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Eric Dumazet
8f8f103d84 net: reorder struct netdev_hw_addr
Move 'synced' and 'global_use' fields before 'refcount', to shrinks
struct netdev_hw_addr by 8 bytes (on 64bit arches).

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-19 11:24:02 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
07af7a2bfa ethtool: Add comments for valid use of flow types
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-17 16:53:23 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
be2902daee ethtool, ixgbe: Move RX n-tuple mask fixup to ethtool
The ethtool utility does not set masks for flow parameters that are
not specified, so if both value and mask are 0 then this must be
treated as equivalent to a mask with all bits set.  Currently that is
done in the only driver that implements RX n-tuple filtering, ixgbe.
Move it to the ethtool core.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-17 16:53:23 -07:00
Giuseppe CAVALLARO
ebbb293f8b stmmac: consolidate and tidy-up the COE support
The first version of the driver had hard-coded the logic
for handling the checksum offloading.
This was designed according to the chips included in
the STM platforms where:
o MAC10/100 supports no COE at all.
o GMAC fully supports RX/TX COE.

This is not good for other chip configurations where,
for example, the mac10/100 supports the tx csum in HW
or when the GMAC has no IPC.

Thanks to Johannes Stezenbach; he provided me a first
draft of this patch that only reviewed the IPC for the
GMAC devices.

This patch also helps on SPEAr platforms where the
MAC10/100 can perform the TX csum in HW.
Thanks to Deepak SIKRI for his support on this.

In the end, GMAC devices for STM platforms have
a bugged Jumbo frame support that needs to have
the Tx COE disabled for oversized frames (due to
limited buffer sizes). This information is also
passed through the driver's platform structure.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Signed-off-by: Deepak SIKRI <deepak.sikri@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-17 16:12:57 -07:00
Giuseppe CAVALLARO
dfb8fb96ae stmmac: add CSR Clock range selection
This patch adds the CSR Clock range selection.

Original patch from Johannes Stezenbach fixed the CSR
in the stmmac_mdio. We agreed to provide this through
the platform instead of.
Also thanks to Johannes for having tested it on ARM.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-17 16:12:56 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
cd13539b8b net: shrinks struct net_device
commit ab95bfe01 (net: replace hooks in __netif_receive_skb) added
rx_handler at wrong place, between two cache line aligned objects,
creating a big hole (a full cache line)

Move rx_handler and rx_handler_data before rx_queue, filling existing
hole.

Move master field in the cache line(s) used in receive path.

This saves 64 bytes (or L1_CACHE_BYTES), and avoids two possible
cache misses in receive path.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-16 21:58:44 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
95ae6b228f ipv4: ip_ptr cleanups
dev->ip_ptr is protected by rtnl and rcu.

Yet some places dont use appropriate primitives and/or locking rules.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-15 22:06:05 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
507215f8d0 Phonet: list subscribed resources via proc_fs
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-15 21:31:33 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
7417fa83c1 Phonet: hook resource routing to userspace via ioctl()'s
I wish we could use something cleaner, such as bind(). But that would
not work since resource subscription is orthogonal/in addition to the
normal object ID allocated via bind(). This is similar to multicasting
which also uses ioctl()'s.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-15 21:31:32 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
4e3d16ce5e Phonet: resource routing backend
When both destination device and object are nul, Phonet routes the
packet according to the resource field. In fact, this is the most
common pattern when sending Phonet "request" packets. In this case,
the packet is delivered to whichever endpoint (socket) has
registered the resource.

This adds a new table so that Linux processes can register their
Phonet sockets to Phonet resources, if they have adequate privileges.

(Namespace support is not implemented at the moment.)

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-15 21:31:32 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
6482f554e2 Phonet: remove dangling pipe if an endpoint is closed early
Closing a pipe endpoint is not normally allowed by the Phonet pipe,
other than as a side after-effect of removing the pipe between two
endpoints. But there is no way to prevent Linux userspace processes
from being killed or suffering from bugs, so this can still happen.
We might as well forcefully close Phonet pipe endpoints then.

The cellular modem supports only a few existing pipes at a time. So we
really should not leak them. This change instructs the modem to destroy
the pipe if either of the pipe's endpoint (Linux socket) is closed too
early.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-15 21:31:31 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
7dff59efbb net: add rtnl_dereference()
We sometime want to dereference an rcu protected pointer while
holding RTNL. Use a macro to hide all lockdep details.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-15 19:29:45 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
e0de7c93b9 ethtool: Remove unimplemented flow specification types
struct ethtool_rawip4_spec and struct ethtool_ether_spec are neither
commented nor used by any driver, so remove them.  Adjust padding in
the user-visible unions that included these structures.

Fix references to struct ethtool_rawip4_spec in
ethtool_get_rx_ntuple(), which should use struct ethtool_usrip4_spec.

struct ethtool_usrip4_spec cannot hold IPv6 host addresses and there
is no separate structure that can, so remove ETH_RX_NFC_IP6 and the
reference to it in niu.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-15 14:42:13 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
e035587305 ethtool: Complete kernel-doc comments for RX flow filter and hash control
There are now several interfaces within the ethtool API for getting
and setting RX flow filtering and hashing behaviour, most of which are
poorly documented.  This adds kernel-doc comments for all these
interfaces, based on the existing incomplete comments and on the
initial implementations.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-15 14:42:13 -07:00
Joe Perches
55b1804c67 net/irda: Use static const char * const where possible
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-14 20:22:05 -07:00
David S. Miller
e548833df8 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/main.c
2010-09-09 22:27:33 -07:00
David S. Miller
053d8f6622 Merge branch 'vhost-net' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost 2010-09-09 21:59:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
cf0ac2b8a7 Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://oss.oracle.com/git/agrover/linux-2.6 2010-09-09 14:58:11 -07:00
David S. Miller
e199e6136c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2010-09-08 23:49:04 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
719f835853 udp: add rehash on connect()
commit 30fff923 introduced in linux-2.6.33 (udp: bind() optimisation)
added a secondary hash on UDP, hashed on (local addr, local port).

Problem is that following sequence :

fd = socket(...)
connect(fd, &remote, ...)

not only selects remote end point (address and port), but also sets
local address, while UDP stack stored in secondary hash table the socket
while its local address was INADDR_ANY (or ipv6 equivalent)

Sequence is :
 - autobind() : choose a random local port, insert socket in hash tables
              [while local address is INADDR_ANY]
 - connect() : set remote address and port, change local address to IP
              given by a route lookup.

When an incoming UDP frame comes, if more than 10 sockets are found in
primary hash table, we switch to secondary table, and fail to find
socket because its local address changed.

One solution to this problem is to rehash datagram socket if needed.

We add a new rehash(struct socket *) method in "struct proto", and
implement this method for UDP v4 & v6, using a common helper.

This rehashing only takes care of secondary hash table, since primary
hash (based on local port only) is not changed.

Reported-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-08 21:45:01 -07:00
Andy Grover
905d64c89e RDS: Remove dead struct from rds.h
flows are an obsolete date type.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
2010-09-08 18:16:55 -07:00
Andy Grover
a46f561b77 RDS: rds.h: Replace u_int[size]_t with uint[size]_t
Replace e.g. u_int32_t types with the more common uint32_t.

Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
2010-09-08 18:16:54 -07:00
Andy Grover
fd128dfa50 RDS: Add rds.h to exported headers list
Also, a number of changes were made based on the assumption that
rds.h wasn't exported, so roll these back.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
2010-09-08 18:16:52 -07:00
Andy Grover
20c72bd5f5 RDS: Implement masked atomic operations
Add two CMSGs for masked versions of cswp and fadd. args
struct modified to use a union for different atomic op type's
arguments. Change IB to do masked atomic ops. Atomic op type
in rds_message similarly unionized.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
2010-09-08 18:16:51 -07:00
Andy Grover
2c3a5f9abb RDS: Add flag for silent ops. Do atomic op before RDMA
Add a flag to the API so users can indicate they want
silent operations. This is needed because silent ops
cannot be used with USE_ONCE MRs, so we can't just
assume silent.

Also, change send_xmit to do atomic op before rdma op if
both are present, and centralize the hairy logic to determine if
we want to attempt silent, or not.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
2010-09-08 18:12:06 -07:00
Andy Grover
15133f6e67 RDS: Implement atomic operations
Implement a CMSG-based interface to do FADD and CSWP ops.

Alter send routines to handle atomic ops.

Add atomic counters to stats.

Add xmit_atomic() to struct rds_transport

Inline rds_ib_send_unmap_rdma into unmap_rm

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
2010-09-08 18:11:41 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
a6e0fc8514 net: introduce rcu_dereference_rtnl
We use rcu_dereference_check(p, rcu_read_lock_held() ||
lockdep_rtnl_is_held()) several times in network stack.

More usages to come too, so its time to create a helper.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-08 14:15:32 -07:00
Joe Perches
e3634169bc include/net/raw.h: Convert raw_seq_private macro to inline
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-08 13:42:22 -07:00
Julian Anastasov
6523ce1525 ipvs: fix active FTP
- Do not create expectation when forwarding the PORT
  command to avoid blocking the connection. The problem is that
  nf_conntrack_ftp.c:help() tries to create the same expectation later in
  POST_ROUTING and drops the packet with "dropping packet" message after
  failure in nf_ct_expect_related.

- Change ip_vs_update_conntrack to alter the conntrack
  for related connections from real server. If we do not alter the reply in
  this direction the next packet from client sent to vport 20 comes as NEW
  connection. We alter it but may be some collision happens for both
  conntracks and the second conntrack gets destroyed immediately. The
  connection stucks too.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-08 10:39:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d56557af19 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: bus speed strings should be const
  PCI hotplug: Fix build with CONFIG_ACPI unset
  PCI: PCIe: Remove the port driver module exit routine
  PCI: PCIe: Move PCIe PME code to the pcie directory
  PCI: PCIe: Disable PCIe port services during port initialization
  PCI: PCIe: Ask BIOS for control of all native services at once
  ACPI/PCI: Negotiate _OSC control bits before requesting them
  ACPI/PCI: Do not preserve _OSC control bits returned by a query
  ACPI/PCI: Make acpi_pci_query_osc() return control bits
  ACPI/PCI: Reorder checks in acpi_pci_osc_control_set()
  PCI: PCIe: Introduce commad line switch for disabling port services
  PCI: PCIe AER: Introduce pci_aer_available()
  x86/PCI: only define pci_domain_nr if PCI and PCI_DOMAINS are set
  PCI: provide stub pci_domain_nr function for !CONFIG_PCI configs
2010-09-07 16:00:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a44a553f82 Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/pseries: Correct rtas_data_buf locking in dlpar code
  powerpc/85xx: Add P1021 PCI IDs and quirks
  arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe.c: Add of_node_put to avoid memory leak
  arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc837x_mds.c: Add missing iounmap
  fsl_rio: fix compile errors
  powerpc/85xx: Fix compile issue with p1022_ds due to lmb rename to memblock
  powerpc/85xx: Fix compilation of mpc85xx_mds.c
  powerpc: Don't use kernel stack with translation off
  powerpc/perf_event: Reduce latency of calling perf_event_do_pending
  powerpc/kexec: Adds correct calling convention for kexec purgatory
2010-09-07 14:34:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ce7db282a3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: fix a mismatch between code and comment
  percpu: fix a memory leak in pcpu_extend_area_map()
  percpu: add __percpu notations to UP allocator
  percpu: handle __percpu notations in UP accessors
2010-09-07 14:08:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cd4d4fc413 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: use zalloc_cpumask_var() for gcwq->mayday_mask
  workqueue: fix GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED initialization
  workqueue: Add a workqueue chapter to the tracepoint docbook
  workqueue: fix cwq->nr_active underflow
  workqueue: improve destroy_workqueue() debuggability
  workqueue: mark lock acquisition on worker_maybe_bind_and_lock()
  workqueue: annotate lock context change
  workqueue: free rescuer on destroy_workqueue
2010-09-07 14:08:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
608a5ffc3e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6:
  tty: fix tty_line must not be equal to number of allocated tty pointers in tty driver
  serial: bfin_sport_uart: restore transmit frame sync fix
  serial: fix port type conflict between NS16550A & U6_16550A
  MAINTAINERS: orphan isicom
  vt: Fix console corruption on driver hand-over.
2010-09-07 14:04:09 -07:00
Zhenyu Wang
f8f235e5bb agp/intel: Fix cache control for Sandybridge
Sandybridge GTT has new cache control bits in PTE, which controls
graphics page cache in LLC or LLC/MLC, so we need to extend the mask
function to respect the new bits.

And set cache control to always LLC only by default on Gen6.

Signed-off-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
2010-09-07 11:16:43 +01:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
73457f0f83 cgroups: fix API thinko
cgroup_attach_task_current_cg API that have upstream is backwards: we
really need an API to attach to the cgroups from another process A to
the current one.

In our case (vhost), a priveledged user wants to attach it's task to cgroups
from a less priveledged one, the API makes us run it in the other
task's context, and this fails.

So let's make the API generic and just pass in 'from' and 'to' tasks.
Add an inline wrapper for cgroup_attach_task_current_cg to avoid
breaking bisect.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
2010-09-05 17:01:37 +03:00
Philippe Langlais
71cad05549 serial: fix port type conflict between NS16550A & U6_16550A
Bug seen by Dr. David Alan Gilbert with sparse

Signed-off-by: Philippe Langlais <philippe.langlais@stericsson.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-03 17:29:04 -07:00
Li Zefan
3fb5a99191 cls_cgroup: Fix rcu lockdep warning
Dave reported an rcu lockdep warning on 2.6.35.4 kernel

task->cgroups and task->cgroups->subsys[i] are protected by RCU.
So we avoid accessing invalid pointers here. This might happen,
for example, when you are deref-ing those pointers while someone
move @task from one cgroup to another.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-03 09:55:24 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
bc8acf2c8c drivers/net: avoid some skb->ip_summed initializations
fresh skbs have ip_summed set to CHECKSUM_NONE (0)

We can avoid setting again skb->ip_summed to CHECKSUM_NONE in drivers.

Introduce skb_checksum_none_assert() helper so that we keep this
assertion documented in driver sources.

Change most occurrences of :

skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;

by :

skb_checksum_none_assert(skb);

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-02 19:06:22 -07:00
David S. Miller
7162f6691e Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-09-02 12:45:44 -07:00
John W. Linville
78ab952717 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2010-09-02 13:30:07 -04:00
Peter Meerwald
c688399634 net: Improve comments in include/linux/phy.h
Correct state range of PHY bus addresses (i.e. 0-31) in comment,
make spelling of PHY consistent in comments.

Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-02 10:12:05 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
86cac58b71 skge: add GRO support
- napi_gro_flush() is exported from net/core/dev.c, to avoid
  an irq_save/irq_restore in the packet receive path.
- use napi_gro_receive() instead of netif_receive_skb()
- use napi_gro_flush() before calling __napi_complete()
- turn on NETIF_F_GRO by default
- Tested on a Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit NIC

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:57:55 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
a28dec2f26 powerpc/85xx: Add P1021 PCI IDs and quirks
This is needed for proper PCI-E support on P1021 SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-08-31 16:44:24 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
4dc89133f4 net: add a comment on netdev->last_rx
As some driver authors seem to reintroduce dev->last_rx use,
add a comment to strongly discourage this.

