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* treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13Thomas Gleixner2019-05-211-13/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Based on 2 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details [based] [from] [clk] [highbank] [c] you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 355 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Jilayne Lovejoy <opensource@jilayne.com> Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow <swinslow@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190519154041.837383322@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* ibmveth: Support to enable LSO/CSO for Trunk VEA.Sivakumar Krishnasamy2017-05-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Current largesend and checksum offload feature in ibmveth driver, - Source VM sends the TCP packets with ip_summed field set as CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and TCP pseudo header checksum is placed in checksum field - CHECKSUM_PARTIAL flag in SKB will enable ibmveth driver to mark "no checksum" and "checksum good" bits in transmit buffer descriptor before the packet is delivered to pseries PowerVM Hypervisor - If ibmveth has largesend capability enabled, transmit buffer descriptors are market accordingly before packet is delivered to Hypervisor (along with mss value for packets with length > MSS) - Destination VM's ibmveth driver receives the packet with "checksum good" bit set and so, SKB's ip_summed field is set with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY - If "largesend" bit was on, mss value is copied from receive descriptor into SKB's gso_size and other flags are appropriately set for packets > MSS size - The packet is now successfully delivered up the stack in destination VM The offloads described above works fine for TCP communication among VMs in the same pseries server ( VM A <=> PowerVM Hypervisor <=> VM B ) We are now enabling support for OVS in pseries PowerVM environment. One of our requirements is to have ibmveth driver configured in "Trunk" mode, when they are used with OVS. This is because, PowerVM Hypervisor will no more bridge the packets between VMs, instead the packets are delivered to IO Server which hosts OVS to bridge them between VMs or to external networks (flow shown below), VM A <=> PowerVM Hypervisor <=> IO Server(OVS) <=> PowerVM Hypervisor <=> VM B In "IO server" the packet is received by inbound Trunk ibmveth and then delivered to OVS, which is then bridged to outbound Trunk ibmveth (shown below), Inbound Trunk ibmveth <=> OVS <=> Outbound Trunk ibmveth In this model, we hit the following issues which impacted the VM communication performance, - Issue 1: ibmveth doesn't support largesend and checksum offload features when configured as "Trunk". Driver has explicit checks to prevent enabling these offloads. - Issue 2: SYN packet drops seen at destination VM. When the packet originates, it has CHECKSUM_PARTIAL flag set and as it gets delivered to IO server's inbound Trunk ibmveth, on validating "checksum good" bits in ibmveth receive routine, SKB's ip_summed field is set with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY flag. This packet is then bridged by OVS (or Linux Bridge) and delivered to outbound Trunk ibmveth. At this point the outbound ibmveth transmit routine will not set "no checksum" and "checksum good" bits in transmit buffer descriptor, as it does so only when the ip_summed field is CHECKSUM_PARTIAL. When this packet gets delivered to destination VM, TCP layer receives the packet with checksum value of 0 and with no checksum related flags in ip_summed field. This leads to packet drops. So, TCP connections never goes through fine. - Issue 3: First packet of a TCP connection will be dropped, if there is no OVS flow cached in datapath. OVS while trying to identify the flow, computes the checksum. The computed checksum will be invalid at the receiving end, as ibmveth transmit routine zeroes out the pseudo checksum value in the packet. This leads to packet drop. - Issue 4: ibmveth driver doesn't have support for SKB's with frag_list. When Physical NIC has GRO enabled and when OVS bridges these packets, OVS vport send code will end up calling dev_queue_xmit, which in turn calls validate_xmit_skb. In validate_xmit_skb routine, the larger packets will get segmented into MSS sized segments, if SKB has a frag_list and if the driver to which they are delivered to doesn't support NETIF_F_FRAGLIST feature. This patch addresses the above four issues, thereby enabling end to end largesend and checksum offload support for better performance. - Fix for Issue 1 : Remove checks which prevent enabling TCP largesend and checksum offloads. - Fix for Issue 2 : When ibmveth receives a packet with "checksum good" bit set and if its configured in Trunk mode, set appropriate SKB fields using skb_partial_csum_set (ip_summed field is set with CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) - Fix for Issue 3: Recompute the pseudo header checksum before sending the SKB up the stack. - Fix for Issue 4: Linearize the SKBs with frag_list. Though we end up allocating buffers and copying data, this fix gives upto 4X throughput increase. Note: All these fixes need to be dropped together as fixing just one of them will lead to other issues immediately (especially for Issues 1,2 & 3). Signed-off-by: Sivakumar Krishnasamy <ksiva@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: ibmveth: Remove unused stats member from struct ibmveth_adapterTobias Klauser2017-03-281-1/+0Star
