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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/6lowpan.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/e100.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/e100.txt) | 60 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/e1000.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/e1000.txt) | 59 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/failover.rst | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/gtp.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ila.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/index.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ipsec.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/kcm.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst | 116 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt | 2 |
13 files changed, 196 insertions, 101 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/6lowpan.txt b/Documentation/networking/6lowpan.txt index a7dc7e939c7a..2e5a939d7e6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/6lowpan.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/6lowpan.txt @@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ enum lowpan_lltypes. Example to evaluate the private usually you can do: -static inline sturct lowpan_priv_foobar * +static inline struct lowpan_priv_foobar * lowpan_foobar_priv(struct net_device *dev) { - return (sturct lowpan_priv_foobar *)lowpan_priv(dev)->priv; + return (struct lowpan_priv_foobar *)lowpan_priv(dev)->priv; } switch (dev->type) { diff --git a/Documentation/networking/e100.txt b/Documentation/networking/e100.rst index 54810b82c01a..d4d837027925 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/e100.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/e100.rst @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Linux* Base Driver for the Intel(R) PRO/100 Family of Adapters ============================================================== -March 15, 2011 +June 1, 2018 Contents ======== @@ -36,16 +36,9 @@ Channel Bonding documentation can be found in the Linux kernel source: Identifying Your Adapter ======================== -For more information on how to identify your adapter, go to the Adapter & -Driver ID Guide at: - - http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm - -For the latest Intel network drivers for Linux, refer to the following -website. In the search field, enter your adapter name or type, or use the -networking link on the left to search for your adapter: - - http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp +For information on how to identify your adapter, and for the latest Intel +network drivers, refer to the Intel Support website: +http://www.intel.com/support Driver Configuration Parameters =============================== @@ -57,22 +50,26 @@ Rx Descriptors: Number of receive descriptors. A receive descriptor is a data structure that describes a receive buffer and its attributes to the network controller. The data in the descriptor is used by the controller to write data from the controller to host memory. In the 3.x.x driver the valid range - for this parameter is 64-256. The default value is 64. This parameter can be - changed using the command: + for this parameter is 64-256. The default value is 256. This parameter can be + changed using the command:: - ethtool -G eth? rx n, where n is the number of desired rx descriptors. + ethtool -G eth? rx n + + Where n is the number of desired Rx descriptors. Tx Descriptors: Number of transmit descriptors. A transmit descriptor is a data structure that describes a transmit buffer and its attributes to the network controller. The data in the descriptor is used by the controller to read data from the host memory to the controller. In the 3.x.x driver the valid - range for this parameter is 64-256. The default value is 64. This parameter - can be changed using the command: + range for this parameter is 64-256. The default value is 128. This parameter + can be changed using the command:: + + ethtool -G eth? tx n - ethtool -G eth? tx n, where n is the number of desired tx descriptors. + Where n is the number of desired Tx descriptors. Speed/Duplex: The driver auto-negotiates the link speed and duplex settings by - default. The ethtool utility can be used as follows to force speed/duplex. + default. The ethtool utility can be used as follows to force speed/duplex.:: ethtool -s eth? autoneg off speed {10|100} duplex {full|half} @@ -81,7 +78,7 @@ Speed/Duplex: The driver auto-negotiates the link speed and duplex settings by Event Log Message Level: The driver uses the message level flag to log events to syslog. The message level can be set at driver load time. It can also be - set using the command: + set using the command:: ethtool -s eth? msglvl n @@ -112,9 +109,9 @@ Additional Configurations --------------------- In order to see link messages and other Intel driver information on your console, you must set the dmesg level up to six. This can be done by - entering the following on the command line before loading the e100 driver: + entering the following on the command line before loading the e100 driver:: - dmesg -n 8 + dmesg -n 6 If you wish to see all messages issued by the driver, including debug messages, set the dmesg level to eight. @@ -146,7 +143,8 @@ Additional Configurations NAPI (Rx polling mode) is supported in the e100 driver. - See www.cyberus.ca/~hadi/usenix-paper.tgz for more information on NAPI. + See https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/napi for more information + on NAPI. Multiple Interfaces on Same Ethernet Broadcast Network ------------------------------------------------------ @@ -160,7 +158,7 @@ Additional Configurations If you have multiple interfaces in a server, either turn on ARP filtering by - (1) entering: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_filter + (1) entering:: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_filter (this only works if your kernel's version is higher than 2.4.5), or (2) installing the interfaces in separate broadcast domains (either @@ -169,15 +167,11 @@ Additional Configurations Support ======= - For general information, go to the Intel support website at: +http://www.intel.com/support/ - http://support.intel.com - - or the Intel Wired Networking project hosted by Sourceforge at: - - http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000 - -If an issue is identified with the released source code on the supported -kernel with a supported adapter, email the specific information related to the -issue to e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. +or the Intel Wired Networking project hosted by Sourceforge at: +http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000 +If an issue is identified with the released source code on a supported kernel +with a supported adapter, email the specific information related to the issue +to e1000-devel@lists.sf.net. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt b/Documentation/networking/e1000.rst index 1f6ed848363d..616848940e63 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/e1000.rst @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ NOTE: When e1000 is loaded with default settings and multiple adapters are in use simultaneously, the CPU utilization may increase non- linearly. In order to limit the CPU utilization without impacting the overall throughput, we recommend that you load the driver as - follows: + follows:: modprobe e1000 InterruptThrottleRate=3000,3000,3000 @@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ NOTE: When e1000 is loaded with default settings and multiple adapters RxDescriptors ------------- -Valid Range: 80-256 for 82542 and 82543-based adapters - 80-4096 for all other supported adapters +Valid Range: 48-256 for 82542 and 82543-based adapters + 48-4096 for all other supported adapters Default Value: 256 This value specifies the number of receive buffer descriptors allocated @@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ speed. Duplex should also be set when Speed is set to either 10 or 100. TxDescriptors ------------- -Valid Range: 80-256 for 82542 and 82543-based adapters - 80-4096 for all other supported adapters +Valid Range: 48-256 for 82542 and 82543-based adapters + 48-4096 for all other supported adapters Default Value: 256 This value is the number of transmit descriptors allocated by the driver. @@ -242,41 +242,10 @@ NOTE: Depending on the available system resources, the request for a higher number of transmit descriptors may be denied. In this case, use a lower number. -TxDescriptorStep ----------------- -Valid Range: 1 (use every Tx Descriptor) - 4 (use every 4th Tx Descriptor) - -Default Value: 1 (use every Tx Descriptor) - -On certain non-Intel architectures, it has been observed that intense TX -traffic bursts of short packets may result in an improper descriptor -writeback. If this occurs, the driver will report a "TX Timeout" and reset -the adapter, after which the transmit flow will restart, though data may -have stalled for as much as 10 seconds before it resumes. - -The improper writeback does not occur on the first descriptor in a system -memory cache-line, which is typically 32 bytes, or 4 descriptors long. - -Setting TxDescriptorStep to a value of 4 will ensure that all TX descriptors -are aligned to the start of a system memory cache line, and so this problem -will not occur. - -NOTES: Setting TxDescriptorStep to 4 effectively reduces the number of - TxDescriptors available for transmits to 1/4 of the normal allocation. - This has a possible negative performance impact, which may be - compensated for by allocating more descriptors using the TxDescriptors - module parameter. - - There are other conditions which may result in "TX Timeout", which will - not be resolved by the use of the TxDescriptorStep parameter. As the - issue addressed by this parameter has never been observed on Intel - Architecture platforms, it should not be used on Intel platforms. - TxIntDelay ---------- Valid Range: 0-65535 (0=off) -Default Value: 64 +Default Value: 8 This value delays the generation of transmit interrupts in units of 1.024 microseconds. Transmit interrupt reduction can improve CPU @@ -288,7 +257,7 @@ TxAbsIntDelay ------------- (This parameter is supported only on 82540, 82545 and later adapters.) Valid Range: 0-65535 (0=off) -Default Value: 64 +Default Value: 32 This value, in units of 1.024 microseconds, limits the delay in which a transmit interrupt is generated. Useful only if TxIntDelay is non-zero, @@ -310,7 +279,7 @@ Copybreak --------- Valid Range: 0-xxxxxxx (0=off) Default Value: 256 -Usage: insmod e1000.ko copybreak=128 +Usage: modprobe e1000.ko copybreak=128 Driver copies all packets below or equaling this size to a fresh RX buffer before handing it up the stack. @@ -328,14 +297,6 @@ Default Value: 0 (disabled) Allows PHY to turn off in lower power states. The user can turn off this parameter in supported chipsets. -KumeranLockLoss ---------------- -Valid Range: 0-1 -Default Value: 1 (enabled) - -This workaround skips resetting the PHY at shutdown for the initial -silicon releases of ICH8 systems. - Speed and Duplex Configuration ============================== @@ -397,12 +358,12 @@ Additional Configurations ------------ Jumbo Frames support is enabled by changing the MTU to a value larger than the default of 1500. Use the ifconfig command to increase the MTU size. - For example: + For example:: ifconfig eth<x> mtu 9000 up This setting is not saved across reboots. It can be made permanent if - you add: + you add:: MTU=9000 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/failover.rst b/Documentation/networking/failover.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f0c8483cdbf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/failover.rst @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======== +FAILOVER +======== + +Overview +======== + +The failover module provides a generic interface for paravirtual drivers +to register a netdev and a set of ops with a failover instance. The ops +are used as event handlers that get called to handle netdev register/ +unregister/link change/name change events on slave pci ethernet devices +with the same mac address as the failover netdev. + +This enables paravirtual drivers to use a VF as an accelerated low latency +datapath. It also allows live migration of VMs with direct attached VFs by +failing over to the paravirtual datapath when the VF is unplugged. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/gtp.txt b/Documentation/networking/gtp.txt index 0d9c18f05ec6..6966bbec1ecb 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/gtp.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/gtp.txt @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Don't be confused by terminology: The GTP User Plane goes through kernel accelerated path, while the GTP Control Plane goes to Userspace :) -The official homepge of the module is at +The official homepage of the module is at https://osmocom.org/projects/linux-kernel-gtp-u/wiki == Userspace Programs with Linux Kernel GTP-U support == @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ If yo have questions regarding how to use the Kernel GTP module from your own software, or want to contribute to the code, please use the osmocom-net-grps mailing list for related discussion. The list can be reached at osmocom-net-gprs@lists.osmocom.org and the mailman -interface for managign your subscription is at +interface for managing your subscription is at https://lists.osmocom.org/mailman/listinfo/osmocom-net-gprs == Issue Tracker == diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ila.txt b/Documentation/networking/ila.txt index 78df879abd26..a17dac9dc915 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ila.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ila.txt @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ three options to deal with this: - checksum neutral mapping When an address is translated the difference can be offset - elsewhere in a part of the packet that is covered by the + elsewhere in a part of the packet that is covered by the checksum. The low order sixteen bits of the identifier are used. This method is preferred since it doesn't require parsing a packet beyond the IP header and in most cases the diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index cbd9bdd4a79e..fec8588a588e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Contents: batman-adv can dpaa2/index + e100 + e1000 kapi z8530book msg_zerocopy diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 924bd51327b7..ce8fbf5aa63c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER discarded. Outgoing frames are handled the same as in mode 1, implicitly setting IP_PMTUDISC_DONT on every created socket. - Mode 3 is a hardend pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only + Mode 3 is a hardened pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only accept fragmentation-needed errors if the underlying protocol can verify them besides a plain socket lookup. Current protocols for which pmtu events will be honored are TCP, SCTP @@ -667,11 +667,15 @@ tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER building larger TSO frames. Default: 3 -tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN - Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is - safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0. +tcp_tw_reuse - INTEGER + Enable reuse of TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is + safe from protocol viewpoint. + 0 - disable + 1 - global enable + 2 - enable for loopback traffic only It should not be changed without advice/request of technical experts. + Default: 2 tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipsec.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipsec.txt index 8dbc08b7e431..ba794b7e51be 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ipsec.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipsec.txt @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ Quote from RFC3173: is implementation dependent. Current IPComp implementation is indeed by the book, while as in practice -when sending non-compressed packet to the peer(whether or not packet len -is smaller than the threshold or the compressed len is large than original +when sending non-compressed packet to the peer (whether or not packet len +is smaller than the threshold or the compressed len is larger than original packet len), the packet is dropped when checking the policy as this packet matches the selector but not coming from any XFRM layer, i.e., with no security path. Such naked packet will not eventually make it to upper layer. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt index 812ef003e0a8..27a38e50c287 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt @@ -73,11 +73,11 @@ mode to make conn-tracking work. This is the default option. To configure the IPvlan port in this mode, user can choose to either add this option on the command-line or don't specify anything. This is the traditional mode where slaves can cross-talk among -themseleves apart from talking through the master device. +themselves apart from talking through the master device. 5.2 private: If this option is added to the command-line, the port is set in private -mode. i.e. port wont allow cross communication between slaves. +mode. i.e. port won't allow cross communication between slaves. 5.3 vepa: If this is added to the command-line, the port is set in VEPA mode. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/kcm.txt b/Documentation/networking/kcm.txt index 9a513295b07c..b773a5278ac4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/kcm.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/kcm.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Kernel Connection Mulitplexor +Kernel Connection Multiplexor ----------------------------- Kernel Connection Multiplexor (KCM) is a mechanism that provides a message based @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ KCM implements an NxM multiplexor in the kernel as diagrammed below: KCM sockets ----------- -The KCM sockets provide the user interface to the muliplexor. All the KCM sockets +The KCM sockets provide the user interface to the multiplexor. All the KCM sockets bound to a multiplexor are considered to have equivalent function, and I/O operations in different sockets may be done in parallel without the need for synchronization between threads in userspace. @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ while. Example use: BFP programs for message delineation ------------------------------------ -BPF programs can be compiled using the BPF LLVM backend. For exmple, +BPF programs can be compiled using the BPF LLVM backend. For example, the BPF program for parsing Thrift is: #include "bpf.h" /* for __sk_buff */ @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ messages. The kernel provides necessary assurances that messages are sent and received atomically. This relieves much of the burden applications have in mapping a message based protocol onto the TCP stream. KCM also make application layer messages a unit of work in the kernel for the purposes of -steerng and scheduling, which in turn allows a simpler networking model in +steering and scheduling, which in turn allows a simpler networking model in multithreaded applications. Configurations @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ on the socket thus waking up the application thread. When the application sees the error (which may just be a disconnect) it should unattach the socket from KCM and then close it. It is assumed that once an error is posted on the TCP socket the data stream is unrecoverable (i.e. an error -may have occurred in the middle of receiving a messssge). +may have occurred in the middle of receiving a message). TCP connection monitoring ------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst b/Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..70ca2f5800c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============ +NET_FAILOVER +============ + +Overview +======== + +The net_failover driver provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs +to create and destroy a failover master netdev and mananges a primary and +standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover +infrastructrure. + +The failover netdev acts a master device and controls 2 slave devices. The +original paravirtual interface is registered as 'standby' slave netdev and +a passthru/vf device with the same MAC gets registered as 'primary' slave +netdev. Both 'standby' and 'failover' netdevs are associated with the same +'pci' device. The user accesses the network interface via 'failover' netdev. +The 'failover' netdev chooses 'primary' netdev as default for transmits when +it is available with link up and running. + +This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable an alternate low latency +datapath. It also enables hypervisor controlled live migration of a VM with +direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual datapath when the VF +is unplugged. + +virtio-net accelerated datapath: STANDBY mode +============================================= + +net_failover enables hypervisor controlled accelerated datapath to virtio-net +enabled VMs in a transparent manner with no/minimal guest userspace chanages. + +To support this, the hypervisor needs to enable VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY +feature on the virtio-net interface and assign the same MAC address to both +virtio-net and VF interfaces. + +Here is an example XML snippet that shows such configuration. + + <interface type='network'> + <mac address='52:54:00:00:12:53'/> + <source network='enp66s0f0_br'/> + <target dev='tap01'/> + <model type='virtio'/> + <driver name='vhost' queues='4'/> + <link state='down'/> + <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0a' function='0x0'/> + </interface> + <interface type='hostdev' managed='yes'> + <mac address='52:54:00:00:12:53'/> + <source> + <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x42' slot='0x02' function='0x5'/> + </source> + <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0b' function='0x0'/> + </interface> + +Booting a VM with the above configuration will result in the following 3 +netdevs created in the VM. + +4: ens10: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 + link/ether 52:54:00:00:12:53 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff + inet 192.168.12.53/24 brd 192.168.12.255 scope global dynamic ens10 + valid_lft 42482sec preferred_lft 42482sec + inet6 fe80::97d8:db2:8c10:b6d6/64 scope link + valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever +5: ens10nsby: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel master ens10 state UP group default qlen 1000 + link/ether 52:54:00:00:12:53 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff +7: ens11: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master ens10 state UP group default qlen 1000 + link/ether 52:54:00:00:12:53 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff + +ens10 is the 'failover' master netdev, ens10nsby and ens11 are the slave +'standby' and 'primary' netdevs respectively. + +Live Migration of a VM with SR-IOV VF & virtio-net in STANDBY mode +================================================================== + +net_failover also enables hypervisor controlled live migration to be supported +with VMs that have direct attached SR-IOV VF devices by automatic failover to +the paravirtual datapath when the VF is unplugged. + +Here is a sample script that shows the steps to initiate live migration on +the source hypervisor. + +# cat vf_xml +<interface type='hostdev' managed='yes'> + <mac address='52:54:00:00:12:53'/> + <source> + <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x42' slot='0x02' function='0x5'/> + </source> + <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0b' function='0x0'/> +</interface> + +# Source Hypervisor +#!/bin/bash + +DOMAIN=fedora27-tap01 +PF=enp66s0f0 +VF_NUM=5 +TAP_IF=tap01 +VF_XML= + +MAC=52:54:00:00:12:53 +ZERO_MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00 + +virsh domif-setlink $DOMAIN $TAP_IF up +bridge fdb del $MAC dev $PF master +virsh detach-device $DOMAIN $VF_XML +ip link set $PF vf $VF_NUM mac $ZERO_MAC + +virsh migrate --live $DOMAIN qemu+ssh://$REMOTE_HOST/system + +# Destination Hypervisor +#!/bin/bash + +virsh attach-device $DOMAIN $VF_XML +virsh domif-setlink $DOMAIN $TAP_IF down diff --git a/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt index 433b6724797a..1669dc2419fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ nf_conntrack_timestamp - BOOLEAN nf_conntrack_udp_timeout - INTEGER (seconds) default 30 -nf_conntrack_udp_timeout_stream2 - INTEGER (seconds) +nf_conntrack_udp_timeout_stream - INTEGER (seconds) default 180 This extended timeout will be used in case there is an UDP stream |