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2013-03-06pkt_sched: sch_qfq: prevent budget from wrapping around after a dequeuePaolo Valente
Aggregate budgets are computed so as to guarantee that, after an aggregate has been selected for service, that aggregate has enough budget to serve at least one maximum-size packet for the classes it contains. For this reason, after a new aggregate has been selected for service, its next packet is immediately dequeued, without any further control. The maximum packet size for a class, lmax, can be changed through qfq_change_class(). In case the user sets lmax to a lower value than the the size of some of the still-to-arrive packets, QFQ+ will automatically push up lmax as it enqueues these packets. This automatic push up is likely to happen with TSO/GSO. In any case, if lmax is assigned a lower value than the size of some of the packets already enqueued for the class, then the following problem may occur: the size of the next packet to dequeue for the class may happen to be larger than lmax, after the aggregate to which the class belongs has been just selected for service. In this case, even the budget of the aggregate, which is an unsigned value, may be lower than the size of the next packet to dequeue. After dequeueing this packet and subtracting its size from the budget, the latter would wrap around. This fix prevents the budget from wrapping around after any packet dequeue. Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it> Reviewed-by: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-06pkt_sched: sch_qfq: serve activated aggregates immediately if the scheduler ↵Paolo Valente
is empty If no aggregate is in service, then the function qfq_dequeue() does not dequeue any packet. For this reason, to guarantee QFQ+ to be work conserving, a just-activated aggregate must be set as in service immediately if it happens to be the only active aggregate. This is done by the function qfq_enqueue(). Unfortunately, the function qfq_add_to_agg(), used to add a class to an aggregate, does not perform this important additional operation. In particular, if: 1) qfq_add_to_agg() is invoked to complete the move of a class from a source aggregate, becoming, for this move, inactive, to a destination aggregate, becoming instead active, and 2) the destination aggregate becomes the only active aggregate, then this aggregate is not however set as in service. QFQ+ remains then in a non-work-conserving state until a new invocation of qfq_enqueue() recovers the situation. This fix solves the problem by moving the logic for setting an aggregate as in service directly into the function qfq_activate_agg(). Hence, from whatever point qfq_activate_aggregate() is invoked, QFQ+ remains work conserving. Since the more-complex logic of this new version of activate_aggregate() is not necessary, in qfq_dequeue(), to reschedule an aggregate that finishes its budget, then the aggregate is now rescheduled by invoking directly the functions needed. Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it> Reviewed-by: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-06pkt_sched: sch_qfq: fix the update of eligible-group setsPaolo Valente
Between two invocations of make_eligible, the system virtual time may happen to grow enough that, in its binary representation, a bit with higher order than 31 flips. This happens especially with TSO/GSO. Before this fix, the mask used in make_eligible was computed as (1UL<<index_of_last_flipped_bit)-1, whose value is well defined on a 64-bit architecture, because index_of_flipped_bit <= 63, but is in general undefined on a 32-bit architecture if index_of_flipped_bit > 31. The fix just replaces 1UL with 1ULL. Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it> Reviewed-by: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-06pkt_sched: sch_qfq: properly cap timestamps in charge_actual_servicePaolo Valente
QFQ+ schedules the active aggregates in a group using a bucket list (one list per group). The bucket in which each aggregate is inserted depends on the aggregate's timestamps, and the number of buckets in a group is enough to accomodate the possible (range of) values of the timestamps of all the aggregates in the group. For this property to hold, timestamps must however be computed correctly. One necessary condition for computing timestamps correctly is that the number of bits dequeued for each aggregate, while the aggregate is in service, does not exceed the maximum budget budgetmax assigned to the aggregate. For each aggregate, budgetmax is proportional to the number of classes in the aggregate. If the number of classes of the aggregate is decreased through qfq_change_class(), then budgetmax is decreased automatically as well. Problems may occur if the aggregate is in service when budgetmax is decreased, because the current remaining budget of the aggregate and/or the service already received by the aggregate may happen to be larger than the new value of budgetmax. In this case, when the aggregate is eventually deselected and its timestamps are updated, the aggregate may happen to have received an amount of service larger than budgetmax. This may cause the aggregate to be assigned a higher virtual finish time than the maximum acceptable value for the last bucket in the bucket list of the group. This fix introduces a cap that addresses this issue. Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it> Reviewed-by: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-27hlist: drop the node parameter from iteratorsSasha Levin
