kernel.git/net/ipv6/route.c, branch linux-2.6.37.y

ipv6: delete expired route in ip6_pmtu_deliver

2010-12-16T20:28:13Z

The first big packets sent to a "low-MTU" client correctly triggers the creation of a temporary route containing the reduced MTU. But after the temporary route has expired, new ICMP6 "packet too big" will be sent, rt6_pmtu_discovery will find the previous EXPIRED route check that its mtu isn't bigger then in icmp packet and do nothing before the temporary route will not deleted by gc. I make the simple experiment: while :; do time ( dd if=/dev/zero bs=10K count=1 | ssh hostname dd of=/dev/null ) || break; done The "time" reports real 0m0.197s if a temporary route isn't expired, but it reports real 0m52.837s (!!!!) immediately after a temporare route has expired. Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: Warn users if maximum number of routes is reached.

2010-11-12T22:03:24Z

This gives users at least some clue as to what the problem might be and how to go about fixing it. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net dst: fix percpu_counter list corruption and poison overwritten

2010-11-04T01:50:07Z

There're some percpu_counter list corruption and poison overwritten warnings in recent kernel, which is resulted by fc66f95c. commit fc66f95c switches to use percpu_counter, in ip6_route_net_init, kernel init the percpu_counter for dst entries, but, the percpu_counter is never destroyed in ip6_route_net_exit. So if the related data is freed by kernel, the freed percpu_counter is still on the list, then if we insert/remove other percpu_counter, list corruption resulted. Also, if the insert/remove option modifies the ->prev,->next pointer of the freed value, the poison overwritten is resulted then. With the following patch, the percpu_counter list corruption and poison overwritten warnings disappeared. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov Cc: "Pekka Savola (ipv6)" Cc: James Morris Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI Cc: Patrick McHardy Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net dst: use a percpu_counter to track entries

2010-10-11T20:06:53Z

struct dst_ops tracks number of allocated dst in an atomic_t field, subject to high cache line contention in stress workload. Switch to a percpu_counter, to reduce number of time we need to dirty a central location. Place it on a separate cache line to avoid dirtying read only fields. Stress test : (Sending 160.000.000 UDP frames, IP route cache disabled, dual E5540 @2.53GHz, 32bit kernel, FIB_TRIE, SLUB/NUMA) Before: real 0m51.179s user 0m15.329s sys 10m15.942s After: real 0m45.570s user 0m15.525s sys 9m56.669s With a small reordering of struct neighbour fields, subject of a following patch, (to separate refcnt from other read mostly fields) real 0m41.841s user 0m15.261s sys 8m45.949s Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2010-10-04T18:56:38Z

Conflicts: net/ipv4/Kconfig net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c

net: Fix IPv6 PMTU disc. w/ asymmetric routes

2010-10-03T21:49:00Z

Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: Implement Any-IP support for IPv6.

2010-09-29T06:38:15Z

AnyIP is the capability to receive packets and establish incoming connections on IPs we have not explicitly configured on the machine. An example use case is to configure a machine to accept all incoming traffic on eth0, and leave the policy of whether traffic for a given IP should be delivered to the machine up to the load balancer. Can be setup as follows: ip -6 rule from all iif eth0 lookup 200 ip -6 route add local default dev lo table 200 (in this case for all IPv6 addresses) Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: add IPv6 to neighbour table overflow warning

2010-09-27T22:02:18Z

IPv4 and IPv6 have separate neighbour tables, so the warning messages should be distinguishable. [ Add a suitable message prefix on the ipv4 side as well -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weber Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: return operator cleanup

2010-09-23T21:33:39Z

Change "return (EXPR);" to "return EXPR;" return is not a function, parentheses are not required. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: remove sysctl jiffies conversion on gc_elasticity and min_adv_mss

2010-08-15T05:42:51Z

sysctl output ipv6 gc_elasticity and min_adv_mss as values divided by HZ. However, they are not in unit of jiffies, since ip6_rt_min_advmss refers to packet size and ip6_rt_fc_elasticity is used as scaler as in expire>>ip6_rt_gc_elasticity, so replace the jiffies conversion handler will regular handler for them. This has impact on scripts that are currently working assuming the divide by HZ, will yield different results with this patch in place. Signed-off-by: Min Zhang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller