hh_lock was converted from rwlock to seqlock by Stephen.
To have a 100% benefit of this change, I suggest to place read mostly fields
of hh_cache in a separate cache line, because hh_refcnt may be changed quite
frequently on some busy machines.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:06:32 +0100
hh_lock was converted from rwlock to seqlock by Stephen.
To have a 100% benefit of this change, I suggest to place read mostly fields
of hh_cache in a separate cache line, because hh_refcnt may be changed quite
From: jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:14:58 -0500
Against net-2.6 but should probably go into anything stable that has
reports already.
Applied, thanks for this fix Jamal. I'll push it to -stable.
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the main problem is that how to create a netem queue?
just replace the fifo_fast in dev_activate() failed
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From: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:22:47 +0100
Jarek Poplawski wrote:
[NET_SCHED] sch_cbq:
[PATCH 2.6.19-rc6 with Fix endless loops set of patches]
- P. McHardy's Fix endless loops patch supplement
(cbq_graft, cbq_qlen_notify, cbq_delete,
From: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:12:32 +0100
Jarek Poplawski wrote:
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:26:34PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
Jarek Poplawski wrote:
[NET_SCHED] sch_htb:
[PATCH 2.6.19-rc6 with Fix endless loops set of patches]
- turn
Lennert,
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:29:36AM +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
BTW (and this is not specifically directed to you.)
One cannot say this loud enough.
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Robert
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Stephen,
I will wait until you sync all these patches ive sent; then send a
couple more then i will be done.
cheers,
jamal
[XFRM] update xfrm monitoring to use nl_mgrp
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commit 738a5222776694ff22083e54a8f3efb6a013694e
tree
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 01:03 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
On 12/7/06, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 12:32 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
I just wanted to check on the status of the libertas driver from
Marvell for the OLPC project. I haven't really been able to
The macb driver calls schedule_delayed_work() and friends, so we need
to use a struct delayed_work along with it. The conversion was
explained by David Howells on lkml Dec 5 2006:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/5/269
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/macb.c |
Since macb is a chip-internal device, use __raw_readl and
__raw_writel instead of readl/writel. This will perform native-endian
accesses, which is the right thing to do on both AVR32 and ARM devices.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/macb.c |2 +-
Hi Thomas,
Am Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2006 11:55 schrieb Thomas Graf:
--- net-2.6.orig/include/linux/rtnetlink.h2006-12-07 11:25:29.0
+0100 +++ net-2.6/include/linux/rtnetlink.h 2006-12-07 11:32:25.0
+0100 @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
#include linux/netlink.h
#include
The PCI MSI and express state are already saved and restored by the
current versions of pci_save_state/pci_restore_state.
Therefore it should no longer be necessary for the driver to do it.
This patch has not been tested on the hardware.
On suspend, handle pci_set_power_state errors, and on
It looks ok to me, except that you should also remove devctl and
msi_flags from myri10ge_priv since these fields were only used in the
functions that are dropped by this patch.
However, I won't be able to test the patch on real hardware within the
next days...
Thanks a lot!
Brice
Stephen
I have seen issues with some version of unifdef remove any instance of
__KERNEL__, is the #ifndef __KERNEL__ really necessary. Has anyone
tested to make sure the install_headers will not accidently remove this?
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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:55:19 -0800
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Bug 7635] New: ioctl(fd,TCSBRK,1) on socket yields EFAULT, expected
EINVAL/ENOTTY
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7635
Summary: ioctl(fd,TCSBRK,1) on
On Friday 08 December 2006 12:33, Jim Gifford wrote:
I have seen issues with some version of unifdef remove any instance of
__KERNEL__
so use a version of unifdef that isnt broken ?
-mike
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On 12/8/06, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 01:03 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
On 12/7/06, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 12:32 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
I just wanted to check on the status of the libertas driver from
Marvell for
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:14:23 +0800
Jie Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the main problem is that how to create a netem queue?
just replace the fifo_fast in dev_activate() failed
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On Sunday 03 December 2006 19:39, Michael Wu wrote:
On Sunday 03 December 2006 13:19, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
rt2400pci, rt2500pci and rt61pci share exactly the
same code for the eeprom reading. The only difference
is that rt61pci has a slightly different register reading
approach. In any
This driver tries to enable/disable NAPI at runtime, but
does so in an unsafe manner, and the NAPI interrupt handling is
a mess. Replace it with a compile time selected NAPI implementation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/Kconfig |8 +++
Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But, ok, it is not the real point to argue so much imho and waste our
time instead of doing things.
well, IMHO better talk (and think) first, then implement
something ... not the other way round, and then start
fixing up the mess ...
Well we need a
From: Stefan Rompf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:25:18 +0100 (MET)
The _RTA and _PAYLOAD-macros are also part of userspace headers and need to be
restored. Both dhcpclient and quagga need at least IFA_RTA and IFLA_RTA to
compile, but there may be more macros than in the following
From: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:50:55 -0800
ioctl(TCSBRK,1) errno
pty 0
pipe 22/EINVAL
/dev/null 25/ENOTTY
reg_file 25/ENOTTY
socket14/EFAULT
If you call a TTY ioctl on a socket, it might not work, don't
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 01:33:34PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
From: Stefan Rompf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:25:18 +0100 (MET)
The _RTA and _PAYLOAD-macros are also part of userspace headers and need to
be
restored. Both dhcpclient and quagga need at least IFA_RTA and
From: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:36:14 -0500
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 01:33:34PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
From: Stefan Rompf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:25:18 +0100 (MET)
The _RTA and _PAYLOAD-macros are also part of userspace headers
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 01:47:52PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
The _RTA and _PAYLOAD-macros are also part of userspace headers and
need to be
restored. Both dhcpclient and quagga need at least IFA_RTA and IFLA_RTA
to
compile, but there may be more macros than in the following
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:36:33 -0800 (PST)
David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:50:55 -0800
ioctl(TCSBRK,1) errno
pty 0
pipe22/EINVAL
/dev/null 25/ENOTTY
reg_file25/ENOTTY
socket
On 12/8/06, Carl Yang (caryang) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you please forward me (or to the email alias) an example bonding
sysfs script which can be used to set bonding to work with patches 1-3?
Sure, i did it along with sending the patches, you can the thing here:
A spinlock is expensive in the fast path, which is why Jeff says it's
invasive.
spider_net_decode_one_descr() is called from
spider_net_poll() (which is the netdev-poll callback)
and also from spider_net_handle_rxram_full().
The rxramfull routine is called from a tasklet that
is fired off
Previously there was no way of determining the actual flow control
properties of a link state. We display them at link up to provide
this information as some other drivers do. Ethtool needs probably
to add this status information.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
A similar patch to commit 65c7973fa5b46b024f38be208aa477e8daf9a603
but now for ixgb.
Cc: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb.h |1 +
drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_ethtool.c |1
We need to disable the AV bit before flushing the low register.
Signed-off-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_hw.c |3 ++-
drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c |2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git
This fix was already merged in commit 96f9c2e277768099479fbed7c3b69c294b1fadef
but reverted in commit 989316ddfeafd0e8fb51a4d811383769ad62637a. After
stresstesting we found that the fix does not add new regressions and
works around a TX hang spotted by several users.
Signed-off-by: Jesse
Hi,
This patch series contains exclusively fixes for ixgb and e1000. Most
importantly, it addresses two issues in the recently merged msi interrupt
handler and dynamic itr code, as well as some major manageability
feature handling code.
These patches apply against netdev-2.6 #upstream-linus
Zero descriptor ip_config field and use skb_shinfo to detect IPV6 packet.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git
Simplify the msi interrupt handler to avoid issues with delayed ICR reads.
This avoids adapter specific problems at the cost of some performance.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h |1 -
In rare occasions, esb2 systems would end up started without the RX
unit being turned on. Add a check that runs post-init to make sure.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |7 +++
1 files
00_ixgb_sentinel.patch
01_ixgb_maybe_stop_tx.patch
02_ixgb_reorder_write.patch
03_e1000_add_fc_detect_printout.patch
04_e1000_itr_fixups.patch
05_e1000_cosmetic_csum_changes.patch
06_e1000_fix_tx_carrier_errors.patch
07_e1000_init_release_manageability.patch
08_e1000_pba_calc.patch
This fix attempts to solve a customer reported issue with NAPI enabled
e1000 having bad performance when transmitting simultaneously on
four ports. The issue comes down to an interaction between NAPI
hardware interrupt balancing, and the driver rescheduling poll on
the same processor.
We try to
82543 does not count tx_carrier_errors properly in FD mode.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |7 ++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git
Assign the PBA to be large enough to contain at least 2 jumbo frames on
all adapters. This dramatically increases performance on several adapters
and fixes TX performance degradation issues where the PBA was misallocated
in the old algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The dynamic interrupt rate control patches omitted proper counting
for jumbo's and TSO. We also out the lower bits of a user-provided
hardcoded itr setting beccause they are used for control.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB kills TSO on the 82544, so we're better off turing TSO
off in this rare case, assuming performance is not an issue for people
running slab debugging.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
the driver has (ancient) code for messing with TIPG from the 82542 days.
Unfortunately this code was running on our current adapters and setting
TIPG for fiber to be +1 over the copper value. This caused 1.45Mpps
to be sent instead of 1.487Mpps.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h |6 +
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c| 52 +++
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.h|1 +
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |9 +++
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_osdep.h |
disable phy power mode to prevent the NIC from attempting to autoneg
to i10/100mbit when running in forced gig mode as it would lose link at
shutdown. This allows you to force gig speed and still use WoL/IPMI
after shutdow.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke
Several bugs existed in how we handle various manageability issues and
workarounds. We consolidate all release and init code in two single
functions and call them from appropriate locations. This fixes several
BMC packet redirect issues and powerup/down hiccups.
Add 3 extra packet redirect
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_param.c | 15 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_param.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_param.c
index
Instead of calling a watchdog event we let our interrupt handler
cascade a link event. This allows us to spot link up immediately
after _up() without racing against a new watchdog.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
index cb6b732..34ceff1 100644
---
From: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:00:21 -0800
That is not true on BSD or other unix standardish ioctl's.
There are no conflicts between the TIOC... values and the SIOC... values
There is absolutely nothing that we can do about this under
Linux without breaking
From: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:52:06 -0500
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 01:47:52PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
The _RTA and _PAYLOAD-macros are also part of userspace headers and
need to be
restored. Both dhcpclient and quagga need at least IFA_RTA
On Friday 08 December 2006 13:56, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
I have checked the adm80211 code as well, it seems to behave quite the
same, with the most notable difference the fact that adm80211 writes the
READ_OPCODE and the word index within a single command, while in
eeprom_93cx6 this is split
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:57:49PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But, ok, it is not the real point to argue so much imho
and waste our time instead of doing things.
well, IMHO better talk (and think) first, then implement
something ... not
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 04:50:02 +0100
Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:57:49PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But, ok, it is not the real point to argue so much imho
and waste our time instead of doing things.
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 10:13:48PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 04:50:02 +0100
Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:57:49PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But, ok, it is not the real point to
d80211: remove pkt_type/pkt_probe_resp
Nobody uses pkt_type, and the information can be obtained from the
header. This removes it and the associated code that keeps tracks of it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/net/d80211.h |1 -
net/d80211/ieee80211.c |
On Dec 7 2006 19:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+void t3_set_reg_field(struct adapter *adapter, unsigned int addr, u32 mask,
+u32 val)
+{
+ u32 v = t3_read_reg(adapter, addr) ~mask;
+
+ t3_write_reg(adapter, addr, v | val);
+ (void)t3_read_reg(adapter, addr);
Minor style stuff (that can be fixed later).
1) /* C style comments */ are preferred over // C++ style
2) Please use C99 style structure initializers especially for OS
interface structures like ops for MII.
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The NAPI code in the cxgb2 driver was a mess (see patch today), don't know if
cxgb3 could use the similar brain surgery..
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From: Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a driver for the Silan SC92031/Rsltek 8139D NIC chip.
This chip is found on at least one counterfeit Encore ENL832-TX-RENT
NIC [1], which came with a mini-CD with the 2.4 driver. A slightly
older version of the driver was found at [2]. The
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:17:06 -0200
Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a driver for the Silan SC92031/Rsltek 8139D NIC chip.
...
+config SC92031
+ depends on NET_PCI PCI EXPERIMENTAL
+ select CRC32
...
+ }
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