kernel/linux.git/include/net/sch_generic.h, branch linux-2.6.34.y

sched: add head drop fifo queue

2010-01-29T05:27:00+00:00

This adds an additional queuing strategy, called pfifo_head_drop, to remove the oldest skb in the case of an overflow within the queue - the head element - instead of the last skb (tail). To remove the oldest skb in congested situations is useful for sensor network environments where newer packets reflect the superior information. Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal Acked-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: cleanup include/net

2009-11-04T13:06:25+00:00

This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces, in first line to ease grep games. struct something { becomes : struct something { Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

pkt_sched: Fix tx queue selection in tc_modify_qdisc

2009-09-15T09:53:07+00:00

After the recent mq change there is the new select_queue qdisc class method used in tc_modify_qdisc, but it works OK only for direct child qdiscs of mq qdisc. Grandchildren always get the first tx queue, which would give wrong qdisc_root etc. results (e.g. for sch_htb as child of sch_prio). This patch fixes it by using parent's dev_queue for such grandchildren qdiscs. The select_queue method's return type is changed BTW. With feedback from: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net_sched: fix estimator lock selection for mq child qdiscs

2009-09-10T01:11:23+00:00

When new child qdiscs are attached to the mq qdisc, they are actually attached as root qdiscs to the device queues. The lock selection for new estimators incorrectly picks the root lock of the existing and to be replaced qdisc, which results in a use-after-free once the old qdisc has been destroyed. Mark mq qdisc instances with a new flag and treat qdiscs attached to mq as children similar to regular root qdiscs. Additionally prevent estimators from being attached to the mq qdisc itself since it only updates its byte and packet counters during dumps. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net_sched: add classful multiqueue dummy scheduler

2009-09-06T09:07:05+00:00

This patch adds a classful dummy scheduler which can be used as root qdisc for multiqueue devices and exposes each device queue as a child class. This allows to address queues individually and graft them similar to regular classes. Additionally it presents an accumulated view of the statistics of all real root qdiscs in the dummy root. Two new callbacks are added to the qdisc_ops and qdisc_class_ops: - cl_ops->select_queue selects the tx queue number for new child classes. - qdisc_ops->attach() overrides root qdisc device grafting to attach non-shared qdiscs to the queues. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net_sched: move dev_graft_qdisc() to sch_generic.c

2009-09-06T09:07:05+00:00

It will be used in a following patch by the multiqueue qdisc. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2009-09-02T07:32:56+00:00

Conflicts: drivers/net/yellowfin.c

net: restore gnet_stats_basic to previous definition

2009-08-18T04:33:49+00:00

In 5e140dfc1fe87eae27846f193086724806b33c7d "net: reorder struct Qdisc for better SMP performance" the definition of struct gnet_stats_basic changed incompatibly, as copies of this struct are shipped to userland via netlink. Restoring old behavior is not welcome, for performance reason. Fix is to use a private structure for kernel, and teach gnet_stats_copy_basic() to convert from kernel to user land, using legacy structure (struct gnet_stats_basic) Based on a report and initial patch from Michael Spang. Reported-by: Michael Spang Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Avoid enqueuing skb for default qdiscs

2009-08-07T03:10:18+00:00

dev_queue_xmit enqueue's a skb and calls qdisc_run which dequeue's the skb and xmits it. In most cases, the skb that is enqueue'd is the same one that is dequeue'd (unless the queue gets stopped or multiple cpu's write to the same queue and ends in a race with qdisc_run). For default qdiscs, we can remove the redundant enqueue/dequeue and simply xmit the skb since the default qdisc is work-conserving. The patch uses a new flag - TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS to identify the default fast queue. The controversial part of the patch is incrementing qlen when a skb is requeued - this is to avoid checks like the second line below: + } else if ((q->flags & TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS) && !qdisc_qlen(q) && >> !q->gso_skb && + !test_and_set_bit(__QDISC_STATE_RUNNING, &q->state)) { Results of a 2 hour testing for multiple netperf sessions (1, 2, 4, 8, 12 sessions on a 4 cpu system-X). The BW numbers are aggregate Mb/s across iterations tested with this version on System-X boxes with Chelsio 10gbps cards: ---------------------------------- Size | ORG BW NEW BW | ---------------------------------- 128K | 156964 159381 | 256K | 158650 162042 | ---------------------------------- Changes from ver1: 1. Move sch_direct_xmit declaration from sch_generic.h to pkt_sched.h 2. Update qdisc basic statistics for direct xmit path. 3. Set qlen to zero in qdisc_reset. 4. Changed some function names to more meaningful ones. Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: reorder struct Qdisc for better SMP performance

2009-03-20T08:33:32+00:00

dev_queue_xmit() needs to dirty fields "state", "q", "bstats" and "qstats" On x86_64 arch, they currently span three cache lines, involving more cache line ping pongs than necessary, making longer holding of queue spinlock. We can reduce this to one cache line, by grouping all read-mostly fields at the beginning of structure. (Or should I say, all highly modified fields at the end :) ) Before patch : offsetof(struct Qdisc, state)=0x38 offsetof(struct Qdisc, q)=0x48 offsetof(struct Qdisc, bstats)=0x80 offsetof(struct Qdisc, qstats)=0x90 sizeof(struct Qdisc)=0xc8 After patch : offsetof(struct Qdisc, state)=0x80 offsetof(struct Qdisc, q)=0x88 offsetof(struct Qdisc, bstats)=0xa0 offsetof(struct Qdisc, qstats)=0xac sizeof(struct Qdisc)=0xc0 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller