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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-03-26 15:54:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-03-26 15:54:36 -0700
commit13220a94d35708d5378114e96ffcc88d0a74fe99 (patch)
treebe6530677d5f9536c7211e05ba012923e4c0b307 /drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
parent8690d8a9f6c2d5728a9c9f68231f1bb4de109e3a (diff)
parent08abe18af1f78ee80c3c3a5ac47c3e0ae0beadf6 (diff)
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1750 commits) ixgbe: Allow Priority Flow Control settings to survive a device reset net: core: remove unneeded include in net/core/utils.c. e1000e: update version number e1000e: fix close interrupt race e1000e: fix loss of multicast packets e1000e: commonize tx cleanup routine to match e1000 & igb netfilter: fix nf_logger name in ebt_ulog. netfilter: fix warning in ebt_ulog init function. netfilter: fix warning about invalid const usage e1000: fix close race with interrupt e1000: cleanup clean_tx_irq routine so that it completely cleans ring e1000: fix tx hang detect logic and address dma mapping issues bridge: bad error handling when adding invalid ether address bonding: select current active slave when enslaving device for mode tlb and alb gianfar: reallocate skb when headroom is not enough for fcb Bump release date to 25Mar2009 and version to 0.22 r6040: Fix second PHY address qeth: fix wait_event_timeout handling qeth: check for completion of a running recovery qeth: unregister MAC addresses during recovery. ... Manually fixed up conflicts in: drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/cxio_hal.h drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_nic.c
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c120
1 files changed, 90 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
index 63fe708..6b1fe7a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
@@ -28,13 +28,12 @@
* space and from the other side. The world is (sadly) configured to
* take in only Ethernet devices...
*
- * Because of this, currently there is an copy-each-rxed-packet
- * overhead on the RX path. Each IP packet has to be reallocated to
- * add an ethernet header (as there is no space in what we get from
- * the device). This is a known drawback and coming versions of the
- * device's firmware are being changed to add header space that can be
- * used to insert the ethernet header without having to reallocate and
- * copy.
+ * Because of this, when using firmwares <= v1.3, there is an
+ * copy-each-rxed-packet overhead on the RX path. Each IP packet has
+ * to be reallocated to add an ethernet header (as there is no space
+ * in what we get from the device). This is a known drawback and
+ * firmwares >= 1.4 add header space that can be used to insert the
+ * ethernet header without having to reallocate and copy.
*
* TX error handling is tricky; because we have to FIFO/queue the
* buffers for transmission (as the hardware likes it aggregated), we
@@ -67,7 +66,9 @@
* i2400m_tx_timeout Called when the device times out
*
* i2400m_net_rx Called by the RX code when a data frame is
- * available.
+ * available (firmware <= 1.3)
+ * i2400m_net_erx Called by the RX code when a data frame is
+ * available (firmware >= 1.4).
* i2400m_netdev_setup Called to setup all the netdev stuff from
* alloc_netdev.
*/
@@ -396,30 +397,18 @@ void i2400m_tx_timeout(struct net_device *net_dev)
* Create a fake ethernet header
*
* For emulating an ethernet device, every received IP header has to
- * be prefixed with an ethernet header.
- *
- * What we receive has (potentially) many IP packets concatenated with
- * no ETH_HLEN bytes prefixed. Thus there is no space for an eth
- * header.
- *
- * We would have to reallocate or do ugly fragment tricks in order to
- * add it.
- *
- * But what we do is use the header space of the RX transaction
- * (*msg_hdr) as we don't need it anymore; then we'll point all the
- * data skbs there, as they share the same backing store.
- *
- * We only support IPv4 for v3 firmware.
+ * be prefixed with an ethernet header. Fake it with the given
+ * protocol.
*/
static
void i2400m_rx_fake_eth_header(struct net_device *net_dev,
- void *_eth_hdr)
+ void *_eth_hdr, __be16 protocol)
{
struct ethhdr *eth_hdr = _eth_hdr;
memcpy(eth_hdr->h_dest, net_dev->dev_addr, sizeof(eth_hdr->h_dest));
memset(eth_hdr->h_source, 0, sizeof(eth_hdr->h_dest));
- eth_hdr->h_proto = __constant_cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_IP);
+ eth_hdr->h_proto = protocol;
}
@@ -432,6 +421,13 @@ void i2400m_rx_fake_eth_header(struct net_device *net_dev,
* @buf: pointer to the buffer containing the data
* @len: buffer's length
*
+ * This is only used now for the v1.3 firmware. It will be deprecated
+ * in >= 2.6.31.
+ *
+ * Note that due to firmware limitations, we don't have space to add
+ * an ethernet header, so we need to copy each packet. Firmware
+ * versions >= v1.4 fix this [see i2400m_net_erx()].
+ *
* We just clone the skb and set it up so that it's skb->data pointer
* points to "buf" and it's length.
*
@@ -478,7 +474,8 @@ void i2400m_net_rx(struct i2400m *i2400m, struct sk_buff *skb_rx,
memcpy(skb_put(skb, buf_len), buf, buf_len);
}
i2400m_rx_fake_eth_header(i2400m->wimax_dev.net_dev,
- skb->data - ETH_HLEN);
+ skb->data - ETH_HLEN,
+ cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_IP));
skb_set_mac_header(skb, -ETH_HLEN);
skb->dev = i2400m->wimax_dev.net_dev;
skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IP);
@@ -494,6 +491,73 @@ error_skb_realloc:
}
+/*
+ * i2400m_net_erx - pass a network packet to the stack (extended version)
+ *
+ * @i2400m: device descriptor
+ * @skb: the skb where the packet is - the skb should be set to point
+ * at the IP packet; this function will add ethernet headers if
+ * needed.
+ * @cs: packet type
+ *
+ * This is only used now for firmware >= v1.4. Note it is quite
+ * similar to i2400m_net_rx() (used only for v1.3 firmware).
+ *
+ * This function is normally run from a thread context. However, we
+ * still use netif_rx() instead of netif_receive_skb() as was
+ * recommended in the mailing list. Reason is in some stress tests
+ * when sending/receiving a lot of data we seem to hit a softlock in
+ * the kernel's TCP implementation [aroudn tcp_delay_timer()]. Using
+ * netif_rx() took care of the issue.
+ *
+ * This is, of course, still open to do more research on why running
+ * with netif_receive_skb() hits this softlock. FIXME.
+ */
+void i2400m_net_erx(struct i2400m *i2400m, struct sk_buff *skb,
+ enum i2400m_cs cs)
+{
+ struct net_device *net_dev = i2400m->wimax_dev.net_dev;
+ struct device *dev = i2400m_dev(i2400m);
+ int protocol;
+
+ d_fnstart(2, dev, "(i2400m %p skb %p [%u] cs %d)\n",
+ i2400m, skb, skb->len, cs);
+ switch(cs) {
+ case I2400M_CS_IPV4_0:
+ case I2400M_CS_IPV4:
+ protocol = ETH_P_IP;
+ i2400m_rx_fake_eth_header(i2400m->wimax_dev.net_dev,
+ skb->data - ETH_HLEN,
+ cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_IP));
+ skb_set_mac_header(skb, -ETH_HLEN);
+ skb->dev = i2400m->wimax_dev.net_dev;
+ skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IP);
+ net_dev->stats.rx_packets++;
+ net_dev->stats.rx_bytes += skb->len;
+ break;
+ default:
+ dev_err(dev, "ERX: BUG? CS type %u unsupported\n", cs);
+ goto error;
+
+ }
+ d_printf(3, dev, "ERX: receiving %d bytes to the network stack\n",
+ skb->len);
+ d_dump(4, dev, skb->data, skb->len);
+ netif_rx_ni(skb); /* see notes in function header */
+error:
+ d_fnend(2, dev, "(i2400m %p skb %p [%u] cs %d) = void\n",
+ i2400m, skb, skb->len, cs);
+}
+
+static const struct net_device_ops i2400m_netdev_ops = {
+ .ndo_open = i2400m_open,
+ .ndo_stop = i2400m_stop,
+ .ndo_start_xmit = i2400m_hard_start_xmit,
+ .ndo_tx_timeout = i2400m_tx_timeout,
+ .ndo_change_mtu = i2400m_change_mtu,
+};
+
+
/**
* i2400m_netdev_setup - Setup setup @net_dev's i2400m private data
*
@@ -513,11 +577,7 @@ void i2400m_netdev_setup(struct net_device *net_dev)
& (~IFF_BROADCAST /* i2400m is P2P */
& ~IFF_MULTICAST);
net_dev->watchdog_timeo = I2400M_TX_TIMEOUT;
- net_dev->open = i2400m_open;
- net_dev->stop = i2400m_stop;
- net_dev->hard_start_xmit = i2400m_hard_start_xmit;
- net_dev->change_mtu = i2400m_change_mtu;
- net_dev->tx_timeout = i2400m_tx_timeout;
+ net_dev->netdev_ops = &i2400m_netdev_ops;
d_fnend(3, NULL, "(net_dev %p) = void\n", net_dev);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(i2400m_netdev_setup);
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