Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-14 Thread jamal
similar tests? Anyways, the struggle continues next with zc patches. cheers, jamal - 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?

2001-01-14 Thread jamal
allow. Does this affect it? I tried one 1.5 GB file, it was oopsing and given my setup right now i cant trace it. So i am using about 170M which is read about 8 times in the 15 secs cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-16 Thread jamal
that transfer. Last time I tried it it did not work. From Alexey's response: it does get descheduled possibly every sndbuf send. So you should be able to sneak that sigkill. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

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

2001-01-27 Thread jamal
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: (Please keep netdev copied, else Jamal will grump at you, and you don't want that). Thanks, Andrew ;- Isnt netdev where networking stuff should be discussed? I think i give up and will join lk, RSN ;- The kernels which were tested were 2.4.1

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

2001-01-27 Thread jamal
and receiver data. Repeat each test about 5 times. cheers, jamal - 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)

2001-01-27 Thread jamal
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: jamal wrote: .. It is also useful to have both client and server stats. BTW, since the laptop (with the 3C card) is the client, the SG shouldnt kick in at all. The `client' here is doing the sendfiling, so yes, the gathering occurs

ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-27 Thread jamal
Just proves i am not on lk -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:05:38 -0500 (EST) From: jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ECN: Clearing the air On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:29:51 +, James Sutherland wrote: Except you can't

Re: ECN: Clearing the air

2001-01-27 Thread jamal
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: - ECN does not break things. It's brain damaged firewalls, Intrusion detection systems, and load balancers that should be shot. One intrusion detection "expert" was quoted suggesting the blocking of ECN bits should be blocked because "

Re: ECN: Clearing the air

2001-01-27 Thread jamal
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:23:51PM -0500, jamal wrote: suggested blocking ECN. Article at: http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?focus=idscontent=/focus/ids/articles/portscan.html the site is now ATM -- can someone briefly explain

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread jamal
_most_ people would get flogging all firewall admins who block all ICMP. There is nothing silly with the decision, davem is simply a modern day internet hero. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread jamal
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, James Sutherland wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: There were people who made the suggestion that TCP should retry after a RST because it "might be an anti-ECN path" That depends what you mean by "retry"; I wanted the ability to attempt a

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread jamal
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, James Sutherland wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: We are allowing two rules to be broken, one is RFC 793 which clearly and unambigously defines what a RST means. the second is This is NOT being violated: the RST is honoured as normal. You are interpreting

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread jamal
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote: jamal wrote: Yes, those firewalls should be updated to allow ECN-enabled packets through. However, to break connectivity to such sites deliberately just because they are not supporting an *experimental* extension to the current protocols

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread jamal
you accept from others." That should be the mantra. There is no librety when you hard-code. cheers, jamal - 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)

2001-01-29 Thread jamal
double check please? cheers, jamal PS:- another important parameter is latency, but that might not be as important in file serving (maybe in short file tranfers ala http). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

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

2001-01-30 Thread jamal
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: 11.5kBps, quite consistently. This gige card is really sick. Are you sure? Please double check. Umm.. the starfire chipset is 100Mbit only. So 11.5MBps (sorry, that was a typo, it's mega not kilo) is really

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

2001-01-30 Thread jamal
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: Kernel | tput | sender-CPU | receiver-CPU | - 2.4.0-pre3 | 99MB/s | 87% | 23% | NSF

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

2001-01-30 Thread jamal
am suspecting more than socratic view on life here. Could be influence from Aristotle;- How well does the NIC do with that changed nature? Hard question to answer ;- I havent done any analysis at that level cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-08 Thread jamal
redirect to netdev (since that's the only list i am on). as well make sure you cc the other people (other than linux-kernel and linux-net) cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-08 Thread jamal
On Tue, 8 May 2001, jamal wrote: Any one wishing to volunteer, please still send your emails in -- we should be ready in a few days from now, I guess i should have mentioned the IESG is sitting in to approve ECN as proposed standard in about a week or so. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-08 Thread jamal
should be ready in a few days from now, cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

2001-06-01 Thread jamal
Assumption: If the tx path is blocked, more than likely the link is down. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

2001-06-02 Thread jamal
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Bogdan Costescu wrote: On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, jamal wrote: One idea i have been toying with is to maintain hysteris or threshold of some form in dev_watchdog; AFAIK, dev_watchdog is right now used only for Tx (if I'm wrong, please correct me!). So how do you sense

Re: Preallocated skb's?

2000-09-14 Thread jamal
decisions as in fast routing but not under heavy load. cheers, jamal - 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: Preallocated skb's?

2000-09-15 Thread jamal
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Bogdan Costescu wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, jamal wrote: The 3Com cards can generate this interrupt, however this is not used in current 3c59x.c. I suggested this to Andrew, but he is already worried about the current interrupt rate and unhappy that 3Com cards do

Re: Preallocated skb's?

2000-09-16 Thread jamal
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Bogdan Costescu wrote: On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, jamal wrote: Only the timer runs at HZ granularity ;- Some cards provide their own high resolution timers; latest 3Com cards provide several with different purposes (none currently used). The question is how many

[PATCH: Final ] WAS (Re: [PATCH/RFC] (long) network interface changes

2000-09-25 Thread jamal
NET_RX_DROP; } -- I realize nobody is using those codes but they would be useful and will enforce consistency. cheers, jamal --- linux/net/core/dev.c.orig Thu Sep 7 11:32:01 2000 +++ linux/net/core/dev.cTue Sep 12 20:02:20 2000

Re: [PATCH: Final ] WAS (Re: [PATCH/RFC] (long) network interfacechanges

2000-09-25 Thread jamal
shit, i forgot this small addendum to the patch. Attached. cheers, jamal --- linux/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c.orig Wed Feb 9 23:08:09 2000 +++ linux/net/core/sysctl_net_core.cTue Sep 12 20:06:15 2000 @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL extern int netdev_max_backlog

Re: Preallocated skb's?

2000-09-14 Thread jamal
? Maybe ANK can make a comment as well. Robert and I plan to play with such a scheme for a long time under many different scenarios and come with numbers (throughput etc) instead of "here's a patch and intuitively it makes sense". This is really a 2.5 thing if acceptable. cheers, jamal PS:-

Re: Q: sock output serialization

2000-09-16 Thread jamal
packet without beiong told things are fine) then it is probably wiser to just let that packet get on the backlog queue. cheers, jamal - 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: Preallocated skb's?

2000-09-14 Thread jamal
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[PATCH/RFC] (long) network interface changes

2000-09-18 Thread jamal
available at: http://robur.slu.se/Linux/net-development/jamal/FF-html/ There are lotsa improvements since OLS in a collaboration involving Robert Olsson and myself. Current snapshot is available via ftp from: ftp://robur.slu.se:/pub/Linux/net-development/FF-bird-current.tgz This includes a pat

Re: Preallocated skb's?

2000-09-14 Thread jamal
(such as the timer decay etc) for this part needs a study and thats what Robert and i are planing to do. cheers, jamal - 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/RFC] (long) network interface changes

2000-09-18 Thread jamal
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote: Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:31:17 -0400 (EDT) From: jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] My testing with the included scheme (#ifdef RAND_LIE) indicates that fairness infact goes up; however, the overall throughput when only one interface

Re: Q: sock output serialization

2000-09-17 Thread jamal
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Henner Eisen wrote: "jamal" == jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. Just, if you do not accept a frame, you must not acknowledge it. Once it has been acknowledged, you must not discard it. Ok so no problem then jamal Can you stop mid-window

Re: [PATCH/RFC] (long) network interface changes

2000-09-19 Thread jamal
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Henner Eisen wrote: [some suggestions for the next re-incarnation of the doc deleted] jamal I have experimented with two schemes: one which samples the jamal queue via a timer and one which does it per-packet and jamal found that the per-packet sampler

Status Update for Linux 2.4 Status/TODO

2000-10-05 Thread jamal
e resolved, but i think that deserves another posting. Summary is: test9 boots fine. cheers, jamal - 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/

test9 PCI resource collisions

2000-10-05 Thread jamal
I have attached a few details of what appears to be a PCI resource alloc problem (IO ports from the look of it). Note: This is on a dell lattitude machine that never booted before with a docked setup. Enjoy! cheers, jamal pci.list.gz

Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI resourcecollisions (fwd)

2000-10-12 Thread jamal
with kgcc. Please dont distract the subject header if you wanna attack that specifi issue. Just change the header and start a new thread. cheers, jamal -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:56:46 -0400 (EDT) From: jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI resourcecollisions (fwd)

2000-10-13 Thread jamal
, jamal Linux version 2.4.0-test10 (root@PCARD38C) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #6 Fri Oct 13 18:06:10 EDT 2000 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 @ (usable) BIOS-e820: 0400 @ 0009fc00 (reserved

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI resourcecollisions (fwd)

2000-10-24 Thread jamal
Linus, Martin (Now that i see Martin alive). Could we pursue this further? cheers, jamal -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 19:58:24 -0400 (EDT) From: jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Mares [EMAIL PROTECTED

FIXED! Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI resourcecollisions (fwd)

2000-10-25 Thread jamal
st in case someone else might have problems with this change. I have attached the output of lspci in the current 2.4 for perusal. I have also attached a diff with the 2.2 output (lspci -vvv on both) cheers, jamal --- 2.2-lspci Wed Oct 25 08:04:02 2000 +++ 2.4-fixed Wed Oct 25 07:51:20 2000

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread jamal
levels of traffic under certain circumstances which totally lock a 486 (for the duration) and heavily load a P166 - even though said Macs "only" have 10baseT Ethernet. I'm not the one to tell. :-) First its kind of experimental. Jamal has talked about putting together

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-06 Thread jamal
ill needed. I think real numbers are useful instead of claims like it "displayed faster" cheers, jamal - 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] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
"date; time ifconfig -a; date" for each number of devices. repeat for ip as well ;- Plot kernel and the two user tools results after several iterations (number of devices on x-axis and some time/CPU measure on y-axis). cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
replacement. It does not format display the same way as ifconfig; however, that would only be necessary if some app is dependent on ifconfig output. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
ike "vlan0". They both share the same ifindex but different have labels. Basically, i dont think there would be a problem. cheers, jamal - 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] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
to hear :) So perhaps this is a good time to move one of VLAN implementations into the official kernel? Absolutely. I think we need a VLAN implementation in there. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (DoesNOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
is way we can have upto 2^16 physical interfaces and upto 2^16 virtual interfaces on the physical interface. The search will be broken into two 16 bits. Thoughts? cheers, jamal - 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: routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
to VLANs. VLANs happen to use devices today to solve the problem. As pointed by that example no routing daemons are doing aliased interfaces (which are also virtual interfaces). We need some more general solution. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
is 802.1P and D. We must have full compliance, not some toy emulation. cheers, jamal - 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: routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
ice by its minor number. EG ifindex 1002 is eth0:2. I could write a whole lengthy RFC if it is of interest and we could use that as a starting point for discussion. Note, i dont think this would affect the core code other than the setup part. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
know what to do with it (pass it on a descriptor etc). cheers, jamal - 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] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ben Greear wrote: jamal wrote: erm, this is a MUST. You MUST factor the hardware VLANs and be totaly 802.1q compliant. Also of interest is 802.1P and D. We must have full compliance, not some toy emulation. I have seen neither hardware nor spec sheets on how

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:10:52PM -0500, jamal wrote: OK. I suppose an skb-vlan_tag is passed to the driver and it will know what to do with it (pass it on a descriptor etc). Sure, nice. WHY SHOULD THERE BE MORE LAYER-2 STUFF ADDED

Re: routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
vice. Device goes down, you destroy them or send them to a shutdown state (instead of messaging) etc. cheers, jamal - 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: routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOTmeetLinus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-08 Thread jamal
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ben Greear wrote: jamal wrote: As in my response to Matti, i thing a netdevice is a generalized link layer structure and should remain that way. Yes, but VLANs are a link-layer structure too, and things like tunnels are really link-layer too, as far as protocols

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-08 Thread jamal
and route take 74K, ip takes 89K. I don't think 15k of disk space is sufficient concern, given that inodes are probably page size. Actually if you count arp which is also part of ip; ip becomes smaller by about 15K. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

FYI: ECN approved as Standard

2001-06-13 Thread jamal
The IESG approved ECN as a proposed standard on the 12th of June. That means as of now, anyone blocking ECN bits is considered to be blaspheming. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

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

2001-02-04 Thread jamal
ng at gigE, so my word is the only truth]. Of course your paper doesnt talk about sendfile rather the page pinning + COW tricks (which are considered taboo in Linux) but i do sense a relationship. cheers, jamal PS:- I dont have "my" machines yet and i have a feeling it will be a while

Re: [PATCH] IPROUTE: Modify tc for new PRIO multiqueue behavior

2007-04-25 Thread jamal
? BTW, is there any reason this is being cced to lkml? cheers, jamal PS:- I havent read the kernel patches (i am congested and about 1000 messages behind on netdev) and my opinions may be influenced by an approach i have in trying to help someone fixup a wireless driver with multiqueue support

Re: [RFC] Arp announce (for Xen)

2007-03-02 Thread jamal
a large number of user-desires, and can be turned off if you want to do something complex. _Almost_ elegant Stephen;- cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: parallel networking (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock)

2007-10-08 Thread jamal
. Parallelization starts at the user process. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: parallel networking

2007-10-08 Thread jamal
On Mon, 2007-08-10 at 14:11 -0700, David Miller wrote: The problem is that the packet schedulers want global guarantees on packet ordering, not flow centric ones. That is the issue Jamal is concerned about. indeed, thank you for giving it better wording. The more I think about

Re: parallel networking

2007-10-08 Thread jamal
, i keep forgetting that ;- I need to train my brain to remember that. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http

Re: 2.6.23-rc5: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected

2007-09-10 Thread jamal
with this patch? cheers, jamal [NET_SCHED] make ingress qlock symmetric to egress Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c 2007/09/10 23:19:45 1.1 +++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c 2007/09/10 23:52:45 @@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ void qdisc_lock_tree(struct

Re: 2.6.23-rc5: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected

2007-09-11 Thread jamal
On Tue, 2007-11-09 at 10:18 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: Jamal, it's the police_lock that we need to make _bh. The ingress_lock is already _bh because of the spin_lock_bh that directly precedes it. Oh and I think the same thing applies for the other actions too. ga-Dang. Ok, here

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread jamal
you want yet lets just pull this whole thing out IMO. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread jamal
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 10:56, James Morris wrote: On 10 Apr 2005, jamal wrote: Thats what the original motivation for konnector was. To make it easy for joe dumbass. Who you really want writing kernel code :-) Ok, let me take that back then ;- The value is in allowing people who

Re: ACPI/HT or Packet Scheduler BUG?

2005-04-15 Thread jamal
? Can you describe how you create this issue; kernel version etc. cheers, jamal On Fri, 2005-15-04 at 17:37 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 18:46 +0300, Tarhon-Onu Victor wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Tarhon-Onu Victor wrote: So the problem should be looked

Re: ACPI/HT or Packet Scheduler BUG?

2005-04-16 Thread jamal
-cool. I dont recall. Maybe worth reverting to the earlier scheme if it is going to continue to be problematic. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: memory leak in net/sched/ipt.c?

2005-03-23 Thread jamal
: The second kfree should check for existence of t. cheers, jamal Thanks, - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: memory leak in net/sched/ipt.c?

2005-03-23 Thread jamal
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 07:55, Thomas Graf wrote: * jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-03-23 07:40 Just a small correction to patchlet: The second kfree should check for existence of t. t is either valid or NULL so it's not a problem, unless you want to create janitor work of course. ;- if t

Re: memory leak in net/sched/ipt.c?

2005-03-23 Thread jamal
that point - although he did not post to netdev!! ;- So ignore my comment Herbert cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: memory leak in net/sched/ipt.c?

2005-03-23 Thread jamal
, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: memory leak in net/sched/ipt.c?

2005-03-23 Thread jamal
Actually its well documented even on the man pages - so should have not even have bothered discussing it;- Should get new brand of coffee. Apologies for unecessarily abused electrons - which means dont respond ;- cheers, jamal On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 09:05, jamal wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 08

Re: [PATCH] updated, ethernet-bridge: update skb-priority in case forwarded frame has VLAN-header

2005-03-11 Thread jamal
Actually there is a case to be made for this to be part of the bridge code. A VLAN is a single collision domain which is mappable to a collission domain that is a bridge. infact the old VLAN code written by Lennert (and somebody else) had those two intermingled. cheers, jamal On Fri, 2005-03-11

Re: [Patch] net: fix build break when CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is not set

2005-03-29 Thread jamal
This is being discussed on netdev at the moment. Thomas Graf is working on a patch. Thanks for the effort though. cheers, jamal On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 15:25, Neil Horman wrote: Patch to fix build break that occurs when CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is not set. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman [EMAIL

Re: [Patch] net: fix build break when CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is not set

2005-03-29 Thread jamal
are themselves ifdef-ed. We are trying to kill appearance of any #ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT in the classifiers. The patch you sent is correct except it will introduce an ifdef that we are trying to kill. The current workaround is to turn on CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT in the kernel build. cheers, jamal

Re: [RFC/PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-03-31 Thread jamal
Drivers menu, renames it to Networking options and protocols, moves most protocols to more logical places (IMHOOC). About time someone brave did this. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread jamal
the code - and i think the idea of this new thing hes tossing around called CBUS maybe pushing it. cheers, jamal On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 03:34, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:10 -0400, Herbert Xu wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:03:16AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: I

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread jamal
and, oh yeah - wheres the documentation Evgeniy? ;- cheers, jamal On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:44, jamal wrote: To be fair to Evgeniy I am not against the Konnector idea. I think that it is a useful feature to have an easy to use messaging between kernel-kernel and kernel-userspace. The fact

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-28 Thread jamal
anywhere. cheers, jamal On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 02:39, Andrew Morton wrote: Guillaume Thouvenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok the protocol is maybe too basic but with this mechanism the user space application that uses the fork connector can start and stop the send of messages

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-28 Thread jamal
netlink broadcast or a wrapper around it. Why even bother doing the check with netlink_has_listeners()? cheers, jamal On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 08:20, Thomas Graf wrote: Havent seen the beginnings of this thread. But whatever you are trying to do seems to suggest some complexity that you

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-28 Thread jamal
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 08:53, Thomas Graf wrote: * jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-02-28 08:40 netlink broadcast or a wrapper around it. Why even bother doing the check with netlink_has_listeners()? To implement the master enable/disable switch they want. The messages don't get send out

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-28 Thread jamal
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 09:25, Thomas Graf wrote: * jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-02-28 09:10 [..] To justify writting the new code, I am assuming someone has actually sat down and in the minimal stuck their finger in the air and said yes, there is definetely wind there. I did

Re: [RFC PATCH] xfrm: fix handling of XFRM policies mark and mask.

2013-02-06 Thread jamal
of the mark=0. The runtime check will work then. cheers, jamal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http

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

2006-12-21 Thread jamal
ppp link seeing an outgoing packet. IMO, for this discussion to be meaningful, it would be useful to read Documentation/networking/operstates.txt And if you are keen you can then read RFC 2863... cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [take28-resend_1-0 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-21 Thread jamal
the conclusion could be a simple agree to disagree. - There really oughta be a limit on how long people are allowed to be silent. After that IMO your code should just go in ... cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [take28-resend_1-0 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-21 Thread jamal
will create a patch. I promise in 2 weeks to migrate an app or two that i have that use libevent to your version if you have it by then. I will then test and give you my opinion. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [take28-resend_1-0 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-21 Thread jamal
to epoll. Things like sockets/pipes can only benefit from direct kevent usage instead of -poll() and wrappers. You should be able change it to use those schemes when it detects that the kernel supports them. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [take28-resend_1-0 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-21 Thread jamal
On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 17:46 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:40:26AM -0500, jamal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Things like sockets/pipes can only benefit from direct kevent usage instead of -poll() and wrappers. You should be able change it to use those schemes

Re: [patch] net/xfrm: fix crash in ipsec audit logging

2006-12-26 Thread jamal
from above if (!delete) maybe? Otherwise you have to add back the if (delete) check since that function could be used to either retrieve (which is not subject to an audit) or delete an xp. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-08 Thread jamal
ering" Flames etc please redirect to netdev (since that's the only list i am on). as well make sure you cc the other people (other than linux-kernel and linux-net) cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-08 Thread jamal
On Tue, 8 May 2001, jamal wrote: > Any one wishing to volunteer, please still send your emails in -- > we should be ready in a few days from now, > I guess i should have mentioned the IESG is sitting in to approve ECN as proposed standard in about a week or so. cheers, jamal - To un

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-08 Thread jamal
e wishing to volunteer, please still send your emails in -- we should be ready in a few days from now, cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majord

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

2001-06-01 Thread jamal
ires threshold times, you declare the link dead and send netif_carrier_off netlink message. On recovery, you send netif_carrier_on Assumption: If the tx path is blocked, more than likely the link is down. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

2001-06-02 Thread jamal
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Bogdan Costescu wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, jamal wrote: > > > One idea i have been toying with is to maintain hysteris or threshold of > > some form in dev_watchdog; > > AFAIK, dev_watchdog is right now used only for Tx (if I'm wrong, please >

Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-14 Thread jamal
one done similar tests? Anyways, the struggle continues next with zc patches. cheers, jamal - 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?

2001-01-14 Thread jamal
end then re-do it for as many times as 15secs would allow. Does this affect it? I tried one 1.5 GB file, it was oopsing and given my setup right now i cant trace it. So i am using about 170M which is read about 8 times in the 15 secs cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &q

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