linux/net/core
Jason Wang f663dd9aaf net: core: explicitly select a txq before doing l2 forwarding
Currently, the tx queue were selected implicitly in ndo_dfwd_start_xmit(). The
will cause several issues:

- NETIF_F_LLTX were removed for macvlan, so txq lock were done for macvlan
  instead of lower device which misses the necessary txq synchronization for
  lower device such as txq stopping or frozen required by dev watchdog or
  control path.
- dev_hard_start_xmit() was called with NULL txq which bypasses the net device
  watchdog.
- dev_hard_start_xmit() does not check txq everywhere which will lead a crash
  when tso is disabled for lower device.

Fix this by explicitly introducing a new param for .ndo_select_queue() for just
selecting queues in the case of l2 forwarding offload. netdev_pick_tx() was also
extended to accept this parameter and dev_queue_xmit_accel() was used to do l2
forwarding transmission.

With this fixes, NETIF_F_LLTX could be preserved for macvlan and there's no need
to check txq against NULL in dev_hard_start_xmit(). Also there's no need to keep
a dedicated ndo_dfwd_start_xmit() and we can just reuse the code of
dev_queue_xmit() to do the transmission.

In the future, it was also required for macvtap l2 forwarding support since it
provides a necessary synchronization method.

Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-10 13:23:08 -05:00
..
datagram.c net, datagram: fix the incorrect comment in zerocopy_sg_from_iovec() 2013-10-29 00:19:04 -04:00
dev_addr_lists.c net, mc: fix the incorrect comments in two mc-related functions 2013-10-29 00:19:05 -04:00
dev_ioctl.c net: fix kernel deadlock with interface rename and netdev name retrieval. 2013-06-26 13:42:54 -07:00
dev.c net: core: explicitly select a txq before doing l2 forwarding 2014-01-10 13:23:08 -05:00
drop_monitor.c net: drop_monitor: fix the value of maxattr 2013-12-09 21:10:38 -05:00
dst.c net: pass info struct via netdevice notifier 2013-05-28 13:11:01 -07:00
ethtool.c net: Add layer 2 hardware acceleration operations for macvlan devices 2013-11-07 19:11:41 -05:00
fib_rules.c net: Fix "ip rule delete table 256" 2013-11-08 14:53:10 -05:00
filter.c net: fix unsafe set_memory_rw from softirq 2013-10-07 15:16:45 -04:00
flow_dissector.c net: core: explicitly select a txq before doing l2 forwarding 2014-01-10 13:23:08 -05:00
flow.c net: delete __cpuinit usage from all net files 2013-07-14 19:36:58 -04:00
gen_estimator.c net_sched: add 64bit rate estimators 2013-06-11 02:51:03 -07:00
gen_stats.c net_sched: add 64bit rate estimators 2013-06-11 02:51:03 -07:00
iovec.c net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
link_watch.c net: make all team port device link events urgent 2013-06-13 02:31:41 -07:00
Makefile net: move procfs code to net/core/net-procfs.c 2013-02-19 00:51:10 -05:00
neighbour.c vlan: Fix header ops passthru when doing TX VLAN offload. 2013-12-31 16:23:35 -05:00
net_namespace.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
net-procfs.c rps: selective flow shedding during softnet overflow 2013-05-20 13:48:04 -07:00
net-sysfs.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-11-13 17:40:34 +09:00
net-sysfs.h
net-traces.c
netevent.c
netpoll.c net: core: explicitly select a txq before doing l2 forwarding 2014-01-10 13:23:08 -05:00
netprio_cgroup.c cgroup: netprio: remove unnecessary task_netprioidx 2013-10-08 16:27:34 -04:00
pktgen.c {pktgen, xfrm} Update IPv4 header total len and checksum after tranformation 2013-12-01 20:33:52 -05:00
request_sock.c tcp: fix a panic on UP machines in reqsk_fastopen_remove 2013-01-14 18:10:05 -05:00
rtnetlink.c net: fix rtnl notification in atomic context 2013-10-25 19:03:45 -04:00
scm.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2013-09-07 14:35:32 -07:00
secure_seq.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-10-23 16:49:34 -04:00
skbuff.c net: clear local_df when passing skb between namespaces 2013-12-05 23:42:38 -05:00
sock_diag.c sock_diag: fix filter code sent to userspace 2013-06-10 22:23:32 -07:00
sock.c net: unix: allow set_peek_off to fail 2013-12-10 21:45:15 -05:00
stream.c net: add sk_stream_is_writeable() helper 2013-07-24 17:54:48 -07:00
sysctl_net_core.c qdisc: allow setting default queuing discipline 2013-08-31 00:32:32 -04:00
timestamping.c
user_dma.c
utils.c net: make net_get_random_once irq safe 2013-10-25 19:03:39 -04:00