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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (31 commits) sctp: fix missing send up SCTP_SENDER_DRY_EVENT when subscribe it net: refine {udp|tcp|sctp}_mem limits vmxnet3: round down # of queues to power of two net: sh_eth: fix the parameter for the ETHER of SH7757 net: sh_eth: fix cannot work half-duplex mode net: vlan: enable soft features regardless of underlying device vmxnet3: fix starving rx ring whenoc_skb kb fails bridge: Always flood broadcast packets greth: greth_set_mac_add would corrupt the MAC address. net: bind() fix error return on wrong address family natsemi: silence dma-debug warnings net: 8139too: Initial necessary vlan_features to support vlan Fix call trace when interrupts are disabled while sleeping function kzalloc is called qlge:Version change to v1.00.00.29 qlge: Fix printk priority so chip fatal errors are always reported. qlge:Fix crash caused by mailbox execution on wedged chip. xfrm4: Don't call icmp_send on local error ipv4: Don't use ufo handling on later transformed packets xfrm: Remove family arg from xfrm_bundle_ok ipv6: Don't put artificial limit on routing table size. ...
Tip revision: 85746e429f8e5dc8c5c0beadc0f099cb1feab93e authored by Linus Torvalds on 07 July 2011, 20:16:21 UTC
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
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ipoib.txt
IP OVER INFINIBAND
The ib_ipoib driver is an implementation of the IP over InfiniBand
protocol as specified by RFC 4391 and 4392, issued by the IETF ipoib
working group. It is a "native" implementation in the sense of
setting the interface type to ARPHRD_INFINIBAND and the hardware
address length to 20 (earlier proprietary implementations
masqueraded to the kernel as ethernet interfaces).
Partitions and P_Keys
When the IPoIB driver is loaded, it creates one interface for each
port using the P_Key at index 0. To create an interface with a
different P_Key, write the desired P_Key into the main interface's
/sys/class/net/<intf name>/create_child file. For example:
echo 0x8001 > /sys/class/net/ib0/create_child
This will create an interface named ib0.8001 with P_Key 0x8001. To
remove a subinterface, use the "delete_child" file:
echo 0x8001 > /sys/class/net/ib0/delete_child
The P_Key for any interface is given by the "pkey" file, and the
main interface for a subinterface is in "parent."
Datagram vs Connected modes
The IPoIB driver supports two modes of operation: datagram and
connected. The mode is set and read through an interface's
/sys/class/net/<intf name>/mode file.
In datagram mode, the IB UD (Unreliable Datagram) transport is used
and so the interface MTU has is equal to the IB L2 MTU minus the
IPoIB encapsulation header (4 bytes). For example, in a typical IB
fabric with a 2K MTU, the IPoIB MTU will be 2048 - 4 = 2044 bytes.
In connected mode, the IB RC (Reliable Connected) transport is used.
Connected mode takes advantage of the connected nature of the IB
transport and allows an MTU up to the maximal IP packet size of 64K,
which reduces the number of IP packets needed for handling large UDP
datagrams, TCP segments, etc and increases the performance for large
messages.
In connected mode, the interface's UD QP is still used for multicast
and communication with peers that don't support connected mode. In
this case, RX emulation of ICMP PMTU packets is used to cause the
networking stack to use the smaller UD MTU for these neighbours.
Stateless offloads
If the IB HW supports IPoIB stateless offloads, IPoIB advertises
TCP/IP checksum and/or Large Send (LSO) offloading capability to the
network stack.
Large Receive (LRO) offloading is also implemented and may be turned
on/off using ethtool calls. Currently LRO is supported only for
checksum offload capable devices.
Stateless offloads are supported only in datagram mode.
Interrupt moderation
If the underlying IB device supports CQ event moderation, one can
use ethtool to set interrupt mitigation parameters and thus reduce
the overhead incurred by handling interrupts. The main code path of
IPoIB doesn't use events for TX completion signaling so only RX
moderation is supported.
Debugging Information
By compiling the IPoIB driver with CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG set
to 'y', tracing messages are compiled into the driver. They are
turned on by setting the module parameters debug_level and
mcast_debug_level to 1. These parameters can be controlled at
runtime through files in /sys/module/ib_ipoib/.
CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG also enables files in the debugfs
virtual filesystem. By mounting this filesystem, for example with
mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
it is possible to get statistics about multicast groups from the
files /sys/kernel/debug/ipoib/ib0_mcg and so on.
The performance impact of this option is negligible, so it
is safe to enable this option with debug_level set to 0 for normal
operation.
CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG_DATA enables even more debug output in
the data path when data_debug_level is set to 1. However, even with
the output disabled, enabling this configuration option will affect
performance, because it adds tests to the fast path.
References
Transmission of IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) (RFC 4391)
http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4391.txt
IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) Architecture (RFC 4392)
http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4392.txt
IP over InfiniBand: Connected Mode (RFC 4755)
http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4755.txt
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