kernel.git/drivers/net/bonding, branch linux-2.6.21.y

bonding: Improve IGMP join processing

2007-03-06T11:08:11Z

In active-backup mode, the current bonding code duplicates IGMP traffic to all slaves, so that switches are up to date in case of a failover from an active to a backup interface. If bonding then fails back to the original active interface, it is likely that the "active slave" switch's IGMP forwarding for the port will be out of date until some event occurs to refresh the switch (e.g., a membership query). This patch alters the behavior of bonding to no longer flood IGMP to all ports, and to issue IGMP JOINs to the newly active port at the time of a failover. This insures that switches are kept up to date for all cases. "GOELLESCH Niels" originally reported this problem, and included a patch. His original patch was modified by Jay Vosburgh to additionally remove the existing IGMP flood behavior, use RCU, streamline code paths, fix trailing white space, and adjust for style. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

bonding: only receive ARPs for us

2007-03-06T11:08:11Z

The ARP validation code only needs ARPs for the bonding device. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

bonding: fix double dev_add_pack

2007-03-06T11:08:11Z

Bonding can erroneously register the same packet_type to receive ARPs (for use by ARP validation): once at device open time, and once via sysfs. Since sysfs can change the validate setting (and thus register or unregister) at any time, a flag is needed to synchronize with device open in order to avoid double registrations, and the simplest place is within the packet_type structure itself. Double unregister is not an issue. Bug reported by Ulrich Oelmann . Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[VLAN]: Avoid a 4-order allocation.

2007-03-03T04:44:51Z

This patch splits the vlan_group struct into a multi-allocated struct. On x86_64, the size of the original struct is a little more than 32KB, causing a 4-order allocation, which is prune to problems caused by buddy-system external fragmentation conditions. I couldn't just use vmalloc() because vfree() cannot be called in the softirq context of the RCU callback. Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni Acked-by: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h

2007-02-14T16:09:54Z

After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes. There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the course of cleaning it up. To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble. Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha, arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig, allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted by unnecessarily included header files). Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau Acked-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5

2007-02-12T17:48:45Z

Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[BONDING]: Replace kmalloc() + memset() pairs with the appropriate kzalloc() calls

2007-02-08T20:38:59Z

Replace kmalloc() + memset() pairs with the appropriate kzalloc() calls in the bonding driver. Signed-off-by: Joe Jin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6

2007-02-08T03:22:26Z

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (28 commits) sysfs: Shadow directory support Driver Core: Increase the default timeout value of the firmware subsystem Driver core: allow to delay the uevent at device creation time Driver core: add device_type to struct device Driver core: add uevent vars for devices of a class SYSFS: Fix missing include of list.h in sysfs.h HOWTO: Add a reference to Harbison and Steele sysfs: error handling in sysfs, fill_read_buffer() kobject: kobject_put cleanup sysfs: kobject_put cleanup sysfs: suppress lockdep warnings Driver core: fix race in sysfs between sysfs_remove_file() and read()/write() driver core: Change function call order in device_bind_driver(). driver core: Don't stop probing on ->probe errors. driver core fixes: device_register() retval check in platform.c driver core fixes: make_class_name() retval checks /sys/modules/*/holders USB: add the sysfs driver name to all modules SERIO: add the sysfs driver name to all modules PCI: add the sysfs driver name to all modules ...

Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device

2007-02-07T18:37:11Z

This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume issues, if it wants to. Thanks to Frederik Deweerdt for the arm driver fixes. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

bonding: update version

2007-02-05T21:58:47Z

Update version number to reflect recent changes. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik