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Linus Torvalds
0a01707b28 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (43 commits)
  [wireless] zd1211rw: workqueue-related build fixes
  [netdrvr] netxen: workqueue-related build fixes
  [PATCH] sky2: sparse warnings
  [PATCH] skge: fix sparse warnings
  [PATCH] myri10ge: write as 2 32-byte blocks in myri10ge_submit_8rx
  [PATCH] sky2: receive queue watermark tweak
  [PATCH] sky2: beter ram buffer partitioning
  [PATCH] sky2: add comments to PCI ids
  [PATCH] sky2: add PCI for 88ec033
  [PATCH] AT91RM9200 Ethernet: Use dev_alloc_skb()
  [PATCH] AT91RM9200 Ethernet: Add netpoll / netconsole support
  [PATCH] AT91RM9200 Ethernet: Move check_timer variable and use mod_timer()
  [PATCH] AT91RM9200 Ethernet: Remove 'at91_dev' and use netdev_priv()
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix debug output endian issue
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix a typo
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Update version stamp to 1.2.0
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Add IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_TSFT for promiscuous mode
  [PATCH] softmac: fix unbalanced mutex_lock/unlock in ieee80211softmac_wx_set_mlme
  [PATCH] softmac: Fixed handling of deassociation from AP
  [PATCH] ipw2200: replace kmalloc+memset with kcalloc
  ...
2006-12-07 09:09:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2685b267bc Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (48 commits)
  [NETFILTER]: Fix non-ANSI func. decl.
  [TG3]: Identify Serdes devices more clearly.
  [TG3]: Use msleep.
  [TG3]: Use netif_msg_*.
  [TG3]: Allow partial speed advertisement.
  [TG3]: Add TG3_FLG2_IS_NIC flag.
  [TG3]: Add 5787F device ID.
  [TG3]: Fix Phy loopback.
  [WANROUTER]: Kill kmalloc debugging code.
  [TCP] inet_twdr_hangman: Delete unnecessary memory barrier().
  [NET]: Memory barrier cleanups
  [IPSEC]: Fix inetpeer leak in ipv4 xfrm dst entries.
  audit: disable ipsec auditing when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n
  audit: Add auditing to ipsec
  [IRDA] irlan: Fix compile warning when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
  [IrDA]: Incorrect TTP header reservation
  [IrDA]: PXA FIR code device model conversion
  [GENETLINK]: Fix misplaced command flags.
  [NETLIK]: Add a pointer to the Generic Netlink wiki page.
  [IPV6] RAW: Don't release unlocked sock.
  ...
2006-12-07 09:05:15 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
304e61e6fb [PATCH] net: don't insert socket dentries into dentry_hashtable
We currently insert socket dentries into the global dentry hashtable.  This
is suboptimal because there is currently no way these entries can be used
for a lookup().  (/proc/xxx/fd/xxx uses a different mechanism).  Inserting
them in dentry hashtable slows dcache lookups.

To let __dpath() still work correctly (ie not adding a " (deleted)") after
dentry name, we do :

- Right after d_alloc(), pretend they are hashed by clearing the
  DCACHE_UNHASHED bit.

- Call d_instantiate() instead of d_add() : dentry is not inserted in
  hash table.

  __dpath() & friends work as intended during dentry lifetime.

- At dismantle time, once dput() must clear the dentry, setting again
  DCACHE_UNHASHED bit inside the custom d_delete() function provided by
  socket code, so that dput() can just kill_it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:41 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
0231606785 [PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use
There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn,
prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus
generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add
#ifdefs.

the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.before
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.after

[akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:39 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
6cfd76a26d [PATCH] lockdep: name some old style locks
Name some of the remaning 'old_style_spin_init' locks

