1. 18 Nov, 2015 10 commits
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      net: network drivers no longer need to implement ndo_busy_poll() · ce6aea93
      Eric Dumazet authored
      Instead of having to implement complex ndo_busy_poll() method,
      drivers can simply rely on NAPI poll logic.
      
      Busy polling gains are mainly coming from polling itself,
      not on exact details on how we poll the device.
      
      ndo_busy_poll() if implemented can avoid touching
      napi state, but it adds extra synchronization between
      normal napi->poll() and busy poll handler, slowing down
      the common path (non busy polling) with extra atomic operations.
      In practice few drivers ever got busy poll because of the complexity.
      
      We could go one step further, and make busy polling
      available for all NAPI drivers, but this would require
      that all netif_napi_del() calls are done in process context
      so that we can call synchronize_rcu().
      Full audit would be required.
      
      Before this is done, a driver still needs to call :
      
      - skb_mark_napi_id() for each skb provided to the stack.
      - napi_hash_add() and napi_hash_del() to allocate a napi_id per napi struct.
      - Make sure RCU grace period is respected after napi_hash_del() before
        memory containing napi structure is freed.
      
      Followup patch implements busy poll for mlx5 driver as an example.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      ce6aea93
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      net: allow BH servicing in sk_busy_loop() · 2a028ecb
      Eric Dumazet authored
      Instead of blocking BH in whole sk_busy_loop(), block them
      only around ->ndo_busy_poll() calls.
      
      This has many benefits.
      
      1) allow tunneled traffic to use busy poll as well as native traffic.
         Tunnels handlers usually call netif_rx() and depend on net_rx_action()
         being run (from sofirq handler)
      
      2) allow RFS/RPS being used (sending IPI to other cpus if needed)
      
      3) use the 'lets burn cpu cycles' budget to do useful work
         (like TX completions, timers, RCU callbacks...)
      
      4) reduce BH latencies, making busy poll a better citizen.
      
      Tested:
      
      Tested with SIT tunnel
      
      lpaa5:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/core/busy_read
      lpaa5:~# ./netperf -H 2002:af6:786::1 -t TCP_RR
      MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from ::0 (::) port 0 AF_INET6 to 2002:af6:786::1 () port 0 AF_INET6 : first burst 0
      Local /Remote
      Socket Size   Request  Resp.   Elapsed  Trans.
      Send   Recv   Size     Size    Time     Rate
      bytes  Bytes  bytes    bytes   secs.    per sec
      
      16384  87380  1        1       10.00    37373.93
      16384  87380
      
      Now enable busy poll on both hosts
      
      lpaa5:~# echo 70 >/proc/sys/net/core/busy_read
      lpaa6:~# echo 70 >/proc/sys/net/core/busy_read
      
      lpaa5:~# ./netperf -H 2002:af6:786::1 -t TCP_RR
      MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from ::0 (::) port 0 AF_INET6 to 2002:af6:786::1 () port 0 AF_INET6 : first burst 0
      Local /Remote
      Socket Size   Request  Resp.   Elapsed  Trans.
      Send   Recv   Size     Size    Time     Rate
      bytes  Bytes  bytes    bytes   secs.    per sec
      
      16384  87380  1        1       10.00    58314.77
      16384  87380
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      2a028ecb
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      net: un-inline sk_busy_loop() · 02d62e86
      Eric Dumazet authored
      There is really little gain from inlining this big function.
      We'll soon make it even bigger in following patches.
      
      This means we no longer need to export napi_by_id()
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      02d62e86
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      mlx4: mlx4_en_low_latency_recv() called with BH disabled · 5865316c
      Eric Dumazet authored
      mlx4_en_low_latency_recv() is called with BH disabled,
      as other ndo_busy_poll() methods.
      
      No need for spin_lock_bh()/spin_unlock_bh()
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      5865316c
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      net: better skb->sender_cpu and skb->napi_id cohabitation · 52bd2d62
      Eric Dumazet authored
      skb->sender_cpu and skb->napi_id share a common storage,
      and we had various bugs about this.
      
      We had to call skb_sender_cpu_clear() in some places to
      not leave a prior skb->napi_id and fool netdev_pick_tx()
      
      As suggested by Alexei, we could split the space so that
      these errors can not happen.
      
      0 value being reserved as the common (not initialized) value,
      let's reserve [1 .. NR_CPUS] range for valid sender_cpu,
      and [NR_CPUS+1 .. ~0U] for valid napi_id.
      
      This will allow proper busy polling support over tunnels.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Suggested-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      52bd2d62
    • Ivan Vecera's avatar
      be2net: remove local variable 'status' · d37b4c0a
      Ivan Vecera authored
      The lancer_cmd_get_file_len() uses lancer_cmd_read_object() to get
      the current size of registers for ethtool registers dump. Returned status
      value is stored but not checked. The check itself is not necessary as
      the data_read output variable is initialized to 0 and status variable
      can be removed.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIvan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      d37b4c0a
    • huangdaode's avatar
      net: hisilicon: fix binding document of mdio · 6fbaa570
      huangdaode authored
      This patch explains the occasion of "hisilcon,mdio" and
      "hisilicon,hns-mdio" according to Arnd's comments.
      and reformat it according to comments from Rob<robh@kernel.org>.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarhuangdaode <huangdaode@hisilicon.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      6fbaa570
    • Bastian Stender's avatar
      net ipv4: use preferred log methods · 09605cc1
      Bastian Stender authored
      Replace printk calls with preferred unconditional log method calls to keep
      kernel messages clean.
      
      Added newline to "too small MTU" message.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBastian Stender <bst@pengutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      09605cc1
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux · 34258a32
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull s390 fixes from Martin Schwidefsky:
       "Assorted bug fixes, the mlock2 system call gets added, and one
        improvement.  The boot from dasd devices is now possible from a wider
        range of devices"
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
        s390: remove SALIPL loader
        s390: wire up mlock2 system call
        s390: remove g5 elf platform support
        s390: avoid cache aliasing under z/VM and KVM
        s390/sclp: _sclp_wait_int(): retain full PSW mask
        s390/zcrypt: Fix initialisation when zcrypt is built-in
        s390/zcrypt: Fix kernel crash on systems without AP bus support
        s390: add support for ipl devices in subchannel sets > 0
        s390/ipl: fix out of bounds access in scpdata_write
        s390/pci_dma: improve debugging of errors during dma map
        s390/pci_dma: handle dma table failures
        s390/pci_dma: unify label of invalid translation table entries
        s390/syscalls: remove system call number calculation
        s390/cio: simplify css_generate_pgid
        s390/diag: add a s390 prefix to the diagnose trace point
        s390/head: fix error message on unsupported hardware
      34258a32
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'hwmon-for-linus-v4.4-rc2' of... · 0d77a123
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge tag 'hwmon-for-linus-v4.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging
      
      Pull hwmon fixes from Guenter Roeck:
       "Fix build issues in scpi and ina2xx drivers, update scpi driver to
        support recent firmware, and fix an uninitialized variable warning in
        applesmc driver"
      
      * tag 'hwmon-for-linus-v4.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging:
        hwmon: (scpi) skip unsupported sensors properly
        hwmon: (scpi) add thermal-of dependency
        hwmon : (applesmc) Fix uninitialized variables warnings
        hwmon: (ina2xx) Fix build issue by selecting REGMAP_I2C
      0d77a123
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