andrew hendry [Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:29:06 +0000 (13:29 +0000)]
X25: Use identifiers for isdn device to x25 interface
Change magic numbers to identifiers for X25 interface.
also minor check patch formatting.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com> Acked-by: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andrew Hendry [Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:12:36 +0000 (16:12 -0700)]
X25: Add if_x25.h and x25 to device identifiers
V2 Feedback from John Hughes.
- Add header for userspace implementations such as xot/xoe to use
- Use explicit values for interface stability
- No changes to driver patches
V1
- Use identifiers instead of magic numbers for X25 layer 3 to device interface.
- Also fixed checkpatch notes on updated code.
[ Add new user header to include/linux/Kbuild -DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net: Socket filter ancilliary data access for skb->dev->type
Add an SKF_AD_HATYPE field to the packet ancilliary data area, giving
access to skb->dev->type, as reported in the sll_hatype field.
When capturing packets on a PF_PACKET/SOCK_RAW socket bound to all
interfaces, there doesn't appear to be a way for the filter program to
actually find out the underlying hardware type the packet was captured
on. This patch adds such ability.
This patch also handles the case where skb->dev can be NULL, such as on
netlink sockets.
Signed-off-by: Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tom Herbert [Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:00:24 +0000 (07:00 +0000)]
tcp: fix outsegs stat for TSO segments
Account for TSO segments of an skb in TCP_MIB_OUTSEGS counter. Without
doing this, the counter can be off by orders of magnitude from the
actual number of segments sent.
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We do netif_device_attach, even if resource allocation fails.
Driver callbacks can be called, if device is attached.
All these callbacks need to be protected by ADAPTER_UP_MAGIC check.
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Different class of drivers co-exist for CNA device,
there is some minimal interaction that will be required amongst
the drivers for performing some device level operations.
All the driver should follow inter driver coexistence document.
Fixing polling interval and spelling mistake.
Signed-off-by: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds IPv6 support for RFC5082 Generalized TTL Security Mechanism.
Not to users of mapped address; the IPV6 and IPV4 socket options are seperate.
The server does have to deal with both IPv4 and IPv6 socket options
and the client has to handle the different for each family.
On client:
int ttl = 255;
getaddrinfo(argv[1], argv[2], &hint, &result);
for (rp = result; rp != NULL; rp = rp->ai_next) {
s = socket(rp->ai_family, rp->ai_socktype, rp->ai_protocol);
if (s < 0) continue;
if (connect(s, rp->ai_addr, rp->ai_addrlen) == 0) {
...
On server:
int minttl = 255 - maxhops;
getaddrinfo(NULL, port, &hints, &result);
for (rp = result; rp != NULL; rp = rp->ai_next) {
s = socket(rp->ai_family, rp->ai_socktype, rp->ai_protocol);
if (s < 0) continue;
Eric Dumazet [Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:22:45 +0000 (00:22 -0700)]
rps: immediate send IPI in process_backlog()
If some skb are queued to our backlog, we are delaying IPI sending at
the end of net_rx_action(), increasing latencies. This defeats the
queueing, since we want to quickly dispatch packets to the pool of
worker cpus, then eventually deeply process our packets.
It's better to send IPI before processing our packets in upper layers,
from process_backlog().
Change the _and_disable_irq suffix to _and_enable_irq(), since we enable
local irq in net_rps_action(), sorry for the confusion.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:06:07 +0000 (21:06 +0000)]
ethernet: print protocol in host byte order
Eric's recent patch added __force, but this
place would seem to require actually doing
a byte order conversion so the printk is
consistent across architectures.
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet [Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:55:35 +0000 (09:55 +0000)]
fasync: RCU and fine grained locking
kill_fasync() uses a central rwlock, candidate for RCU conversion, to
avoid cache line ping pongs on SMP.
fasync_remove_entry() and fasync_add_entry() can disable IRQS on a short
section instead during whole list scan.
Use a spinlock per fasync_struct to synchronize kill_fasync_rcu() and
fasync_{remove|add}_entry(). This spinlock is IRQ safe, so sock_fasync()
doesnt need its own implementation and can use fasync_helper(), to
reduce code size and complexity.
We can remove __kill_fasync() direct use in net/socket.c, and rename it
to kill_fasync_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller [Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:57:01 +0000 (01:57 -0700)]
tcp: Fix ipv6 checksumming on response packets for real.
Commit 6651ffc8e8bdd5fb4b7d1867c6cfebb4f309512c
("ipv6: Fix tcp_v6_send_response transport header setting.")
fixed one half of why ipv6 tcp response checksums were
invalid, but it's not the whole story.
If we're going to use CHECKSUM_PARTIAL for these things (which we are
since commit 2e8e18ef52e7dd1af0a3bd1f7d990a1d0b249586 "tcp: Set
CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY in tcp_init_nondata_skb"), we can't be setting
buff->csum as we always have been here in tcp_v6_send_response. We
need to leave it at zero.
Kill that line and checksums are good again.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
An rcu_dereference() should be an rcu_dereference_bh().
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:47:15 +0000 (00:47 -0700)]
ipv6: Fix tcp_v6_send_response transport header setting.
My recent patch to remove the open-coded checksum sequence in
tcp_v6_send_response broke it as we did not set the transport
header pointer on the new packet.
Actually, there is code there trying to set the transport
header properly, but it sets it for the wrong skb ('skb'
instead of 'buff').
There is no need to export skb_under_panic() and skb_over_panic() in
skbuff.c, since these methods are used only in skbuff.c ; this patch
removes these two exports. It also marks these functions as 'static'
and removeS the extern declarations of them from
include/linux/skbuff.h
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:20:05 +0000 (03:20 +0000)]
bridge: add a missing ntohs()
grec_nsrcs is in network order, we should convert to host horder in
br_multicast_igmp3_report()
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jan Kara [Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:47:20 +0000 (16:47 +0200)]
quota: Convert __DQUOT_PARANOIA symbol to standard config option
Make __DQUOT_PARANOIA define from the old days a standard config option
and turn it off by default.
This gets rid of a quota warning about writes before quota is turned on
for systems with ext4 root filesystem. Currently there's no way to legally
solve this because /etc/mtab has to be written before quota is turned on
on most systems.
Merge branch 'urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6
* 'urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6:
pcmcia: fix error handling in cm4000_cs.c
drivers/pcmcia: Add missing local_irq_restore
serial_cs: MD55x support (PCMCIA GPRS/EDGE modem) (kernel 2.6.33)
pcmcia: avoid late calls to pccard_validate_cis
pcmcia: fix ioport size calculation in rsrc_nonstatic
pcmcia: re-start on MFC override
pcmcia: fix io_probe due to parent (PCI) resources
pcmcia: use previously assigned IRQ for all card functions
Before commit e28cbf22933d0c0ccaf3c4c27a1a263b41f73859 ("improve
sys_newuname() for compat architectures") 64-bit x86 had a private
implementation of sys_uname which was just called sys_uname, which other
architectures used for the old uname.
Due to some merge issues with the uname refactoring patches we ended up
calling the old uname version for both the old and new system call
slots, which lead to the domainname filed never be set which caused
failures with libnss_nis.
Reported-and-tested-by: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
net: emphasize rtnl lock required in call_netdevice_notifiers
Since netdev_chain is guarded by rtnl_lock, ASSERT_RTNL should be
present here to make sure that all callers of call_netdevice_notifiers
does the locking properly.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jesse Barnes [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:07:16 +0000 (11:07 -0700)]
drm: delay vblank cleanup until after driver unload
Drivers may use vblank calls now (e.g. drm_vblank_off) in their unload
paths, so don't clean up the vblank related structures until after
driver unload.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Reviewed-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
rmap: add exclusively owned pages to the newest anon_vma
The recent anon_vma fixes cause many anonymous pages to end up
in the parent process anon_vma, even when the page is exclusively
owned by the current process.
Adding exclusively owned anonymous pages to the top anon_vma
reduces rmap scanning overhead, especially in workloads with
forking servers.
This patch adds a parameter to __page_set_anon_rmap that can
be used to indicate whether or not the added page is exclusively
owned by the current process.
Pages added through page_add_new_anon_rmap are exclusively
owned by the current process, and can be added to the top
anon_vma.
Pages added through page_add_anon_rmap can be either shared
or exclusively owned, so we do the conservative thing and
add it to the oldest anon_vma.
A next step would be to add the exclusive parameter to
page_add_anon_rmap, to be used from functions where we do
know for sure whether a page is exclusively owned.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Lightly-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
[ Edited to look nicer - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6:
eCryptfs: Turn lower lookup error messages into debug messages
eCryptfs: Copy lower directory inode times and size on link
ecryptfs: fix use with tmpfs by removing d_drop from ecryptfs_destroy_inode
ecryptfs: fix error code for missing xattrs in lower fs
eCryptfs: Decrypt symlink target for stat size
eCryptfs: Strip metadata in xattr flag in encrypted view
eCryptfs: Clear buffer before reading in metadata xattr
eCryptfs: Rename ecryptfs_crypt_stat.num_header_bytes_at_front
eCryptfs: Fix metadata in xattr feature regression
mac80211: pass HT changes to driver when off channel
Since "mac80211: make off-channel work generic" drivers have not been
notified of configuration changes after association or authentication. This
caused more dependence on current state to ensure driver will be notified
when configuration changes occur. One such problem arises if off-channel is
in progress when HT information changes. Since HT is only enabled on the
"oper_channel" the driver will never be notified of this change. Usually
the driver is notified soon after of a BSS information change
(BSS_CHANGED_HT) ... but since the driver did not get a notification that
this is a HT channel the new BSS information does not make sense.
Fix this by also changing the off-channel information when HT is enabled
and thus cause driver to be notified correctly.
This fixes a problem in 4965 when associated with 5GHz 40MHz channel.
Without this patch the system can associate but is unable to transfer any
data, not even ping.
See http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2158
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:48:38 +0000 (10:48 +0200)]
mac80211: remove bogus TX agg state assignment
When the addba timer expires but has no work to do,
it should not affect the state machine. If it does,
TX will not see the successfully established and we
can also crash trying to re-establish the session.
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.32, 2.6.33] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Move "don't shut down the power" logic into bnx2x_set_power_state() to make the code cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
bnx2x: use mask in test_registers() to avoid parity error
Properly mask the value to be written to the register (according to the register size) during the self-test.
Otherwise immediate parity error would be generated.
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Don't run code that can't be run if MCP is not present.
This will prevent NULL pointer dereferencing.
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Increase DMAE max write size for 57711 to the maximum allowed value.
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch introduces the parity errors handling code for 57710 and 57711 chips.
HW is configured to stop all DMA transactions to the host and sending packets to the network
once parity error is detected, which is meant to prevent silent data corruption.
At the same time HW generates the attention interrupt to every function of the device where parity
has been detected so that driver can start the recovery flow.
The recovery is actually resetting the chip and restarting the driver on all active functions
of the chip where the parity error has been reported.
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tyler Hicks [Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:16:56 +0000 (11:16 -0500)]
eCryptfs: Turn lower lookup error messages into debug messages
Vaugue warnings about ENAMETOOLONG errors when looking up an encrypted
file name have caused many users to become concerned about their data.
Since this is a rather harmless condition, I'm moving this warning to
only be printed when the ecryptfs_verbosity module param is 1.
Tyler Hicks [Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:09:02 +0000 (18:09 -0500)]
eCryptfs: Copy lower directory inode times and size on link
The timestamps and size of a lower inode involved in a link() call was
being copied to the upper parent inode. Instead, we should be
copying lower parent inode's timestamps and size to the upper parent
inode. I discovered this bug using the POSIX test suite at Tuxera.
Jeff Mahoney [Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:35:46 +0000 (15:35 -0400)]
ecryptfs: fix use with tmpfs by removing d_drop from ecryptfs_destroy_inode
Since tmpfs has no persistent storage, it pins all its dentries in memory
so they have d_count=1 when other file systems would have d_count=0.
->lookup is only used to create new dentries. If the caller doesn't
instantiate it, it's freed immediately at dput(). ->readdir reads
directly from the dcache and depends on the dentries being hashed.
When an ecryptfs mount is mounted, it associates the lower file and dentry
with the ecryptfs files as they're accessed. When it's umounted and
destroys all the in-memory ecryptfs inodes, it fput's the lower_files and
d_drop's the lower_dentries. Commit 4981e081 added this and a d_delete in
2008 and several months later commit caeeeecf removed the d_delete. I
believe the d_drop() needs to be removed as well.
The d_drop effectively hides any file that has been accessed via ecryptfs
from the underlying tmpfs since it depends on it being hashed for it to
be accessible. I've removed the d_drop on my development node and see no
ill effects with basic testing on both tmpfs and persistent storage.
As a side effect, after ecryptfs d_drops the dentries on tmpfs, tmpfs
BUGs on umount. This is due to the dentries being unhashed.
tmpfs->kill_sb is kill_litter_super which calls d_genocide to drop
the reference pinning the dentry. It skips unhashed and negative dentries,
but shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree doesn't. Since those dentries
still have an elevated d_count, we get a BUG().
This patch removes the d_drop call and fixes both issues.
This issue was reported at:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567887
Reported-by: Árpád Bíró <biroa@demasz.hu> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
ecryptfs: fix error code for missing xattrs in lower fs
If the lower file system driver has extended attributes disabled,
ecryptfs' own access functions return -ENOSYS instead of -EOPNOTSUPP.
This breaks execution of programs in the ecryptfs mount, since the
kernel expects the latter error when checking for security
capabilities in xattrs.
Signed-off-by: Christian Pulvermacher <pulvermacher@gmx.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tyler Hicks [Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:41:35 +0000 (00:41 -0500)]
eCryptfs: Decrypt symlink target for stat size
Create a getattr handler for eCryptfs symlinks that is capable of
reading the lower target and decrypting its path. Prior to this patch,
a stat's st_size field would represent the strlen of the encrypted path,
while readlink() would return the strlen of the decrypted path. This
could lead to confusion in some userspace applications, since the two
values should be equal.
Commit b91ecb00 ("gigaset: include cleanup cleanup") removed an implicit
sched.h inclusion that came in via slab.h, and caused various compile
problems as a result.
Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: Make RCU lockdep check the lockdep_recursion variable
rcu: Update docs for rcu_access_pointer and rcu_dereference_protected
rcu: Better explain the condition parameter of rcu_dereference_check()
rcu: Add rcu_access_pointer and rcu_dereference_protected
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
gigaset: include cleanup cleanup
packet : remove init_net restriction
WAN: flush tx_queue in hdlc_ppp to prevent panic on rmmod hw_driver.
ip: Fix ip_dev_loopback_xmit()
net: dev_pick_tx() fix
fib: suppress lockdep-RCU false positive in FIB trie.
tun: orphan an skb on tx
forcedeth: fix tx limit2 flag check
iwlwifi: work around bogus active chains detection
Merge branch 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm/radeon/kms: add FireMV 2400 PCI ID.
drm/radeon/kms: allow R500 regs VAP_ALT_NUM_VERTICES and VAP_INDEX_OFFSET
drivers/gpu/radeon: Add MSPOS regs to safe list.
drm/radeon/kms: disable the tv encoder when tv/cv is not in use
drm/radeon/kms: adjust pll settings for tv
drm/radeon/kms: fix tv dac conflict resolver
drm/radeon/kms/evergreen: don't enable hdmi audio stuff
drm/radeon/kms/atom: fix dual-link DVI on DCE3.2/4.0
drm/radeon/kms: fix rs600 tlb flush
drm/radeon/kms: print GPU family and device id when loading
drm/radeon/kms: fix calculation of mipmapped 3D texture sizes
drm/radeon/kms: only change mode when coherent value changes.
drm/radeon/kms: more atom parser fixes (v2)
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
ARM: 5974/1: arm/mach-at91 Makefile: remove two blanks.
ARM: 6052/1: kdump: make kexec work in interrupt context
ARM: 6051/1: VFP: preserve the HW context when calling signal handlers
ARM: 6050/1: VFP: fix the SMP versions of vfp_{sync,flush}_hwstate
ARM: 6007/1: fix highmem with VIPT cache and DMA
ARM: 5975/1: AT91 slow-clock suspend: don't wait when turning PLLs off
Paul E. McKenney [Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:50:39 +0000 (12:50 -0700)]
rcu: Make RCU lockdep check the lockdep_recursion variable
The lockdep facility temporarily disables lockdep checking by
incrementing the current->lockdep_recursion variable. Such
disabling happens in NMIs and in other situations where lockdep
might expect to recurse on itself.
This patch therefore checks current->lockdep_recursion, disabling RCU
lockdep splats when this variable is non-zero. In addition, this patch
removes the "likely()", as suggested by Lai Jiangshan.
Alex Deucher [Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:31:12 +0000 (13:31 -0400)]
drm/radeon/kms: fix tv dac conflict resolver
On systems with the tv dac shared between DVI and TV,
we can only use the dac for one of the connectors.
However, when using a digital monitor on the DVI port,
you can use the dac for the TV connector just fine.
Check the use_digital status when resolving the conflict.
Fixes fdo bug 27649, possibly others.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Typo in in flush leaded to no flush of the RS600 tlb which
ultimately leaded to massive system ram corruption, with
this patch everythings seems to work properly.
Eric Dumazet [Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:18:22 +0000 (12:18 +0000)]
net: Introduce skb_orphan_try()
Transmitted skb might be attached to a socket and a destructor, for
memory accounting purposes.
Traditionally, this destructor is called at tx completion time, when skb
is freed.
When tx completion is performed by another cpu than the sender, this
forces some cache lines to change ownership. XPS was an attempt to give
tx completion to initial cpu.
David idea is to call destructor right before giving skb to device (call
to ndo_start_xmit()). Because device queues are usually small, orphaning
skb before tx completion is not a big deal. Some drivers already do
this, we could do it in upper level.
There is one known exception to this early orphaning, called tx
timestamping. It needs to keep a reference to socket until device can
give a hardware or software timestamp.
This patch adds a skb_orphan_try() helper, to centralize all exceptions
to early orphaning in one spot, and use it in dev_hard_start_xmit().
Eric Dumazet [Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:17:02 +0000 (04:17 +0000)]
net: remove time limit in process_backlog()
- There is no point to enforce a time limit in process_backlog(), since
other napi instances dont follow same rule. We can exit after only one
packet processed...
The normal quota of 64 packets per napi instance should be the norm, and
net_rx_action() already has its own time limit.
Note : /proc/net/core/dev_weight can be used to tune this 64 default
value.
- Use DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED for softnet_data definition.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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