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member) The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter: hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member) Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate. Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required: - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones. - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this was modified to use 'obj->member' instead. - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator properly, so those had to be fixed up manually. The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here: @@ iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host; type T; expression a,c,d,e; identifier b; statement S; @@ -T b; <+... when != b ( hlist_for_each_entry(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_from(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a, - b, c) S | for_each_busy_worker(a, c, - b, d) S | ax25_uid_for_each(a, - b, c) S | ax25_for_each(a, - b, c) S | inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sctp_for_each_hentry(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_rcu(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_from -(a, b) +(a) S + sk_for_each_from(a) S | sk_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | sk_for_each_bound(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a, - b, c, d, e) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | nr_node_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_node_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S | for_each_host(a, - b, c) S | for_each_host_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | for_each_mesh_entry(a, - b, c, d) S ) ...+> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] [akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes] Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-18net: proc: change proc_net_remove to remove_proc_entryGao feng
proc_net_remove is only used to remove proc entries that under /proc/net,it's not a general function for removing proc entries of netns. if we want to remove some proc entries which under /proc/net/stat/, we still need to call remove_proc_entry. this patch use remove_proc_entry to replace proc_net_remove. we can remove proc_net_remove after this patch. Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-18net: proc: change proc_net_fops_create to proc_createGao feng
Right now, some modules such as bonding use proc_create to create proc entries under /proc/net/, and other modules such as ipv4 use proc_net_fops_create. It looks a little chaos.this patch changes all of proc_net_fops_create to proc_create. we can remove proc_net_fops_create after this patch. Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-15net: Add skb_unclone() helper function.Pravin B Shelar
This function will be used in next GRE_GSO patch. This patch does not change any functionality. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
2013-02-12act_police: improved accuracy at high ratesJiri Pirko
Current act_police uses rate table computed by the "tc" userspace program, which has the following issue: The rate table has 256 entries to map packet lengths to token (time units). With TSO sized packets, the 256 entry granularity leads to loss/gain of rate, making the token bucket inaccurate. Thus, instead of relying on rate table, this patch explicitly computes the time and accounts for packet transmission times with nanosecond granularity. This is a followup to 56b765b79e9a78dc7d3f8850ba5e5567205a3ecd ("htb: improved accuracy at high rates"). Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-12act_police: move struct tcf_police to act_police.cJiri Pirko
It's not used anywhere else, so move it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-12tbf: improved accuracy at high ratesJiri Pirko
Current TBF uses rate table computed by the "tc" userspace program, which has the following issue: The rate table has 256 entries to map packet lengths to token (time units). With TSO sized packets, the 256 entry granularity leads to loss/gain of rate, making the token bucket inaccurate. Thus, instead of relying on rate table, this patch explicitly computes the time and accounts for packet transmission times with nanosecond granularity. This is a followup to 56b765b79e9a78dc7d3f8850ba5e5567205a3ecd ("htb: improved accuracy at high rates"). Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-12sch_api: introduce qdisc_watchdog_schedule_ns()Jiri Pirko
tbf will need to schedule watchdog in ns. No need to convert it twice. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-12sch: make htb_rate_cfg and functions around that genericJiri Pirko
As it is going to be used in tbf as well, push these to generic code. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-12htb: initialize cl->tokens and cl->ctokens correctlyJiri Pirko
These are in ns so convert from ticks to ns. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-12htb: remove pointless first initialization of buffer and cbufferJiri Pirko
These are initialized correctly a couple of lines later in the function. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-12htb: use PSCHED_TICKS2NS()Jiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-12Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c The bnx2x gso_type setting bug fix in 'net' conflicted with changes in 'net-next' that broke the gso_* setting logic out into a seperate function, which also fixes the bug in question. Thus, use the 'net-next' version. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-12htb: fix values in opt dumpJiri Pirko
in htb_change_class() cl->buffer and cl->buffer are stored in ns. So in dump, convert them back to psched ticks. Note this was introduced by: commit 56b765b79e9a78dc7d3f8850ba5e5567205a3ecd htb: improved accuracy at high rates Please consider this for -net/-stable. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/tx.c net/ipv6/route.c The ipv6 route.c conflict is simple, just ignore the 'net' side change as we fixed the same problem in 'net-next' by eliminating cached neighbours from ipv6 routes. The e1000e conflict is an addition of a new statistic in the ethtool code, trivial. The vmxnet3 conflict is about one change in 'net' removing a guarding conditional, whilst in 'net-next' we had a netdev_info() conversion. The iwlwifi conflict is dealing with a WARN_ON() conversion in 'net-next' vs. a revert happening in 'net'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-29netem: fix delay calculation in rate extensionJohannes Naab
The delay calculation with the rate extension introduces in v3.3 does not properly work, if other packets are still queued for transmission. For the delay calculation to work, both delay types (latency and delay introduces by rate limitation) have to be handled differently. The latency delay for a packet can overlap with the delay of other packets. The delay introduced by the rate however is separate, and can only start, once all other rate-introduced delays finished. Latency delay is from same distribution for each packet, rate delay depends on the packet size. .: latency delay -: rate delay x: additional delay we have to wait since another packet is currently transmitted .....---- Packet 1 .....xx------ Packet 2 .....------ Packet 3 ^^^^^ latency stacks ^^ rate delay doesn't stack ^^ latency stacks -----> time When a packet is enqueued, we first consider the latency delay. If other packets are already queued, we can reduce the latency delay until the last packet in the queue is send, however the latency delay cannot be <0, since this would mean that the rate is overcommitted. The new reference point is the time at which the last packet will be send. To find the time, when the packet should be send, the rate introduces delay has to be added on top of that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Naab <jn@stusta.de> Acked-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-14pkt_sched: namespace aware act_mirredBenjamin LaHaise
Eric Dumazet pointed out that act_mirred needs to find the current net_ns, and struct net pointer is not provided in the call chain. His original patch made use of current->nsproxy->net_ns to find the network namespace, but this fails to work correctly for userspace code that makes use of netlink sockets in different network namespaces. Instead, pass the "struct net *" down along the call chain to where it is needed. This version removes the ifb changes as Eric has submitted that patch separately, but is otherwise identical to the previous version. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-22net: sched: integer overflow fixStefan Hasko
Fixed integer overflow in function htb_dequeue Signed-off-by: Stefan Hasko <hasko.stevo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-12Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking changes from David Miller: 1) Allow to dump, monitor, and change the bridge multicast database using netlink. From Cong Wang. 2) RFC 5961 TCP blind data injection attack mitigation, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Networking user namespace support from Eric W. Biederman. 4) tuntap/virtio-net multiqueue support by Jason Wang. 5) Support for checksum offload of encapsulated packets (basically, tunneled traffic can still be checksummed by HW). From Joseph Gasparakis. 6) Allow BPF filter access to VLAN tags, from Eric Dumazet and Daniel Borkmann. 7) Bridge port parameters over netlink and BPDU blocking support from Stephen Hemminger. 8) Improve data access patterns during inet socket demux by rearranging socket layout, from Eric Dumazet. 9) TIPC protocol updates and cleanups from Ying Xue, Paul Gortmaker, and Jon Maloy. 10) Update TCP socket hash sizing to be more in line with current day realities. The existing heurstics were choosen a decade ago. From Eric Dumazet. 11) Fix races, queue bloat, and excessive wakeups in ATM and associated drivers, from Krzysztof Mazur and David Woodhouse. 12) Support DOVE (Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet) extensions in VXLAN driver, from David Stevens. 13) Add "oops_only" mode to netconsole, from Amerigo Wang. 14) Support set and query of VEB/VEPA bridge mode via PF_BRIDGE, also allow DCB netlink to work on namespaces other than the initial namespace. From John Fastabend. 15) Support PTP in the Tigon3 driver, from Matt Carlson. 16) tun/vhost zero copy fixes and improvements, plus turn it on by default, from Michael S. Tsirkin. 17) Support per-association statistics in SCTP, from Michele Baldessari. And many, many, driver updates, cleanups, and improvements. Too numerous to mention individually. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1722 commits) net/mlx4_en: Add support for destination MAC in steering rules net/mlx4_en: Use generic etherdevice.h functions. net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to flow steering API bridge: add support of adding and deleting mdb entries bridge: notify mdb changes via netlink ndisc: Unexport ndisc_{build,send}_skb(). uapi: add missing netconf.h to export list pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible solos-pci: fix double-free of TX skb in DMA mode bnx2: Fix accidental reversions. bna: Driver Version Updated to 3.1.2.1 bna: Firmware update bna: Add RX State bna: Rx Page Based Allocation bna: TX Intr Coalescing Fix bna: Tx and Rx Optimizations bna: Code Cleanup and Enhancements ath9k: check pdata variable before dereferencing it ath5k: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame ath9k_htc: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame ...
2012-12-12Merge branch 'for-3.8' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup changes from Tejun Heo: "A lot of activities on cgroup side. The big changes are focused on making cgroup hierarchy handling saner. - cgroup_rmdir() had peculiar semantics - it allowed cgroup destruction to be vetoed by individual controllers and tried to drain refcnt synchronously. The vetoing never worked properly and caused good deal of contortions in cgroup. memcg was the last reamining user. Michal Hocko removed the usage and cgroup_rmdir() path has been simplified significantly. This was done in a separate branch so that the memcg people can base further memcg changes on top. - The above allowed cleaning up cgroup lifecycle management and implementation of generic cgroup iterators which are used to improve hierarchy support. - cgroup_freezer updated to allow migration in and out of a frozen cgroup and handle hierarchy. If a cgroup is frozen, all descendant cgroups are frozen. - netcls_cgroup and netprio_cgroup updated to handle hierarchy properly. - Various fixes and cleanups. - Two merge commits. One to pull in memcg and rmdir cleanups (needed to build iterators). The other pulled in cgroup/for-3.7-fixes for device_cgroup fixes so that further device_cgroup patches can be stacked on top." Fixed up a trivial conflict in mm/memcontrol.c as per Tejun (due to commit bea8c150a7 ("memcg: fix hotplugged memory zone oops") in master touching code close to commit 2ef37d3fe4 ("memcg: Simplify mem_cgroup_force_empty_list error handling") in for-3.8) * 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (65 commits) cgroup: update Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX cgroup_rm_file: don't delete the uncreated files cgroup: remove subsystem files when remounting cgroup cgroup: use cgroup_addrm_files() in cgroup_clear_directory() cgroup: warn about broken hierarchies only after css_online cgroup: list_del_init() on removed events cgroup: fix lockdep warning for event_control cgroup: move list add after list head initilization netprio_cgroup: allow nesting and inherit config on cgroup creation netprio_cgroup: implement netprio[_set]_prio() helpers netprio_cgroup: use cgroup->id instead of cgroup_netprio_state->prioidx netprio_cgroup: reimplement priomap expansion netprio_cgroup: shorten variable names in extend_netdev_table() netprio_cgroup: simplify write_priomap() netcls_cgroup: move config inheritance to ->css_online() and remove .broken_hierarchy marking cgroup: remove obsolete guarantee from cgroup_task_migrate. cgroup: add cgroup->id cgroup, cpuset: remove cgroup_subsys->post_clone() cgroup: s/CGRP_CLONE_CHILDREN/CGRP_CPUSET_CLONE_CHILDREN/ cgroup: rename ->create/post_create/pre_destroy/destroy() to ->css_alloc/online/offline/free() ...
2012-12-12pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possibleEric Dumazet
With BQL being deployed, we can more likely have following behavior : We dequeue a packet from qdisc in dequeue_skb(), then we realize target tx queue is in XOFF state in sch_direct_xmit(), and we have to hold the skb into gso_skb for later. This shows in stats (tc -s qdisc dev eth0) as requeues. Problem of these requeues is that high priority packets can not be dequeued as long as this (possibly low prio and big TSO packet) is not removed from gso_skb. At 1Gbps speed, a full size TSO packet is 500 us of extra latency. In some cases, we know that all packets dequeued from a qdisc are for a particular and known txq : - If device is non multi queue - For all MQ/MQPRIO slave qdiscs This patch introduces a new qdisc flag, TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE to mark this capability, so that dequeue_skb() is allowed to dequeue a packet only if the associated txq is not stopped. This indeed reduce latencies for high prio packets (or improve fairness with sfq/fq_codel), and almost remove qdisc 'requeues'. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-28pkt_sched: QFQ Plus: fair-queueing service at DRR costPaolo Valente
This patch turns QFQ into QFQ+, a variant of QFQ that provides the following two benefits: 1) QFQ+ is faster than QFQ, 2) differently from QFQ, QFQ+ correctly schedules also non-leaves classes in a hierarchical setting. A detailed description of QFQ+, plus a performance comparison with DRR and QFQ, can be found in [1]. [1] P. Valente, "Reducing the Execution Time of Fair-Queueing Schedulers" http://algo.ing.unimo.it/people/paolo/agg-sched/agg-sched.pdf Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-25net: sched: enable CAN Identifier to be build into kernelMarc Kleine-Budde
This patch makes it possible to build the CAN Identifier into the kernel, even if the CAN support is build as a module. Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-22netcls_cgroup: move config inheritance to ->css_online() and remove ↵Tejun Heo
.broken_hierarchy marking It turns out that we'll have to live with attributes which are inherited at cgroup creation time but not affected by further updates to the parent afterwards - such attributes are already in wide use e.g. for cpuset. So, there's nothing to do for netcls_cgroup for hierarchy support. Its current behavior - inherit only during creation - is good enough. Move config inheriting from ->css_alloc() to ->css_online() for consistency, which doesn't change behavior at all, and remove .broken_hierarchy marking. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Tested-and-Acked-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-19cgroup: rename ->create/post_create/pre_destroy/destroy() to ↵Tejun Heo
->css_alloc/online/offline/free() Rename cgroup_subsys css lifetime related callbacks to better describe what their roles are. Also, update documentation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2012-11-18net: Push capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) into the rtnl methodsEric W. Biederman
- In rtnetlink_rcv_msg convert the capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) check to ns_capable(net->user-ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN). Allowing unprivileged users to make netlink calls to modify their local network namespace. - In the rtnetlink doit methods add capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) so that calls that are not safe for unprivileged users are still protected. Later patches will remove the extra capable calls from methods that are safe for unprivilged users. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-10Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c Minor conflict between the BCM_CNIC define removal in net-next and a bug fix added to net. Based upon a conflict resolution patch posted by Stephen Rothwell. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-07pkt_sched: enable QFQ to support TSO/GSOPaolo Valente
If the max packet size for some class (configured through tc) is violated by the actual size of the packets of that class, then QFQ would not schedule classes correctly, and the data structures implementing the bucket lists may get corrupted. This problem occurs with TSO/GSO even if the max packet size is set to the MTU, and is, e.g., the cause of the failure reported in [1]. Two patches have been proposed to solve this problem in [2], one of them is a preliminary version of this patch. This patch addresses the above issues by: 1) setting QFQ parameters to proper values for supporting TSO/GSO (in particular, setting the maximum possible packet size to 64KB), 2) automatically increasing the max packet size for a class, lmax, when a packet with a larger size than the current value of lmax arrives. The drawback of the first point is that the maximum weight for a class is now limited to 4096, which is equal to 1/16 of the maximum weight sum. Finally, this patch also forcibly caps the timestamps of a class if they are too high to be stored in the bucket list. This capping, taken from QFQ+ [3], handles the unfrequent case described in the comment to the function slot_insert. [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134968777902077&w=2 [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=135096573507936&w=2 [3] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134902691421670&w=2 Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it> Tested-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-06htb: fix two bugsEric Dumazet
Commit 56b765b79e9 (htb: improved accuracy at high rates) introduced two bugs : 1) one bstats_update() was inadvertently removed from htb_dequeue_tree(), breaking statistics/rate estimation. 2) Missing qdisc_put_rtab() calls in htb_change_class(), leaking kernel memory, now struct htb_class no longer retains pointers to qdisc_rate_table structs. Since only rate is used, dont use qdisc_get_rtab() calls copying data we ignore anyway. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Vimalkumar <j.vimal@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-03htb: improved accuracy at high ratesVimalkumar
Current HTB (and TBF) uses rate table computed by the "tc" userspace program, which has the following issue: The rate table has 256 entries to map packet lengths to token (time units). With TSO sized packets, the 256 entry granularity leads to loss/gain of rate, making the token bucket inaccurate. Thus, instead of relying on rate table, this patch explicitly computes the time and accounts for packet transmission times with nanosecond granularity. This greatly improves accuracy of HTB with a wide range of packet sizes. Example: tc qdisc add dev $dev root handle 1: \ htb default 1 tc class add dev $dev classid 1:1 parent 1: \ rate 5Gbit mtu 64k Here is an example of inaccuracy: $ iperf -c host -t 10 -i 1 With old htb: eth4: 34.76 Mb/s In 5827.98 Mb/s Out - 65836.0 p/s In 481273.0 p/s Out [SUM] 9.0-10.0 sec 669 MBytes 5.61 Gbits/sec [SUM] 0.0-10.0 sec 6.50 GBytes 5.58 Gbits/sec With new htb: eth4: 28.36 Mb/s In 5208.06 Mb/s Out - 53704.0 p/s In 430076.0 p/s Out [SUM] 9.0-10.0 sec 594 MBytes 4.98 Gbits/sec [SUM] 0.0-10.0 sec 5.80 GBytes 4.98 Gbits/sec The bits per second on the wire is still 5200Mb/s with new HTB because qdisc accounts for packet length using skb->len, which is smaller than total bytes on the wire if GSO is used. But that is for another patch regardless of how time is accounted. Many thanks to Eric Dumazet for review and feedback. Signed-off-by: Vimalkumar <j.vimal@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-26cgroup: net_cls: Rework update socket logicDaniel Wagner
The cgroup logic part of net_cls is very similar as the one in net_prio. Let's stream line the net_cls logic with the net_prio one. The net_prio update logic was changed by following commit (note there were some changes necessary later on) commit 406a3c638ce8b17d9704052c07955490f732c2b8 Author: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Date: Fri Jul 20 10:39:25 2012 +0000 net: netprio_cgroup: rework update socket logic Instead of updating the sk_cgrp_prioidx struct field on every send this only updates the field when a task is moved via cgroup infrastructure. This allows sockets that may be used by a kernel worker thread to be managed. For example in the iscsi case today a user can put iscsid in a netprio cgroup and control traffic will be sent with the correct sk_cgrp_prioidx value set but as soon as data is sent the kernel worker thread isssues a send and sk_cgrp_prioidx is updated with the kernel worker threads value which is the default case. It seems more correct to only update the field when the user explicitly sets it via control group infrastructure. This allows the users to manage sockets that may be used with other threads. Since classid is now updated when the task is moved between the cgroups, we don't have to call sock_update_classid() from various places to ensure we always using the latest classid value. [v2: Use iterate_fd() instead of open coding] Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <cgroups@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-21pkt_sched: use ns_to_ktime() helperEric Dumazet
ns_to_ktime() seems better than ktime_set() + ktime_add_ns() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking changes from David Miller: 1) GRE now works over ipv6, from Dmitry Kozlov. 2) Make SCTP more network namespace aware, from Eric Biederman. 3) TEAM driver now works with non-ethernet devices, from Jiri Pirko. 4) Make openvswitch network namespace aware, from Pravin B Shelar. 5) IPV6 NAT implementation, from Patrick McHardy. 6) Server side support for TCP Fast Open, from Jerry Chu and others. 7) Packet BPF filter supports MOD and XOR, from Eric Dumazet and Daniel Borkmann. 8) Increate the loopback default MTU to 64K, from Eric Dumazet. 9) Use a per-task rather than per-socket page fragment allocator for outgoing networking traffic. This benefits processes that have very many mostly idle sockets, which is quite common. From Eric Dumazet. 10) Use up to 32K for page fragment allocations, with fallbacks to smaller sizes when higher order page allocations fail. Benefits are a) less segments for driver to process b) less calls to page allocator c) less waste of space. From Eric Dumazet. 11) Allow GRO to be used on GRE tunnels, from Eric Dumazet. 12) VXLAN device driver, one way to handle VLAN issues such as the limitation of 4096 VLAN IDs yet still have some level of isolation. From Stephen Hemminger. 13) As usual there is a large boatload of driver changes, with the scale perhaps tilted towards the wireless side this time around. Fix up various fairly trivial conflicts, mostly caused by the user namespace changes. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1012 commits) hyperv: Add buffer for extended info after the RNDIS response message. hyperv: Report actual status in receive completion packet hyperv: Remove extra allocated space for recv_pkt_list elements hyperv: Fix page buffer handling in rndis_filter_send_request() hyperv: Fix the missing return value in rndis_filter_set_packet_filter() hyperv: Fix the max_xfer_size in RNDIS initialization vxlan: put UDP socket in correct namespace vxlan: Depend on CONFIG_INET sfc: Fix the reported priorities of different filter types sfc: Remove EFX_FILTER_FLAG_RX_OVERRIDE_IP sfc: Fix loopback self-test with separate_tx_channels=1 sfc: Fix MCDI structure field lookup sfc: Add parentheses around use of bitfield macro arguments sfc: Fix null function pointer in efx_sriov_channel_type vxlan: virtual extensible lan igmp: export symbol ip_mc_leave_group netlink: add attributes to fdb interface tg3: unconditionally select HWMON support when tg3 is enabled. Revert "net: ti cpsw ethernet: allow reading phy interface mode from DT" gre: fix sparse warning ...
2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman: "This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace support. This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user namespace. Everything is converted except for the most complex of the filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs, nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review. The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into subsystems and filesystems as reasonable. Leaving the make_kuid and from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network. Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues. The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int. Those places were converted into explicit unions. I made certain to handle those places with simple trivial patches. Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing quota by projid. I had never heard of the project identifiers before. Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts for most of the code size growth in my git tree. Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from "capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications. While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code I made a few other cleanups. I capitalized on the fact we process netlink messages in the context of the message sender. I removed usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty. Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no problems from identical code from different trees showing up in linux-next. After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to win a game of kernel trivial pursuit." Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits) userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing. userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids userns: Add user namespace support to IMA userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation ...
2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-3.7-hierarchy' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup hierarchy update from Tejun Heo: "Currently, different cgroup subsystems handle nested cgroups completely differently. There's no consistency among subsystems and the behaviors often are outright broken. People at least seem to agree that the broken hierarhcy behaviors need to be weeded out if any progress is gonna be made on this front and that the fallouts from deprecating the broken behaviors should be acceptable especially given that the current behaviors don't make much sense when nested. This patch makes cgroup emit warning messages if cgroups for subsystems with broken hierarchy behavior are nested to prepare for fixing them in the future. This was put in a separate branch because more related changes were expected (didn't make it this round) and the memory cgroup wanted to pull in this and make changes on top." * 'for-3.7-hierarchy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: mark subsystems with broken hierarchy support and whine if cgroups are nested for them
2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-3.7' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - xattr support added. The implementation is shared with tmpfs. The usage is restricted and intended to be used to manage per-cgroup metadata by system software. tmpfs changes are routed through this branch with Hugh's permission. - cgroup subsystem ID handling simplified. * 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: Define CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT according the configuration cgroup: Assign subsystem IDs during compile time cgroup: Do not depend on a given order when populating the subsys array cgroup: Wrap subsystem selection macro cgroup: Remove CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT cgroup: net_prio: Do not define task_netpioidx() when not selected cgroup: net_cls: Do not define task_cls_classid() when not selected cgroup: net_cls: Move sock_update_classid() declaration to cls_cgroup.h cgroup: trivial fixes for Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt xattr: mark variable as uninitialized to make both gcc and smatch happy fs: add missing documentation to simple_xattr functions cgroup: add documentation on extended attributes usage cgroup: rename subsys_bits to subsys_mask cgroup: add xattr support cgroup: revise how we re-populate root directory xattr: extract simple_xattr code from tmpfs
2012-09-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/team/team.c drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c net/ipv4/route.c net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c The team, fib_frontend, route, and l2tp_netlink conflicts were simply overlapping changes. qmi_wwan and bat_iv_ogm were of the "use HEAD" variety. With help from Antonio Quartulli. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-27pkt_sched: Fix warning false positives.David S. Miller
GCC refuses to recognize that all error control flows do in fact set err to something. Add an explicit initialization to shut it up. net/sched/sch_drr.c: In function ‘drr_enqueue’: net/sched/sch_drr.c:359:11: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] net/sched/sch_qfq.c: In function ‘qfq_enqueue’: net/sched/sch_qfq.c:885:11: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-24net: use a per task frag allocatorEric Dumazet
We currently use a per socket order-0 page cache for tcp_sendmsg() operations. This page is used to build fragments for skbs. Its done to increase probability of coalescing small write() into single segments in skbs still in write queue (not yet sent) But it wastes a lot of memory for applications handling many mostly idle sockets, since each socket holds one page in sk->sk_sndmsg_page Its also quite inefficient to build TSO 64KB packets, because we need about 16 pages per skb on arches where PAGE_SIZE = 4096, so we hit page allocator more than wanted. This patch adds a per task frag allocator and uses bigger pages, if available. An automatic fallback is done in case of memory pressure. (up to 32768 bytes per frag, thats order-3 pages on x86) This increases TCP stream performance by 20% on loopback device, but also benefits on other network devices, since 8x less frags are mapped on transmit and unmapped on tx completion. Alexander Duyck mentioned a probable performance win on systems with IOMMU enabled. Its possible some SG enabled hardware cant cope with bigger fragments, but their ndo_start_xmit() should already handle this, splitting a fragment in sub fragments, since some arches have PAGE_SIZE=65536 Successfully tested on various ethernet devices. (ixgbe, igb, bnx2x, tg3, mellanox mlx4) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Cc: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-19pkt_sched: fix virtual-start-time update in QFQPaolo Valente
If the old timestamps of a class, say cl, are stale when the class becomes active, then QFQ may assign to cl a much higher start time than the maximum value allowed. This may happen when QFQ assigns to the start time of cl the finish time of a group whose classes are characterized by a higher value of the ratio max_class_pkt/weight_of_the_class with respect to that of cl. Inserting a class with a too high start time into the bucket list corrupts the data structure and may eventually lead to crashes. This patch limits the maximum start time assigned to a class. Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c net/netfilter/xt_LOG.c Rather easy conflict resolution, the 'net' tree had bug fixes to make sure we checked if a socket is a time-wait one or not and elide the logging code if so. Whereas on the 'net-next' side we are calculating the UID and GID from the creds using different interfaces due to the user namespace changes from Eric Biederman. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-14cgroup: mark subsystems with broken hierarchy support and whine if cgroups ↵Tejun Heo
are nested for them Currently, cgroup hierarchy support is a mess. cpu related subsystems behave correctly - configuration, accounting and control on a parent properly cover its children. blkio and freezer completely ignore hierarchy and treat all cgroups as if they're directly under the root cgroup. Others show yet different behaviors. These differing interpretations of cgroup hierarchy make using cgroup confusing and it impossible to co-mount controllers into the same hierarchy and obtain sane behavior. Eventually, we want full hierarchy support from all subsystems and probably a unified hierarchy. Users using separate hierarchies expecting completely different behaviors depending on the mounted subsystem is deterimental to making any progress on this front. This patch adds cgroup_subsys.broken_hierarchy and sets it to %true for controllers which are lacking in hierarchy support. The goal of this patch is two-fold. * Move users away from using hierarchy on currently non-hierarchical subsystems, so that implementing proper hierarchy support on those doesn't surprise them. * Keep track of which controllers are broken how and nudge the subsystems to implement proper hierarchy support. For now, start with a single warning message. We can whine louder later on. v2: Fixed a typo spotted by Michal. Warning message updated. v3: Updated memcg part so that it doesn't generate warning in the cases where .use_hierarchy=false doesn't make the behavior different from root.use_hierarchy=true. Fixed a typo spotted by Glauber. v4: Check ->broken_hierarchy after cgroup creation is complete so that ->create() can affect the result per Michal. Dropped unnecessary memcg root handling per Michal. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-14cgroup: Assign subsystem IDs during compile timeDaniel Wagner
WARNING: With this change it is impossible to load external built controllers anymore. In case where CONFIG_NETPRIO_CGROUP=m and CONFIG_NET_CLS_CGROUP=m is set, corresponding subsys_id should also be a constant. Up to now, net_prio_subsys_id and net_cls_subsys_id would be of the type int and the value would be assigned during runtime. By switching the macro definition IS_SUBSYS_ENABLED from IS_BUILTIN to IS_ENABLED, all *_subsys_id will have constant value. That means we need to remove all the code which assumes a value can be assigned to net_prio_subsys_id and net_cls_subsys_id. A close look is necessary on the RCU part which was introduces by following patch: commit f845172531fb7410c7fb7780b1a6e51ee6df7d52 Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Mon May 24 09:12:34 2010 Committer: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Mon May 24 09:12:34 2010 cls_cgroup: Store classid in struct sock Tis code was added to init_cgroup_cls() /* We can't use rcu_assign_pointer because this is an int. */ smp_wmb(); net_cls_subsys_id = net_cls_subsys.subsys_id; respectively to exit_cgroup_cls() net_cls_subsys_id = -1; synchronize_rcu(); and in module version of task_cls_classid() rcu_read_lock(); id = rcu_dereference(net_cls_subsys_id); if (id >= 0) classid = container_of(task_subsys_state(p, id), struct cgroup_cls_state, css)->classid; rcu_read_unlock(); Without an explicit explaination why the RCU part is needed. (The rcu_deference was fixed by exchanging it to rcu_derefence_index_check() in a later commit, but that is a minor detail.) So here is my pondering why it was introduced and why it safe to remove it now. Note that this code was copied over to net_prio the reasoning holds for that subsystem too. The idea behind the RCU use for net_cls_subsys_id is to make sure we get a valid pointer back from task_subsys_state(). task_subsys_state() is just blindly accessing the subsys array and returning the pointer. Obviously, passing in -1 as id into task_subsys_state() returns an invalid value (out of lower bound). So this code makes sure that only after module is loaded and the subsystem registered, the id is assigned. Before unregistering the module all old readers must have left the critical section. This is done by assigning -1 to the id and issuing a synchronized_rcu(). Any new readers wont call task_subsys_state() anymore and therefore it is safe to unregister the subsystem. The new code relies on the same trick, but it looks at the subsys pointer return by task_subsys_state() (remember the id is constant and therefore we allways have a valid index into the subsys array). No precautions need to be taken during module loading module. Eventually, all CPUs will get a valid pointer back from task_subsys_state() because rebind_subsystem() which is called after the module init() function will assigned subsys[net_cls_subsys_id] the newly loaded module subsystem pointer. When the subsystem is about to be removed, rebind_subsystem() will called before the module exit() function. In this case, rebind_subsys() will assign subsys[net_cls_subsys_id] a NULL pointer and then it calls synchronize_rcu(). All old readers have left by then the critical section. Any new reader wont access the subsystem anymore. At this point we are safe to unregister the subsystem. No synchronize_rcu() call is needed. Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
2012-09-13net_sched: gred: actually perform idling in WRED modeDavid Ward
gred_dequeue() and gred_drop() do not seem to get called when the queue is empty, meaning that we never start idling while in WRED mode. And since qidlestart is not stored by gred_store_wred_set(), we would never stop idling while in WRED mode if we ever started. This messes up the average queue size calculation that influences packet marking/dropping behavior. Now, we start WRED mode idling as we are removing the last packet from the queue. Also we now actually stop WRED mode idling when we are enqueuing a packet. Cc: Bruce Osler <brosler@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-13net_sched: gred: fix qave reporting via netlinkDavid Ward
q->vars.qavg is a Wlog scaled value, but q->backlog is not. In order to pass q->vars.qavg as the backlog value, we need to un-scale it. Additionally, the qave value returned via netlink should not be Wlog scaled, so we need to un-scale the result of red_calc_qavg(). This caused artificially high values for "Average Queue" to be shown by 'tc -s -d qdisc', but did not affect the actual operation of GRED. Signed-off-by: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-13net_sched: gred: eliminate redundant DP prio comparisonsDavid Ward
Each pair of DPs only needs to be compared once when searching for a non-unique prio value. Signed-off-by: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>