BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/drivers/net/virtio_net.c, branch dev-4.6

Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

2016-03-20T20:28:18+00:00

Pull virtio/vhost updates from Michael Tsirkin: "New features, performance improvements, cleanups: - basic polling support for vhost - rework virtio to optionally use DMA API, fixing it on Xen - balloon stats gained a new entry - using the new napi_alloc_skb speeds up virtio net - virtio blk stats can now be read while another VCPU is busy inflating or deflating the balloon plus misc cleanups in various places" * tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: virtio_net: replace netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() with napi_alloc_skb() vhost_net: basic polling support vhost: introduce vhost_vq_avail_empty() vhost: introduce vhost_has_work() virtio_balloon: Allow to resize and update the balloon stats in parallel virtio_balloon: Use a workqueue instead of "vballoon" kthread virtio/s390: size of SET_IND payload virtio/s390: use dev_to_virtio vhost: rename vhost_init_used() vhost: rename cross-endian helpers virtio_blk: VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE->VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH vring: Use the DMA API on Xen virtio_pci: Use the DMA API if enabled virtio_mmio: Use the DMA API if enabled virtio: Add improved queue allocation API virtio_ring: Support DMA APIs vring: Introduce vring_use_dma_api() s390/dma: Allow per device dma ops alpha/dma: use common noop dma ops dma: Provide simple noop dma ops

virtio_net: replace netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() with napi_alloc_skb()

2016-03-17T15:42:00+00:00

This gives small but noticeable rx performance improvement (2-3%) and will allow exploiting future napi improvement. Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

virtio_net: validate ethtool port setting and explain the user validation

2016-02-11T16:55:38+00:00

We should validate the port setting that we got from the user and check if it's what we've set it to (PORT_OTHER), also add explanation that ignoring advertising is good as long as we don't have autonegotiation. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

virtio_net: add ethtool support for set and get of settings

2016-02-07T19:30:45+00:00

This patch allows the user to set and retrieve speed and duplex of the virtio_net device via ethtool. Having this functionality is very helpful for simulating different environments and also enables the virtio_net device to participate in operations where proper speed and duplex are required (e.g. currently bonding lacp mode requires full duplex). Custom speed and duplex are not allowed, the user-supplied settings are validated before applying. Example: $ ethtool eth1 Settings for eth1: ... Speed: Unknown! Duplex: Unknown! (255) $ ethtool -s eth1 speed 1000 duplex full $ ethtool eth1 Settings for eth1: ... Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Based on a patch by Roopa Prabhu. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2015-12-18T03:08:28+00:00

Conflicts: drivers/net/geneve.c Here we had an overlapping change, where in 'net' the extraneous stats bump was being removed whilst in 'net-next' the final argument to udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() was being changed. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

virtio-net: Stop doing DMA from the stack

2015-12-07T14:10:53+00:00

Once virtio starts using the DMA API, we won't be able to safely DMA from the stack. virtio-net does a couple of config DMA requests from small stack buffers -- switch to using dynamically-allocated memory. This should have no effect on any performance-critical code paths. Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski

net: provide generic busy polling to all NAPI drivers

2015-11-18T21:17:42+00:00

NAPI drivers no longer need to observe a particular protocol to benefit from busy polling (CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL=y) napi_hash_add() and napi_hash_del() are automatically called from core networking stack, respectively from netif_napi_add() and netif_napi_del() This patch depends on free_netdev() and netif_napi_del() being called from process context, which seems to be the norm. Drivers might still prefer to call napi_hash_del() on their own, since they might combine all the rcu grace periods into a single one, knowing their NAPI structures lifetime, while core networking stack has no idea of a possible combining. Once this patch proves to not bring serious regressions, we will cleanup drivers to either remove napi_hash_del() or provide appropriate rcu grace periods combining. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: move skb_mark_napi_id() into core networking stack

2015-11-18T21:17:41+00:00

We would like to automatically provide busy polling support to all NAPI drivers, without them having to implement anything. skb_mark_napi_id() can be called from napi_gro_receive() and napi_get_frags(). Few drivers are still calling skb_mark_napi_id() because they use netif_receive_skb(). They should eventually call napi_gro_receive() instead. I will leave this to drivers maintainers. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

virtio-net: avoid unnecessary sg initialzation

2015-08-27T22:51:45+00:00

Usually an skb does not have up to MAX_SKB_FRAGS frags. So no need to initialize the unuse part of sg. This patch initialize the sg based on the real number it will used: - during xmit, it could be inferred from nr_frags and can_push. - for small receive buffer, it will also be 2. Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

virtio_net: use DECLARE_EWMA

2015-08-20T21:10:22+00:00

Instead of using the out-of-line EWMA calculation, use DECLARE_EWMA() to create static inlines. On x86/64 this results in no change in code size for me, but reduces the struct receive_queue size by the two unsigned long values that store the parameters. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller