kernel/linux.git/include/linux/netpoll.h, branch linux-2.6.22.y

WorkQueue: Fix up arch-specific work items where possible

2006-12-05T19:36:26+00:00

Fix up arch-specific work items where possible to use the new work_struct and delayed_work structs. Three places that enqueue bits of their stack and then return have been marked with #error as this is not permitted. Signed-Off-By: David Howells

netpoll header cleanup

2006-12-03T05:22:38+00:00

As Steve left netpoll beast, hopefully not to return soon. He noticed that the header was messy. He straightened it up and polished it a little, then waved goodbye. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger

netpoll queue cleanup

2006-12-03T05:22:37+00:00

The beast had a long and not very happy history. At one point, a friend (netdump) had asked that he open up a little. Well, the friend was long gone now, and the beast had this dangling piece hanging (netpoll_queue). It wasn't hard to stitch the netpoll_queue back in where it belonged and make everything tidy. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger

netpoll retry cleanup

2006-12-03T05:22:36+00:00

The netpoll beast was still not happy. If the beast got clogged pipes, it tended to stare blankly off in space for a long time. The problem couldn't be completely fixed because the beast talked with irq's disabled. But it could be made less painful and shorter. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger

netpoll per device txq

2006-12-03T05:22:33+00:00

When the netpoll beast got really busy, it tended to clog things, so it stored them for later. But the beast was putting all it's skb's in one basket. This was bad because maybe some pipes were clogged and others were not. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger

netpoll info leak

2006-12-03T05:22:32+00:00

After looking harder, Steve noticed that the netpoll beast leaked a little every time it shutdown for a nap. Not a big leak, but a nuisance kind of thing. He took out his refcount duct tape and patched the leak. It was overkill since there was already other locking in that area, but it looked clean and wouldn't attract fleas. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger

[NET] netpoll: break recursive loop in netpoll rx path

2006-06-26T07:04:27+00:00

The netpoll system currently has a rx to tx path via: netpoll_rx __netpoll_rx arp_reply netpoll_send_skb dev->hard_start_tx This rx->tx loop places network drivers at risk of inadvertently causing a deadlock or BUG halt by recursively trying to acquire a spinlock that is used in both their rx and tx paths (this problem was origionally reported to me in the 3c59x driver, which shares a spinlock between the boomerang_interrupt and boomerang_start_xmit routines). This patch breaks this loop, by queueing arp frames, so that they can be responded to after all receive operations have been completed. Tested by myself and the reported with successful results. Specifically it was tested with netdump. Heres the BZ with details: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194055 Signed-off-by: Neil Horman Acked-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETPOLL]: wrong return for null netpoll_poll_lock()

2005-10-12T22:12:21+00:00

When netpoll is not being used, the macro that defines the removed routing netpoll_poll_lock defines the return as zero, but the real routine returns a `void *` Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETPOLL]: fix initialization/NAPI race

2005-08-12T02:27:43+00:00

This fixes a race during initialization with the NAPI softirq processing by using an RCU approach. This race was discovered when refill_skbs() was added to the setup code. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETPOLL]: add retry timeout

2005-08-12T02:25:54+00:00

Add limited retry logic to netpoll_send_skb Each time we attempt to send, decrement our per-device retry counter. On every successful send, we reset the counter. We delay 50us between attempts with up to 20000 retries for a total of 1 second. After we've exhausted our retries, subsequent failed attempts will try only once until reset by success. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: David S. Miller