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Clemens Noss
ebe47d47b7 netns: build fix for net_alloc_generic
net_alloc_generic was defined in #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS, but used
unconditionally. Move net_alloc_generic out of #ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Noss <cnoss@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-23 15:37:35 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d38e84ee39 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:
  netns: fix double free at netns creation
  veth : add the set_mac_address capability
  sunlance: Beyond ARRAY_SIZE of ib->btx_ring
  sungem: another error printed one too early
  ISDN: fix sc/shmem printk format warning
  SMSC: timeout reaches -1
  smsc9420: handle magic field of ethtool_eeprom
  sundance: missing parentheses?
  smsc9420: fix another postfixed timeout
  wimax/i2400m: driver loads firmware v1.4 instead of v1.3
  vlan: Update skb->mac_header in __vlan_put_tag().
  cxgb3: Add support for PCI ID 0x35.
  tcp: remove obsoleted comment about different passes
  TG3: &&/|| confusion
  ATM: misplaced parentheses?
  net/mv643xx: don't disable the mib timer too early and lock properly
  net/mv643xx: use GFP_ATOMIC while atomic
  atl1c: Atheros L1C Gigabit Ethernet driver
  net: Kill skb_truesize_check(), it only catches false-positives.
  net: forcedeth: Fix wake-on-lan regression
2009-02-23 14:36:05 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
ce16c5337a netns: Remove net_alive
It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem
that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought
it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets
while there were still packets in the network namespace.

Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves
this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee
that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided
by net_alive in netif_receive_skb.  So remove net_alive allowing
packet reception run a little faster.

Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup
is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have
a chance of figuring it out.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:50 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
6a1b3054d9 tcp: Like icmp use register_pernet_subsys
To remove the possibility of packets flying around when network
devices are being cleaned up use reisger_pernet_subsys instead of
register_pernet_device.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:49 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
959d272649 netns: Fix icmp shutdown.
Recently I had a kernel panic in icmp_send during a network namespace
cleanup.  There were packets in the arp queue that failed to be sent
and we attempted to generate an ICMP host unreachable message, but
failed because icmp_sk_exit had already been called.

The network devices are removed from a network namespace and their
arp queues are flushed before we do attempt to shutdown subsystems
so this error should have been impossible.

It turns out icmp_init is using register_pernet_device instead
of register_pernet_subsys.  Which resulted in icmp being shut down
while we still had the possibility of packets in flight, making
a nasty NULL pointer deference in interrupt context possible.

Changing this to register_pernet_subsys fixes the problem in
my testing.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:48 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
a6e8f27f3c ipv4: Clean whitespaces in net/ipv4/Kconfig.
While going through net/ipv4/Kconfig cleanup whitespaces.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:48 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
b2cc46a8ee ipv4: Fix rp_filter description in net/ipv4/Kconfig.
The reverse path filter (rp_filter) will NOT get enabled
when enabling forwarding.  Read the code and tested in
in practice.

Most distributions do enable it in startup scripts.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:47 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
0117cfabe3 snap: handle registration error and compile warning
If this module can't load, it is almost certainly because something else
is already bound to that SAP. So in that case, return the same error code
as other SAP usage, and fail the module load.

Also fixes a compiler warning about printk of non const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:47 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
01af4a0e3c llc: fix non-const printk warning
Mark some strings as const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:46 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
5747a1aacd ip: ipip compile warning
Get rid of compile warning about non-const format

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:45 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
c1cf8422f0 ip: add loose reverse path filtering
Extend existing reverse path filter option to allow strict or loose
filtering. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_path_filtering).

For compatibility with existing usage, the value 1 is chosen for strict mode
and 2 for loose mode.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:45 -08:00
Paul Moore
586c250037 cipso: Fix documentation comment
The CIPSO protocol engine incorrectly stated that the FIPS-188 specification
could be found in the kernel's Documentation directory.  This patch corrects
that by removing the comment and directing users to the FIPS-188 documented
hosted online.  For the sake of completeness I've also included a link to the
CIPSO draft specification on the NetLabel website.

Thanks to Randy Dunlap for spotting the error and letting me know.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-02-23 10:05:54 +11:00
Daniel Lezcano
486a87f1e5 netns: fix double free at netns creation
This patch fix a double free when a network namespace fails.
The previous code does a kfree of the net_generic structure when
one of the init subsystem initialization fails.
The 'setup_net' function does kfree(ng) and returns an error.
The caller, 'copy_net_ns', call net_free on error, and this one
calls kfree(net->gen), making this pointer freed twice.

This patch make the code symetric, the net_alloc does the net_generic
allocation and the net_free frees the net_generic.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 00:07:53 -08:00
Herbert Xu
7691367d71 tcp: Always set urgent pointer if it's beyond snd_nxt
Our TCP stack does not set the urgent flag if the urgent pointer
does not fit in 16 bits, i.e., if it is more than 64K from the
sequence number of a packet.

This behaviour is different from the BSDs, and clearly contradicts
the purpose of urgent mode, which is to send the notification
(though not necessarily the associated data) as soon as possible.
Our current behaviour may in fact delay the urgent notification
indefinitely if the receiver window does not open up.

Simply matching BSD however may break legacy applications which
incorrectly rely on the out-of-band delivery of urgent data, and
conversely the in-band delivery of non-urgent data.

Alexey Kuznetsov suggested a safe solution of following BSD only
if the urgent pointer itself has not yet been transmitted.  This
way we guarantee that when the remote end sees the packet with
non-urgent data marked as urgent due to wrap-around we would have
advanced the urgent pointer beyond, either to the actual urgent
data or to an as-yet untransmitted packet.

The only potential downside is that applications on the remote
end may see multiple SIGURG notifications.  However, this would
occur anyway with other TCP stacks.  More importantly, the outcome
of such a duplicate notification is likely to be harmless since
the signal itself does not carry any information other than the
fact that we're in urgent mode.

Thanks to Ilpo Järvinen for fixing a critical bug in this and
Jeff Chua for reporting that bug.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-21 23:52:29 -08:00
Hannes Eder
66da8c529a ipv6: fix sparse warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Fix this sparse warning:
  net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c:72:26: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-21 23:37:10 -08:00
Patrick Ohly
cd4d8fdad1 net: kernel panic in dev_hard_start_xmit: remove faulty software TX time stamping
The current implementation of the TX software time stamping fallback is
faulty because it accesses the skb after ndo_start_xmit() returns
successfully. This patch removes the fallback, which fixes kernel panics
seen during stress tests. Hardware time stamping is not affected by this
removal.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-21 02:42:18 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
08361aa807 netfilter: ip_tables: unfold two critical loops in ip_packet_match()
While doing oprofile tests I noticed two loops are not properly unrolled by gcc

Using a hand coded unrolled loop provides nice speedup : ipt_do_table
credited of 2.52 % of cpu instead of 3.29 % in tbench.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-20 11:03:33 +01:00
Adam Nielsen
268cb38e18 netfilter: x_tables: add LED trigger target
Kernel module providing implementation of LED netfilter target.  Each
instance of the target appears as a led-trigger device, which can be
associated with one or more LEDs in /sys/class/leds/

Signed-off-by: Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen@shikadi.net>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-20 10:55:14 +01:00
Hagen Paul Pfeifer
af07d241dc netfilter: fix hardcoded size assumptions
get_random_bytes() is sometimes called with a hard coded size assumption
of an integer. This could not be true for next centuries. This patch
replace it with a compile time statement.

Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-20 10:48:06 +01:00
Hagen Paul Pfeifer
e478075c6f netfilter: nf_conntrack: table max size should hold at least table size
Table size is defined as unsigned, wheres the table maximum size is
defined as a signed integer. The calculation of max is 8 or 4,
multiplied the table size. Therefore the max value is aligned to
unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-20 10:47:09 +01:00
Stephen Hemminger
784544739a netfilter: iptables: lock free counters
The reader/writer lock in ip_tables is acquired in the critical path of
processing packets and is one of the reasons just loading iptables can cause
a 20% performance loss. The rwlock serves two functions:

1) it prevents changes to table state (xt_replace) while table is in use.
   This is now handled by doing rcu on the xt_table. When table is
   replaced, the new table(s) are put in and the old one table(s) are freed
   after RCU period.

2) it provides synchronization when accesing the counter values.
   This is now handled by swapping in new table_info entries for each cpu
   then summing the old values, and putting the result back onto one
   cpu.  On a busy system it may cause sampling to occur at different
   times on each cpu, but no packet/byte counts are lost in the process.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Sucessfully tested on my dual quad core machine too, but iptables only (no ipv6 here)
BTW, my new "tbench 8" result is 2450 MB/s, (it was 2150 MB/s not so long ago)

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-20 10:35:32 +01:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
be0c22a46c netlink: add NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket option
This patch adds NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR which is a netlink
socket option that the listener can set to make netlink_broadcast()
return errors in the delivery to the caller. This option is useful
if the caller of netlink_broadcast() do something with the result
of the message delivery, like in ctnetlink where it drops a network
packet if the event delivery failed, this is used to enable reliable
logging and state-synchronization. If this socket option is not set,
netlink_broadcast() only reports ESRCH errors and silently ignore
ENOBUFS errors, which is what most netlink_broadcast() callers
should do.