Since commit 6cf3f41e6c (bonding, net: Move last_rx update into bonding
recv logic), network drivers dont need to update last_rx themselves,
unless they use this field to implement a timeout.

Not updating last_rx helps not dirtying a cache line, improving
performance in SMP.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31 13:37:06 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
3d5b99ae82 TCP: update initial windows according to RFC 5681
This updates the use of larger initial windows, as originally specified in
RFC 3390, to use the newer IW values specified in RFC 5681, section 3.1.

The changes made in RFC 5681 are:
 a) the setting now is more clearly specified in units of segments (as the
    comments  by John Heffner emphasized, this was not very clear in RFC 3390);
 b) for connections with 1095 < SMSS <= 2190 there is now a change:
    - RFC 3390 says that IW <= 4380,
    - RFC 5681 says that IW = 3 * SMSS <= 6570.

Since RFC 3390 is older and "only" proposed standard, whereas the newer RFC 5681
is already draft standard, it seems preferable to use the newer IW variant.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:50:44 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
22b71c8f4f tcp/dccp: Consolidate common code for RFC 3390 conversion
This patch consolidates initial-window code common to TCP and CCID-2:
 * TCP uses RFC 3390 in a packet-oriented manner (tcp_input.c) and
 * CCID-2 uses RFC 3390 in packet-oriented manner (RFC 4341).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:45:26 -07:00
Jerry Chu
dca43c75e7 tcp: Add TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option.
This patch provides a "user timeout" support as described in RFC793. The
socket option is also needed for the the local half of RFC5482 "TCP User
Timeout Option".

TCP_USER_TIMEOUT is a TCP level socket option that takes an unsigned int,
when > 0, to specify the maximum amount of time in ms that transmitted
data may remain unacknowledged before TCP will forcefully close the
corresponding connection and return ETIMEDOUT to the application. If
0 is given, TCP will continue to use the system default.

Increasing the user timeouts allows a TCP connection to survive extended
periods without end-to-end connectivity. Decreasing the user timeouts
allows applications to "fail fast" if so desired. Otherwise it may take
upto 20 minutes with the current system defaults in a normal WAN
environment.

The socket option can be made during any state of a TCP connection, but
is only effective during the synchronized states of a connection
(ESTABLISHED, FIN-WAIT-1, FIN-WAIT-2, CLOSE-WAIT, CLOSING, or LAST-ACK).
Moreover, when used with the TCP keepalive (SO_KEEPALIVE) option,
TCP_USER_TIMEOUT will overtake keepalive to determine when to close a
connection due to keepalive failure.

The option does not change in anyway when TCP retransmits a packet, nor
when a keepalive probe will be sent.

This option, like many others, will be inherited by an acceptor from its
listener.

Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:23:33 -07:00
Simon Horman
409456b10f net: fix datapath typo
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-29 21:57:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
29cfcddc0e 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:
  net/ipv4: Eliminate kstrdup memory leak
  net/caif/cfrfml.c: use asm/unaligned.h
  ax25: missplaced sock_put(sk)
  qlge: reset the chip before freeing the buffers
  l2tp: test for ethernet header in l2tp_eth_dev_recv()
  tcp: select(writefds) don't hang up when a peer close connection
  tcp: fix three tcp sysctls tuning
  tcp: Combat per-cpu skew in orphan tests.
  pxa168_eth: silence gcc warnings
  pxa168_eth: update call to phy_mii_ioctl()
  pxa168_eth: fix error handling in prope
  pxa168_eth: remove unneeded null check
  phylib: Fix race between returning phydev and calling adjust_link
  caif-driver: add HAS_DMA dependency
  3c59x: Fix deadlock between boomerang_interrupt and boomerang_start_tx
  qlcnic: fix poll implementation
  netxen: fix poll implementation
  bridge: netfilter: fix a memory leak
2010-08-28 15:42:44 -07:00