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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ilpo Järvinen
81146ec1b8 tcp: document tcp_max_ssthresh (Limited Slow-Start)
Base on Ilpo's patch about documenting tcp_max_ssthresh.
(see http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=117950581307310&w=2)

According to errata of RFC3742, fix the number of segments increased
during RTT time.

Just to state the occasion to use this parameter, But
about how to set parameter value, maybe some others can do it.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-20 11:10:14 -08:00
Peter Chubb
34a6ef381d tcp_ecn is an integer not a boolean
There was some confusion at LCA as to why the sysctl tcp_ecn took one
of three values when it was documented as a Boolean.  This patch fixes
the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@nicta.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-02 15:39:58 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
cc6f02dd49 net: change ip_default_ttl documentation
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-13 12:50:49 -08:00
David S. Miller
fe6c791570 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c
	net/llc/af_llc.c
2010-12-08 13:47:38 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
0147fc058d tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale (#20312)
tcp_win_from_space() does the following:

      if (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale <= 0)
              return space >> (-sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale);
      else
              return space - (space >> sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale);

"space" is int.

As per C99 6.5.7 (3) shifting int for 32 or more bits is
undefined behaviour.

Indeed, if sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is exactly 32,
space >> 32 equals space and function returns 0.

Which means we busyloop in tcp_fixup_rcvbuf().

Restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale to [-31, 31].

Fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20312

Steps to reproduce:

      echo 32 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_adv_win_scale
      wget www.kernel.org
      [softlockup]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-28 10:39:45 -08:00
Jeremy Eder
d67ef35fff clarify documentation for net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships
This patch helps clarify documentation for
net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships by providing a formula for
calculating the maximum number of multicast groups that can be
subscribed to, plus defining the theoretical limit.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-17 11:22:06 -08:00
Ben Greear
cbaf087a9f docs: Add neigh/gc_thresh3 and route/max_size documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-12 14:03:20 -08:00
Thomas Graf
ae8abfa00e ipv6: Update ip-sysctl.txt documentation for recent changes to accept_ra and forwarding
Documentation for recent changes to the tunables accept_ra and
forwarding.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-03 09:43:15 -07:00
Ian Campbell
3f8dc2362f arp_notify: document that a gratuitous ARP request is sent when this option is enabled
This option causes a gratuitous ARP request, not a reply as the documentation
currently suggests.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-31 00:24:55 -07:00
Amerigo Wang
e3826f1e94 net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers
(Dropped the infiniband part, because Tetsuo modified the related code,
I will send a separate patch for it once this is accepted.)

This patch introduces /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports which
allows users to reserve ports for third-party applications.

The reserved ports will not be used by automatic port assignments
(e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port number 0). Explicit
port allocation behavior is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-15 23:28:40 -07:00
David S. Miller
0448873480 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-02-25 23:22:42 -08:00
Brian Haley
e79dc48431 IPv6: better document max_addresses parameter
Andrew Morton wrote:
>> >From ip-sysctl.txt file in kernel documentation I can see following description
>> for max_addresses:
>> max_addresses - INTEGER
>>         Number of maximum addresses per interface.  0 disables limitation.
>>         It is recommended not set too large value (or 0) because it would
>>         be too easy way to crash kernel to allow to create too much of
>>         autoconfigured addresses.
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>> If this parameter applies only for auto-configured IP addressed, please state
>> it more clearly in docs or rename the parameter to show that it refers to
>> auto-configuration.

It did mention autoconfigured in the text, but the below makes it more obvious.

More clearly document IPv6 max_addresses parameter.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-23 01:25:00 -08:00
Andreas Petlund
7e38017557 net: TCP thin dupack
This patch enables fast retransmissions after one dupACK for
TCP if the stream is identified as thin. This will reduce
latencies for thin streams that are not able to trigger fast
retransmissions due to high packet interarrival time. This
mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol
and the stream is identified as thin.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18 15:43:09 -08:00
Andreas Petlund
36e31b0af5 net: TCP thin linear timeouts
This patch will make TCP use only linear timeouts if the
stream is thin. This will help to avoid the very high latencies
that thin stream suffer because of exponential backoff. This
mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol
and the stream is identified as thin. A maximum of 6 linear
timeouts is tried before exponential backoff is resumed.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18 15:43:08 -08:00
Octavian Purdila
6d955180b2 ipv4: allow warming up the ARP cache with request type gratuitous ARP
If the per device ARP_ACCEPT option is enable, currently we only allow
creating new ARP cache entries for response type gratuitous ARP.

Allowing gratuitous ARP to create new ARP entries (not only to update
existing ones) is useful when we want to avoid unnecessary delays for
the first packet of a stream.

This patch allows request type gratuitous ARP to create new ARP cache
entries as well. This is useful when we want to populate the ARP cache
entries for a large number of hosts on the same LAN.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-19 02:12:34 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
65324144b5 net: RFC3069, private VLAN proxy arp support
This is to be used together with switch technologies, like RFC3069,
that where the individual ports are not allowed to communicate with
each other, but they are allowed to talk to the upstream router.  As
described in RFC 3069, it is possible to allow these hosts to
communicate through the upstream router by proxy_arp'ing.

This patch basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same
interface (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).

Tunable per device via proc "proxy_arp_pvlan":
  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/proxy_arp_pvlan

This switch technology is known by different vendor names:
 - In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
 - Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
 - Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
 - Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-07 00:59:09 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
8153a10c08 ipv4 05/05: add sysctl to accept packets with local source addresses
commit 8ec1e0ebe26087bfc5c0394ada5feb5758014fc8
Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date:   Thu Dec 3 12:16:35 2009 +0100

    ipv4: add sysctl to accept packets with local source addresses

    Change fib_validate_source() to accept packets with a local source address when
    the "accept_local" sysctl is set for the incoming inet device. Combined with the
    previous patches, this allows to communicate between multiple local interfaces
    over the wire.

    Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-03 12:14:38 -08:00
William Allen Simpson
519855c508 TCPCT part 1c: sysctl_tcp_cookie_size, socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS
Define sysctl (tcp_cookie_size) to turn on and off the cookie option
default globally, instead of a compiled configuration option.

Define per socket option (TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS) for setting constant
data values, retrieving variable cookie values, and other facilities.

Move inline tcp_clear_options() unchanged from net/tcp.h to linux/tcp.h,
near its corresponding struct tcp_options_received (prior to changes).

This is a straightforward re-implementation of an earlier (year-old)
patch that no longer applies cleanly, with permission of the original
author (Adam Langley):

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/102586

These functions will also be used in subsequent patches that implement
additional features.

Requires:
   net: TCP_MSS_DEFAULT, TCP_MSS_DESIRED

Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-02 22:07:24 -08:00
David S. Miller
e00484023e Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-12-02 22:00:34 -08:00
Shan Wei
1f5865e73f ip: update the description of rp_filter in ip-sysctl.txt
The commit 27fed4175a (ip: fix logic of
reverse path filter sysctl) has changed the logic of rp_filter.  The
document about rp_filter is out of date. Now, setting
conf/all/rp_filte with 0 can also enable source validation.

Update the document according to the commit.

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-02 15:39:04 -08:00
Octavian Purdila
f7734fdf61 make TLLAO option for NA packets configurable
On Friday 02 October 2009 20:53:51 you wrote:

> This is good although I would have shortened the name.

Ah, I knew I forgot something :) Here is v4.

tavi

>From 24d96d825b9fa832b22878cc6c990d5711968734 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:51:15 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: new sysctl for sending TLLAO with unicast NAs

Neighbor advertisements responding to unicast neighbor solicitations
did not include the target link-layer address option. This patch adds
a new sysctl option (disabled by default) which controls whether this
option should be sent even with unicast NAs.

The need for this arose because certain routers expect the TLLAO in
some situations even as a response to unicast NS packets.

