Re: net-26.24 broken with XFRM off

2007-09-06 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:25:51 -0700 Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave, I get this error compiling net-2.6.24 with XFRM off: [EMAIL PROTECTED] net-2.6.24]# make O=/opt/build/net-2.6.24 fatal: corrupted pack file

Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

2007-09-06 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:32:33AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: Probably tangential, but Herbert, is the call to synchronize_rcu() in dev_deactivate() really correct? Yes it's still correct as of today's tree. Of course patches such as preemptible RCU may change things but they'll need to

Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

2007-09-06 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:32:33AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: [ 382.529041] [c02c8abc] dev_close+0x24/0x67 [ 382.529052] [e01f402b] ieee80211_master_stop+0x4a/0x6d [mac80211] This is where the bug is. You cannot call dev_close from an atomic context as i33380211_master_stop does it

Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

2007-09-06 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Herbert Xu wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:32:33AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: [ 382.529041] [c02c8abc] dev_close+0x24/0x67 [ 382.529052] [e01f402b] ieee80211_master_stop+0x4a/0x6d [mac80211] This is where the bug is. You cannot call dev_close from an

Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

2007-09-06 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 02:11:46PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Herbert Xu wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:32:33AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: [ 382.529041] [c02c8abc] dev_close+0x24/0x67 [ 382.529052] [e01f402b] ieee80211_master_stop+0x4a/0x6d

Re: [PATCH -mm 1/2] 3c59x: Fix uninitialized variable bug

2007-09-06 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Mark Hindley wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:09:47PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: Hi Steffen, On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Steffen Klassert wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:45:55AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: drivers/net/3c59x.c: In function 'vortex_up':

Re: net-26.24 broken with XFRM off

2007-09-06 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:13:26 +0200 I believe this problem is known. Please check http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdevm=118881627028135w=2 I'll toss that fix into the tree, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the

Re: net-26.24 broken with XFRM off

2007-09-06 Thread Noriaki TAKAMIYA
Hi, Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:13:26 +0200 [Subject: Re: net-26.24 broken with XFRM off] Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... Hi Divy I believe this problem is known. Please check http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdevm=118881627028135w=2 I'm sorry not to check more precisely. As Eric

[PATCH 2.6.24 2/5]S2io: Handle and monitor all of the device errors and alarms

2007-09-06 Thread Sivakumar Subramani
- Added support to poll entire set of device errors and alarams. - A note on how device errors and alarms are handled: - The adapter will automatically recover from uncorrectable ECC errors. Packets containing corrupted data will be dropped (not transmitted) or tagged as invalid before being

[PATCH 2.6.24 3/5]S2io: Cleanup - removed unused variable intr_type

2007-09-06 Thread Sivakumar Subramani
- Removed the unused variable, intr_type, in device private structure. Signed-off-by: Sivakumar Subramani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Santosh Rastapur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff -urpN patch_2/drivers/net/s2io.c patch_3/drivers/net/s2io.c ---

[PATCH 2.6.24 4/5]S2io: Check for device state before handling traffic

2007-09-06 Thread Sivakumar Subramani
- Added check to return from the traffic handling function, if the card status is DOWN. - Implemented Jeff's comments on incorrect return value in s2io_poll function. Signed-off-by: Sivakumar Subramani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Santosh Rastapur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna

net-2.6.24 rebased

2007-09-06 Thread David Miller
Upstream got a backport of my netdev-priv fixes for the cxgb3 driver, creating a bunch of conflicts with the napi_struct changes, so I took the opportunity to refresh the tree and combine some bug fixes into the changes that introduced those bugs :-) (bug fix attributions were added to the

Re: [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780.

