11 Oct, 2007
5 commits
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Removes the use of bitfields from the ibmveth driver. This results
in slightly smaller object code.Signed-off-by: Brian King
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik -
Removes dead frag processing code from ibmveth. Since NETIF_F_SG was
not set, this code was never executed. Also, since the ibmveth
interface can only handle 6 fragments, core networking code would need
to be modified in order to efficiently enable this support.Signed-off-by: Brian King
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik -
This patch adds the appropriate ethtool hooks to allow for enabling/disabling
of hypervisor assisted checksum offload for TCP.Signed-off-by: Brian King
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik -
This patchset enables TCP checksum offload support for IPV4
on ibmveth. This completely eliminates the generation and checking of
the checksum for packets that are completely virtual and never
touch a physical network. A simple TCP_STREAM netperf run on
a virtual network with maximum mtu set yielded a ~30% increase
in throughput. This feature is enabled by default on systems that
support it, but can be disabled with a module option.Signed-off-by: Brian King
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net
device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several
queues.In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the
structure representing the poll is independant from the net
device itself.The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from:
int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget)
to
int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or
the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get
abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping
dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the
caller upon return.The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data
structures.Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI
instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the
napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures,
only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances
it may have per-device.With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier,
Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim.Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra,
Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan.[ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated
Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list
handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ]Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
08 Aug, 2007
1 commit
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This fixes the following oops which can occur when trying to deallocate
receive buffer pools using sysfs with the ibmveth driver.NIP: d00000000024f954 LR: d00000000024fa58 CTR: c0000000000d7478
REGS: c00000000ffef9f0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.22-ppc64)
MSR: 8000000000009032 CR: 24242442 XER: 00000010
DAR: 00000000000007f0, DSISR: 0000000042000000
TASK = c000000002f91360[2967] 'bash' THREAD: c00000001398c000 CPU: 2
GPR00: 0000000000000000 c00000000ffefc70 d000000000262d30 c00000001c4087a0
GPR04: 00000003000000fe 0000000000000000 000000000000000f c000000000579d80
GPR08: 0000000000365688 c00000001c408998 00000000000007f0 0000000000000000
GPR12: d000000000251e88 c000000000579d80 00000000200957ec 0000000000000000
GPR16: 00000000100b8808 00000000100feb30 0000000000000000 0000000010084828
GPR20: 0000000000000000 000000001014d4d0 0000000000000010 c00000000ffefeb0
GPR24: c00000001c408000 0000000000000000 c00000001c408000 00000000ffffb054
GPR28: 00000000000000fe 0000000000000003 d000000000262700 c00000001c4087a0
NIP [d00000000024f954] .ibmveth_remove_buffer_from_pool+0x38/0x108 [ibmveth]
LR [d00000000024fa58] .ibmveth_rxq_harvest_buffer+0x34/0x78 [ibmveth]
Call Trace:
[c00000000ffefc70] [c0000000000280a8] .dma_iommu_unmap_single+0x14/0x28 (unreliable)
[c00000000ffefd00] [d00000000024fa58] .ibmveth_rxq_harvest_buffer+0x34/0x78 [ibmveth]
[c00000000ffefd80] [d000000000250e40] .ibmveth_poll+0xd8/0x434 [ibmveth]
[c00000000ffefe40] [c00000000032da8c] .net_rx_action+0xdc/0x248
[c00000000ffefef0] [c000000000068b4c] .__do_softirq+0xa8/0x164
[c00000000ffeff90] [c00000000002789c] .call_do_softirq+0x14/0x24
[c00000001398f6f0] [c00000000000c04c] .do_softirq+0x68/0xac
[c00000001398f780] [c000000000068ca0] .irq_exit+0x54/0x6c
[c00000001398f800] [c00000000000c8e4] .do_IRQ+0x170/0x1ac
[c00000001398f890] [c000000000004790] hardware_interrupt_entry+0x18/0x1c
Exception: 501 at .plpar_hcall_norets+0x24/0x94
LR = .veth_pool_store+0x15c/0x298 [ibmveth]
[c00000001398fb80] [d000000000250b2c] .veth_pool_store+0x5c/0x298 [ibmveth] (unreliable)
