Re: single copy pipe/fifo

2001-02-07 Thread David S. Miller
ecifically to avoid this cpu hopping behavior. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: FYI: Mailing list subscribed to l-k ?

2001-02-07 Thread David S. Miller
bscribing too. I've removed them both. Blacklisting the miralink.com domain doesn't seem to be stopping the subscriptions so I need to delve further where those are coming from. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

[UPDATE] New zerocopy patch.

2001-02-06 Thread David S. Miller
if there are some real implementation issues compared to running without the zerocopy patch applied. This is not to say that the x86 memcpy performance thing is being ignored, Linus and others are working on what to do about that seperately. Please test, thanks. Later, David S

[UPDATE] New zerocopy against 2.4.2-pre1

2001-02-05 Thread David S. Miller
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Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-05 Thread David S. Miller
dd yet another member to the SKB structure. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing todowith ECN)

2001-02-04 Thread David S. Miller
+ ((MTU + PAGE_SIZE - 1) / PAGE_SIZE)" buffers per packet when going over a zerocopy device using TCP. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[UPDATE] Zerocopy 2.4.1 rev 3

2001-02-02 Thread David S. Miller
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Re: Ok, someone is trying to be funny

2001-02-02 Thread David S. Miller
Michael H. Warfield writes: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:36:46PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > So block them using the /etc/mail/access database for sendmail > and do it with a "451" error code. The data will back up on their > mail server and start clogging

Ok, someone is trying to be funny

2001-02-02 Thread David S. Miller
bout it. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-02-02 Thread David S. Miller
der pages to satisfy allocations of linear SKB data buffers. This has consequences and benefits system wide. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-02-02 Thread David S. Miller
PU utilization resulting from zerocopy sendfile leaves more CPU available for CGI execution. This was a point I forgot to make. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ple

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-02-02 Thread David S. Miller
d for? It helps no matter what part of the file the client reads. sendfile() can be used on an arbitrary offset+len portion of a file, it is not limited to just sending an entire fire. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Your message to Meltingpot awaits moderator approval

2001-02-02 Thread David S. Miller
ywhere else. I've removed the meltingpot address from linux-kernel. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [Patch]Re: Serious reproducible 2.4.x kernel hang

2001-02-02 Thread David S. Miller
Prasanna P Subash writes: > I looked at the skb_recv_datagram code and noticed that wait_for_packet is not > returning an error, even while trying to read a closed socket. > Anyways here is a patch against 2.4.1 that will fix the issue. > Please feel free to flame me about the patch :) Pleas

Re: SO_REUSEADDR redux

2001-02-01 Thread David S. Miller
s at best. I actually went to the FreeBSD code because what Steven's showed was extremely loose in what it let through. It allowed the nfs port override trick Alan mentioned. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

[UPDATE] Zerocopy patch of the day...

2001-02-01 Thread David S. Miller
start keeping a real ChangeLog.zerocopy file going at the same place you get the patches from. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: SO_REUSEADDR redux

2001-02-01 Thread David S. Miller
CP one, which instead uses UDP and let me know what FreeBSD and Solaris do in that case. Of course, skip the listen part. I think the test for port reuse in tcp_{v4,v6}_get_port is buggy. I'll go study this and fix it up... but please do the test I asked anyways. Later, David S. Mill

Re: AF_UNIX hangs

2001-02-01 Thread David S. Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Yep... Damn, specially split errno and ready values and forgot to use > this. 8) Sorry. Patch applied. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [UPDATE] Fresh zerocopy patch on kernel.org

2001-02-01 Thread David S. Miller
Malcolm Beattie writes: > Alexey has mailed me suggesting the problem may be that netfilter > is turned on. Oh yes, netfilter being enabled will cause some performance degradation, that is for sure. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

any razer boomslang users with 2.4.1?

2001-01-31 Thread David S. Miller
n Athlon-950 system. If anyone else sees this or can try it out themselves, please let me and the list know. There is a workaround, after bootup, pull the mouse out then plug it back in. Wheee... this seems to work until I figure out what really is causing the problems. Later, David S. Mille

Re: [UPDATE] Fresh zerocopy patch on kernel.org

2001-01-31 Thread David S. Miller
Malcolm Beattie writes: > David S. Miller writes: > > > > At the usual place: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.1-1.diff.gz > > Hmm, disappointing results here; maybe I've missed something. As discussed elsew

Re: 2.4.0+ipchains+sparc 450= CRASH!

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
Rusty Russell writes: > Oops. Thanks to Anton for testing and touching up this patch. > > The 2.0/2.2 setsockopt code used to do the copy_from_user for you... I've applied this to my tree, thanks a lot. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
han this, I don't know what to postulate. Really, most reports and my own experimentation (directly connected Linux knfsd to 2.4.x nfs client) supports the fact that our client can saturate 100baseT rather fully. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
the bulk of the cpu cycle savings will occur. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
he netapp, and if so how many switches sit between you and this netapp? Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
data receive path in the client, CPU has to be saved compared to pre-zerocopy or something is very wrong. File copy speed, well you should be link speed limited as even without the zerocopy patches you ought to have enough cpu to keep it busy. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsub

Re: [UPDATE] Fresh zerocopy patch on kernel.org

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
Chris Wedgwood writes: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:33:34AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > 2) Accept TCP flags (ACK, URG, RST, etc.) for out of window packets >if truncating the data to the window would make that packet valid. >(Alexey) &

[UPDATE] Fresh zerocopy patch on kernel.org

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
if truncating the data to the window would make that packet valid. (Alexey) 3) Add SO_ACCEPTCONN, Unix standard wants it. (me) Have fun testing... Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [PATCH] guard mm->rss with page_table_lock (241p11)

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
(atomic_t), sizeof(unsigned long)). Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-29 Thread David S. Miller
to do with who owns Hotmail. Please, let's keep this element out of the dialogue until we have a reason to be suspicious. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-29 Thread David S. Miller
rmware distribution issue is worked out, so please get it resolved for me as I want to include your work, ok? Thanks. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-29 Thread David S. Miller
lly, please do some tests on loopback. It is usually a great way to get "pure software overhead" measurements of our TCP stack. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-29 Thread David S. Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Dave, seems, it is better to repair this. Code really assumes > that SG cannot be used without one of CSUM flags... SG+CSUM requirement is enforced now in my tree, I will publish a newer zerocopy patch later today. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread David S. Miller
worthless if most TCP implementations cannot transfer data from it. It would be far nicer to have all of the black holes fixed rather than fixing all of the TCP implementations." Golden words :-). */ Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTE

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread David S. Miller
u actually list a directory or something and make sure my workstation made a new connection _back_ to you? If you are using passive FTP and/or did not do a directory listing, you did the test incorrectly. The directory listing is what will test the ECN'ness of your local firewall. Later, Da

Re: Odd network trace...

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Miller
Rogier Wolff writes: > Am I missing something? ... > 17:05:59.961324 server.http > client.1880: . 1:1(0) ack 287912 win 0 > (DF) server advertises zero window, no data may be sent. Until server advertises a non-zero window, the data transfer may not proceed. Later, David S. M

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Miller
WAN. The endpoint based congestion notification happens _now_ if both sides speak ECN. The router based notification will be happening in the near future as Cisco and others deploy ECN speaking versions of their router software. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Miller
Aarnio earlier today on this list for the reasons why. People must fix their firewalls, there is no other way to fix the problem and get ECN properly deployed. I'm ceasing conversation on this thread from this point forward. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Miller
ot;retry" the connection, or anything else like that. It means connection failed, and we must return error from connect(). Nothing else is acceptable. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Miller
The connection failed, RST means connection reset. RST means all state is corrupt and this connection must die. It cannot be interpreted in any other way. Using it as a metric for ECN enabling is thus unacceptable. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Miller
one].status2); or at the very least make it print out netdev->name instead of the cryptic "sf: " prefix. Finally, what are the listed distribution terms of this firmware? I want to make sure it is legal to distribute it. Deal with these three issues, and I'll stick this into m

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Miller
g valid TCP RST frames is unacceptable and Linux will not do that as long as I am maintaining it. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Miller
n -1; Anton, why are you always returning -1 (which means error for the smb_message[] array functions) when using sendfile? Aren't you supposed to return the number of bytes output or something like this? I'm probably missing something subtle here, so just let me know what I missed. Tha

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Miller
Chris Wedgwood writes: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:34:47AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > That's it, in 4 weeks time I am putting a kernel onto > vger.kernel.org that speaks ECN. This is my official and only > warning. > > Why wait 4 weeks a

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Miller
ther schemes so far have been met with reluctance on the part of these sites. I do not want to condone mechanisms which allow people to make crutches for these broken sites ad infinitum. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
things in the future, things we haven't thought of now, so don't interpret these bits so we can do that and you will still work". Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
. As far as I understand it, the PIIX stuff doesn't run IOS but rather some other system created for these firewall products. Moot point. I understand that upgrading can be a pain, but I think it is in their best interest to do so (see better internet and "make money" argum

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
lation of the "be liberal of what you receive" mantra of the internet standards committee which the hotmail person quoted seemed so keen on mentioning :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
fferent machines, such as INKY.SOLINUS.COM which seems to let ECN connections through just fine. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
ion is pizda.ninka.net, please everyone be nice. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
he mac level checksum will detect all errors and does > not have a checksum of its own on data, so it would only need SG to benefit > from the zerocopy framework, Which is just fine. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
y patch I end up sending to Linus. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: non-random IP IDs

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
x27;t Fragment" bit set in the IP header, which as a consequence means the ID field is meaningless. If the "don't fragment" bit were not set, and fragmentation was possible, Linux will use a randomized ID field. The nessus folks need to fix their test. Later, David S. Miller [EMAI

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
d note: what's involved in making a driver > zerocopy-aware? I haven't looked too closely to the current patch, When you look closely at the current patch, you will see exactly what is required. 3 hardware drivers are ported there, and are to be used as examples. Later, David S. Miller [

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
oss. I cannot see it being argued that these entities have not been given enough notice of the problem. If they cannot be bothered to get fixed an issue like this after nearly half a year, I cannot be bothered to feel bad for them when all users at their site lose access to the lists. Later, D

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
is my official and only warning. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
James H. Cloos Jr. writes: > What exaclty were the issues with the intel cards and sg+csum? > > Any idea how much work it'd require to surmount them? Getting Intel to release full specs on how to make use of TX hardware checksum assist with the eepro100. Later, David S.

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
Tigran Aivazian writes: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > 3) NFS client side activity > > this bit interesting (to me). Do you mean Linux NFS client as present in > the Linux kernel source (nfs filesystem) or just the type of traffic > generated by

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
sendfile()) 3) NFS client side activity on both cards supporting sg+csum and those which do not. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
nding upon architecture. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[UPDATE] Minor zerocopy updates...

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
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Re: Linux 2.2.16 through 2.2.18preX TCP hang bug triggered by rsync

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
yte. Callers of tcp_sequence check the return value bits accordingly. This is all slow path code, so there are no performance issues. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.2.16 through 2.2.18preX TCP hang bug triggered by rsync

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
communicate with half of the systems out there. BSD and Solaris both make these kinds of packets, therefore it is must to handle them properly. So we will fix Linux, there is no argument. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
just protect with #ifdef MAX_SKB_FRAGS or similar. See? Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
packets. I'd really like Cisco to reaffirm this and furthermore, and furthermore get in contact with and correct the hotmail folks if necessary. I have in fact noticed that some sites that did have the problem have installed the fix and are now accessible with ECN enabled. Later, David S. Mill

[UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-24 Thread David S. Miller
, this is a show-stopper bug in the zerocopy patches and must be fixed. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Error compiling for sparc64

2001-01-24 Thread David S. Miller
up in 2.4.1-pre10) which means it likely won't be fixed until Linus takes those quota code changes. Please stick to 2.4.1-preX on sparc64, and if using 2.4.1-pre10 please apply this patch to get a clean build :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ./arch/sparc/kernel/signal.c.~1~

Re: set_page_dirty/page_launder deadlock

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
Marcelo Tosatti writes: > > While taking a look at page_launder()... ... > set_page_dirty() may lock the pagecache_lock which means potential > deadlock since we have the pagemap_lru_lock locked. Indeed, the following should work as a fix: --- mm/vmscan.c.~1~ Thu Jan 11 02:22:19 200

Re: 2.4.0-pre3+zerocopy: weird messages

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
Petru Paler writes: > Got more "udp v4 hw csum failure" messages but still no "UDP packet > with bad csum was fragmented". OK, last experiment :-) Add this patch, and watch to see if the UDP "InErrors" field in /proc/net/snmp has a non-zero value after letting it run for a while. Thanks. --

Re: 2.4.0 + iproute2

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
tring errors don't belong in kernel space IMHO. Thus the smiley in my original email. I did not mean kernel errno strings to be taken seriously at all. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: 2.4.0 + iproute2

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
Andi Kleen writes: > David's /proc/errno_strings David put a smiley at the end of that sentence, he was kidding and was trying to show you how rediculious keeping errno strings in the kernel is. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: 2.4.0 + iproute2

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
ia this, and makes no attempt to understand what the different return values mean. People must be really suffering right now, and we ought to get /proc/errno_strings implemented as soon as possible... :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: 2.4.0 + iproute2

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
er belong in the kernel. Put it in glibc or wherever. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.0-pre3+zerocopy: weird messages

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
Petru Paler writes: > > Oh, I think I know why this happens. Can you add this patch, and next > > time the UDP bad csum message appears, tell me if it says "UDP packet > > with bad csum was fragmented." in the next line of your syslog > > messages? Thanks. > > Sure, but I also need the a

Re: 2.4.0-pre3+zerocopy: weird messages

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
h, I think I know why this happens. Can you add this patch, and next time the UDP bad csum message appears, tell me if it says "UDP packet with bad csum was fragmented." in the next line of your syslog messages? Thanks. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: 2.4.0 + iproute2

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
ed errors which are perfect for this purpose. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.0-pre3+zerocopy: weird messages

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
back to "1" in include/net/tcp.h This is just an increased debugging setting compared to Linus's tree, the message you see is harmless. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mess

Re: [PATCH] sparc64 compile fix

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
> > Am I doing something else wrong ? If the quota interfaces have changed, then all of the translation code support for them in sys_sparc32.c/systbls.S/etc. need to change to accomodate. Stick with non-AC kernels for no on sparc64, thanks. (But feel free to use the zerocopy patches :-) Later,

Re: 2.4.0 + iproute2

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
octl or socket option change, and making a call for a feature I haven't configured into my kernel? I think ENOSYS is just a bad a choice. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

Re: 2.4.0 + iproute2

2001-01-14 Thread David S. Miller
IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y Try CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Spinlocking patch for in xprt.c

2001-01-13 Thread David S. Miller
xprt_sock_lock in this section of code, not just one or just the other. Linus, please do not apply this patch until these issues are addressed. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH] sparc64 compile fix

2001-01-13 Thread David S. Miller
Petru Paler writes: > - struct dqblk d; > + struct dqblk32 d; What does this fix? Things compile just fine without it and looking at the code it was intended to be of the original type. Please explain exactly what submitted patches fix in the future, thanks. Later, D

Re: khttpd beaten by boa

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage. TUX is evidence that khttpd can be done properly and beat the pants off of anything done in userspace. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
ith in the Linux kernel, and sleeping SMP mutex locks lead to exactly this kind of problem. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH:"No such process")

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:45:13 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Cassella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm not familiar enough with the tcp code to know if this patch (against -ac6) is a solution, band-aid, or, in fact, wrong, but I've run with it (on -ac3) and haven't seen the errors for over twe

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
the TIME_WAIT socket reaper. The fix is simple, just duplicate the tcp_tw_count decrement into the "if (max_killed)" code block. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Updated zerocopy patches on kernel.org

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
u32 packet classifier algorithm halt if all handles are taken already. From me. 8) Fix SMP protection of xprt->snd_task value, from me. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Updated zerocopy patch up on kernel.org

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:41:30 +0100 (CET) From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > I'm actually considering making the SG w/o hwcsum situation illegal. i believe it might still make some limited sense for normal sendmsg()

Re: [PATCH] Invalid Netfilter URL in Documentation/Changes in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
From: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:38:26 +1100 My bad. Please revert, and apply this (the samba.org guys are now the same form as the others): Done. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: 2.4.0: Small observation in /proc/sys/net/unix/

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:35:30 + From: Darryl Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Identical filenames, nothing bad appears to be happening it just looks weird. Known problem, here is the fix: diff -u --recursive --new-file --exclude=CVS --exclude=.cvsignore vanilla/linux/net/sysc

Re: unexplained high load

2001-01-10 Thread David S. Miller
ernel stack, which is indicative of a sparc64 specific bug I only fixed very late in the 2.2.18 patches. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-10 Thread David S. Miller
his achievement was worthless :-) There are a few approaches that work, but they tend to take up too much space to be considerable, as Linus mentioned. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Re: * 4 converted to << 2 for networking code

2001-01-10 Thread David S. Miller
27;. The compiler does this for you, check the assembler it outputs. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] Invalid Netfilter URL in Documentation/Changes in 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:38:53 -0800 From: David Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The link to http://www.samba.org/netfilter/iptables-1.1.1.tar.bz2 is invalid in 2.4.0, this patch simply removes the link. Thanks, I've applied this. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROT

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0 and 2.2.18 : Small bugfix for IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP

2001-01-10 Thread David S. Miller
Thanks for the fix. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-10 Thread David S. Miller
s left out of my patches. I measures smp_call_function on my Dual Pentium 350, and it took around 1950 cpu ticks. And this is one of several reasons why the MSG_NOCOPY facility is considered experimental. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: storage over IP (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networkingpatch, 2.4.0-1)

2001-01-09 Thread David S. Miller
in the NFS client with the zerocopy patches applied. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: storage over IP (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,2.4.0-1)

2001-01-09 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:56:33 -0800 (PST) From: dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is NFS receive single copy today? With the zerocopy patches, NFS client receive is "single cpu copy" if that's what you mean. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsub

Re: Updated zerocopy patch up on kernel.org

2001-01-09 Thread David S. Miller
this is a horrible scheme quality of implementation wise. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread David S. Miller
serspace pages, so if you write to them before the data is fully sent and the networking buffer freed, they get copied with a COW fault. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

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