Commit Graph

307 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Kris Katterjohn
4bad4dc919 [NET]: Change sk_run_filter()'s return type in net/core/filter.c
It should return an unsigned value, and fix sk_filter() as well.

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@ispwest.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-06 13:08:20 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
1bd9bef6f9 [NETFILTER]: Call POST_ROUTING hook before fragmentation
Call POST_ROUTING hook before fragmentation to get rid of the okfn use
in ip_refrag and save the useless fragmentation/defragmentation step
when NAT is used.

The patch introduces one user-visible change, the POSTROUTING chain
in the mangle table gets entire packets, not fragments, which should
simplify use of the MARK and CLASSIFY targets for queueing as a nice
side-effect.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-05 12:20:59 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
c1d10adb4a [NETFILTER]: Add ctnetlink port for nf_conntrack
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-05 12:19:05 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
40efc6fa17 [TCP]: less inline's
TCP inline usage cleanup:
 * get rid of inline in several places
 * replace __inline__ with inline where possible
 * move functions used in one file out of tcp.h
 * let compiler decide on used once cases

On x86_64: 
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
3594701	 648348	 567400	4810449	 4966d1	vmlinux.orig
3593133	 648580	 567400	4809113	 496199	vmlinux

On sparc64:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
2538278	 406152	 530392	3474822	 350586	vmlinux.ORIG
2536382	 406384	 530392	3473158	 34ff06	vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 16:03:49 -08:00
Per Liden
b461d2f218 [NETLINK] genetlink: fix cmd type in genl_ops to be consistent to u8
Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
ACKed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 14:13:29 -08:00
Benjamin LaHaise
fd19f329a3 [AF_UNIX]: Convert to use a spinlock instead of rwlock
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>

In af_unix, a rwlock is used to protect internal state.  At least on my 
P4 with HT it is faster to use a spinlock due to the simpler memory 
barrier used to unlock.  This patch raises bw_unix to ~690K/s.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 14:10:46 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
8639a11e23 [TCP]: Don't use __constant_htonl for a non const arg
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:22 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
14c850212e [INET_SOCK]: Move struct inet_sock & helper functions to net/inet_sock.h
To help in reducing the number of include dependencies, several files were
touched as they were getting needed headers indirectly for stuff they use.

Thanks also to Alan Menegotto for pointing out that net/dccp/proto.c had
linux/dccp.h include twice.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:21 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
25995ff577 [SOCK]: Introduce sk_receive_skb
Its common enough to to justify that, TCP still can't use it as it has the
prequeueing stuff, still to be made generic in the not so distant future :-)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:19 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
90ddc4f047 [NET]: move struct proto_ops to const
I noticed that some of 'struct proto_ops' used in the kernel may share
a cache line used by locks or other heavily modified data. (default
linker alignement is 32 bytes, and L1_CACHE_LINE is 64 or 128 at
least)

This patch makes sure a 'struct proto_ops' can be declared as const,
so that all cpus can share all parts of it without false sharing.

This is not mandatory : a driver can still use a read/write structure
if it needs to (and eventually a __read_mostly)

I made a global stubstitute to change all existing occurences to make
them const.

This should reduce the possibility of false sharing on SMP, and
speedup some socket system calls.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:15 -08:00
Frank Filz
7708610b1b [SCTP]: Add support for SCTP_DELAYED_ACK_TIME socket option.
Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:13 -08:00
Frank Filz
52ccb8e90c [SCTP]: Update SCTP_PEER_ADDR_PARAMS socket option to the latest api draft.
This patch adds support to set/get heartbeat interval, maximum number of
retransmissions, pathmtu, sackdelay time for a particular transport/
association/socket as per the latest SCTP sockets api draft11.

Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:11 -08:00
David S. Miller
fbe9cc4a87 [AF_UNIX]: Use spinlock for unix_table_lock
This lock is actually taken mostly as a writer,
so using a rwlock actually just makes performance
worse especially on chips like the Intel P4.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:59 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d83d8461f9 [IP_SOCKGLUE]: Remove most of the tcp specific calls
As DCCP needs to be called in the same spots.

Now we have a member in inet_sock (is_icsk), set at sock creation time from
struct inet_protosw->flags (if INET_PROTOSW_ICSK is set, like for TCP and
DCCP) to see if a struct sock instance is a inet_connection_sock for places
like the ones in ip_sockglue.c (v4 and v6) where we previously were looking if
sk_type was SOCK_STREAM, that is insufficient because we now use the same code
for DCCP, that has sk_type SOCK_DCCP.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:58 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2271281362 [TCP]: Move the TCPF_ enum to tcp_states.h
Upcoming patches will make, for instance, ip_sockglue.c need just this enum
and not all of tcp.h.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:57 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d8313f5ca2 [INET6]: Generalise tcp_v6_hash_connect
Renaming it to inet6_hash_connect, making it possible to ditch
dccp_v6_hash_connect and share the same code with TCP instead.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:56 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
a7f5e7f164 [INET]: Generalise tcp_v4_hash_connect
Renaming it to inet_hash_connect, making it possible to ditch
dccp_v4_hash_connect and share the same code with TCP instead.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:55 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
6d6ee43e0b [TWSK]: Introduce struct timewait_sock_ops
So that we can share several timewait sockets related functions and
make the timewait mini sockets infrastructure closer to the request
mini sockets one.

Next changesets will take advantage of this, moving more code out of
TCP and DCCP v4 and v6 to common infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:54 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
399c07def6 [IPV6]: Export ipv6_opt_accepted
It was already non-TCP specific, will be used by DCCPv6.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:51 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
0fa1a53e1f [IPV6]: Introduce inet6_timewait_sock
Out of tcp6_timewait_sock, that now is just an aggregation of
inet_timewait_sock and inet6_timewait_sock, using tw_ipv6_offset in struct
inet_timewait_sock, that is common to the IPv6 transport protocols that use
timewait sockets, like DCCP and TCP.

tw_ipv6_offset plays the struct inet_sock pinfo6 role, i.e. for the generic
code to find the IPv6 area in a timewait sock.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:47 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
b9750ce13c [IPV6]: Generalise some functions
Using sk->sk_protocol instead of IPPROTO_TCP.

Will be used by DCCPv6 in the next changesets.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:46 -08:00
Benjamin LaHaise
c1cbe4b7ad [NET]: Avoid atomic xchg() for non-error case
It also looks like there were 2 places where the test on sk_err was
missing from the event wait logic (in sk_stream_wait_connect and
sk_stream_wait_memory), while the rest of the sock_error() users look
to be doing the right thing.  This version of the patch fixes those,
and cleans up a few places that were testing ->sk_err directly.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:44 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
af05dc9394 [ICSK]: Move v4_addr2sockaddr from TCP to icsk
Renaming it to inet_csk_addr2sockaddr.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:39 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
8292a17a39 [ICSK]: Rename struct tcp_func to struct inet_connection_sock_af_ops
And move it to struct inet_connection_sock. DCCP will use it in the
upcoming changesets.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:38 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
8129765ac0 [IPV6]: Generalise tcp_v6_search_req & tcp_v6_synq_add
More work is needed tho to introduce inet6_request_sock from
tcp6_request_sock, in the same layout considerations as ipv6_pinfo in
inet_sock, next changeset will do that.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:36 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
c2977c2213 [ICSK]: make inet_csk_reqsk_queue_hash_add timeout arg unsigned long
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:34 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
90b19d3169 [IPV6]: Generalise __tcp_v6_hash, renaming it to __inet6_hash
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:33 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
971af18bbf [IPV6]: Reuse inet_csk_get_port in tcp_v6_get_port
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:33 -08:00
Herbert Xu
89cee8b1cb [IPV4]: Safer reassembly
Another spin of Herbert Xu's "safer ip reassembly" patch
for 2.6.16.

(The original patch is here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=112281936522415&w=2
and my only contribution is to have tested it.)

This patch (optionally) does additional checks before accepting IP
fragments, which can greatly reduce the possibility of reassembling
fragments which originated from different IP datagrams.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:31 -08:00
Trent Jaeger
df71837d50 [LSM-IPSec]: Security association restriction.
This patch series implements per packet access control via the
extension of the Linux Security Modules (LSM) interface by hooks in
the XFRM and pfkey subsystems that leverage IPSec security
associations to label packets.  Extensions to the SELinux LSM are
included that leverage the patch for this purpose.

This patch implements the changes necessary to the XFRM subsystem,
pfkey interface, ipv4/ipv6, and xfrm_user interface to restrict a
socket to use only authorized security associations (or no security
association) to send/receive network packets.

Patch purpose:

The patch is designed to enable access control per packets based on
the strongly authenticated IPSec security association.  Such access
controls augment the existing ones based on network interface and IP
address.  The former are very coarse-grained, and the latter can be
spoofed.  By using IPSec, the system can control access to remote
hosts based on cryptographic keys generated using the IPSec mechanism.
This enables access control on a per-machine basis or per-application
if the remote machine is running the same mechanism and trusted to
enforce the access control policy.

Patch design approach:

The overall approach is that policy (xfrm_policy) entries set by
user-level programs (e.g., setkey for ipsec-tools) are extended with a
security context that is used at policy selection time in the XFRM
subsystem to restrict the sockets that can send/receive packets via
security associations (xfrm_states) that are built from those
policies.

A presentation available at
www.selinux-symposium.org/2005/presentations/session2/2-3-jaeger.pdf
from the SELinux symposium describes the overall approach.

Patch implementation details:

On output, the policy retrieved (via xfrm_policy_lookup or
xfrm_sk_policy_lookup) must be authorized for the security context of
the socket and the same security context is required for resultant
security association (retrieved or negotiated via racoon in
ipsec-tools).  This is enforced in xfrm_state_find.

On input, the policy retrieved must also be authorized for the socket
(at __xfrm_policy_check), and the security context of the policy must
also match the security association being used.

The patch has virtually no impact on packets that do not use IPSec.
The existing Netfilter (outgoing) and LSM rcv_skb hooks are used as
before.

Also, if IPSec is used without security contexts, the impact is
minimal.  The LSM must allow such policies to be selected for the
combination of socket and remote machine, but subsequent IPSec
processing proceeds as in the original case.

Testing:

The pfkey interface is tested using the ipsec-tools.  ipsec-tools have
been modified (a separate ipsec-tools patch is available for version
0.5) that supports assignment of xfrm_policy entries and security
associations with security contexts via setkey and the negotiation
using the security contexts via racoon.

The xfrm_user interface is tested via ad hoc programs that set
security contexts.  These programs are also available from me, and
contain programs for setting, getting, and deleting policy for testing
this interface.  Testing of sa functions was done by tracing kernel
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Trent Jaeger <tjaeger@cse.psu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:24 -08:00
David L Stevens
5ab4a6c81e [IPV6] mcast: Fix multiple issues in MLDv2 reports.
The below "jumbo" patch fixes the following problems in MLDv2.

1) Add necessary "ntohs" to recent "pskb_may_pull" check [breaks
        all nonzero source queries on little-endian (!)]

2) Add locking to source filter list [resend of prior patch]

3) fix "mld_marksources()" to
        a) send nothing when all queried sources are excluded
        b) send full exclude report when source queried sources are
                not excluded
        c) don't schedule a timer when there's nothing to report

NOTE: RFC 3810 specifies the source list should be saved and each
  source reported individually as an IS_IN. This is an obvious DOS
  path, requiring the host to store and then multicast as many sources
  as are queried (e.g., millions...). This alternative sends a full, 
  relevant report that's limited to number of sources present on the
  machine.

4) fix "add_grec()" to send empty-source records when it should
        The original check doesn't account for a non-empty source
        list with all sources inactive; the new code keeps that
        short-circuit case, and also generates the group header
        with an empty list if needed.

5) fix mca_crcount decrement to be after add_grec(), which needs
        its original value

These issues (other than item #1 ;-) ) were all found by Yan Zheng,
much thanks!

Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-27 14:03:00 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
3c21edbd11 [IPV6]: Defer IPv6 device initialization until the link becomes ready.
NETDEV_UP might be sent even if the link attached to the interface was
not ready.  DAD does not make sense in such case, so we won't do so.
After interface

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2005-12-21 22:57:24 +09:00
David S. Miller
399c180ac5 [IPSEC]: Perform SA switchover immediately.
When we insert a new xfrm_state which potentially
subsumes an existing one, make sure all cached
bundles are flushed so that the new SA is used
immediately.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-19 14:23:23 -08:00
Steven Whitehouse
1f12bcc9d1 [DECNET]: add memory buffer settings
The patch (originally from Steve) simply adds memory buffer settings to 
DECnet similar to those in TCP.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:42:06 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
0ff60a4567 [IPV4]: Fix secondary IP addresses after promotion
This patch fixes the problem with promoting aliases when:
a) a single primary and > 1 secondary addresses
b) multiple primary addresses each with at least one secondary address

Based on earlier efforts from Brian Pomerantz <bapper@piratehaven.org>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> and Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-22 14:47:37 -08:00
David S. Miller
1ef43204f4 Merge git://git.skbuff.net/gitroot/yoshfuji/linux-2.6.14+advapi-fix/ 2005-11-20 20:52:16 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
df9890c31a [IPV6]: Fix sending extension headers before and including routing header.
Based on suggestion from Masahide Nakamura <nakam@linux-ipv6.org>.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2005-11-20 12:23:18 +09:00
Andrew Morton
cea00da397 [PATCH] git-netdev-all-ieee80211_get_payload-warning-fix
include/net/ieee80211.h: In function `ieee80211_get_payload':
include/net/ieee80211.h:1046: warning: control reaches end of non-void function

Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-11-18 13:33:31 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
31f3426904 [TCP]: More spelling fixes.
From Joe Perches

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-15 15:17:10 -08:00
Jochen Friedrich
cf22535657 [LLC]: Fix typo
Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 21:58:18 -08:00
Neil Horman
049b3ff5a8 [SCTP]: Include ulpevents in socket receive buffer accounting.
Also introduces a sysctl option to configure the receive buffer
accounting policy to be either at socket or association level.
Default is all the associations on the same socket share the
receive buffer.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-11 16:08:24 -08:00
Vladislav Yasevich
19c7e9eef5 [SCTP]: Fix ia64 NaT consumption fault with sctp_sideffect commands.
On ia64, it is possible to get NaT Consumption Fault and a kernel panic
when initializing sctp sideeffect commands arguments.  The union
sctp_arg_t contains different sized elements and when loading a smaller
sized element (32 or 16 bits), it is possible for a speculative load to
fail and result in a NaT bit set which causes a kernel crash.  The easy
way to get around it is to load the largerst member of the union.

Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-11 16:07:40 -08:00
Vladislav Yasevich
1e7d3d90c9 [SCTP]: Remove timeouts[] array from sctp_endpoint.
The socket level timeout values are maintained in sctp_sock and
association level timeouts are in sctp_association. So there is
no need for ep->timeouts.

Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-11 16:06:16 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
6a438bbe68 [TCP]: speed up SACK processing
Use "hints" to speed up the SACK processing. Various forms 
of this have been used by TCP developers (Web100, STCP, BIC)
to avoid the 2x linear search of outstanding segments.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:14:59 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
caa20d9abe [TCP]: spelling fixes
Minor spelling fixes for TCP code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:13:47 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
9772efb970 [TCP]: Appropriate Byte Count support
This is an updated version of the RFC3465 ABC patch originally
for Linux 2.6.11-rc4 by Yee-Ting Li. ABC is a way of counting
bytes ack'd rather than packets when updating congestion control.

The orignal ABC described in the RFC applied to a Reno style
algorithm. For advanced congestion control there is little
change after leaving slow start.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:09:53 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
7faffa1c7f [TCP]: add tcp_slow_start helper
Move all the code that does linear TCP slowstart to one
inline function to ease later patch to add ABC support.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:07:24 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
f4805eded7 [TCP]: fix congestion window update when using TSO deferal
TCP peformance with TSO over networks with delay is awful.
On a 100Mbit link with 150ms delay, we get 4Mbits/sec with TSO and
50Mbits/sec without TSO.

The problem is with TSO, we intentionally do not keep the maximum
number of packets in flight to fill the window, we hold out to until 
we can send a MSS chunk. But, we also don't update the congestion window 
unless we have filled, as per RFC2861.

This patch replaces the check for the congestion window being full
with something smarter that accounts for TSO.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 16:53:30 -08:00
Herbert Xu
fb286bb299 [NET]: Detect hardware rx checksum faults correctly
Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete
which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults.  If that happens,
it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack
trace with the device name.  In future it can turn off RX checksum.

I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to
use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the
exceptions of:

* Those places where checksums are done bit by bit.  These will call
netdev_rx_csum_fault directly.

* The following have not been completely checked/converted:

ipmr
ip_vs
netfilter
dccp

This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger
and David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 13:01:24 -08:00
Thomas Graf
482a8524f8 [NETLINK]: Generic netlink family
The generic netlink family builds on top of netlink and provides
simplifies access for the less demanding netlink users. It solves
the problem of protocol numbers running out by introducing a so
called controller taking care of id management and name resolving.

Generic netlink modules register themself after filling out their
id card (struct genl_family), after successful registration the
modules are able to register callbacks to command numbers by
filling out a struct genl_ops and calling genl_register_op(). The
registered callbacks are invoked with attributes parsed making
life of simple modules a lot easier.

Although generic netlink modules can request static identifiers,
it is recommended to use GENL_ID_GENERATE and to let the controller
assign a unique identifier to the module. Userspace applications
will then ask the controller and lookup the idenfier by the module
name.

Due to the current multicast implementation of netlink, the number
of generic netlink modules is restricted to 1024 to avoid wasting
memory for the per socket multiacst subscription bitmask.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:41 +01:00