[c00000001398fc30] [c000000000145530] .sysfs_write_file+0x140/0x1d8
[c00000001398fcf0] [c0000000000de89c] .vfs_write+0x120/0x208
[c00000001398fd90] [c0000000000df2c8] .sys_write+0x4c/0x8c
[c00000001398fe30] [c0000000000086ac] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
Instruction dump:
fba1ffe8 fbe1fff8 789d0022 f8010010 f821ff71 789c0020 1d3d00a8 7b8a1f24
38000000 7c7f1b78 7d291a14 e9690128 e8030000 e9690120 80a90100Signed-off-by: Brian King
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik
04 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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Remove the now unused "liobn" field in ibmveth which also avoids
having insider knowledge of the iommu table in that driver.Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras
01 Aug, 2006
1 commit
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Our pseries hcall interfaces are out of control:
plpar_hcall_norets
plpar_hcall
plpar_hcall_8arg_2ret
plpar_hcall_4out
plpar_hcall_7arg_7ret
plpar_hcall_9arg_9retCreate 3 interfaces to cover all cases:
plpar_hcall_norets: 7 arguments no returns
plpar_hcall: 6 arguments 4 returns
plpar_hcall9: 9 arguments 9 returnsThere are only 2 cases in the kernel that need plpar_hcall9, hopefully
we can keep it that way.Pass in a buffer to stash return parameters so we avoid the &dummy1,
&dummy2 madness.Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard
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Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras
31 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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Move all the Hypervisor call definitions to to a single header file.
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras
24 May, 2006
2 commits
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This patch provides a sysfs interface to change some properties of the
ibmveth buffer pools (size of the buffers, number of buffers per pool,
and whether a pool is active). Ethernet drivers use ethtool to provide
this type of functionality. However, the buffers in the ibmveth driver
can have an arbitrary size (not only regular, mini, and jumbo which are
the only sizes that ethtool can change), and also ibmveth can have an
arbitrary number of buffer poolsUnder heavy load we have seen dropped packets which obviously kills TCP
performance. We have created several fixes that mitigate this issue,
but we definitely need a way of changing the number of buffers for an
adapter dynamically. Also, changing the size of the buffers allows
users to change the MTU to something big (bigger than a jumbo frame)
greatly improving performance on partition to partition transfers.The patch creates directories pool1...pool4 in the device directory in
sysfs, each with files: num, size, and active (which default to the
values in the mainline version).Comments and suggestions are welcome...
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Santiago A. Leon
Power Linux Development
IBM Linux Technology CenterSigned-off-by: Jeff Garzik
29 Oct, 2005
3 commits
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This patch adds the lockless TX feature to the ibmveth driver. The
hypervisor has its own locking so the only change that is necessary is
to protect the statistics counters.Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik -
This patch removes the allocation of RX skb's buffers from a workqueue
to be called directly at RX processing time. This change was suggested
by Dave Miller when the driver was starving the RX buffers and
deadlocking under heavy traffic:> Allocating RX SKBs via tasklet is, IMHO, the worst way to
> do it. It is no surprise that there are starvation cases.
>
> If tasklets or work queues get delayed in any way, you lose,
> and it's very easy for a card to catch up with the driver RX'ing
> packets very fast, no matter how aggressive you make the
> replenishing. By the time you detect that you need to be
> "more aggressive" it is already too late.
> The only pseudo-reliable way is to allocate at RX processing time.
>Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik -
This patch changes the way the ibmveth driver handles the receive
buffers. The old code mallocs and maps all the buffers in the pools
regardless of MTU size and it also limits the number of buffer pools to
three. This patch makes the driver malloc and map the buffers necessary
to support the current MTU. It also changes the hardcoded names of the
buffer pool number, size, and elements to arrays to make it easier to
change (with the hope of making them runtime parameters in the future).Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik
17 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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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!
