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2011-02-09net: rename group sysfs entry to netdev_groupXiaotian Feng
commit a512b92 adds sysfs entry for net device group, but before this commit, tun also uses group sysfs, so after this commit checkin, kernel warns like this: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/net/vnet0/group' Since tun has used this for years, rename sysfs under tun might break existing userspace, so rename group sysfs entry for net device group is a better choice. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-24net: add sysfs entry for device groupVlad Dogaru
The group of a network device can be queried or changed from userspace using sysfs. For example, considering sysfs mounted in /sys, one can change the group that interface lo belongs to: echo 1 > /sys/class/net/lo/group Signed-off-by: Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@rosedu.org> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-24net: change netdev->features to u32Michał Mirosław
Quoting Ben Hutchings: we presumably won't be defining features that can only be enabled on 64-bit architectures. Occurences found by `grep -r` on net/, drivers/net, include/ [ Move features and vlan_features next to each other in struct netdev, as per Eric Dumazet's suggestion -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-16net: use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of the magic number -1Changli Gao
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-01net sched: use xps information for qdisc NUMA affinityEric Dumazet
Allocate qdisc memory according to NUMA properties of cpus included in xps map. To be effective, qdisc should be (re)setup after changes of /sys/class/net/eth<n>/queues/tx-<n>/xps_cpus I added a numa_node field in struct netdev_queue, containing NUMA node if all cpus included in xps_cpus share same node, else -1. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-29xps: add __rcu annotationsEric Dumazet
Avoid sparse warnings : add __rcu annotations and use rcu_dereference_protected() where necessary. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-29xps: NUMA allocations for per cpu dataEric Dumazet
store_xps_map() allocates maps that are used by single cpu, it makes sense to use NUMA allocations. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-28xps: Add CONFIG_XPSTom Herbert
This patch adds XPS_CONFIG option to enable and disable XPS. This is done in the same manner as RPS_CONFIG. This is also fixes build failure in XPS code when SMP is not enabled. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-24xps: Transmit Packet SteeringTom Herbert
This patch implements transmit packet steering (XPS) for multiqueue devices. XPS selects a transmit queue during packet transmission based on configuration. This is done by mapping the CPU transmitting the packet to a queue. This is the transmit side analogue to RPS-- where RPS is selecting a CPU based on receive queue, XPS selects a queue based on the CPU (previously there was an XPS patch from Eric Dumazet, but that might more appropriately be called transmit completion steering). Each transmit queue can be associated with a number of CPUs which will use the queue to send packets. This is configured as a CPU mask on a per queue basis in: /sys/class/net/eth<n>/queues/tx-<n>/xps_cpus The mappings are stored per device in an inverted data structure that maps CPUs to queues. In the netdevice structure this is an array of num_possible_cpu structures where each structure holds and array of queue_indexes for queues which that CPU can use. The benefits of XPS are improved locality in the per queue data structures. Also, transmit completions are more likely to be done nearer to the sending thread, so this should promote locality back to the socket on free (e.g. UDP). The benefits of XPS are dependent on cache hierarchy, application load, and other factors. XPS would nominally be configured so that a queue would only be shared by CPUs which are sharing a cache, the degenerative configuration woud be that each CPU has it's own queue. Below are some benchmark results which show the potential benfit of this patch. The netperf test has 500 instances of netperf TCP_RR test with 1 byte req. and resp. bnx2x on 16 core AMD XPS (16 queues, 1 TX queue per CPU) 1234K at 100% CPU No XPS (16 queues) 996K at 100% CPU Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-17net: zero kobject in rx_queue_releaseJohn Fastabend
netif_set_real_num_rx_queues() can decrement and increment the number of rx queues. For example ixgbe does this as features and offloads are toggled. Presumably this could also happen across down/up on most devices if the available resources changed (cpu offlined). The kobject needs to be zero'd in this case so that the state is not preserved across kobject_put()/kobject_init_and_add(). This resolves the following error report. ixgbe 0000:03:00.0: eth2: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX kobject (ffff880324b83210): tried to init an initialized object, something is seriously wrong. Pid: 1972, comm: lldpad Not tainted 2.6.37-rc18021qaz+ #169 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8121c940>] kobject_init+0x3a/0x83 [<ffffffff8121cf77>] kobject_init_and_add+0x23/0x57 [<ffffffff8107b800>] ? mark_lock+0x21/0x267 [<ffffffff813c6d11>] net_rx_queue_update_kobjects+0x63/0xc6 [<ffffffff813b5e0e>] netif_set_real_num_rx_queues+0x5f/0x78 [<ffffffffa0261d49>] ixgbe_set_num_queues+0x1c6/0x1ca [ixgbe] [<ffffffffa0262509>] ixgbe_init_interrupt_scheme+0x1e/0x79c [ixgbe] [<ffffffffa0274596>] ixgbe_dcbnl_set_state+0x167/0x189 [ixgbe] Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-15net: Simplify RX queue allocationTom Herbert
This patch move RX queue allocation to alloc_netdev_mq and freeing of the queues to free_netdev (symmetric to TX queue allocation). Each kobject RX queue takes a reference to the queue's device so that the device can't be freed before all the kobjects have been released-- this obviates the need for reference counts specific to RX queues. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-25rps: add __rcu annotationsEric Dumazet
Add __rcu annotations to : (struct netdev_rx_queue)->rps_map (struct netdev_rx_queue)->rps_flow_table struct rps_sock_flow_table *rps_sock_flow_table; And use appropriate rcu primitives. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-08net: Fix rxq ref countingTom Herbert
The rx->count reference is used to track reference counts to the number of rx-queue kobjects created for the device. This patch eliminates initialization of the counter in netif_alloc_rx_queues and instead increments the counter each time a kobject is created. This is now symmetric with the decrement that is done when an object is released. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-27net: Allow changing number of RX queues after device allocationBen Hutchings
For RPS, we create a kobject for each RX queue based on the number of queues passed to alloc_netdev_mq(). However, drivers generally do not determine the numbers of hardware queues to use until much later, so this usually represents the maximum number the driver may use and not the actual number in use. For TX queues, drivers can update the actual number using netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(). Add a corresponding function for RX queues, netif_set_real_num_rx_queues(). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01net: make rx_queue sysfs_ops conststephen hemminger
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-16cfg80211: support sysfs namespacesJohannes Berg
Enable using network namespaces with wireless devices even when sysfs is enabled using the same infrastructure that was built for netdevs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-24sysfs: add attribute to indicate hw address assignment typeStefan Assmann
Add addr_assign_type to struct net_device and expose it via sysfs. This new attribute has the purpose of giving user-space the ability to distinguish between different assignment types of MAC addresses. For example user-space can treat NICs with randomly generated MAC addresses differently than NICs that have permanent (locally assigned) MAC addresses. For the former udev could write a persistent net rule by matching the device path instead of the MAC address. There's also the case of devices that 'steal' MAC addresses from slave devices. In which it is also be beneficial for user-space to be aware of the fact. This patch also introduces a helper function to assist adoption of drivers that generate MAC addresses randomly. Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-12net/core: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanupsEric Dumazet
CodingStyle cleanups EXPORT_SYMBOL should immediately follow the symbol declaration. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-07net: fix 64 bit counters on 32 bit archesEric Dumazet
There is a small possibility that a reader gets incorrect values on 32 bit arches. SNMP applications could catch incorrect counters when a 32bit high part is changed by another stats consumer/provider. One way to solve this is to add a rtnl_link_stats64 param to all ndo_get_stats64() methods, and also add such a parameter to dev_get_stats(). Rule is that we are not allowed to use dev->stats64 as a temporary storage for 64bit stats, but a caller provided area (usually on stack) Old drivers (only providing get_stats() method) need no changes. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-12net: Enable 64-bit net device statistics on 32-bit architecturesBen Hutchings
Use struct rtnl_link_stats64 as the statistics structure. On 32-bit architectures, insert 32 bits of padding after/before each field of struct net_device_stats to make its layout compatible with struct rtnl_link_stats64. Add an anonymous union in net_device; move stats into the union and add struct rtnl_link_stats64 stats64. Add net_device_ops::ndo_get_stats64, implementations of which will return a pointer to struct rtnl_link_stats64. Drivers that implement this operation must not update the structure asynchronously. Change dev_get_stats() to call ndo_get_stats64 if available, and to return a pointer to struct rtnl_link_stats64. Change callers of dev_get_stats() accordingly. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-21net: Expose all network devices in a namespaces in sysfsEric W. Biederman
This reverts commit aaf8cdc34ddba08122f02217d9d684e2f9f5d575. Drivers like the ipw2100 call device_create_group when they are initialized and device_remove_group when they are shutdown. Moving them between namespaces deletes their sysfs groups early. In particular the following call chain results. netdev_unregister_kobject -> device_del -> kobject_del -> sysfs_remove_dir With sysfs_remove_dir recursively deleting all of it's subdirectories, and nothing adding them back. Ouch! Therefore we need to call something that ultimate calls sysfs_mv_dir as that sysfs function can move sysfs directories between namespaces without deleting their subdirectories or their contents. Allowing us to avoid placing extra boiler plate into every driver that does something interesting with sysfs. Currently the function that provides that capability is device_rename. That is the code works without nasty side effects as originally written. So remove the misguided fix for moving devices between namespaces. The bug in the kobject layer that inspired it has now been recognized and fixed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21net/sysfs: Fix the bitrot in network device kobject namespace supportEric W. Biederman
I had a couple of stupid bugs in: netns: Teach network device kobjects which namespace they are in. - I duplicated the Kconfig for the NET_NS - The build was broken when sysfs was not compiled in The sysfs breakage is because after I moved the operations for the sysfs to the kobject layer, to make things cleaner I forgot to move the ifdefs. Opps. I'm not quite certain how I got introduced a second NET_NS Kconfig, but it was probably a 3 way merge somewhere along the way that did not notice that the NET_NS Kconfig option had mvoed and thout that was a bug. It probably slipped in because it used to be the sysfs patches were the first patches in my network namespace patches. Some things just don't go like you would expect. Neither of these bugs actually affect anything in the common case but they should be fixed. Thanks to Serge for noticing they were present. Reported-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-21netns: Teach network device kobjects which namespace they are in.Eric W. Biederman
The problem. Network devices show up in sysfs and with the network namespace active multiple devices with the same name can show up in the same directory, ouch! To avoid that problem and allow existing applications in network namespaces to see the same interface that is currently presented in sysfs, this patch enables the tagging directory support in sysfs. By using the network namespace pointers as tags to separate out the the sysfs directory entries we ensure that we don't have conflicts in the directories and applications only see a limited set of the network devices. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-04-19rps: static functionsEric Dumazet
store_rps_map() & store_rps_dev_flow_table_cnt() are static. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-16rfs: Receive Flow SteeringTom Herbert
This patch implements receive flow steering (RFS). RFS steers received packets for layer 3 and 4 processing to the CPU where the application for the corresponding flow is running. RFS is an extension of Receive Packet Steering (RPS). The basic idea of RFS is that when an application calls recvmsg (or sendmsg) the application's running CPU is stored in a hash table that is indexed by the connection's rxhash which is stored in the socket structure. The rxhash is passed in skb's received on the connection from netif_receive_skb. For each received packet, the associated rxhash is used to look up the CPU in the hash table, if a valid CPU is set then the packet is steered to that CPU using the RPS mechanisms. The convolution of the simple approach is that it would potentially allow OOO packets. If threads are thrashing around CPUs or multiple threads are trying to read from the same sockets, a quickly changing CPU value in the hash table could cause rampant OOO packets-- we consider this a non-starter. To avoid OOO packets, this solution implements two types of hash tables: rps_sock_flow_table and rps_dev_flow_table. rps_sock_table is a global hash table. Each entry is just a CPU number and it is populated in recvmsg and sendmsg as described above. This table contains the "desired" CPUs for flows. rps_dev_flow_table is specific to each device queue. Each entry contains a CPU and a tail queue counter. The CPU is the "current" CPU for a matching flow. The tail queue counter holds the value of a tail queue counter for the associated CPU's backlog queue at the time of last enqueue for a flow matching the entry. Each backlog queue has a queue head counter which is incremented on dequeue, and so a queue tail counter is computed as queue head count + queue length. When a packet is enqueued on a backlog queue, the current value of the queue tail counter is saved in the hash entry of the rps_dev_flow_table. And now the trick: when selecting the CPU for RPS (get_rps_cpu) the rps_sock_flow table and the rps_dev_flow table for the RX queue are consulted. When the desired CPU for the flow (found in the rps_sock_flow table) does not match the current CPU (found in the rps_dev_flow table), the current CPU is changed to the desired CPU if one of the following is true: - The current CPU is unset (equal to RPS_NO_CPU) - Current CPU is offline - The current CPU's queue head counter >= queue tail counter in the rps_dev_flow table. This checks if the queue tail has advanced beyond the last packet that was enqueued using this table entry. This guarantees that all packets queued using this entry have been dequeued, thus preserving in order delivery. Making each queue have its own rps_dev_flow table has two advantages: 1) the tail queue counters will be written on each receive, so keeping the table local to interrupting CPU s good for locality. 2) this allows lockless access to the table-- the CPU number and queue tail counter need to be accessed together under mutual exclusion from netif_receive_skb, we assume that this is only called from device napi_poll which is non-reentrant. This patch implements RFS for TCP and connected UDP sockets. It should be usable for other flow oriented protocols. There are two configuration parameters for RFS. The "rps_flow_entries" kernel init parameter sets the number of entries in the rps_sock_flow_table, the per rxqueue sysfs entry "rps_flow_cnt" contains the number of entries in the rps_dev_flow table for the rxqueue. Both are rounded to power of two. The obvious benefit of RFS (over just RPS) is that it achieves CPU locality between the receive processing for a flow and the applications processing; this can result in increased performance (higher pps, lower latency). The benefits of RFS are dependent on cache hierarchy, application load, and other factors. On simple benchmarks, we don't necessarily see improvement and sometimes see degradation. However, for more complex benchmarks and for applications where cache pressure is much higher this technique seems to perform very well. Below are some benchmark results which show the potential benfit of this patch. The netperf test has 500 instances of netperf TCP_RR test with 1 byte req. and resp. The RPC test is an request/response test similar in structure to netperf RR test ith 100 threads on each host, but does more work in userspace that netperf. e1000e on 8 core Intel No RFS or RPS 104K tps at 30% CPU No RFS (best RPS config): 290K tps at 63% CPU RFS 303K tps at 61% CPU RPC test tps CPU% 50/90/99% usec latency Latency StdDev No RFS/RPS 103K 48% 757/900/3185 4472.35 RPS only: 174K 73% 415/993/2468 491.66 RFS 223K 73% 379/651/1382 315.61 Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c net/core/ethtool.c net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-29rps: fix net-sysfs build for !CONFIG_RPSStephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-22rps: Fix build with CONFIG_SYSFS enabledTom Herbert
Fix build with CONFIG_SYSFS not enabled. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-16rps: Receive Packet SteeringTom Herbert
This patch implements software receive side packet steering (RPS). RPS distributes the load of received packet processing across multiple CPUs. Problem statement: Protocol processing done in the NAPI context for received packets is serialized per device queue and becomes a bottleneck under high packet load. This substantially limits pps that can be achieved on a single queue NIC and provides no scaling with multiple cores. This solution queues packets early on in the receive path on the backlog queues of other CPUs. This allows protocol processing (e.g. IP and TCP) to be performed on packets in parallel. For each device (or each receive queue in a multi-queue device) a mask of CPUs is set to indicate the CPUs that can process packets. A CPU is selected on a per packet basis by hashing contents of the packet header (e.g. the TCP or UDP 4-tuple) and using the result to index into the CPU mask. The IPI mechanism is used to raise networking receive softirqs between CPUs. This effectively emulates in software what a multi-queue NIC can provide, but is generic requiring no device support. Many devices now provide a hash over the 4-tuple on a per packet basis (e.g. the Toeplitz hash). This patch allow drivers to set the HW reported hash in an skb field, and that value in turn is used to index into the RPS maps. Using the HW generated hash can avoid cache misses on the packet when steering it to a remote CPU. The CPU mask is set on a per device and per queue basis in the sysfs variable /sys/class/net/<device>/queues/rx-<n>/rps_cpus. This is a set of canonical bit maps for receive queues in the device (numbered by <n>). If a device does not