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Patrick McHardy
4417da668c [NET]: dev: secondary unicast address support
Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses on network
devices. To support this devices capable of filtering multiple
unicast addresses need to change their set_multicast_list function
to configure unicast filters as well and assign it to dev->set_rx_mode
instead of dev->set_multicast_list. Other devices are put into promiscous
mode when secondary unicast addresses are present.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:56 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
3fba5a8b1e [NET]: dev_mcast: switch to generic net_device address lists
Use generic net_device address lists for multicast list handling.
Some defines are used to keep drivers working.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:55 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
bf742482d7 [NET]: dev: introduce generic net_device address lists
Introduce struct dev_addr_list and list maintenance functions
based on dev_mc_list and the related functions. This will be
used by follow-up patches for both multicast and secondary
unicast addresses.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:54 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
75ebe8f736 [NET]: dev_mcast: unexport dev_mc_upload
dev_mc_add/dev_mc_delete take care of uploading the list when
necessary and thats the only interface other code should use.
Also remove two incorrect calls in DECnet.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:53 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
d212f87b06 [NET]: IPV6 checksum offloading in network devices
The existing model for checksum offload does not correctly handle
devices that can offload IPV4 and IPV6 only. The NETIF_F_HW_CSUM flag
implies device can do any arbitrary protocol.

This patch:
 * adds NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM for those devices
 * fixes bnx2 and tg3 devices that need it
 * add NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM to ipv6 output (incl GSO)
 * fixes assumptions about NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM in nat
 * adjusts bridge union of checksumming computation

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:52 -07:00
Masahide NAKAMURA
d3d6dd3ada [XFRM]: Add module alias for transformation type.
It is clean-up for XFRM type modules and adds aliases with its
protocol:
 ESP, AH, IPCOMP, IPIP and IPv6 for IPsec
 ROUTING and DSTOPTS for MIPv6

It is almost the same thing as XFRM mode alias, but it is added
new defines XFRM_PROTO_XXX for preprocessing since some protocols
are defined as enum.

Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:43 -07:00
Masahide NAKAMURA
59fbb3a61e [IPV6] MIP6: Loadable module support for MIPv6.
This patch makes MIPv6 loadable module named "mip6".

Here is a modprobe.conf(5) example to load it automatically
when user application uses XFRM state for MIPv6:

alias xfrm-type-10-43 mip6
alias xfrm-type-10-60 mip6

Some MIPv6 feature is not included by this modular, however,
it should not be affected to other features like either IPsec
or IPv6 with and without the patch.
We may discuss XFRM, MH (RAW socket) and ancillary data/sockopt
separately for future work.

Loadable features:
* MH receiving check (to send ICMP error back)
* RO header parsing and building (i.e. RH2 and HAO in DSTOPTS)
* XFRM policy/state database handling for RO

These are NOT covered as loadable:
* Home Address flags and its rule on source address selection
* XFRM sub policy (depends on its own kernel option)
* XFRM functions to receive RO as IPv6 extension header
* MH sending/receiving through raw socket if user application
  opens it (since raw socket allows to do so)
* RH2 sending as ancillary data
* RH2 operation with setsockopt(2)

Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:42 -07:00
Masahide NAKAMURA
136ebf08b4 [IPV6] MIP6: Kill unnecessary ifdefs.
Kill unnecessary CONFIG_IPV6_MIP6.

o It is redundant for RAW socket to keep MH out with the config then
  it can handle any protocol.
o Clean-up at AH.

Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:41 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
2371baa4bd [RTNETLINK]: Fix rtnetlink compat attribute patch
Sent the wrong patch previously.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:40 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
afdc3238ec [RTNETLINK]: Add nested compat attribute
Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert
attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a
backwards compatible way.

The attribute looks like this:

struct {
        [ compat contents ]
        struct rtattr {
                .rta_len        = total size,
                .rta_type       = type,
        } rta;
        struct old_structure struct;

        [ nested top-level attribute ]
        struct rtattr {
                .rta_len        = nest size,
                .rta_type       = type,
        } nest_attr;

        [ optional 0 .. n nested attributes ]
        struct rtattr {
                .rta_len        = private attribute len,
                .rta_type       = private attribute typ,
        } nested_attr;
        struct nested_data data;
};

Since both userspace and kernel deal correctly with attributes that are
larger than expected old versions will just parse the compat part and
ignore the rest.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:39 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
1092cb2197 [NETLINK]: attr: add nested compat attribute type
Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert
attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a
backwards compatible way.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:38 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
334a8132d9 [SKBUFF]: Keep track of writable header len of headerless clones
Currently NAT (and others) that want to modify cloned skbs copy them,
even if in the vast majority of cases its not necessary because the
skb is a clone made by TCP and the portion NAT wants to modify is
actually writable because TCP release the header reference before
cloning.