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
ed07536ed6 [PATCH] lockdep: annotate nfs/nfsd in-kernel sockets
Stick NFS sockets in their own class to avoid some lockdep warnings.  NFS
sockets are never exposed to user-space, and will hence not trigger certain
code paths that would otherwise pose deadlock scenarios.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
[ Fixed patch corruption by quilt, pointed out by Peter Zijlstra ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:30 -08:00
Nigel Cunningham
7dfb71030f [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so
that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require
recompiling just about everything.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver]
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e18b890bb0 [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e94b176609 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL
SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:24 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
54e6ecb239 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_ATOMIC
SLAB_ATOMIC is an alias of GFP_ATOMIC

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:24 -08:00
Alan Stern
a120586873 [PATCH] Allow NULL pointers in percpu_free
The patch (as824b) makes percpu_free() ignore NULL arguments, as one would
expect for a deallocation routine.  (Note that free_percpu is #defined as
percpu_free in include/linux/percpu.h.) A few callers are updated to remove
now-unneeded tests for NULL.  A few other callers already seem to assume
that passing a NULL pointer to percpu_free() is okay!

The patch also removes an unnecessary NULL check in percpu_depopulate().

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
b30973f877 [PATCH] node-aware skb allocation
Node-aware allocation of skbs for the receive path.

Details:

  - __alloc_skb gets a new node argument and cals the node-aware
    slab functions with it.
  - netdev_alloc_skb passed the node number it gets from dev_to_node
    to it, everyone else passes -1 (any node)

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
359f2d17e3 Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.h
	net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c
2006-12-07 05:02:40 -05:00
Randy Dunlap
272491ef42 [NETFILTER]: Fix non-ANSI func. decl.
Fix non-ANSI function declaration:
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:1096:25: warning: non-ANSI function declaration of function 'nf_conntrack_flush'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-07 01:17:24 -08:00
David S. Miller
456c38f968 [WANROUTER]: Kill kmalloc debugging code.
It duplicates what SLAB debug can do already.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-07 00:18:22 -08:00
David S. Miller
905eee008b [TCP] inet_twdr_hangman: Delete unnecessary memory barrier().
As per Ralf Baechle's observations, the schedule_work() call
should give enough of a memory barrier, so the explicit one
here is totally unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-07 00:12:30 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
e16aa207cc [NET]: Memory barrier cleanups
I believe all the below memory barriers only matter on SMP so
therefore the smp_* variant of the barrier should be used.

I'm wondering if the barrier in net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c should be
dropped entirely.  schedule_work's implementation currently implies a
memory barrier and I think sane semantics of schedule_work() should imply
a memory barrier, as needed so the caller shouldn't have to worry.
It's not quite obvious why the barrier in net/packet/af_packet.c is
needed; maybe it should be implied through flush_dcache_page?

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-07 00:11:33 -08:00
David S. Miller
26db167702 [IPSEC]: Fix inetpeer leak in ipv4 xfrm dst entries.
We grab a reference to the route's inetpeer entry but
forget to release it in xfrm4_dst_destroy().

Bug discovered by Kazunori MIYAZAWA <kazunori@miyazawa.org>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 23:45:15 -08:00
Joy Latten
c9204d9ca7 audit: disable ipsec auditing when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n
Disables auditing in ipsec when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is
disabled in the kernel.

Also includes a bug fix for xfrm_state.c as a result of
original ipsec audit patch.

Signed-off-by: Joy Latten <latten@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 20:14:23 -08:00
Joy Latten
161a09e737 audit: Add auditing to ipsec
An audit message occurs when an ipsec SA
or ipsec policy is created/deleted.

Signed-off-by: Joy Latten <latten@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 20:14:22 -08:00
Jeet Chaudhuri
e694ba4428 [IrDA]: Incorrect TTP header reservation
We must reserve SAR + MAX_HEADER bytes for IrLMP to fit in.

Patch from Jeet Chaudhuri <jeetlinux@yahoo.co.in>

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 20:08:45 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
48d4ed7a86 [GENETLINK]: Fix misplaced command flags.
The command flags for dump and do were swapped..

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 20:06:25 -08:00
Masahide NAKAMURA
4e33fa14fa [IPV6] RAW: Don't release unlocked sock.
When user builds IPv6 header and send it through raw socket, kernel
tries to release unlocked sock. (Kernel log shows
"BUG: bad unlock balance detected" with enabled debug option.)