2007-09-06 Thread David Miller
From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:07:08 -0700 [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780. A hardware bug was revealed after a recent PCI MSI patch was made to always disable legacy INTX when enabling MSI. The 5714/5780 chips will not generate MSI when INTX is

Re: [PATCH 1/1] NFS: change the ip_map cache code to handle IPv6 addresses

2007-09-06 Thread Aurélien Charbon
Thanks Chuck and Brian for your comments. Here is some correction for the ip_map caching code part. I have updated the code to use Brian's ipv6_addr_v4mapped function, and corrected some mistake you pointed out. I have checked this patch with the checkpatch.pl script and i do not understand

Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

2007-09-06 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 16:23 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:32:33AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: [ 382.529041] [c02c8abc] dev_close+0x24/0x67 [ 382.529052] [e01f402b] ieee80211_master_stop+0x4a/0x6d [mac80211] This is where the bug is. You cannot call

Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

2007-09-06 Thread Herbert Xu
Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hah, I suspected as much but didn't have a chance to look yet. I had plans to replace that sub_if_list with an RCU list and not require the lock there, but that's far off. Any ideas how to fix this? We can't reject the master stop so we have to walk the

Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

2007-09-06 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 20:36 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hah, I suspected as much but didn't have a chance to look yet. I had plans to replace that sub_if_list with an RCU list and not require the lock there, but that's far off. Any ideas how to fix

Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

2007-09-06 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 18:22 +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: Unless I missed something obvious (let me know if that's the case! :-) an RCU-protected list would suffer the same fate. list_for_each_xxx_rcu() must be under rcu_read_lock() which == preempt_disable() ... Right. But I'm thinking that

dgrs: sparse warnings

2007-09-06 Thread Stephen Hemminger
The dgrs driver is crap and assumes direct access to PCI iomem. CHECK drivers/net/dgrs.c drivers/net/dgrs.c:314:20: warning: cast removes address space of expression drivers/net/dgrs.c:330:12: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) drivers/net/dgrs.c:330:12:

Re: dgrs: sparse warnings

2007-09-06 Thread maximilian attems
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:55:47PM +0100, Stephen Hemminger wrote: The dgrs driver is crap and assumes direct access to PCI iomem. dgrs wants to be removed, it has no users. (no bug report in bugzilla nor in debian nor in google) the firmware is not distrutable. i'll resend my removal patch

Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

2007-09-06 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 20:36 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: Yeah I think they're all under RTNL too. So you don't need to take the lock here at all since you should already have the RTNL. Ok, this patch gets rid of the lock. I'd appreciate if you could give it a quick look for obvious RCU abuse as I

Re: [TOMOYO 15/15] LSM expansion for TOMOYO Linux.

2007-09-06 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. Thank you very much for your time, Paul. Yes, you understood what I wanted to do. TOMOYO Linux's approach: (1) It uses userspace intervention to allow/reject connections and/or packets based on the application's domain. Since existent hooks can't be used for this purpose, I

Re: [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780.

2007-09-06 Thread David Miller
From: Andy Gospodarek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:45:16 -0400 Is is really necessary to get rid of the HT1000 patch? Yes, absolutely and without a single doubt. commit e3008dedff4bdc96a5f67224cd3d8d12237082a0 Author: Andy Gospodarek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu May 10

Re: RFC: possible NAPI improvements to reduce interrupt rates for low traffic rates

2007-09-06 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:16:00 +0100 James Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This RFC suggests some possible improvements to NAPI in the area of minimizing interrupt rates. A possible scheme to reduce interrupt rate for the low packet rate / fast CPU case is described. First, do we need to

Re: [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780.

2007-09-06 Thread Andy Gospodarek
On 9/6/07, David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andy Gospodarek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:45:16 -0400 Is is really necessary to get rid of the HT1000 patch? Yes, absolutely and without a single doubt. commit e3008dedff4bdc96a5f67224cd3d8d12237082a0 Author: Andy

[PATCH] devinet: show all addresses assigned to interface

2007-09-06 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8876 Not all ips are shown by ip addr show command when IPs number assigned to an interface is more than 60-80 (in fact it depends on broadcast/label etc presence on each address). Steps to reproduce: It's terribly simple to reproduce: # for i in

Re: [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780.

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Chan
Andy Gospodarek wrote: This patch was designed to address tg3 and bnx2 messages printed on systems with HT1000 chips IIRC. Are we going back to those messages on bnx2 or is there a workaround in that driver needed too? Andy, I've checked all the Broadcom chips including bnx2 chips, only

Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

2007-09-06 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 16:23 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:32:33AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: [ 382.529041] [c02c8abc] dev_close+0x24/0x67 [ 382.529052] [e01f402b] ieee80211_master_stop+0x4a/0x6d [mac80211] This is where the bug is. You cannot call

Re: [TOMOYO 15/15] LSM expansion for TOMOYO Linux.

2007-09-06 Thread Paul Moore
On Thursday, September 6 2007 9:04:01 am Tetsuo Handa wrote: (1) It uses userspace intervention to allow/reject connections and/or packets based on the application's domain. Since existent hooks can't be used for this purpose, I inserted a new hook post_recv_datagram() at

Re: RFC: possible NAPI improvements to reduce interrupt rates for low traffic rates

2007-09-06 Thread James Chapman
Stephen Hemminger wrote: What about the latency that NAPI imposes? Right now there are certain applications that don't like NAPI because it add several more microseconds, and this may make it worse. Latency is something that I think this approach will actually improve, at the expense of

Re: [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780.

2007-09-06 Thread Andy Gospodarek
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 07:34:23AM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Andy Gospodarek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:45:16 -0400 Is is really necessary to get rid of the HT1000 patch? Yes, absolutely and without a single doubt. commit e3008dedff4bdc96a5f67224cd3d8d12237082a0

Re: RFC: possible NAPI improvements to reduce interrupt rates for low traffic rates

2007-09-06 Thread James Chapman
Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:30:30 +0100 James Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Hemminger wrote: What about the latency that NAPI imposes? Right now there are certain applications that don't like NAPI because it add several more microseconds, and this may make it

[PATCH net-2.6.23-rc5] ipsec interfamily route handling fix

2007-09-06 Thread Joakim Koskela
Hi, This patch addresses a couple of issues related to interfamily ipsec modes. The problem is that the structure of the routing info changes with the family during the __xfrmX_bundle_create, which hasn't been taken properly into account. Seems that by coincidence it hasn't caused problems on

Re: [PATCH] devinet: show all addresses assigned to interface

2007-09-06 Thread Thomas Graf
* Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-09-06 16:10 Bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8876 Not all ips are shown by ip addr show command when IPs number assigned to an interface is more than 60-80 (in fact it depends on broadcast/label etc presence on each address). The

Re: [PATCH 1/1] NFS: change the ip_map cache code to handle IPv6 addresses

2007-09-06 Thread Brian Haley
Hi Aurelien, More comments. Aurélien Charbon wrote: This is a small part of missing pieces of IPv6 support for the server. It deals with the ip_map caching code part. /* Insert client into hashtable. */ - for (i = 0; i ncp-cl_naddr; i++) -

Re: [PATCH] devinet: show all addresses assigned to interface

2007-09-06 Thread Patrick McHardy
Stephen Hemminger wrote: Bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8876 Not all ips are shown by ip addr show command when IPs number assigned to an interface is more than 60-80 (in fact it depends on broadcast/label etc presence on each address). Steps to reproduce: It's terribly simple

Re: [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780.

2007-09-06 Thread Andy Gospodarek
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:05:30PM -0700, Michael Chan wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 11:41 -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 07:34:23AM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Andy Gospodarek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:45:16 -0400 Is is really necessary

Re: [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780.

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Chan
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 11:41 -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 07:34:23AM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Andy Gospodarek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:45:16 -0400 Is is really necessary to get rid of the HT1000 patch? Yes, absolutely and without a

Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: driver for Intel(R) 82598 PCI-Express 10GbE adapters (v4)

2007-09-06 Thread Kok, Auke
Auke Kok wrote: This patch adds support for the Intel 82598 PCI-Express 10GbE chipset. Devices will be available on the market soon. Also available through git:// and http:// here: http://foo-projects.org/~sofar/ixgbe-20070905-submission.patch

[PATCH] e100: timer power saving

2007-09-06 Thread Auke Kok
From: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since E100 timer is 2HZ, use rounding to make timer occur on the correct boundary. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/e100.c |3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1

[PATCH 2.6.24 1/1] tg3: remove sparse warnings

2007-09-06 Thread Andy Gospodarek
Removed sparse warnings from tg3 driver. The new logic seems fine (I don't immediately see where we are running over values for any of the variables that need to be saved). This patch compiles fine and I'm currently using a tg3 with the patched driver to post this patch as a basic proof of

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 build error, pcnet32 on x86_64

2007-09-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
Already reported in an answer to the 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 announcement on linux-kernel [1]. cu Adrian [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/1/18 -- Is there not promise of rain? Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. Only a promise,

Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: driver for Intel(R) 82598 PCI-Express 10GbE adapters (v4)

2007-09-06 Thread David Miller
From: Kok, Auke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:31:47 -0700 Also available through git:// and http:// here: http://foo-projects.org/~sofar/ixgbe-20070905-submission.patch http://foo-projects.org/~sofar/ixgbe-20070905-submission.patch.bz2 (git-am formatted!)

Re: [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780.

2007-09-06 Thread David Miller
From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:05:30 -0700 The HT1000 bridge may very well have an MSI issue. I'm checking with ServerWorks and I will do some testing to confirm. If confirmed, we can disable MSI behind the HT1000 bridge instead of globally. The 5714 issue

Re: [patch 0/1] [PATCH] Fix Kconfigs for net-2.6.24

2007-09-06 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:07:29 +0200 Fixes for 3 typos in Kconfig files While these fixes are appreciated, I do not think they fall under the networking umbrella. Please resubmit them to linux-kernel or similar. Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780.

2007-09-06 Thread Andy Gospodarek
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:50:19PM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:05:30 -0700 The HT1000 bridge may very well have an MSI issue. I'm checking with ServerWorks and I will do some testing to confirm. If confirmed, we can disable

Re: [PATCH] make _minimum_ TCP retransmission timeout configurable

2007-09-06 Thread David Miller
From: Ilpo_Järvinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:04:11 +0300 (EEST) Main obstacle to FRTO use is its deployment as it has to be on the sender side where as wireless link is often the receiver's access link but if one can tune tcp_min_rto (or equal) on the sender side, one could

[PATCH] Fix config requirements of IPv6

2007-09-06 Thread Bernhard Walle
[PATCH] Fix config requirements of IPv6 net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c in function __inet6_csk_dst_store() requires flow_cache_genid which is defined in net/core/flow.c which is compiled when CONFIG_XFRM is set. This patch expresses that dependency. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Fix config requirements of IPv6

2007-09-06 Thread David Miller
From: Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 22:01:52 +0200 [PATCH] Fix config requirements of IPv6 net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c in function __inet6_csk_dst_store() requires flow_cache_genid which is defined in net/core/flow.c which is compiled when CONFIG_XFRM is set.

Re: [PATCH 1/1] ipv6: corrects sended rtnetlink message

2007-09-06 Thread Milan Kocian
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:47:11PM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: * Milan Kocian [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-08-29 23:51 Because RTM_NEWLINK is used to notify about device status change (as I see in net/core/rtnetlink.c) and RTM_DELLINK to inform about NETDEV_UNREGISTER. Why should it be else in ipv6

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] allow admin/users to specify rto_min in milliseconds rather than jiffies

2007-09-06 Thread Rick Jones
Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Build upon David Miller's initial patches to set the per-route rto_min so users can specify the rto_min in the same units (milliseconds) in which they are displayed. This is desirable because

Re: [PATCH -mm 1/2] 3c59x: Fix uninitialized variable bug

2007-09-06 Thread Mark Hindley
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:25:55PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: This is a GCC bug (regression, actually, as you've found out) -- no two ways about it. Although different from the kind Jeff mentioned couple days back -- that was about wising GCC up to false positives and /not/ emitting

Re: [PATCH][MIPS][7/7] AR7: ethernet

2007-09-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:34:10 +0200 Matteo Croce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Driver for the cpmac 100M ethernet driver. It works fine disabling napi support, enabling it gives a kernel panic when the first IPv6 packet has to be forwarded. Other than that works fine. I'm not too sure why I got

Re: RFC: possible NAPI improvements to reduce interrupt rates for low traffic rates

2007-09-06 Thread jamal
On Thu, 2007-06-09 at 15:16 +0100, James Chapman wrote: First, do we need to encourage consistency in NAPI poll drivers? A survey of current NAPI drivers shows different strategies being used in their poll(). Some such as r8169 do the napi_complete() if poll() does less work than their

Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: driver for Intel(R) 82598 PCI-Express 10GbE adapters (v4)

2007-09-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:44:22 -0700 (PDT) David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kok, Auke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:31:47 -0700 Also available through git:// and http:// here: http://foo-projects.org/~sofar/ixgbe-20070905-submission.patch

Re: [PATCH][MIPS][7/7] AR7: ethernet

2007-09-06 Thread Matteo Croce
Il Friday 07 September 2007 00:30:25 Andrew Morton ha scritto: On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:34:10 +0200 Matteo Croce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Driver for the cpmac 100M ethernet driver. It works fine disabling napi support, enabling it gives a kernel panic when the first IPv6 packet has to be

Re: [PATCH][MIPS][7/7] AR7: ethernet

2007-09-06 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:30:25 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:34:10 +0200 Matteo Croce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Driver for the cpmac 100M ethernet driver. It works fine disabling napi support, enabling it gives a kernel panic when the first IPv6 packet has to be forwarded.

Re: [PATCH][MIPS][7/7] AR7: ethernet

2007-09-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 01:21:41 +0200 Matteo Croce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patch introduces vast number of volatile structure fields. Please see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt. Removing them and the kernel hangs at module load They can't just be removed. Please see the

Re: bug in arp handling 2.6.20

2007-09-06 Thread Rick Jones
Joseph Southwell wrote: scenario Machine A eth0 is plugged into network. 192.168.1.201 eth0:1 192.168.1.2 Machine B eth1 is plugged into network. 192.168.1.101 eth0 is not plugged into network. so I can test locally before switching the wire. 192.168.1.201 eth0:1 192.168.1.2 arp request

bug in arp handling 2.6.20

2007-09-06 Thread Joseph Southwell
scenario Machine A eth0 is plugged into network. 192.168.1.201 eth0:1 192.168.1.2 Machine B eth1 is plugged into network. 192.168.1.101 eth0 is not plugged into network. so I can test locally before switching the wire. 192.168.1.201 eth0:1 192.168.1.2 arp request for 192.168.1.2 is

wrt Age Entry For IPv4 IPv6 Route Table

2007-09-06 Thread Varun Chandramohan
Hi Dave, Last week i sent out the rev-3 of the age patch set, and i got no comments . So i assume the people who reviewed it earlier are ok with it. Can you please go through it and push it upstream? Regards, Varun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: RFC: possible NAPI improvements to reduce interrupt rates for low traffic rates

2007-09-06 Thread Mandeep Singh Baines
Hi James, I like the idea of staying in poll longer. My comments are similar to what Jamal and Stephen have already said. A tunable (via sysfs) would be nice. A timer might be preferred to jiffy polling. Jiffy polling will not increase latency the way a timer would. However, jiffy polling

Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: driver for Intel(R) 82598 PCI-Express 10GbE adapters (v4)

2007-09-06 Thread Kok, Auke
Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:44:22 -0700 (PDT) David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kok, Auke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:31:47 -0700 Also available through git:// and http:// here: http://foo-projects.org/~sofar/ixgbe-20070905-submission.patch