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John Fastabend f0796d5c73 net: decreasing real_num_tx_queues needs to flush qdisc
Reducing real_num_queues needs to flush the qdisc otherwise
skbs with queue_mappings greater then real_num_tx_queues can
be sent to the underlying driver.

The flow for this is,

dev_queue_xmit()
	dev_pick_tx()
		skb_tx_hash()  => hash using real_num_tx_queues
		skb_set_queue_mapping()
	...
	qdisc_enqueue_root() => enqueue skb on txq from hash
...
dev->real_num_tx_queues -= n
...
sch_direct_xmit()
	dev_hard_start_xmit()
		ndo_start_xmit(skb,dev) => skb queue set with old hash

skbs are enqueued on the qdisc with skb->queue_mapping set
0 < queue_mappings < real_num_tx_queues.  When the driver
decreases real_num_tx_queues skb's may be dequeued from the
qdisc with a queue_mapping greater then real_num_tx_queues.

This fixes a case in ixgbe where this was occurring with DCB
and FCoE. Because the driver is using queue_mapping to map
skbs to tx descriptor rings we can potentially map skbs to
rings that no longer exist.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ross Brattain <ross.b.brattain@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-02 21:59:07 -07:00
John Fastabend 597a264b1a net: deliver skbs on inactive slaves to exact matches
Currently, the accelerated receive path for VLAN's will
drop packets if the real device is an inactive slave and
is not one of the special pkts tested for in
skb_bond_should_drop().  This behavior is different then
the non-accelerated path and for pkts over a bonded vlan.

For example,

vlanx -> bond0 -> ethx

will be dropped in the vlan path and not delivered to any
packet handlers at all.  However,

bond0 -> vlanx -> ethx

and

bond0 -> ethx

will be delivered to handlers that match the exact dev,
because the VLAN path checks the real_dev which is not a
slave and netif_recv_skb() doesn't drop frames but only
delivers them to exact matches.

This patch adds a sk_buff flag which is used for tagging
skbs that would previously been dropped and allows the
skb to continue to skb_netif_recv().  Here we add
logic to check for the deliver_no_wcard flag and if it
is set only deliver to handlers that match exactly.  This
makes both paths above consistent and gives pkt handlers
a way to identify skbs that come from inactive slaves.
Without this patch in some configurations skbs will be
delivered to handlers with exact matches and in others
be dropped out right in the vlan path.

I have tested the following 4 configurations in failover modes
and load balancing modes.

# bond0 -> ethx

# vlanx -> bond0 -> ethx

# bond0 -> vlanx -> ethx

# bond0 -> ethx
            |
  vlanx -> --

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-10 22:23:34 -07:00
Tim Gardner 08c801f8d4 net: Print num_rx_queues imbalance warning only when there are allocated queues
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/591416

There are a number of network drivers (bridge, bonding, etc) that are not yet
receive multi-queue enabled and use alloc_netdev(), so don't print a
num_rx_queues imbalance warning in that case.

Also, only print the warning once for those drivers that _are_ multi-queue
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
2010-06-09 13:46:03 -06:00
John Fastabend 2df4a0fa15 net: fix conflict between null_or_orig and null_or_bond
If a skb is received on an inactive bond that does not meet
the special cases checked for by skb_bond_should_drop it should
only be delivered to exact matches as the comment in
netif_receive_skb() says.

