Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch

Jesse Gross says:

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[GIT net-next] Open vSwitch

Open vSwitch changes for net-next/3.14. Highlights are:
 * Performance improvements in the mechanism to get packets to userspace
   using memory mapped netlink and skb zero copy where appropriate.
 * Per-cpu flow stats in situations where flows are likely to be shared
   across CPUs. Standard flow stats are used in other situations to save
   memory and allocation time.
 * A handful of code cleanups and rationalization.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 713671ae45af..b1dcdb932a86 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -461,6 +461,26 @@ int genl_unregister_family(struct genl_family *family)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(genl_unregister_family);
 
 /**
+ * genlmsg_new_unicast - Allocate generic netlink message for unicast
+ * @payload: size of the message payload
+ * @info: information on destination
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate
+ *
+ * Allocates a new sk_buff large enough to cover the specified payload
+ * plus required Netlink headers. Will check receiving socket for
+ * memory mapped i/o capability and use it if enabled. Will fall back
+ * to non-mapped skb if message size exceeds the frame size of the ring.
+ */
+struct sk_buff *genlmsg_new_unicast(size_t payload, struct genl_info *info,
+				    gfp_t flags)
+{
+	size_t len = nlmsg_total_size(genlmsg_total_size(payload));
+
+	return netlink_alloc_skb(info->dst_sk, len, info->snd_portid, flags);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(genlmsg_new_unicast);
+
+/**
  * genlmsg_put - Add generic netlink header to netlink message
  * @skb: socket buffer holding the message
  * @portid: netlink portid the message is addressed to
@@ -600,6 +620,7 @@ static int genl_family_rcv_msg(struct genl_family *family,
 	info.genlhdr = nlmsg_data(nlh);
 	info.userhdr = nlmsg_data(nlh) + GENL_HDRLEN;
 	info.attrs = attrbuf;
+	info.dst_sk = skb->sk;
 	genl_info_net_set(&info, net);
 	memset(&info.user_ptr, 0, sizeof(info.user_ptr));