: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "module_put" 2015-07-03 09:27:43 -07:00
netrom netfilter: Remove spurios included of netfilter.h 2015-06-18 21:14:32 +02:00
nfc NFC: nci: fix mistake in uart generic driver 2015-06-15 18:10:37 +02:00
openvswitch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-06-08 20:06:56 -07:00
packet Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-06-24 02:58:51 -07:00
phonet net: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_alloc 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
rds net-RDS: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "module_put" 2015-07-03 09:27:42 -07:00
rfkill net: rfkill: gpio: make better use of gpiod API 2015-05-29 13:13:45 +02:00
rose Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-06-24 02:58:51 -07:00
rxrpc net: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_alloc 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
sched cls_cgroup: factor out classid retrieval 2015-07-20 12:41:30 -07:00
sctp sctp: Fix race between OOTB responce and route removal 2015-06-29 09:28:42 -07:00
sunrpc NFS client updates for Linux 4.2 2015-07-02 11:32:23 -07:00
switchdev switchdev: add offload_fwd_mark generator helper 2015-07-20 18:32:44 -07:00
tipc tipc: make media xmit call outside node spinlock context 2015-07-20 20:41:15 -07:00
unix net/unix: support SCM_SECURITY for stream sockets 2015-06-10 22:49:20 -07:00
vmw_vsock net: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_alloc 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
wimax
wireless Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-06-13 23:56:52 -07:00
x25 net: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_alloc 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
xfrm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2015-06-24 16:49:49 -07:00
compat.c net: switch importing msghdr from userland to {compat_,}import_iovec() 2015-04-09 00:02:26 -04:00
Kconfig net: add CONFIG_NET_INGRESS to enable ingress filtering 2015-05-14 01:10:05 -04:00
Makefile
socket.c net: Add a struct net parameter to sock_create_kern 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
sysctl_net.c