- 17 Jan, 2014 15 commits
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Florian Fainelli authored
Ever since this driver was merged the following code was included: if (skb->len < MISR) skb->len = MISR; MISR is defined to 0x3C which is also equivalent to ETH_ZLEN, but use ETH_ZLEN directly which is exactly what we want to be checking for. Reported-by:
Marc Volovic <marcv@ezchip.com> Signed-off-by:
Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Florian Fainelli authored
On newer and faster machines (Vortex X86DX) using the r6040 driver, it was noticed that the driver was returning an error during probing traced down to being the MDIO bus probing and the inability to complete a MDIO read operation in time. It turns out that the MDIO operations on these faster machines usually complete after ~2140 iterations which is bigger than 2048 (MAC_DEF_TIMEOUT) and results in spurious timeouts depending on the system load. Update r6040_phy_read() and r6040_phy_write() to include a 1 micro second delay in each busy-looping iteration of the loop which is a much safer operation than incrementing MAC_DEF_TIMEOUT. Reported-by:
Nils Koehler <nils.koehler@ibt-interfaces.de> Reported-by:
Daniel Goertzen <daniel.goertzen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Durrant authored
This patch adds support for IPv6 checksum offload and GSO when those features are available in the backend. Signed-off-by:
Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by:
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Tom Herbert authored
When initializing a gro_list for a packet, first check the rxhash of the incoming skb against that of the skb's in the list. This should be a very strong inidicator of whether the flow is going to be matched, and potentially allows a lot of other checks to be short circuited. Use skb_hash_raw so that we don't force the hash to be calculated. Tested by running netperf 200 TCP_STREAMs between two machines with GRO, HW rxhash, and 1G. Saw no performance degration, slight reduction of time in dev_gro_receive. Signed-off-by:
Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Tom Herbert authored
Function to just return skb->rxhash without checking to see if it needs to be recomputed. Signed-off-by:
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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stephen hemminger authored
Remove unused function vxge_hw_vpath_vid_get Signed-off-by:
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by:
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stephen hemminger authored
Use 'make namespacecheck' to code that could be declared static. After that remove code that is not being used. Compile tested only. Signed-off-by:
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Barry Song authored
recently, dm9000 codes have many checkpatch errors and warnings: WARNING: please, no space before tabs 3: FILE: dm9000.c:3: + * ^ICopyright (C) 1997 Sten Wang$ WARNING: please, no space before tabs 5: FILE: dm9000.c:5: + * ^IThis program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or$ WARNING: please, no space before tabs 6: FILE: dm9000.c:6: + * ^Imodify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License$ WARNING: please, no space before tabs 7: FILE: dm9000.c:7: + * ^Ias published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2$ WARNING: please, no space before tabs 8: FILE: dm9000.c:8: + * ^Iof the License, or (at your option) any later version.$ WARNING: please, no space before tabs 10: FILE: dm9000.c:10: + * ^IThis program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,$ WARNING: please, no space before tabs 11: FILE: dm9000.c:11: + * ^Ibut WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of$ WARNING: please, no space before tabs 12: FILE: dm9000.c:12: + * ^IMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the$ WARNING: please, no space before tabs 13: FILE: dm9000.c:13: + * ^IGNU General Public License for more details.$ WARNING: do not add new typedefs 97: FILE: dm9000.c:97: +typedef struct board_info { ERROR: spaces prohibited around that ':' (ctx:WxV) 113: FILE: dm9000.c:113: + unsigned int in_suspend :1; ^ ERROR: spaces prohibited around that ':' (ctx:WxV) 114: FILE: dm9000.c:114: + unsigned int wake_supported :1; ^ This patch fixes important errors in it. Signed-off-by:Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Borkmann authored
In PF_PACKET's packet mmap(), we can avoid using one atomic_inc() and one atomic_dec() call in skb destructor and use a percpu reference count instead in order to determine if packets are still pending to be sent out. Micro-benchmark with [1] that has been slightly modified (that is, protcol = 0 in socket(2) and bind(2)), example on a rather crappy testing machine; I expect it to scale and have even better results on bigger machines: ./packet_mm_tx -s7000 -m7200 -z700000 em1, avg over 2500 runs: With patch: 4,022,015 cyc Without patch: 4,812,994 cyc time ./packet_mm_tx -s64 -c10000000 em1 > /dev/null, stable: With patch: real 1m32.241s user 0m0.287s sys 1m29.316s Without patch: real 1m38.386s user 0m0.265s sys 1m35.572s In function tpacket_snd(), it is okay to use packet_read_pending() since in fast-path we short-circuit the condition already with ph != NULL, since we have next frames to process. In case we have MSG_DONTWAIT, we also do not execute this path as need_wait is false here anyway, and in case of _no_ MSG_DONTWAIT flag, it is okay to call a packet_read_pending(), because when we ever reach that path, we're done processing outgoing frames anyway and only look if there are skbs still outstanding to be orphaned. We can stay lockless in this percpu counter since it's acceptable when we reach this path for the sum to be imprecise first, but we'll level out at 0 after all pending frames have reached the skb destructor eventually through tx reclaim. When people pin a tx process to particular CPUs, we expect overflows to happen in the reference counter as on one CPU we expect heavy increase; and distributed through ksoftirqd on all CPUs a decrease, for example. As David Laight points out, since the C language doesn't define the result of signed int overflow (i.e. rather than wrap, it is allowed to saturate as a possible outcome), we have to use unsigned int as reference count. The sum over all CPUs when tx is complete will result in 0 again. The BUG_ON() in tpacket_destruct_skb() we can remove as well. It can _only_ be set from inside tpacket_snd() path and we made sure to increase tx_ring.pending in any case before we called po->xmit(skb). So testing for tx_ring.pending == 0 is not too useful. Instead, it would rather have been useful to test if lower layers didn't orphan the skb so that we're missing ring slots being put back to TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE. But such a bug will be caught in user space already as we end up realizing that we do not have any TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE slots left anymore. Therefore, we're all set. Btw, in case of RX_RING path, we do not make use of the pending member, therefore we also don't need to use up any percpu memory here. Also note that __alloc_percpu() already returns a zero-filled percpu area, so initialization is done already. [1] http://wiki.ipxwarzone.com/index.php5?title=Linux_packet_mmapSigned-off-by:
Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Borkmann authored
In tpacket_snd(), when we've discovered a first frame that is not in status TP_STATUS_SEND_REQUEST, and return a NULL buffer, we exit the send routine in case of MSG_DONTWAIT, since we've finished traversing the mmaped send ring buffer and don't care about pending frames. While doing so, we still unconditionally call an expensive schedule() in the packet_current_frame() "error" path, which is unnecessary in this case since it's enough to just quit the function. Also, in case MSG_DONTWAIT is not set, we should rather test for need_resched() first and do schedule() only if necessary since meanwhile pending frames could already have finished processing and called skb destructor. Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Borkmann authored
Most people acquire PF_PACKET sockets with a protocol argument in the socket call, e.g. libpcap does so with htons(ETH_P_ALL) for all its sockets. Most likely, at some point in time a subsequent bind() call will follow, e.g. in libpcap with ... memset(&sll, 0, sizeof(sll)); sll.sll_family = AF_PACKET; sll.sll_ifindex = ifindex; sll.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_ALL); ... as arguments. What happens in the kernel is that already in socket() syscall, we install a proto hook via register_prot_hook() if our protocol argument is != 0. Yet, in bind() we're almost doing the same work by doing a unregister_prot_hook() with an expensive synchronize_net() call in case during socket() the proto was != 0, plus follow-up register_prot_hook() with a bound device to it this time, in order to limit traffic we get. In the case when the protocol and user supplied device index (== 0) does not change from socket() to bind(), we can spare us doing the same work twice. Similarly for re-binding to the same device and protocol. For these scenarios, we can decrease create/bind latency from ~7447us (sock-bind-2 case) to ~89us (sock-bind-1 case) with this patch. Alternatively, for the first case, if people care, they should simply create their sockets with proto == 0 argument and define the protocol during bind() as this saves a call to synchronize_net() as well (sock-bind-3 case). In all other cases, we're tied to user space behaviour we must not change, also since a bind() is not strictly required. Thus, we need the synchronize_net() to make sure no asynchronous packet processing paths still refer to the previous elements of po->prot_hook. In case of mmap()ed sockets, the workflow that includes bind() is socket() -> setsockopt(<ring>) -> bind(). In that case, a pair of {__unregister, register}_prot_hook is being called from setsockopt() in order to install the new protocol receive handler. Thus, when we call bind and can skip a re-hook, we have already previously installed the new handler. For fanout, this is handled different entirely, so we should be good. Timings on an i7-3520M machine: * sock-bind-1: 89 us * sock-bind-2: 7447 us * sock-bind-3: 75 us sock-bind-1: socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_IP)) = 3 bind(3, {sa_family=AF_PACKET, proto=htons(ETH_P_IP), if=all(0), pkttype=PACKET_HOST, addr(0)={0, }, 20) = 0 sock-bind-2: socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_IP)) = 3 bind(3, {sa_family=AF_PACKET, proto=htons(ETH_P_IP), if=lo(1), pkttype=PACKET_HOST, addr(0)={0, }, 20) = 0 sock-bind-3: socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, 0) = 3 bind(3, {sa_family=AF_PACKET, proto=htons(ETH_P_IP), if=lo(1), pkttype=PACKET_HOST, addr(0)={0, }, 20) = 0 Signed-off-by: -
