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John Fastabend 314b4778ed net: dcbnl, add multicast group for DCB 
Now that dcbnl is being used in many cases by more
than a single agent it is beneficial to be notified
when some entity either driver or user space has
changed the DCB attributes.

Today applications either end up polling the interface
or relying on a user space database to maintain the DCB
state and post events. Polling is a poor solution for
obvious reasons. And relying on a user space database
has its own downside. Namely it has created strange
boot dependencies requiring the database be populated
before any applications dependent on DCB attributes
starts or the application goes into a polling loop.
Populating the database requires negotiating link
setting with the peer and can take anywhere from less
than a second up to a few seconds depending on the switch
implementation.

Perhaps more importantly if another application or an
embedded agent sets a DCB link attribute the database
has no way of knowing other than polling the kernel.
This prevents applications from responding quickly to
changes in link events which at least in the FCoE case
and probably any other protocols expecting a lossless
link may result in IO errors.

By adding a multicast group for DCB we have clean way
to disseminate kernel DCB link attributes up to user
space. Avoiding the need for user space to maintain
a coherant database and disperse events that potentially
do not reflect the current link state.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-21 16:06:11 -07:00
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9p 9p: Small cleanup in <net/9p/9p.h> 2011-05-25 08:46:38 -05:00
bluetooth net: remove interrupt.h inclusion from netdevice.h 2011-06-06 22:55:11 -07:00
caif caif: Add CAIF HSI Link layer driver 2011-06-01 21:15:38 -07:00
irda Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
iucv Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
netfilter netfilter: nf_nat: avoid double seq_adjust for loopback 2011-06-16 17:29:22 +02:00
netns net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind 2011-05-13 16:08:13 -04:00
phonet net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks 2011-05-02 15:26:28 -07:00
sctp include/net: Remove unnecessary semicolons 2011-06-05 14:33:40 -07:00
tc_act net/sched: add ACT_CSUM action to update packets checksums 2010-08-20 01:42:59 -07:00
act_api.h pkt_sched: gen_kill_estimator() rcu fixes 2010-06-11 18:37:08 -07:00
addrconf.h net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net 2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
af_ieee802154.h
af_rxrpc.h net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net 2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
af_unix.h net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net 2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
ah.h ipsec: update MAX_AH_AUTH_LEN to support sha512 2011-01-13 21:48:25 -08:00
arp.h arp: allow to invalidate specific ARP entries 2011-01-10 16:10:37 -08:00
atmclip.h net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net 2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
ax25.h include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ax88796.h
cfg80211.h nl80211: add testmode dump support 2011-06-01 15:12:28 -04:00
checksum.h
cipso_ipv4.h
cls_cgroup.h Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc7' into core/rcu 2010-10-07 09:43:45 +02:00
compat.h net: Add sendmmsg socket system call 2011-05-05 11:10:14 -07:00
datalink.h
dcbevent.h net_dcb: add application notifiers 2010-12-31 10:47:46 -08:00
dcbnl.h net: dcbnl, add multicast group for DCB 2011-06-21 16:06:11 -07:00
dn.h decnet: Convert to use flowidn where applicable. 2011-03-12 15:08:55 -08:00
dn_dev.h decnet: RCU conversion and get rid of dev_base_lock 2010-11-08 13:50:08 -08:00
dn_fib.h decnet: Convert to use flowidn where applicable. 2011-03-12 15:08:55 -08:00
dn_neigh.h
dn_nsp.h net: use __packed annotation 2010-06-03 03:21:52 -07:00
dn_route.h decnet: Convert to use flowidn where applicable. 2011-03-12 15:08:55 -08:00
dsa.h
dsfield.h
dst.h dst: catch uninitialized metrics 2011-05-24 13:50:52 -04:00
dst_ops.h net: Implement read-only protection and COW'ing of metrics. 2011-01-26 20:51:05 -08:00
esp.h
ethoc.h
fib_rules.h fib_rules: __rcu annotates ctarget 2010-10-27 11:37:32 -07:00
flow.h net: Order ports in same order as addresses in flow objects. 2011-03-31 18:03:35 -07:00
garp.h garp: remove last synchronize_rcu() call 2011-05-12 17:46:56 -04:00
gen_stats.h Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
genetlink.h treewide: fix a few typos in comments 2011-05-10 10:16:21 +02:00
gre.h PPTP: PPP over IPv4 (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) 2010-08-21 23:05:39 -07:00
icmp.h inetpeer: Move ICMP rate limiting state into inet_peer entries. 2011-02-04 15:59:53 -08:00
ieee80211_radiotap.h mac80211: add MCS information to radiotap 2011-01-28 15:44:29 -05:00
ieee802154.h
ieee802154_netdev.h
if_inet6.h ipv6: reduce per device ICMP mib sizes 2011-05-19 16:21:22 -04:00
inet6_connection_sock.h inet: Pass flowi to ->queue_xmit(). 2011-05-08 15:28:28 -07:00
inet6_hashtables.h tcp: Fix a connect() race with timewait sockets 2009-12-08 20:17:51 -08:00
inet_common.h inet, inet6: make tcp_sendmsg() and tcp_sendpage() through inet_sendmsg() and inet_sendpage() 2010-07-12 20:21:46 -07:00
inet_connection_sock.h ipv4: Make caller provide flowi4 key to inet_csk_route_req(). 2011-05-18 18:32:03 -04:00
inet_ecn.h ipv6: restore correct ECN handling on TCP xmit 2011-05-12 18:52:14 -04:00
inet_frag.h fragment: add fast path for in-order fragments 2010-06-30 13:44:29 -07:00
inet_hashtables.h tproxy: fix hash locking issue when using port redirection in __inet_inherit_port() 2010-10-21 13:06:43 +02:00
inet_sock.h inet: Decrease overhead of on-stack inet_cork. 2011-05-06 15:37:57 -07:00
inet_timewait_sock.h net: optimize INET input path further 2010-12-09 20:05:58 -08:00
inetpeer.h inetpeer: lower false sharing effect 2011-06-08 23:31:27 -07:00
ip.h inetpeer: remove unused list 2011-06-08 17:05:30 -07:00
ip6_checksum.h
ip6_fib.h net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net 2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
ip6_route.h net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net 2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
ip6_tunnel.h tunnels: add _rcu annotations 2010-10-25 13:09:45 -07:00
ip_fib.h ipv4: Call fib_select_default() only when actually necessary. 2011-04-14 15:05:22 -07:00
ip_vs.h IPVS: remove unused init and cleanup functions. 2011-06-14 09:07:32 +09:00
ipcomp.h percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net 2010-02-16 23:05:38 -08:00
ipconfig.h
ipip.h tunnels: add __rcu annotations 2010-10-27 11:37:32 -07:00
ipv6.h ipv6: reduce per device ICMP mib sizes 2011-05-19 16:21:22 -04:00
ipx.h net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net 2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
iw_handler.h Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
lapb.h
lib80211.h lib80211: remove unused host_build_iv option 2010-07-26 15:09:04 -04:00
llc.h llc: convert llc_sap_list to RCU 2009-12-26 20:46:28 -08:00
llc_c_ac.h
llc_c_ev.h
llc_c_st.h
llc_conn.h llc: use a device based hash table to speed up multicast delivery 2009-12-26 20:43:57 -08:00
llc_if.h
llc_pdu.h bonding,llc: Fix structure sizeof incompatibility for some PDUs 2011-05-13 15:13:24 -04:00
llc_s_ac.h
llc_s_ev.h
llc_s_st.h
llc_sap.h
mac80211.h mac80211: Stop BA session event from device 2011-06-07 14:41:36 -04:00
mip6.h net: use __packed annotation 2010-06-03 03:21:52 -07:00
mld.h ipv6 mcast: Introduce include/net/mld.h for MLD definitions. 2010-04-23 13:35:55 +09:00
ndisc.h net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net 2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
neighbour.h Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-11-19 13:13:47 -08:00
net_namespace.h Delay struct net freeing while there's a sysfs instance refering to it 2011-06-12 17:45:41 -04:00
net_ratelimit.h net: Kill ratelimit.h dependency in linux/net.h 2011-05-27 13:41:33 -04:00
netdma.h
netevent.h net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net 2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
netlabel.h include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
netlink.h treewide: fix a few typos in comments 2011-05-10 10:16:21 +02:00
netrom.h include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
nexthop.h
nl802154.h
p8022.h
ping.h net: ping: fix build failure 2011-05-17 14:16:58 -04:00
pkt_cls.h net: Fix range checks in tcf_valid_offset(). 2010-12-21 12:43:16 -08:00
pkt_sched.h Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
protocol.h net: change netdev->features to u32 2011-01-24 15:32:47 -08:00
psnap.h
raw.h include/net/raw.h: Convert raw_seq_private macro to inline 2010-09-08 13:42:22 -07:00
rawv6.h net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net 2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
red.h sched: remove unused backlog in RED stats 2011-01-12 19:00:39 -08:00
regulatory.h cfg80211: Fix regulatory bug with multiple cards and delays 2010-11-22 15:48:51 -05:00
request_sock.h tcp: account SYN-ACK timeouts & retransmissions 2010-01-17 19:09:39 -08:00
rose.h rose: Add length checks to CALL_REQUEST parsing 2011-03-27 17:59:04 -07:00
route.h ipv4: Pass explicit destination address to rt_bind_peer(). 2011-05-18 18:42:43 -04:00
rtnetlink.h rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size 2011-06-09 20:38:07 -07:00
sch_generic.h net_sched: fix THROTTLED/RUNNING race 2011-03-24 00:13:14 -07:00
scm.h scm: lower SCM_MAX_FD 2010-11-24 11:16:43 -08:00
slhc_vj.h
snmp.h snmp: reduce percpu needs by 50% 2011-06-11 16:23:59 -07:00
sock.h net: remove interrupt.h inclusion from netdevice.h 2011-06-06 22:55:11 -07:00
stp.h
tcp.h tcp: RFC2988bis + taking RTT sample from 3WHS for the passive open side 2011-06-08 17:05:30 -07:00
tcp_states.h
timewait_sock.h timewait_sock: Create and use getpeer op. 2010-12-01 18:09:13 -08:00
transp_v6.h net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net 2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
udp.h udp: Switch to ip_finish_skb 2011-03-01 12:35:03 -08:00
udplite.h udp: Switch to ip_finish_skb 2011-03-01 12:35:03 -08:00
wext.h
wimax.h net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net 2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
wpan-phy.h Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
x25.h X25 remove bkl in subscription ioctls 2010-11-28 11:12:20 -08:00
x25device.h X25: Add if_x25.h and x25 to device identifiers 2010-04-22 16:12:36 -07:00
xfrm.h Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-3.6 2011-05-11 14:26:58 -04:00