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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2014-04-03T03:53:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2014-04-03T03:53:45+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Here is my initial pull request for the networking subsystem during
  this merge window:

   1) Support for ESN in AH (RFC 4302) from Fan Du.

   2) Add full kernel doc for ethtool command structures, from Ben
      Hutchings.

   3) Add BCM7xxx PHY driver, from Florian Fainelli.

   4) Export computed TCP rate information in netlink socket dumps, from
      Eric Dumazet.

   5) Allow IPSEC SA to be dumped partially using a filter, from Nicolas
      Dichtel.

   6) Convert many drivers to pci_enable_msix_range(), from Alexander
      Gordeev.

   7) Record SKB timestamps more efficiently, from Eric Dumazet.

   8) Switch to microsecond resolution for TCP round trip times, also
      from Eric Dumazet.

   9) Clean up and fix 6lowpan fragmentation handling by making use of
      the existing inet_frag api for it's implementation.

  10) Add TX grant mapping to xen-netback driver, from Zoltan Kiss.

  11) Auto size SKB lengths when composing netlink messages based upon
      past message sizes used, from Eric Dumazet.

  12) qdisc dumps can take a long time, add a cond_resched(), From Eric
      Dumazet.

  13) Sanitize netpoll core and drivers wrt.  SKB handling semantics.
      Get rid of never-used-in-tree netpoll RX handling.  From Eric W
      Biederman.

  14) Support inter-address-family and namespace changing in VTI tunnel
      driver(s).  From Steffen Klassert.

  15) Add Altera TSE driver, from Vince Bridgers.

  16) Optimizing csum_replace2() so that it doesn't adjust the checksum
      by checksumming the entire header, from Eric Dumazet.

  17) Expand BPF internal implementation for faster interpreting, more
      direct translations into JIT'd code, and much cleaner uses of BPF
      filtering in non-socket ocntexts.  From Daniel Borkmann and Alexei
      Starovoitov"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1976 commits)
  netpoll: Use skb_irq_freeable to make zap_completion_queue safe.
  net: Add a test to see if a skb is freeable in irq context
  qlcnic: Fix build failure due to undefined reference to `vxlan_get_rx_port'
  net: ptp: move PTP classifier in its own file
  net: sxgbe: make "core_ops" static
  net: sxgbe: fix logical vs bitwise operation
  net: sxgbe: sxgbe_mdio_register() frees the bus
  Call efx_set_channels() before efx-&gt;type-&gt;dimension_resources()
  xen-netback: disable rogue vif in kthread context
  net/mlx4: Set proper build dependancy with vxlan
  be2net: fix build dependency on VxLAN
  mac802154: make csma/cca parameters per-wpan
  mac802154: allow only one WPAN to be up at any given time
  net: filter: minor: fix kdoc in __sk_run_filter
  netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp
  can: c_can: Avoid led toggling for every packet.
  can: c_can: Simplify TX interrupt cleanup
  can: c_can: Store dlc private
  can: c_can: Reduce register access
  can: c_can: Make the code readable
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Here is my initial pull request for the networking subsystem during
  this merge window:

   1) Support for ESN in AH (RFC 4302) from Fan Du.

   2) Add full kernel doc for ethtool command structures, from Ben
      Hutchings.

   3) Add BCM7xxx PHY driver, from Florian Fainelli.

   4) Export computed TCP rate information in netlink socket dumps, from
      Eric Dumazet.

   5) Allow IPSEC SA to be dumped partially using a filter, from Nicolas
      Dichtel.

   6) Convert many drivers to pci_enable_msix_range(), from Alexander
      Gordeev.

   7) Record SKB timestamps more efficiently, from Eric Dumazet.

   8) Switch to microsecond resolution for TCP round trip times, also
      from Eric Dumazet.

   9) Clean up and fix 6lowpan fragmentation handling by making use of
      the existing inet_frag api for it's implementation.

  10) Add TX grant mapping to xen-netback driver, from Zoltan Kiss.

  11) Auto size SKB lengths when composing netlink messages based upon
      past message sizes used, from Eric Dumazet.

  12) qdisc dumps can take a long time, add a cond_resched(), From Eric
      Dumazet.

  13) Sanitize netpoll core and drivers wrt.  SKB handling semantics.
      Get rid of never-used-in-tree netpoll RX handling.  From Eric W
      Biederman.

  14) Support inter-address-family and namespace changing in VTI tunnel
      driver(s).  From Steffen Klassert.

  15) Add Altera TSE driver, from Vince Bridgers.

  16) Optimizing csum_replace2() so that it doesn't adjust the checksum
      by checksumming the entire header, from Eric Dumazet.

  17) Expand BPF internal implementation for faster interpreting, more
      direct translations into JIT'd code, and much cleaner uses of BPF
      filtering in non-socket ocntexts.  From Daniel Borkmann and Alexei
      Starovoitov"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1976 commits)
  netpoll: Use skb_irq_freeable to make zap_completion_queue safe.
  net: Add a test to see if a skb is freeable in irq context
  qlcnic: Fix build failure due to undefined reference to `vxlan_get_rx_port'
  net: ptp: move PTP classifier in its own file
  net: sxgbe: make "core_ops" static
  net: sxgbe: fix logical vs bitwise operation
  net: sxgbe: sxgbe_mdio_register() frees the bus
  Call efx_set_channels() before efx-&gt;type-&gt;dimension_resources()
  xen-netback: disable rogue vif in kthread context
  net/mlx4: Set proper build dependancy with vxlan
  be2net: fix build dependency on VxLAN
  mac802154: make csma/cca parameters per-wpan
  mac802154: allow only one WPAN to be up at any given time
  net: filter: minor: fix kdoc in __sk_run_filter
  netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp
  can: c_can: Avoid led toggling for every packet.
  can: c_can: Simplify TX interrupt cleanup
  can: c_can: Store dlc private
  can: c_can: Reduce register access
  can: c_can: Make the code readable
  ...
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<title>net-sysfs: expose number of carrier on/off changes</title>
<updated>2014-03-31T20:24:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>david decotigny</name>
<email>decot@googlers.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-29T16:48:35+00:00</published>
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This allows to monitor carrier on/off transitions and detect link
flapping issues:
 - new /sys/class/net/X/carrier_changes
 - new rtnetlink IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES (getlink)

Tested:
  - grep . /sys/class/net/*/carrier_changes
    + ip link set dev X down/up
    + plug/unplug cable
  - updated iproute2: prints IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES
  - iproute2 20121211-2 (debian): unchanged behavior

Signed-off-by: David Decotigny &lt;decot@googlers.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This allows to monitor carrier on/off transitions and detect link
flapping issues:
 - new /sys/class/net/X/carrier_changes
 - new rtnetlink IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES (getlink)

Tested:
  - grep . /sys/class/net/*/carrier_changes
    + ip link set dev X down/up
    + plug/unplug cable
  - updated iproute2: prints IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES
  - iproute2 20121211-2 (debian): unchanged behavior

Signed-off-by: David Decotigny &lt;decot@googlers.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: Add sysfs file for port number</title>
<updated>2014-02-26T20:38:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Vadai</name>
<email>amirv@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-25T16:17:50+00:00</published>
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Add a sysfs file to enable user space to query the device
port number used by a netdevice instance. This is needed for
devices that have multiple ports on the same PCI function.

Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai &lt;amirv@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add a sysfs file to enable user space to query the device
port number used by a netdevice instance. This is needed for
devices that have multiple ports on the same PCI function.

Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai &lt;amirv@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net-sysfs: fix comment typo 'CONFIG_SYFS'</title>
<updated>2014-02-20T13:56:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Bolle</name>
<email>pebolle@tiscali.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-09T13:07:11+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net-sysfs: get_netdev_queue_index() cleanup</title>
<updated>2014-02-14T20:46:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-13T18:07:13+00:00</published>
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Remove one inline keyword, and no need for a loop to find
an index into a table.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Remove one inline keyword, and no need for a loop to find
an index into a table.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: fix "queues" uevent between network namespaces</title>
<updated>2014-01-20T04:02:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Weilong Chen</name>
<email>chenweilong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-16T09:24:31+00:00</published>
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When I create a new namespace with 'ip netns add net0', or add/remove
new links in a namespace with 'ip link add/delete type veth', rx/tx
queues events can be got in all namespaces. That is because rx/tx queue
ktypes do not have namespace support, and their kobj parents are setted to
NULL. This patch is to fix it.

Reported-by: Libo Chen &lt;chenlibo@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Libo Chen &lt;chenlibo@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen &lt;chenweilong@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When I create a new namespace with 'ip netns add net0', or add/remove
new links in a namespace with 'ip link add/delete type veth', rx/tx
queues events can be got in all namespaces. That is because rx/tx queue
ktypes do not have namespace support, and their kobj parents are setted to
NULL. This patch is to fix it.

Reported-by: Libo Chen &lt;chenlibo@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Libo Chen &lt;chenlibo@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen &lt;chenweilong@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net-sysfs: add support for device-specific rx queue sysfs attributes</title>
<updated>2014-01-17T07:46:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Dalton</name>
<email>mwdalton@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-17T06:23:28+00:00</published>
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Extend existing support for netdevice receive queue sysfs attributes to
permit a device-specific attribute group. Initial use case for this
support will be to allow the virtio-net device to export per-receive
queue mergeable receive buffer size.

Signed-off-by: Michael Dalton &lt;mwdalton@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Extend existing support for netdevice receive queue sysfs attributes to
permit a device-specific attribute group. Initial use case for this
support will be to allow the virtio-net device to export per-receive
queue mergeable receive buffer size.

Signed-off-by: Michael Dalton &lt;mwdalton@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: netdev_kobject_init: annotate with __init</title>
<updated>2014-01-06T01:27:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>dborkman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-06T00:20:11+00:00</published>
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netdev_kobject_init() is only being called from __init context,
that is, net_dev_init(), so annotate it with __init as well, thus
the kernel can take this as a hint that the function is used only
during the initialization phase and free up used memory resources
after its invocation.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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netdev_kobject_init() is only being called from __init context,
that is, net_dev_init(), so annotate it with __init as well, thus
the kernel can take this as a hint that the function is used only
during the initialization phase and free up used memory resources
after its invocation.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: more spelling fixes</title>
<updated>2013-12-11T02:57:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>stephen hemminger</name>
<email>stephen@networkplumber.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-08T20:15:44+00:00</published>
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Various spelling fixes in networking stack

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Various spelling fixes in networking stack

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T08:40:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-13T08:40:34+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) The addition of nftables.  No longer will we need protocol aware
    firewall filtering modules, it can all live in userspace.

    At the core of nftables is a, for lack of a better term, virtual
    machine that executes byte codes to inspect packet or metadata
    (arriving interface index, etc.) and make verdict decisions.

    Besides support for loading packet contents and comparing them, the
    interpreter supports lookups in various datastructures as
    fundamental operations.  For example sets are supports, and
    therefore one could create a set of whitelist IP address entries
    which have ACCEPT verdicts attached to them, and use the appropriate
    byte codes to do such lookups.

    Since the interpreted code is composed in userspace, userspace can
    do things like optimize things before giving it to the kernel.

    Another major improvement is the capability of atomically updating
    portions of the ruleset.  In the existing netfilter implementation,
    one has to update the entire rule set in order to make a change and
    this is very expensive.

    Userspace tools exist to create nftables rules using existing
    netfilter rule sets, but both kernel implementations will need to
    co-exist for quite some time as we transition from the old to the
    new stuff.

    Kudos to Patrick McHardy, Pablo Neira Ayuso, and others who have
    worked so hard on this.

 2) Daniel Borkmann and Hannes Frederic Sowa made several improvements
    to our pseudo-random number generator, mostly used for things like
    UDP port randomization and netfitler, amongst other things.

    In particular the taus88 generater is updated to taus113, and test
    cases are added.

 3) Support 64-bit rates in HTB and TBF schedulers, from Eric Dumazet
    and Yang Yingliang.

 4) Add support for new 577xx tigon3 chips to tg3 driver, from Nithin
    Sujir.

 5) Fix two fatal flaws in TCP dynamic right sizing, from Eric Dumazet,
    Neal Cardwell, and Yuchung Cheng.

 6) Allow IP_TOS and IP_TTL to be specified in sendmsg() ancillary
    control message data, much like other socket option attributes.
    From Francesco Fusco.

 7) Allow applications to specify a cap on the rate computed
    automatically by the kernel for pacing flows, via a new
    SO_MAX_PACING_RATE socket option.  From Eric Dumazet.

 8) Make the initial autotuned send buffer sizing in TCP more closely
    reflect actual needs, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Currently early socket demux only happens for TCP sockets, but we
    can do it for connected UDP sockets too.  Implementation from Shawn
    Bohrer.

10) Refactor inet socket demux with the goal of improving hash demux
    performance for listening sockets.  With the main goals being able
    to use RCU lookups on even request sockets, and eliminating the
    listening lock contention.  From Eric Dumazet.

11) The bonding layer has many demuxes in it's fast path, and an RCU
    conversion was started back in 3.11, several changes here extend the
    RCU usage to even more locations.  From Ding Tianhong and Wang
    Yufen, based upon suggestions by Nikolay Aleksandrov and Veaceslav
    Falico.

12) Allow stackability of segmentation offloads to, in particular, allow
    segmentation offloading over tunnels.  From Eric Dumazet.

13) Significantly improve the handling of secret keys we input into the
    various hash functions in the inet hashtables, TCP fast open, as
    well as syncookies.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.  The key fundamental
    operation is "net_get_random_once()" which uses static keys.

    Hannes even extended this to ipv4/ipv6 fragmentation handling and
    our generic flow dissector.

14) The generic driver layer takes care now to set the driver data to
    NULL on device removal, so it's no longer necessary for drivers to
    explicitly set it to NULL any more.  Many drivers have been cleaned
    up in this way, from Jingoo Han.

15) Add a BPF based packet scheduler classifier, from Daniel Borkmann.

16) Improve CRC32 interfaces and generic SKB checksum iterators so that
    SCTP's checksumming can more cleanly be handled.  Also from Daniel
    Borkmann.

17) Add a new PMTU discovery mode, IP_PMTUDISC_INTERFACE, which forces
    using the interface MTU value.  This helps avoid PMTU attacks,
    particularly on DNS servers.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.

18) Use generic XPS for transmit queue steering rather than internal
    (re-)implementation in virtio-net.  From Jason Wang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1622 commits)
  random32: add test cases for taus113 implementation
  random32: upgrade taus88 generator to taus113 from errata paper
  random32: move rnd_state to linux/random.h
  random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized
  random32: add periodic reseeding
  random32: fix off-by-one in seeding requirement
  PHY: Add RTL8201CP phy_driver to realtek
  xtsonic: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in xtsonic_probe()
  macmace: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in mace_probe()
  ethernet/arc/arc_emac: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in arc_emac_probe()
  ipv6: protect for_each_sk_fl_rcu in mem_check with rcu_read_lock_bh
  vlan: Implement vlan_dev_get_egress_qos_mask as an inline.
  ixgbe: add warning when max_vfs is out of range.
  igb: Update link modes display in ethtool
  netfilter: push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs
  ip6_output: fragment outgoing reassembled skb properly
  MAINTAINERS: mv643xx_eth: take over maintainership from Lennart
  net_sched: tbf: support of 64bit rates
  ixgbe: deleting dfwd stations out of order can cause null ptr deref
  ixgbe: fix build err, num_rx_queues is only available with CONFIG_RPS
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) The addition of nftables.  No longer will we need protocol aware
    firewall filtering modules, it can all live in userspace.

    At the core of nftables is a, for lack of a better term, virtual
    machine that executes byte codes to inspect packet or metadata
    (arriving interface index, etc.) and make verdict decisions.

    Besides support for loading packet contents and comparing them, the
    interpreter supports lookups in various datastructures as
    fundamental operations.  For example sets are supports, and
    therefore one could create a set of whitelist IP address entries
    which have ACCEPT verdicts attached to them, and use the appropriate
    byte codes to do such lookups.

    Since the interpreted code is composed in userspace, userspace can
    do things like optimize things before giving it to the kernel.

    Another major improvement is the capability of atomically updating
    portions of the ruleset.  In the existing netfilter implementation,
    one has to update the entire rule set in order to make a change and
    this is very expensive.

    Userspace tools exist to create nftables rules using existing
    netfilter rule sets, but both kernel implementations will need to
    co-exist for quite some time as we transition from the old to the
    new stuff.

    Kudos to Patrick McHardy, Pablo Neira Ayuso, and others who have
    worked so hard on this.

 2) Daniel Borkmann and Hannes Frederic Sowa made several improvements
    to our pseudo-random number generator, mostly used for things like
    UDP port randomization and netfitler, amongst other things.

    In particular the taus88 generater is updated to taus113, and test
    cases are added.

 3) Support 64-bit rates in HTB and TBF schedulers, from Eric Dumazet
    and Yang Yingliang.

 4) Add support for new 577xx tigon3 chips to tg3 driver, from Nithin
    Sujir.

 5) Fix two fatal flaws in TCP dynamic right sizing, from Eric Dumazet,
    Neal Cardwell, and Yuchung Cheng.

 6) Allow IP_TOS and IP_TTL to be specified in sendmsg() ancillary
    control message data, much like other socket option attributes.
    From Francesco Fusco.

 7) Allow applications to specify a cap on the rate computed
    automatically by the kernel for pacing flows, via a new
    SO_MAX_PACING_RATE socket option.  From Eric Dumazet.

 8) Make the initial autotuned send buffer sizing in TCP more closely
    reflect actual needs, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Currently early socket demux only happens for TCP sockets, but we
    can do it for connected UDP sockets too.  Implementation from Shawn
    Bohrer.

10) Refactor inet socket demux with the goal of improving hash demux
    performance for listening sockets.  With the main goals being able
    to use RCU lookups on even request sockets, and eliminating the
    listening lock contention.  From Eric Dumazet.

11) The bonding layer has many demuxes in it's fast path, and an RCU
    conversion was started back in 3.11, several changes here extend the
    RCU usage to even more locations.  From Ding Tianhong and Wang
    Yufen, based upon suggestions by Nikolay Aleksandrov and Veaceslav
    Falico.

12) Allow stackability of segmentation offloads to, in particular, allow
    segmentation offloading over tunnels.  From Eric Dumazet.

13) Significantly improve the handling of secret keys we input into the
    various hash functions in the inet hashtables, TCP fast open, as
    well as syncookies.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.  The key fundamental
    operation is "net_get_random_once()" which uses static keys.

    Hannes even extended this to ipv4/ipv6 fragmentation handling and
    our generic flow dissector.

14) The generic driver layer takes care now to set the driver data to
    NULL on device removal, so it's no longer necessary for drivers to
    explicitly set it to NULL any more.  Many drivers have been cleaned
    up in this way, from Jingoo Han.

15) Add a BPF based packet scheduler classifier, from Daniel Borkmann.

16) Improve CRC32 interfaces and generic SKB checksum iterators so that
    SCTP's checksumming can more cleanly be handled.  Also from Daniel
    Borkmann.

17) Add a new PMTU discovery mode, IP_PMTUDISC_INTERFACE, which forces
    using the interface MTU value.  This helps avoid PMTU attacks,
    particularly on DNS servers.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.

18) Use generic XPS for transmit queue steering rather than internal
    (re-)implementation in virtio-net.  From Jason Wang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1622 commits)
  random32: add test cases for taus113 implementation
  random32: upgrade taus88 generator to taus113 from errata paper
  random32: move rnd_state to linux/random.h
  random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized
  random32: add periodic reseeding
  random32: fix off-by-one in seeding requirement
  PHY: Add RTL8201CP phy_driver to realtek
  xtsonic: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in xtsonic_probe()
  macmace: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in mace_probe()
  ethernet/arc/arc_emac: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in arc_emac_probe()
  ipv6: protect for_each_sk_fl_rcu in mem_check with rcu_read_lock_bh
  vlan: Implement vlan_dev_get_egress_qos_mask as an inline.
  ixgbe: add warning when max_vfs is out of range.
  igb: Update link modes display in ethtool
  netfilter: push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs
  ip6_output: fragment outgoing reassembled skb properly
  MAINTAINERS: mv643xx_eth: take over maintainership from Lennart
  net_sched: tbf: support of 64bit rates
  ixgbe: deleting dfwd stations out of order can cause null ptr deref
  ixgbe: fix build err, num_rx_queues is only available with CONFIG_RPS
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