Re: [ 00/73] 3.8.13-stable review

2013-05-10 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 09 May 2013 15:31:23 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.13 release. There This patchset broke my internet, with all sorts of weird effects like Samba clients having problems to talk to the server and only partially working DNS

Re: [ 00/73] 3.8.13-stable review

2013-05-10 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 09 May 2013 15:31:23 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.13 release. There This patchset broke my internet, with all sorts of weird effects like Samba clients having problems to talk to the server and only partially working DNS

drm/radeon: continued dead graphics with X on Thinkpad T60 with kernel 3.8.x/3.9.x

2013-03-28 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
My old trusty Thinkpad T60 with a Mobility Radeon X1400 runs fine with 3.7.10 - glxgears, vlc work great. However with kernel >=3.8.x any attempt at X dies in various ways. While waiting for all the other regressions in 3.8.x to settle down I've collected the occasional attempt with newer

drm/radeon: continued dead graphics with X on Thinkpad T60 with kernel 3.8.x/3.9.x

2013-03-28 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
My old trusty Thinkpad T60 with a Mobility Radeon X1400 runs fine with 3.7.10 - glxgears, vlc work great. However with kernel =3.8.x any attempt at X dies in various ways. While waiting for all the other regressions in 3.8.x to settle down I've collected the occasional attempt with newer kernels.

Re: [ 00/27] 3.6.10-stable review

2012-12-07 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:58:44 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.6.10 release. Patched against 3.6.9/builds/works fine on 3 Gentoo ~x86 machines, two generic i5/i7 boxes (one ATI with Evergreen chip) and an old T60 Thinkpad. No borkage

Re: [ 00/27] 3.6.10-stable review

2012-12-07 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:58:44 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.6.10 release. Patched against 3.6.9/builds/works fine on 3 Gentoo ~x86 machines, two generic i5/i7 boxes (one ATI with Evergreen chip) and an old T60 Thinkpad. No borkage

Re: [ 00/46] 3.5.3-stable review

2012-08-20 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
(CC: J. Bruce Fields) Greg, it looks like a fix for a regression in NFS is not mentioned in this patch even though it was supposedly sent to -stable: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1208.2/00594.html I tried to locate the patch in git but could not find it anywhere. As far as I

Re: [ 00/46] 3.5.3-stable review

2012-08-20 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
(CC: J. Bruce Fields) Greg, it looks like a fix for a regression in NFS is not mentioned in this patch even though it was supposedly sent to -stable: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1208.2/00594.html I tried to locate the patch in git but could not find it anywhere. As far as I

Re: SATA kernel-buffered read VERY slow (not raid, Promise TX300 card); 2.6.23.1(vanilla)

2008-01-03 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
I got my Promise card and everything is up and running without problems, using kernel 2.6.24-rc6 and the sata_promise driver out of the box: 00:0c.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40775 (SATA 300 TX2plus) (rev 02) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40775 (SATA

Re: SATA kernel-buffered read VERY slow (not raid, Promise TX300 card); 2.6.23.1(vanilla)

2008-01-03 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
I got my Promise card and everything is up and running without problems, using kernel 2.6.24-rc6 and the sata_promise driver out of the box: 00:0c.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40775 (SATA 300 TX2plus) (rev 02) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40775 (SATA

Re: SATA kernel-buffered read VERY slow (not raid, Promise TX300 card); 2.6.23.1(vanilla)

2007-12-31 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:19:26 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > [snip] > Another new "problem" (not as important) -- even though SATA disks are > called with "sdX", my ATA disks that *were* at hda-hdc are now at hde-hdg. > Devices hda-hdd are not populated in my dev directory on bootup. Of I think

Re: SATA kernel-buffered read VERY slow (not raid, Promise TX300 card); 2.6.23.1(vanilla)

2007-12-31 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:19:26 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: [snip] Another new problem (not as important) -- even though SATA disks are called with sdX, my ATA disks that *were* at hda-hdc are now at hde-hdg. Devices hda-hdd are not populated in my dev directory on bootup. Of I think this is

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-15 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:44:26 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] >> Maybe turning off sendfile or NAPI just lead to random success - so far >> it really looks like tso on the r8169 is the common cause. > > TSO on th

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-15 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:19:43 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > I have now gone back to enable TSO since vsftp with sendfile really seems > to be the only app that causes this. I have simply set it to > use_sendfile=NO and no corruption occurs at all; the machine is stable a

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-15 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:19:43 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: I have now gone back to enable TSO since vsftp with sendfile really seems to be the only app that causes this. I have simply set it to use_sendfile=NO and no corruption occurs at all; the machine is stable and fast. In the good

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-15 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:44:26 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: Holger Hoffstaette [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Maybe turning off sendfile or NAPI just lead to random success - so far it really looks like tso on the r8169 is the common cause. TSO on the r8169 is the magic switch but the regression

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-12 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:44:26 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] >> Maybe turning off sendfile or NAPI just lead to random success - so far >> it really looks like tso on the r8169 is the common cause. > > TSO on th

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-12 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:44:26 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: Holger Hoffstaette [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Maybe turning off sendfile or NAPI just lead to random success - so far it really looks like tso on the r8169 is the common cause. TSO on the r8169 is the magic switch but the regression

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-06 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:54:29 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] >> Should I file this in bugzilla? > > Yes. Thanks for responding - will do. I verified with 2.6.24-rc4 (same bug) and have some new information about this. Despit

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-06 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:54:29 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: Holger Hoffstaette [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Should I file this in bugzilla? Yes. Thanks for responding - will do. I verified with 2.6.24-rc4 (same bug) and have some new information about this. Despite my previous posting

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-02 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:00:03 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:26:54 -0800, Rick Jones wrote: > >> Could the corruption be seen in a tcpdump trace prior to transmission >> (ie taken on the sender) or was it only seen after the data passed out >

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-02 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:26:54 -0800, Rick Jones wrote: > Could the corruption be seen in a tcpdump trace prior to transmission (ie > taken on the sender) or was it only seen after the data passed out the > NIC? I did the following: 1) turn on tso on the server's r8169: ethtool --offload eth0

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-02 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:26:54 -0800, Rick Jones wrote: Could the corruption be seen in a tcpdump trace prior to transmission (ie taken on the sender) or was it only seen after the data passed out the NIC? I did the following: 1) turn on tso on the server's r8169: ethtool --offload eth0 tso

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-02 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:00:03 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:26:54 -0800, Rick Jones wrote: Could the corruption be seen in a tcpdump trace prior to transmission (ie taken on the sender) or was it only seen after the data passed out the NIC? I did the following

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-30 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Btw, the r8169 has NAPI enabled. kernel config: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/kernel-config-x86-2.6.23.9 dmesg: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/dmesg lspci -vv: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/lspci thanks Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-30 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:07:53 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > CC to netdev, it might concern network guys It is indeed related to network/r8169, more below. > Could you try with a test file containing unique patterns ? Same result, here is new information. - contrary to my first posting, the

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-30 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:07:53 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: CC to netdev, it might concern network guys It is indeed related to network/r8169, more below. Could you try with a test file containing unique patterns ? Same result, here is new information. - contrary to my first posting, the

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-30 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Btw, the r8169 has NAPI enabled. kernel config: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/kernel-config-x86-2.6.23.9 dmesg: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/dmesg lspci -vv: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/lspci thanks Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-29 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Hi - This regular Linux user and lkml lurker just noticed data corruption in ftp'ed files and narrowed it down to vsftpd using sendfile(). So far this has never caused problems in the past; I have not noticed this with 2.6.22.x but may have missed it. I do remember reading about some changes to

Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-29 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Hi - This regular Linux user and lkml lurker just noticed data corruption in ftp'ed files and narrowed it down to vsftpd using sendfile(). So far this has never caused problems in the past; I have not noticed this with 2.6.22.x but may have missed it. I do remember reading about some changes to