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6 files changed, 32 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst index 31cfd7d674a6..c0a789b00806 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst @@ -196,11 +196,12 @@ ad_actor_sys_prio ad_actor_system In an AD system, this specifies the mac-address for the actor in - protocol packet exchanges (LACPDUs). The value cannot be NULL or - multicast. It is preferred to have the local-admin bit set for this - mac but driver does not enforce it. If the value is not given then - system defaults to using the masters' mac address as actors' system - address. + protocol packet exchanges (LACPDUs). The value cannot be a multicast + address. If the all-zeroes MAC is specified, bonding will internally + use the MAC of the bond itself. It is preferred to have the + local-admin bit set for this mac but driver does not enforce it. If + the value is not given then system defaults to using the masters' + mac address as actors' system address. This parameter has effect only in 802.3ad mode and is available through SysFs interface. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/overview.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/overview.rst index d638b5a8aadd..199647729251 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/overview.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/overview.rst @@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ PHY and allows physical transmission and reception of Ethernet frames. IRQ config, enable, reset DPNI (Datapath Network Interface) +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contains TX/RX queues, network interface configuration, and RX buffer pool configuration mechanisms. The TX/RX queues are in memory and are identified by queue number. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst index f1d5233e5e51..0a233b17c664 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst @@ -440,6 +440,22 @@ NOTE: For 82599-based network connections, if you are enabling jumbo frames in a virtual function (VF), jumbo frames must first be enabled in the physical function (PF). The VF MTU setting cannot be larger than the PF MTU. +NBASE-T Support +--------------- +The ixgbe driver supports NBASE-T on some devices. However, the advertisement +of NBASE-T speeds is suppressed by default, to accommodate broken network +switches which cannot cope with advertised NBASE-T speeds. Use the ethtool +command to enable advertising NBASE-T speeds on devices which support it:: + + ethtool -s eth? advertise 0x1800000001028 + +On Linux systems with INTERFACES(5), this can be specified as a pre-up command +in /etc/network/interfaces so that the interface is always brought up with +NBASE-T support, e.g.:: + + iface eth? inet dhcp + pre-up ethtool -s eth? advertise 0x1800000001028 || true + Generic Receive Offload, aka GRO -------------------------------- The driver supports the in-kernel software implementation of GRO. GRO has diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index c04431144f7a..2572eecc3e86 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ ip_default_ttl - INTEGER ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER Disable Path MTU Discovery. If enabled in mode 1 and a fragmentation-required ICMP is received, the PMTU to this - destination will be set to min_pmtu (see below). You will need + destination will be set to the smallest of the old MTU to + this destination and min_pmtu (see below). You will need to raise min_pmtu to the smallest interface MTU on your system manually if you want to avoid locally generated fragments. @@ -49,7 +50,8 @@ ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER Default: FALSE min_pmtu - INTEGER - default 552 - minimum discovered Path MTU + default 552 - minimum Path MTU. Unless this is changed mannually, + each cached pmtu will never be lower than this setting. ip_forward_use_pmtu - BOOLEAN By default we don't trust protocol path MTUs while forwarding diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.rst index 95ef56d62077..387fda80f05f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.rst @@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ conn_reuse_mode - INTEGER 0: disable any special handling on port reuse. The new connection will be delivered to the same real server that was - servicing the previous connection. This will effectively - disable expire_nodest_conn. + servicing the previous connection. bit 1: enable rescheduling of new connections when it is safe. That is, whenever expire_nodest_conn and for TCP sockets, when diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.rst b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.rst index a722eb30e014..f5809206eb93 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.rst @@ -486,8 +486,8 @@ of packets. Drivers are free to use a more permissive configuration than the requested configuration. It is expected that drivers should only implement directly the most generic mode that can be supported. For example if the hardware can -support HWTSTAMP_FILTER_V2_EVENT, then it should generally always upscale -HWTSTAMP_FILTER_V2_L2_SYNC_MESSAGE, and so forth, as HWTSTAMP_FILTER_V2_EVENT +support HWTSTAMP_FILTER_PTP_V2_EVENT, then it should generally always upscale +HWTSTAMP_FILTER_PTP_V2_L2_SYNC, and so forth, as HWTSTAMP_FILTER_PTP_V2_EVENT is more generic (and more useful to applications). A driver which supports hardware time stamping shall update the struct @@ -582,8 +582,8 @@ Time stamps for outgoing packets are to be generated as follows: and hardware timestamping is not possible (SKBTX_IN_PROGRESS not set). - As soon as the driver has sent the packet and/or obtained a hardware time stamp for it, it passes the time stamp back by - calling skb_hwtstamp_tx() with the original skb, the raw - hardware time stamp. skb_hwtstamp_tx() clones the original skb and + calling skb_tstamp_tx() with the original skb, the raw + hardware time stamp. skb_tstamp_tx() clones the original skb and adds the timestamps, therefore the original skb has to be freed now. If obtaining the hardware time stamp somehow fails, then the driver should not fall back to software time stamping. The rationale is that |