Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-28 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 12:45:50PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Why do we want to inject _ready_ event, when it is possible to mark event as ready and wakeup thread parked in syscall? Going back to this old one: How do you want to mark an

[patch] qeth: fix uaccess handling and get rid of unused variable

2006-12-28 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [patch] qeth: fix uaccess handling and get rid of unused variable drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c: In function `qeth_process_inbound_buffer': drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c:2563: warning: unused variable `vlan_addr' include/asm/uaccess.h: In function

Re: [PATCH] igmp: spin_lock_bh in timer (Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!)

2006-12-28 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 08:16:10AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: ... The system hangs and does not recover (well, a few processes continue on the other processor for a few minutes before they too deadlock...) I am guessing this problem has been around for a while, but it is only triggered when

[PATCH] tipc: checking returns and Re: Possible Circular Locking in TIPC

2006-12-28 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On 22-12-2006 15:28, Eric Sesterhenn wrote: hi, while running my usual stuff on 2.6.20-rc1-git5, sfuzz (http://www.digitaldwarf.be/products/sfuzz.c) did the following, to produce the lockdep warning below: ... Here is the stacktrace: [ 313.239556]

Re: [take29 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generic event handling mechanism. i see it covers alot of event sources, but i cannot see block IO notifications. Am i missing something? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to

Re: [take29 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generic event handling mechanism. it would be /very/ helpful to state against which kernel tree the patch-queue is. It does not apply to 2.6.20-rc1 nor to -rc2 nor to 2.6.19. At which point i gave up ... Ingo - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Generic PHY lib vs. locking

2006-12-28 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Great! At last glance, only gianfar, fs_enet, and au1000_eth. There are one or two others that haven't gone in, yet. My hope is that your changes will not require any changes to the drivers, but I'll leave that to your discretion. Unfortunately, it will probably have an impact on

RE: one vs. two drivers for an iWARP-capable Ethernet NIC

2006-12-28 Thread Leonid Grossman
Re-sending as a plain text to reach netdev. Sorry for the extra traffic, please ignore the earlier html version of this e-mail... Jeff/Roland/all, What is the preferred submission driver model for an iWARP-capable Ethernet NIC -

2.6.20-rc2: known regressions with patches available

2006-12-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc2 compared to 2.6.19 with patches available If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any

2.6.20-rc2: known unfixed regressions

2006-12-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc2 compared to 2.6.19. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly

Re: Generic PHY lib vs. locking

2006-12-28 Thread Andy Fleming
On Dec 21, 2006, at 22:07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Hi Andy ! I've been looking at porting various drivers (EMAC, sungem, spider_net, ...) to the generic PHY stuff. However, I have one significant problem here. One of the things I've been trying to do lately with EMAC and that I plan to

Re: Network card IRQ balancing with Intel 5000 series chipsets

2006-12-28 Thread Krzysztof Oledzki
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, jamal wrote: On Wed, 2006-27-12 at 09:09 +0200, Robert Iakobashvili wrote: My scenario is treatment of RTP packets in kernel space with a single network card (both Rx and Tx). The default of the Intel 5000 series chipset is affinity of each network card to a certain

Re: [patch sungem] improved locking

2006-12-28 Thread David Miller
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:07:24 +1100 tg3 says tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX. but sungem says eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full-duplex. eth0: Pause is disabled

Re: netif_poll_enable() barrier

2006-12-28 Thread David Miller
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:44:12 +1100 I stumbled accross what might be a bug on out of order architecture: netif_poll_enable() only does a clear_bit(). However, netif_poll_disable/enable pairs are often used as simili-spinlocks.

Re: netif_poll_enable() barrier

2006-12-28 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 21:09 -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:44:12 +1100 I stumbled accross what might be a bug on out of order architecture: netif_poll_enable() only does a clear_bit(). However,

[RFC][PATCH][IPSEC][0/3]inter address family ipsec tunnel

2006-12-28 Thread Kazunori MIYAZAWA
Hello, I fixed the compile issue when we configure IPv6 as a module. [1/3] exporting xfrm_state_afinfo [2/3] supporting IPv6 over IPv4 IPsec [3/3] supporting IPv4 over IPv6 IPsec These patches can be applied to linux-2.6.20-rc2. Thank you, -- Kazunori Miyazawa - To unsubscribe from this list:

[RFC][PATCH][IPSEC][3/3] IPv4 over IPv6 IPsec tunnel

2006-12-28 Thread Kazunori MIYAZAWA
This is the patch to support IPv4 over IPv6 IPsec. Signed-off-by: Miika Komu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Diego Beltrami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Kazunori Miyazawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c b/net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c index fb9f69c..011136a 100644 ---

[RFC][PATCH][IPSEC][1/3]exporting xfrm_state_afinfo

2006-12-28 Thread Kazunori MIYAZAWA
This patch exports xfrm_state_afinfo. Signed-off-by: Miika Komu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Diego Beltrami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Kazunori Miyazawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/include/net/xfrm.h b/include/net/xfrm.h index e476541..bf91d63 100644 --- a/include/net/xfrm.h +++

[RFC][PATCH][IPSEC][2/3] IPv6 over IPv4 IPsec tunnel

2006-12-28 Thread Kazunori MIYAZAWA
This is the patch to support IPv6 over IPv4 IPsec Signed-off-by: Miika Komu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Diego Beltrami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Kazunori Miyazawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/net/ipv4/xfrm4_mode_tunnel.c b/net/ipv4/xfrm4_mode_tunnel.c index e23c21d..e54c549 100644