From: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type"
Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Victor Fuscoauthored and David S. Millercommited 2005-07-08 14:57:47 -07:00
A trivial patch to improve the readability of dev_set_promiscuity()
in net/core/dev.c. New code does exactly the same thing as original
code.
Signed-off-by: David Chau <ddcc@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David Chauauthored and David S. Millercommited 2005-07-05 15:11:06 -07:00
Separate out the two uses of netdev_max_backlog. One controls the
upper bound on packets processed per softirq, the new name for this is
netdev_budget; the other controls the limit on packets queued via
netif_rx.
Increase the max_backlog default to account for faster processors.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2005-06-23 20:14:40 -07:00
Eliminate the throttling behaviour when the netif receive queue fills
because it behaves badly when using high speed networks under load.
The throttling cause multiple packet drops that cause TCP to go into
slow start mode. The same effective patch has been part of BIC TCP and
H-TCP as well as part of Web100.
The existing code drops 100's of packets when the queue fills;
this changes it to individual packet drop-tail.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemmminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2005-06-23 20:12:48 -07:00
Remove the congestion sensing mechanism from netif_rx, and always
return either full or empty. Almost no driver checks the return value
from netif_rx, and those that do only use it for debug messages.
The original design of netif_rx was to do flow control based on the
receive queue, but NAPI has supplanted this and no driver uses the
feedback.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2005-06-23 20:10:00 -07:00
Remove last vestiages of fastroute code that is no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2005-06-23 20:08:59 -07:00
Changing the sysctl net.core.dev_weight has no effect because the weight
of the backlog devices is set during initialization and never changed.
This patch propagates any changes to the global value affected by sysctl
to the per-cpu devices. It is done every time the packet handler
function is run.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2005-06-08 14:56:01 -07:00
Resend of earlier patch (no changes) from Catalin used to provide
device feature change notification.
Signed-off-by: Catalin BOIE <catab at umbrella.ro>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2005-05-29 14:13:47 -07:00
Ross moved. Remove the bad email address so people will find the correct
one in ./CREDITS.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhlauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2005-05-05 16:36:49 -07:00
This patch changes calls to synchronize_kernel(), deprecated in the earlier
"Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement" patch to instead call the new
synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() APIs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul E. McKenneyauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2005-05-01 08:59:04 -07:00
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!
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