netdev - [PATCH v4 net-next 00/27] bonding: use neighbours instead of own lists

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Message-Id: <1380023227-9576-1-git-send-email-vfalico@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:46:40 +0200
From:	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	jiri@...nulli.us, Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	Dimitris Michailidis <dm@...lsio.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 net-next 00/27] bonding: use neighbours instead of own lists

This patchset introduces all the needed infrastructure, on top of current
adjacent lists, to be able to remove bond's slave_list/slave->list. The
overhead in memory/CPU is minimal, and after the patchset bonding can rely
on its slave-related functions, given the proper locking. I've done some
netperf benchmarks on a vm, and the delta was about 0.1gbps for 35gbps as a
whole, so no speed fluctuations.

It also automatically creates lower/upper and master symlinks in dev's
sysfs directory.

CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
CC: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@...lsio.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
CC: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>

---
v3  -> v4:
Per the feedback received, fix the comments to be kernel-doc style.
As Ben Hutchings suggested, make the 'get next private after a
specific private' function bonding-specific - it has virtually no uses
outside bonding (and even in bonding I already have some patches of
removing it).
Also, remove the stupid 'bool upper' logic from everywhere in the logic -
as Ben suggested, it's easier to pass the lists directly - and not only
easier, it saved several hundred lines of code modified.
Finally, make netdev_for_each_lower_private() safe for removal of the
current member - it can be easily achieved and doesn't really need two
versions, as in lists.

v2  -> v3:
Fix the commit subject for patch 08 - forgot the _continue in
bond_for_each_slave_continue_reverse(), suggested by Cong Wang.
This version is already ready for the inclusion, hopefully.
Moved the changelog in cover letter to the bottom and cleaned it
up a bit.

v1  -> v2:
Fix a bug when we could remove try to remove a neighbour twice - it was
possible if we've had this neighbour already and added another devices
which had this neighbour in its lists. Fix it by following the rule - there
can be only one neighbour link, so add also _remove_neighbour() functions
to the generic _remove()s to handle the neighbour only removing, and fix
its refcounting while adding (all in patch 01).
Also, fix a vlan bug when it called unregister netdevice before unlinking -
it could possibly lead to a subte race condition - cause it was
unregistered but still in global-accessible list.
Rearrange sysfs/vlan patches so that first we fix vlan and only after we
add sysfs stuff.

RFC -> v1:
I've added proper, consistent naming for all variables/functions, uninlined
some helpers to get better backtraces, just in case (overhead is minimal,
no hot paths), rearranged patches for better review, dropped bondings
->prev and bond_for_each_slave_continue() functionality - to be able to
RCUify it easier, and renamed slave_* sysfs links to lower_* sysfs links to
maintain upper/lower naming. I've also dropped, thanks to bonding cleanup,
some heavy and ugly/intrusive patches.

---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c                  |  54 ++--
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c                  |  81 ++---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.h                  |   4 +-
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c                 | 296 +++++++++--------
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_procfs.c               |   5 +-
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c                |  62 +---
 drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h                   | 101 +++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c |   3 +-
 include/linux/netdevice.h                       |  55 +++-
 net/8021q/vlan.c                                |  18 +-
 net/core/dev.c                                  | 403 +++++++++++++++++-------
 11 files changed, 638 insertions(+), 444 deletions(-)
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