| | | | | | | | The ibmveth driver keeps its statistics in net_device->stats, so the stats member in struct ibmveth_adapter is unused. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ibmveth: set correct gso_size and gso_typeThomas Falcon2016-12-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is based on an earlier one submitted by Jon Maxwell with the following commit message: "We recently encountered a bug where a few customers using ibmveth on the same LPAR hit an issue where a TCP session hung when large receive was enabled. Closer analysis revealed that the session was stuck because the one side was advertising a zero window repeatedly. We narrowed this down to the fact the ibmveth driver did not set gso_size which is translated by TCP into the MSS later up the stack. The MSS is used to calculate the TCP window size and as that was abnormally large, it was calculating a zero window, even although the sockets receive buffer was completely empty." We rely on the Virtual I/O Server partition in a pseries environment to provide the MSS through the TCP header checksum field. The stipulation is that users should not disable checksum offloading if rx packet aggregation is enabled through VIOS. Some firmware offerings provide the MSS in the RX buffer. This is signalled by a bit in the RX queue descriptor. Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pradeep Satyanarayana <pradeeps@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Dai <zdai@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ibmveth: add support for TSO6Thomas Falcon2015-07-161-3/+15
| | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for a new method of signalling the firmware that TSO packets are being sent. The new method removes the need to alter the ip and tcp checksums and allows TSO6 support. Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ibmveth: Add support for Large Receive OffloadThomas Falcon2015-04-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Enables receiving large packets from other LPARs. These packets have a -1 IP header checksum, so we must recalculate to have a valid checksum. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ibmveth: Add support for TSOThomas Falcon2015-04-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Add support for TSO. TSO is turned off by default and must be enabled and configured by the user. The driver version number is increased so that users can be sure that they are using ibmveth with TSO support. Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ibmveth: change rx buffer default allocation for CMOThomas Falcon2015-04-301-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | This patch enables 64k rx buffer pools by default. If Cooperative Memory Overcommitment (CMO) is enabled, the number of 64k buffers is reduced to save memory. Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ibmveth: Fix endian issues with MAC addressesAnton Blanchard2014-03-061-1/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code to load a MAC address into a u64 for passing to the hypervisor via a register is broken on little endian. Create a helper function called ibmveth_encode_mac_addr which does the right thing in both big and little endian. We were storing the MAC address in a long in struct ibmveth_adapter. It's never used so remove it - we don't need another place in the driver where we create endian issues with MAC addresses. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ethernet: Fix FSF address in file headersJeff Kirsher2013-12-061-2/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several files refer to an old address for the Free Software Foundation in the file header comment. Resolve by replacing the address with the URL <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> so that we do not have to keep updating the header comments anytime the address changes. CC: Santosh Raspatur <santosh@chelsio.com> CC: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com> CC: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> CC: Santiago Leon <santil@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> CC: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> CC: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com> CC: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@qlogic.com> CC: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@qlogic.com> CC: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> CC: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ibmveth: Fix little endian issuesAnton Blanchard2013-09-041-3/+16
| | | | | | | | The hypervisor is big endian, so little endian kernel builds need to byteswap. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ehea/ibm*: Move the IBM driversJeff Kirsher2011-08-111-0/+195
Move the IBM drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ and make the necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes. - Renamed ibm_new_emac to emac - Cleaned up Makefile and Kconfig options which referred to IBM_NEW_EMAC to IBM_EMAC - ibmlana driver is a National Semiconductor SONIC driver so it was not moved CC: Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com> CC: Santiago Leon <santil@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> CC: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> CC: Kyle Lucke <klucke@us.ibm.com> CC: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>