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* [PATCH v6 net-next 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling
@ 2013-05-29  6:39 Eliezer Tamir
  2013-05-29  6:39 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 1/5] net: add napi_id and hash Eliezer Tamir
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From: Eliezer Tamir @ 2013-05-29  6:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller
  Cc: linux-kernel, netdev, Jesse Brandeburg, Don Skidmore, e1000-devel,
	Willem de Bruijn, Eric Dumazet, Andi Kleen, HPA, Eilon Greenstien,
	Or Gerlitz, Alex Rosenbaum, Eliezer Tamir

One more round of fixes.
Thank you all for your input.

-Eliezer

change log:
v6
- many small fixes suggested by Eric Dumazet:
  data locality, typos, documentation
  protect napi_hash insert/delete with a spinlock (napi_gen_id is no
  longer atomic_t since it's only accessed with the spinlock held.)
- added IPv6 TCP and UDP support (only minimally tested)

v5
- corrections suggested by Ben Hutchings:
  fixed typos, moved the config option and sysctl value from IPv4 to net
- moved sk_mark_ll() to the protocol handlers
- removed global id mechanism, replaced with a hashed napi_id.
  based on code sample from Eric Dumazet
  Note that ixgbe_free_q_vector() already waits an rcu grace period
  before freeing the q_vector, so nothing additional needs to be done
  when adding a call to napi_hash_del().
- simple poll/select support

v4
- removed separate config option for TCP as suggested Eric Dumazet.
- added linux mib counter for packets received through the low latency path,
  as suggested by Andi Kleen.
- re-allow module unloading, remove module param, use a global generation id
  instead to prevent the use of a stale napi pointer, as suggested
  by Eric Dumazet
- updated Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt text

v3
- coding style changes suggested by Dave Miller

v2
- the sysctl knob is now in microseconds. The default value is now 0 (off).
- for now the code depends at configure time on CONFIG_I86_TSC 
- the napi reference in struct skb is now a union with the dma cookie
  since the former is only used on RX and the latter on TX,
  as suggested by Eric Dumazet.
- we do a better job at honoring non-blocking operations.
- removed busy-polling support for tcp_read_sock()
- remove dynamic disabling of GRO
- coding style fixes
- disallow unloading the device module after the feature has been used

Credit:
Jesse Brandeburg, Arun Chekhov Ilango, Julie Cummings,
Alexander Duyck, Eric Geisler, Jason Neighbors, Yadong Li,
Mike Polehn, Anil Vasudevan, Don Wood
Special thanks for finding bugs in earlier versions:
Willem de Bruijn and Andi Kleen

Thanks,
Eliezer

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2013-05-29  6:39 [PATCH v6 net-next 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling Eliezer Tamir
2013-05-29  6:39 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 1/5] net: add napi_id and hash Eliezer Tamir
2013-05-29 12:56   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-29 13:09     ` David Laight
2013-05-29 13:43       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-29 15:04     ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-05-29 20:09   ` Ben Hutchings
2013-05-30  6:51     ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-05-29  6:39 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 2/5] net: implement support for low latency socket polling Eliezer Tamir
2013-05-29 13:37   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-29 13:42     ` David Laight
2013-05-29 13:48       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-29 14:01     ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-05-29 14:20       ` yaniv saar
2013-05-29 15:01         ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-05-29 14:14   ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-29 14:40     ` yaniv saar
2013-05-29 14:59     ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-05-29 18:52       ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-29 19:08         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-30  5:58           ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-05-30  6:04         ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-05-29 20:20     ` Ben Hutchings
2013-05-29  6:39 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 3/5] tcp: add TCP support for low latency receive poll Eliezer Tamir
2013-05-29 13:38   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-29  6:39 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 4/5] ixgbe: Add support for ndo_ll_poll Eliezer Tamir
2013-05-29  6:40 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 5/5] ixgbe: add extra stats " Eliezer Tamir

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