Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc4

2007-06-09 Thread Avuton Olrich
On 6/4/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So -rc4 is out there now, hopefully shrinking the regression list further. (CCd net device MAINTAINERs, I'm not sure, but nv_alloc_rx is forcedeth) This server has been up for about a day now and I'm starting to get some bad looking message

[git patches] net driver fixes

2007-06-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
A big batch of fixes for the newly added libertas wireless driver is coming soon, too. Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h |2

RE: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

2007-06-09 Thread jamal
On Sat, 2007-09-06 at 17:23 -0400, Leonid Grossman wrote: > Not really. This is a very old presentation; you probably saw some newer > PR on Convergence Enhanced Ethernet, Congestion Free Ethernet etc. Not been keeping up to date in that area. > These efforts are in very early stages and arguabl

[PATCH] net: fix typo in drivers/net/usb/Kconfig

2007-06-09 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Replace invisible character with a space. The diff looks like this on my terminal: -Choose this option if you're using a host-to-host cable -with one of these chips. + Choose this option if you're using a host-to-host cable + with one of these chips. Reported by: M

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc4] ehea: Fixed possible kernel panic on VLAN packet recv

2007-06-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Thomas Klein wrote: This patch fixes a possible kernel panic due to not checking the vlan group when processing received VLAN packets and a malfunction in VLAN/hypervisor registration. Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: [PATCH] phylib: add RGMII-ID mode to the Marvell m88e1111 PHY to fix broken ucc_geth

2007-06-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Li Yang wrote: From: Kim Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support for configuring RGMII-ID (RGMII with internal delay) mode on the 88e and 88e1145. Ucc_geth on MPC8360EMDS(the main user of ucc_geth) is broken after changed to use phylib. It is fixed by adding this internal delay. Also renamed

Re: [PATCH 2/4] NetXen: Fix ping issue after reboot on Blades with 3.4.19 firmware

2007-06-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mithlesh Thukral wrote: NetXen: Fix initialization and subsequent ping issue on 3.4.19 firmware This patch fixes the ping problem seen X/PBlades after the adapter's firmware was moved to 3.4.19. After configured interface up, ping failed. NetXen adapter couldn't accept ARP broadcast packet. Ma

Re: [PATCH 4/4] NetXen: Fix compile failure seen on PPC architecture

2007-06-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mithlesh Thukral wrote: NetXen: Add NETXEN prefixes to macros to clean them up. This is a cleanup patch which adds NETXEN prefix to some stand alone macro names. These posed compile errors when NetXen driver was backported to 2.6.9 on PPC architecture as macros like USER_START are defined in fi

Re: [PATCH 1/2] ibmveth: Fix h_free_logical_lan error on pool resize

2007-06-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Brian King wrote: When attempting to activate additional rx buffer pools on an ibmveth interface that was not yet up, the error below was seen. The patch fixes this by only closing and opening the interface to activate the resize if the interface is already opened. applied 1-2 to #upstream-fix

Re: typo in via-velocity.c

2007-06-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Dave Jones wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8160 Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-i

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21.3] bonding: Fix 802.3ad no carrier on "no partner found" instance

2007-06-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Laurent Chavey wrote: Remove the requirement to have at least one configured partner to enable the operation of links. The later is necessary to have the code in compliance with section 43.3.9 of IEEE 802.3, Signed-off-by: Laurent Chavey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Looks OK but patch is corrupted: [E

Re: [PATCH 1/4] NetXen: Fix link status messages

2007-06-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mithlesh Thukral wrote: - if ((netif_running(netdev)) && !netif_carrier_ok(netdev)) { - printk(KERN_INFO "%s port %d, %s carrier is now ok\n", - netxen_nic_driver_name, adapter->portnum, netdev->name); + if ((netdev->flags & IFF_UP) && !netif_carrier

Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

2007-06-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Leonid Grossman wrote: But my point was that while virtualization capabilities of upcoming NICs may be not even relevant to Linux, the multi-channel hw designs (a side effect of virtualization push, if you will) will be there and a non-virtualized stack can take advantage of them. I'm looking

RE: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

2007-06-09 Thread Leonid Grossman
> -Original Message- > From: J Hadi Salim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jamal > Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:23 PM > To: Leonid Grossman > Cc: Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P; Patrick McHardy; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > netdev@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kok, Auke-jan H; Ramkrishna

RE: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

2007-06-09 Thread jamal
On Sat, 2007-09-06 at 10:58 -0400, Leonid Grossman wrote: > IMHO, in addition to current Intel and Neterion NICs, some/most upcoming > NICs are likely to be multiqueue, since virtualization emerges as a > major driver for hw designs (there are other things of course that drive > hw, but these are

[1/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions with patches v2

2007-06-09 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc4 with patches available. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions Unclassified Subject: kernel BUG at arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c:126! References : http://lkml.o

[PATCH] PHY fixed driver: rework release path and update phy_id notation

2007-06-09 Thread Vitaly Bordug
device_bind_driver() error code returning has been fixed. release() function has been written, so that to free resources in correct way; the release path is now clean. Before the rework, it used to cause Device '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:1' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be

[PATCH] PHY fixed driver: rework release path and update phy_id notation

2007-06-09 Thread Vitaly Bordug
device_bind_driver() error code returning has been fixed. release() function has been written, so that to free resources in correct way; the release path is now clean. Before the rework, it used to cause Device '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:1' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be

RE: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

2007-06-09 Thread Leonid Grossman
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:netdev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 3:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Patrick McHardy > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; netdev@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kok, > Auke-jan H >

Re: networking busted in current -git ???

2007-06-09 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:06 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:43:27 -0400 > > > It is not dhcp. I'm seeing the same bug with bog-standard ifup with a > > static address on an FC-6 machine. > > > > It appears to be something in the l

Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

2007-06-09 Thread jamal
On Sat, 2007-09-06 at 21:08 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > It takes the tx_lock in the xmit routine as well as in the clean-up > routine. However, the lock is only taken when it updates the queue > status. > > Thanks to the ring buffer structure the rest of the clean-up/xmit code > will run concurre

Re: [XFRM] Introduce standalone SAD lookup

2007-06-09 Thread jamal
Sorry, meant to cc Herbert and James since they commented two generations ago. Gents, if you manage to have the cycles please look at this specific one. Herbert, for tunnel mode i think i will agree with you and introduce a dst struct; but i will defer that to some later patch. cheers, jamal On S

[PKTGEN] IPSEC support

2007-06-09 Thread jamal
4 of 4 cheers, jamal commit d1d8ea490a517df484e6774c4f41123ccde52434 Author: Jamal Hadi Salim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Jun 9 09:46:52 2007 -0400 [PKTGEN] IPSEC support Added transport mode ESP support for starters. I will send more of these modes and types once i have resolved

[XFRM] Introduce standalone SAD lookup

2007-06-09 Thread jamal
3 of 4. cheers, jamal commit 923d6c49f9f513da41e4bfd8188304787a5c8093 Author: Jamal Hadi Salim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Jun 9 09:16:12 2007 -0400 [XFRM] Introduce standalone SAD lookup This allows other in-kernel functions to do SAD lookups. The only known user at the moment is

[PKTGEN] Introduce sequential flows

2007-06-09 Thread jamal
2 of 4. cheers, jamal commit d0d2c0c2e5539a54d66f07d2fa99bb52c19cc698 Author: Jamal Hadi Salim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Jun 9 09:12:21 2007 -0400 [PKTGEN] Introduce sequential flows By default all flows in pktgen are randomly selected. This patch introduces ability to hav

[PKTGEN] Centralize packet overhead tracking

2007-06-09 Thread jamal
1 of 4. cheers, jamal commit f7da845f37e3cd47be46697491210c126b37c8fc Author: Jamal Hadi Salim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Jun 9 09:11:16 2007 -0400 [PKTGEN] Centralize packet overhead tracking Track the extra packet overhead for VLAN tags, MPLS, IPSEC etc Signed-off-by: Jam

[RFC] [PATCHES] pktgen IPSEC 0/4

2007-06-09 Thread jamal
This is a set of patches that add ipsec functionality to pktgen. I have lost these patches before - but they are now fully recovered and well tested. Robert has glanced at the patches and seems to have no qualms with them. I am soliciting for any feedback because i would like to push them for 2.6.

[PATCH] iproute2: Format IPv6 tunnels endpoints nicely.

2007-06-09 Thread David Lamparter
Change formatting of IPv6 tunnel endpoints from hex chain to standard IPv6 representation. Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- lib/ll_addr.c |3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/ll_addr.c b/lib/ll_addr.c index 581487d..f558050 100644 -

Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

2007-06-09 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:12:52AM -0400, jamal wrote: > > To mimick that behavior in LLTX, a driver needs to use the same lock on > both tx and receive. e1000 holds a different lock on tx path from rx > path. Maybe theres something clever i am missing; but it seems to be a > bug on e1000. It's b

Re: [PATCH] RFC: have tcp_recvmsg() check kthread_should_stop() and treat it as if it were signalled

2007-06-09 Thread Jeff Layton
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:30:04 +1000 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please cc networking patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jeff Layton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The following patch is a first stab at removing this need. It makes it > > so that in tcp_recvmsg() we also check kthrea