Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: export gpl (un)register_memory_notifier

2008-02-15 Thread Christoph Raisch
Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 14.02.2008 18:12:43: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:46 +0100, Christoph Raisch wrote: Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13.02.2008 18:05:00: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:17 +0100, Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: Constraints imposed by HW / FW: - eHEA has

Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: export gpl (un)register_memory_notifier

2008-02-14 Thread Christoph Raisch
. So we're glad we finally found the right person who takes responsibility for this topic! -- Dave Gruss / Regards Christoph Raisch + Jan-Bernd Themann -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: [PATCH] ehea: Add kdump support

2007-11-26 Thread Christoph Raisch
Michael Ellerman wrote on 26.11.2007 09:16:28: Solutions that might be better: a) if there are a finite number of handles and we can predict their values, just delete them all in the kdump kernel before the driver loads. Guessing the values does not work, because of the handle

Re: [PATCH] ehea: add kexec support

2007-11-05 Thread Christoph Raisch
Michael Neuling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03.11.2007 07:06:31: DD allocates HEA resources and gets firmware_handles for these resources. To free the resources DD needs to use exactly these handles. There's no generic firmware call clean out all resources. Allocating the same resources

Re: [PATCH] ehea: add kexec support

2007-11-02 Thread Christoph Raisch
Michael Ellerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02.11.2007 07:30:08: On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 20:48 +0100, Christoph Raisch wrote: Michael Ellerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30.10.2007 23:50:36: If that's really the way it works then eHEA is more or less broken for kdump I'm afraid. We think we

Re: [PATCH] ehea: add kexec support

2007-10-31 Thread Christoph Raisch
Michael Ellerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30.10.2007 23:50:36: On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 09:39 +0100, Christoph Raisch wrote: Michael Ellerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28.10.2007 23:32:17: Hope I didn't miss anything here... Perhaps. When we kdump the kernel does not call the reboot

Re: [PATCH] ehea: add kexec support

2007-10-30 Thread Christoph Raisch
Michael Ellerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28.10.2007 23:32:17: How do you plan to support kdump? When kexec is fully supported kdump should work out of the box as for any other ethernet card (if you load the right eth driver). There's nothing specific to kdump you have to handle in

Re: new NAPI interface broken

2007-10-17 Thread Christoph Raisch
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 16.10.2007 11:01:49: Christoph, have any of you tried it on powerpc ? No we didn't try this (yet). This approach makes a lot of sense. Why is this not installed by both large distros on PPC by default? how mature is this for larger SMPs on

Re: new NAPI interface broken for POWER architecture?

2007-09-12 Thread Christoph Raisch
on powerpc platforms which is totally broken in these cases. This is definitely not something we can change in the HEA device driver alone. It could also affect any other networking cards on POWER (e1000,s2io...). Paul, Michael, Arndt, what is your opinion here? Gruss / Regards Christoph Raisch

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ehea: Receive SKB Aggregation

2007-06-04 Thread Christoph Raisch
(which is above the driver). Any suggestions how to handle this better/different? -- Stephen Hemminger Gruss / Regards Christoph Raisch - 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

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ehea: Receive SKB Aggregation

2007-06-04 Thread Christoph Raisch
processing? In a perfect world we shouldn't see a diffference if this is enabled or not, but measurements indicate something completely different at 10gbit. Gruss / Regards Christoph Raisch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [2.6.19 PATCH 3/7] ehea: queue management

2006-08-18 Thread Christoph Raisch
You should really do some measurements to see what the minimal queue sizes are that can get you optimal throughput. Arnd we did. And as always in performance tuning... one size fits all unfortunately is not the correct answer. Therefore we'll leave that open to the user as most other new

Re: [2.6.19 PATCH 2/7] ehea: pHYP interface

2006-08-18 Thread Christoph Raisch
Hi, I asked SO to recount arguments and we've come to a conclusion that there're in fact 19 args not 18 as the name suggests. 19 args is I-N-S-A-N-E. It will be partially cleaned up by: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-July/024556.html However it doesnt fix the fact

RE: [PATCH 4/6] ehea: header files

2006-08-15 Thread Christoph Raisch
Jenkins, Clive wrote on 15.08.2006 12:53:05: You mean the eHEA has its own concept of page size? Separate from the page size used by the MMU? yes, the eHEA currently supports only 4K pages for queues In that case, I suggest use the kernel's page size, but add a compile-time

Re: EHEA: Is there a size limit below 80K for patches?

2006-06-08 Thread Christoph Raisch
well, now I'm confused... 2 People, two opinions Here's a URL for a complete tarball, sharing the download location with our other driver. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ibmehcad/ehea_EHEA_0002.tgz We're waiting for a sourceforge project now since 9 days to put out a tgz, and it looks

new driver for IBM ethernet chip

2006-06-02 Thread Christoph Raisch
on for example sourceforge? Gruss / Regards . . . Christoph Raisch christoph raisch, HCAD teamlead, IODF2 (d/3627), ibm boeblingen lab, phone: (+49/0)7031-16 4584, fax: -16 2042, loc: 71032-05-003, internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body