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2016-02-24eth: Pull header from first fragment via eth_get_headlenAlexander Duyck
We want to try and pull the L4 header in if it is available in the first fragment. As such add the flag to indicate we want to pull the headers on the first fragment in. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com> Acked-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-06net: Add eth_platform_get_mac_address() helper.David S. Miller
A repeating pattern in drivers has become to use OF node information and, if not found, platform specific host information to extract the ethernet address for a given device. Currently this is done with a call to of_get_mac_address() and then some ifdef'd stuff for SPARC. Consolidate this into a portable routine, and provide the arch_get_platform_mac_address() weak function hook for all architectures to implement if they want. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-28net: help compiler generate better code in eth_get_headlenJesper Dangaard Brouer
Noticed that the compiler (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4) (GCC)) generated suboptimal assembler code in eth_get_headlen(). This early return coding style is usually not an issue, on super scalar CPUs, but the compiler choose to put the return statement after this very unlikely branch, thus creating larger jump down to the likely code path. Performance wise, I could measure slightly less L1-icache-load-misses and less branch-misses, and an improvement of 1 nanosec with an IP-forwarding use-case with 257 bytes packets with ixgbe (CPU i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz). Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-01flow_dissector: Add flags argument to skb_flow_dissector functionsTom Herbert
The flags argument will allow control of the dissection process (for instance whether to parse beyond L3). Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-09net: ethernet: Fix double word "the the" in eth.cMasanari Iida
This patch fix double word "the the" in Documentation/DocBook/networking/API-eth-get-headlen.html Documentation/DocBook/networking/netdev.html Documentation/DocBook/networking.xml These files are generated from comment in source, so I have to fix comment in net/ethernet/eth.c. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-04net: Add full IPv6 addresses to flow_keysTom Herbert
This patch adds full IPv6 addresses into flow_keys and uses them as input to the flow hash function. The implementation supports either IPv4 or IPv6 addresses in a union, and selector is used to determine how may words to input to jhash2. We also add flow_get_u32_dst and flow_get_u32_src functions which are used to get a u32 representation of the source and destination addresses. For IPv6, ipv6_addr_hash is called. These functions retain getting the legacy values of src and dst in flow_keys. With this patch, Ethertype and IP protocol are now included in the flow hash input. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-01net: Add priority to packet_offload objects.David S. Miller
When we scan a packet for GRO processing, we want to see the most common packet types in the front of the offload_base list. So add a priority field so we can handle this properly. IPv4/IPv6 get the highest priority with the implicit zero priority field. Next comes ethernet with a priority of 10, and then we have the MPLS types with a priority of 15. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-13flow_dissect: use programable dissector in skb_flow_dissect and friendsJiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-13net: move *skb_get_poff declarations into correct headerJiri Pirko
Since these functions are defined in flow_dissector.c, move header declarations from skbuff.h into flow_dissector.h Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-05etherdev: Fix sparse error, make test usable by other functionsAlexander Duyck
This change does two things. First it fixes a sparse error for the fact that the __be16 degrades to an integer. Since that is actually what I am kind of doing I am simply working around that by forcing both sides of the comparison to u16. Also I realized on some compilers I was generating another instruction for big endian systems such as PowerPC since it was masking the value before doing the comparison. So to resolve that I have simply pulled the mask out and wrapped it in an #ifndef __BIG_ENDIAN. Lastly I pulled this all out into its own function. I notices there are similar checks in a number of other places so this function can be reused there to help reduce overhead in these paths as well. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-03etherdev: Use skb->data to retrieve Ethernet header instead of eth_hdrAlexander Duyck
Avoid recomputing the Ethernet header location and instead just use the pointer provided by skb->data. The problem with using eth_hdr is that the compiler wasn't smart enough to realize that skb->head + skb->mac_header was the same thing as skb->data before it added ETH_HLEN. By just caching it off before calling skb_pull_inline we can avoid a few unnecessary instructions. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-03etherdev: Process is_multicast_ether_addr at same size as other operationsAlexander Duyck
This change makes it so that we process the address in is_multicast_ether_addr at the same size as the other calls. This allows us to avoid duplicate reads when used with other calls such as is_zero_ether_addr or eth_addr_copy. In addition I have added a 64 bit version of the function so in eth_type_trans we can process the destination address as a 64 bit value throughout. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-03etherdev: Avoid unnecessary byte swap in check for EthertypeAlexander Duyck
This change takes advantage of the fact that ETH_P_802_3_MIN is aligned to 512 so as a result we can actually ignore the lower 8b when comparing the Ethertype to ETH_P_802_3_MIN. This allows us to avoid a byte swap by simply masking the value and comparing it to the byte swapped value for ETH_P_802_3_MIN. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-03ethernet: Use eth_<foo>_addr instead of memsetJoe Perches
Use the built-in function instead of memset. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-02net: Kill dev_rebuild_headerEric W. Biederman
Now that there are no more users kill dev_rebuild_header and all of it's implementations. This is long overdue. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-02net: Add Transparent Ethernet Bridging GRO support.Jesse Gross
Currently the only tunnel protocol that supports GRO with encapsulated Ethernet is VXLAN. This pulls out the Ethernet code into a proper layer so that it can be used by other tunnel protocols such as GRE and Geneve. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-05net: Add function for parsing the header length out of linear ethernet framesAlexander Duyck
This patch updates some of the flow_dissector api so that it can be used to parse the length of ethernet buffers stored in fragments. Most of the changes needed were to __skb_get_poff as it needed to be updated to support sending a linear buffer instead of a skb. I have split __skb_get_poff into two functions, the first is skb_get_poff and it retains the functionality of the original __skb_get_poff. The other function is __skb_get_poff which now works much like __skb_flow_dissect in relation to skb_flow_dissect in that it provides the same functionality but works with just a data buffer and hlen instead of needing an skb. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-08-27net: dsa: reduce number of protocol hooksFlorian Fainelli
DSA is currently registering one packet_type function per EtherType it needs to intercept in the receive path of a DSA-enabled Ethernet device. Right now we have three of them: trailer, DSA and eDSA, and there might be more in the future, this will not scale to the addition of new protocols. This patch proceeds with adding a new layer of abstraction and two new functions: dsa_switch_rcv() which will dispatch into the tag-protocol specific receive function implemented by net/dsa/tag_*.c dsa_slave_xmit() which will dispatch into the tag-protocol specific transmit function implemented by net/dsa/tag_*.c When we do create the per-port slave network devices, we iterate over the switch protocol to assign the DSA-specific receive and transmit operations. A new fake ethertype value is used: ETH_P_XDSA to illustrate the fact that this is no longer going to look like ETH_P_DSA or ETH_P_TRAILER like it used to be. This allows us to greatly simplify the check in eth_type_trans() and always override the skb->protocol with ETH_P_XDSA for Ethernet switches tagged protocol, while also reducing the number repetitive slave netdevice_ops assignments. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-15net: set name_assign_type in alloc_netdev()Tom Gundersen
Extend alloc_netdev{,_mq{,s}}() to take name_assign_type as argument, and convert all users to pass NET_NAME_UNKNOWN. Coccinelle patch: @@ expression sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs, count; @@ ( -alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs) +alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, txqs, rxqs) | -alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, setup, count) +alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, count) | -alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, setup) +alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup) ) v9: move comments here from the wrong commit Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-16net: eth_type_trans() should use skb_header_pointer()Eric Dumazet
eth_type_trans() can read uninitialized memory as drivers do not necessarily pull more than 14 bytes in skb->head before calling it. As David suggested, we can use skb_header_pointer() to fix this without breaking some drivers that might not expect eth_type_trans() pulling 2 additional bytes. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-30ethernet: use likely() for common Ethernet encapstephen hemminger
Mark code path's likely/unlikely based on most common usage. * Very few devices use dsa tags. * Most traffic is Ethernet (not 802.2) * No sane person uses trailer type or Novell encapsulation Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-30ethernet: cleanup eth_type_transstephen hemminger
Remove old legacy comment and weird if condition. The comment has outlived it's stay and is throwback to some early net code (before my time). Maybe Dave remembers what it meant. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-20net: ethernet: eth.c: removed checkpatch warnings and errorsAvinash Kumar
removed these checkpatch.pl warnings: net/ethernet/eth.c:61: WARNING: Use #include <linux/uaccess.h> instead of <asm/uaccess.h> net/ethernet/eth.c:136: WARNING: Prefer netdev_dbg(netdev, ... then dev_dbg(dev, ... then pr_debug(... to printk(KERN_DEBUG ... net/ethernet/eth.c:181: ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')' Signed-off-by: Avinash Kumar <avi.kp.137@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-16net: Fix sysfs_format_mac() code duplication.David S. Miller
It's just a duplicate implementation of "%*phC". Thanks to Joe Perches for showing that we had exactly this support in the lib/vsprintf.c code already. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-28net: add ETH_P_802_3_MINSimon Horman
Add a new constant ETH_P_802_3_MIN, the minimum ethernet type for an 802.3 frame. Frames with a lower value in the ethernet type field are Ethernet II. Also update all the users of this value that David Miller and I could find to use the new constant. Also correct a bug in util.c. The comparison with ETH_P_802_3_MIN should be >= not >. As suggested by Jesse Gross. Compile tested only. Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Bart De Schuymer <bart.de.schuymer@pandora.be> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org> Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com> Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: dev@openvswitch.org Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-21net: split eth_mac_addr for better error handlingStefan Hajnoczi
When we set mac address, software mac address in system and hardware mac address all need to be updated. Current eth_mac_addr() doesn't allow callers to implement error handling nicely. This patch split eth_mac_addr() to prepare part and real commit part, then we can prepare first, and try to change hardware address, then do the real commit if hardware address is set successfully. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-03net: remove unnecessary NET_ADDR_RANDOM "bitclean"Jiri Pirko
NET_ADDR_SET is set in dev_set_mac_address() no need to alter dev->addr_assign_type value in drivers. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-10net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functionsBen Hutchings
Fix incorrect start markers, wrapped summary lines, missing section breaks, incorrect separators, and some name mismatches. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-30net: introduce new priv_flag indicating iface capable of change mac when runningJiri Pirko
Introduce IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE priv_flag and use it to disable netif_running() check in eth_mac_addr() Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-10net, drivers/net: Convert compare_ether_addr_64bits to ether_addr_equal_64bitsJoe Perches
Use the new bool function ether_addr_equal_64bits to add some clarity and reduce the likelihood for misuse of compare_ether_addr_64bits for sorting. Done via cocci script: $ cat compare_ether_addr_64bits.cocci @@ expression a,b; @@ - !compare_ether_addr_64bits(a, b) + ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) @@ expression a,b; @@ - compare_ether_addr_64bits(a, b) + !ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) @@ expression a,b; @@ - !ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) == 0 + ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) @@ expression a,b; @@ - !ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) != 0 + !ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) @@ expression a,b; @@ - ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) == 0 + !ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) @@ expression a,b; @@ - ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) != 0 + ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) @@ expression a,b; @@ - !!ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) + ether_addr_equal_64bits(a, b) Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-15net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned intEric Dumazet
Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-28Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.hDavid Howells
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing it. Performed with the following command: perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *` Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-02-13eth: reset addr_assign_type if eth_mac_addr() calledDanny Kukawka
If eth_mac_addr() get called, usually if SIOCSIFHWADDR was used to change the MAC of a ethernet device, reset the addr_assign_type to NET_ADDR_PERM if the state was NET_ADDR_RANDOM before. Reset the state since the MAC is no longer random at least not from the kernel side. v2: changed to bitops, removed if() Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-15net: don't clear IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE in ether_setupnhorman
d88733150 introduced the IFF_SKB_TX_SHARING flag, which I unilaterally set in ether_setup. In doing this I didn't realize that other flags (such as IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE) might be set prior to calling the ether_setup routine. This patch changes ether_setup to or in SKB_TX_SHARING so as not to inadvertently clear other existing flags. Thanks to Pekka Riikonen for pointing out my error Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Pekka Riikonen <priikone@iki.fi> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-27net: add IFF_SKB_TX_SHARED flag to priv_flagsNeil Horman
Pktgen attempts to transmit shared skbs to net devices, which can't be used by some drivers as they keep state information in skbs. This patch adds a flag marking drivers as being able to handle shared skbs in their tx path. Drivers are defaulted to being unable to do so, but calling ether_setup enables this flag, as 90% of the drivers calling ether_setup touch real hardware and can handle shared skbs. A subsequent patch will audit drivers to ensure that the flag is set properly Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> CC: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-25net: fix eth.c kernel-doc warningRandy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Fix new kernel-doc warning in eth.c: Warning(net/ethernet/eth.c:237): No description found for parameter 'type' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-13net: Push protocol type directly down to header_ops->cache()David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-12eth: fix new kernel-doc warningRandy Dunlap
Fix new kernel-doc warning (copy-paste typo): Warning(net/ethernet/eth.c:366): No description found for parameter 'rxqs' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-10net: Add alloc_netdev_mqs functionTom Herbert
Added alloc_netdev_mqs function which allows the number of transmit and receive queues to be specified independenty. alloc_netdev_mq was changed to a macro to call the new function. Also added alloc_etherdev_mqs with same purpose. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-23net: return operator cleanupEric Dumazet
Change "return (EXPR);" to "return EXPR;" return is not a function, parentheses are not required. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-26net: use scnprintf() to avoid potential buffer overflowChangli Gao
strlcpy() returns the total length of the string they tried to create, so we should not use its return value without any check. scnprintf() returns the number of characters written into @buf not including the trailing '\0', so use it instead here. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-10net-next: remove useless union keywordChangli Gao
remove useless union keyword in rtable, rt6_info and dn_route. Since there is only one member in a union, the union keyword isn't useful. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-02net: Inline skb_pull() in eth_type_trans().David S. Miller
In commit 6be8ac2f ("[NET]: uninline skb_pull, de-bloats a lot") we uninlined skb_pull. But in some critical paths it makes sense to inline this thing and it helps performance significantly. Create an skb_pull_inline() so that we can do this in a way that serves also as annotation. Based upon a patch by Eric Dumazet. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21ethernet: print protocol in host byte orderJohannes Berg
Eric's recent patch added __force, but this place would seem to require actually doing a byte order conversion so the printk is consistent across architectures. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20net: Fix various endianness glitchesEric Dumazet
Sparse can help us find endianness bugs, but we need to make some cleanups to be able to more easily spot real bugs. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-26llc: use dev_hard_headerOctavian Purdila
Using dev_hard_header allows us to use LLC with VLANs and potentially other Ethernet/TokernRing specific encapsulations. It also removes code duplication between LLC and Ethernet/TokenRing core code. Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-15remove deprecated and not used: print_mac()Marin Mitov
The function print_mac in net/ethernet/eth.c is marked __deprecated and not used. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPSAlexander Beregalov
All drivers are already converted to new net_device_ops API and nobody uses old API anymore. Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-23eth: Declare an optimized compare_ether_addr_64bits() functionEric Dumazet
Linus mentioned we could try to perform long word operations, even on potentially unaligned addresses, on x86 at least. David mentioned the HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS test to handle this on all arches that have efficient unailgned accesses. I tried this idea and got nice assembly on 32 bits: 158: 33 82 38 01 00 00 xor 0x138(%edx),%eax 15e: 33 8a 34 01 00 00 xor 0x134(%edx),%ecx 164: c1 e0 10 shl $0x10,%eax 167: 09 c1 or %eax,%ecx 169: 74 0b je 176 <eth_type_trans+0x87> And very nice assembly on 64 bits of course (one xor, one shl) Nice oprofile improvement in eth_type_trans(), 0.17 % instead of 0.41 %, expected since we remove 8 instructions on a fast path. This patch implements a compare_ether_addr_64bits() function, that uses the CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS ifdef to efficiently perform the 6 bytes comparison on all capable arches. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19netdev: expose ethernet address primitivesStephen Hemminger
When ethernet devices are converted, the function pointer setup by eth_setup() need to be done during intialization. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>