Re: Van Jacobson net channels

2006-02-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Friday 03 February 2006 02:07, Greg Banks wrote: (Don't ask for code - it's not really in an usable state) Sure. I'm looking forward to it. I had actually shelved the idea because of TSO. But if you can get me some data from your NFS servers that shows TSO is not enough for them that

Re: Van Jacobson net channels

2006-02-03 Thread Greg Banks
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 18:48, Andi Kleen wrote: On Friday 03 February 2006 02:07, Greg Banks wrote: (Don't ask for code - it's not really in an usable state) Sure. I'm looking forward to it. I had actually shelved the idea because of TSO. But if you can get me some data from your

Re: sky2 rx error (was: Re: sky2 freezes the system)

2006-02-03 Thread Pekka Pietikainen
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:45:18PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: The driver doesn't handle overlength packets properly. Someone maybe sending you jumbo frames or some other crap. The vendor driver doesn't handle over size frames either; it just resets itself every 5 seconds so you don't

[PATCH] acx: make firmware statistics parsing more intelligent

2006-02-03 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi all, this patch does: - implement much more flexible firmware statistics parsing (for /proc/driver/acx_wlanX_diag) This has the nice effect that we now get output for both the older TNETW1100 USB and TNETW1450. Since firmware statistics information has non-stable layout depending on

Re: [Acx100-devel] [PATCH] acx: make firmware statistics parsing more intelligent

2006-02-03 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 03 February 2006 12:58, Andreas Mohr wrote: -   adev-tx_head = (head + 1) % TX_CNT; +   /* slower: adev-tx_head = (head + 1) % TX_CNT; */ +   adev-tx_head = head + 1; +   if (adev-tx_head = TX_CNT) +   adev-tx_head = 0; struct a { int tx_head; };

Re: [Acx100-devel] [PATCH] acx: make firmware statistics parsing more intelligent

2006-02-03 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 03 February 2006 14:39, Denis Vlasenko wrote: Well, gcc obviously failed to realize that % 16 == 15. I'll file a bug. -ENOTABUG. It's incorrect for signed integers, and gcc uses idiv insn instead. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of

Re: [Acx100-devel] [PATCH] acx: make firmware statistics parsing more intelligent

2006-02-03 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 03:28:29PM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Friday 03 February 2006 14:39, Denis Vlasenko wrote: Well, gcc obviously failed to realize that % 16 == 15. I'll file a bug. -ENOTABUG. It's incorrect for signed integers, and gcc uses idiv insn instead. ...which is

[Patch 1/7] IPSEC: Sync series - core changes

2006-02-03 Thread jamal
The core changes. cheers, jamal This patch provides the core functionality needed for sync events for ipsec. Derived work of Krisztian KOVACS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/sysctl.h |2 + include/linux/xfrm.h | 30

[Patch 4/7] IPSEC: Sync series - acquire insert

2006-02-03 Thread jamal
insertion of acquires cheers, jamal This introduces a feature similar to the one described in RFC 2367: ... the application needing an SA sends a PF_KEY SADB_ACQUIRE message down to the Key Engine, which then either returns an error or sends a similar SADB_ACQUIRE message up to one or

[Patch 2/7] IPSEC: Sync series - fast path

2006-02-03 Thread jamal
data path changes cheers, jamal Fast path sequence updates that will generate ipsec async events Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/ipv4/ah4.c |1 + net/ipv4/esp4.c |1 + net/ipv6/ah6.c |1 + net/ipv6/esp6.c |1 + 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0

[Patch 0/7] IPSEC: Sync series

2006-02-03 Thread jamal
Finally got around to this and run all the tests i have. Looking good. The following series of patches aim at allowing one IPSEC node to synchronize state to another. The mechanisms provide ability to easily write apps such as OpenBSD's sasyncd[1]. The first three patches are derived from

[Patch 3/7] IPSEC: Sync series - user

2006-02-03 Thread jamal
xfrm as a user. cheers, jamal Add xfrm as the user of the core changes Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/key/af_key.c |2 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 238 -- 2 files changed, 230 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

[Patch 5/7] IPSEC: Sync series - SA expires

2006-02-03 Thread jamal
insertion of SA expires cheers, jamal This patch allows a user to insert SA expires. This is useful to do on an HA backup for the case of byte counts but may not be very useful for the case of time based expiry. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/net/xfrm.h|

[Patch 6/7] IPSEC: Sync series - policy expires

2006-02-03 Thread jamal
insertion of policy expires cheers, jamal This is similar to the SA expire insertion patch - only it inserts expires for SP. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/net/xfrm.h |2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c |4 ++- net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c |3 ++-

[Patch 7/7] IPSEC: Sync series - update selinux

2006-02-03 Thread jamal
selinux updates. I also found a few from the past that were not updated. cheers, jamal Add new netlink messages to selinux framework Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- security/selinux/nlmsgtab.c |7 +++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: [Patch 7/7] IPSEC: Sync series - update selinux

2006-02-03 Thread James Morris
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, jamal wrote: selinux updates. I also found a few from the past that were not updated. Acked-by: James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Patch 7/7] IPSEC: Sync series - update selinux

2006-02-03 Thread James Morris
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, James Morris wrote: On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, jamal wrote: selinux updates. I also found a few from the past that were not updated. Acked-by: James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ack for all of these patches, btw. - James -- James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] snap: needs hardware checksum fix

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:24:27 -0800 (PST) David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:26:32 +1100 David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch made me notice that the length is sort of implicit or can be calculated

Re: [PATCH] snap: needs hardware checksum fix

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:24:27 -0800 (PST) David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:26:32 +1100 David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch made me notice that the length is sort of implicit or can be calculated

Re: Linux 2.6.15.2

2006-02-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Holger Eitzenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:34:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: - A skbuff_head_cache leak causes oom-killings. All of these only seem to affect a small minority of machines. Hi, I have searched for a description for the above mentioned

Re: [patch 3/4] net: Percpufy frequently used variables -- proto.sockets_allocated

2006-02-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Ravikiran G Thirumalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 07:16:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Ravikiran G Thirumalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:01:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Here's an implementation which delegates tuning of batching to

RE: [e2e] FW: Performance evaluation of high speed TCPs

2006-02-03 Thread rhee
Let's get off this e2e list for this discussion. It is really unnecessary to use this list for this discussion. I don't understand why you keep sending your email to this list even though we are seating next to each other in the same conference. Isn't this amusing or abusing of this mailing list?

Please pull softmac-upsteam of bcm43xx driver

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Buesch
Please do a git pull git://bu3sch.de/wireless-2.6 softmac-upstream to pull latest bcm43xx updates into softmac-all: Michael Buesch: [bcm43xx] add DEBUG Kconfig option. Also fix indention. [bcm43xx] Fix makefile. Remove all the out-of-tree stuff. [bcm43xx] Add more initvals

Please pull dscape-upsteam of bcm43xx driver

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Buesch
Please do a git pull git://bu3sch.de/wireless-2.6 dscape-upstream to pull latest bcm43xx updates into dscape-all: Michael Buesch: [bcm43xx] add DEBUG Kconfig option. Also fix indention. [bcm43xx] fix Kconfig depends on typo. [bcm43xx] Fix makefile. Remove all the out-of-tree

SNAP headers, RFC1042

2006-02-03 Thread Simon Barber
Currently many wireless drivers handle SNAP-Ethernet header processing - this is an obvious candidate for factoring out - and might possibly be something that should be moved out of the wireless code completely. Would it make sense to add the code to eth_trans_type or create a

Re: SNAP headers, RFC1042

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:08:17 -0800 Simon Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently many wireless drivers handle SNAP-Ethernet header processing - this is an obvious candidate for factoring out - and might possibly be something that should be moved out of the wireless code completely. Would it

RE: SNAP headers, RFC1042

2006-02-03 Thread Simon Barber
The main reason is bridging - the header format needs to be different for different ports. Ideally I'd like to see a single snap processor used in both cases (local receive bridging). One problem with the current processor is the in the bridge the skb-protocol is set to 802_2_LLC, not to the real

Re: SNAP headers, RFC1042

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:22:48 -0800 Simon Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main reason is bridging - the header format needs to be different for different ports. Ideally I'd like to see a single snap processor used in both cases (local receive bridging). One problem with the current

[2.6 patch] schedule eepro100.c for removal

2006-02-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 18 Jan 2006 --- linux-2.6.15-mm4-full/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.old 2006-01-18 08:38:57.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.15-mm4-full/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2006-01-18

Re: badness in dst_release

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Hemminger
The backtrace in 2.6.12-rc2 is: [ 955.224077] Badness in dst_release at include/net/dst.h:155 [ 955.226547] [ 955.226548] Call Trace:IRQ 80305f45{__kfree_skb+101} 80322e87{ip_rcv+1255} [ 955.229219]803664b0{packet_rcv_spkt+608}

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule eepro100.c for removal

2006-02-03 Thread Benjamin LaHaise
Where's the hunk to make the eepro100 driver spew messages about being obsolete out upon loading? -ben On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:32:34PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 18 Jan 2006 ---

open bugzilla reports

2006-02-03 Thread Andrew Morton
This is a listing of the 263 bugzilla records which I felt worth keeping an eye on. It would be appreciated if the various maintenance teams could take a look, close off any which are fixed and see if we can fix any which aren't. There's probably not a lot of point in replying to this email for

Fw: genetlink or connector interface for delay accounting patches ?

2006-02-03 Thread David S. Miller
Can someone look into the holes found in the genetlink code Andrew mentions below? Thanks. ---BeginMessage--- David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or do you think people working on networking should have to shift through 300 postings a day about the copyrights of dead authors and the

[2.6 patch] move some code to net/ipx/af_ipx.c

2006-02-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch moves some code only used in this file to net/ipx/af_ipx.c . Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 22 Jan 2006 - 14 Jan 2006 include/net/p8022.h | 13 - net/802/Makefile | 14 ++--- net/802/p8022.c | 66

[2.6 patch] net/tipc/: possible cleanups

2006-02-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - #if 0 the following unused global functions: - name_table.c: tipc_nametbl_print() - name_table.c: tipc_nametbl_dump() - net.c: tipc_net_next_node() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[2.6 patch] schedule eepro100.c for removal

2006-02-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:18:58PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: Where's the hunk to make the eepro100 driver spew messages about being obsolete out upon loading? Updated patch below. -ben cu Adrian -- snip -- Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Fwd: [Patch] 2.4.32 - Neighbour Cache (ARP) State machine bug Fixed

2006-02-03 Thread Pradeep Vincent
Resending.. -- Forwarded message -- From: Pradeep Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Nov 28, 2005 12:57 PM Subject: [Patch] 2.4.32 - Neighbour Cache (ARP) State machine bug Fixed To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In 2.4.21, arp code uses

Re: [Patch] 2.4.32 - Neighbour Cache (ARP) State machine bug Fixed

2006-02-03 Thread David S. Miller
From: Pradeep Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:06:53 -0800 Resending.. Your email client has tab and newline mangled the patch so it cannot be applied. Please fix this up and also supply an appropriate Signed-off-by: line. Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: slab corruption in 2.6.16rc1-git4

2006-02-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note the first slab corruption line.. 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b has a single bit error, which _could_ be bad ram, as this box is an ancient Actually, this is exactly what would've happened if someone did a dst_release on a

Re: Fw: genetlink or connector interface for delay accounting patches ?

2006-02-03 Thread jamal
On Fri, 2006-03-02 at 16:34 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: Can someone look into the holes found in the genetlink code Andrew mentions below? how come the return value from genlmsg_multicast() gets ignored Sometimes the users dont care about the return code; i.e if the message doesnt make it

Re: slab corruption in 2.6.16rc1-git4

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 13:50:44 +1100 Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note the first slab corruption line.. 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b has a single bit error, which _could_ be bad ram, as this box is an ancient