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authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>2014-01-10 16:18:26 +0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-01-10 13:23:08 -0500
commitf663dd9aaf9ed124f25f0f8452edf238f087ad50 (patch)
tree2aee7dfcfd373c6905de5b2a9f810f9e209156b6 /include/linux
parentb13ba1b83f524732523db1079e56478b32c85c96 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 5faaadb0c74f..ce2a1f5f9a1e 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -769,7 +769,8 @@ struct netdev_phys_port_id {
* (can also return NETDEV_TX_LOCKED iff NETIF_F_LLTX)
* Required can not be NULL.
*
- * u16 (*ndo_select_queue)(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb);
+ * u16 (*ndo_select_queue)(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
+ * void *accel_priv);
* Called to decide which queue to when device supports multiple
* transmit queues.
*
@@ -990,7 +991,8 @@ struct net_device_ops {
netdev_tx_t (*ndo_start_xmit) (struct sk_buff *skb,
struct net_device *dev);
u16 (*ndo_select_queue)(struct net_device *dev,
- struct sk_buff *skb);
+ struct sk_buff *skb,
+ void *accel_priv);
void (*ndo_change_rx_flags)(struct net_device *dev,
int flags);
void (*ndo_set_rx_mode)(struct net_device *dev);
@@ -1529,7 +1531,8 @@ static inline void netdev_for_each_tx_queue(struct net_device *dev,
}
struct netdev_queue *netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev,
- struct sk_buff *skb);
+ struct sk_buff *skb,
+ void *accel_priv);
u16 __netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb);
/*
@@ -1819,6 +1822,7 @@ int dev_close(struct net_device *dev);
void dev_disable_lro(struct net_device *dev);
int dev_loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *newskb);
int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb);
+int dev_queue_xmit_accel(struct sk_buff *skb, void *accel_priv);
int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev);
void unregister_netdevice_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head);
void unregister_netdevice_many(struct list_head *head);
@@ -2426,7 +2430,7 @@ int dev_change_carrier(struct net_device *, bool new_carrier);
int dev_get_phys_port_id(struct net_device *dev,
struct netdev_phys_port_id *ppid);
int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
- struct netdev_queue *txq, void *accel_priv);
+ struct netdev_queue *txq);
int dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb);
extern int netdev_budget;