The lock is held only for non-hdrincl sock in this function
then this patch fix to do nothing about lock for hdrincl one.

Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 18:39:09 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
9a217a1c7e [IPV6]: Repair IPv6 Fragments
The commit "[IPV6]: Use kmemdup" (commit-id:
af879cc704) broke IPv6 fragments.

Bug was spotted by Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 18:39:08 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
5c804bfdcc [NET_SCHED]: cls_fw: fix NULL pointer dereference
When the first fw classifier is initialized, there is a small window
between the ->init() and ->change() calls, during which the classifier
is active but not entirely set up and tp->root is still NULL (->init()
does nothing).

When a packet is queued during this window a NULL pointer dereference
occurs in fw_classify() when trying to dereference head->mask;

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 18:39:07 -08:00
Bart De Schuymer
f216f082b2 [NETFILTER]: bridge netfilter: deal with martians correctly
The attached patch resolves an issue where a IP DNATed packet with a
martian source is forwarded while it's better to drop it. It also
resolves messages complaining about ip forwarding being disabled while
it's actually enabled. Thanks to lepton <ytht.net@gmail.com> for
reporting this problem.

This is probably a candidate for the -stable release.

Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 18:39:06 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
ece006416d [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Don't try to find clashed expectation
The original code continues loop to find expectation in list if the master
conntrack of the found expectation is unconfirmed. But it never success
in that case, because nf_conntrack_expect_related() never insert
clashed expectation to the list.

This stops loop in that case.

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>
2006-12-06 18:39:05 -08:00
Dmitry Mishin
f6677f4312 [NETFILTER]: Fix iptables compat hook validation
In compat mode, matches and targets valid hooks checks always successful due
to not initialized e->comefrom field yet. This patch separates this checks from
translation code and moves them after mark_source_chains() call, where these
marks are initialized.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by; Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 18:39:03 -08:00
Dmitry Mishin
74c9c0c17d [NETFILTER]: Fix {ip,ip6,arp}_tables hook validation
Commit 590bdf7fd2 introduced a regression
in match/target hook validation. mark_source_chains builds a bitmask
for each rule representing the hooks it can be reached from, which is
then used by the matches and targets to make sure they are only called
from valid hooks. The patch moved the match/target specific validation
before the mark_source_chains call, at which point the mask is always zero.

This patch returns back to the old order and moves the standard checks
to mark_source_chains. This allows to get rid of a special case for
standard targets as a nice side-effect.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 18:39:02 -08:00
Kazunori MIYAZAWA
7cf4c1a5fd [IPSEC]: Add support for AES-XCBC-MAC
The glue of xfrm.

Signed-off-by: Kazunori MIYAZAWA <miyazawa@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-12-06 18:38:51 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
94b9bb5480 [XFRM] Optimize SA dumping
Same comments as in "[XFRM] Optimize policy dumping"

The numbers are (20K SAs):
2006-12-06 18:38:45 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
baf5d743d1 [XFRM] Optimize policy dumping
This change optimizes the dumping of Security policies.

1) Before this change ..
speedopolis:~# time ./ip xf pol

real    0m22.274s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m22.269s

2) Turn off sub-policies

speedopolis:~# ./ip xf pol

real    0m13.496s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m13.493s

i suppose the above is to be expected

3) With this change ..
speedopolis:~# time ./ip x policy

real    0m7.901s
user    0m0.008s
sys     0m7.896s
2006-12-06 18:38:44 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
1b6651f1bf [XFRM]: Use output device disable_xfrm for forwarded packets
Currently the behaviour of disable_xfrm is inconsistent between
locally generated and forwarded packets. For locally generated
packets disable_xfrm disables the policy lookup if it is set on
the output device, for forwarded traffic however it looks at the
input device. This makes it impossible to disable xfrm on all
devices but a dummy device and use normal routing to direct
traffic to that device.

Always use the output device when checking disable_xfrm.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 18:38:43 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
334c29a645 [GENETLINK]: Move command capabilities to flags.
This patch moves command capabilities to command flags. Other than
being cleaner, saves several bytes.
We increment the nlctrl version so as to signal to user space that
to not expect the attributes. We will try to be careful
not to do this too often ;->

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 18:38:41 -08:00
Maxime Austruy
cc8ce997d2 [PATCH] softmac: fix unbalanced mutex_lock/unlock in ieee80211softmac_wx_set_mlme
Routine ieee80211softmac_wx_set_mlme has one return that fails
to release a mutex acquired at entry.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Austruy <maxime@tralhalla.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-12-05 19:31:33 -05:00
Ulrich Kunitz
2b50c24554 [PATCH] softmac: Fixed handling of deassociation from AP
In 2.6.19 a deauthentication from the AP doesn't start a
reassociation by the softmac code. It appears that
mac->associnfo.associating must be set and the
ieee80211softmac_assoc_work function must be scheduled. This patch
fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-12-05 19:31:33 -05:00
David Howells
9db7372445 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
	include/linux/libata.h

Futher merge of Linus's head and compilation fixups.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 17:01:28 +00:00
David Howells
4c1ac1b491 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
	drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
	drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
	drivers/usb/core/hub.h
	drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
	net/core/netpoll.c

Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 14:37:56 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
9b8ab9f6c3 Merge branch 'for-linus4' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bird
* 'for-linus4' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bird:
  [PATCH] severing poll.h -> mm.h
  [PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> mm.h
  [PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> poll.h
  [PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> highmem.h
  [PATCH] severing uaccess.h -> sched.h
  [PATCH] severing fs.h, radix-tree.h -> sched.h
  [PATCH] severing module.h->sched.h
2006-12-04 10:37:06 -08:00
Al Viro
d7fe0f241d [PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> mm.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-04 02:00:34 -05:00
Al Viro
a1f8e7f7fb [PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> highmem.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-04 02:00:29 -05:00
David S. Miller
83ac58ba0a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6 2006-12-03 19:24:40 -08:00
David S. Miller
b4ad86bf52 [XFRM] xfrm_user: Better validation of user templates.
Since we never checked the ->family value of templates
before, many applications simply leave it at zero.
Detect this and fix it up to be the pol->family value.

Also, do not clobber xp->family while reading in templates,
that is not necessary.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-03 19:19:26 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
2bbf29acd8 [DCCP] tfrc: Binary search for reverse TFRC lookup
This replaces the linear search algorithm for reverse lookup with
binary search.

It has the advantage of better scalability: O(log2(N)) instead of O(N).
This means that the average number of iterations is reduced from 250
(linear search if each value appears equally likely) down to at most 9.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03 14:53:27 -02:00
Gerrit Renker
44158306d7 [DCCP] ccid3: Deprecate TFRC_SMALLEST_P
This patch deprecates the existing use of an arbitrary value TFRC_SMALLEST_P
 for low-threshold values of p. This avoids masking low-resolution errors.
 Instead, the code now checks against real boundaries (implemented by preceding
 patch) and provides warnings whenever a real value falls below the threshold.

 If such messages are observed, it is a better solution to take this as an
 indication that the lookup table needs to be re-engineered.

Changelog:
----------
 This patch
   * makes handling all TFRC resolution errors local to the TFRC library

   * removes unnecessary test whether X_calc is 'infinity' due to p==0 -- this
     condition is already caught by tfrc_calc_x()

   * removes setting ccid3hctx_p = TFRC_SMALLEST_P in ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv
     since this is now done by the TFRC library

   * updates BUG_ON test in ccid3_hc_tx_no_feedback_timer to take into account
     that p now is either 0 (and then X_calc is irrelevant), or it is > 0; since
     the handling of TFRC_SMALLEST_P is now taken care of in the tfrc library

Justification:
--------------
 The TFRC code uses a lookup table which has a bounded resolution.
 The lowest possible value of the loss event rate `p' which can be
 resolved is currently 0.0001.  Substituting this lower threshold for
 p when p is less than 0.0001 results in a huge, exponentially-growing
 error.  The error can be computed by the following formula:

    (f(0.0001) - f(p))/f(p) * 100      for p < 0.0001

 Currently the solution is to use an (arbitrary) value
     TFRC_SMALLEST_P  =   40 * 1E-6   =   0.00004
 and to consider all values below this value as `virtually zero'.  Due to
 the exponentially growing resolution error, this is not a good idea, since
 it hides the fact that the table can not resolve practically occurring cases.
 Already at p == TFRC_SMALLEST_P, the error is as high as 58.19%!

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03 14:53:07 -02:00
Gerrit Renker
006042d7e1 [DCCP] tfrc: Identify TFRC table limits and simplify code
This
 * adds documentation about the lowest resolution that is possible within
   the bounds of the current lookup table
 * defines a constant TFRC_SMALLEST_P which defines this resolution
 * issues a warning if a given value of p is below resolution
 * combines two previously adjacent if-blocks of nearly identical
   structure into one

This patch does not change the algorithm as such.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03 14:52:41 -02:00
Gerrit Renker
8d0086adac [DCCP] tfrc: Add protection against invalid parameters to TFRC routines
1) For the forward X_calc lookup, it
    * protects effectively against RTT=0 (this case is possible), by
      returning the maximal lookup value instead of just setting it to 1
    * reformulates the array-bounds exceeded condition: this only happens
      if p is greater than 1E6 (due to the scaling)
    * the case of negative indices can now with certainty be excluded,
      since documentation shows that the formulas are within bounds
    * additional protection against p = 0 (would give divide-by-zero)

 2) For the reverse lookup, it warns against
    * protects against exceeding array bounds
    * now returns 0 if f(p) = 0, due to function definition
    * warns about minimal resolution error and returns the smallest table
      value instead of p=0 [this would mask congestion conditions]

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03 14:52:26 -02:00
Gerrit Renker
90fb0e60dd [DCCP] tfrc: Fix small error in reverse lookup of p for given f(p)
This fixes the following small error in tfrc_calc_x_reverse_lookup.

 1) The table is generated by the following equations:
	lookup[index][0] = g((index+1) * 1000000/TFRC_CALC_X_ARRSIZE);
	lookup[index][1] = g((index+1) * TFRC_CALC_X_SPLIT/TFRC_CALC_X_ARRSIZE);
    where g(q) is 1E6 * f(q/1E6)

 2) The reverse lookup assigns an entry in lookup[index][small]

 3) This index needs to match the above, i.e.
    * if small=0 then

      		p  = (index + 1) * 1000000/TFRC_CALC_X_ARRSIZE

    * if small=1 then

		p = (index+1) * TFRC_CALC_X_SPLIT/TFRC_CALC_X_ARRSIZE

These are exactly the changes that the patch makes; previously the code did
not conform to the way the lookup table was generated (this difference resulted
in a mean error of about 1.12%).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03 14:52:01 -02:00
Gerrit Renker
50ab46c790 [DCCP] tfrc: Document boundaries and limits of the TFRC lookup table
This adds documentation for the TCP Reno throughput equation which is at
the heart of the TFRC sending rate / loss rate calculations.

It spells out precisely how the values were determined and what they mean.
The equations were derived through reverse engineering and found to be
fully accurate (verified using test programs).

This patch does not change any code.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03 14:51:29 -02:00
Gerrit Renker
26af3072b0 [DCCP] ccid3: Fix warning message about illegal ACK
This avoids a (harmless) warning message being printed at the DCCP server
(the receiver of a DCCP half connection).

Incoming packets are both directed to

 * ccid_hc_rx_packet_recv() for the server half
 * ccid_hc_tx_packet_recv() for the client half

The message gets printed since on a server the client half is currently not
sending data packets.
This is resolved for the moment by checking the DCCP-role first. In future
times (bidirectional DCCP connections), this test may have to be more
sophisticated.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03 14:51:14 -02:00