The problem is that there is no clean way for NAT to find out how
long the writable header area is, so this patch introduces skb->hdr_len
to hold this length. When a headerless skb is cloned skb->hdr_len
is set to the current headroom, for regular clones it is copied from
the original. A new function skb_clone_writable(skb, len) returns
whether the skb is writable up to len bytes from skb->data. To avoid
enlarging the skb the mac_len field is reduced to 16 bit and the
new hdr_len field is put in the remaining 16 bit.

I've done a few rough benchmarks of NAT (not with this exact patch,
but a very similar one). As expected it saves huge amounts of system
time in case of sendfile, bringing it down to basically the same
amount as without NAT, with sendmsg it only helps on loopback,
probably because of the large MTU.

Transmit a 1GB file using sendfile/sendmsg over eth0/lo with and
without NAT:

- sendfile eth0, no NAT:	sys     0m0.388s
- sendfile eth0, NAT:		sys     0m1.835s
- sendfile eth0: NAT + path:	sys     0m0.370s	(~ -80%)

- sendfile lo, no NAT:		sys     0m0.258s
- sendfile lo, NAT:		sys     0m2.609s
- sendfile lo, NAT + patch:	sys     0m0.260s	(~ -90%)

- sendmsg eth0, no NAT:		sys     0m2.508s
- sendmsg eth0, NAT:		sys     0m2.539s
- sendmsg eth0, NAT + patch:	sys     0m2.445s	(no change)

- sendmsg lo, no NAT:		sys	0m2.151s
- sendmsg lo, NAT:		sys     0m3.557s
- sendmsg lo, NAT + patch:	sys     0m2.159s	(~ -40%)

I expect other users can see a similar performance improvement,
packet mangling iptables targets, ipip and ip_gre come to mind ..

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:37 -07:00
Krishna Kumar
e50c41b53d [NET]: qdisc_restart - couple of optimizations.
Changes :

- netif_queue_stopped need not be called inside qdisc_restart as
  it has been called already in qdisc_run() before the first skb
  is sent, and in __qdisc_run() after each intermediate skb is
  sent (note : we are the only sender, so the queue cannot get
  stopped while the tx lock was got in the ~LLTX case).

- BUG_ON((int) q->q.qlen < 0) was a relic from old times when -1
  meant more packets are available, and __qdisc_run used to loop
  when qdisc_restart() returned -1. During those days, it was
  necessary to make sure that qlen is never less than zero, since
  __qdisc_run would get into an infinite loop if no packets are on
  the queue and this bug in qdisc was there (and worse - no more
  skbs could ever get queue'd as we hold the queue lock too). With
  Herbert's recent change to return values, this check is not
  required.  Hopefully Herbert can validate this change. If at all
  this is required, it should be added to skb_dequeue (in failure
  case), and not to qdisc_qlen.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:36 -07:00
Krishna Kumar
6c1361a6f2 [NET]: qdisc_restart - readability changes plus one bug fix.
New changes :

- Incorporated Peter Waskiewicz's comments.
- Re-added back one warning message (on driver returning wrong value).

Previous changes :

- Converted to use switch/case code which looks neater.

- "if (ret == NETDEV_TX_LOCKED && lockless)" is buggy, and the lockless
  check should be removed, since driver will return NETDEV_TX_LOCKED only
  if lockless is true and driver has to do the locking. In the original
  code as well as the latest code, this code can result in a bug where
  if LLTX is not set for a driver (lockless == 0) but the driver is written
  wrongly to do a trylock (despite LLTX being set), the driver returns
  LOCKED. But since lockless is zero, the packet is requeue'd instead of
  calling collision code which will issue warning and free up the skb.
  Instead this skb will be retried with this driver next time, and the same
  result will ensue. Removing this check will catch these driver bugs instead
  of hiding the problem. I am keeping this change to readability section
  since :
  	a. it is confusing to check two things as it is; and
  	b. it is difficult to keep this check in the changed 'switch' code.

