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Neil Horman
7eacd03810 bonding: Make alb learning packet interval configurable
running bonding in ALB mode requires that learning packets be sent periodically,
so that the switch knows where to send responding traffic.  However, depending
on switch configuration, there may not be any need to send traffic at the
default rate of 3 packets per second, which represents little more than wasted
data.  Allow the ALB learning packet interval to be made configurable via sysfs

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-15 22:20:44 -04:00
Jesse Brandeburg
1bff652941 i40e: include i40e in kernel proper
This patch adds the changes for Kconfig, i40e.txt, MAINTAINERS, Kbuild
and new i40e/Makefile to build i40e with the kernel.

New driver build option is CONFIG_I40E

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
CC: PJ Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
CC: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2013-09-11 02:28:40 -07:00
Daniel Borkmann
f212781082 net: ipv6: mld: document force_mld_version in ip-sysctl.txt
Document force_mld_version parameter in ip-sysctl.txt.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-04 14:53:21 -04:00
Sonic Zhang
e2a240c7d3 driver:net:stmmac: Disable DMA store and forward mode if platform data force_thresh_dma_mode is set.
Some synopsys ip implementation doesn't support DMA store and forward mode,
such as BF60x. So, set force_thresh_dma_mode to use DMA thresholds only.
Update document and devicetree as well.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Acked-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-30 17:26:09 -04:00
Daniel Borkmann
7ec06da81d net: packet: document available fanout policies
Update documentation to add fanout policies that are available.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-29 16:43:29 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
95bd09eb27 tcp: TSO packets automatic sizing
After hearing many people over past years complaining against TSO being
bursty or even buggy, we are proud to present automatic sizing of TSO
packets.

One part of the problem is that tcp_tso_should_defer() uses an heuristic
relying on upcoming ACKS instead of a timer, but more generally, having
big TSO packets makes little sense for low rates, as it tends to create
micro bursts on the network, and general consensus is to reduce the
buffering amount.

This patch introduces a per socket sk_pacing_rate, that approximates
the current sending rate, and allows us to size the TSO packets so
that we try to send one packet every ms.

This field could be set by other transports.

Patch has no impact for high speed flows, where having large TSO packets
makes sense to reach line rate.

For other flows, this helps better packet scheduling and ACK clocking.

This patch increases performance of TCP flows in lossy environments.

A new sysctl (tcp_min_tso_segs) is added, to specify the
minimal size of a TSO packet (default being 2).

A follow-up patch will provide a new packet scheduler (FQ), using
sk_pacing_rate as an input to perform optional per flow pacing.

This explains why we chose to set sk_pacing_rate to twice the current
rate, allowing 'slow start' ramp up.

sk_pacing_rate = 2 * cwnd * mss / srtt

v2: Neal Cardwell reported a suspect deferring of last two segments on
initial write of 10 MSS, I had to change tcp_tso_should_defer() to take
into account tp->xmit_size_goal_segs

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-29 15:50:06 -04:00
Hannes Frederic Sowa
b800c3b966 ipv6: drop fragmented ndisc packets by default (RFC 6980)
This patch implements RFC6980: Drop fragmented ndisc packets by
default. If a fragmented ndisc packet is received the user is informed
that it is possible to disable the check.

Cc: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-29 15:32:08 -04:00
David S. Miller
5b2941b18d Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch
Jesse Gross says:

====================
A number of significant new features and optimizations for net-next/3.12.
Highlights are:
 * "Megaflows", an optimization that allows userspace to specify which
   flow fields were used to compute the results of the flow lookup.
   This allows for a major reduction in flow setups (the major
   performance bottleneck in Open vSwitch) without reducing flexibility.
 * Converting netlink dump operations to use RCU, allowing for
   additional parallelism in userspace.
 * Matching and modifying SCTP protocol fields.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-27 22:11:18 -04:00
Jeff Kirsher
d7064f4c19 Documentation/networking/: Update Intel wired LAN driver documentation
Updates the documentation to the Intel wired LAN drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-27 16:05:26 -04:00
Andy Zhou
03f0d916aa openvswitch: Mega flow implementation
Add wildcarded flow support in kernel datapath.

Wildcarded flow can improve OVS flow set up performance by avoid sending
matching new flows to the user space program. The exact performance boost
will largely dependent on wildcarded flow hit rate.

In case all new flows hits wildcard flows, the flow set up rate is
within 5% of that of linux bridge module.

Pravin has made significant contributions to this patch. Including API
clean ups and bug fixes.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-08-23 16:43:07 -07:00
David S. Miller
89d5e23210 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next
Conflicts:
	net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c

The conflict had to do with overlapping changes dealing with
fixing the use of an "s32" to hold the value returned by
NAT_OFFSET().

Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
The following batch contains Netfilter/IPVS updates for your net-next tree.
More specifically, they are:

* Trivial typo fix in xt_addrtype, from Phil Oester.

* Remove net_ratelimit in the conntrack logging for consistency with other
  logging subsystem, from Patrick McHardy.

* Remove unneeded includes from the recently added xt_connlabel support, from
  Florian Westphal.

* Allow to update conntracks via nfqueue, don't need NFQA_CFG_F_CONNTRACK for
  this, from Florian Westphal.

* Remove tproxy core, now that we have socket early demux, from Florian
  Westphal.

* A couple of patches to refactor conntrack event reporting to save a good
  bunch of lines, from Florian Westphal.

* Fix missing locking in NAT sequence adjustment, it did not manifested in
  any known bug so far, from Patrick McHardy.

* Change sequence number adjustment variable to 32 bits, to delay the
  possible early overflow in long standing connections, also from Patrick.

* Comestic cleanups for IPVS, from Dragos Foianu.

* Fix possible null dereference in IPVS in the SH scheduler, from Daniel
  Borkmann.

* Allow to attach conntrack expectations via nfqueue. Before this patch, you
  had to use ctnetlink instead, thus, we save the conntrack lookup.

* Export xt_rpfilter and xt_HMARK header files, from Nicolas Dichtel.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-20 13:30:54 -07:00
Hannes Frederic Sowa
fc4eba58b4 ipv6: make unsolicited report intervals configurable for mld
Commit cab70040df ("net: igmp:
Reduce Unsolicited report interval to 1s when using IGMPv3") and
2690048c01 ("net: igmp: Allow user-space
configuration of igmp unsolicited report interval") by William Manley made
igmp unsolicited report intervals configurable per interface and corrected
the interval of unsolicited igmpv3 report messages resendings to 1s.

Same needs to be done for IPv6:

MLDv1 (RFC2710 7.10.): 10 seconds
MLDv2 (RFC3810 9.11.): 1 second

Both intervals are configurable via new procfs knobs
mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval and mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval.

(also added .force_mld_version to ipv6_devconf_dflt to bring structs in
line without semantic changes)

v2:
a) Joined documentation update for IPv4 and IPv6 MLD/IGMP
   unsolicited_report_interval procfs knobs.
b) incorporate stylistic feedback from William Manley

v3:
a) add new DEVCONF_* values to the end of the enum (thanks to David
   Miller)

Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: William Manley <william.manley@youview.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-13 17:05:04 -07:00
David S. Miller
71acc0ddd4 Revert "net: sctp: convert sctp_checksum_disable module param into sctp sysctl"
This reverts commit cda5f98e36.

As per Vlad's request.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-09 13:09:41 -07:00
Daniel Borkmann
cda5f98e36 net: sctp: convert sctp_checksum_disable module param into sctp sysctl
Get rid of the last module parameter for SCTP and make this
configurable via sysctl for SCTP like all the rest of SCTP's
configuration knobs.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-09 11:33:02 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker
49dfe76261 Documentation: add networking/netdev-FAQ.txt
A collection of expectations and operational details about how
networking development takes place in the context of the netdev
mailing list.

The content is meant to capture specific items that are unique
to netdev workflow, and not re-document generic linux expectations
that are already captured elsewhere.

This was originally proposed[1] as a regular posting mailing list
FAQ, but it probably is more universally accessible here in tree.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/559211/

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-31 17:36:29 -07:00
Florian Westphal
fd158d79d3 netfilter: tproxy: remove nf_tproxy_core, keep tw sk assigned to skb
The module was "permanent", due to the special tproxy skb->destructor.
Nowadays we have tcp early demux and its sock_edemux destructor in
networking core which can be used instead.

Thanks to early demux changes the input path now also handles
"skb->sk is tw socket" correctly, so this no longer needs the special
handling introduced with commit d503b30bd6
(netfilter: tproxy: do not assign timewait sockets to skb->sk).

Thus:
- move assign_sock function to where its needed
- don't prevent timewait sockets from being assigned to the skb
- remove nf_tproxy_core.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2013-07-31 16:39:40 +02:00
Hannes Frederic Sowa
5ad37d5dee tcp: add tcp_syncookies mode to allow unconditionally generation of syncookies
| If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your
| network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
| unconditionally generation of syncookies.

Original idea and first implementation by Eric Dumazet.

Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-30 16:15:18 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
c9bee3b7fd tcp: TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option
Idea of this patch is to add optional limitation of number of
unsent bytes in TCP sockets, to reduce usage of kernel memory.

TCP receiver might announce a big window, and TCP sender autotuning
might allow a large amount of bytes in write queue, but this has little
performance impact if a large part of this buffering is wasted :

Write queue needs to be large only to deal with large BDP, not
necessarily to cope with scheduling delays (incoming ACKS make room
for the application to queue more bytes)

For most workloads, using a value of 128 KB or less is OK to give
applications enough time to react to POLLOUT events in time
(or being awaken in a blocking sendmsg())

This patch adds two ways to set the limit :

1) Per socket option TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT

2) A sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat) for sockets
not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option (or setting a zero value)
Default value being UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF), meaning this has no effect.

This changes poll()/select()/epoll() to report POLLOUT
only if number of unsent bytes is below tp->nosent_lowat

Note this might increase number of sendmsg()/sendfile() calls
when using non blocking sockets,
and increase number of context switches for blocking sockets.

Note this is not related to SO_SNDLOWAT (as SO_SNDLOWAT is
defined as :
 Specify the minimum number of bytes in the buffer until
 the socket layer will pass the data to the protocol)

Tested:

netperf sessions, and watching /proc/net/protocols "memory" column for TCP

With 200 concurrent netperf -t TCP_STREAM sessions, amount of kernel memory
used by TCP buffers shrinks by ~55 % (20567 pages instead of 45458)

lpq83:~# echo -1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
lpq83:~# (super_netperf 200 -t TCP_STREAM -H remote -l 90 &); sleep 60 ; grep TCP /proc/net/protocols
TCPv6     1880      2   45458   no     208   yes  ipv6        y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  n  y  y  y  y  y
TCP       1696    508   45458   no     208   yes  kernel      y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  n  y  y  y  y  y

lpq83:~# echo 131072 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
lpq83:~# (super_netperf 200 -t TCP_STREAM -H remote -l 90 &); sleep 60 ; grep TCP /proc/net/protocols
TCPv6     1880      2   20567   no     208   yes  ipv6        y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  n  y  y  y  y  y
TCP       1696    508   20567   no     208   yes  kernel      y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  n  y  y  y  y  y

Using 128KB has no bad effect on the throughput or cpu usage
of a single flow, although there is an increase of context switches.

A bonus is that we hold socket lock for a shorter amount
of time and should improve latencies of ACK processing.

lpq83:~# echo -1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
lpq83:~# perf stat -e context-switches ./netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3
OMNI Send TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : +/-2.500% @ 99% conf.
Local       Remote      Local  Elapsed Throughput Throughput  Local Local  Remote Remote Local   Remote  Service
Send Socket Recv Socket Send   Time               Units       CPU   CPU    CPU    CPU    Service Service Demand
Size        Size        Size   (sec)                          Util  Util   Util   Util   Demand  Demand  Units
Final       Final                                             %     Method %      Method
1651584     6291456     16384  20.00   17447.90   10^6bits/s  3.13  S      -1.00  U      0.353   -1.000  usec/KB

 Performance counter stats for './netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3':

           412,514 context-switches

     200.034645535 seconds time elapsed

lpq83:~# echo 131072 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
lpq83:~# perf stat -e context-switches ./netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3
OMNI Send TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : +/-2.500% @ 99% conf.
Local       Remote      Local  Elapsed Throughput Throughput  Local Local  Remote Remote Local   Remote  Service
Send Socket Recv Socket Send   Time               Units       CPU   CPU    CPU    CPU    Service Service Demand
Size        Size        Size   (sec)                          Util  Util   Util   Util   Demand  Demand  Units
Final       Final                                             %     Method %      Method
1593240     6291456     16384  20.00   17321.16   10^6bits/s  3.35  S      -1.00  U      0.381   -1.000  usec/KB

 Performance counter stats for './netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3':

         2,675,818 context-switches

     200.029651391 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-By: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-24 17:54:48 -07:00
Daniel Borkmann
91705c61b5 net: sctp: trivial: update mailing list address
The SCTP mailing list address to send patches or questions
to is linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org and not
lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net anymore. Therefore,
update all occurences.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-24 17:53:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
496322bc91 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "This is a re-do of the net-next pull request for the current merge
  window.  The only difference from the one I made the other day is that
  this has Eliezer's interface renames and the timeout handling changes
  made based upon your feedback, as well as a few bug fixes that have
  trickeled in.

  Highlights:

   1) Low latency device polling, eliminating the cost of interrupt
      handling and context switches.  Allows direct polling of a network
      device from socket operations, such as recvmsg() and poll().

      Currently ixgbe, mlx4, and bnx2x support this feature.

      Full high level description, performance numbers, and design in
      commit 0a4db187a9 ("Merge branch 'll_poll'")

      From Eliezer Tamir.

   2) With the routing cache removed, ip_check_mc_rcu() gets exercised
      more than ever before in the case where we have lots of multicast
      addresses.  Use a hash table instead of a simple linked list, from
      Eric Dumazet.

   3) Add driver for Atheros CQA98xx 802.11ac wireless devices, from
      Bartosz Markowski, Janusz Dziedzic, Kalle Valo, Marek Kwaczynski,
      Marek Puzyniak, Michal Kazior, and Sujith Manoharan.

   4) Support reporting the TUN device persist flag to userspace, from
      Pavel Emelyanov.

   5) Allow controlling network device VF link state using netlink, from
      Rony Efraim.

   6) Support GRE tunneling in openvswitch, from Pravin B Shelar.

   7) Adjust SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF and SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF for modern times, from
      Daniel Borkmann and Eric Dumazet.

   8) Allow controlling of TCP quickack behavior on a per-route basis,
      from Cong Wang.

   9) Several bug fixes and improvements to vxlan from Stephen
      Hemminger, Pravin B Shelar, and Mike Rapoport.  In particular,
      support receiving on multiple UDP ports.

  10) Major cleanups, particular in the area of debugging and cookie
      lifetime handline, to the SCTP protocol code.  From Daniel
      Borkmann.

  11) Allow packets to cross network namespaces when traversing tunnel
      devices.  From Nicolas Dichtel.

  12) Allow monitoring netlink traffic via AF_PACKET sockets, in a
      manner akin to how we monitor real network traffic via ptype_all.
      From Daniel Borkmann.

  13) Several bug fixes and improvements for the new alx device driver,
      from Johannes Berg.

  14) Fix scalability issues in the netem packet scheduler's time queue,
      by using an rbtree.  From Eric Dumazet.

  15) Several bug fixes in TCP loss recovery handling, from Yuchung
      Cheng.

  16) Add support for GSO segmentation of MPLS packets, from Simon
      Horman.

  17) Make network notifiers have a real data type for the opaque
      pointer that's passed into them.  Use this to properly handle
      network device flag changes in arp_netdev_event().  From Jiri
      Pirko and Timo Teräs.

  18) Convert several drivers over to module_pci_driver(), from Peter
      Huewe.

  19) tcp_fixup_rcvbuf() can loop 500 times over loopback, just use a
      O(1) calculation instead.  From Eric Dumazet.

  20) Support setting of explicit tunnel peer addresses in ipv6, just
      like ipv4.  From Nicolas Dichtel.

  21) Protect x86 BPF JIT against spraying attacks, from Eric Dumazet.

  22) Prevent a single high rate flow from overruning an individual cpu
      during RX packet processing via selective flow shedding.  From
      Willem de Bruijn.

  23) Don't use spinlocks in TCP md5 signing fast paths, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  24) Don't just drop GSO packets which are above the TBF scheduler's
      burst limit, chop them up so they are in-bounds instead.  Also
      from Eric Dumazet.

  25) VLAN offloads are missed when configured on top of a bridge, fix
      from Vlad Yasevich.

  26) Support IPV6 in ping sockets.  From Lorenzo Colitti.

  27) Receive flow steering targets should be updated at poll() time
      too, from David Majnemer.

  28) Fix several corner case regressions in PMTU/redirect handling due
      to the routing cache removal, from Timo Teräs.

  29) We have to be mindful of ipv4 mapped ipv6 sockets in
      upd_v6_push_pending_frames().  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.

  30) Fix L2TP sequence number handling bugs, from James Chapman."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1214 commits)
  drivers/net: caif: fix wrong rtnl_is_locked() usage
  drivers/net: enic: release rtnl_lock on error-path
  vhost-net: fix use-after-free in vhost_net_flush
  net: mv643xx_eth: do not use port number as platform device id
  net: sctp: confirm route during forward progress
  virtio_net: fix race in RX VQ processing
  virtio: support unlocked queue poll
  net/cadence/macb: fix bug/typo in extracting gem_irq_read_clear bit
  Documentation: Fix references to defunct linux-net@vger.kernel.org
  net/fs: change busy poll time accounting
  net: rename low latency sockets functions to busy poll
  bridge: fix some kernel warning in multicast timer
  sfc: Fix memory leak when discarding scattered packets
  sit: fix tunnel update via netlink
  dt:net:stmmac: Add dt specific phy reset callback support.
  dt:net:stmmac: Add support to dwmac version 3.610 and 3.710
  dt:net:stmmac: Allocate platform data only if its NULL.
  net:stmmac: fix memleak in the open method
  ipv6: rt6_check_neigh should successfully verify neigh if no NUD information are available
  net: ipv6: fix wrong ping_v6_sendmsg return value
  ...
2013-07-09 18:24:39 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
b78ba72cda Documentation: Fix references to defunct linux-net@vger.kernel.org
linux-net@vger.kernel.org was replaced by netdev@oss.sgi.com was replaced
by netdev@vger.kernel.org.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-09 12:42:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
80cc38b163 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "The usual stuff from trivial tree"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  treewide: relase -> release
  Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt: fix stat file documentation
  sysctl/net.txt: delete reference to obsolete 2.4.x kernel
  spinlock_api_smp.h: fix preprocessor comments
  treewide: Fix typo in printk
  doc: device tree: clarify stuff in usage-model.txt.
  open firmware: "/aliasas" -> "/aliases"
  md: bcache: Fixed a typo with the word 'arithmetic'
  irq/generic-chip: fix a few kernel-doc entries
  frv: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  sgi: xpc: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  doc: clk: Fix incorrect wording
  Documentation/arm/IXP4xx fix a typo
  Documentation/networking/ieee802154 fix a typo
  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l fix a typo
  Documentation/video4linux/si476x.txt fix a typo
  Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt fix a typo
  Documentation/early-userspace/README fix a typo
  Documentation/video4linux/soc-camera.txt fix a typo
  lguest: fix CONFIG_PAE -> CONFIG_x86_PAE in comment
  ...
2013-07-04 11:40:58 -07:00
David S. Miller
0c1072ae02 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
	net/ipv4/gre.c

The GRE conflict is between a bug fix (kfree_skb --> kfree_skb_list)
and the splitting of the gre.c code into seperate files.

The FEC conflict was two sets of changes adding ethtool support code
in an "!CONFIG_M5272" CPP protected block.

Finally the sh_eth.c conflict was between one commit add bits set
in the .eesr_err_check mask whilst another commit removed the
.tx_error_check member and assignments.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-03 14:55:13 -07:00
David S. Miller
4e144d3a80 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next
Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
The following batch contains Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next,
they are:

* Enforce policy to several nfnetlink subsystem, from Daniel
  Borkmann.

* Use xt_socket to match the third packet (to perform simplistic
  socket-based stateful filtering), from Eric Dumazet.

* Avoid large timeout for picked up from the middle TCP flows,
  from Florian Westphal.

* Exclude IPVS from struct net if IPVS is disabled and removal
  of unnecessary included header file, from JunweiZhang.

* Release SCTP connection immediately under load, to mimic current
  TCP behaviour, from Julian Anastasov.

* Replace and enhance SCTP state machine, from Julian Anastasov.

* Add tweak to reduce sync traffic in the presence of persistence,
  also from Julian Anastasov.

* Add tweak for the IPVS SH scheduler not to reject connections
  directed to a server, choose a new one instead, from Alexander
  Frolkin.

* Add support for sloppy TCP and SCTP modes, that creates state
  information on any packet, not only initial handshake packets,
  from Alexander Frolkin.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-30 17:35:13 -07:00
Julian Anastasov
4d0c875dcc ipvs: add sync_persist_mode flag
Add sync_persist_mode flag to reduce sync traffic
by syncing only persistent templates.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Tested-by: Aleksey Chudov <aleksey.chudov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2013-06-26 18:01:46 +09:00
Veaceslav Falico
8599b52e14 bonding: add an option to fail when any of arp_ip_target is inaccessible
Currently, we fail only when all of the ips in arp_ip_target are gone.
However, in some situations we might need to fail if even one host from
arp_ip_target becomes unavailable.

All situations, obviously, rely on the idea that we need *completely*
functional network, with all interfaces/addresses working correctly.

One real world example might be:
vlans on top on bond (hybrid port). If bond and vlans have ips assigned
and we have their peers monitored via arp_ip_target - in case of switch
misconfiguration (trunk/access port), slave driver malfunction or
tagged/untagged traffic dropped on the way - we will be able to switch
to another slave.

Though any other configuration needs that if we need to have access to all
arp_ip_targets.

This patch adds this possibility by adding a new parameter -
arp_all_targets (both as a module parameter and as a sysfs knob). It can be
set to:

	0 or any (the default) - which works exactly as it's working now -
	the slave is up if any of the arp_ip_targets are up.

	1 or all - the slave is up if all of the arp_ip_targets are up.

This parameter can be changed on the fly (via sysfs), and requires the mode
to be active-backup and arp_validate to be enabled (it obeys the
arp_validate config on which slaves to validate).