support multi-queue, a single variable is used for the device (rx-0). Generally, we have found this technique increases pps capabilities of a single queue device with good CPU utilization. Optimal settings for the CPU mask seem to depend on architectures and cache hierarcy. Below are some results running 500 instances of netperf TCP_RR test with 1 byte req. and resp. Results show cumulative transaction rate and system CPU utilization. e1000e on 8 core Intel Without RPS: 108K tps at 33% CPU With RPS: 311K tps at 64% CPU forcedeth on 16 core AMD Without RPS: 156K tps at 15% CPU With RPS: 404K tps at 49% CPU bnx2x on 16 core AMD Without RPS 567K tps at 61% CPU (4 HW RX queues) Without RPS 738K tps at 96% CPU (8 HW RX queues) With RPS: 854K tps at 76% CPU (4 HW RX queues) Caveats: - The benefits of this patch are dependent on architecture and cache hierarchy. Tuning the masks to get best performance is probably necessary. - This patch adds overhead in the path for processing a single packet. In a lightly loaded server this overhead may eliminate the advantages of increased parallelism, and possibly cause some relative performance degradation. We have found that masks that are cache aware (share same caches with the interrupting CPU) mitigate much of this. - The RPS masks can be changed dynamically, however whenever the mask is changed this introduces the possibility of generating out of order packets. It's probably best not change the masks too frequently. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> include/linux/netdevice.h | 32 ++++- include/linux/skbuff.h | 3 + net/core/dev.c | 335 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- net/core/net-sysfs.c | 225 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- net/core/skbuff.c | 2 + 5 files changed, 538 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-19net-sysfs: Use rtnl_trylock in wireless sysfs methods.Eric W. Biederman
The wireless sysfs methods like the rest of the networking sysfs methods are removed with the rtnl_lock held and block until the existing methods stop executing. So use rtnl_trylock and restart_syscall so that the code continues to work. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-25net: use net_eq to compare netsOctavian Purdila
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 <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-30net: Allow devices to specify a device specific sysfs group.Eric W. Biederman
This isn't beautifully abstracted, but it is simple, simplifies uses and so far is only needed for the bonding driver. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-28net: sysfs: ethtool_ops can be NULLEric Dumazet
commit d519e17e2d01a0ee9abe083019532061b4438065 (net: export device speed and duplex via sysfs) made the wrong assumption that netdev->ethtool_ops was always set. This makes possible to crash kernel and let rtnl in locked state. modprobe dummy ip link set dummy0 up (udev runs and crash) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-09Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2009-10-07wext: refactorJohannes Berg
Refactor wext to * split out iwpriv handling * split out iwspy handling * split out procfs support * allow cfg80211 to have wireless extensions compat code w/o CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT After this, drivers need to - select WIRELESS_EXT - for wext support - select WEXT_PRIV - for iwpriv support - select WEXT_SPY - for iwspy support except cfg80211 -- which gets new hooks in wext-core.c and can then get wext handlers without CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT. Wireless extensions procfs support is auto-selected based on PROC_FS and anything that requires the wext core (i.e. WIRELESS_EXT or CFG80211_WEXT). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-06Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2009-10-05wext: let get_wireless_stats() sleepJohannes Berg
A number of drivers (recently including cfg80211-based ones) assume that all wireless handlers, including statistics, can sleep and they often also implicitly assume that the rtnl is held around their invocation. This is almost always true now except when reading from sysfs: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:280 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 10450, name: head 2 locks held by head/10450: #0: (&buffer->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c10ceb99>] sysfs_read_file+0x24/0xf4 #1: (dev_base_lock){++.?..}, at: [<c12844ee>] wireless_show+0x1a/0x4c Pid: 10450, comm: head Not tainted 2.6.32-rc3 #1 Call Trace: [<c102301c>] __might_sleep+0xf0/0xf7 [<c1324355>] mutex_lock_nested+0x1a/0x33 [<f8cea53b>] wdev_lock+0xd/0xf [cfg80211] [<f8cea58f>] cfg80211_wireless_stats+0x45/0x12d [cfg80211] [<c13118d6>] get_wireless_stats+0x16/0x1c [<c12844fe>] wireless_show+0x2a/0x4c Fix this by using the rtnl instead of dev_base_lock. Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-05net: export device speed and duplex via sysfsAndy Gospodarek
