It will be used by vxlan, and may not be inlined.
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ben Hutchings says:
====================
1. A little more refactoring.
2. Remove the unnecessary use of atomic_t that you pointed out.
3. Add support for starting or queueing firmware requests from atomic
context.
4. Add hwmon support for additional sensors found on some new boards.
5. Add support for the EF10 controller architecture, the SFC9100 family
and specifically the SFC9120 controller.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Multiqueue scheduler refers to default_qdisc_ops; therefore the
variable definition needs to be moved to handle case where net
scheduler API is not available.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fixes warnings introduced by the qdisc default patch.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
By default, the pfifo_fast queue discipline has been used by default
for all devices. But we have better choices now.
This patch allow setting the default queueing discipline with sysctl.
This allows easy use of better queueing disciplines on all devices
without having to use tc qdisc scripts. It is intended to allow
an easy path for distributions to make fq_codel or sfq the default
qdisc.
This patch also makes pfifo_fast more of a first class qdisc, since
it is now possible to manually override the default and explicitly
use pfifo_fast. The behavior for systems who do not use the sysctl
is unchanged, they still get pfifo_fast
Also removes leftover random # in sysctl net core.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
My static checker complains that on some arches unsigned longs can be 8
characters which is larger than the buffer is only 6 chars.
Additionally, Ben Hutchings points out that the buffer actually holds
big endian data and the buffer we are reading from is CPU endian.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Fugang Duan <B38611@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change
to make the code simpler and enhance the readability.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
commit 3b04ddde02
"[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice."
moved the handling into macvlan setup adding
dev->header_ops = &macvlan_hard_header_ops,
At the end of the line the ',' should have been a ';'
Signed-off-by: Lutz Jaenicke <ljaenicke@innominate.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some synopsys ip implementation doesn't support DMA store and forward mode,
such as BF60x. So, set force_thresh_dma_mode to use DMA thresholds only.
Update document and devicetree as well.
Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Acked-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A sk variable initialized to ndisc_sk is already available outside
of the branch.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
RTT cached in the TCP metrics are valuable for the initial timeout
because SYN RTT usually does not account for serialization delays
on low BW path.
However using it to seed the RTT estimator maybe disruptive because
other components (e.g., pacing) require the smooth RTT to be obtained
from actual connection.
The solution is to use the higher cached RTT to set the first RTO
conservatively like tcp_rtt_estimator(), but avoid seeding the other
RTT estimator variables such as srtt. It is also a good idea to
keep RTO conservative to obtain the first RTT sample, and the
performance is insured by TCP loss probe if SYN RTT is available.
To keep the seeding formula consistent across SYN RTT and cached RTT,
the rttvar is twice the cached RTT instead of cached RTTVAR value. The
reason is because cached variation may be too small (near min RTO)
which defeats the purpose of being conservative on first RTO. However
the metrics still keep the RTT variations as they might be useful for
user applications (through ip).
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
kbuild bot reported following m68k build error :
net/sched/sch_fq.c: In function 'fq_dequeue':
>> net/sched/sch_fq.c:491:2: error: implicit declaration of function
'prefetch' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
While we are fixing this, move this prefetch() call a bit earlier.
Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
__GFP_ZERO is an uncommon flag and perhaps is better
not used. static inline dma_zalloc_coherent exists
so convert the uses of dma_alloc_coherent with __GFP_ZERO
to the more common kernel style with zalloc.
Remove memset from the static inline dma_zalloc_coherent
and add just one use of __GFP_ZERO instead.
Trivially reduces the size of the existing uses of
dma_zalloc_coherent.
Realign arguments as appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- Uses perfect flow match (not stochastic hash like SFQ/FQ_codel)
- Uses the new_flow/old_flow separation from FQ_codel
- New flows get an initial credit allowing IW10 without added delay.
- Special FIFO queue for high prio packets (no need for PRIO + FQ)
- Uses a hash table of RB trees to locate the flows at enqueue() time
- Smart on demand gc (at enqueue() time, RB tree lookup evicts old
unused flows)
- Dynamic memory allocations.
- Designed to allow millions of concurrent flows per Qdisc.
- Small memory footprint : ~8K per Qdisc, and 104 bytes per flow.
- Single high resolution timer for throttled flows (if any).
- One RB tree to link throttled flows.
- Ability to have a max rate per flow. We might add a socket option
to add per socket limitation.
Attempts have been made to add TCP pacing in TCP stack, but this
seems to add complex code to an already complex stack.
TCP pacing is welcomed for flows having idle times, as the cwnd
permits TCP stack to queue a possibly large number of packets.
This removes the 'slow start after idle' choice, hitting badly
large BDP flows, and applications delivering chunks of data
as video streams.
Nicely spaced packets :
Here interface is 10Gbit, but flow bottleneck is ~20Mbit
cwin is big, yet FQ avoids the typical bursts generated by TCP
(as in netperf TCP_RR -- -r 100000,100000)
15:01:23.545279 IP A > B: . 78193:81089(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.545394 IP B > A: . ack 81089 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597985 1115>
15:01:23.546488 IP A > B: . 81089:83985(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.546565 IP B > A: . ack 83985 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597986 1115>
15:01:23.547713 IP A > B: . 83985:86881(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.547778 IP B > A: . ack 86881 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597987 1115>
15:01:23.548911 IP A > B: . 86881:89777(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.548949 IP B > A: . ack 89777 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597988 1115>
15:01:23.550116 IP A > B: . 89777:92673(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.550182 IP B > A: . ack 92673 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597989 1115>
15:01:23.551333 IP A > B: . 92673:95569(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.551406 IP B > A: . ack 95569 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597991 1115>
15:01:23.552539 IP A > B: . 95569:98465(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.552576 IP B > A: . ack 98465 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597992 1115>
15:01:23.553756 IP A > B: . 98465:99913(1448) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.554138 IP A > B: P 99913:100001(88) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.554204 IP B > A: . ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597993 1115>
15:01:23.554234 IP B > A: . 65248:68144(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597993 1115>
15:01:23.555620 IP B > A: . 68144:71040(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597993 1115>
15:01:23.557005 IP B > A: . 71040:73936(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597993 1115>
15:01:23.558390 IP B > A: . 73936:76832(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597993 1115>
15:01:23.559773 IP B > A: . 76832:79728(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597993 1115>
15:01:23.561158 IP B > A: . 79728:82624(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.562543 IP B > A: . 82624:85520(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.563928 IP B > A: . 85520:88416(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.565313 IP B > A: . 88416:91312(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.566698 IP B > A: . 91312:94208(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.568083 IP B > A: . 94208:97104(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.569467 IP B > A: . 97104:100000(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.570852 IP B > A: . 100000:102896(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.572237 IP B > A: . 102896:105792(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.573639 IP B > A: . 105792:108688(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.575024 IP B > A: . 108688:111584(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.576408 IP B > A: . 111584:114480(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.577793 IP B > A: . 114480:117376(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
TCP timestamps show that most packets from B were queued in the same ms
timeframe (TSval 1159799{3,4}), but FQ managed to send them right
in time to avoid a big burst.
In slow start or steady state, very few packets are throttled [1]
FQ gets a bunch of tunables as :
limit : max number of packets on whole Qdisc (default 10000)
flow_limit : max number of packets per flow (default 100)
quantum : the credit per RR round (default is 2 MTU)
initial_quantum : initial credit for new flows (default is 10 MTU)
maxrate : max per flow rate (default : unlimited)
buckets : number of RB trees (default : 1024) in hash table.
(consumes 8 bytes per bucket)
[no]pacing : disable/enable pacing (default is enable)
All of them can be changed on a live qdisc.
$ tc qd add dev eth0 root fq help
Usage: ... fq [ limit PACKETS ] [ flow_limit PACKETS ]
[ quantum BYTES ] [ initial_quantum BYTES ]
[ maxrate RATE ] [ buckets NUMBER ]
[ [no]pacing ]
$ tc -s -d qd
qdisc fq 8002: dev eth0 root refcnt 32 limit 10000p flow_limit 100p buckets 256 quantum 3028 initial_quantum 15140
Sent 216532416 bytes 148395 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 14)
backlog 0b 0p requeues 14
511 flows, 511 inactive, 0 throttled
110 gc, 0 highprio, 0 retrans, 1143 throttled, 0 flows_plimit
[1] Except if initial srtt is overestimated, as if using
cached srtt in tcp metrics. We'll provide a fix for this issue.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Update the dates for files that have been added to in 2012-2013.
Drop the 'Solarstorm' brand name that's still lingering here.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Update documentation to add fanout policies that are available.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Instead of hard-coding reciprocal_divide function, use the inline
function from reciprocal_div.h.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We currently allow for different fanout scheduling policies in pf_packet
such as scheduling by skb's rxhash, round-robin, by cpu, and rollover.
Also allow for a random, equidistributed selection of the socket from the
fanout process group.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There's no need to call ether_setup() in the driver since prior alloc_etherdev()
call already arranges for it.
Suggested-by: Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org>
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Veaceslav Falico says:
====================
bonding: remove vlan special handling
v1: Per Jiri's advice, remove the exported netdev_upper struct to keep it
inside dev.c only, and instead implement a macro to iterate over the
list and return only net_device *.
v2: Jiri noted that we need to see every upper device, but not only the
first level. Modify the netdev_upper logic to include a list of lower
devices and for both upper/lower lists every device would see both its
first-level devices and every other devices that is lower/upper of it.
Also, convert some annoying spamming warnings to pr_debug in
bond_arp_send_all.
v3: move renaming part completely to patch 1 (did I forget to git add
before commiting?) and address Jiri's input about comments/style of
patch 2.
v4: as Vlad found spotted, bond_arp_send_all() won't work in a config where
we have a device with ip on top of our upper vlan. It fails to send
packets because we don't tag the packet, while the device on top of
vlan will emit tagged packets through this vlan. Fix this by first
searching for all upper vlans, and for each vlan - for the devs on top
of it. If we find the dev - then tag the packet with the underling's
vlan_id, otherwise just search the old way - for all devices on top of
bonding. Also, move the version changes under "---" so they won't get
into the commit message, if/when applied.
The aim of this patchset is to remove bondings' own vlan handling as much
as possible and replace it with the netdev upper device functionality.
The upper device functionality is extended to include also lower devices
and to have, for each device, a full view of every lower and upper device,
but not only the first-level ones. This might permit in the future to
avoid, for any grouping/teaming/upper/lower devices, to maintain its own
lists of slaves/vlans/etc.
This is achieved by adding a helper function to upper dev list handling -
netdev_upper_get_next_dev(dev, iter), which returns the next device after
the list_head **iter, and sets *iter to the next list_head *. This patchset
also adds netdev_for_each_upper_dev(dev, upper, iter), which iterates
through the whole dev->upper_dev_list, setting upper to the net_device.
The only special treatment of vlans remains in rlb code.
This patchset solves several issues with bonding, simplifies it overall,
RCUify further and exports upper list functions for any other users which
might also want to get rid of its own vlan_lists or slaves.
I'm testing it continuously currently, no issues found, will update on
anything.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