Moreover, RFC 2461 recommends sending this to avoid a race condition
(section 4.4, Target link-layer address)

Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07 01:10:45 -07:00
Bhaskar Dutta
723884339f sctp: Sysctl configuration for IPv4 Address Scoping
This patch introduces a new sysctl option to make IPv4 Address Scoping
configurable <draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00.txt>.

In networking environments where DNAT rules in iptables prerouting
chains convert destination IP's to link-local/private IP addresses,
SCTP connections fail to establish as the INIT chunk is dropped by the
kernel due to address scope match failure.
For example to support overlapping IP addresses (same IP address with
different vlan id) a Layer-5 application listens on link local IP's,
and there is a DNAT rule that maps the destination IP to a link local
IP. Such applications never get the SCTP INIT if the address-scoping
draft is strictly followed.

This sysctl configuration allows SCTP to function in such
unconventional networking environments.

Sysctl options:
0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping draft altogether
1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping (default, current behavior)
2 - Enable address scoping but allow IPv4 private addresses in init/init-ack
3 - Enable address scoping but allow IPv4 link local address in init/init-ack

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Dutta <bhaskar.dutta@globallogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04 18:21:01 -04:00
Damian Lukowski
5d7892298a RTO connection timeout: sysctl documentation update
This patch updates the sysctl documentation concerning the interpretation
of tcp_retries{1,2} and tcp_orphan_retries.

Signed-off-by: Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 17:40:50 -07:00
Brian Haley
56d417b12e IPv6: Add 'autoconf' and 'disable_ipv6' module parameters
Add 'autoconf' and 'disable_ipv6' parameters to the IPv6 module.

The first controls if IPv6 addresses are autoconfigured from
prefixes received in Router Advertisements.  The IPv6 loopback
(::1) and link-local addresses are still configured.

The second controls if IPv6 addresses are desired at all.  No
IPv6 addresses will be added to any interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-01 03:07:33 -07:00
David S. Miller
bb803cfbec Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
2009-05-18 21:08:20 -07:00
Wang Tinggong
705efc3b03 Doc: fixed descriptions on /proc/sys/net/core/* and /proc/sys/net/unix/*
Signed-off-by: Wang Tinggong <wangtinggong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-17 21:19:31 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
255cac91c3 tcp: extend ECN sysctl to allow server-side only ECN
This should be very safe compared with full enabled, so I see
no reason why it shouldn't be done right away. As ECN can only
be negotiated if the SYN sending party is also supporting it,
somebody in the loop probably knows what he/she is doing. If
SYN does not ask for ECN, the server side SYN-ACK is identical
to what it is without ECN. Thus it's quite safe.

The chosen value is safe w.r.t to existing configs which
choose to currently set manually either 0 or 1 but
silently upgrades those who have not explicitly requested
ECN off.

Whether to just enable both sides comes up time to time but
unless that gets done now we can at least make the servers
aware of ECN already. As there are some known problems to occur
if ECN is enabled, it's currently questionable whether there's
any real gain from enabling clients as servers mostly won't
support it anyway (so we'd hit just the negative sides). After
enabling the servers and getting that deployed, the client end
enable really has some potential gain too.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-04 11:07:36 -07:00
Brian Haley
9bdd8d40c8 ipv6: Fix incorrect disable_ipv6 behavior
Fix the behavior of allowing both sysctl and addrconf_dad_failure()
to set the disable_ipv6 parameter without any bad side-effects.
If DAD fails and accept_dad > 1, we will still set disable_ipv6=1,
but then instead of allowing an RA to add an address then
immediately fail DAD, we simply don't allow the address to be
added in the first place.  This also lets the user set this flag
and disable all IPv6 addresses on the interface, or on the entire
system.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-18 18:22:48 -07:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
e18f5feb0c Doc: Cleanup whitespaces in ip-sysctl.txt
Fix up whitespaces while going though ip-sysctl.txt anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 03:47:41 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
bf869c3062 Doc: Fix typos in ip-sysctl.txt about rp_filter.
First fix a typo in Stephens patch ;-)

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 03:47:41 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
c1cf8422f0 ip: add loose reverse path filtering
Extend existing reverse path filter option to allow strict or loose
filtering. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_path_filtering).

For compatibility with existing usage, the value 1 is chosen for strict mode
and 2 for loose mode.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:45 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
eefef1cf76 net: add ARP notify option for devices
This adds another inet device option to enable gratuitous ARP
when device is brought up or address change. This is handy for
clusters or virtualization.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-01 01:04:33 -08:00
Neil Horman
1080d709fb net: implement emergency route cache rebulds when gc_elasticity is exceeded
This is a patch to provide on demand route cache rebuilding.  Currently, our
route cache is rebulid periodically regardless of need.  This introduced
unneeded periodic latency.  This patch offers a better approach.  Using code
provided by Eric Dumazet, we compute the standard deviation of the average hash
bucket chain length while running rt_check_expire.  Should any given chain
length grow to larger that average plus 4 standard deviations, we trigger an
emergency hash table rebuild for that net namespace.  This allows for the common
case in which chains are well behaved and do not grow unevenly to not incur any
latency at all, while those systems (which may be being maliciously attacked),
only rebuild when the attack is detected.  This patch take 2 other factors into
account:
1) chains with multiple entries that differ by attributes that do not affect the
hash value are only counted once, so as not to unduly bias system to rebuilding
if features like QOS are heavily used
2) if rebuilding crosses a certain threshold (which is adjustable via the added
sysctl in this patch), route caching is disabled entirely for that net
namespace, since constant rebuilding is less efficient that no caching at all

Tested successfully by me.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-27 17:06:14 -07:00
David S. Miller
2aec609fb4 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
2008-07-14 20:23:54 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
4edc2f3416 ip: sysctl documentation cleanup
Reduced version of the spelling cleanup patch.

Take out the confusing language in tcp_frto, and organize the
undocumented values.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-10 16:50:26 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
53025f5efd Documentation: clarify tcp_{r,w}mem sysctl docs
Fix some of the defaults and attempt to clarify some language.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-10 16:47:41 -07:00
Vlad Yasevich
32e8d4948b sctp: Add documentation for sctp sysctl variable
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 16:43:29 -07:00
David S. Miller
ea2aca084b Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2008-07-05 23:08:07 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
1b34be74cb ipv6 addrconf: add accept_dad sysctl to control DAD operation.
- If 0, disable DAD.
- If 1, perform DAD (default).
- If >1, perform DAD and disable IPv6 operation if DAD for MAC-based
  link-local address has been failed (RFC4862 5.4.5).

We do not follow RFC4862 by default.  Refer to the netdev thread entitled
"Linux IPv6 DAD not full conform to RFC 4862 ?"
	http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg52027.html

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-07-03 17:51:56 +09:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
778d80be52 ipv6: Add disable_ipv6 sysctl to disable IPv6 operaion on specific interface.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-07-03 17:51:55 +09:00
Stephen Hemminger
6dbf4bcac9 icmp: fix units for ratelimit
Convert the sysctl values for icmp ratelimit to use milliseconds instead
of jiffies which is based on kernel configured HZ.
Internal kernel jiffies are not a proper unit for any userspace API.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-01 19:29:07 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
77a538d5aa ipv4: fix sysctl documentation of time related values
These sysctl values are time related and all use the same routine
(proc_dointvec_jiffies) that internally converts from seconds to jiffies.
The code is fine, the documentation is just wrong.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-01 17:22:48 -07:00
Hideo Aoki
95766fff6b [UDP]: Add memory accounting.
Signed-off-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:19 -08:00
Ryousei Takano
564262c1f0 [TCP]: Fix inconsistency of terms.
Fix inconsistency of terms:
1) D-SACK
2) F-RTO

Signed-off-by: Ryousei Takano <takano-ryousei@aist.go.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-25 23:03:52 -07:00
Simon Arlott
0f035b8e84 spelling fixes: Documentation/
Spelling fixes in Documentation/.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:30:25 +02:00
Ilpo Järvinen
cd99889c61 [TCP] FRTO: Update sysctl documentation
Since the SACK enhanced FRTO was added, the code has been
under test numerous times so remove "experimental" claim
from the documentation. Also be a bit more verbose about
the usage.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e030dbf91a Merge branch 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop
* 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop: (28 commits)
  ioatdma: add the unisys "i/oat" pci vendor/device id
  ARM: Add drivers/dma to arch/arm/Kconfig
  iop3xx: surface the iop3xx DMA and AAU units to the iop-adma driver
  iop13xx: surface the iop13xx adma units to the iop-adma driver
  dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines
  md: remove raid5 compute_block and compute_parity5
  md: handle_stripe5 - request io processing in raid5_run_ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async expand ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async read ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async check ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async compute ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async write ops
  md: common infrastructure for running operations with raid5_run_ops
  md: raid5_run_ops - run stripe operations outside sh->lock
  raid5: replace custom debug PRINTKs with standard pr_debug
  raid5: refactor handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6 (v3)
  async_tx: add the async_tx api
  xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx
  dmaengine: make clients responsible for managing channels
  dmaengine: refactor dmaengine around dma_async_tx_descriptor
  ...
2007-07-13 10:52:27 -07:00
Chris Leech
72d0b7a81d I/OAT: Add documentation for the tcp_dma_copybreak sysctl
Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
2007-07-11 15:39:05 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
bb4dbf9e61 [IPV6]: Do not send RH0 anymore.
Based on <draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-rh0-00.txt>.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:55:49 -07:00
Michael Milner
516299d2f5 [NETFILTER]: bridge-nf: filter bridged IPv4/IPv6 encapsulated in pppoe traffic
The attached patch by Michael Milner adds support for using iptables and
ip6tables on bridged traffic encapsulated in ppoe frames, similar to
what's already supported for vlan.

Signed-off-by: Michael Milner <milner@blissisland.ca>
Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:57 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
89808060b7 [TCP] Sysctl documentation: tcp_frto_response
In addition, fixed minor things in tcp_frto sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:24 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
127af0c44f [TCP] FRTO: Sysctl documentation for SACK enhanced version
The description is overly verbose to avoid ambiguity between
"SACK enabled" and "SACK enhanced FRTO"

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:17 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
0bcbc92629 [IPV6]: Disallow RH0 by default.
A security issue is emerging.  Disallow Routing Header Type 0 by default
as we have been doing for IPv4.
Note: We allow RH2 by default because it is harmless.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-24 14:58:30 -07:00
John Heffner
71599cd1c3 [TCP]: Document several sysctls.
This adds documentation for tcp_moderate_rcvbuf, tcp_no_metrics_save,
tcp_base_mss, and tcp_mtu_probing.

Signed-off-by: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-28 09:42:15 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
ef56e622c6 [NET] ip-sysctl.txt: Alphabetize.
Rearrange TCP entries in alpha order.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:21:51 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
ce7bc3bf15 [TCP]: Restrict congestion control choices.
Allow normal users to only choose among a restricted set of congestion
control choices.  The default is reno and what ever has been configured
as default. But the policy can be changed by administrator at any time.

For example, to allow any choice:
    cp /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_available_congestion_control \
       /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_allowed_congestion_control

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:21:49 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
3ff825b28d [TCP]: Add tcp_available_congestion_control sysctl.
Create /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_available_congestion_control
that reflects currently available TCP choices.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:21:48 -08:00
Matt LaPlante
d6bc8ac9e1 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'Q'-'R'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:54:15 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
2fe0ae78c6 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:50:39 +02:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
fbea49e1e2 [IPV6] NDISC: Add proxy_ndp sysctl.
We do not always need proxy NDP functionality even we
enable forwarding.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:20:25 -07:00
Paul Moore
8802f616f6 [NetLabel]: documentation
Documentation for the NetLabel system, this includes a basic overview
of how NetLabel works, how LSM developers can integrate it into their
favorite LSM, as well as documentation on the CIPSO related sysctl
variables.  Also, due to the difficulty of finding expired IETF
drafts, I am including the IETF CIPSO draft that is the basis of the
NetLabel CIPSO implementation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:31 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
b3a8a40da5 [TCP]: Turn ABC off.
Turn Appropriate Byte Count off by default because it unfairly
penalizes applications that do small writes.  Add better documentation
to describe what it is so users will understand why they might want to
turn it on.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-17 23:21:02 -07:00
Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak
fb33f82568 [NET]: Terminology in ip-sysctl.txt
this minor patch fixes the description of net.ipv4.tcp_mem sysctl
in ip-sysctl.txt - the headline names the values "min, pressure, max",
while the description uses the "low, pressure, high" values.
Both tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem descriptions use the "min, pressure, max"
values, so I have changed the tcp_mem to match this and not vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-17 16:29:50 -07:00
David S. Miller
35089bb203 [TCP]: Add tcp_slow_start_after_idle sysctl.
A lot of people have asked for a way to disable tcp_cwnd_restart(),
and it seems reasonable to add a sysctl to do that.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:53 -07:00
Rick Jones
15d99e02ba [TCP]: sysctl to allow TCP window > 32767 sans wscale
Back in the dark ages, we had to be conservative and only allow 15-bit
window fields if the window scale option was not negotiated.  Some
ancient stacks used a signed 16-bit quantity for the window field of
the TCP header and would get confused.

Those days are long gone, so we can use the full 16-bits by default
now.

There is a sysctl added so that we can still interact with such old
stacks

Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:40:29 -08:00
Neil Horman
c1b1bce852 [IPV4] ARP: Documentation for new arp_accept sysctl variable.
As John pointed out, I had not added documentation to describe the
arp_accpet sysctl that I posted in my last patch.  This patch adds
that documentation.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:40:03 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
09c884d4c3 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen sysctl.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:07:03 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
52e1635631 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add router_probe_interval sysctl.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:05:47 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
930d6ff2e2 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add accept_ra_rtr_pref sysctl.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:05:30 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
c4fd30eb18 [IPV6]: ADDRCONF: Add accept_ra_pinfo sysctl.
This controls whether we accept Prefix Information in RAs.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 16:55:26 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
65f5c7c114 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add accept_ra_defrtr sysctl.
This controls whether we accept default router information
in RAs.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 16:55:08 -08:00
Horms
95f7daf1c0 [IPV4]: Document icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr sysctl
Taken largely from the commit of the patch that added this feature:

1c2fb7f93c

I'm not sure about the ordering of the options in sysctl.txt,
so I took a wild guess about where it fits.
    
Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-02 17:02:25 -08:00
Herbert Xu
89cee8b1cb [IPV4]: Safer reassembly
Another spin of Herbert Xu's "safer ip reassembly" patch
for 2.6.16.

(The original patch is here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=112281936522415&w=2
and my only contribution is to have tested it.)

This patch (optionally) does additional checks before accepting IP
fragments, which can greatly reduce the possibility of reassembling
fragments which originated from different IP datagrams.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:31 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
9772efb970 [TCP]: Appropriate Byte Count support
This is an updated version of the RFC3465 ABC patch originally
for Linux 2.6.11-rc4 by Yee-Ting Li. ABC is a way of counting
bytes ack'd rather than packets when updating congestion control.

The orignal ABC described in the RFC applied to a Reno style
algorithm. For advanced congestion control there is little
change after leaving slow start.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:09:53 -08:00
Akinobu Mita
e83b860539 [TCP]: fix tcp_tso_win_divisor documentation
The default value for tcp_tso_win_divisor is 3.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-29 02:16:31 -02:00
David S. Miller
7ce312467e [IPV4]: Update icmp sysctl docs and disable broadcast ECHO/TIMESTAMP by default
It's not a good idea to be smurf'able by default.
The few people who need this can turn it on.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-03 16:07:30 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
9d7bcfc6b8 [TCP]: Update sysctl and congestion control documentation.
Update the documentation to remove the old sysctl values and
include the new congestion control infrastructure. Includes
changes to tcp.txt by Ian McDonald.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 12:22:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00