linux/drivers/net/loopback.c, branch v2.6.34

percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net drivers

2010-02-17T07:05:38Z

Add __percpu sparse annotations to net drivers. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: David S. Miller Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2009-12-14T17:58:24Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits) m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique percpu: remove some sparse warnings percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var() this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics ... Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c mm/slab.c

net: Simplify loopback and improve batching.

2009-12-02T00:15:52Z

Defer calling unregister_netdevice_queue to cleanup_net. It's simpler and it allows the loopback device to land in the same batch as other network devices. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use net_eq to compare nets

2009-11-25T23:14:13Z

Generated with the following semantic patch @@ struct net *n1; struct net *n2; @@ - n1 == n2 + net_eq(n1, n2) @@ struct net *n1; struct net *n2; @@ - n1 != n2 + !net_eq(n1, n2) applied over {include,net,drivers/net}. Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

this_cpu: Straight transformations

2009-10-03T10:48:22Z

Use this_cpu_ptr and __this_cpu_ptr in locations where straight transformations are possible because per_cpu_ptr is used with either smp_processor_id() or raw_smp_processor_id(). cc: David Howells Acked-by: Tejun Heo cc: Ingo Molnar cc: Rusty Russell cc: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

netdev: convert bulk of drivers to netdev_tx_t

2009-09-01T08:14:07Z

In a couple of cases collapse some extra code like: int retval = NETDEV_TX_OK; ... return retval; into return NETDEV_TX_OK; Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functions

2009-07-06T02:16:04Z

This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK. Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be handled in a seperate patch. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: release dst entry in dev_hard_start_xmit()

2009-05-19T05:19:19Z

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_fr Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

loopback: packet drops accounting

2009-04-20T09:25:26Z

We can in some situations drop packets in netif_rx() loopback driver does not report these (unlikely) drops to its stats, and incorrectly change packets/bytes counts. After this patch applied, "ifconfig lo" can reports these drops as in : # ifconfig lo lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:692562900 errors:3228 dropped:3228 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:692562900 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2865674174 (2.6 GiB) TX bytes:2865674174 (2.6 GiB) I initialy chose to reflect those errors only in tx_dropped/tx_errors, but David convinced me that it was really RX errors, as loopback_xmit() really starts a RX process. (calling eth_type_trans() for example, that itself pulls the ethernet header) These errors are accounted in rx_dropped/rx_errors. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netdev: add more functions to netdevice ops

2008-11-21T04:14:53Z

This patch moves neigh_setup and hard_start_xmit into the network device ops structure. For bisection, fix all the previously converted drivers as well. Bonding driver took the biggest hit on this. Added a prefetch of the hard_start_xmit in the fast path to try and reduce any impact this would have. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller