On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, L F wrote:
> > can you describe your setup a bit more in detail? you're writing from a
> > linux
> > client to a windows smb server? or even to a linux server? which end sees
> > the
> > connection drop? the samba server? the samba linux client?
> Certainly.
> I have a LAN,
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:08:42AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> No, servers are required to support ordinary nfs operations to the
>> metadata server.
>> At least, that's the way it was last I heard, which was a while ago. I
>> agree that it'd stink (for any number of reas
J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 06:32:11PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:14:53PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
NFSv4.1 adds to the fun, by throwing interoperability completely out the
window.
What parts are you worried about in partic
From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:54:43 -0700
> looks like it is a hole in the stats. I think we should increment
> LISTENOVERFLOWS or LISTENDROPS in tcp_v[46]_conn_request too if the
> SYN is dropped.
No we should not.
This is limiting embryonic mini-socket c
From: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:42:18 -0700
> I've been digging around to see about inducing /proc/net/tcp to show
> some "interesting" things for listen sockets (eg backlog depth, its max,
> and dropped connection requests). While there I've noticed that both
>
On 9/14/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm pleased to announce fourth release of the distributed storage
> > subsystem, which allows to form a storage on top of remote and local
> > nodes, which in turn can be exported to another storage as a no
Hi all,
Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc6
with patches available.
Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions
List of Aces
NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007
Adrian Bunk10
Hi all,
Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc6.
Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions
List of Aces
NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007
Adrian Bunk10
Andi Kleen
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:21:05 +0200 Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
>
> +
> +static void ipg_dump_tfdlist(struct net_device *dev)
> +{
> + struct ipg_nic_private *sp = netdev_priv(dev);
> + void __iomem *ioaddr = sp->ioaddr;
> + unsigned int i;
> + u32 offset;
> +
>
> can you describe your setup a bit more in detail? you're writing from a linux
> client to a windows smb server? or even to a linux server? which end sees the
> connection drop? the samba server? the samba linux client?
Certainly.
I have a LAN, with two switches in a stack. There currently are 7
W
From: Stjepan Gros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:30:13 +0200
> I'm having problems telling the kernel to do ESP-in-UDP encapsulation.
> Outgoing direction seems to work, but the incoming packets on the other
> side are passed to ikev2 daemon instead of kernel decapsulating them.
T
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:31:06 +0900 (JST)
> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Also applied, thank you.
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From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:30:51 +0900 (JST)
> When we corking sub-datagrams, we do not clone skb->dst for sub-datagrams
> other than the first one, so we get oops if we have multiple sub-datagrams
> here.
>
> One possible way to fix this is to cl
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:30:58 +0900 (JST)
> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, thank you.
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From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:30:39 +0900 (JST)
> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, I'll push to -stable after it lands in Linus's tree.
Thank you.
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Dan Williams wrote:
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 01:30 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
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/atl1/atl1_main.c | 19 +++
d
Ok, I changed my mind and decided to retain the optlen==0
intended behavior. It fell out of fixing the small
string length case.
This is likely what I'll push to Linus and later -stable
as a fix for this stuff.
Thanks.
commit 4878809f711981a602cc562eb47994fc81ea0155
Author: David S. Miller <[E
Update the "don't change MAC of slaves" functionality added in
previous changes to be a generic option, rather than something tied to IB
devices, as it's occasionally useful for regular ethernet devices as well.
Adds "fail_over_mac" option (which is automatically enabled for IB
sla
From: Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
When bonding enslaves non Ethernet devices it takes pointers to functions
in the module that owns the slaves. In this case it becomes unsafe
to keep the bonding master registered after last slave was unenslaved
because we don't know if the pointers are still va
From: Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
bonding sometimes uses Ethernet constants (such as MTU and address length) which
are not good when it enslaves non Ethernet devices (such as InfiniBand).
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/net/
From: Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Delay sending a gratuitous_arp when LINK_STATE_LINKWATCH_PENDING bit
in dev->state field is on. This improves the chances for the arp packet to
be transmitted.
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
driver
From: Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This patch allows for enslaving netdevices which do not support
the set_mac_address() function. In that case the bond mac address is the one
of the active slave, where remote peers are notified on the mac address
(neighbour) change by Gratuitous ARP sent by bon
From: Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Allow to enslave devices when the bonding device is not up. Over the discussion
held at the previous post this seemed to be the most clean way to go, where it
is not expected to cause instabilities.
Normally, the bonding driver is UP before any enslavement tak
From: Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
When the bonding device senses a carrier loss of its active slave it replaces
that slave with a new one. In between the times when the carrier of an IPoIB
device goes down and ipoib_neigh is destroyed, it is possible that the
bonding driver will send a packet o
From: Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This patch changes some of the bond netdevice attributes and functions
to be that of the active slave for the case of the enslaved device not being
of ARPHRD_ETHER type. Basically it overrides those setting done by
ether_setup(),
which are netdevice **type** d
From: Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Export the call to raw_notifier_call_chain so modules can send notifications
on netdev events to the netdev_chain.
Add IFF_SLAVE_DETACH to the list of priv_flags for net_device.
This flag is set by a slave that is about to unregisster from the kernel.
Both cha
Following is patch set to provide IPoIB support for bonding in
active-backup mode. Patches 1 - 10 were originally posted by Moni Shoua
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The changes look reasonable to me, but others (for
IB and net/core changes) probably need to ack.
Patch 11 modifies the IB "
From: Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
IPoIB uses a two layer neighboring scheme, such that for each struct neighbour
whose device is an ipoib one, there is a struct ipoib_neigh buddy which is
created on demand at the tx flow by an ipoib_neigh_alloc(skb->dst->neighbour)
call.
When using the bonding
From: Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
When the bonding device enslaves IPoIB devices it takes pointers to
functions in the ib_ipoib module. This is fine as long as the ib_ipoib
nodule remains loaded while the references to its functions exist.
So, to help bonding do a cleanup on time, when the IPoI
David Miller wrote:
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:37:45 -0700
I will try the patch, but it will probably not be until Monday.
The existing code actually can be made to work by passing in
a 4+ byte string and setting the first byte to zero, and as
far as I can se
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:37:45 -0700
> I will try the patch, but it will probably not be until Monday.
> The existing code actually can be made to work by passing in
> a 4+ byte string and setting the first byte to zero, and as
> far as I can see, that remains
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 06:32:11PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:14:53PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I've been waiting for years for a smart person to
David Miller wrote:
Instead of nit-picking, can you instead try the patch and let me
know if it makes things work for you?
I don't mean to complain, just trying to make sure that you
had thought about the length and were happy with how it works
before I try to get the man page changed.
I will
From: "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:26:21 -0700
> [PCI]: Add MSI quirk for ServerWorks HT1000 PCIX bridge.
>
> This is the fix for the following problem:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227657
>
> The bnx2 device 5706 complains about MSI not workin
J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:14:53PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I've been waiting for years for a smart person to come along and write a
POSIX-only distributed filesystem.
What exactly do y
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:11:39 -0700
> From user-space, does this imply that the 'empty string' we use to
> unbind must be at least 4 bytes long, but with the first byte /0?
>
> If so, I think it might be confusing for the comments to say use ""
> to unbind,
From: Jan-Bernd Themann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:37:02 +0200
> Its about the question who inserts and removes devices from the poll list.
>
> netif_rx_schedule: sets NAPI_STATE_SCHED flag, insert device in poll list.
> netif_rx_complete: clears NAPI_STATE_SCHED
> netif_rx_resc
David Miller wrote:
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:45:14 -0700
According to the comment in the net/core/sock.c code (in 2.6.20), I should be
able to pass a zero
optlen to the setsockopt method for SO_BINDTODEVICE:
...
However, earlier in that method it return
Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Could we just make it so dev->init is not allowed to fail? Then it
> can be a void function and the nasty unwind code can go?
Unfortunately we need to allocate memory, and perform other operations
that can fail. That's the nature of the problem.
S
Background: RFC 4293 deprecates existing individual, named ICMP
type counters to be replaced with the ICMPMsgStatsTable. This table
includes entries for both IPv4 and IPv6, and requires counting of all
ICMP types, whether or not the machine implements the type.
These patches "remove" (but not real
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:14:53PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> I've been waiting for years for a smart person to come along and write a
>>> POSIX-only distributed filesystem.
>
>> What exactly do you mean by
J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I've been waiting for years for a smart person to come along and write a
POSIX-only distributed filesystem.
What exactly do you mean by "POSIX-only"?
Don't bother supporting attributes, file modes, and other
Jesse Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
[...]
> Change Logs: Add IP1000A Driver to kernel tree.
It misses the needed Kconfig, Makefile and pci_ids changes
from Stefan Lippers-Hollmann.
--
Ueimor
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> My thoughts. But first a disclaimer: Perhaps you will recall me as one
> of the people who really reads all your patches, and examines your code and
> proposals closely. So, with that in mind...
>
> I question the value of distrib
L F wrote:
On 9/14/07, Kok, Auke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
this slowness might have been masking the issue
That is possible. However, it worked for upwards of twelve months
without an error.
I have not yet seen other reports of this issue, and it would be interesting to
see if the stack or d
Please pull from branch 'r8169-for-jeff-20070914' in repository
git://electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com/home/romieu/linux-2.6.git
r8169-for-jeff-20070914
to get the fixes below.
Distance from 'netdev-2.6/upstream' (18d256761aa268fd2fb1
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:25:52 -0700
Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [adding netdev]
yup. I wonder if the net developers are setting CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:08:03 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > My P4 is crashing about once a day, started
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm pleased to announce fourth release of the distributed storage
> > subsystem, which allows to form a storage on top of remote and local
> > nodes, which in turn can be exported to another storage as a node to
> > form tree-like storage
From: Joakim Koskela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:00:10 +0300
> This patch addresses a couple of issues related to interfamily ipsec
> modes. The problem is that the structure of the routing info changes
> with the family during the __xfrmX_bundle_create, which hasn't been
> taken
Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>So essentially the ehea device has a 1(+) external ports that may/may
>not be connected, but all lpars share the physical hardware itself,
>which is quite happy to let all the lpars talk to each other essentially
>via loopback even if there is no actua
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:27:04 -0700 "Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I realize this e-mail might be nuisance and time waster for you but I'm
> in need of advice. I apologize in advance for any commonsense cultural
> conventions I'm breaking.
>
> I sent the below patch to four
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 12:19 -0700, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> >I admit that I probably don't understand the system architecture of
> >where ehea would be used, but would this
> >cause /sys/class/net/ethX/carrier to be TRUE even if the device has no
> >ca
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:45:14 -0700
> According to the comment in the net/core/sock.c code (in 2.6.20), I should be
> able to pass a zero
> optlen to the setsockopt method for SO_BINDTODEVICE:
...
> However, earlier in that method it returns -EINVAL if optl
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 09:18 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> However, do you have any plans to support iSCSI offload for targets?
> Also, looking at the first CNIC patch, I can't help but notice that
> you seem to have at least some support for iWARP there. How does the
> CNIC look? Does it share t
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:41:07 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:39:32 +0400
> > Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> I proposed introducing a list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse
> >> macro
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:31:18 +0530 Krishna Kumar wrote:
> Add Documentation describing batching skb xmit capability.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> batching_skb_xmit.txt | 107
> ++
> 1 files changed, 107 insertions(
From: Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:41:48 -0700
> David? Did you ever get a chance to look at this?
> Do you want me to rebase it against your newer net-2.4.26?
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/trivial-mods.git
I just got back from 2 weeks of travelling, sit tight :
David? Did you ever get a chance to look at this?
Do you want me to rebase it against your newer net-2.4.26?
http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/trivial-mods.git
> I've inlined the include changes, but the entire patch
> is quite large. (300KB)
>
> MAC address format changes:
>
> UPPER->lower case c
[adding netdev]
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:08:03 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> My P4 is crashing about once a day, started with 2.6.23-rc4-mm1, with
> errors that seems related to network code. Here is the latest BUG:
> (sorry, my console log cuts it at 80 cols)
>
> Mathieu
>
> [
Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>I admit that I probably don't understand the system architecture of
>where ehea would be used, but would this
>cause /sys/class/net/ethX/carrier to be TRUE even if the device has no
>carrier? That seems quite wrong IMHO. When does ehea not have a
>ca
[.. forgot to refresh the patch, the other version has compile problems ..]
ADD-IP spec requires AUTH. It is, in fact, dangerous without AUTH.
So, disable ADD-IP functionality if the peer claims to support
ADD-IP, but not AUTH.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/net/sct
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
Hi.
I'm pleased to announce fourth release of the distributed storage
subsystem, which allows to form a storage on top of remote and local
nodes, which in turn can be exported to another storage as a node to
form tree-like storages.
This release includes new configuratio
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/sctp.h | 100 +-
1 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sctp.h b/include/linux/sctp.h
index f4d717b..5eb38cc 100644
--- a/include/linux/sctp.h
The patch initializes AUTH related members of the generic SCTP
structures and provides a way to enable/disable auth extension.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
net/sctp/associola.c | 34 +++
net/sctp/endpointola.c | 83
ADD-IP spec requires AUTH. It is, in fact, dangerous without AUTH.
So, disable ADD-IP functionality if the peer claims to support
ADD-IP, but not AUTH.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/net/sctp/structs.h |1 +
net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c | 13 -
2 file
This patch implements the receive path needed to process authenticated
chunks. Add ability to process the AUTH chunk and handle edge cases
for authenticated COOKIE-ECHO as well.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/net/sctp/constants.h |4 +-
include/net/sctp/sm.h
Add SCTP-AUTH API. The API implemented here was
agreed to between implementors at the 9th SCTP Interop.
It will be documented in the next revision of the
SCTP socket API spec.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/net/sctp/auth.h | 16 +++
include/net/sctp/ulpevent.h
Hi All
The following series of 8 patches is the implementation of SCTP-AUTH
spec (RFC 4895) that was tested at the 9th SCTP Interop. The code is
based on the implementation of the Supported Extensions parameter that
was send out separately for inclusion into 2.6.24.
I'd really appreciate people
This patch implements the internals operations of the AUTH, such as
key computation and storage. It also adds necessary variables to
the SCTP data structures.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/net/sctp/auth.h | 112 +++
include/net/sctp/constants.h | 49 +++
SCTP-AUTH, Section 6.2:
Endpoints MUST send all requested chunks authenticated where this has
been requested by the peer. The other chunks MAY be sent
authenticated or not. If endpoint pair shared keys are used, one of
them MUST be selected for authentication.
To send chunks in a
Implement processing for the CHUNKS, RANDOM, and HMAC parameters and
deal with how this parameters are effected by association restarts.
In particular, during unexpeted INIT processing, we need to reply with
parameters from the original INIT chunk. Also, after restart, we need
to update the old as
On 9/14/07, Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For the 8169 or the 8110, try 2.6.23-rc6 +
>
> http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20070903-2.6.23-rc5-r8169-test.patch
Thank you, I will give that a whirl also, because there are some
machine builds which will not have Intel boards
On 9/14/07, Kok, Auke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> this slowness might have been masking the issue
That is possible. However, it worked for upwards of twelve months
without an error.
> I have not yet seen other reports of this issue, and it would be interesting
> to
> see if the stack or driver i
> IPoIB CM handles this properly by gathering together single pages in
> skbs' fragment lists.
>
> - R.
Then can we reuse IPoIB CM code here?
Thanks
Shirley
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On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 14:17 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > WTF? why would the default be to _not_ propagate carrier state? Are
> > there some mitigating circumstances that require this driver to not
> > notify the stack of carrier on/off? Userspace stuff really should know
>
L F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
[...]
> Now, the machine worked when it was using an onboard Realtek 8169
> chipset on a 945G board from ASUS, but it worked slowly. I upgraded to
> a P965 chipset, started using the realtek driver for the 8110B on that
> board.. and started getting consistent samba errors
Reported by Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c b/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c
index 1799eee..6a117e9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c
@@
Dan Williams wrote:
WTF? why would the default be to _not_ propagate carrier state? Are
there some mitigating circumstances that require this driver to not
notify the stack of carrier on/off? Userspace stuff really should know
about the carrier state, and this disables it by default.
The co
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 01:30 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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/atl1/atl1_main.c | 19 +++
> drivers/
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 09:31 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Now that the network namespace work is in net-2.6.24, I'm wondering how
> > wireless will be handling this. Is there any benefit at all to a
> > wireless device supporting network namespaces?
>
> Good question. Network namespaces ar
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:14 +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Michael Chan schrieb:
> > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:28 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > Erm, Wouldn't it be possible to print a warning when the driver loads,
> > > saying that the firmware is outdated ?
> >
> > It's possible, but would requi
>OK -- just to make sure I'm understanding what you're saying: have you
>confirmed that your proposed patches actually fix the issue?
Not directly. I cannot easily test kernel patches on our larger, production
clusters. We've seen the issue with specific applications on 512 and 1024
cores, but I
Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I proposed introducing a list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse
> macro to be used in setup_net() when unrolling the failed
> ->init callback.
>
> Here is the macro and some more cleanup in the setup_net() itself
> to remove one variable from the stack :
From: Bill Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:20:55 -0400
> TSO disabled performance is always better than equivalent TSO enabled
> performance. With TSO enabled, the optimum performance is indeed at
> a TX/RX interrupt coalescing value of 75 usec. With TSO disabled,
> performanc
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:11:59 +0530 Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:40 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Cc: Medve Emilian-EMM
L F wrote:
Folks,
I've been playing with multiple gigabit ethernet drivers to get samba
3.0.25+ to work reliably. The situation is as follows.
I have a network, one of the machines on the network is a
server/firewall. It contains an Intel PRO1000 dual port PCI Express
card and runs Debian-testing
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:40 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
... no maintainer explicitly copied on the original mail who'd
> > I've been meaning to track down the bnx2 iscsi offload patch to look
> > and see if this issue is addressed, since the same problem seems to
> > exist: it seems an iscsi connection and a main stack tcp connection
> > might share the same 4-tuple unless something is done to avoid that
> > h
> The patch is just needed to pick up broadcast MTU size instead of hard
> coding 2K right now. SKB allocation shouldn't be different with Ethernet
> Jambo Frame and IPoIB-CM which 64K MTU. I don't understand why it's
> different. Could you please explain this?
It's exactly the same problem as
> Maybe you should automatically create an alias each time new interface
> is added so that admin would not care about proper aliases?
I agree that makes much more sense from a user interface point of
view. Unfortunately an alias without an address doesn't make sense,
so there doesn't seem to b
Andy Gospodarek wrote:
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:40:34PM -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
This introduces support for a line of 10GbE adapters made by Tehuti
Networks. An attempt to get this included was made a few months ago and
since the driver has been re-factored based on Jeff's suggestions.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:40:34PM -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
>
> This introduces support for a line of 10GbE adapters made by Tehuti
> Networks. An attempt to get this included was made a few months ago and
> since the driver has been re-factored based on Jeff's suggestions.
>
> You can down
Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now that the network namespace work is in net-2.6.24, I'm wondering how
> wireless will be handling this. Is there any benefit at all to a
> wireless device supporting network namespaces?
Good question. Network namespaces are designed as a general tool
Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:39:32 +0400
> Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I proposed introducing a list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse
>> macro to be used in setup_net() when unrolling the failed
>> ->init callback.
>>
>> Here is the mac
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:12:30AM +0200, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2007 21:55 schrieb J. Bruce Fields:
> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:40:57PM +0200, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 12 September 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 04:14:0
On Sep 13, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
Currently qe_bd_t is used in the macro call -- dma_unmap_single,
which is a no-op on PPC32, thus error is hidden today. Starting
with 2.6.24, macro will be replaced by the empty static function,
and erroneous use of qe_bd_t will trigger compi
Ive changed the subject to match content..
On Fri, 2007-14-09 at 03:20 -0400, Bill Fink wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, jamal wrote:
>
> > Bill:
> > who suggested (as per your email) the 75usec value and what was it based
> > on measurement-wise?
>
> Belatedly getting back to this thread. There
Marvell reported the following fix is necessary to get fe-plus
chips to work.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- a/drivers/net/sky2.c2007-09-14 14:40:35.0 +0200
+++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c2007-09-14 14:41:00.0 +0200
@@ -488,11 +488,12 @@ static v
Hello Andrew,
I realize this e-mail might be nuisance and time waster for you but I'm
in need of advice. I apologize in advance for any commonsense cultural
conventions I'm breaking.
I sent the below patch to four e-mail lists and it lead to orthogonal
conversations about how the entire kernel l
On Wed, 2007-12-09 at 14:50 +0100, James Chapman wrote:
> By low traffic, I assume you mean a rate at which the NAPI driver
> doesn't stay in polled mode.
i.e:
"one interupt per packet per napi poll" which cause about 1-2 more IOs
in comparison to the case where you didnt do NAPI.
> The proble
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