Re: [PATCH 7/8] NetXen: Fix for PPC machines.

2006-12-27 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:58:54AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:53:59AM -0800, Amit S. Kale wrote: Signed-off-by: Amit S. Kale [EMAIL PROTECTED] netxen_nic.h |2 +- netxen_nic_init.c | 12 ++-- netxen_nic_main.c |4 ++-- 3 files

Re: [PATCH] igmp: spin_lock_bh in timer (Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!)

2006-12-27 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 06:05:18AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: Jarek Poplawski wrote: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:13:08AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: On 20-12-2006 03:13, Ben Greear wrote: This is from 2.6.18.2 kernel with my patch set. The MAC-VLANs are in active use. From the backtrace, I

d80211 constants inside d80211_common.h

2006-12-27 Thread Nick Kossifidis
ieee80211_msg_type, ieee80211_phytype and ieee80211_ssi_type should be in capitals as they are constants and must not be mistaken for vars... enum ieee80211_msg_type { IEEE80211_MSG_NORMAL= 0, IEEE80211_MSG_TX_CALLBACK_ACK = 1, IEEE80211_MSG_TX_CALLBACK_FAIL

Re: [PATCH 1/10] cxgb3 - main header files

2006-12-27 Thread Divy Le Ray
Jeff, You can grab the monolithic patch at this URL: http://service.chelsio.com/kernel.org/cxgb3.patch.bz2 This patch adds support for the latest 1G/10G Chelsio adapter, T3. It is required by the T3 RDMA driver Steve Wise submitted. Here is a brief description of its content:

Re: [PATCH 1/10] cxgb3 - main header files

2006-12-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 00:52 -0800, Divy Le Ray wrote: Jeff, You can grab the monolithic patch at this URL: http://service.chelsio.com/kernel.org/cxgb3.patch.bz2 This patch adds support for the latest 1G/10G Chelsio adapter, T3. It is required by the T3 RDMA driver Steve Wise submitted.

Re: Network card IRQ balancing with Intel 5000 series chipsets

2006-12-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Although still insufficient in certain cases. All flows are not equal; as an example, an IPSEC flow with 1000 packets bound to one CPU will likely utilize more cycles than 5000 packets that are being plain forwarded on another CPU. sure; however the kernel doesn't provide more accurate

Re: Network card IRQ balancing with Intel 5000 series chipsets

2006-12-27 Thread jamal
On Wed, 2006-27-12 at 09:09 +0200, Robert Iakobashvili wrote: My scenario is treatment of RTP packets in kernel space with a single network card (both Rx and Tx). The default of the Intel 5000 series chipset is affinity of each network card to a certain CPU. Currently, neither with

Re: Network card IRQ balancing with Intel 5000 series chipsets

2006-12-27 Thread jamal
On Wed, 2006-27-12 at 14:08 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: sure; however the kernel doesn't provide more accurate information currently (and I doubt it could even, it's not so easy to figure out which interface triggered the softirq if 2 interfaces share the cpu, and then, how much work came

Re: Network card IRQ balancing with Intel 5000 series chipsets

2006-12-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 09:44 -0500, jamal wrote: On Wed, 2006-27-12 at 14:08 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: sure; however the kernel doesn't provide more accurate information currently (and I doubt it could even, it's not so easy to figure out which interface triggered the softirq if 2

Re: d80211 constants inside d80211_common.h

2006-12-27 Thread Michael Wu
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 03:32, Nick Kossifidis wrote: I did a grep inside drivers/net/wireless/d80211/* and they are not used yet in drivers. Can you plz fix it before drivers start using them ? Already fixed, just waiting for wireless-dev to get it.

Re: [PATCH] igmp: spin_lock_bh in timer (Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!)

2006-12-27 Thread Ben Greear
Jarek Poplawski wrote: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 06:05:18AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: Jarek Poplawski wrote: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:13:08AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: On 20-12-2006 03:13, Ben Greear wrote: This is from 2.6.18.2 kernel with my patch set. The MAC-VLANs are in active use.

Re: d80211 constants inside d80211_common.h

2006-12-27 Thread Nick Kossifidis
We need those definitions for setting up the rate tables in dadwifi, phytypes are needed inside drivers, take a look here - http://madwifi.org/browser/branches/dadwifi-openhal/openhal/ar5xxx.h?rev=1867 Even if it does get out, constants should be in capitals. Thanx for your time Nick

Re: d80211 constants inside d80211_common.h

2006-12-27 Thread Nick Kossifidis
Anyway it's not a problem to get phytypes outside dadwifi, but i think it's low level stuff that's generaly needed. The main cause for my mail was to capitalize them, anywhere they get inside kernel source. Thanx for your time Nick 2006/12/27, Nick Kossifidis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We need those

Re: d80211 constants inside d80211_common.h

2006-12-27 Thread Michael Wu
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 12:26, Nick Kossifidis wrote: We need those definitions for setting up the rate tables in dadwifi, phytypes are needed inside drivers, take a look here - http://madwifi.org/browser/branches/dadwifi-openhal/openhal/ar5xxx.h?rev=18 67 MODE_IEEE80211A/B/G and

[ANNOUNCE] 10GbE Xframe-II ASIC Programming Manual

2006-12-27 Thread Leonid Grossman
The ASIC Programming Manual (aka Device Driver Guide) got updated to match current feature set of s2io driver, and posted at http://trac.neterion.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/TitleIndex?anonymous under Documentation Download (Xframe_II_OSDDG_2.1_LE.pdf). Some noteworthy updates include Chapter C

Re: d80211 constants inside d80211_common.h

2006-12-27 Thread Nick Kossifidis
Thank you, i'll use directly IEEE80211_RATE_* ;-) Nick 2006/12/27, Michael Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 12:26, Nick Kossifidis wrote: We need those definitions for setting up the rate tables in dadwifi, phytypes are needed inside drivers, take a look here -

Re: Please pull 'upstream' branch of wireless-2.6

2006-12-27 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 04:39:38PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: John W. Linville wrote: The following changes since commit 0c234ae655a45ac3ee53a25b2e56e9bb6c27d71d: Ulrich Kunitz (1): ieee80211softmac: Fix mutex_lock at exit of ieee80211_softmac_get_genie are found in the

Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-27 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Why do we want to inject _ready_ event, when it is possible to mark event as ready and wakeup thread parked in syscall? Going back to this old one: How do you want to mark an event ready if you don't want to introduce yet another layer of data structures? The event

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] TURBOchannel update to the driver model

2006-12-27 Thread James Simmons
And last but not least, thanks to James Simmons for beginning this work a while ago as his code was great to start with. Wow!! I thought the work was dropped along time ago. Thanks for bring it back. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a