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  1. 29 Sep, 2015 1 commit
    • Jesper Dangaard Brouer's avatar
      net: help compiler generate better code in eth_get_headlen · 8a4683a5
      Jesper Dangaard Brouer authored 
      

Noticed that the compiler (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4) (GCC))
generated suboptimal assembler code in eth_get_headlen().

This early return coding style is usually not an issue, on super scalar CPUs,
but the compiler choose to put the return statement after this very unlikely
branch, thus creating larger jump down to the likely code path.

Performance wise, I could measure slightly less L1-icache-load-misses
and less branch-misses, and an improvement of 1 nanosec with an IP-forwarding
use-case with 257 bytes packets with ixgbe (CPU i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz).

Signed-off-by: default avatarJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      8a4683a5
  3. 01 Sep, 2015 1 commit
  5. 10 Aug, 2015 1 commit
  7. 04 Jun, 2015 1 commit
    • Tom Herbert's avatar
      net: Add full IPv6 addresses to flow_keys · c3f83241
      Tom Herbert authored 
      

This patch adds full IPv6 addresses into flow_keys and uses them as
input to the flow hash function. The implementation supports either
IPv4 or IPv6 addresses in a union, and selector is used to determine
how may words to input to jhash2.

We also add flow_get_u32_dst and flow_get_u32_src functions which are
used to get a u32 representation of the source and destination
addresses. For IPv6, ipv6_addr_hash is called. These functions retain
getting the legacy values of src and dst in flow_keys.

With this patch, Ethertype and IP protocol are now included in the
flow hash input.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      c3f83241
  9. 01 Jun, 2015 1 commit
  11. 13 May, 2015 2 commits
  13. 05 May, 2015 1 commit
    • Alexander Duyck's avatar
      etherdev: Fix sparse error, make test usable by other functions · 2c7a88c2
      Alexander Duyck authored 
      

This change does two things.  First it fixes a sparse error for the fact
that the __be16 degrades to an integer.  Since that is actually what I am
kind of doing I am simply working around that by forcing both sides of the
comparison to u16.

Also I realized on some compilers I was generating another instruction for
big endian systems such as PowerPC since it was masking the value before
doing the comparison.  So to resolve that I have simply pulled the mask out
and wrapped it in an #ifndef __BIG_ENDIAN.

Lastly I pulled this all out into its own function.  I notices there are
similar checks in a number of other places so this function can be reused
there to help reduce overhead in these paths as well.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      2c7a88c2
  15. 04 May, 2015 3 commits
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  25. 28 Aug, 2014 1 commit
    • Florian Fainelli's avatar
      net: dsa: reduce number of protocol hooks · 3e8a72d1
      Florian Fainelli authored 
      

DSA is currently registering one packet_type function per EtherType it
needs to intercept in the receive path of a DSA-enabled Ethernet device.
Right now we have three of them: trailer, DSA and eDSA, and there might
be more in the future, this will not scale to the addition of new
protocols.

This patch proceeds with adding a new layer of abstraction and two new
functions:

dsa_switch_rcv() which will dispatch into the tag-protocol specific
receive function implemented by net/dsa/tag_*.c

dsa_slave_xmit() which will dispatch into the tag-protocol specific
transmit function implemented by net/dsa/tag_*.c

When we do create the per-port slave network devices, we iterate over
the switch protocol to assign the DSA-specific receive and transmit
operations.

A new fake ethertype value is used: ETH_P_XDSA to illustrate the fact
that this is no longer going to look like ETH_P_DSA or ETH_P_TRAILER
like it used to be.

This allows us to greatly simplify the check in eth_type_trans() and
always override the skb->protocol with ETH_P_XDSA for Ethernet switches
tagged protocol, while also reducing the number repetitive slave
netdevice_ops assignments.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli's avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      3e8a72d1
  27. 15 Jul, 2014 1 commit
    • Tom Gundersen's avatar
      net: set name_assign_type in alloc_netdev() · c835a677
      Tom Gundersen authored 
      

Extend alloc_netdev{,_mq{,s}}() to take name_assign_type as argument, and convert
all users to pass NET_NAME_UNKNOWN.

Coccinelle patch:

@@
expression sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs, count;
@@

(
-alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs)
+alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, txqs, rxqs)
|
-alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, setup, count)
+alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, count)
|
-alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, setup)
+alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup)
)

v9: move comments here from the wrong commit

Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      c835a677
  29. 16 Jan, 2014 1 commit
  31. 01 Oct, 2013 2 commits
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  37. 28 Mar, 2013 1 commit
    • Simon Horman's avatar
      net: add ETH_P_802_3_MIN · e5c5d22e
      Simon Horman authored 
      

Add a new constant ETH_P_802_3_MIN, the minimum ethernet type for
an 802.3 frame. Frames with a lower value in the ethernet type field
are Ethernet II.

Also update all the users of this value that David Miller and
I could find to use the new constant.

Also correct a bug in util.c. The comparison with ETH_P_802_3_MIN
should be >= not >.

As suggested by Jesse Gross.

Compile tested only.

Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Bart De Schuymer <bart.de.schuymer@pandora.be>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>
Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dev@openvswitch.org
Acked-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      e5c5d22e
  39. 21 Jan, 2013 1 commit
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  47. 11 May, 2012 1 commit
    • Joe Perches's avatar
      net, drivers/net: Convert compare_ether_addr_64bits to ether_addr_equal_64bits · a6700db1
      Joe Perches authored 
      

Use the new bool function ether_addr_equal_64bits to add
some clarity and reduce the likelihood for misuse of
compare_ether_addr_64bits for sorting.

Done via cocci script:

$ cat compare_ether_addr_64bits.cocci
@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!compare_ether_addr_64bits(a, b)
+	ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	compare_ether_addr_64bits(a, b)
+	!ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) == 0
+	ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) != 0
+	!ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) == 0
+	!ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) != 0
+	ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!!ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b)
+	ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b)

Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      a6700db1
  49. 15 Apr, 2012 1 commit
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  55. 15 Sep, 2011 1 commit
  57. 28 Jul, 2011 1 commit
    • Neil Horman's avatar
      net: add IFF_SKB_TX_SHARED flag to priv_flags · d8873315
      Neil Horman authored 
      

Pktgen attempts to transmit shared skbs to net devices, which can't be used by
some drivers as they keep state information in skbs.  This patch adds a flag
marking drivers as being able to handle shared skbs in their tx path.  Drivers
are defaulted to being unable to do so, but calling ether_setup enables this
flag, as 90% of the drivers calling ether_setup touch real hardware and can
handle shared skbs.  A subsequent patch will audit drivers to ensure that the
flag is set properly

Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
CC: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      d8873315
  59. 25 Jul, 2011 1 commit
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