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6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Matt Mackall
53fb95d3c1 [NETPOLL]: fix initialization/NAPI race
This fixes a race during initialization with the NAPI softirq
processing by using an RCU approach.

This race was discovered when refill_skbs() was added to
the setup code.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:27:43 -07:00
Matt Mackall
0db1d6fc1e [NETPOLL]: add retry timeout
Add limited retry logic to netpoll_send_skb

Each time we attempt to send, decrement our per-device retry counter.
On every successful send, we reset the counter. 

We delay 50us between attempts with up to 20000 retries for a total of
1 second. After we've exhausted our retries, subsequent failed
attempts will try only once until reset by success.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:25:54 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
fbeec2e155 [NETPOLL]: allow multiple netpoll_clients to register against one interface
This patch provides support for registering multiple netpoll clients to the
same network device.  Only one of these clients may register an rx_hook,
however.  In practice, this restriction has not been problematic.  It is
worth mentioning, though, that the current design can be easily extended to
allow for the registration of multiple rx_hooks.

The basic idea of the patch is that the rx_np pointer in the netpoll_info
structure points to the struct netpoll that has rx_hook filled in.  Aside
from this one case, there is no need for a pointer from the struct
net_device to an individual struct netpoll.

A lock is introduced to protect the setting and clearing of the np_rx
pointer.  The pointer will only be cleared upon netpoll client module
removal, and the lock should be uncontested.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:05:59 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
115c1d6e61 [NETPOLL]: Introduce a netpoll_info struct
This patch introduces a netpoll_info structure, which the struct net_device
will now point to instead of pointing to a struct netpoll.  The reason for
this is two-fold: 1) fields such as the rx_flags, poll_owner, and poll_lock
should be maintained per net_device, not per netpoll;  and 2) this is a first
step in providing support for multiple netpoll clients to register against the
same net_device.

The struct netpoll is now pointed to by the netpoll_info structure.  As
such, the previous behaviour of the code is preserved.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:05:31 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
6ca4f65e6b [NETPOLL]: Set poll_owner to -1 before unlocking in netpoll_poll_unlock()
This trivial patch moves the assignment of poll_owner to -1 inside of
the lock.  This fixes a potential SMP race in the code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:04:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00