14 Nov, 2011
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This patch introduces new network device called team. It supposes to be
very fast, simple, userspace-driven alternative to existing bonding
driver.Userspace library called libteam with couple of demo apps is available
here:
https://github.com/jpirko/libteam
Note it's still in its dipers atm.teamlibteam use generic netlink for communication. That and rtnl
suppose to be the only way to configure team device, no sysfs etc.Python binding of libteam was recently introduced.
Daemon providing arpmon/miimon active-backup functionality will be
introduced shortly. All what's necessary is already implemented in
kernel team driver.v7->v8:
- check ndo_ndo_vlan_rx_[add/kill]_vid functions before calling
them.
- use dev_kfree_skb_any() instead of dev_kfree_skb()v6->v7:
- transmit and receive functions are not checked in hot paths.
That also resolves memory leak on transmit when no port is
presentv5->v6:
- changed couple of _rcu calls to non _rcu ones in non-readersv4->v5:
- team_change_mtu() uses team->lock while travesing though port
list
- mac address changes are moved completely to jurisdiction of
userspace daemon. This way the daemon can do FOM1, FOM2 and
possibly other weird things with mac addresses.
Only round-robin mode sets up all ports to bond's address then
enslaved.
- Extended Kconfig textv3->v4:
- remove redundant synchronize_rcu from __team_change_mode()
- revert "set and clear of mode_ops happens per pointer, not per
byte"
- extend comment of function __team_change_mode()v2->v3:
- team_change_mtu() uses rcu version of list traversal to unwind
- set and clear of mode_ops happens per pointer, not per byte
- port hashlist changed to be embedded into team structure
- error branch in team_port_enter() does cleanup now
- fixed rtln->rtnlv1->v2:
- modes are made as modules. Makes team more modular and
extendable.
- several commenters' nitpicks found on v1 were fixed
- several other bugs were fixed.
- note I ignored Eric's comment about roundrobin port selector
as Eric's way may be easily implemented as another mode (mode
"random") in future.Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
18 Aug, 2011
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Use IFF_UNICAST_FTL to find out if driver handles unicast address
filtering. In case it does not, promisc mode is entered.Patch also fixes following drivers:
stmmac, niu: support uc filtering and yet it propagated
ndo_set_multicast_list
bna, benet, pxa168_eth, ks8851, ks8851_mll, ksz884x : has set
ndo_set_rx_mode but do not support uc filteringSigned-off-by: Jiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
28 Jul, 2011
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Pktgen attempts to transmit shared skbs to net devices, which can't be used by
some drivers as they keep state information in skbs. This patch adds a flag
marking drivers as being able to handle shared skbs in their tx path. Drivers
are defaulted to being unable to do so, but calling ether_setup enables this
flag, as 90% of the drivers calling ether_setup touch real hardware and can
handle shared skbs. A subsequent patch will audit drivers to ensure that the
flag is set properlySigned-off-by: Neil Horman
Reported-by: Jiri Pirko
CC: Robert Olsson
CC: Eric Dumazet
CC: Alexey Dobriyan
CC: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
28 Feb, 2011
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V4: rebase to net-next-2.6
This patch removes the flag IFF_IN_NETPOLL, we don't need it any more since
we have netpoll_tx_running() now.Signed-off-by: WANG Cong
Acked-by: Neil Horman
Cc: Herbert Xu
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
30 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Simon Horman
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
24 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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IFF_OVS_DATAPATH is a place-holder for the Open vSwitch datapath
which I am preparing to submit for merging.As all 16 bits of priv_flags are already assigned flags, also increase
the size of priv_flags to 32 bits.Unfortunately, by my calculations this increases the size of
struct net_device by 4 bytes on 32bit architectures and
8 bytes on 64 bit architectures. I couldn't see an obvious
way to avoid that.Cc: Jesse Gross
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
16 Jun, 2010
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Register net_bridge_port pointer as rx_handler data pointer. As br_port is
removed from struct net_device, another netdev priv_flag is added to indicate
the device serves as a bridge port. Also rcuized pointers are now correctly
dereferenced in br_fdb.c and in netfilter parts.Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko
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Register macvlan_port pointer as rx_handler data pointer. As macvlan_port is
removed from struct net_device, another netdev priv_flag is added to indicate
the device serves as a macvlan port.Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
06 May, 2010
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This whole patchset is for adding netpoll support to bridge and bonding
devices. I already tested it for bridge, bonding, bridge over bonding,
and bonding over bridge. It looks fine now.To make bridge and bonding support netpoll, we need to adjust
some netpoll generic code. This patch does the following things:1) introduce two new priv_flags for struct net_device:
IFF_IN_NETPOLL which identifies we are processing a netpoll;
IFF_DISABLE_NETPOLL is used to disable netpoll support for a device
at run-time;2) introduce one new method for netdev_ops:
->ndo_netpoll_cleanup() is used to clean up netpoll when a device is
removed.3) introduce netpoll_poll_dev() which takes a struct net_device * parameter;
export netpoll_send_skb() and netpoll_poll_dev() which will be used later;4) hide a pointer to struct netpoll in struct netpoll_info, ditto.
5) introduce ->real_dev for struct netpoll.
