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14343 Commits (f264a7df08d50bb4a23be6a9aa06940e497ac1c4)

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Patrick McHardy f264a7df08 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_expect: introduce nf_conntrack_expect_max sysct
As a last step of preventing DoS by creating lots of expectations, this
patch introduces a global maximum and a sysctl to control it. The default
is initialized to 4 * the expectation hash table size, which results in
1/64 of the default maxmimum of conntracks.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:18:12 -07:00
Patrick McHardy b560580a13 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_expect: maintain per conntrack expectation list
This patch brings back the per-conntrack expectation list that was
removed around 2.6.10 to avoid walking all expectations on expectation
eviction and conntrack destruction.

As these were the last users of the global expectation list, this patch
also kills that.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:18:02 -07:00
Patrick McHardy a71c085562 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use hashtable for expectations
Currently all expectations are kept on a global list that

- needs to be searched for every new conncetion
- needs to be walked for evicting expectations when a master connection
  has reached its limit
- needs to be walked on connection destruction for connections that
  have open expectations

This is obviously not good, especially when considering helpers like
H.323 that register *lots* of expectations and can set up permanent
expectations, but it also allows for an easy DoS against firewalls
using connection tracking helpers.

Use a hashtable for expectations to avoid incurring the search overhead
for every new connection. The default hash size is 1/256 of the conntrack
hash table size, this can be overriden using a module parameter.

This patch only introduces the hash table for expectation lookups and
keeps other users to reduce the noise, the following patches will get
rid of it completely.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:59 -07:00
Patrick McHardy e9c1b084e1 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: move expectaton related init code to nf_conntrack_expect.c
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:58 -07:00
Patrick McHardy d4156e8cd9 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: reduce masks to a subset of tuples
Since conntrack currently allows to use masks for every bit of both
helper and expectation tuples, we can't hash them and have to keep
them on two global lists that are searched for every new connection.

This patch removes the never used ability to use masks for the
destination part of the expectation tuple and completely removes
masks from helpers since the only reasonable choice is a full
match on l3num, protonum and src.u.all.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:55 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 6823645d60 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_expect: function naming unification
Currently there is a wild mix of nf_conntrack_expect_, nf_ct_exp_,
expect_, exp_, ...

Consistently use nf_ct_ as prefix for exported functions.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:53 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 53aba5979e [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: use hlists for bysource hash
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:43 -07:00
Patrick McHardy ac565e5fc1 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: export hash allocation/destruction functions
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:42 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 330f7db5e5 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: remove 'ignore_conntrack' argument from nf_conntrack_find_get
All callers pass NULL, this also doesn't seem very useful for modules.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:41 -07:00
Patrick McHardy f205c5e0c2 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use hlists for conntrack hash
Convert conntrack hash to hlists to reduce its size and cache
footprint. Since the default hashsize to max. entries ratio
sucks (1:16), this patch doesn't reduce the amount of memory
used for the hash by default, but instead uses a better ratio
of 1:8, which results in the same max. entries value.

One thing worth noting is early_drop. It really should use LRU,
so it now has to iterate over the entire chain to find the last
unconfirmed entry. Since chains shouldn't be very long and the
entire operation is very rare this shouldn't be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:40 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai b6b84d4a94 [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: merge nf_conn and nf_nat_info
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:37 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai d8a0509a69 [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: kill global 'destroy' operation
This kills the global 'destroy' operation which was used by NAT.
Instead it uses the extension infrastructure so that multiple
extensions can register own operations.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:36 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai dacd2a1a5c [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: remove old memory allocator of conntrack
Now memory space for help and NAT are allocated by extension
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:35 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai ff09b7493c [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: remove unused nf_nat_module_is_loaded
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:34 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 2d59e5ca8c [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: use extension infrastructure
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:20 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai e54cbc1f91 [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: add reference to conntrack from entry of bysource list
I will split 'struct nf_nat_info' out from conntrack. So I cannot use
'offsetof' to get the pointer to conntrack from it.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:19 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai ceceae1b15 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use extension infrastructure for helper
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:18 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai ecfab2c9fe [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: introduce extension infrastructure
Old space allocator of conntrack had problems about extensibility.
- It required slab cache per combination of extensions.
- It expected what extensions would be assigned, but it was impossible
  to expect that completely, then we allocated bigger memory object than
  really required.
- It needed to search helper twice due to lock issue.

Now basic informations of a connection are stored in 'struct nf_conn'.
And a storage for extension (helper, NAT) is allocated by kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:17 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 4ba887790c [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: move NAT declarations from nf_conntrack_ipv4.h to nf_nat.h
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:16 -07:00
Jozsef Kadlecsik ba9dda3ab5 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add TRACE target
The TRACE target can be used to follow IP and IPv6 packets through
the ruleset.

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick NcHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:14 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt 1b50b8a371 [NETFILTER]: Add u32 match
Along comes... xt_u32, a revamped ipt_u32 from POM-NG,
Plus:

    *	2007-06-02: added ipv6 support

    *	2007-06-05: uses kmalloc for the big buffer

    *   2007-06-05: added inversion

    *   2007-06-20: use skb_copy_bits() and get rid of the big buffer
        and lock (suggested by Pablo Neira Ayuso)

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:13 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt e1931b784a [NETFILTER]: x_tables: switch xt_target->checkentry to bool
Switch the return type of target checkentry functions to boolean.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:59 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt ccb79bdce7 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: switch xt_match->checkentry to bool
Switch the return type of match functions to boolean

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:58 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt 1d93a9cbad [NETFILTER]: x_tables: switch xt_match->match to bool
Switch the return type of match functions to boolean

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:57 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt cff533ac12 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: switch hotdrop to bool
Switch the "hotdrop" variables to boolean

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:56 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 7bfe246116 [NETFILTER]: ip6_tables: fix explanation of valid upper protocol number
This explains the allowed upper protocol numbers. IP6T_F_NOPROTO was
introduced to use 0 as Hop-by-Hop option header, not wildcard. But that
seemed to be forgotten. 0 has been used as wildcard since 2002-08-23.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:55 -07:00
James Chapman 067b207b28 [UDP]: Cleanup UDP encapsulation code
This cleanup fell out after adding L2TP support where a new encap_rcv
funcptr was added to struct udp_sock. Have XFRM use the new encap_rcv
funcptr, which allows us to move the XFRM encap code from udp.c into
xfrm4_input.c.

Make xfrm4_rcv_encap() static since it is no longer called externally.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:53 -07:00
Samuel Ortiz 411725280b [IrDA]: Monitor mode.
Through the IrDA netlink set mode command, we switch to IrDA monitor
mode, where one IrLAP instance receives all the packets on the media,
without ever responding to them.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:44 -07:00
Samuel Ortiz 89da1ecf54 [IrDA]: Netlink layer.
First IrDA configuration netlink layer implementation.
Currently, we only support the set/get mode commands.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:43 -07:00
Guido Guenther 8c644623fe [NET]: Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices.
Introduce a new syscall TUNSETGROUP for group ownership setting of tap
devices. The user now is allowed to send packages if either his euid or
his egid matches the one specified via tunctl (via -u or -g
respecitvely). If both, gid and uid, are set via tunctl, both have to
match.

Signed-off-by: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:42 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 4bdf39911e [NET_SCHED]: Remove unnecessary stats_lock pointers
Remove stats_lock pointers from qdisc-internal structures, in all cases
it points to dev->queue_lock. The only case where it is necessary is for
top-level qdiscs, where it might also point to dev->ingress_lock in case
of the ingress qdisc. Also remove it from actions completely, it always
points to the actions internal lock.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:38 -07:00
Jamal Hadi Salim 628529b6ee [XFRM] Introduce standalone SAD lookup
This allows other in-kernel functions to do SAD lookups.
The only known user at the moment is pktgen.

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:35 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 61cbc2fca6 [NET]: Fix secondary unicast/multicast address count maintenance
When a reference to an existing address is increased or decreased without
hitting zero, the address count is incorrectly adjusted.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:23 -07:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr d62733c8e4 [SCHED]: Qdisc changes and sch_rr added for multiqueue
Add the new sch_rr qdisc for multiqueue network device support.  Allow
sch_prio and sch_rr to be compiled with or without multiqueue hardware
support.

sch_rr is part of sch_prio, and is referenced from MODULE_ALIAS.  This
was done since sch_prio and sch_rr only differ in their dequeue
routine.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:22 -07:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr f25f4e4480 [CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue hardware support API
Add the multiqueue hardware device support API to the core network
stack.  Allow drivers to allocate multiple queues and manage them at
the netdev level if they choose to do so.