This socket option is based on a suggestion from Patrick McHardy.
Patrick McHardy can exchange this patch for a beer from me ;).

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-20 01:01:08 -08:00
Santwona Behera
59089d8d16 ethtool: Add RX pkt classification interface
Signed-off-by: Santwona Behera <santwona.behera@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-20 00:58:13 -08:00
Rusty Russell
313e458f81 alloc_percpu: add align argument to __alloc_percpu.
This prepares for a real __alloc_percpu, by adding an alignment argument.
Only one place uses __alloc_percpu directly, and that's for a string.

tj: af_inet also uses __alloc_percpu(), update it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2009-02-20 16:29:08 +09:00
Eric Dumazet
323dbf9638 netfilter: ip6_tables: unfold two loops in ip6_packet_match()
ip6_tables netfilter module can use an ifname_compare() helper
so that two loops are unfolded.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-19 11:18:23 +01:00
Eric Dumazet
eacc17fb64 netfilter: xt_physdev: unfold two loops in physdev_mt()
xt_physdev netfilter module can use an ifname_compare() helper
so that two loops are unfolded.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-19 11:17:17 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
4323362e49 netfilter: xtables: add backward-compat options
Concern has been expressed about the changing Kconfig options.
Provide the old options that forward-select.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-19 11:16:03 +01:00
Krishna Kumar
e88721f87d net: Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparison
Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparison that executes for
every packet. skb_tx_hashrnd initialization is moved to a later part of
the startup sequence, namely after the "random" driver is initialized.

Rebooted the system three times and verified that the code generates
different random numbers each time.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-18 17:55:02 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
5209921cf1 tcp: remove obsoleted comment about different passes
This is obsolete since the passes got combined.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-18 17:45:44 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
4f1c3b7e7e netfilter: xt_physdev fixes
1) physdev_mt() incorrectly assumes nulldevname[] is aligned on an int

2) It also uses word comparisons, while it could use long word ones.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 19:11:39 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
cfac5ef7b9 netfilter: Combine ipt_ttl and ip6t_hl source
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 18:39:31 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
563d36eb3f netfilter: Combine ipt_TTL and ip6t_HL source
Suggested by: James King <t.james.king@gmail.com>

Similarly to commit c9fd496809, merge
TTL and HL. Since HL does not depend on any IPv6-specific function,
no new module dependencies would arise.

With slight adjustments to the Kconfig help text.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 18:38:40 +01:00
Eric Dumazet
ddc214c43a netfilter: arp_tables: unfold two critical loops in arp_packet_match()
x86 and powerpc can perform long word accesses in an efficient maner.
We can use this to unroll two loops in arp_packet_match(), to
perform arithmetic on long words instead of bytes. This is a win
on x86_64 for example.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 17:47:50 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
eb132205ca netfilter: make proc/net/ip* print names from foreign NFPROTO
When extensions were moved to the NFPROTO_UNSPEC wildcard in
ab4f21e6fb, they disappeared from the
procfs files.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 16:42:19 +01:00
Eric Leblond
55df4ac0c9 netfilter: log invalid new icmpv6 packet with nf_log_packet()
This patch adds a logging message for invalid new icmpv6 packet.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 16:30:56 +01:00
Stephen Hemminger
842bff366b netfilter: ebtables: remove unneeded initializations
The initialization of the lock element is not needed
since the lock is always initialized in ebt_register_table.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 16:30:38 +01:00
Stephen Hemminger
9c8222b9e7 netfilter: x_tables: remove unneeded initializations
Later patches change the locking on xt_table and the initialization of
the lock element is not needed since the lock is always initialized in
xt_table_register anyway.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 16:30:20 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
fecea3a389 netfilter: remove unneeded goto
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 16:29:08 +01:00
Christoph Paasch
fe2a7ce4de netfilter: change generic l4 protocol number
0 is used by Hop-by-hop header and so this may cause confusion.
255 is stated as 'Reserved' by IANA.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@student.uclouvain.be>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 16:28:35 +01:00
Eric Leblond
2c6764b743 netfilter: nfnetlink_log: fix timeout handling
NFLOG timeout was computed in timer by doing:

    flushtimeout*HZ/100

Default value of flushtimeout was HZ (for 1 second delay). This was
wrong for non 100HZ computer. This patch modify the default delay by
using 100 instead of HZ.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 15:29:49 +01:00
Eric Leblond
5ca431f9ae netfilter: nfnetlink_log: fix per-rule qthreshold override
In NFLOG the per-rule qthreshold should overrides per-instance only
it is set. With current code, the per-rule qthreshold is 1 if not set
and it overrides the per-instance qthreshold.

This patch modifies the default xt_NFLOG threshold from 1 to
0. Thus a value of 0 means there is no per-rule setting and the instance
parameter has to apply.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 15:29:23 +01:00
Eric Leblond
4aa3b2ee19 netfilter: nf_conntrack_ipv6: fix nf_log_packet message in icmpv6 conntrack
This patch fixes a trivial typo that was adding a new line at end of
the nf_log_packet() prefix. It also make the logging conditionnal by
adding a LOG_INVALID test.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 15:28:46 +01:00
David S. Miller
92a0acce18 net: Kill skb_truesize_check(), it only catches false-positives.
A long time ago we had bugs, primarily in TCP, where we would modify
skb->truesize (for TSO queue collapsing) in ways which would corrupt
the socket memory accounting.

skb_truesize_check() was added in order to try and catch this error
more systematically.

However this debugging check has morphed into a Frankenstein of sorts
and these days it does nothing other than catch false-positives.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-17 21:24:05 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
1c10c49d83 net: replace commatas with semicolons
Impact: syntax fix

Interestingly enough this compiles w/o any complaints:

	orphans = percpu_counter_sum_positive(&tcp_orphan_count),
	sockets = percpu_counter_sum_positive(&tcp_sockets_allocated),

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-16 00:08:56 -08:00
Vlad Yasevich
914e1c8b69 sctp: Inherit all socket options from parent correctly.
During peeloff/accept() sctp needs to save the parent socket state
into the new socket so that any options set on the parent are
inherited by the child socket.  This was found when the
parent/listener socket issues SO_BINDTODEVICE, but the
data was misrouted after a route cache flush.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-16 00:03:11 -08:00
Vlad Yasevich
faee47cdbf sctp: Fix the RTO-doubling on idle-link heartbeats
SCTP incorrectly doubles rto ever time a Hearbeat chunk
is generated.   However RFC 4960 states:

   On an idle destination address that is allowed to heartbeat, it is
   recommended that a HEARTBEAT chunk is sent once per RTO of that
   destination address plus the protocol parameter 'HB.interval', with
   jittering of +/- 50% of the RTO value, and exponential backoff of the
   RTO if the previous HEARTBEAT is unanswered.

Essentially, of if the heartbean is unacknowledged, do we double the RTO.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-16 00:03:10 -08:00
Vlad Yasevich
4458f04c02 sctp: Clean up sctp checksumming code
The sctp crc32c checksum is always generated in little endian.
So, we clean up the code to treat it as little endian and remove
all the __force casts.

Suggested by Herbert Xu.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-16 00:03:10 -08:00
Lucas Nussbaum
06e868066e sctp: Allow to disable SCTP checksums via module parameter
This is a new version of my patch, now using a module parameter instead
of a sysctl, so that the option is harder to find. Please note that,
once the module is loaded, it is still possible to change the value of
the parameter in /sys/module/sctp/parameters/, which is useful if you
want to do performance comparisons without rebooting.

Computation of SCTP checksums significantly affects the performance of
SCTP. For example, using two dual-Opteron 246 connected using a Gbe
network, it was not possible to achieve more than ~730 Mbps, compared to
941 Mbps after disabling SCTP checksums.
Unfortunately, SCTP checksum offloading in NICs is not commonly
available (yet).

By default, checksums are still enabled, of course.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas.nussbaum@ens-lyon.fr>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-16 00:03:09 -08:00
Patrick Ohly
d24fff22d8 net: pass new SIOCSHWTSTAMP through to device drivers
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15 22:43:38 -08:00
Patrick Ohly
51f31cabe3 ip: support for TX timestamps on UDP and RAW sockets
Instructions for time stamping outgoing packets are take from the
socket layer and later copied into the new skb.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15 22:43:38 -08:00