6) introduce a new status NETDEV_BONDING_DESLAE, which is used to disable
netconsole before releasing a slave, to avoid deadlocks.Cc: David Miller
Cc: Neil Horman
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
20 Nov, 2009
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A number of people have tried to add a wireless interface
(in managed mode) to a bridge and then complained that it
doesn't work. It cannot work, however, because in 802.11
networks all packets need to be acknowledged and as such
need to be sent to the right address. Promiscuous doesn't
help here. The wireless address format used for these
links has only space for three addresses, the
* transmitter, which must be equal to the sender (origin)
* receiver (on the wireless medium), which is the AP in
the case of managed mode
* the recipient (destination), which is on the APs local
network segmentIn an IBSS, it is similar, but the receiver and recipient
must match and the third address is used as the BSSID.To avoid such mistakes in the future, disallow adding a
wireless interface to a bridge.Felix has recently added a four-address mode to the AP
and client side that can be used (after negotiating that
it is possible, which must happen out-of-band by setting
up both sides) for bridging, so allow that case.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
05 Nov, 2009
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This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces,
in first line to ease grep games.struct something
{becomes :
struct something {
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
19 May, 2009
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One point of contention in high network loads is the dst_release() performed
when a transmited skb is freed. This is because NIC tx completion calls
dev_kree_skb() long after original call to dev_queue_xmit(skb).CPU cache is cold and the atomic op in dst_release() stalls. On SMP, this is
quite visible if one CPU is 100% handling softirqs for a network device,
since dst_clone() is done by other cpus, involving cache line ping pongs.It seems right place to release dst is in dev_hard_start_xmit(), for most
devices but ones that are virtual, and some exceptions.David Miller suggested to define a new device flag, set in alloc_netdev_mq()
(so that most devices set it at init time), and carefuly unset in devices
which dont want a NULL skb->dst in their ndo_start_xmit().List of devices that must clear this flag is :
- loopback device, because it calls netif_rx() and quoting Patrick :
"ip_route_input() doesn't accept loopback addresses, so loopback packets
already need to have a dst_entry attached."
- appletalk/ipddp.c : needs skb->dst in its xmit function- And all devices that call again dev_queue_xmit() from their xmit function
(as some classifiers need skb->dst) : bonding, vlan, macvlan, eql, ifb, hdlc_frSigned-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
22 Jan, 2009
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Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
04 Nov, 2008
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The only user of the net_device->last_rx field is bonding.
This patch adds a conditional update of last_rx to the bonding special
logic in skb_bond_should_drop, causing last_rx to only be updated when
the ARP monitor is running.This frees network device drivers from the necessity of
updating last_rx, which can have cache line thrash issues.Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
23 Sep, 2008
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This patch add support for keeping an additional character alias
associated with an network interface. This is useful for maintaining
the SNMP ifAlias value which is a user defined value. Routers use this
to hold information like which circuit or line it is connected to. It
is just an arbitrary text label on the network device.There are two exposed interfaces with this patch, the value can be
read/written either via netlink or sysfs.This could be maintained just by the snmp daemon, but it is more
generally useful for other management tools, and the kernel is good
place to act as an agreed upon interface to store it.Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
29 Jan, 2008
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This patch includes support for the Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel
Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) per RFC4214. It uses the SIT
module, and is configured using extensions to the "iproute2"
utility. The diffs are specific to the Linux 2.6.24-rc2 kernel
distribution.This version includes the diff for ./include/linux/if.h which was
missing in the v2.4 submission and is needed to make the
patch compile. The patch has been installed, compiled and
tested in a clean 2.6.24-rc2 kernel build area.Signed-off-by: Fred L. Templin
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
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This patch adds a protocol/address family number, ARP hardware type,
ethernet packet type, and a line discipline number for the SocketCAN
implementation.Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp
Signed-off-by: Urs Thuermann
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
29 Sep, 2006
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Moving netlink interface bits to linux/if.h is rather troublesome for
applications including both linux/if.h (which was changed to be included
from linux/rtnetlink.h automatically) and net/if.h.Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
26 Sep, 2006
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Add logic to check ARP request / reply packets used for ARP
monitor link integrity checking.The current method simply examines the slave device to see if it
has sent and received traffic; this can be fooled by extraneous traffic.
For example, if multiple hosts running bonding are behind a common
switch, the probe traffic from the multiple instances of bonding will
update the tx/rx times on each other's slave devices.Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh
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Add priv_flag to specifically identify bonding-involved devices. Needed
because IFF_MASTER is an unreliable identifier (vlan interfaces above bonding
will inherit IFF_MASTER). Misidentification of devices would cause
notifier events for other devices to be erroneously processed by bonding,
causing various havoc.Bug discovered by Martin Papik ; this patch is
modified from his original.Signed-off-by: Martin Papik
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik
23 Sep, 2006
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
21 Mar, 2006
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this patch adds a dormant flag to network devices, RFC2863 operstate derived
from these flags and possibility for userspace interaction. It allows drivers
to signal that a device is unusable for user traffic without disabling
queueing (and therefore the possibility for protocol establishment traffic to
flow) and a userspace supplicant (WPA, 802.1X) to mark a device unusable
without changes to the driver.It is the result of our long discussion. However I must admit that it
represents what Jamal and I agreed on with compromises towards Krzysztof, but
Thomas and Krzysztof still disagree with some parts. Anyway I think it should
be applied.Signed-off-by: Stefan Rompf
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
04 Mar, 2006
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Originally submitted by Kenzo Iwami; his original description is:
The current bonding driver receives duplicate packets when broadcast/
multicast packets are sent by other devices or packets are flooded by the
switch. In this patch, new flags are added in priv_flags of net_device
structure to let the bonding driver discard duplicate packets in
dev.c:skb_bond().Modified by Jay Vosburgh to change a define name, update some
comments, rearrange the new skb_bond() for clarity, clear all bonding
priv_flags on slave release, and update the driver version.Signed-off-by: Kenzo Iwami
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik
13 May, 2005
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06 May, 2005
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Ross moved. Remove the bad email address so people will find the correct
one in ./CREDITS.Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
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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!