Added a new field to sk_buff, namely queue_mapping, for drivers to
know which tx_ring to select based on OS classification of the flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:21 -07:00
James Chapman cf14a4d067 [L2TP]: Changes to existing ppp and socket kernel headers for L2TP
Add struct sockaddr_pppol2tp to carry L2TP-specific address
information for the PPPoX (PPPoL2TP) socket. Unfortunately we can't
use the union inside struct sockaddr_pppox because the L2TP-specific
data is larger than the current size of the union and we must preserve
the size of struct sockaddr_pppox for binary compatibility.

Also add a PPPIOCGL2TPSTATS ioctl to allow userspace to obtain
L2TP counters and state from the kernel.

Add new if_pppol2tp.h header.

[ Modified to use aligned_u64 in statistics structure -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:58 -07:00
James Chapman 342f0234c7 [UDP]: Introduce UDP encapsulation type for L2TP
This patch adds a new UDP_ENCAP_L2TPINUDP encapsulation type for UDP
sockets. When a UDP socket's encap_type is UDP_ENCAP_L2TPINUDP, the
skb is delivered to a function pointed to by the udp_sock's
encap_rcv funcptr. If the skb isn't wanted by L2TP, it returns >0, which
causes it to be passed through to UDP.

Include padding to put the new encap_rcv field on a 4-byte boundary.

Previously, the only user of UDP encap sockets was ESP, so when
CONFIG_XFRM was not defined, some of the encap code was compiled
out. This patch changes that. As a result, udp_encap_rcv() will
now do a little more work when CONFIG_XFRM is not defined.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:57 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 4417da668c [NET]: dev: secondary unicast address support
Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses on network
devices. To support this devices capable of filtering multiple
unicast addresses need to change their set_multicast_list function
to configure unicast filters as well and assign it to dev->set_rx_mode
instead of dev->set_multicast_list. Other devices are put into promiscous
mode when secondary unicast addresses are present.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:56 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 3fba5a8b1e [NET]: dev_mcast: switch to generic net_device address lists
Use generic net_device address lists for multicast list handling.
Some defines are used to keep drivers working.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:55 -07:00
Patrick McHardy bf742482d7 [NET]: dev: introduce generic net_device address lists
Introduce struct dev_addr_list and list maintenance functions
based on dev_mc_list and the related functions. This will be
used by follow-up patches for both multicast and secondary
unicast addresses.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:54 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger d212f87b06 [NET]: IPV6 checksum offloading in network devices
The existing model for checksum offload does not correctly handle
devices that can offload IPV4 and IPV6 only. The NETIF_F_HW_CSUM flag
implies device can do any arbitrary protocol.

This patch:
 * adds NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM for those devices
 * fixes bnx2 and tg3 devices that need it
 * add NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM to ipv6 output (incl GSO)
 * fixes assumptions about NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM in nat
 * adjusts bridge union of checksumming computation

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:52 -07:00
Masahide NAKAMURA d3d6dd3ada [XFRM]: Add module alias for transformation type.
It is clean-up for XFRM type modules and adds aliases with its
protocol:
 ESP, AH, IPCOMP, IPIP and IPv6 for IPsec
 ROUTING and DSTOPTS for MIPv6

It is almost the same thing as XFRM mode alias, but it is added
new defines XFRM_PROTO_XXX for preprocessing since some protocols
are defined as enum.

Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:43 -07:00
Masahide NAKAMURA 59fbb3a61e [IPV6] MIP6: Loadable module support for MIPv6.
This patch makes MIPv6 loadable module named "mip6".

Here is a modprobe.conf(5) example to load it automatically
when user application uses XFRM state for MIPv6:

alias xfrm-type-10-43 mip6
alias xfrm-type-10-60 mip6

Some MIPv6 feature is not included by this modular, however,
it should not be affected to other features like either IPsec
or IPv6 with and without the patch.
We may discuss XFRM, MH (RAW socket) and ancillary data/sockopt
separately for future work.

Loadable features:
* MH receiving check (to send ICMP error back)
* RO header parsing and building (i.e. RH2 and HAO in DSTOPTS)
* XFRM policy/state database handling for RO

These are NOT covered as loadable:
* Home Address flags and its rule on source address selection
* XFRM sub policy (depends on its own kernel option)
* XFRM functions to receive RO as IPv6 extension header
* MH sending/receiving through raw socket if user application
  opens it (since raw socket allows to do so)
* RH2 sending as ancillary data
* RH2 operation with setsockopt(2)

Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:42 -07:00
Masahide NAKAMURA 136ebf08b4 [IPV6] MIP6: Kill unnecessary ifdefs.
Kill unnecessary CONFIG_IPV6_MIP6.

o It is redundant for RAW socket to keep MH out with the config then
  it can handle any protocol.
o Clean-up at AH.

Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:41 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 2371baa4bd [RTNETLINK]: Fix rtnetlink compat attribute patch
Sent the wrong patch previously.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:40 -07:00
Patrick McHardy afdc3238ec [RTNETLINK]: Add nested compat attribute
Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert
attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a
backwards compatible way.

The attribute looks like this:

struct {
        [ compat contents ]
        struct rtattr {
                .rta_len        = total size,
                .rta_type       = type,
        } rta;
        struct old_structure struct;

        [ nested top-level attribute ]
        struct rtattr {
                .rta_len        = nest size,
                .rta_type       = type,
        } nest_attr;

        [ optional 0 .. n nested attributes ]
        struct rtattr {
                .rta_len        = private attribute len,
                .rta_type       = private attribute typ,
        } nested_attr;
        struct nested_data data;
};

Since both userspace and kernel deal correctly with attributes that are
larger than expected old versions will just parse the compat part and
ignore the rest.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:39 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 1092cb2197 [NETLINK]: attr: add nested compat attribute type
Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert
attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a
backwards compatible way.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:38 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 334a8132d9 [SKBUFF]: Keep track of writable header len of headerless clones
Currently NAT (and others) that want to modify cloned skbs copy them,
even if in the vast majority of cases its not necessary because the
skb is a clone made by TCP and the portion NAT wants to modify is
actually writable because TCP release the header reference before
cloning.

The problem is that there is no clean way for NAT to find out how
long the writable header area is, so this patch introduces skb->hdr_len
to hold this length. When a headerless skb is cloned skb->hdr_len
is set to the current headroom, for regular clones it is copied from
the original. A new function skb_clone_writable(skb, len) returns
whether the skb is writable up to len bytes from skb->data. To avoid
enlarging the skb the mac_len field is reduced to 16 bit and the
new hdr_len field is put in the remaining 16 bit.

I've done a few rough benchmarks of NAT (not with this exact patch,
but a very similar one). As expected it saves huge amounts of system
time in case of sendfile, bringing it down to basically the same
amount as without NAT, with sendmsg it only helps on loopback,
probably because of the large MTU.

Transmit a 1GB file using sendfile/sendmsg over eth0/lo with and
without NAT:

- sendfile eth0, no NAT:	sys     0m0.388s
- sendfile eth0, NAT:		sys     0m1.835s
- sendfile eth0: NAT + path:	sys     0m0.370s	(~ -80%)

- sendfile lo, no NAT:		sys     0m0.258s
- sendfile lo, NAT:		sys     0m2.609s
- sendfile lo, NAT + patch:	sys     0m0.260s	(~ -90%)

- sendmsg eth0, no NAT:		sys     0m2.508s
- sendmsg eth0, NAT:		sys     0m2.539s
- sendmsg eth0, NAT + patch:	sys     0m2.445s	(no change)

- sendmsg lo, no NAT:		sys	0m2.151s
- sendmsg lo, NAT:		sys     0m3.557s
- sendmsg lo, NAT + patch:	sys     0m2.159s	(~ -40%)

I expect other users can see a similar performance improvement,
packet mangling iptables targets, ipip and ip_gre come to mind ..

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:37 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 1e180f726a [KTIME]: Introduce ktime_add_us
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:26 -07:00
Gerrit Renker f1c91da447 [KTIME]: Introduce ktime_us_delta
This provides a reusable time difference function which returns the difference in
microseconds, as often used in the DCCP code.

Commiter note: renamed ktime_delta to ktime_us_delta and put it in ktime.h.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:25 -07:00