I found the PPP subsystem to not work properly when connecting channels
with different speeds to the same bundle.
Problem Description:
As the "ppp_mp_explode" function fragments the sk_buff buffer evenly
among the PPP channels that are connected to a certain PPP unit to
make up a bundle, if we are transmitting using an upper layer protocol
that requires an Ack before sending the next packet (like TCP/IP for
example), we will have a bandwidth bottleneck on the slowest channel
of the bundle.
Let's clarify by an example. Let's consider a scenario where we have
two PPP links making up a bundle: a slow link (10KB/sec) and a fast
link (1000KB/sec) working at the best (full bandwidth). On the top we
have a TCP/IP stack sending a 1000 Bytes sk_buff buffer down to the
PPP subsystem. The "ppp_mp_explode" function will divide the buffer in
two fragments of 500B each (we are neglecting all the headers, crc,
flags etc?.). Before the TCP/IP stack sends out the next buffer, it
will have to wait for the ACK response from the remote peer, so it
will have to wait for both fragments to have been sent over the two
PPP links, received by the remote peer and reconstructed. The
resulting behaviour is that, rather than having a bundle working
@1010KB/sec (the sum of the channels bandwidths), we'll have a bundle
working @20KB/sec (the double of the slowest channels bandwidth).
Problem Solution:
The problem has been solved by redesigning the "ppp_mp_explode"
function in such a way to make it split the sk_buff buffer according
to the speeds of the underlying PPP channels (the speeds of the serial
interfaces respectively attached to the PPP channels). Referring to
the above example, the redesigned "ppp_mp_explode" function will now
divide the 1000 Bytes buffer into two fragments whose sizes are set
according to the speeds of the channels where they are going to be
sent on (e.g . 10 Byets on 10KB/sec channel and 990 Bytes on
1000KB/sec channel). The reworked function grants the same
performances of the original one in optimal working conditions (i.e. a
bundle made up of PPP links all working at the same speed), while
greatly improving performances on the bundles made up of channels
working at different speeds.
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It closes a race in phy_stop_machine when reprogramming of phy_timer
(from phy_state_machine) happens between del_timer_sync and cancel_work_sync.
Without this change it could lead to crash if phy_device would be freed after
phy_stop_machine (timer would fire and schedule freed work).
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since bsg.h has recently been added to the list of kernel
headers that should be exported to the user space, this
attachment makes bsg.h more user space "friendly".
Specifically autotools dislike headers that don't compile
freestanding and bsg.h's use of __u32 types (and friends)
are not standard C (C90 or C99). The inclusion of
linux/types.h fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
dma_map_sg could return a value different to 'nents' argument of
dma_map_sg so the ide stack needs to save it for the later usage
(e.g. for_each_sg).
The ide stack also needs to save the original sg_nents value for
pci_unmap_sg.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
[bart: backport to Linus' tree]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
This adds support to provide Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offload
through net_device's net_device_ops struct. The offload through net_device
for FCoE is enabled in kernel as built-in or module driver.
Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This adds eth type ETH_P_FCOE for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE),
consequently, the ETH_P_FCOE from fc_fcoe.h and fcoe skb->protocol
is not set as ETH_P_FCOE.
Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Impact: new feature
This adds the generic support for syscalls tracing. This is
currently exploited through a devoted tracer but other tracing
engines can use it. (They just have to play with
{start,stop}_ftrace_syscalls() and use the display callbacks
unless they want to override them.)
The syscalls prototypes definitions are abused here to steal
some metadata informations:
- syscall name, param types, param names, number of params
The syscall addr is not directly saved during this definition
because we don't know if its prototype is available in the
namespace. But we don't really need it. The arch has just to
build a function able to resolve the syscall number to its
metadata struct.
The current tracer prints the syscall names, parameters names
and values (and their types optionally). Currently the value is
a raw hex but higher level values diplaying is on my TODO list.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236955332-10133-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, potential bugfix
Not sure what changed to expose this, but clearly that numa_node_id()
doesn't belong in mmzone.h (the inline in gfp.h is probably overkill, too).
In file included from include/linux/topology.h:34,
from arch/x86/mm/numa.c:2:
/home/rusty/patches-cpumask/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h:64:1: warning: "numa_node_id" redefined
In file included from include/linux/topology.h:32,
from arch/x86/mm/numa.c:2:
include/linux/mmzone.h:770:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <200903132343.37661.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: documentation
struct irqaction is not documented. Add kernel doc comments and add
interrupt.h to the genirq docbook.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: cleanup, no code changed
Remove an ugly #ifdef CONFIG_SMP from panic(), by providing
an smp_send_stop() wrapper on UP too.
LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
node_to_cpumask (and the blecherous node_to_cpumask_ptr which
contained a declaration) are replaced now everyone implements
cpumask_of_node.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Create a 'softirq_to_name' array, which is indexed by softirq #, so
that we can easily convert between the softirq index # and its name, in
order to get more meaningful output messages.
LKML-Reference: <20090312183336.GB3352@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix callsites with dynamic format strings
Since its new binary implementation, trace_printk() internally uses static
containers for the format strings on each callsites. But the value is
assigned once at build time, which means that it can't take dynamic
formats.
So this patch unearthes the raw trace_printk implementation for the callers
that will need trace_printk to be able to carry these dynamic format
strings. The trace_printk() macro will use the appropriate implementation
for each callsite. Most of the time however, the binary implementation will
still be used.
The other impact of this patch is that mmiotrace_printk() will use the old
implementation because it calls the low level trace_vprintk and we can't
guess here whether the format passed in it is dynamic or not.
Some parts of this patch have been written by Steven Rostedt (most notably
the part that chooses the appropriate implementation for each callsites).
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: cleanup
The naming clashes with upcoming softirq tracepoints, so rename the
APIs to lockdep_*().
Requested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new API
This patch adds a remove_irq() function for releasing
interrupts requested with setup_irq().
Without this patch we have no way of releasing such
interrupts since free_irq() today tries to kfree()
the irqaction passed with setup_irq().
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
LKML-Reference: <20090312120542.2926.56609.sendpatchset@rx1.opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This allows us to change the representation (to a dangling bitmap or
cpumask_var_t) without breaking all the callers: they can use
mm_cpumask() now and won't see a difference as the changes roll into
linux-next.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This allows us to change the representation (to a dangling bitmap or
cpumask_var_t) without breaking all the callers: they can use
tsk_cpumask() now and won't see a difference as the changes roll into
linux-next.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Provide an api to attempt to load any necessary kernel RPC
client transport module automatically. By convention, the
desired module name is "xprt"+"transport name". For example,
when NFS mounting with "-o proto=rdma", attempt to load the
"xprtrdma" module.
Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmtalpey@gmail.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The following patch is a combination of a patch by myself and Peter
Staubach.
Trond: If we allow other processes to dirty pages while a process is doing
a consistency sync to disk, we can end up never making progress.
Peter: Attached is a patch which addresses a continuing problem with
the NFS client generating out of order WRITE requests. While
this is compliant with all of the current protocol
specifications, there are servers in the market which can not
handle out of order WRITE requests very well. Also, this may
lead to sub-optimal block allocations in the underlying file
system on the server. This may cause the read throughputs to
be reduced when reading the file from the server.
Peter: There has been a lot of work recently done to address out of
order issues on a systemic level. However, the NFS client is
still susceptible to the problem. Out of order WRITE
requests can occur when pdflush is in the middle of writing
out pages while the process dirtying the pages calls
generic_file_buffered_write which calls
generic_perform_write which calls
balance_dirty_pages_rate_limited which ends up calling
writeback_inodes which ends up calling back into the NFS
client to writes out dirty pages for the same file that
pdflush happens to be working with.
Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
[modification by Trond to merge the two similar patches]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Certain asynchronous operations such as write() do not expect
(or care) that other metadata such as the file owner, mode, acls, ...
change. All they want to do is update and/or check the change attribute,
ctime, and mtime.
By skipping the file owner and group update, we also avoid having to do a
potential idmapper upcall for these asynchronous RPC calls.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
There is no point in using anything other than umode_t, since we copy the
content pretty much directly into inode->i_mode.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We don't need the bitmap[] field anymore, since the 'valid' field tells us
all we need to know about which attributes were filled in...
Also move the pre-op attributes in order to improve the structure packing.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Currently, filling struct nfs_fattr is more or less an all or nothing
operation, since NFSv2 and NFSv3 have only mandatory attributes.
In NFSv4, some attributes are optional, and so we may simply not be able to
fill in those fields. Furthermore, NFSv4 allows you to specify which
attributes you are interested in retrieving, thus permitting you to
optimise away retrieval of attributes that you know will no change...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The WM8400 is a highly integrated audio CODEC and power management unit
intended for mobile multimedia application. This driver supports the
primary audio CODEC features, including:
- 1W speaker driver
- Fully differential headphone output
- Up to 4 differential microphone inputs
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
