Acked-By: Amir Vadai <[email protected]> Nice work Eliezer :)
On 03/06/2013 11:01, Eliezer Tamir wrote: > David, > > Here is v8 with yet more fixes. > > Please consider applying. > > Thanks to everyone for their input. > > -Eliezer > > change log: > v8 > - split out udp and select/poll into seperate patches. > what used to be patch 2/5 is now three patches. > - type corrections from Amir Vadai and Cong Wang: > one unsigned long that was left when chenging to cycles_t > int -> bool > - more detailed patch descriptions. > > v7 > - suggested by Ben Hutchings and Eric Dumazet: > type fixes, static for globals in net/core.c, > avoid napi_id collisions in napi_hash_add() > > v6 > - many small fixes suggested by Eric Dumazet: > data locality, typos, documentation > protect napi_hash insert/delete with a spinlock (napi_gen_id is no > longer atomic_t since it's only accessed with the spinlock held.) > - added IPv6 TCP and UDP support (only minimally tested) > > v5 > - corrections suggested by Ben Hutchings: > fixed typos, moved the config option and sysctl value from IPv4 to net > - moved sk_mark_ll() to the protocol handlers > - removed global id mechanism, replaced with a hashed napi_id. > based on code sample from Eric Dumazet > Note that ixgbe_free_q_vector() already waits an rcu grace period > before freeing the q_vector, so nothing additional needs to be done > when adding a call to napi_hash_del(). > - simple poll/select support > > v4 > - removed separate config option for TCP as suggested Eric Dumazet. > - added linux mib counter for packets received through the low latency path, > as suggested by Andi Kleen. > - re-allow module unloading, remove module param, use a global generation id > instead to prevent the use of a stale napi pointer, as suggested > by Eric Dumazet > - updated Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt text > > v3 > - coding style changes suggested by Dave Miller > > v2 > - the sysctl knob is now in microseconds. The default value is now 0 (off). > - for now the code depends at configure time on CONFIG_I86_TSC > - the napi reference in struct skb is now a union with the dma cookie > since the former is only used on RX and the latter on TX, > as suggested by Eric Dumazet. > - we do a better job at honoring non-blocking operations. > - removed busy-polling support for tcp_read_sock() > - remove dynamic disabling of GRO > - coding style fixes > - disallow unloading the device module after the feature has been used > > Credit: > Jesse Brandeburg, Arun Chekhov Ilango, Julie Cummings, > Alexander Duyck, Eric Geisler, Jason Neighbors, Yadong Li, > Mike Polehn, Anil Vasudevan, Don Wood > Special thanks for finding bugs in earlier versions: > Willem de Bruijn and Andi Kleen > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
