Null pointer dereference when bringing up bonding device on kernel-2.6.24-2.fc9.i686

2008-01-28 Thread Benny Amorsen
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430391 Bringing up interface bond0: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip: c0506fd8 *pde = 7f5f8067 Oops: [#1] SMP Modules linked in: bonding ipv6 xt_pkttype ipt_LOG ipt_iprange ipt_REJECT x

Re: e1000 performance issue in 4 simultaneous links

2008-01-11 Thread Benny Amorsen
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No IRQ balancing should be done at all for networking device > interrupts, with zero exceptions. It destroys performance. Does irqbalanced need to be taught about this? And how about the initial balancing, so that each network card gets assigned to one

Re: [PATCH] Re: Nested VLAN causes recursive locking error

2008-01-02 Thread Benny Amorsen
Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Subject: [PATCH] nested VLAN: fix lockdep's recursive locking warning > > Allow vlans nesting other vlans without lockdep's warnings (max. 8 levels). > > Reported-by: Benny Amorsen > Tested-by: Benny Amorsen (?

Re: ipv4_devconf.arp_accept mystery

2007-12-25 Thread Benny Amorsen
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As the name suggests you should use > > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_accept The documentation says that if arp_accept is 0, unsolicited arp replies are dropped. Doesn't that interfere with failover services such as vrrp, keepalived, ucarp etc? I t

Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket filter

2007-11-16 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "DM" == David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DM> When the user does a recvmsg() or a poll() on the socket, we will DM> notice the bad checksum then and increment InErrors. We could in DM> this case correct the InDatagrams counter by decrementing it in DM> this case. Does that mean that

Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0

2007-11-16 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "DM" == David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Reply: >> Opcode: reply (0x0002) >> Sender HW: 00:AA.00:AA:00:AA >> Sender IP: 192.168.0.1 >> Target HW: 00:AA:00:AA:00:AA >> Target IP:192.168.0.1 DM> And this is exactly a sensible response in my opinion. Why send the reply at al

Re: [PATCH 2/2] [e1000 VLAN] Disable vlan hw accel when promiscuous mode

2007-11-14 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "AK" == Kok, Auke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AK> actually the impact can be quite negative, imagine doing a tcpdump AK> on a 10gig interface with vlan's enabled - all of a sudden you AK> might accidentally flood the system with a 100-fold increase in AK> traffic and force the stack to dump

Re: Multiqueue and virtualization WAS(Re: [PATCH 3/3] NET: [SCHED] Qdisc changes and sch_rr added for multiqueue

2007-06-30 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "DM" == David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DM> And some people still use hubs, believe it or not. Hubs are 100Mbps at most. You could of course make a flooding Gbps switch, but it would be rather silly. If you care about multicast performance, you get a switch with IGMP snooping. /B

Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure

2007-06-24 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "DM" == David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DM> Containers are I believe a step backwards, and we're better than DM> that. Are there any alternative proposals? I guess it would be a start if you could run processes with a different policy table as default. Ideally traffic from those p

Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure

2007-06-23 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "DM" == David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DM> To be honest I think this form of virtualization is a complete DM> waste of time, even the openvz approach. You are only considering the security values of OpenVZ. Where I work, OpenVZ and Linux-vserver are used for their ability to clean

Re: Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down

2006-12-20 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "AvdV" == Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AvdV> even if you have NO power savings you still don't meet your AvdV> criteria. That's basic ethernet for you AvdV> That's what I was trying to say; your criteria is unrealistic AvdV> regardless of what the kernel does, ethernet a