- Changed some names, like try_get_tx_pkt to dev_dequeue_skb (as that is
  the work being done and easier to understand) and do_dev_requeue to
  dev_requeue_skb, merged handle_dev_cpu_collision and tx_islocked to
  dev_handle_collision (handle_dev_cpu_collision is a small routine with only
  one caller, so there is no need to have two separate routines which also
  results in getting rid of two macros, etc.

- Removed an XXX comment as it should never fail (I suspect this was related
  to batch skb WIP, Jamal ?). Converted some functions to original coding
  style of having the return values and the function name on same line, eg
  prio2list.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:35 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
49d66a70cf [CCID3]: Fix a bug in the send time processing
ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet currently returns 0 when the time difference between
current time and t_nom is less than 1000 microseconds.

In this case the packet is sent immediately; but, unlike other packets that can
be emitted on first attempt, it will not have its window counter updated and
its options set as required. This is a bug.

Fix: Require the time difference to be at least 1000 microseconds. The
algorithm then converges: time differences > 1000 microseconds trigger the
timer in dccp_write_xmit; after timer expiry this function is tried again; when
the time difference is less than 1000, the packet will have its options added
and window counter updated as required.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:34 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
8132da4d41 [CCID3]: Sending time: update to ktime_t
This updates the computation of t_nom and t_last_win_count to use the newer
gettimeofday interface.

Committer note: used ktime_to_timeval to set the 'now' variable to t_ld in
                ccid3hctx_no_feedback_timer

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:27 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
1e180f726a [KTIME]: Introduce ktime_add_us
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:26 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
f1c91da447 [KTIME]: Introduce ktime_us_delta
This provides a reusable time difference function which returns the difference in
microseconds, as often used in the DCCP code.

Commiter note: renamed ktime_delta to ktime_us_delta and put it in ktime.h.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:25 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
dd36a9aba4 loss_interval: make struct dccp_li_hist_entry private
net/dccp/ccids/lib/loss_interval.c is the only place where this struct is used.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-07-10 22:15:24 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
cc4d6a3a34 loss_interval: Nuke dccp_li_hist
It had just a slab cache, so, for the sake of simplicity just make
dccp_trfc_lib module init routine create the slab cache, no need for users of
the lib to create a private loss_interval object.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-07-10 22:15:23 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
c70b729e66 loss_interval: Make dccp_li_hist_entry_{new,delete} private
Not used outside the loss_interval code anymore.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-07-10 22:15:22 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
8c281780c6 loss_interval: unexport dccp_li_hist_interval_new
Now its only used inside the loss_interval code.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-07-10 22:15:21 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
cc0a910b94 [DCCP] loss_interval: Move ccid3_hc_rx_update_li to loss_interval
Renaming it to dccp_li_update_li.

Also based on previous work by Ian McDonald.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:20 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
878ac60023 [CCID3]: Pass ccid3_li_hist to ccid3_hc_rx_update_li
Now ccid3_hc_rx_update_li is ready to be moved to
net/dccp/ccids/lib/loss_interval, it uses the same interface as the other
functions there.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-07-10 22:15:19 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d83258a3da Remove accesses to ccid3_hc_rx_sock in ccid3_hc_rx_{update,calc_first}_li
This is a preparatory patch for moving these loss interval functions from
net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c to net/dccp/ccids/lib/loss_interval.c.

Based on a patch by Ian McDonald.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:18 -07:00
Ian McDonald
6bc7efe8ef loss_interval: Fix timeval initialisation
When compiling with EXTRA_CFLAGS=-W noticed that tstamp is not initialised
correctly in dccp_li_calc_first_li.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2007-07-10 22:15:06 -07:00
Ian McDonald
e961811fcd Fix dccp_sum_coverage
When compiling with EXTRA_CFLAGS=-W notice that we have signed/unsigned issue
in dccp.h.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2007-07-10 22:15:05 -07:00
Ian McDonald
b2f41ff413 ccid3: Update copyrights
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:04 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
07b5b17e15 [VLAN]: Use rtnl_link API
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:03 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
a4bf3af4ac [VLAN]: Introduce symbolic constants for flag values
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:02 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
b020cb4885 [VLAN]: Keep track of number of QoS mappings
Keep track of the number of configured ingress/egress QoS mappings to
avoid iteration while calculating the netlink attribute size.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:01 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
734423cf38 [VLAN]: Use 32 bit value for skb->priority mapping
skb->priority has only 32 bits and even VLAN uses 32 bit values in its API.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:00 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
2ae0bf69b7 [VLAN]: Return proper error codes in register_vlan_device
The returned device is unused, return proper error codes instead and avoid
having the ioctl handler guess the error.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:59 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
e89fe42cd0 [VLAN]: Move device registation to seperate function
Move device registration and configuration of the underlying device to a
seperate function.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:58 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
c1d3ee9925 [VLAN]: Split up device checks
Move the checks of the underlying device to a seperate function.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:57 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
42429aaee5 [VLAN]: Move vlan_group allocation to seperate function
Move group allocation to a seperate function to clean up the code a bit
and allocate groups before registering the device. Device registration
is globally visible and causes netlink events, so we shouldn't fail
afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:40 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
2f4284a406 [VLAN]: Move some device intialization code to dev->init callback
Move some device initialization code to new dev->init callback to make
it shareable with netlink. Additionally this fixes a minor bug, dev->iflink
is set after registration, which causes an incorrect value in the initial
netlink message.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:39 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
c17d8874f9 [VLAN]: Convert name-based configuration functions to struct netdevice *
Move the device lookup and checks to the ioctl handler under the RTNL and
change all name-based interfaces to take a struct net_device * instead.

This allows to use them from a netlink interface, which identifies devices
based on ifindex not name. It also avoids races between the ioctl interface
and the (upcoming) netlink interface since now all changes happen under the
RTNL.

As a nice side effect this greatly simplifies error handling in the helper
functions and fixes a number of incorrect error codes like -EINVAL for
device not found.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:38 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
9ba2cd6560 [IFB]: Use rtnl_link API
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:37 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
62b7ffcaaa [IFB]: Keep ifb devices on list
Use a list instead of an array to allow creating new devices.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:36 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
5d5cb173d8 [DUMMY]: Use rtnl_link API
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:29 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
206c9fb26f [DUMMY]: Keep dummy devices on list
Use a list instead of an array to allow creating new devices.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:25 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
58651b24ac [DUMMY]: Use dev->stats
Use dev->stats instead of netdev_priv().

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:23 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
38f7b870d4 [RTNETLINK]: Link creation API
Add rtnetlink API for creating, changing and deleting software devices.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:20 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
0157f60c0c [RTNETLINK]: Split up rtnl_setlink
Split up rtnl_setlink into a function performing validation and a function
performing the actual changes. This allows to share the modifcation logic
with rtnl_newlink, which is introduced by the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:16 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
6472ce6096 [NET]: Mark struct net_device * argument to netdev_priv const
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:13 -07:00
Larry Finger
b3d88ad49a [MAC80211]: Add support for SIOCGIWRATE ioctl
At present, transmission rate information for mac80211 is available only
if verbose debugging is turned on, and then only in the logs. This patch
implements the SIOCGIWRATE ioctl, which adds the current transmission rate to
the output of iwconfig.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:07 -07:00
David S. Miller
8c7b7faaa6 [NET]: Kill eth_copy_and_sum().
It hasn't "summed" anything in over 7 years, and it's
just a straight mempcy ala skb_copy_to_linear_data()
so just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:08:12 -07:00
Herbert Xu
a7ab4b501f [TCPv4]: Improve BH latency in /proc/net/tcp
Currently the code for /proc/net/tcp disable BH while iterating
over the entire established hash table.  Even though we call
cond_resched_softirq for each entry, we still won't process
softirq's as regularly as we would otherwise do which results
in poor performance when the system is loaded near capacity.

This anomaly comes from the 2.4 code where this was all in a
single function and the local_bh_disable might have made sense
as a small optimisation.

The cost of each local_bh_disable is so small when compared
against the increased latency in keeping it disabled over a
large but mostly empty TCP established hash table that we
should just move it to the individual read_lock/read_unlock
calls as we do in inet_diag.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:06:20 -07:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
c716a81ab9 [NET_SCHED]: Cleanup readability of qdisc restart
Over the years this code has gotten hairier. Resulting in many long
discussions over long summer days and patches that get it wrong.
This patch helps tame that code so normal people will understand it.

Thanks to Thomas Graf, Peter J. waskiewicz Jr, and Patrick McHardy
for their valuable reviews.

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:06:16 -07:00