David S. Miller authored
Fixes: 9d8bf547 ("i40e: associate VMDq queue with VM type") Reported-by:
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Paul Gortmaker authored
Recent commit 438e38fa ("gre_offload: statically build GRE offloading support") added new module_init/module_exit calls to the gre_offload.c file. The file is obj-y and can't be anything other than built-in. Currently it can never be built modular, so using module_init as an alias for __initcall can be somewhat misleading. Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from init.h into module.h in the future. If we don't do this, we'd have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that would be a worse thing. We also make the inclusion explicit. Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one of the priority categorized subgroups. As __initcall gets mapped onto device_initcall, our use of device_initcall directly in this change means that the runtime impact is zero -- it will remain at level 6 in initcall ordering. As for the module_exit, rather than replace it with __exitcall, we simply remove it, since it appears only UML does anything with those, and even for UML, there is no relevant cleanup to be done here. Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Acked-by:
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Paul Bolle authored
Building resource_tracker.o triggers a GCC warning: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c: In function 'mlx4_HW2SW_SRQ_wrapper': drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c:3202:17: warning: 'srq' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] atomic_dec(&srq->mtt->ref_count); ^ This is a false positive. But a cleanup of srq_res_start_move_to() can help GCC here. The code currently uses a switch statement where a plain if/else would do, since only two of the switch's four cases can ever occur. Dropping that switch makes the warning go away. While we're at it, add some missing braces, and convert state to the correct type. Signed-off-by:Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Bolle authored
Building resource_tracker.o triggers a GCC warning: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c: In function 'mlx4_HW2SW_CQ_wrapper': drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c:3019:16: warning: 'cq' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] atomic_dec(&cq->mtt->ref_count); ^ This is a false positive. But a cleanup of cq_res_start_move_to() can help GCC here. The code currently uses a switch statement where an if/else construct would do too, since only two of the switch's four cases can ever occur. Dropping that switch makes the warning go away. While we're at it, add some missing braces. Signed-off-by:
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- 16 Jan, 2014 25 commits
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David S. Miller authored
Aaron Brown says: ==================== Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates This series contains updates to ixgbe and ixgbevf. John adds rtnl lock / unlock semantics for ixgbe_reinit_locked() which was being called without the rtnl lock being held. Jacob corrects an issue where ixgbevf_qv_disable function does not set the disabled bit correctly. From the community, Wei uses a type of struct for pci driver-specific data in ixgbevf_suspend() Don changes the way we store ring arrays in a manner that allows support of multiple queues on multiple nodes and creates new ring initialization functions for work previously done across multiple functions - making the code closer to ixgbe and hopefully more readable. He also fixes incorrect fiber eeprom write logic. ==================== Signed-off-by: -
Don Skidmore authored
In this code we wanted to set the bit in IXGBE_SFF_SOFT_RS_SELECT_MASK to the value in rs. So we really needed a logical or rather than an and, this patch makes that change. Signed-off-by:
Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com> Tested-by:
Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Don Skidmore authored
This patch creates new functions for ring initialization, ixgbevf_configure_tx_ring() and ixgbevf_configure_rx_ring(). The work done in these function previously was spread between several other functions and this change should hopefully lead to greater readability and make the code more like ixgbe. This patch also moves the placement of some older functions to avoid having to write prototypes. It also promotes a couple of debug messages to errors. Signed-off-by:
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Don Skidmore authored
This will change how we store rings arrays in the adapter sturct. We use to have a pointer to an array now we will be using an array of pointers. This will allow us to support multiple queues on muliple nodes at some point we would be able to reallocate the rings so that each is on a local node if needed. Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yongjun authored
We had set the pci driver-specific data in ixgbevf_probe() as a type of struct net_device, so we should use it as netdev in ixgbevf_suspend(). Signed-off-by:
Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Tested-by:
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Jacob Keller authored
The ixgbevf_qv_disable function used by CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL is broken, because it does not properly set the IXGBEVF_QV_STATE_DISABLED bit, indicating that the q_vector should be disabled (and preventing future locks from obtaining the vector). This patch corrects the issue by setting the disable state. Signed-off-by:
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Tested-by:
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John Fastabend authored
ixgbe_service_task() is calling ixgbe_reinit_locked() without the rtnl_lock being held. This is because it is being called from a worker thread and not a rtnl netlink or dcbnl path. Add rtnl_{un}lock() semantics. I found this during code review. Signed-off-by:John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Tested-by:
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Eric Dumazet authored
eth_type_trans() can read uninitialized memory as drivers do not necessarily pull more than 14 bytes in skb->head before calling it. As David suggested, we can use skb_header_pointer() to fix this without breaking some drivers that might not expect eth_type_trans() pulling 2 additional bytes. Signed-off-by:
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David S. Miller authored
Srinivas Kandagatla says: ==================== net: stmmac PM related fixes. During PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE testing, I have noticed that PM support in STMMAC is partly broken. I had to re-arrange the code to do PM correctly. There were lot of things I did not like personally and some bits did not work in the first place. I thought this is the nice opportunity to clean the mess up. Here is what I did: any 1> Test PM suspend freeze via pm_test It did not work for following reasons. - If the power to gmac is removed when it enters in low power state. stmmac_resume could not cope up with such behaviour, it was expecting the ip register contents to be still same as before entering low power, This assumption is wrong. So I started to add some code to do Hardware initialization, thats when I started to re-arrange the code. stmmac_open contains both resource and memory allocations and hardware initialization. I had to separate these two things in two different functions. These two patches do that net: stmmac: move dma allocation to new function net: stmmac: move hardware setup for stmmac_open to new function And rest of the other patches are fixing the loose ends, things like mdio reset, which might be necessary in cases likes hibernation(I did not test). In hibernation cases the driver was just unregistering with subsystems and releasing resources which I did not like and its not necessary to do this as part of PM. So using the same stmmac_suspend/resume made more sense for hibernation cases than using stmmac_open/release. Also fixed a NULL pointer dereference bug too. 2> Test WOL via PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE Did get an wakeup interrupt, but could not wakeup a freeze system. So I had to add pm_wakeup_event to the driver. net: stmmac: notify the PM core of a wakeup event. patch. Also few patches like net: stmmac: make stmmac_mdio_reset non-static net: stmmac: restore pinstate in pm resume. helps the resume function to reset the phy and put back the pins in default state. Changes since RFC: - Rebased to net-next on Dave's suggestion. All these patches are Acked by Peppe. ==================== Signed-off-by: -
Srinivas Kandagatla authored
In PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE and WOL(Wakeup On Lan) case, when the driver gets a wakeup event, either the driver or platform specific PM code should notify the pm core about it, so that the system can wakeup from low power. In cases where there is no involvement of platform specific PM, it becomes driver responsibility to notify the PM core to wakeup the system. Without this WOL with PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE does not work on STi based SOCs. Signed-off-by:
Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com> Acked-by:
Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by:
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Srinivas Kandagatla authored
This patch adds code to restore default pinstate of the pins when it comes back from low power state. Without this patch the state of the pins would be unknown and the driver would not work. This patch also adds code to put the pins in to sleep state when the driver enters low power state. Signed-off-by:
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Srinivas Kandagatla authored
In hibernation freeze case the driver just releases the resources like dma buffers, irqs, unregisters the drivers and during restore it does register, request the resources. This is not really necessary, as part of power management all the data structures are intact, all the previously allocated resources can be used after coming out of low power. This patch uses the suspend and resume callbacks for freeze and restore which initializes the hardware correctly without unregistering or releasing the resources, this should also help in reducing the time to restore. Also this patch fixes a bug in stmmac_pltfr_restore and stmmac_pltfr_freeze where it tries to get hold of platform data via dev_get_platdata call, which would return NULL in device tree cases and the next if statement would crash as there is no NULL check. Signed-off-by:
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Srinivas Kandagatla authored
The driver PM resume assumes that the IP is still powered up and the all the register contents are not disturbed when it comes out of low power suspend case. This assumption is wrong, basically the driver should not consider any state of registers after it comes out of low power. However driver can keep the part of the IP powered up if its a wake up source. But it can not assume the register state of the IP. Also its possible that SOC glue layer can take the power off the IP if its not wake-up source to reduce the power consumption. This patch re initializes hardware by calling stmmac_hw_setup function in resume case. Signed-off-by:
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Srinivas Kandagatla authored
This patch promotes stmmac_mdio_reset function from static to non-static, so that power management functions can decide to reset if the IP comes out from lowe power state specially hibernation cases. Signed-off-by:
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Srinivas Kandagatla authored
This patch moves hardware setup part of the code in stmmac_open to a new function stmmac_hw_setup, the reason for doing this is to make hw initialization independent function so that PM functions can re-use it to re-initialize the IP after returning from low power state. This will also avoid code duplication across stmmac_resume/restore and stmmac_open. Signed-off-by:
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Srinivas Kandagatla authored
This patch moves dma resource allocation to a new function alloc_dma_desc_resources, the reason for moving this to a new function is to keep the memory allocations in a separate function. One more reason it to get suspend and hibernation cases working without releasing and allocating these resources during suspend-resume and freeze-restore cases. Signed-off-by:
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Srinivas Kandagatla authored
This patch removes gpio_free for reset line of the phy, driver stores the gpio number in its private data-structure to use in future. As the driver uses this pin in future this pin should not be freed. Signed-off-by:
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Srinivas Kandagatla authored
This patch adds support to "max-speed" property which is a standard Ethernet device tree property. max-speed specifies maximum speed (specified in megabits per second) supported the device. Depending on the clocking schemes some of the boards can only support few link speeds, so having a way to limit the link speed in the mac driver would allow such setups to work reliably. Without this patch there is no way to tell the driver to limit the link speed. Signed-off-by:
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David S. Miller authored
Willy Tarreau says: ==================== Assorted mvneta fixes and improvements this series provides some fixes for a number of issues met with the mvneta driver, then adds some improvements. Patches 1-5 are fixes and would be needed in 3.13 and likely -stable. The next ones are performance improvements and cleanups : - driver lockup when reading stats while sending traffic from multiple CPUs : this obviously only happens on SMP and is the result of missing locking on the driver. The problem was present since the introduction of the driver in 3.8. The first patch performs some changes that are needed for the second one which actually fixes the issue by using per-cpu counters. It could make sense to backport this to the relevant stable versions. - mvneta_tx_timeout calls various functions to reset the NIC, and these functions sleep, which is not allowed here, resulting in a panic. Better completely disable this Tx timeout handler for now since it is never called. The problem was encountered while developing some new features, it's uncertain whether it's possible to reproduce it with regular usage, so maybe a backport to stable is not needed. - replace the Tx timer with a real Tx IRQ. As first reported by Arnaud Ebalard and explained by Eric Dumazet, there is no way this driver can work correctly if it uses a driver to recycle the Tx descriptors. If too many packets are sent at once, the driver quickly ends up with no descriptors (which happens twice as easily in GSO) and has to wait 10ms for recycling its descriptors and being able to send again. Eric has worked around this in the core GSO code. But still when routing traffic or sending UDP packets, the limitation is very visible. Using Tx IRQs allows Tx descriptors to be recycled when sent. The coalesce value is still configurable using ethtool. This fix turns the UDP send bitrate from 134 Mbps to 987 Mbps (ie: line rate). It's made of two patches, one to add the relevant bits from the original Marvell's driver, and another one to implement the change. I don't know if it should be backported to stable, as the bug only causes poor performance. - Patches 6..8 are essentially cleanups, code deduplication and minor optimizations for not re-fetching a value we already have (status). - patch 9 changes the prefetch of Rx descriptor from current one to next one. In benchmarks, it results in about 1% general performance increase on HTTP traffic, probably because prefetching the current descriptor does not leave enough time between the start of prefetch and its usage. - patch 10 implements support for build_skb() on Rx path. The driver now preallocates frags instead of skbs and builds an skb just before delivering it. This results in a 2% performance increase on HTTP traffic, and up to 5% on small packet Rx rate. - patch 11 implements rx_copybreak for small packets (256 bytes). It avoids a dma_map_single()/dma_unmap_single() and increases the Rx rate by 16.4%, from 486kpps to 573kpps. Further improvements up to 711kpps are possible depending how the DMA is used. - patches 12 and 13 are extra cleanups made possible by some of the simplifications above. ==================== Signed-off-by: -
Arnaud Ebalard authored
The function return parameter is not used in mvneta_tx_done_gbe(), where the function is called. This patch makes the function return void. Reviewed-by:
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by:
Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org> Signed-off-by:
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Arnaud Ebalard authored
mvneta_tx_done_gbe() return value and third parameter are no more used. This patch changes the function prototype and removes a useless variable where the function is called. Reviewed-by:
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willy tarreau authored
calling dma_map_single()/dma_unmap_single() is quite expensive compared to copying a small packet. So let's copy short frames and keep the buffers mapped. We set the limit to 256 bytes which seems to give good results both on the XP-GP board and on the AX3/4. The Rx small packet rate increased by 16.4% doing this, from 486kpps to 573kpps. It is worth noting that even the call to the function dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu() is expensive (300 ns) although less than dma_unmap_single(). Without it, the packet rate raises to 711kpps (+24% more). Thus on systems where coherency from device to CPU is guaranteed by a snoop control unit, this patch should provide even more gains, and probably rx_copybreak could be increased. Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> Tested-by:
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willy tarreau authored
Make use of build_skb() to allocate frags on the RX path. When frag size is lower than a page size, we can use netdev_alloc_frag(), and we fall back to kmalloc() for larger sizes. The frag size is stored into the mvneta_port struct. The alloc/free functions check the frag size to decide what alloc/ free method to use. MTU changes are safe because the MTU change function stops the device and clears the queues before applying the change. With this patch, I observed a reproducible 2% performance improvement on HTTP-based benchmarks, and 5% on small packet RX rate. Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> Tested-by:
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willy tarreau authored
Currently, the mvneta driver tries to prefetch the current Rx descriptor during read. Tests have shown that prefetching the next one instead increases general performance by about 1% on HTTP traffic. Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> Tested-by:
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willy tarreau authored
At several places, we already know the value of the rx status but we call functions which dereference the pointer again to get it and don't need the descriptor for anything else. Simplify this task by replacing the rx desc pointer by the status word itself. Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> Tested-by:
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