Internally it's done through:

1) Add target_last_arp_rx[BOND_MAX_ARP_TARGETS] array to slave struct. It's
   an array of jiffies, meaning that slave->target_last_arp_rx[i] is the
   last time we've received arp from bond->params.arp_targets[i] on this
   slave.

2) If we successfully validate an arp from bond->params.arp_targets[i] in
   bond_validate_arp() - update the slave->target_last_arp_rx[i] with the
   current jiffies value.

3) When getting slave's last_rx via slave_last_rx(), we return the oldest
   time when we've received an arp from any address in
   bond->params.arp_targets[].

If the value of arp_all_targets == 0 - we still work the same way as
before.

Also, update the documentation to reflect the new parameter.

v3->v4:
Kill the forgotten rtnl_unlock(), rephrase the documentation part to be
more clear, don't fail setting arp_all_targets if arp_validate is not set -
it has no effect anyway but can be easier to set up. Also, print a warning
if the last arp_ip_target is removed while the arp_interval is on, but not
the arp_validate.

v2->v3:
Use _bh spinlock, remove useless rtnl_lock() and use jiffies for new
arp_ip_target last arp, instead of slave_last_rx(). On bond_enslave(),
use the same initialization value for target_last_arp_rx[] as is used
for the default last_arp_rx, to avoid useless interface flaps.

Also, instead of failing to remove the last arp_ip_target just print a
warning - otherwise it might break existing scripts.

v1->v2:
Correctly handle adding/removing hosts in arp_ip_target - we need to
shift/initialize all slave's target_last_arp_rx. Also, don't fail module
loading on arp_all_targets misconfiguration, just disable it, and some
minor style fixes.

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-25 16:58:38 -07:00
Veaceslav Falico
d7d35c681f bonding: doc: some details on backup slave arp validation
Add some details to bonding documentation on how backup slave arp
validation works.

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-25 16:58:38 -07:00
Cong Wang
7623757661 doc: fix some syntax errors in netlink mmap sample code
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-25 16:47:02 -07:00
Shan Wei
a3c910d2e7 tcp: doc : fix the syncookies default value
syncookies is on for default since in commit e994b7c901
(tcp: Don't make syn cookies initial setting depend on CONFIG_SYSCTL).

And fix a typo of CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES.

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-24 00:26:26 -07:00
Cong Wang
e3d73bcedf net: add doc for ip_early_demux sysctl
commit 6648bd7e0e (ipv4: Add sysctl knob to control
early socket demux) introduced such sysctl, but forgot to add
doc into Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt. This patch adds it.

Basically I grab the doc from the description of commit 41063e9dd1
(ipv4: Early TCP socket demux.) and the above commit.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-12 15:10:13 -07:00
Rami Rosen
e8b265e8ba doc:networking: Fix default value (icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses).
This patch fixes icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses default value to be 1 instead
of FALSE. It is initialized to 1 in icmp_sk_init().

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-07 23:31:54 -07:00
Daniel Borkmann
d70a3f887a doc: packet: simplify tpacket example code
This patch simplifies the tpacket_v3 example code a bit by getting rid
of unecessary macro wrappers, removing some debugging code so that it is
more to the point, and also adds a header comment. Now this example code
is the very minimum one needs to start from when dealing with tpacket_v3
and ~100 lines smaller than before.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-07 14:39:05 -07:00
Stefan Huber
3d9738aa41 Documentation/networking/ieee802154 fix a typo
Corrected the words Accsess to Access.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Huber <steffhip@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-06-05 16:24:59 +02:00
Anatol Pomozov
f884ab15af doc: fix misspellings with 'codespell' tool
Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-05-28 12:02:12 +02:00
Cong Wang
b1098bbe1b bonding: remove ifenslave.c from kernel source
As Stephen proposed:
Since bonding supports configuration via iproute (netlink) and sysfs, I think
it is time to purge the old ifenslave code out of Documentation/networking
and update the documentation.

Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-27 23:34:46 -07:00
Masanari Iida
3dd17edea0 doc:networking: Fix typo in documentation/networking
Correct spelling typo

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-27 23:29:18 -07:00
Willem de Bruijn
191cb1f21a rps: document flow limit in scaling.txt
Explain the mechanism and API of the recently merged
rps flow limit patch.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-23 18:54:44 -07:00
Daniel Borkmann
2940b26bec packet: doc: update timestamping part
Bring the timestamping section in sync with the implementation.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-25 01:22:22 -04:00
Patrick McHardy
5683264c39 netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-19 14:58:36 -04:00
Giuseppe CAVALLARO
49cfbf675c stmmac: review driver documentation
This patch reviews the driver documentation file;
for example, there were some new fields (in the driver
module parameter section) and the ptp files were
not documented.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-08 16:55:27 -04:00
Werner Almesberger
56aa091d60 ieee802154/nl-mac.c: make some MLME operations optional
Check for NULL before calling the following operations from "struct
ieee802154_mlme_ops": assoc_req, assoc_resp, disassoc_req, start_req,
and scan_req.

