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Mark Brown
c93993aca4 ASoC: Add WM8915 CODEC driver
The WM8915 is an ultra low power mobile CODEC designed for smartphones,
featuring a mixture of digital and analogue I/O with flexible mixing
options and advanced low power accessory detection functionality in a
compact package.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
2011-04-11 13:33:50 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
127fe533ae v3 ethtool: add ntuple flow specifier data to network flow classifier
This change is meant to add an ntuple data extensions to the rx network flow
classification specifiers.  The idea is to allow ntuple to be displayed via
the network flow classification interface.

The first patch had some left over stuff from the original flow extension
flags I had added.  That bit is removed in this patch.

The second had some left over comments that stated we ignored bits in the
masks when we actually match them.

This work is based on input from Ben Hutchings.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-11 13:20:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c44eaf41a5 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (34 commits)
  net: Add support for SMSC LAN9530, LAN9730 and LAN89530
  mlx4_en: Restoring RX buffer pointer in case of failure
  mlx4: Sensing link type at device initialization
  ipv4: Fix "Set rt->rt_iif more sanely on output routes."
  MAINTAINERS: add entry for Xen network backend
  be2net: Fix suspend/resume operation
  be2net: Rename some struct members for clarity
  pppoe: drop PPPOX_ZOMBIEs in pppoe_flush_dev
  dsa/mv88e6131: add support for mv88e6085 switch
  ipv6: Enable RFS sk_rxhash tracking for ipv6 sockets (v2)
  be2net: Fix a potential crash during shutdown.
  bna: Fix for handling firmware heartbeat failure
  can: mcp251x: Allow pass IRQ flags through platform data.
  smsc911x: fix mac_lock acquision before calling smsc911x_mac_read
  iwlwifi: accept EEPROM version 0x423 for iwl6000
  rt2x00: fix cancelling uninitialized work
  rtlwifi: Fix some warnings/bugs
  p54usb: IDs for two new devices
  wl12xx: fix potential buffer overflow in testmode nvs push
  zd1211rw: reset rx idle timer from tasklet
  ...
2011-04-11 07:27:24 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
60495e7760 sched: Dynamic sched_domain::level
Remove the SD_LV_ enum and use dynamic level assignments.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110407122942.969433965@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11 14:09:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7dd04b7307 sched: Remove some dead code
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110407122942.553814623@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11 12:58:22 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
3859173d43 sched: Reduce some allocation pressure
Since we now allocate SD_LV_MAX * nr_cpu_ids sched_domain/sched_group
structures when rebuilding the scheduler toplogy it might make sense
to shrink that depending on the CONFIG_ options.

This is only needed until we get rid of SD_LV_* alltogether and
provide a full dynamic topology interface.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110407122942.406226449@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11 12:58:21 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
dce840a087 sched: Dynamically allocate sched_domain/sched_group data-structures
Instead of relying on static allocations for the sched_domain and
sched_group trees, dynamically allocate and RCU free them.

Allocating this dynamically also allows for some build_sched_groups()
simplification since we can now (like with other simplifications) rely
on the sched_domain tree instead of hard-coded knowledge.

One tricky to note is that detach_destroy_domains() needs to hold
rcu_read_lock() over the entire tear-down, per-cpu is not sufficient
since that can lead to partial sched_group existance (could possibly
be solved by doing the tear-down backwards but this is much more
robust).

A concequence of the above is that we can no longer print the
sched_domain debug stuff from cpu_attach_domain() since that might now
run with preemption disabled (due to classic RCU etc.) and
sched_domain_debug() does some GFP_KERNEL allocations.

Another thing to note is that we now fully rely on normal RCU and not
RCU-sched, this is because with the new and exiting RCU flavours we
grew over the years BH doesn't necessarily hold off RCU-sched grace
periods (-rt is known to break this). This would in fact already cause
us grief since we do sched_domain/sched_group iterations from softirq
context.

This patch is somewhat larger than I would like it to be, but I didn't
find any means of shrinking/splitting this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110407122942.245307941@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11 12:58:19 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
5cdede2408 PCI: Move ATS declarations in seperate header file
This patch moves the relevant declarations from the local
header file in drivers/pci to a more accessible locations so
that it can be used by the AMD IOMMU driver too.
The file is named pci-ats.h because support for the PCI PRI
capability will also be added there in a later patch-set.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2011-04-11 09:01:41 +02:00
Michael Smith
990078afbf Disable rp_filter for IPsec packets
The reverse path filter interferes with IPsec subnet-to-subnet tunnels,
especially when the link to the IPsec peer is on an interface other than
the one hosting the default route.

With dynamic routing, where the peer might be reachable through eth0
today and eth1 tomorrow, it's difficult to keep rp_filter enabled unless
fake routes to the remote subnets are configured on the interface
currently used to reach the peer.

IPsec provides a much stronger anti-spoofing policy than rp_filter, so
this patch disables the rp_filter for packets with a security path.

Signed-off-by: Michael Smith <msmith@cbnco.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-10 18:50:59 -07:00
Michael Smith
5c04c819a2 fib_validate_source(): pass sk_buff instead of mark
This makes sk_buff available for other use in fib_validate_source().

Signed-off-by: Michael Smith <msmith@cbnco.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-10 18:50:59 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
0e028465d1 exec: unify do_execve/compat_do_execve code
Add the appropriate members into struct user_arg_ptr and teach
get_user_arg_ptr() to handle is_compat = T case correctly.

This allows us to remove the compat_do_execve() code from fs/compat.c
and reimplement compat_do_execve() as the trivial wrapper on top of
do_execve_common(is_compat => true).

In fact, this fixes another (minor) bug. "compat_uptr_t str" can
overflow after "str += len" in compat_copy_strings() if a 64bit
application execs via sys32_execve().

Unexport acct_arg_size() and get_arg_page(), fs/compat.c doesn't
need them any longer.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
2011-04-09 15:53:56 +02:00
Mark Brown
b7af1dafdf ASoC: Add data based control initialisation for CODECs and cards
Allow CODEC and card drivers to point to an array of controls from their
driver structure rather than explicitly calling snd_soc_add_controls().

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2011-04-08 09:18:11 +09:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
311bb895e3 Bluetooth: Move busy workqueue to struct l2cap_chan
As part of the moving channel stuff to l2cap_chan.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:27 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
f1c6775be6 Bluetooth: Move srej and busy queues to struct l2cap_chan
As part of the moving channel stuff to l2cap_chan.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:27 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
e92c8e70fa Bluetooth: Move ERTM timers to struct l2cap_chan
This also triggered a change in l2cap_send_disconn_req() parameters.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:27 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
2c03a7a49e Bluetooth: Move remote info to struct l2cap_chan
As part of the moving channel stuff to l2cap_chan.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:27 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
6f61fd4759 Bluetooth: Move SDU related vars to struct l2cap_chan
As part of the moving channel stuff to l2cap_chan.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:27 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
6a026610ee Bluetooth: Move more ERTM stuff to struct l2cap_chan
As part of the moving channel stuff to l2cap_chan.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:27 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
42e5c8027b Bluetooth: Move of ERTM *_seq vars to struct l2cap_chan
As part of the moving channel to stuff to struct l2cap_chan.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:26 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
525cd1851b Bluetooth: Move conn_state to struct l2cap_chan
This is part of "moving things to l2cap_chan". As one the first move it
triggered a big number of changes in the funcions parameters, basically
changing the struct sock param to struct l2cap_chan.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:26 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
710f9b0a42 Bluetooth: clean up l2cap_sock_recvmsg()
Move some channel specific stuff to l2cap_core.c, this will make things
more clear.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:26 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
73ffa904b7 Bluetooth: Move conf_{req,rsp} stuff to struct l2cap_chan
They are also l2cap_chan specific.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:26 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
fc7f8a7ed4 Bluetooth: Move ident to struct l2cap_chan
ident is chan property, no need to reside on socket.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:26 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
820ffdb3d2 Bluetooth: Remove struct del_list
As we use struct list_head to keep L2CAP channels list the workaround with
del_list is not needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:26 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
baa7e1fa6d Bluetooth: Use struct list_head for L2CAP channels list
Use a well known Kernel API is always a good idea than implement your own
list.
In the future we might use RCU on this list.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:25 -03:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
48454079c2 Bluetooth: Create struct l2cap_chan
struct l2cap_chan cames to create a clear separation between what
properties and data belongs to the L2CAP channel and what belongs to the
socket. By now we just fold the struct sock * in struct l2cap_chan as all
the channel info is struct l2cap_pinfo today.

In the next commits we will see a move of channel stuff to struct
l2cap_chan.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
2011-04-07 18:06:25 -03:00
David S. Miller
c1e48efc70 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/benet/be_main.c
2011-04-07 14:05:23 -07:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
1b86a58f9d ipv4: Fix "Set rt->rt_iif more sanely on output routes."
Commit 1018b5c016 ("Set rt->rt_iif more
sanely on output routes.")  breaks rt_is_{output,input}_route.

This became the cause to return "IP_PKTINFO's ->ipi_ifindex == 0".

To fix it, this does:

1) Add "int rt_route_iif;" to struct rtable

2) For input routes, always set rt_route_iif to same value as rt_iif

3) For output routes, always set rt_route_iif to zero.  Set rt_iif
   as it is done currently.

4) Change rt_is_{output,input}_route() to test rt_route_iif

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-07 14:04:08 -07:00
John W. Linville
b37e3b6d64 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/efuse.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192c/fw_common.c
	net/bluetooth/mgmt.c
2011-04-07 16:45:40 -04:00
Paul Stewart
f4263c9857 nl80211: Add BSS parameters to station
This allows user-space monitoring of BSS parameters for the associated
station.  This is useful for debugging and verifying that the paramaters
are as expected.

[Exactly the same as before but bundled into a single message]

Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-07 15:34:12 -04:00
John W. Linville
f3b3e36f4e Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/padovan/bluetooth-next-2.6 2011-04-07 15:30:53 -04:00
Oleg Nesterov
e46bc9b6fd Merge branch 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into ptrace 2011-04-07 20:44:11 +02:00
J. Bruce Fields
31d68ef65c SUNRPC: Don't wait for full record to receive tcp data
Ensure that we immediately read and buffer data from the incoming TCP
stream so that we grow the receive window quickly, and don't deadlock on
large READ or WRITE requests.

Also do some minor exit cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2011-04-07 14:36:40 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
42933bac11 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings
2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
Wei Yongjun
912d398d28 net: fix skb_add_data_nocache() to calc csum correctly
commit c6e1a0d12c broken the calc
 (net: Allow no-cache copy from user on transmit)
of checksum, which may cause some tcp packets be dropped because
incorrect checksum. ssh does not work under today's net-next-2.6
tree.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-06 23:05:01 -07:00
David S. Miller
a25a32ab71 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2011-04-06 13:34:15 -07:00
David S. Miller
4c844d97d2 Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/sfc-next-2.6 2011-04-06 12:27:34 -07:00
Enric Balletbo i Serra
34206f2671 can: mcp251x: Allow pass IRQ flags through platform data.
When an interrupt occurs, the INT pin is driven low by the
MCP251x controller (falling edge) but in some cases the INT
pin can be connected to the MPU through a transistor or level
translator which inverts this signal. In this case interrupt
should be configured in rising edge.

This patch adds support to pass the IRQ flags via
mcp251x_platform_data.

Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <eballetbo@iseebcn.com>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-06 12:24:26 -07:00
Peter Hsiang
82a5a936f6 ASoC: Add max98095 CODEC driver
This patch adds the MAX98095 CODEC driver.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hsiang <peter.hsiang@maxim-ic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2011-04-06 23:15:23 +09:00
Justin P. Mattock
79add62773 update David Miller's old email address
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-04-06 06:19:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
44148a667d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block:
  ide: always ensure that blk_delay_queue() is called if we have pending IO
  block: fix request sorting at unplug
  dm: improve block integrity support
  fs: export empty_aops
  ide: ide_requeue_and_plug() reinstate "always plug" behaviour
  blk-throttle: don't call xchg on bool
  ufs: remove unessecary blk_flush_plug
  block: make the flush insertion use the tail of the dispatch list
  block: get rid of elv_insert() interface
  block: dump request state on seeing a corrupted request completion
2011-04-05 15:29:01 -07:00
Mike Snitzer
a63a5cf84d dm: improve block integrity support
The current block integrity (DIF/DIX) support in DM is verifying that
all devices' integrity profiles match during DM device resume (which
is past the point of no return).  To some degree that is unavoidable
(stacked DM devices force this late checking).  But for most DM
devices (which aren't stacking on other DM devices) the ideal time to
verify all integrity profiles match is during table load.

Introduce the notion of an "initialized" integrity profile: a profile
that was blk_integrity_register()'d with a non-NULL 'blk_integrity'
template.  Add blk_integrity_is_initialized() to allow checking if a
profile was initialized.

Update DM integrity support to:
- check all devices with _initialized_ integrity profiles match
  during table load; uninitialized profiles (e.g. for underlying DM
  device(s) of a stacked DM device) are ignored.
- disallow a table load that would result in an integrity profile that
  conflicts with a DM device's existing (in-use) integrity profile
- avoid clearing an existing integrity profile
- validate all integrity profiles match during resume; but if they
  don't all we can do is report the mismatch (during resume we're past
  the point of no return)

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:52:43 +02:00
Jens Axboe
7dcda1c96d fs: export empty_aops
With the ->sync_page() hook gone, we have a few users that
add their own static address_space_operations without any
functions defined.

fs/inode.c already has an empty_aops that it uses for init
purposes. Lets export that and use it in the places where
an otherwise empty aops was defined.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:51:48 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b710a48055 block: get rid of elv_insert() interface
Merge it with __elv_add_request(), it's pretty pointless to
have a function with only two callers. The main interface
is elv_add_request()/__elv_add_request().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:51:37 +02:00
David S. Miller
9d93059497 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6 2011-04-05 14:21:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d14f5b810b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
  ipv6: Don't pass invalid dst_entry pointer to dst_release().
  mlx4: fix kfree on error path in new_steering_entry()
  tcp: len check is unnecessarily devastating, change to WARN_ON
  sctp: malloc enough room for asconf-ack chunk
  sctp: fix auth_hmacs field's length of struct sctp_cookie
  net: Fix dev dev_ethtool_get_rx_csum() for forced NETIF_F_RXCSUM
  usbnet: use eth%d name for known ethernet devices
  starfire: clean up dma_addr_t size test
  iwlegacy: fix bugs in change_interface
  carl9170: Fix tx aggregation problems with some clients
  iwl3945: disable hw scan by default
  wireless: rt2x00: rt2800usb.c add and identify ids
  iwl3945: do not deprecate software scan
  mac80211: fix aggregation frame release during timeout
  cfg80211: fix BSS double-unlinking (continued)
  cfg80211:: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
  mac80211: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
  mac80211: fix NULL pointer dereference in ieee80211_key_alloc()
  ath9k: fix a chip wakeup related crash in ath9k_start
  mac80211: fix a crash in minstrel_ht in HT mode with no supported MCS rates
  ...
2011-04-05 12:26:57 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
68f512f21a ethtool: Change ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID implementation to allow dropping RTNL
The ethtool ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID command runs for an arbitrarily long
period of time, holding the RTNL lock.  This blocks routing updates,
device enumeration, and various important operations that one might
want to keep running while hunting for the flashing LED.

We need to drop the RTNL lock during this operation, but currently the
core implementation is a thin wrapper around a driver operation and
drivers may well depend upon holding the lock.

Define a new driver operation 'set_phys_id' with an argument that sets
the ID indicator on/off/inactive/active (the last optional, for any
driver or firmware that prefers to handle blinking asynchronously).
When this is defined, the ethtool core drops the lock while waiting
and only acquires it around calls to this operation.

Deprecate the 'phys_id' operation in favour of this.  It can be
removed once all in-tree drivers are converted.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2011-04-05 15:12:01 +01:00
Ben Hutchings
8717d07b11 ethtool: Fill out and update comment for struct ethtool_ops
Briefly document all operations (except get_rx_ntuple), including
whether they may return an error code and whether they are deprecated.
Also mention some things that should be handled by the ethtool core
rather than by drivers.

Briefly document general requirements for callers.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2011-04-05 15:08:17 +01:00
Ben Hutchings
e20b5b61a3 ethtool: Convert struct ethtool_ops comment to kernel-doc format
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2011-04-05 15:01:41 +01:00
Tom Herbert
c6e1a0d12c net: Allow no-cache copy from user on transmit
This patch uses __copy_from_user_nocache on transmit to bypass data
cache for a performance improvement.  skb_add_data_nocache and
skb_copy_to_page_nocache can be called by sendmsg functions to use
this feature, initial support is in tcp_sendmsg.  This functionality is
configurable per device using ethtool.

Presumably, this feature would only be useful when the driver does
not touch the data.  The feature is turned on by default if a device
indicates that it does some form of checksum offload; it is off by
default for devices that do no checksum offload or indicate no checksum
is necessary.  For the former case copy-checksum is probably done
anyway, in the latter case the device is likely loopback in which case
the no cache copy is probably not beneficial.

This patch was tested using 200 instances of netperf TCP_RR with
1400 byte request and one byte reply.  Platform is 16 core AMD x86.

No-cache copy disabled:
   672703 tps, 97.13% utilization
   50/90/99% latency:244.31 484.205 1028.41

No-cache copy enabled:
   702113 tps, 96.16% utilization,
   50/90/99% latency 238.56 467.56 956.955

Using 14000 byte request and response sizes demonstrate the
effects more dramatically:

No-cache copy disabled:
   79571 tps, 34.34 %utlization
   50/90/95% latency 1584.46 2319.59 5001.76

No-cache copy enabled:
   83856 tps, 34.81% utilization
   50/90/95% latency 2508.42 2622.62 2735.88

Note especially the effect on latency tail (95th percentile).

This seems to provide a nice performance improvement and is
consistent in the tests I ran.  Presumably, this would provide
the greatest benfits in the presence of an application workload
stressing the cache and a lot of transmit data happening.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-04 22:30:30 -07:00