pm24.git/net/ethernet, branch v4.4

net: help compiler generate better code in eth_get_headlen

2015-09-29T05:51:15Z

Noticed that the compiler (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4) (GCC)) generated suboptimal assembler code in eth_get_headlen(). This early return coding style is usually not an issue, on super scalar CPUs, but the compiler choose to put the return statement after this very unlikely branch, thus creating larger jump down to the likely code path. Performance wise, I could measure slightly less L1-icache-load-misses and less branch-misses, and an improvement of 1 nanosec with an IP-forwarding use-case with 257 bytes packets with ixgbe (CPU i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz). Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

flow_dissector: Add flags argument to skb_flow_dissector functions

2015-09-01T22:06:22Z

The flags argument will allow control of the dissection process (for instance whether to parse beyond L3). Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ethernet: Fix double word "the the" in eth.c

2015-08-10T05:53:00Z

This patch fix double word "the the" in Documentation/DocBook/networking/API-eth-get-headlen.html Documentation/DocBook/networking/netdev.html Documentation/DocBook/networking.xml These files are generated from comment in source, so I have to fix comment in net/ethernet/eth.c. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Add full IPv6 addresses to flow_keys

2015-06-04T22:44:30Z

This patch adds full IPv6 addresses into flow_keys and uses them as input to the flow hash function. The implementation supports either IPv4 or IPv6 addresses in a union, and selector is used to determine how may words to input to jhash2. We also add flow_get_u32_dst and flow_get_u32_src functions which are used to get a u32 representation of the source and destination addresses. For IPv6, ipv6_addr_hash is called. These functions retain getting the legacy values of src and dst in flow_keys. With this patch, Ethertype and IP protocol are now included in the flow hash input. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Add priority to packet_offload objects.

2015-06-01T21:56:09Z

When we scan a packet for GRO processing, we want to see the most common packet types in the front of the offload_base list. So add a priority field so we can handle this properly. IPv4/IPv6 get the highest priority with the implicit zero priority field. Next comes ethernet with a priority of 10, and then we have the MPLS types with a priority of 15. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Suggested-by: Toshiaki Makita Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

flow_dissect: use programable dissector in skb_flow_dissect and friends

2015-05-13T19:19:47Z

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: move *skb_get_poff declarations into correct header

2015-05-13T19:19:45Z

Since these functions are defined in flow_dissector.c, move header declarations from skbuff.h into flow_dissector.h Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

etherdev: Fix sparse error, make test usable by other functions

2015-05-05T23:24:42Z

This change does two things. First it fixes a sparse error for the fact that the __be16 degrades to an integer. Since that is actually what I am kind of doing I am simply working around that by forcing both sides of the comparison to u16. Also I realized on some compilers I was generating another instruction for big endian systems such as PowerPC since it was masking the value before doing the comparison. So to resolve that I have simply pulled the mask out and wrapped it in an #ifndef __BIG_ENDIAN. Lastly I pulled this all out into its own function. I notices there are similar checks in a number of other places so this function can be reused there to help reduce overhead in these paths as well. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

etherdev: Use skb->data to retrieve Ethernet header instead of eth_hdr

2015-05-04T02:30:36Z

Avoid recomputing the Ethernet header location and instead just use the pointer provided by skb->data. The problem with using eth_hdr is that the compiler wasn't smart enough to realize that skb->head + skb->mac_header was the same thing as skb->data before it added ETH_HLEN. By just caching it off before calling skb_pull_inline we can avoid a few unnecessary instructions. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

etherdev: Process is_multicast_ether_addr at same size as other operations

2015-05-04T02:30:36Z

This change makes it so that we process the address in is_multicast_ether_addr at the same size as the other calls. This allows us to avoid duplicate reads when used with other calls such as is_zero_ether_addr or eth_addr_copy. In addition I have added a 64 bit version of the function so in eth_type_trans we can process the destination address as a 64 bit value throughout. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: David S. Miller