However because null_or_bond could also be null this is not
always true.  This patch renames null_or_bond to orig_or_bond
and initializes it to orig_dev.  This keeps the intent of
null_or_bond to pass frames received on VLAN interfaces stacked
on bonding interfaces without invalidating the statement for
null_or_orig.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-02 03:35:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b1cdc4670b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (63 commits)
  drivers/net/usb/asix.c: Fix pointer cast.
  be2net: Bug fix to avoid disabling bottom half during firmware upgrade.
  proc_dointvec: write a single value
  hso: add support for new products
  Phonet: fix potential use-after-free in pep_sock_close()
  ath9k: remove VEOL support for ad-hoc
  ath9k: change beacon allocation to prefer the first beacon slot
  sock.h: fix kernel-doc warning
  cls_cgroup: Fix build error when built-in
  macvlan: do proper cleanup in macvlan_common_newlink() V2
  be2net: Bug fix in init code in probe
  net/dccp: expansion of error code size
  ath9k: Fix rx of mcast/bcast frames in PS mode with auto sleep
  wireless: fix sta_info.h kernel-doc warnings
  wireless: fix mac80211.h kernel-doc warnings
  iwlwifi: testing the wrong variable in iwl_add_bssid_station()
  ath9k_htc: rare leak in ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_tx_urbs()
  ath9k_htc: dereferencing before check in hif_usb_tx_cb()
  rt2x00: Fix rt2800usb TX descriptor writing.
  rt2x00: Fix failed SLEEP->AWAKE and AWAKE->SLEEP transitions.
  ...
2010-05-25 16:59:51 -07:00
Daniel Lezcano 8ce6cebc2f net-2.6 : V2 - fix dev_get_valid_name
the commit:

commit d90310243f
Author: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 18 02:36:59 2009 +0000

    net: device name allocation cleanups

introduced a bug when there is a hash collision making impossible
to rename a device with eth%d. This bug is very hard to reproduce
and appears rarely.

The problem is coming from we don't pass a temporary buffer to
__dev_alloc_name but 'dev->name' which is modified by the function.

A detailed explanation is here:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127417784011987&w=2

Changelog:
 V2 : replaced strings comparison by pointers comparison

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-23 23:24:36 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman a1b3f594dc net: Expose all network devices in a namespaces in sysfs
This reverts commit aaf8cdc34d.

Drivers like the ipw2100 call device_create_group when they
are initialized and device_remove_group when they are shutdown.
Moving them between namespaces deletes their sysfs groups early.

In particular the following call chain results.
netdev_unregister_kobject -> device_del -> kobject_del -> sysfs_remove_dir
With sysfs_remove_dir recursively deleting all of it's subdirectories,
and nothing adding them back.

Ouch!

Therefore we need to call something that ultimate calls sysfs_mv_dir
as that sysfs function can move sysfs directories between namespaces
without deleting their subdirectories or their contents.   Allowing
us to avoid placing extra boiler plate into every driver that does
something interesting with sysfs.

Currently the function that provides that capability is device_rename.
That is the code works without nasty side effects as originally written.

So remove the misguided fix for moving devices between namespaces.  The
bug in the kobject layer that inspired it has now been recognized and
fixed.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:34 -07:00
Tom Herbert 76cc8b13a6 net: fix problem in dequeuing from input_pkt_queue
Fix some issues introduced in batch skb dequeuing for input_pkt_queue.
The primary issue it that the queue head must be incremented only
after a packet has been processed, that is only after
__netif_receive_skb has been called.  This is needed for the mechanism
to prevent OOO packet in RFS.  Also when flushing the input_pkt_queue
and process_queue, the process queue should be done first to prevent
OOO packets.

Because the input_pkt_queue has been effectively split into two queues,
the calculation of the tail ptr is no longer correct.  The correct value
would be head+input_pkt_queue->len+process_queue->len.  To avoid
this calculation we added an explict input_queue_tail in softnet_data.
The tail value is simply incremented when queuing to input_pkt_queue.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-21 00:38:33 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 7fee226ad2 net: add a noref bit on skb dst
Use low order bit of skb->_skb_dst to tell dst is not refcounted.

Change _skb_dst to _skb_refdst to make sure all uses are catched.

skb_dst() returns the dst, regardless of noref bit set or not, but
with a lockdep check to make sure a noref dst is not given if current
user is not rcu protected.

New skb_dst_set_noref() helper to set an notrefcounted dst on a skb.
(with lockdep check)

skb_dst_drop() drops a reference only if skb dst was refcounted.

skb_dst_force() helper is used to force a refcount on dst, when skb
is queued and not anymore RCU protected.

Use skb_dst_force() in __sk_add_backlog(), __dev_xmit_skb() if
!IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE or skb enqueued on qdisc queue, in
sock_queue_rcv_skb(), in __nf_queue().

Use skb_dst_force() in dev_requeue_skb().

Note: dst_use_noref() still dirties dst, we might transform it
later to do one dirtying per jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:18:50 -07:00
Eric Dumazet ebda37c27d rps: avoid one atomic in enqueue_to_backlog
If CONFIG_SMP=y, then we own a queue spinlock, we can avoid the atomic
test_and_set_bit() from napi_schedule_prep().

We now have same number of atomic ops per netif_rx() calls than with
pre-RPS kernel.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:18:50 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 3b098e2d7c net: Consistent skb timestamping
With RPS inclusion, skb timestamping is not consistent in RX path.

If netif_receive_skb() is used, its deferred after RPS dispatch.

If netif_rx() is used, its done before RPS dispatch.

This can give strange tcpdump timestamps results.

I think timestamping should be done as soon as possible in the receive
path, to get meaningful values (ie timestamps taken at the time packet
was delivered by NIC driver to our stack), even if NAPI already can
defer timestamping a bit (RPS can help to reduce the gap)

Tom Herbert prefer to sample timestamps after RPS dispatch. In case
sampling is expensive (HPET/acpi_pm on x86), this makes sense.

Let admins switch from one mode to another, using a new
sysctl, /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_tstamp_prequeue

Its default value (1), means timestamps are taken as soon as possible,
before backlog queueing, giving accurate timestamps.

Setting a 0 value permits to sample timestamps when processing backlog,
after RPS dispatch, to lower the load of the pre-RPS cpu.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-15 23:57:10 -07:00
Jiri Pirko a14462f1bd net: adjust handle_macvlan to pass port struct to hook
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>
2010-05-15 23:48:02 -07:00
David S. Miller 278554bd65 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/usb.c
	drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c
	net/ipv4/ipmr.c
2010-05-12 00:05:35 -07:00
Eric Dumazet eecfd7c4e3 rps: Various optimizations
Introduce ____napi_schedule() helper for callers in irq disabled
contexts. rps_trigger_softirq() becomes a leaf function.

Use container_of() in process_backlog() instead of accessing per_cpu
address.

Use a custom inlined version of __napi_complete() in process_backlog()
to avoid one locked instruction :

 only current cpu owns and manipulates this napi,
 and NAPI_STATE_SCHED is the only possible flag set on backlog.
 we can use a plain write instead of clear_bit(),
 and we dont need an smp_mb() memory barrier, since RPS is on,
 backlog is protected by a spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-06 22:07:48 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 6ec82562ff veth: Dont kfree_skb() after dev_forward_skb()
In case of congestion, netif_rx() frees the skb, so we must assume
dev_forward_skb() also consume skb.

Bug introduced by commit 445409602c
(veth: move loopback logic to common location)

We must change dev_forward_skb() to always consume skb, and veth to not
double free it.

Bug report : http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127310770900442&w=3

Reported-by: Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-06 00:53:53 -07:00
Changli Gao dee42870a4 net: fix softnet_stat
Per cpu variable softnet_data.total was shared between IRQ and SoftIRQ context
without any protection. And enqueue_to_backlog should update the netdev_rx_stat
of the target CPU.

This patch renames softnet_data.total to softnet_data.processed: the number of
packets processed in uppper levels(IP stacks).

softnet_stat data is moved into softnet_data.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
----
 include/linux/netdevice.h |   17 +++++++----------
 net/core/dev.c            |   26 ++++++++++++--------------
 net/sched/sch_generic.c   |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-02 22:26:57 -07:00
Changli Gao 6e7676c1a7 net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue
batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue to reduce potential lock
contention when RPS is enabled.

Note: in the worst case, the number of packets in a softnet_data may
be double of netdev_max_backlog.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-27 15:11:49 -07:00
Changli Gao a9cbd588fd net: reimplement softnet_data.output_queue as a FIFO queue
reimplement softnet_data.output_queue as a FIFO queue to keep the
fairness among the qdiscs rescheduled.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
----
 include/linux/netdevice.h |    1 +
 net/core/dev.c            |   22 ++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-27 14:32:12 -07:00
Changli Gao 8c52d509e8 rps: optimize rps_get_cpu()
optimize rps_get_cpu().

don't initialize ports when we can get the ports. one memory access
for ports than two.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-24 22:50:10 -07:00
David S. Miller 9ccb897594 net: Orphan and de-dst skbs earlier in xmit path.
This way GSO packets don't get handled differently.

With help from Eric Dumazet.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
2010-04-22 01:02:07 -07:00
Eric Dumazet e326bed2f4 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>
2010-04-22 00:22:45 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 9a20e3197e net: Introduce skb_orphan_try()
At this point, skb->destructor is not the original one (stored in
DEV_GSO_CB(skb)->destructor)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 22:54:08 -07:00
David S. Miller 87eb367003 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
	net/core/dev.c
2010-04-21 01:14:25 -07:00
David Howells 05d17608a6 net: Fix an RCU warning in dev_pick_tx()
Fix the following RCU warning in dev_pick_tx():

===================================================
[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
---------------------------------------------------
net/core/dev.c:1993 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
2 locks held by swapper/0:
 #0:  (&idev->mc_ifc_timer){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81039e65>] run_timer_softirq+0x17b/0x278
 #1:  (rcu_read_lock_bh){.+....}, at: [<ffffffff812ea3eb>] dev_queue_xmit+0x14e/0x4dc

stack backtrace:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.34-rc5-cachefs #4
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810516c4>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb2
 [<ffffffff812ea4f6>] dev_queue_xmit+0x259/0x4dc
 [<ffffffff812ea3eb>] ? dev_queue_xmit+0x14e/0x4dc
 [<ffffffff81052324>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
 [<ffffffff81035362>] ? local_bh_enable_ip+0xbc/0xc1
 [<ffffffff812f0954>] neigh_resolve_output+0x24b/0x27c
 [<ffffffff8134f673>] ip6_output_finish+0x7c/0xb4
 [<ffffffff81350c34>] ip6_output2+0x256/0x261
 [<ffffffff81052324>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
 [<ffffffff813517fb>] ip6_output+0xbbc/0xbcb
 [<ffffffff8135bc5d>] ? fib6_force_start_gc+0x2b/0x2d
 [<ffffffff81368acb>] mld_sendpack+0x273/0x39d
 [<ffffffff81368858>] ? mld_sendpack+0x0/0x39d
 [<ffffffff81052099>] ? mark_held_locks+0x52/0x70
 [<ffffffff813692fc>] mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x24f/0x288
 [<ffffffff81039ed6>] run_timer_softirq+0x1ec/0x278
 [<ffffffff81039e65>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x17b/0x278
 [<ffffffff813690ad>] ? mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x0/0x288
 [<ffffffff81035531>] ? __do_softirq+0x69/0x140
 [<ffffffff8103556a>] __do_softirq+0xa2/0x140
 [<ffffffff81002e0c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
 [<ffffffff81004b54>] do_softirq+0x38/0x80
 [<ffffffff81034f06>] irq_exit+0x45/0x47
 [<ffffffff810177c3>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x88/0x96
 [<ffffffff810028d3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
 <EOI>  [<ffffffff810488dd>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x86
 [<ffffffff810096bf>] ? mwait_idle+0x6e/0x78
 [<ffffffff810096b6>] ? mwait_idle+0x65/0x78
 [<ffffffff810011cb>] cpu_idle+0x4d/0x83
 [<ffffffff81380b05>] rest_init+0xb9/0xc0
 [<ffffffff81380a4c>] ? rest_init+0x0/0xc0
 [<ffffffff8168dcf0>] start_kernel+0x392/0x39d
 [<ffffffff8168d2a3>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xb3/0xb7
 [<ffffffff8168d38b>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe4/0xeb

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>
2010-04-21 01:09:44 -07:00
Jiri Pirko ab9304717f 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>
2010-04-20 01:45:37 -07:00
Eric Dumazet b249dcb82d rps: consistent rxhash
In case we compute a software skb->rxhash, we can generate a consistent
hash : Its value will be the same in both flow directions.

