user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/ipv6.h, branch v3.8-rc4

net: Add support for hardware-offloaded encapsulation

2012-12-09T05:20:28Z

This patch adds support in the kernel for offloading in the NIC Tx and Rx checksumming for encapsulated packets (such as VXLAN and IP GRE). For Tx encapsulation offload, the driver will need to set the right bits in netdev->hw_enc_features. The protocol driver will have to set the skb->encapsulation bit and populate the inner headers, so the NIC driver will use those inner headers to calculate the csum in hardware. For Rx encapsulation offload, the driver will need to set again the skb->encapsulation flag and the skb->ip_csum to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. In that case the protocol driver should push the decapsulated packet up to the stack, again with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. In ether case, the protocol driver should set the skb->encapsulation flag back to zero. Finally the protocol driver should have NETIF_F_RXCSUM flag set in its features. Signed-off-by: Joseph Gasparakis Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: move inet_dport/inet_num in sock_common

2012-11-30T20:02:56Z

commit 68835aba4d9b (net: optimize INET input path further) moved some fields used for tcp/udp sockets lookup in the first cache line of struct sock_common. This patch moves inet_dport/inet_num as well, filling a 32bit hole on 64 bit arches and reducing number of cache line misses in lookups. Also change INET_MATCH()/INET_TW_MATCH() to perform the ports match before addresses match, as this check is more discriminant. Remove the hash check from MATCH() macros because we dont need to re validate the hash value after taking a refcount on socket, and use likely/unlikely compiler hints, as the sk_hash/hash check makes the following conditional tests 100% predicted by cpu. Introduce skc_addrpair/skc_portpair pair values to better document the alignment requirements of the port/addr pairs used in the various MATCH() macros, and remove some casts. The namespace check can also be done at last. This slightly improves TCP/UDP lookup times. IP/TCP early demux needs inet->rx_dst_ifindex and TCP needs inet->min_ttl, lets group them together in same cache line. With help from Ben Hutchings & Joe Perches. Idea of this patch came after Ling Ma proposal to move skc_hash to the beginning of struct sock_common, and should allow him to submit a final version of his patch. My tests show an improvement doing so. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Ben Hutchings Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Ling Ma Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: add knob to send unsolicited ND on link-layer address change

2012-11-13T19:27:45Z

This patch introduces a new knob ndisc_notify. If enabled, the kernel will transmit an unsolicited neighbour advertisement on link-layer address change to update the neighbour tables of the corresponding hosts more quickly. This is the equivalent to arp_notify in ipv4 world. Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

2012-10-13T09:46:48Z

Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Dave Jones

netfilter: nf_conntrack_ipv6: improve fragmentation handling

2012-08-30T01:00:10Z

The IPv6 conntrack fragmentation currently has a couple of shortcomings. Fragmentes are collected in PREROUTING/OUTPUT, are defragmented, the defragmented packet is then passed to conntrack, the resulting conntrack information is attached to each original fragment and the fragments then continue their way through the stack. Helper invocation occurs in the POSTROUTING hook, at which point only the original fragments are available. The result of this is that fragmented packets are never passed to helpers. This patch improves the situation in the following way: - If a reassembled packet belongs to a connection that has a helper assigned, the reassembled packet is passed through the stack instead of the original fragments. - During defragmentation, the largest received fragment size is stored. On output, the packet is refragmented if required. If the largest received fragment size exceeds the outgoing MTU, a "packet too big" message is generated, thus behaving as if the original fragments were passed through the stack from an outside point of view. - The ipv6_helper() hook function can't receive fragments anymore for connections using a helper, so it is switched to use ipv6_skip_exthdr() instead of the netfilter specific nf_ct_ipv6_skip_exthdr() and the reassembled packets are passed to connection tracking helpers. The result of this is that we can properly track fragmented packets, but still generate ICMPv6 Packet too big messages if we would have before. This patch is also required as a precondition for IPv6 NAT, where NAT helpers might enlarge packets up to a point that they require fragmentation. In that case we can't generate Packet too big messages since the proper MTU can't be calculated in all cases (f.i. when changing textual representation of a variable amount of addresses), so the packet is transparently fragmented iff the original packet or fragments would have fit the outgoing MTU. IPVS parts by Jesper Dangaard Brouer . Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy

net: ipv6: fix TCP early demux

2012-08-06T20:33:21Z

IPv6 needs a cookie in dst_check() call. We need to add rx_dst_cookie and provide a family independent sk_rx_dst_set(sk, skb) method to properly support IPv6 TCP early demux. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: fix inet6_csk_xmit()

2012-07-18T15:59:58Z

We should provide to inet6_csk_route_socket a struct flowi6 pointer, so that net6_csk_xmit() works correctly instead of sending garbage. Also add some consts Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Yuchung Cheng Cc: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: Move ipv6 twsk accessors outside of CONFIG_IPV6 ifdefs.

2012-07-11T09:39:24Z

Fixes build when ipv6 is disabled. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: implement IP_RECVTOS for IP_PKTOPTIONS

2012-02-13T05:46:41Z

Currently, it is not easily possible to get TOS/DSCP value of packets from an incoming TCP stream. The mechanism is there, IP_PKTOPTIONS getsockopt with IP_RECVTOS set, the same way as incoming TTL can be queried. This is not actually implemented for TOS, though. This patch adds this functionality, both for IPv4 (IP_PKTOPTIONS) and IPv6 (IPV6_2292PKTOPTIONS). For IPv4, like in the IP_RECVTTL case, the value of the TOS field is stored from the other party's ACK. This is needed for proxies which require DSCP transparency. One such example is at http://zph.bratcheda.org/. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: helper function to get tclass

2012-02-13T05:45:38Z

Implement helper inline function to get traffic class from IPv6 header. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc Signed-off-by: David S. Miller