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2010-07-27Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-0/+2
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c Merge bnx2x bug fixes in by hand... :-/ Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-22macvtap: Limit packet queue lengthHerbert Xu1-0/+2
Mark Wagner reported OOM symptoms when sending UDP traffic over a macvtap link to a kvm receiver. This appears to be caused by the fact that macvtap packet queues are unlimited in length. This means that if the receiver can't keep up with the rate of flow, then we will hit OOM. Of course it gets worse if the OOM killer then decides to kill the receiver. This patch imposes a cap on the packet queue length, in the same way as the tuntap driver, using the device TX queue length. Please note that macvtap currently has no way of giving congestion notification, that means the software device TX queue cannot be used and packets will always be dropped once the macvtap driver queue fills up. This shouldn't be a great problem for the scenario where macvtap is used to feed a kvm receiver, as the traffic is most likely external in origin so congestion notification can't be applied anyway. Of course, if anybody decides to complain about guest-to-guest UDP packet loss down the track, then we may have to revisit this. Incidentally, this patch also fixes a real memory leak when macvtap_get_queue fails. Chris Wright noticed that for this patch to work, we need a non-zero TX queue length. This patch includes his work to change the default macvtap TX queue length to 500. Reported-by: Mark Wagner <mwagner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-28macvlan: 64 bit rx countersEric Dumazet1-7/+12
Use u64_stats_sync infrastructure to implement 64bit stats. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-02net: replace hooks in __netif_receive_skb V5Jiri Pirko1-4/+0
What this patch does is it removes two receive frame hooks (for bridge and for macvlan) from __netif_receive_skb. These are replaced them with a single hook for both. It only supports one hook per device because it makes no sense to do bridging and macvlan on the same device. Then a network driver (of virtual netdev like macvlan or bridge) can register an rx_handler for needed net device. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-15net: adjust handle_macvlan to pass port struct to hookJiri Pirko1-1/+2
Now there's null check here and also again in the hook. Looking at bridge bits which are simmilar, port structure is rcu_dereferenced right away in handle_bridge and passed to hook. Looks nicer. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18net/macvtap: add vhost supportArnd Bergmann1-0/+13
This adds support for passing a macvtap file descriptor into vhost-net, much like we already do for tun/tap. Most of the new code is taken from the respective patch in the tun driver and may get consolidated in the future. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-16percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net driversTejun Heo1-1/+1
Add __percpu sparse annotations to net drivers. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-03net: macvtap driverArnd Bergmann1-0/+1
In order to use macvlan with qemu and other tools that require a tap file descriptor, the macvtap driver adds a small backend with a character device with the same interface as the tun driver, with a minimum set of features. Macvtap interfaces are created in the same way as macvlan interfaces using ip link, but the netif is just used as a handle for configuration and accounting, while the data goes through the chardev. Each macvtap interface has its own character device, simplifying permission management significantly over the generic tun/tap driver. Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-03macvlan: allow multiple driver backendsArnd Bergmann1-0/+70
This makes it possible to hook into the macvlan driver from another kernel module. In particular, the goal is to extend it with the macvtap backend that provides a tun/tap compatible interface directly on the macvlan device. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-30Remove "#ifdef __KERNEL__" checks from unexported headersRobert P. J. Day1-3/+0
Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor test. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-14[NET]: Add macvlan driverPatrick McHardy1-0/+9
Add macvlan driver, which allows to create virtual ethernet devices based on MAC address. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>