Documentation: networking: fix spelling mistakes
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This is the driver for the Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet (TSE) controllers
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using the SGDMA and MSGDMA soft DMA IP components. The driver uses the
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platform bus to obtain component resources. The designs used to test this
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driver were built for a Cyclone(R) V SOC FPGA board, a Cyclone(R) V FPGA board,
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and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts seperately. The anticipated use
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and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts separately. The anticipated use
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cases are simple communications between an embedded system and an external peer
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for status and simple configuration of the embedded system.
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@ -65,14 +65,14 @@ Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using:
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4.1) Transmit process
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When the driver's transmit routine is called by the kernel, it sets up a
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transmit descriptor by calling the underlying DMA transmit routine (SGDMA or
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MSGDMA), and initites a transmit operation. Once the transmit is complete, an
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MSGDMA), and initiates a transmit operation. Once the transmit is complete, an
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interrupt is driven by the transmit DMA logic. The driver handles the transmit
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completion in the context of the interrupt handling chain by recycling
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resource required to send and track the requested transmit operation.
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4.2) Receive process
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The driver will post receive buffers to the receive DMA logic during driver
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intialization. Receive buffers may or may not be queued depending upon the
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initialization. Receive buffers may or may not be queued depending upon the
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underlying DMA logic (MSGDMA is able queue receive buffers, SGDMA is not able
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to queue receive buffers to the SGDMA receive logic). When a packet is
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received, the DMA logic generates an interrupt. The driver handles a receive
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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Initial Release:
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This is conceptually very similar to the macvlan driver with one major
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exception of using L3 for mux-ing /demux-ing among slaves. This property makes
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the master device share the L2 with it's slave devices. I have developed this
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driver in conjuntion with network namespaces and not sure if there is use case
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driver in conjunction with network namespaces and not sure if there is use case
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outside of it.
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@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ out. In this mode the slaves will RX/TX multicast and broadcast (if applicable)
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as well.
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4.2 L3 mode:
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In this mode TX processing upto L3 happens on the stack instance attached
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In this mode TX processing up to L3 happens on the stack instance attached
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to the slave device and packets are switched to the stack instance of the
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master device for the L2 processing and routing from that instance will be
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used before packets are queued on the outbound device. In this mode the slaves
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@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ situations defines your use case then you can choose to use ipvlan -
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(a) The Linux host that is connected to the external switch / router has
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policy configured that allows only one mac per port.
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(b) No of virtual devices created on a master exceed the mac capacity and
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puts the NIC in promiscous mode and degraded performance is a concern.
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puts the NIC in promiscuous mode and degraded performance is a concern.
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(c) If the slave device is to be put into the hostile / untrusted network
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namespace where L2 on the slave could be changed / misused.
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@ -67,12 +67,12 @@ The two basic thread commands are:
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* add_device DEVICE@NAME -- adds a single device
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* rem_device_all -- remove all associated devices
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When adding a device to a thread, a corrosponding procfile is created
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When adding a device to a thread, a corresponding procfile is created
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which is used for configuring this device. Thus, device names need to
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be unique.
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To support adding the same device to multiple threads, which is useful
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with multi queue NICs, a the device naming scheme is extended with "@":
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with multi queue NICs, the device naming scheme is extended with "@":
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device@something
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The part after "@" can be anything, but it is custom to use the thread
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@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Sample scripts
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A collection of tutorial scripts and helpers for pktgen is in the
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samples/pktgen directory. The helper parameters.sh file support easy
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and consistant parameter parsing across the sample scripts.
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and consistent parameter parsing across the sample scripts.
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Usage example and help:
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./pktgen_sample01_simple.sh -i eth4 -m 00:1B:21:3C:9D:F8 -d 192.168.8.2
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@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ using an rx_handler which gives the impression that packets flow through
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the VRF device. Similarly on egress routing rules are used to send packets
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to the VRF device driver before getting sent out the actual interface. This
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allows tcpdump on a VRF device to capture all packets into and out of the
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VRF as a whole.[1] Similiarly, netfilter [2] and tc rules can be applied
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VRF as a whole.[1] Similarly, netfilter [2] and tc rules can be applied
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using the VRF device to specify rules that apply to the VRF domain as a whole.
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[1] Packets in the forwarded state do not flow through the device, so those
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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu> and others and additional patches
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from Jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>.
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The end goal for syncing is to be able to insert attributes + generate
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events so that the an SA can be safely moved from one machine to another
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events so that the SA can be safely moved from one machine to another
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for HA purposes.
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The idea is to synchronize the SA so that the takeover machine can do
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the processing of the SA as accurate as possible if it has access to it.
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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ We already have the ability to generate SA add/del/upd events.
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These patches add ability to sync and have accurate lifetime byte (to
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ensure proper decay of SAs) and replay counters to avoid replay attacks
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with as minimal loss at failover time.
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This way a backup stays as closely uptodate as an active member.
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This way a backup stays as closely up-to-date as an active member.
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Because the above items change for every packet the SA receives,
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it is possible for a lot of the events to be generated.
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@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ If you have an SA that is getting hit by traffic in bursts such that
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there is a period where the timer threshold expires with no packets
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seen, then an odd behavior is seen as follows:
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The first packet arrival after a timer expiry will trigger a timeout
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aevent; i.e we dont wait for a timeout period or a packet threshold
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event; i.e we don't wait for a timeout period or a packet threshold
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to be reached. This is done for simplicity and efficiency reasons.
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-JHS
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