Place them on separate cache lines in SMP to lower memory bouncing
between multiple CPU accessing the device.
- One part is mostly used on receive path (including
eth_type_trans()) (poll_list, poll, quota, weight, last_rx,
dev_addr, broadcast)
- One part is mostly used on queue transmit path (qdisc)
(queue_lock, qdisc, qdisc_sleeping, qdisc_list, tx_queue_len)
- One part is mostly used on xmit path (device)
(xmit_lock, xmit_lock_owner, priv, hard_start_xmit, trans_start)
'features' is placed outside of these hot points, in a location that
may be shared by all cpus (because mostly read)
name_hlist is moved close to name[IFNAMSIZ] to speedup __dev_get_by_name()
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds a new field to net device to hold the permanent
hardware address, and adds a new generic ethtool_op function to
get that address.
Signed-off-by: Jon Wetzel <jon_wetzel@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Of this type, mostly:
CHECK net/ipv6/netfilter.c
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_fini' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
# grep -r 'netif_carrier_o[nf]' linux-2.6.12 | wc -l
246
# size vmlinux.org vmlinux.carrier
text data bss dec hex filename
4339634 1054414 259296 5653344 564360 vmlinux.org
4337710 1054414 259296 5651420 563bdc vmlinux.carrier
And this ain't an allyesconfig kernel!
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Bonding just wants the device before the skb_bond()
decapsulation occurs, so simply pass that original
device into packet_type->func() as an argument.
It remains to be seen whether we can use this same
exact thing to get rid of skb->input_dev as well.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eliminate the throttling behaviour when the netif receive queue fills
because it behaves badly when using high speed networks under load.
The throttling cause multiple packet drops that cause TCP to go into
slow start mode. The same effective patch has been part of BIC TCP and
H-TCP as well as part of Web100.
The existing code drops 100's of packets when the queue fills;
this changes it to individual packet drop-tail.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemmminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove the congestion sensing mechanism from netif_rx, and always
return either full or empty. Almost no driver checks the return value
from netif_rx, and those that do only use it for debug messages.
The original design of netif_rx was to do flow control based on the
receive queue, but NAPI has supplanted this and no driver uses the
feedback.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove last vestiages of fastroute code that is no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the "local"
implementations in several places to use this function.
Most of the changes come from the sound and net subsystems. The sound part
had already been acknowledged by Takashi Iwai and the net part by David S.
Miller.
I left UML alone for now because I would need more time to read the code
carefully before making changes there.
Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch introduces a netpoll_info structure, which the struct net_device
will now point to instead of pointing to a struct netpoll. The reason for
this is two-fold: 1) fields such as the rx_flags, poll_owner, and poll_lock
should be maintained per net_device, not per netpoll; and 2) this is a first
step in providing support for multiple netpoll clients to register against the
same net_device.
The struct netpoll is now pointed to by the netpoll_info structure. As
such, the previous behaviour of the code is preserved.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When the hardware header size is a multiple of HH_DATA_MOD, HH_DATA_OFF()
incorrectly returns HH_DATA_MOD (instead of 0). This affects ieee80211 layer
as 802.11 header is 32 bytes long.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The features field in netdevice is really a bitmask, and bitmask's should
be unsigned.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Resend of earlier patch (no changes) from Catalin used to provide
device feature change notification.
Signed-off-by: Catalin BOIE <catab at umbrella.ro>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Everybody does
struct packet_type foo_packet_type = {
.type = __constant_htons(ETH_P_FOO);
};
5 introduced warnings will be properly fixed later.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ross moved. Remove the bad email address so people will find the correct
one in ./CREDITS.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
