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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tim Schmielau
cd354f1ae7 [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
9a32144e9d [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 7
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cb18eccff4 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (45 commits)
  [IPV4]: Restore multipath routing after rt_next changes.
  [XFRM] IPV6: Fix outbound RO transformation which is broken by IPsec tunnel patch.
  [NET]: Reorder fields of struct dst_entry
  [DECNET]: Convert decnet route to use the new dst_entry 'next' pointer
  [IPV6]: Convert ipv6 route to use the new dst_entry 'next' pointer
  [IPV4]: Convert ipv4 route to use the new dst_entry 'next' pointer
  [NET]: Introduce union in struct dst_entry to hold 'next' pointer
  [DECNET]: fix misannotation of linkinfo_dn
  [DECNET]: FRA_{DST,SRC} are le16 for decnet
  [UDP]: UDP can use sk_hash to speedup lookups
  [NET]: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] XFRM: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] X25: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] WANROUTER: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] UNIX: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] TIPC: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] SUNRPC: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] SCTP: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] SCHED: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] RXRPC: Fix whitespace errors.
  ...
2007-02-11 11:38:13 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
c376222960 [PATCH] Transform kmem_cache_alloc()+memset(0) -> kmem_cache_zalloc().
Replace appropriate pairs of "kmem_cache_alloc()" + "memset(0)" with the
corresponding "kmem_cache_zalloc()" call.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:27 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
4ec93edb14 [NET] CORE: Fix whitespace errors.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10 23:19:25 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
22f8cde5bc [NET]: unregister_netdevice as void
There was no real useful information from the unregister_netdevice() return
code, the only error occurred in a situation that was a driver bug. So
change it to a void function.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08 12:39:06 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
f5a6e01c09 [NET]: user of the jiffies rounding code: Networking
This patch introduces users of the round_jiffies() function in the
networking code.

These timers all were of the "about once a second" or "about once
every X seconds" variety and several showed up in the "what wakes the
cpu up" profiles that the tickless patches provide.  Some timers are
highly dynamic based on network load; but even on low activity systems
they still show up so the rounding is done only in cases of low
activity, allowing higher frequency timers in the high activity case.

The various hardware watchdogs are an obvious case; they run every 2
seconds but aren't otherwise specific of exactly when they need to
run.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08 12:38:52 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
26932566a4 [NETLINK]: Don't BUG on undersized allocations
Currently netlink users BUG when the allocated skb for an event
notification is undersized. While this is certainly a kernel bug,
its not critical and crashing the kernel is too drastic, especially
when considering that these errors have appeared multiple times in
the past and it BUGs even if no listeners are present.

This patch replaces BUG by WARN_ON and changes the notification
functions to inform potential listeners of undersized allocations
using a unique error code (EMSGSIZE).

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08 12:38:41 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
43cb76d91e Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device
This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume
issues, if it wants to.

Thanks to Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> for the arm
driver fixes.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:11 -08:00
Herbert Xu
e0e8f1c822 [IPSEC] flow: Fix potential memory leak
When old flow cache entries that are not at the head of their chain
trigger a transient security error they get unlinked along with all
the entries preceding them in the chain.  The preceding entries are
not freed correctly.

This patch fixes this by simply leaving the entry around.  It's based
on a suggestion by Venkat Yekkirala.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-23 20:25:39 -08:00
David S. Miller
ee74baa7d8 [PKTGEN]: Convert to kthread API.
Based upon a suggestion from Christoph Hellwig.

This fixes various races in module load/unload handling
too.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-03 18:38:09 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
3640543df2 [PATCH] netpoll: fix netpoll lockup
current -git doesnt boot on my laptop due to netpoll not unlocking the
tx lock in the else branch.

booted this up on my laptop with lockdep enabled and there are no
locking complaints and it works fine.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-12 08:37:51 -08:00
Andrew Morton
a49f99ffca [NETPOLL]: Fix local_bh_enable() warning.
During boot we get:

netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it
e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
WARNING (!__warned) at kernel/softirq.c:137 local_bh_enable()

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff80235baf>] local_bh_enable+0x41/0xa3
 [<ffffffff8045ab8e>] netpoll_send_skb+0x116/0x144
 [<ffffffff8045b1ee>] netpoll_send_udp+0x263/0x271
 [<ffffffff803d41ec>] write_msg+0x42/0x5e
 [<ffffffff80230c9b>] __call_console_drivers+0x5f/0x70
 [<ffffffff80230d19>] _call_console_drivers+0x6d/0x71
 [<ffffffff802313f0>] release_console_sem+0x148/0x1ec
 [<ffffffff802316ce>] register_console+0x1b1/0x1ba
 [<ffffffff803d4178>] init_netconsole+0x54/0x68
 [<ffffffff802071ae>] init+0x152/0x308
 [<ffffffff804dac8b>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x14/0x30
 [<ffffffff8022c15e>] schedule_tail+0x43/0x9f
 [<ffffffff8020a758>] child_rip+0xa/0x12

Herbert sayeth:

  Normally networking isn't invoked with interrupts turned off, but I
  suppose we don't have a choice here.  This is unique being a place where you
  can get called with BH on, off, or IRQs off.