This helps some workloads, like conntracking, since the same state needs
to be accessed in both directions.

tbench + RFS + this patch gives better results than tbench with default
kernel configuration (no RPS, no RFS)

Also fixed some sparse warnings.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20 01:18:06 -07:00
Eric Dumazet e36fa2f7e9 rps: cleanups
struct softnet_data holds many queues, so consistent use "sd" name
instead of "queue" is better.

Adds a rps_ipi_queued() helper to cleanup enqueue_to_backlog()

Adds a _and_irq_disable suffix to net_rps_action() name, as David
suggested.

incr_input_queue_head() becomes input_queue_head_incr()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20 01:18:05 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 88751275b8 rps: shortcut net_rps_action()
net_rps_action() is a bit expensive on NR_CPUS=64..4096 kernels, even if
RPS is not active.

Tom Herbert used two bitmasks to hold information needed to send IPI,
but a single LIFO list seems more appropriate.

Move all RPS logic into net_rps_action() to cleanup net_rx_action() code
(remove two ifdefs)

Move rps_remote_softirq_cpus into softnet_data to share its first cache
line, filling an existing hole.

In a future patch, we could call net_rps_action() from process_backlog()
to make sure we send IPI before handling this cpu backlog.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-19 13:20:34 -07:00
Eric Dumazet fc6055a5ba 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().

"tbench 16" results on a Nehalem machine (2 X5570  @ 2.93GHz)
before: Throughput 4428.9 MB/sec 16 procs
after: Throughput 4448.14 MB/sec 16 procs

UDP should get even better results, its destructor being more complex,
since SOCK_USE_WRITE_QUEUE is not set (four atomic ops instead of one)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-18 02:39:41 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 9958da0501 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>
2010-04-18 02:36:13 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 8770acf049 rps: rps_sock_flow_table is mostly read
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-17 00:54:36 -07:00
Tom Herbert fec5e652e5 rfs: Receive Flow Steering
This patch implements receive flow steering (RFS).  RFS steers
received packets for layer 3 and 4 processing to the CPU where
the application for the corresponding flow is running.  RFS is an
extension of Receive Packet Steering (RPS).

The basic idea of RFS is that when an application calls recvmsg
(or sendmsg) the application's running CPU is stored in a hash
table that is indexed by the connection's rxhash which is stored in
the socket structure.  The rxhash is passed in skb's received on
the connection from netif_receive_skb.  For each received packet,
the associated rxhash is used to look up the CPU in the hash table,
if a valid CPU is set then the packet is steered to that CPU using
the RPS mechanisms.

The convolution of the simple approach is that it would potentially
allow OOO packets.  If threads are thrashing around CPUs or multiple
threads are trying to read from the same sockets, a quickly changing
CPU value in the hash table could cause rampant OOO packets--
we consider this a non-starter.

To avoid OOO packets, this solution implements two types of hash
tables: rps_sock_flow_table and rps_dev_flow_table.

rps_sock_table is a global hash table.  Each entry is just a CPU
number and it is populated in recvmsg and sendmsg as described above.
This table contains the "desired" CPUs for flows.

rps_dev_flow_table is specific to each device queue.  Each entry
contains a CPU and a tail queue counter.  The CPU is the "current"
CPU for a matching flow.  The tail queue counter holds the value
of a tail queue counter for the associated CPU's backlog queue at
the time of last enqueue for a flow matching the entry.

Each backlog queue has a queue head counter which is incremented
on dequeue, and so a queue tail counter is computed as queue head
count + queue length.  When a packet is enqueued on a backlog queue,
the current value of the queue tail counter is saved in the hash
entry of the rps_dev_flow_table.

And now the trick: when selecting the CPU for RPS (get_rps_cpu)
the rps_sock_flow table and the rps_dev_flow table for the RX queue
are consulted.  When the desired CPU for the flow (found in the
rps_sock_flow table) does not match the current CPU (found in the
rps_dev_flow table), the current CPU is changed to the desired CPU
if one of the following is true:

- The current CPU is unset (equal to RPS_NO_CPU)
- Current CPU is offline
- The current CPU's queue head counter >= queue tail counter in the
rps_dev_flow table.  This checks if the queue tail has advanced
beyond the last packet that was enqueued using this table entry.
This guarantees that all packets queued using this entry have been
dequeued, thus preserving in order delivery.

Making each queue have its own rps_dev_flow table has two advantages:
1) the tail queue counters will be written on each receive, so
keeping the table local to interrupting CPU s good for locality.  2)
this allows lockless access to the table-- the CPU number and queue
tail counter need to be accessed together under mutual exclusion
from netif_receive_skb, we assume that this is only called from
device napi_poll which is non-reentrant.

This patch implements RFS for TCP and connected UDP sockets.
It should be usable for other flow oriented protocols.

There are two configuration parameters for RFS.  The
"rps_flow_entries" kernel init parameter sets the number of
entries in the rps_sock_flow_table, the per rxqueue sysfs entry
"rps_flow_cnt" contains the number of entries in the rps_dev_flow
table for the rxqueue.  Both are rounded to power of two.

The obvious benefit of RFS (over just RPS) is that it achieves
CPU locality between the receive processing for a flow and the
applications processing; this can result in increased performance
(higher pps, lower latency).

The benefits of RFS are dependent on cache hierarchy, application
load, and other factors.  On simple benchmarks, we don't necessarily
see improvement and sometimes see degradation.  However, for more
complex benchmarks and for applications where cache pressure is
much higher this technique seems to perform very well.

Below are some benchmark results which show the potential benfit of
this patch.  The netperf test has 500 instances of netperf TCP_RR
test with 1 byte req. and resp.  The RPC test is an request/response
test similar in structure to netperf RR test ith 100 threads on
each host, but does more work in userspace that netperf.

e1000e on 8 core Intel
   No RFS or RPS		104K tps at 30% CPU
   No RFS (best RPS config):    290K tps at 63% CPU
   RFS				303K tps at 61% CPU

RPC test	tps	CPU%	50/90/99% usec latency	Latency StdDev
  No RFS/RPS	103K	48%	757/900/3185		4472.35
  RPS only:	174K	73%	415/993/2468		491.66
  RFS		223K	73%	379/651/1382		315.61

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-16 16:01:27 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 8728c544a9 net: dev_pick_tx() fix
When dev_pick_tx() caches tx queue_index on a socket, we must check
socket dst_entry matches skb one, or risk a crash later, as reported by
Denys Fedorysychenko, if old packets are in flight during a route
change, involving devices with different number of queues.

Bug introduced by commit a4ee3ce3
(net: Use sk_tx_queue_mapping for connected sockets)

Reported-by: Denys Fedorysychenko <nuclearcat@nuclearcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-15 01:27:11 -07:00
Eric Dumazet b0e28f1eff net: netif_rx() must disable preemption
Eric Paris reported netif_rx() is calling smp_processor_id() from
preemptible context, in particular when caller is
ip_dev_loopback_xmit().

RPS commit added this smp_processor_id() call, this patch makes sure
preemption is disabled. rps_get_cpus() wants rcu_read_lock() anyway, we
can dot it a bit earlier.

Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-15 00:14:07 -07:00
Eric Dumazet acbbc07145 net: uninline skb_bond_should_drop()
skb_bond_should_drop() is too big to be inlined.

This patch reduces kernel text size, and its compilation time as well
(shrinking include/linux/netdevice.h)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-13 03:32:42 -07:00
Eric Dumazet b6c6712a42 net: sk_dst_cache RCUification
With latest CONFIG_PROVE_RCU stuff, I felt more comfortable to make this
work.

sk->sk_dst_cache is currently protected by a rwlock (sk_dst_lock)

This rwlock is readlocked for a very small amount of time, and dst
entries are already freed after RCU grace period. This calls for RCU
again :)

This patch converts sk_dst_lock to a spinlock, and use RCU for readers.

__sk_dst_get() is supposed to be called with rcu_read_lock() or if
socket locked by user, so use appropriate rcu_dereference_check()
condition (rcu_read_lock_held() || sock_owned_by_user(sk))

This patch avoids two atomic ops per tx packet on UDP connected sockets,
for example, and permits sk_dst_lock to be much less dirtied.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-13 01:41:33 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 7a161ea924 net: Dont use netdev_warn()
Dont use netdev_warn() in dev_cap_txqueue() and get_rps_cpu() so that we
can catch following warnings without crash.

bond0.2240 received packet on queue 6, but number of RX queues is 1
bond0.2240 received packet on queue 11, but number of RX queues is 1

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-13 01:41:32 -07:00
David S. Miller 871039f02f Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
	net/core/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
Eric Dumazet e4008276fd net: Add a missing local_irq_enable()
As noticed by Changli Gao, we must call local_irq_enable() after
rps_unlock()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-05 15:42:39 -07:00
Tom Herbert 5a6d234e73 rps: fixed missed rps_unlock
Fix spin_unlock_irq which needs to be rps_unlock.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-05 14:37:55 -07:00
Jiri Pirko 22bedad3ce net: convert multicast list to list_head
Converts the list and the core manipulating with it to be the same as uc_list.

+uses two functions for adding/removing mc address (normal and "global"
 variant) instead of a function parameter.
+removes dev_mcast.c completely.
+exposes netdev_hw_addr_list_* macros along with __hw_addr_* functions for
 manipulation with lists on a sandbox (used in bonding and 80211 drivers)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-03 14:22:15 -07:00
Jiri Pirko a748ee2426 net: move address list functions to a separate file
+little renaming of unicast functions to be smooth with multicast ones

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-03 14:22:11 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 9092c658ba net: illegal_highdma() fix
Followup to commit 5acbbd428d
(net: change illegal_highdma to use dma_mask)

If dev->dev.parent is NULL, we should not try to dereference it.

Dont force inline illegal_highdma() as its pretty big now.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-02 13:34:49 -07:00
FUJITA Tomonori 5acbbd428d net: change illegal_highdma to use dma_mask
Robert Hancock pointed out two problems about NETIF_F_HIGHDMA:

-Many drivers only set the flag when they detect they can use 64-bit DMA,
since otherwise they could receive DMA addresses that they can't handle
(which on platforms without IOMMU/SWIOTLB support is fatal). This means that if
64-bit support isn't available, even buffers located below 4GB will get copied
unnecessarily.

-Some drivers set the flag even though they can't actually handle 64-bit DMA,
which would mean that on platforms without IOMMU/SWIOTLB they would get a DMA
mapping error if the memory they received happened to be located above 4GB.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/3/530

We can use the dma_mask if we need bouncing or not here. Then we can
safely fix drivers that misuse NETIF_F_HIGHDMA.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-01 19:53:12 -07:00
Changli Gao 152102c7f2 rps: keep the old behavior on SMP without rps
keep the old behavior on SMP without rps

RPS introduces a lock operation to per cpu variable input_pkt_queue on
SMP whenever rps is enabled or not. On SMP without RPS, this lock isn't
needed at all.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
----
net/core/dev.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-01 18:41:40 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Eric Dumazet 10f744d205 net: __netif_receive_skb should be static
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-28 23:07:20 -07:00
Eric Dumazet df3345457a rps: add CONFIG_RPS
RPS currently depends on SMP and SYSFS

Adding a CONFIG_RPS makes sense in case this requirement changes in the
future. This patch saves about 1500 bytes of kernel text in case SMP is
on but SYSFS is off.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-25 12:07:00 -07:00
Tom Herbert e51d739ab7 net: Fix locking in flush_backlog
Need to take spinlocks when dequeuing from input_pkt_queue in flush_backlog.
Also, flush_backlog can now be called directly from netdev_run_todo.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-23 23:17:18 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 99fe3c391d net: dev_getfirstbyhwtype() optimization
Use RCU to avoid RTNL use in dev_getfirstbyhwtype()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-21 20:33:36 -07:00