Eric Lee / smarc-ti-linux-kernel

04 Nov, 2013

1 commit

  • 74d332c13   net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc() ... Browse Code »

    Joby Poriyath provided a xen-netback patch to reduce the size of
    xenvif structure as some netdev allocation could fail under
    memory pressure/fragmentation.

    This patch is handling the problem at the core level, allowing
    any netdev structures to use vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed.

    As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path, add __GFP_REPEAT
    to kzalloc() flags to do this fallback only when really needed.

    Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
    Reported-by: Joby Poriyath
    Cc: Ben Hutchings
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric Dumazet
     

06 Apr, 2012

3 commits

18 Aug, 2011

1 commit

13 Jun, 2009

1 commit

08 Dec, 2008

1 commit

  • b74ca3a89   netdevice: Kill netdev->priv ... Browse Code »

    This is the last shoot of this series.
    After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing
    "priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs.

    Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly.
    If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv()
    instead.
    If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use
    netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private
    data.

    Signed-off-by: Wang Chen
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Wang Chen
     

11 Oct, 2007

2 commits

  • e24eb521f   [NET]: note that NETIF_F_LLTX is deprecated ... Browse Code »

    Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Herbert Xu:
    > Please don't use LLTX in new drivers. We're trying to get rid
    > of it since it's
    >
    > 1) unnecessary;
    > 2) causes problems with AF_PACKET seeing things twice.

    I suggest to document that LLTX is deprecated.

    Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger
    Acked-by: Herbert Xu
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Christian Borntraeger
     
  • bea3348ee   [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects. ... Browse Code »

    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

    Stephen Hemminger
     

11 Jul, 2007

2 commits

18 May, 2007

1 commit

18 Jun, 2006

1 commit

  • 932ff279a   [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock ... Browse Code »

    Various drivers use xmit_lock internally to synchronise with their
    transmission routines. They do so without setting xmit_lock_owner.
    This is fine as long as netpoll is not in use.

    With netpoll it is possible for deadlocks to occur if xmit_lock_owner
    isn't set. This is because if a printk occurs while xmit_lock is held
    and xmit_lock_owner is not set can cause netpoll to attempt to take
    xmit_lock recursively.

    While it is possible to resolve this by getting netpoll to use
    trylock, it is suboptimal because netpoll's sole objective is to
    maximise the chance of getting the printk out on the wire. So
    delaying or dropping the message is to be avoided as much as possible.

    So the only alternative is to always set xmit_lock_owner. The
    following patch does this by introducing the netif_tx_lock family of
    functions that take care of setting/unsetting xmit_lock_owner.

    I renamed xmit_lock to _xmit_lock to indicate that it should not be
    used directly. I didn't provide irq versions of the netif_tx_lock
    functions since xmit_lock is meant to be a BH-disabling lock.

    This is pretty much a straight text substitution except for a small
    bug fix in winbond. It currently uses
    netif_stop_queue/spin_unlock_wait to stop transmission. This is
    unsafe as an IRQ can potentially wake up the queue. So it is safer to
    use netif_tx_disable.

    The hamradio bits used spin_lock_irq but it is unnecessary as
    xmit_lock must never be taken in an IRQ handler.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Herbert Xu
     

25 Apr, 2005

1 commit

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • 1da177e4c   Linux-2.6.12-rc2 ... Browse Code »
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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!

    Linus Torvalds