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Although rhashtable library allows user to specify a quiet big size
for user's created hash table, the table may be shrunk to a
very small size - HASH_MIN_SIZE(4) after object is removed from
the table at the first time. Subsequently, even if the total amount
of objects saved in the table is quite lower than user's initial
setting in a long time, the hash table size is still dynamically
adjusted by rhashtable_shrink() or rhashtable_expand() each time
object is inserted or removed from the table. However, as
synchronize_rcu() has to be called when table is shrunk or
expanded by the two functions, we should permit user to set the
minimum table size through configuring the minimum number of shifts
according to user specific requirement, avoiding these expensive
actions of shrinking or expanding because of calling synchronize_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In commit 50cbe9ab5f8d ("net: Validate xmit SKBs right when we
pull them out of the qdisc") the validation code was moved out of
dev_hard_start_xmit and into dequeue_skb.
However this overlooked the fact that we do not always enqueue
the skb onto a qdisc. First situation is if qdisc have flag
TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS and qdisc is empty. Second situation is if
there is no qdisc on the device, which is a common case for
software devices.
Originally spotted and inital patch by Alexander Duyck.
As a result Alex was seeing issues trying to connect to a
vhost_net interface after commit 50cbe9ab5f8d was applied.
Added a call to validate_xmit_skb() in __dev_xmit_skb(), in the
code path for qdiscs with TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS flag, and in
__dev_queue_xmit() when no qdisc.
Also handle the error situation where dev_hard_start_xmit() could
return a skb list, and does not return dev_xmit_complete(rc) and
falls through to the kfree_skb(), in that situation it should
call kfree_skb_list().
Fixes: 50cbe9ab5f8d ("net: Validate xmit SKBs right when we pull them out of the qdisc")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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More minor fixes to merge commit 53fda7f7f9e (Merge branch 'xmit_list')
that allows us to work with a list of SKBs.
Fixing exit cases in qdisc_reset() and qdisc_destroy(), where a
leftover requeued SKB (qdisc->gso_skb) can have the potential of
being a skb list, thus use kfree_skb_list().
This is a followup to commit 10770bc2d1 ("qdisc: adjustments for
API allowing skb list xmits").
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Minor adjustments for merge commit 53fda7f7f9e (Merge branch 'xmit_list')
that allows us to work with a list of SKBs.
Update code doc to function sch_direct_xmit().
In handle_dev_cpu_collision() use kfree_skb_list() in error handling.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Remove unused 'dev' variable from arc_emac_remove(), since it's
not being used any more.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Remove unnecessary double parenthesis around if statement.
Signed-off-by: David Wood <devel@dtwood.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Nicolas Dichtel says:
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rtnl: send notification in do_setlink()
This series ensures to call the notifier chain and to send a netlink
message when a change is done by do_setlink().
The three first patches mainly prepare the last one, which do this change.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Depending on which parameters were updated, the changes were not propagated via
the notifier chain and netlink.
The new flag has been set only when the change did not cause a call to the
notifier chain and/or to the netlink notification functions.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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There is no functional changes with this commit, it only prepares the next one.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The only effect of this patch is to print a warning if IFLA_LINKMODE is updated
and a following change fails.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The only effect of this patch is to print a warning if IFLA_TXQLEN is updated
and a following change fails.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Sathya Perla says:
====================
be2net: patch set
v2 changes: add a new line after variable declaration in patch 12.
***
Patch 1 adds a few new log messages to help debugging in failure cases.
Patch 2 uses new macros for parsing RX/TX completions and TX wrbs to
help shorten the lines.
Patch 3 adds a description for the RX counter rx_input_fifo_overflow_drop.
Patch 4 adds TX completion error statistics reporting via ethtool.
Patch 5 adds a dma_mapping_error counter and its reporting via ethtool.
Patch 6 fixes up log messages in the Lancer FW download path.
Patch 7 replaces gotos with direct return statements.
Patch 8 cleans up be_change_mtu() code by using a new macro BE_MAX_MTU
Patch 9 makes be_cmd_get_regs() routine to return an integer status
similar to other FW cmd routines in be_cmds.c
Patch 10 gets rid of TX budget as enforcing a budget on TX completion
processing in NAPI is neither suggested nor it provides a performance benefit.
Patch 11 defines and uses a new macro for_all_tx_queues_on_eq() similar
to the RX processing code.
Patch 12 queries max_tx_qs from the FW for BE3 super-nic profiles.
For those profiles, the driver cannot assume a constant BE3_MAX_TX_QS value,
as the value may change for each function.
Please consider applying this patch set to the net-next tree. Thanks!
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In the BE3 super-nic profile, the max_tx_qs value can vary for each function.
So the driver needs to query this value from FW instead of using the
pre-defined constant BE3_MAX_TX_QS.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Reddy <Suresh.Reddy@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Replace the for() loop that traverses all the TX queues on an EQ
with the macro for_all_tx_queues_on_eq(). With this expalnatory
name, the one line comment is not required anymore.
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Enforcing a budget on the TX completion processing in NAPI doesn't
benefit performance in anyway. Just get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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There are a few failure cases in be_cmd_get_regs() that ideally must return
an error value. This style is used across all the routines in be_cmds.c with
this routine being an exception. This patch fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara.volam@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch defines a new macro BE_MAX_MTU to make the code in be_change_mtu()
more readable.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh.purayil@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In cases where there is no extra code to handle an error, this patch replaces
gotos with a direct return statement.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh.purayil@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Log messages in the Lancer FW download path have issues such as:
- a single message spanning multiple lines
- the success message is logged even in failure cases
- status codes are already logged in the FW cmd routines
This patch fixes these issues.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh.purayil@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add a dma_mapping_error counter to count the number of packets dropped
due to DMA mapping errors.
Signed-off-by: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara.volam@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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HW reports TX completion errors in TX completion. This patch adds these
counters to ethtool statistics.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh.purayil@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The AMAP_GET/SET_BITS() macro calls take structure name as a parameter
and hence are long and span more than one line. Replace these calls
with a wrapper macros for RX/Tx compls and TX wrb. This results in fewer
lines and more readable code in be_main.c
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch adds the following log messages to help debugging
failure cases:
1) log FW version number: this is useful when driver initialization
fails and the FW version number cannot be queried via ethtool
2) per function resource limits for BEx chips: these values are
currently being printed only for Skyhawk and Lancer
3) PCI BAR mapping failure
4) function_mode/caps queried from FW: this helps catch any FW bugs
that could advertise wrong capabilities to the driver
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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sk->sk_error_queue is dequeued in four locations. All share the
exact same logic. Deduplicate.
Also collapse the two critical sections for dequeue (at the top of
the recv handler) and signal (at the bottom).
This moves signal generation for the next packet forward, which should
be harmless.
It also changes the behavior if the recv handler exits early with an
error. Previously, a signal for follow-up packets on the errqueue
would then not be scheduled. The new behavior, to always signal, is
arguably a bug fix.
For rxrpc, the change causes the same function to be called repeatedly
for each queued packet (because the recv handler == sk_error_report).
It is likely that all packets will fail for the same reason (e.g.,
memory exhaustion).
This code runs without sk_lock held, so it is not safe to trust that
sk->sk_err is immutable inbetween releasing q->lock and the subsequent
test. Introduce int err just to avoid this potential race.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Expand Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt with new
interfaces and bytestream timestamping. Also minor
cleanup of the other text.
Import txtimestamp.c test of the new features.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tom Herbert says:
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net: Checksum offload changes - Part VI
I am working on overhauling RX checksum offload. Goals of this effort
are:
- Specify what exactly it means when driver returns CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
- Preserve CHECKSUM_COMPLETE through encapsulation layers
- Don't do skb_checksum more than once per packet
- Unify GRO and non-GRO csum verification as much as possible
- Unify the checksum functions (checksum_init)
- Simplify code
What is in this seventh patch set:
- Add skb->csum. This allows a device or GRO to indicate that an
invalid checksum was detected.
- Checksum unncessary to checksum complete conversions.
With these changes, I believe that the third goal of the overhaul is
now mostly achieved. In the case of no encapsulation or one layer of
encapsulation, there should only be at most one skb_checksum over
each packet (between GRO and normal path). In the case of two layers
of encapsulation, it is still possible with the right combination of
non-zero and zero UDP checksums to have >1 skb_checksum. For instance:
IP>GRE(with csum)>IP>UDP(zero csum)>VXLAN>IP>UDP(non-zero csum),
would likely necessiate an skb_checksum in GRO and normal path.
This doesn't seem like a common scenario at all so I'm inclined to
not address this now, if multiple layers of encapsulation becomes
popular we can reassess.
Note that checksum conversion shows a nice improvement for RX VXLAN when
outer UDP checksum is enabled (12.65% CPU compared to 20.94%). This
is not only from the fact that we don't need checksum calculation on
the host, but also allows GRO for VXLAN in this case. Checksum
conversion does not help send side (which still needs to perform
a checksum on host). For that we will implement remote checksum offload
in a later patch
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-herbert-remotecsumoffload-00).
Please review carefully and test if possible, mucking with basic
checksum functions is always a little precarious :-)
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Call skb_checksum_try_convert and skb_gro_checksum_try_convert
after checksum is found present and validated in the GRE header
for normal and GRO paths respectively.
In GRO path, call skb_gro_checksum_try_convert
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add support for doing CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY to CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
conversion in UDP tunneling path.
In the normal UDP path, we call skb_checksum_try_convert after locating
the UDP socket. The check is that checksum conversion is enabled for
the socket (new flag in UDP socket) and that checksum field is
non-zero.
In the UDP GRO path, we call skb_gro_checksum_try_convert after
checksum is validated and checksum field is non-zero. Since this is
already in GRO we assume that checksum conversion is always wanted.
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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For normal path, added skb_checksum_try_convert which is called
to attempt to convert CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY to CHECKSUM_COMPLETE. The
primary condition to allow this is that ip_summed is CHECKSUM_NONE
and csum_valid is true, which will be the state after consuming
a CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.
For GRO path, added skb_gro_checksum_try_convert which is the GRO
analogue of skb_checksum_try_convert. The primary condition to allow
this is that NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->csum_cnt == 0 and
NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->csum_valid is set. This implies that we have consumed
all available CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY checksums in the GRO path.
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This flag indicates that an invalid checksum was detected in the
packet. __skb_mark_checksum_bad helper function was added to set this.
Checksums can be marked bad from a driver or the GRO path (the latter
is implemented in this patch). csum_bad is checked in
__skb_checksum_validate_complete (i.e. calling that when ip_summed ==
CHECKSUM_NONE).
csum_bad works in conjunction with ip_summed value. In the case that
ip_summed is CHECKSUM_NONE and csum_bad is set, this implies that the
first (or next) checksum encountered in the packet is bad. When
ip_summed is CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY, the first checksum after the last
one validated is bad. For example, if ip_summed == CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY,
csum_level == 1, and csum_bad is set-- then the third checksum in the
packet is bad. In the normal path, the packet will be dropped when
processing the protocol layer of the bad checksum:
__skb_decr_checksum_unnecessary called twice for the good checksums
changing ip_summed to CHECKSUM_NONE so that
__skb_checksum_validate_complete is called to validate the third
checksum and that will fail since csum_bad is set.
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The variable "rx_buf_sz" is used by both tx and rx buffers. Replace
it with "agg_buf_sz".
Signed-off-by: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c:195:37-38: unimac_mdio_ids is not NULL
terminated at line 195
Make sure of_device_id tables are NULL terminated
Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/misc/of_table.cocci
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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net/dsa/dsa.c:624:20: sparse: symbol 'dsa_pack_type' was not declared.
Should it be static?
Fixes: 3e8a72d1dae374 ("net: dsa: reduce number of protocol hooks")
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch adds support for slave_changelink to the bonding and uses it
to give the ability to change the queue_id of the enslaved devices via
netlink. It sets slave_maxtype and uses bond_changelink as a prototype for
bond_slave_changelink.
Example/test command after the iproute2 patch:
ip link set eth0 type bond_slave queue_id 10
CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>
CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Suggested-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fix places where there is space before tab, long lines, and
awkward if(){, double spacing etc. Add blank line after declaration/initialization.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When Broadcom tags are enabled, e.g: when interfaced to an Ethernet
switch, make sure that we tell the RXCHK engine that it should be
expecting a 4-bytes Broadcom tag after the Ethernet MAC Source Address.
Use netdev_uses_dsa() to check for that condition since that will tell
us if a switch is attached to our network interface.
Fixes: 80105befdb4b ("net: systemport: add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT Ethernet MAC driver")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Then testing the TX limits of the stack, then it is useful to
be-able to disable the do_gettimeofday() timetamping on every packet.
This implements a pktgen flag NO_TIMESTAMP which will disable this
call to do_gettimeofday().
The performance change on (my system E5-2695) with skb_clone=0, goes
from TX 2,423,751 pps to 2,567,165 pps with flag NO_TIMESTAMP. Thus,
the cost of do_gettimeofday() or saving is approx 23 nanosec.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Set correct bit for packed description.
Introduced in e42780b66aab88d3a82b6087bcd6095b90eecde7
bnx2x: Utilize FW 7.10.51
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov <Dmitry.Kravkov@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fixes incorrectly defined struct in FW HSI for BE platform.
Affects tunneling, tx-switching and anti-spoofing.
Introduced in e42780b66aab88d3a82b6087bcd6095b90eecde7
bnx2x: Utilize FW 7.10.51
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov <Dmitry.Kravkov@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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TIPC name table updates are distributed asynchronously in a cluster,
entailing a risk of certain race conditions. E.g., if two nodes
simultaneously issue conflicting (overlapping) publications, this may
not be detected until both publications have reached a third node, in
which case one of the publications will be silently dropped on that
node. Hence, we end up with an inconsistent name table.
In most cases this conflict is just a temporary race, e.g., one
node is issuing a publication under the assumption that a previous,
conflicting, publication has already been withdrawn by the other node.
However, because of the (rtt related) distributed update delay, this
may not yet hold true on all nodes. The symptom of this failure is a
syslog message: "tipc: Cannot publish {%u,%u,%u}, overlap error".
In this commit we add a resiliency queue at the receiving end of
the name table distributor. When insertion of an arriving publication
fails, we retain it in this queue for a short amount of time, assuming
that another update will arrive very soon and clear the conflict. If so
happens, we insert the publication, otherwise we drop it.
The (configurable) retention value defaults to 2000 ms. Knowing from
experience that the situation described above is extremely rare, there
is no risk that the queue will accumulate any large number of items.
Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We need to perform the same actions when processing deferred name
table updates, so this functionality is moved to a separate
function.
Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Because the Tx has the features of stopping queue and aggregation,
We don't need many tx buffers. Change the tx number from 10 to 4
to reduce the usage of the memory. This could save 16K * 6 bytes
memory.
Signed-off-by: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David Miller says:
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net: Make dev_hard_start_xmit() work fundamentally on lists
After this patch set, dev_hard_start_xmit() will work fundemantally on
any and all SKB lists.
This opens the path for a clean implementation of pulling multiple
packets out during qdisc_restart(), and then passing that blob in one
shot to dev_hard_start_xmit().
There were two main architectural blockers to this:
1) The GSO handling, we kept the original GSO head SKB around simply
because dev_hard_start_xmit() had no way to communicate to the
caller how far into the segmented list it was able to go. Now it
can, so the head GSO can be liberated immediately.
All of the special GSO head SKB destructor et al. handling goes
away too.
2) Validate of VLAN, CSUM, and segmentation characteristics was being
performed inside of dev_hard_start_xmit(). If want to truly batch,
we have to let the higher levels to this. In particular, this is
now dequeue_skb()'s job.
And with those two issues out of the way, it should now be trivial to
build experiments on top of this patch set, all of the framework
should be there now. You could do something as simple as:
skb = q->dequeue(q);
if (skb)
skb = validate_xmit_skb(skb, qdisc_dev(q));
if (skb) {
struct sk_buff *new, *head = skb;
int limit = 5;
do {
new = q->dequeue(q);
if (new)
new = validate_xmit_skb(new, qdisc_dev(q));
if (new) {
skb->next = new;
skb = new;
}
} while (new && --limit);
skb = head;
}
inside of the else branch of dequeue_skb().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Now fundamentally we can process lists of SKBs as cheaply
as single packets.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Just maintain the list properly by returning the head of the remaining
SKB list from dev_hard_start_xmit().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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dev_hard_start_xmit() does two things, it first validates and
canonicalizes the SKB, then it actually sends it.
Make a set of helper functions for doing the first part.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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