This patch exports the link-speed (in Mbps) and duplex of an interface via sysfs. This eliminates the need to use ethtool just to check the link-speed. Not requiring 'ethtool' and not relying on the SIOCETHTOOL ioctl should be helpful in an embedded environment where space is at a premium as well. NOTE: This patch also intentionally allows non-root users to check the link speed and duplex -- something not possible with ethtool. Here's some sample output: # cat /sys/class/net/eth0/speed 100 # cat /sys/class/net/eth0/duplex half # ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: Not reported Advertised auto-negotiation: No Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Half Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: off Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x000000ff (255) Link detected: yes Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-28wext: add back wireless/ dir in sysfs for cfg80211 interfacesJohannes Berg
The move away from having drivers assign wireless handlers, in favour of making cfg80211 assign them, broke the sysfs registration (the wireless/ dir went missing) because the handlers are now assigned only after registration, which is too late. Fix this by special-casing cfg80211-based devices, all of which are required to have an ieee80211_ptr, in the sysfs code, and also using get_wireless_stats() to have the same values reported as in procfs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-15driver model: constify attribute groupsDavid Brownell
Let attribute group vectors be declared "const". We'd like to let most attribute metadata live in read-only sections... this is a start. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-08-05net: mark read-only arrays as constJan Engelhardt
String literals are constant, and usually, we can also tag the array of pointers const too, moving it to the .rodata section. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-26net: Remove bogus reference to BUS_ID_SIZE in sysfs code.David S. Miller
BUS_ID_SIZE is really no more, and device names are dynamically allocated and thus can be any necessary size. So remove the BUG check here making sure BUS_ID_SIZE is at least as large as IFNAMSIZ. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18net-sysfs: Use rtnl_trylock in sysfs methods.Eric W. Biederman
The earlier patch to fix the deadlock between a network device going away and writing to sysfs attributes was incomplete. - It did not set signal_pending so we would leak ERSTARTSYS to user space. - It used ERESTARTSYS which only restarts if sigaction configures it to. - It did not cover store and show for ifalias. So fix all of these up and use the new helper restart_syscall so we get the details correct on what it takes. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10net: fix warning about non-const stringStephen Hemminger
Since dev_set_name takes a printf style string, new gcc complains if arg is not const. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-03net: Avoid race between network down and sysfsStephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25netns: filter out uevent not belonging to init_netDaniel Lezcano
This patch will filter out the uevent not related to the init_net. Without this patch if a network device is created in a network namespace with the same name as one network device belonging to the initial network namespace (eg. eth0), when the network namespace will die and the network device will be destroyed, an event will be sent and catched by the udevd daemon. That will result to have the real network device to be shutdown because the udevd/uevent are not namespace aware. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19netdev: introduce dev_get_stats()Stephen Hemminger
In order for the network device ops get_stats call to be immutable, the handling of the default internal network device stats block has to be changed. Add a new helper function which replaces the old use of internal_get_stats. Note: change return code to make it clear that the caller should not go changing the returned statistics. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10net: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()Kay Sievers
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-27netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations v2Eric W. Biederman
To make testing of the network namespace simpler allow the network namespace code and the sysfs code to be compiled and run at the same time. To do this only virtual devices are allowed in the additional network namespaces and those virtual devices are not placed in the kobject tree. Since virtual devices don't actually do anything interesting hardware wise that needs device management there should be no loss in keeping them out of the kobject tree and by implication sysfs. The gain in ease of testing and code coverage should be significant. Changelog: v2: As pointed out by Benjamin Thery it only makes sense to call device_rename in the initial network namespace for now. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>