  Given that this is only used for printk, the easiest solution is probably
  just to disable local IRQs instead of BH.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-11 17:24:46 -08:00
Andrew Morton
e37b8d9319 [NETPOLL]: Make sure TX lock is taken with BH disabled.
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-11 14:34:36 -08:00
Neil Horman
47bbec0282 [NETPOLL]: make arp replies through netpoll use mac address of sender
Back in 2.4 arp requests that were recevied by netpoll were processed
in netconsole_receive_skb, where they were responded to using the src
mac of the request sender.  In the 2.6 kernel arp_reply is responsible
for this function, but instead of using the src mac address of the
incomming request, the stored mac address that was registered for the
netconsole application is used.  While this is usually ok, it can lead
to failures in netpoll in some situations (specifically situations
where a network may have two gateways, as arp requests from one may be
responded to using the mac address of the other).  This patch reverts
the behavior to what we had in 2.4, in which all arp requests are sent
back using the src address of the request sender.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08 17:19:28 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
3644f0cee7 [NET]: Convert hh_lock to seqlock.
The hard header cache is in the main output path, so using
seqlock instead of reader/writer lock should reduce overhead.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08 17:19:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2685b267bc Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (48 commits)
  [NETFILTER]: Fix non-ANSI func. decl.
  [TG3]: Identify Serdes devices more clearly.
  [TG3]: Use msleep.
  [TG3]: Use netif_msg_*.
  [TG3]: Allow partial speed advertisement.
  [TG3]: Add TG3_FLG2_IS_NIC flag.
  [TG3]: Add 5787F device ID.
  [TG3]: Fix Phy loopback.
  [WANROUTER]: Kill kmalloc debugging code.
  [TCP] inet_twdr_hangman: Delete unnecessary memory barrier().
  [NET]: Memory barrier cleanups
  [IPSEC]: Fix inetpeer leak in ipv4 xfrm dst entries.
  audit: disable ipsec auditing when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n
  audit: Add auditing to ipsec
  [IRDA] irlan: Fix compile warning when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
  [IrDA]: Incorrect TTP header reservation
  [IrDA]: PXA FIR code device model conversion
  [GENETLINK]: Fix misplaced command flags.
  [NETLIK]: Add a pointer to the Generic Netlink wiki page.
  [IPV6] RAW: Don't release unlocked sock.
  ...
2006-12-07 09:05:15 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
0231606785 [PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use
There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn,
prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus
generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add
#ifdefs.

the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.before
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.after

[akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:39 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
ed07536ed6 [PATCH] lockdep: annotate nfs/nfsd in-kernel sockets
Stick NFS sockets in their own class to avoid some lockdep warnings.  NFS
sockets are never exposed to user-space, and will hence not trigger certain
code paths that would otherwise pose deadlock scenarios.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
[ Fixed patch corruption by quilt, pointed out by Peter Zijlstra ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:30 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e18b890bb0 [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
54e6ecb239 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_ATOMIC
SLAB_ATOMIC is an alias of GFP_ATOMIC

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:24 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
b30973f877 [PATCH] node-aware skb allocation
Node-aware allocation of skbs for the receive path.

Details:

  - __alloc_skb gets a new node argument and cals the node-aware
    slab functions with it.
  - netdev_alloc_skb passed the node number it gets from dev_to_node
    to it, everyone else passes -1 (any node)

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
e16aa207cc [NET]: Memory barrier cleanups
I believe all the below memory barriers only matter on SMP so
therefore the smp_* variant of the barrier should be used.

I'm wondering if the barrier in net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c should be
dropped entirely.  schedule_work's implementation currently implies a
memory barrier and I think sane semantics of schedule_work() should imply
a memory barrier, as needed so the caller shouldn't have to worry.
It's not quite obvious why the barrier in net/packet/af_packet.c is
needed; maybe it should be implied through flush_dcache_page?

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-07 00:11:33 -08:00
David Howells
9db7372445 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
	include/linux/libata.h

Futher merge of Linus's head and compilation fixups.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 17:01:28 +00:00
David Howells
4c1ac1b491 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
	drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
	drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
	drivers/usb/core/hub.h
	drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
	net/core/netpoll.c

Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 14:37:56 +00:00
Al Viro
a1f8e7f7fb [PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> highmem.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-04 02:00:29 -05:00
Patrick McHardy
9a7c9337a0 [NET]: Accept wildcard delimiters in in[46]_pton
Accept -1 as delimiter to abort parsing without an error at the first
unknown character. This is needed by the upcoming nf_conntrack SIP
helper, where addresses are delimited by either '\r' or '\n' characters.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:04:04 -08:00
Thomas Graf
e3703b3de1 [RTNETLINK]: Add rtnl_put_cacheinfo() to unify some code
IPv4, IPv6, and DECNet all use struct rta_cacheinfo in a similiar
way, therefore rtnl_put_cacheinfo() is added to reuse code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:30:44 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
b1a98bf685 [NET] neighbour: Use kmemdup where applicable
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02 21:30:14 -08:00
Al Viro
5e57dff2c4 [NETPOLL]: Another udp checksum mangling.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:27:20 -08:00
Al Viro
ff1dcadb1b [NET]: Split skb->csum
... into anonymous union of __wsum and __u32 (csum and csum_offset resp.)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:27:18 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
58a5a7b955 [NET]: Conditionally use bh_lock_sock_nested in sk_receive_skb
Spotted by Ian McDonald, tentatively fixed by Gerrit Renker:

http://www.mail-archive.com/dccp%40vger.kernel.org/msg00599.html

Rewritten not to unroll sk_receive_skb, in the common case, i.e. no lock
debugging, its optimized away.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02 21:23:51 -08:00
Al Viro
b51655b958 [NET]: Annotate __skb_checksum_complete() and friends.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:23:38 -08:00
Al Viro
81d7766276 [NET]: Annotate skb_copy_and_csum_bits() and callers.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:23:36 -08:00
Al Viro
2bbbc86890 [NET]: Annotate skb_checksum() and callers.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:23:35 -08:00
Al Viro
5f92a7388a [NET]: Annotate callers of the reset of checksum.h stuff.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:23:34 -08:00
Al Viro
5084205faf [NET]: Annotate callers of csum_partial_copy_...() and csum_and_copy...() in net/*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:23:33 -08:00
Al Viro
44bb93633f [NET]: Annotate csum_partial() callers in net/*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:23:32 -08:00
Al Viro
d6f5493c1a [NET]: Annotate callers of csum_tcpudp_nofold() in net/*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:23:28 -08:00
Al Viro
d3bc23e7ee [NET]: Annotate callers of csum_fold() in net/*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:23:27 -08:00
Al Viro
252e33467a [NET] net/core: Annotations.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:22:49 -08:00
David S. Miller
c68b907028 [NETPOLL]: Minor coding-style cleanups.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:22:47 -08:00
Thomas Graf
6051e2f4fb [IPv6] prefix: Convert RTM_NEWPREFIX notifications to use the new netlink api
RTM_GETPREFIX is completely unused and is thus removed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:22:45 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
5de4a473bd netpoll queue cleanup
The beast had a long and not very happy history. At one
point, a friend (netdump) had asked that he open up a little.
Well, the friend was long gone now, and the beast had
this dangling piece hanging (netpoll_queue).

It wasn't hard to stitch the netpoll_queue back in
where it belonged and make everything tidy.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-12-02 21:22:37 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
2bdfe0baec netpoll retry cleanup
The netpoll beast was still not happy. If the beast got
clogged pipes, it tended to stare blankly off in space
for a long time.

The problem couldn't be completely fixed because the
beast talked with irq's disabled. But it could be made
less painful and shorter.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-12-02 21:22:36 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
6c43ff18f9 netpoll deferred transmit path
When the netpoll beast got busy, he tended to babble.
Instead of talking out of his large mouth as normal,
he tended to try to snort out other orifices. This lead
to words (skbs) ending up in odd places (like NIT) that
he did not intend.

The normal way of talking wouldn't work, but he could
at least change to using the same tone all the time.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-12-02 21:22:35 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
b41848b61b netpoll setup error handling
The beast was not always healthy. When it was sick,
it tended to be laconic and not tell anyone the real problem.
A few small changes had it telling the world about its
problems, if they really wanted to hear.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-12-02 21:22:34 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
b6cd27ed33 netpoll per device txq
When the netpoll beast got really busy, it tended to clog
things, so it stored them for later. But the beast was putting
all it's skb's in one basket. This was bad because maybe some
pipes were clogged and others were not.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-12-02 21:22:33 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
93ec2c723e netpoll info leak
After looking harder, Steve noticed that the netpoll
beast leaked a little every time it shutdown for a nap.
Not a big leak, but a nuisance kind of thing.

He took out his refcount duct tape and patched the
leak. It was overkill since there was already other
locking in that area, but it looked clean and wouldn't
attract fleas.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-12-02 21:22:32 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
a1bcfacd05 netpoll: private skb pool (rev3)
It was a dark and stormy night when Steve first saw the
netpoll beast. The beast was odd, and misshapen but not
extremely ugly.

"Let me take off one of your warts" he said. This wart
is where you tried to make an skb list yourself. If the
beast had ever run out of memory, he would have stupefied
himself unnecessarily.

The first try was painful, so he tried again till the bleeding
stopped. And again, and again...

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-12-02 21:22:32 -08:00