linux/include/net/ip.h, branch v3.6

ipv4: fix ip_send_skb()

2012-08-10T21:08:57Z

ip_send_skb() can send orphaned skb, so we must pass the net pointer to avoid possible NULL dereference in error path. Bug added by commit 3a7c384ffd57 (ipv4: tcp: unicast_sock should not land outside of TCP stack) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: tcp: remove per net tcp_sock

2012-07-19T17:35:30Z

tcp_v4_send_reset() and tcp_v4_send_ack() use a single socket per network namespace. This leads to bad behavior on multiqueue NICS, because many cpus contend for the socket lock and once socket lock is acquired, extra false sharing on various socket fields slow down the operations. To better resist to attacks, we use a percpu socket. Each cpu can run without contention, using appropriate memory (local node) Additional features : 1) We also mirror the queue_mapping of the incoming skb, so that answers use the same queue if possible. 2) Setting SOCK_USE_WRITE_QUEUE socket flag speedup sock_wfree() 3) We now limit the number of in-flight RST/ACK [1] packets per cpu, instead of per namespace, and we honor the sysctl_wmem_default limit dynamically. (Prior to this patch, sysctl_wmem_default value was copied at boot time, so any further change would not affect tcp_sock limit) [1] These packets are only generated when no socket was matched for the incoming packet. Reported-by: Bill Sommerfeld Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Tom Herbert Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: Show that ip_send_reply() is purely unicast routine.

2012-06-28T10:21:41Z

Rename it to ip_send_unicast_reply() and add explicit 'saddr' argument. This removed one of the few users of rt->rt_spec_dst. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: Add sysctl knob to control early socket demux

2012-06-23T00:11:13Z

This change is meant to add a control for disabling early socket demux. The main motivation behind this patch is to provide an option to disable the feature as it adds an additional cost to routing that reduces overall throughput by up to 5%. For example one of my systems went from 12.1Mpps to 11.6 after the early socket demux was added. It looks like the reason for the regression is that we are now having to perform two lookups, first the one for an established socket, and then the one for the routing table. By adding this patch and toggling the value for ip_early_demux to 0 I am able to get back to the 12.1Mpps I was previously seeing. [ Move local variables in ip_rcv_finish() down into the basic block in which they are actually used. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: delete all instances of special processing for token ring

2012-05-16T00:14:35Z

We are going to delete the Token ring support. This removes any special processing in the core networking for token ring, (aside from net/tr.c itself), leaving the drivers and remaining tokenring support present but inert. The mass removal of the drivers and net/tr.c will be in a separate commit, so that the history of these files that we still care about won't have the giant deletion tied into their history. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

net: Delete all remaining instances of ctl_path

2012-04-21T01:22:30Z

We don't use struct ctl_path anymore so delete the exported constants. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: Make ip_call_ra_chain() return bool.

2012-03-09T22:34:50Z

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)

2011-12-11T23:25:16Z

Instead of testing defined(CONFIG_IPV6) || defined(CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: PKTINFO doesnt need dst reference

2011-11-09T21:36:27Z

Le lundi 07 novembre 2011 à 15:33 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit : > At least, in recent kernels we dont change dst->refcnt in forwarding > patch (usinf NOREF skb->dst) > > One particular point is the atomic_inc(dst->refcnt) we have to perform > when queuing an UDP packet if socket asked PKTINFO stuff (for example a > typical DNS server has to setup this option) > > I have one patch somewhere that stores the information in skb->cb[] and > avoid the atomic_{inc|dec}(dst->refcnt). > OK I found it, I did some extra tests and believe its ready. [PATCH net-next] ipv4: IP_PKTINFO doesnt need dst reference When a socket uses IP_PKTINFO notifications, we currently force a dst reference for each received skb. Reader has to access dst to get needed information (rt_iif & rt_spec_dst) and must release dst reference. We also forced a dst reference if skb was put in socket backlog, even without IP_PKTINFO handling. This happens under stress/load. We can instead store the needed information in skb->cb[], so that only softirq handler really access dst, improving cache hit ratios. This removes two atomic operations per packet, and false sharing as well. On a benchmark using a mono threaded receiver (doing only recvmsg() calls), I can reach 720.000 pps instead of 570.000 pps. IP_PKTINFO is typically used by DNS servers, and any multihomed aware UDP application. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: tcp: fix TOS value in ACK messages sent from TIME_WAIT

2011-10-24T07:06:21Z

There is a long standing bug in linux tcp stack, about ACK messages sent on behalf of TIME_WAIT sockets. In the IP header of the ACK message, we choose to reflect TOS field of incoming message, and this might break some setups. Example of things that were broken : - Routing using TOS as a selector - Firewalls - Trafic classification / shaping We now remember in timewait structure the inet tos field and use it in ACK generation, and route lookup. Notes : - We still reflect incoming TOS in RST messages. - We could extend MuraliRaja Muniraju patch to report TOS value in netlink messages for TIME_WAIT sockets. - A patch is needed for IPv6 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller