Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

2007-05-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Friday 11 May 2007 13:16:44 Roland Dreier wrote: I wasn't talking about sending. But there actually is :- TSO/GSO. As I said before, getting multiple packets in one call to xmit would be nice for amortizing per-xmit overhead in IPoIB. So it would be nice if the cases where the

[PATCH] tbf scheduler: TSO support (updated)

2007-05-13 Thread Hirokazu Takahashi
Hi, I'm now thinking I can make it just hold a TSO packet until p-tokens reaches the size of the packet. I think it is straightforward implementation. I'll try this. I re-implemented the patch, which is simpler than the previous one. sch-dev-mtu is used to determine how many segments are

Re: [patch 4/5] s2io driver updates

2007-05-13 Thread Andreas Schwab
Ananda Raju [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: @@ -2704,6 +2792,10 @@ static void tx_intr_handler(fifo_info_t if (txdlp-Control_1 TXD_T_CODE) { unsigned long long err; err = txdlp-Control_1 TXD_T_CODE; + if (err 0x1) {

[LAST CALL] [PATCH] [NET_SCHED]make qdisc_restart more readable

2007-05-13 Thread jamal
Ok, I am upgrading this to last call after taking in Patricks feedback. Speak now - or send patches against it later. Dave, just let it simmer down for a day or two, then if no complaints, go ahead and apply it. It is against net-2.6 Many thanks to Thomas, Peter and Patrick for their reviews.

[patch/resend] smc911x: fix compilation breakage

2007-05-13 Thread Vitaly Wool
Looks like the new version of this patch has been overlooked, so I'm resending it. It just adapts the driver to the new IRQ API according to what Russell has pointed out. drivers/net/smc911x.c |6 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] sky2: re-enable 88E8056 for most motherboards

2007-05-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Stephen Hemminger wrote: I can use DMI to narrow down to one motherboard. Or just let everything through and let user's discover what's unstable, it fails relatively quickly. Could you please get full PCI info lspci -vvxxx for working/non-working 88e8056 (Yukon EC-U) systems? It might be some

Re: [PATCH] tbf scheduler: TSO support (updated)

2007-05-13 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:42:36 +0900 (JST) Hirokazu Takahashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm now thinking I can make it just hold a TSO packet until p-tokens reaches the size of the packet. I think it is straightforward implementation. I'll try this. I re-implemented the patch, which

Re: [PATCH] tbf scheduler: TSO support (updated)

2007-05-13 Thread Hirokazu Takahashi
Hi, I'm now thinking I can make it just hold a TSO packet until p-tokens reaches the size of the packet. I think it is straightforward implementation. I'll try this. I re-implemented the patch, which is simpler than the previous one. sch-dev-mtu is used to determine how many

Re: default y idiocy

2007-05-13 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: drivers/ata/Kconfig has a select SCSI at the top, so if you selected modular ATA, you'll be forced to have modular SCSI. Or built-in. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to

[2/2] 2.6.22-rc1: known regressions

2007-05-13 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ is not available, information are not up-to-date) Networking Subject: panic with e1000 driver on HP

compile breakage due to [SK_BUFF]: Convert skb-end to sk_buff_data_t

2007-05-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:03:44PM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4305b541357ddbd205aa145dc378926b7cb12283 Commit: 4305b541357ddbd205aa145dc378926b7cb12283 Parent:

Re: compile breakage due to [SK_BUFF]: Convert skb-end to sk_buff_data_t

2007-05-13 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:03:44PM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4305b541357ddbd205aa145dc378926b7cb12283 Commit: 4305b541357ddbd205aa145dc378926b7cb12283

Re: compile breakage due to [SK_BUFF]: Convert skb-end to sk_buff_data_t

2007-05-13 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:27:35 -0300 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:03:44PM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb:

Re: Kconfig warnings on latest GIT

2007-05-13 Thread Simon Horman
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:45:37PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 10:22 +0900, Simon Horman wrote: Actually, it was with ARCH=ia64. I have a feeling that you can get it to show up quite easily with anything other than ARCH=powerpc. Ick, I didn't know that

Re: [BUG][PATCH] Fix race condition about network device name allocation

2007-05-13 Thread Kenji Kaneshige
Hi Stephen, Thank you for comments. I'll try your patch. I have one concern about your patch, though I don't know very much about netdev codes. @@ -3411,6 +3410,9 @@ void unregister_netdevice(struct net_dev /* Notifier chain MUST detach us from master device. */

Re: 2.6.21-rc7: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/core/sock.c:1523

2007-05-13 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:59:31PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: [1] This is the first problem point. However, I didn't find any reason why this particular driver's .disconnect() couldn't sleep. In fact, a comment in include/linux/usb.h:811 says: The probe() and disconnect() methods are

Re: [PATCH] sky2: re-enable 88E8056 for most motherboards

2007-05-13 Thread kernel
RE: sky2 88e8056 Gigabyte GA-965GM-S2 uATX motherboard Stephen Hemminger wrote: I can use DMI to narrow down to one motherboard. Or just let everything through and let user's discover what's unstable, it fails relatively quickly. Could you please get full PCI info lspci -vvxxx for

[PATCH 15/17] sky2: only disable 88e8056 on some boards

2007-05-13 Thread Florin Malita
Hi Stephen, Stephen Hemminger wrote: Use DMI to add a blacklist of broken board. For now only one is known bad. Gentoo users report driver works on other motherboards (strange). [snip] + .ident = Gigabyte 965P-S3, + .matches = { +

Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8474] New: regression failure, can't even ping modem

2007-05-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 19:05:40 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8474] New: regression failure, can't even ping modem http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8474 Summary: regression failure, can't even ping

Re: compile breakage due to [SK_BUFF]: Convert skb-end to sk_buff_data_t

2007-05-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:27:35PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: Well, the fix is easy, can you provide a patch? Sure, but I was hoping you had a follow-on patch to get rid of the ugly ifdefs in .c files that would make it irrelevant? if not I'll whip out the obvious patch. Cheers,

[IPSEC]: Don't warn if high-order hash resize fails

2007-05-13 Thread Herbert Xu
Hi Dave: I just got this when rekeying my VPN (2.6.21.1): events/0: page allocation failure. order:7, mode:0xd0 [c0146235] __alloc_pages+0x1e5/0x2e0 [c0146356] __get_free_pages+0x26/0x50 [c02a01ef] xfrm_hash_alloc+0x2f/0x80 [c029a947] xfrm_bydst_resize+0x37/0xc0 [c029aa70]