This fixes a current oops where those functions are called but not
implemented. It also updates the documentation to clarify that they
are now optional by design. If a call to an unimplemented function
is attempted, the kernel returns EOPNOTSUPP via netlink.

The following operations are still required: get_phy, get_pan_id,
get_short_addr, and get_dsn.

Note that the places where this patch changes the initialization
of "ret" should not affect the rest of the code since "ret" was
always set (again) before returning its value.

Signed-off-by: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-08 12:00:16 -04:00
Daniel Borkmann
4eb0614825 doc: packet: add minimal TPACKET_V3 example code
Lost in space for a long time, but it finally came back to us from
some ancient code tombs. This patch adds a minimal runnable example
of Linux' packet mmap(2) from Chetan Loke's TPACKET_V3. Special
thanks to David S. Miller, and also Eric Leblond and Victor Julien!

Cc: Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
Cc: Victor Julien <victor@inliniac.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-30 17:40:27 -04:00
Giuseppe CAVALLARO
94fbbbf894 stmmac: update the Doc and Version (PTP+SGMII)
This patch updates the stmmac.txt file adding information related to the PTP
and SGMII/RGMII supports.

Also the patch updates the driver version to: March_2013.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-26 12:53:37 -04:00
Yuchung Cheng
e33099f96d tcp: implement RFC5682 F-RTO
This patch implements F-RTO (foward RTO recovery):

When the first retransmission after timeout is acknowledged, F-RTO
sends new data instead of old data. If the next ACK acknowledges
some never-retransmitted data, then the timeout was spurious and the
congestion state is reverted.  Otherwise if the next ACK selectively
acknowledges the new data, then the timeout was genuine and the
loss recovery continues. This idea applies to recurring timeouts
as well. While F-RTO sends different data during timeout recovery,
it does not (and should not) change the congestion control.

The implementaion follows the three steps of SACK enhanced algorithm
(section 3) in RFC5682. Step 1 is in tcp_enter_loss(). Step 2 and
3 are in tcp_process_loss().  The basic version is not supported
because SACK enhanced version also works for non-SACK connections.

The new implementation is functionally in parity with the old F-RTO
implementation except the one case where it increases undo events:
In addition to the RFC algorithm, a spurious timeout may be detected
without sending data in step 2, as long as the SACK confirms not
all the original data are dropped. When this happens, the sender
will undo the cwnd and perhaps enter fast recovery instead. This
additional check increases the F-RTO undo events by 5x compared
to the prior implementation on Google Web servers, since the sender
often does not have new data to send for HTTP.

Note F-RTO may detect spurious timeout before Eifel with timestamps
does so.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-21 11:47:51 -04:00
Yuchung Cheng
9b44190dc1 tcp: refactor F-RTO
The patch series refactor the F-RTO feature (RFC4138/5682).

This is to simplify the loss recovery processing. Existing F-RTO
was developed during the experimental stage (RFC4138) and has
many experimental features.  It takes a separate code path from
the traditional timeout processing by overloading CA_Disorder
instead of using CA_Loss state. This complicates CA_Disorder state
handling because it's also used for handling dubious ACKs and undos.
While the algorithm in the RFC does not change the congestion control,
the implementation intercepts congestion control in various places
(e.g., frto_cwnd in tcp_ack()).

The new code implements newer F-RTO RFC5682 using CA_Loss processing
path.  F-RTO becomes a small extension in the timeout processing
and interfaces with congestion control and Eifel undo modules.
It lets congestion control (module) determines how many to send
independently.  F-RTO only chooses what to send in order to detect
spurious retranmission. If timeout is found spurious it invokes
existing Eifel undo algorithms like DSACK or TCP timestamp based
detection.

The first patch removes all F-RTO code except the sysctl_tcp_frto is
left for the new implementation.  Since CA_EVENT_FRTO is removed, TCP
westwood now computes ssthresh on regular timeout CA_EVENT_LOSS event.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-21 11:47:50 -04:00
David S. Miller
61816596d1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull in the 'net' tree to get Daniel Borkmann's flow dissector
infrastructure change.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-20 12:46:26 -04:00
Julian Anastasov
0c12582fbc ipvs: add backup_only flag to avoid loops
Dmitry Akindinov is reporting for a problem where SYNs are looping
between the master and backup server when the backup server is used as
real server in DR mode and has IPVS rules to function as director.

Even when the backup function is enabled we continue to forward
traffic and schedule new connections when the current master is using
the backup server as real server. While this is not a problem for NAT,
for DR and TUN method the backup server can not determine if a request
comes from client or from director.

To avoid such loops add new sysctl flag backup_only. It can be needed
for DR/TUN setups that do not need backup and director function at the
same time. When the backup function is enabled we stop any forwarding
and pass the traffic to the local stack (real server mode). The flag
disables the director function when the backup function is enabled.

For setups that enable backup function for some virtual services and
director function for other virtual services there should be another
more complex solution to support DR/TUN mode, may be to assign
per-virtual service syncid value, so that we can differentiate the
requests.

Reported-by: Dmitry Akindinov <dimak@stalker.com>
Tested-by: German Myzovsky <lawyer@sipnet.ru>
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2013-03-19 21:21:51 +09:00
Christoph Paasch
1a2c6181c4 tcp: Remove TCPCT
TCPCT uses option-number 253, reserved for experimental use and should
not be used in production environments.
Further, TCPCT does not fully implement RFC 6013.

As a nice side-effect, removing TCPCT increases TCP's performance for
very short flows:

Doing an apache-benchmark with -c 100 -n 100000, sending HTTP-requests
for files of 1KB size.

before this patch:
	average (among 7 runs) of 20845.5 Requests/Second
after:
	average (among 7 runs) of 21403.6 Requests/Second

Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-17 14:35:13 -04:00
Li RongQing
b66c66dc5c Documentation: fix neigh/default/gc_thresh1 default value.
The default value is 128, not 256
	#grep gc_thresh1 net/ -rI
	net/decnet/dn_neigh.c:	.gc_thresh1 =			128,
	net/ipv6/ndisc.c:	.gc_thresh1 =	 128,
	net/ipv4/arp.c:	.gc_thresh1	= 128,

Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-15 09:12:23 -04:00
Nandita Dukkipati
6ba8a3b19e tcp: Tail loss probe (TLP)
This patch series implement the Tail loss probe (TLP) algorithm described
in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dukkipati-tcpm-tcp-loss-probe-01. The
first patch implements the basic algorithm.

TLP's goal is to reduce tail latency of short transactions. It achieves
this by converting retransmission timeouts (RTOs) occuring due
to tail losses (losses at end of transactions) into fast recovery.
TLP transmits one packet in two round-trips when a connection is in
Open state and isn't receiving any ACKs. The transmitted packet, aka
loss probe, can be either new or a retransmission. When there is tail
loss, the ACK from a loss probe triggers FACK/early-retransmit based
fast recovery, thus avoiding a costly RTO. In the absence of loss,
there is no change in the connection state.

PTO stands for probe timeout. It is a timer event indicating
that an ACK is overdue and triggers a loss probe packet. The PTO value
is set to max(2*SRTT, 10ms) and is adjusted to account for delayed
ACK timer when there is only one oustanding packet.

TLP Algorithm

On transmission of new data in Open state:
  -> packets_out > 1: schedule PTO in max(2*SRTT, 10ms).
  -> packets_out == 1: schedule PTO in max(2*RTT, 1.5*RTT + 200ms)
  -> PTO = min(PTO, RTO)

Conditions for scheduling PTO:
  -> Connection is in Open state.
  -> Connection is either cwnd limited or no new data to send.
  -> Number of probes per tail loss episode is limited to one.
  -> Connection is SACK enabled.

When PTO fires:
  new_segment_exists:
    -> transmit new segment.
    -> packets_out++. cwnd remains same.

  no_new_packet:
    -> retransmit the last segment.
       Its ACK triggers FACK or early retransmit based recovery.

ACK path:
  -> rearm RTO at start of ACK processing.
  -> reschedule PTO if need be.

In addition, the patch includes a small variation to the Early Retransmit
(ER) algorithm, such that ER and TLP together can in principle recover any
N-degree of tail loss through fast recovery. TLP is controlled by the same
sysctl as ER, tcp_early_retrans sysctl.
tcp_early_retrans==0; disables TLP and ER.
		 ==1; enables RFC5827 ER.
		 ==2; delayed ER.
		 ==3; TLP and delayed ER. [DEFAULT]
		 ==4; TLP only.

The TLP patch series have been extensively tested on Google Web servers.
It is most effective for short Web trasactions, where it reduced RTOs by 15%
and improved HTTP response time (average by 6%, 99th percentile by 10%).
The transmitted probes account for <0.5% of the overall transmissions.

Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-12 08:30:34 -04:00