From: Ilpo Järvinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] TCP: fix lost retransmit detection
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:02:07 +0300 (EEST)
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, TAKANO Ryousei wrote:
This patch allows to detect loss of retransmitted packets more
accurately by using the highest end
Hi Ilpo,
Thanks for your reply.
Most of my response are in the reply to patch 1/2.
From: Ilpo Järvinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] TCP: skip processing cached SACK blocks
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:37:21 +0300 (EEST)
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, TAKANO Ryousei wrote:
This patch
From: TAKANO Ryousei [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:51:00 +0900 (JST)
BTW, what is difference among netdev-2.6, net-2.6 (net-2.6.24), and
tcp-2.6? I am not familiar with linux kernel development process.
net-2.6.24 tree is current new development
net-2.6 tree is only bug fixes
From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] TCP: fix lost retransmit detection
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:17:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: TAKANO Ryousei [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:51:00 +0900 (JST)
BTW, what is difference among netdev-2.6, net-2.6
* Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- spin_unlock(np-lock);
- printk(KERN_DEBUG %s: too many iterations (%d) in
nv_nic_irq.\n, dev-name, i);
- break;
i like that! One forcedeth annoyance that triggers frequently on one of
my
* Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* I feel TX NAPI is a useful tool, because it provides an independent TX
process control point and system load feedback point.
Thus I felt this was slightly superior to tasklets.
/me agrees violently
btw., when i played with this tunable under -rt:
Hi.
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:01:07AM +0900, Satoshi OSHIMA ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
--- 2.6.23-rc3-udp_limit.orig/net/ipv4/udp.c
+++ 2.6.23-rc3-udp_limit/net/ipv4/udp.c
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ DEFINE_SNMP_STAT(struct udp_mib, udp_sta
struct hlist_head udp_hash[UDP_HTABLE_SIZE];
Somehow (haven't found out why it suddenly got compiled, no .config
changes) this showed up in the list of warnings in 2.6.23-rc9 compared
to -rc8 on one of my m68k builds:
| drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c:189: warning: large integer implicitly
truncated to unsigned type
|
Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* I feel TX NAPI is a useful tool, because it provides an independent TX
process control point and system load feedback point.
Thus I felt this was slightly superior to tasklets.
/me agrees violently
btw., when i played with this
Yinghai Lu wrote:
On 10/6/07, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
commit a606d2a111cdf948da5d69eb1de5526c5c2dafef
Author: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri Oct 5 22:56:05 2007 -0400
[netdrvr] forcedeth: interrupt handling cleanup
* nv_nic_irq_optimized() and
[not necessarily a very recent regression, used 2.6.19 kernels before...]
Hi all,
wondered why my main internet server (headless!) didn't come up properly
on a new 2.6.23-rc8-mm2
(connections almost completely refused: firewalling not executed due to
earlier OOPS?).
Upon LILO emergency fallback
Andreas Mohr wrote:
I intend to still try to get it up and running with 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 today
(with some workarounds hopefully, maybe even disabling ISDN completely)...
The last running kernel (I didn't have newer ones in between), up for some 110
days was 2.6.19-cks2 (IOW, I cannot quite say
The commit
commit 5f5dace1ce001b24fb8286e09ffd3c4d2b547e09
Author: Denis V. Lunev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu Sep 27 12:41:26 2007 -0700
[NET]: Various dst_ifdown routines to catch refcounting bugs
causes a 100% reproducible oops in net-2.6.24.git, in ip6_route_add().
Platform: x86-64
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 08:24:45AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
It definitely looks like ISDN is somehow to blame. Any chance you could
try git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.24.git ?
I'm afraid I won't make it, since this server is not at my home
location, is a
Jeff Garzik wrote:
The commit
commit 5f5dace1ce001b24fb8286e09ffd3c4d2b547e09
Author: Denis V. Lunev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu Sep 27 12:41:26 2007 -0700
[NET]: Various dst_ifdown routines to catch refcounting bugs
causes a 100% reproducible oops in net-2.6.24.git, in ip6_route_add().
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
The commit
commit 5f5dace1ce001b24fb8286e09ffd3c4d2b547e09
Author: Denis V. Lunev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu Sep 27 12:41:26 2007 -0700
[NET]: Various dst_ifdown routines to catch refcounting bugs
causes a 100% reproducible oops in
Jeff Garzik wrote:
commit 57cbfacc00d69be2ba02b65d1021442273b76263
Author: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri Oct 5 23:25:56 2007 -0400
[netdrvr] forcedeth: process TX completions using NAPI
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
drivers/net/forcedeth.c | 143
Jeff Garzik wrote:
commit abca163a14b28c234df9bf38034bc967ff81c3aa
Author: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun Oct 7 07:22:14 2007 -0400
[netdrvr] forcedeth: wrap slow path hw manipulation inside hw_mutex
* This makes sure everybody who wants to start/stop the RX and TX
Jeff Garzik wrote:
The 'fe-lock' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git fe-lock
contains the following changes that I would like to get tested:
[netdrvr] forcedeth: make NAPI unconditional
[netdrvr] forcedeth: interrupt handling cleanup
Denis V. Lunev wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
The commit
commit 5f5dace1ce001b24fb8286e09ffd3c4d2b547e09
Author: Denis V. Lunev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu Sep 27 12:41:26 2007 -0700
[NET]: Various dst_ifdown routines to catch refcounting bugs
causes a 100% reproducible
...Dropped DaveM from cc, I guess he knows the things I describe below
already... :-)
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, David Miller wrote:
From: TAKANO Ryousei [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:51:00 +0900 (JST)
BTW, what is difference among netdev-2.6,
netdev-2.6 is for network device
On Wed, 2007-03-10 at 09:18 -0400, jamal wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-10 at 16:33 -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
Seems ok to me. I think we should make it more clear that we're
skipping over the VLAN tag:
(struct tg3_tx_cbdata *)((__skb)-cb[sizeof(struct vlan_skb_tx_cookie)])
Will do -
Ok, here you go; the explanation is below. This is from net-2.6.24 of
early this AM. I saw a patch you posted that is derived from Krishna;
although it hasnt showed up in the tree - i have considered those
changes and this patch adds a little more optimization in case of
errors.
I will send you
This is an initial version of the BNX2X, the Linux driver for the
BCM5771X 10Gb Ethernet controller family.
Although the chip is very different from the 5706-8 family we based the
driver code on the BNX2 driver.
Since the hardware is supposed to be generally available soon I have
posted an
Add bnx2x to Kconfig and Makefile
Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/Kconfig |9 +
drivers/net/Makefile |1 +
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index 467532c..fbb69ac 100644
---
bnx2x.h - main .h file
Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/bnx2x.h | 997
+++
1 files changed, 997 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2x.h b/drivers/net/bnx2x.h
new
bnx2x_init.h - Various bits of init code.
Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/bnx2x_init.h | 555
++
1 files changed, 555 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2x_init.h
bnx2x_self_test.h
This file contains a self-test derived from HW specs, and the code that
prints HW/FW/BC assert codes.
Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/bnx2x_self_test.h | 1387
+
1 files
On Sat, 2007-06-10 at 18:40 +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
The HTB user guide (http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm)
says the following:
Note: The U32 classifier has an undocumented design bug which causes
duplicate entries to be listed by tc filter show when you use
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Interested parties should try the forcedeth patches I just posted :)
The patches look good, but I would still prefer to understand why the
current implementation causes crashes before rewriting everything.
I've just noticed that netpoll_send_skb() calls -hard_start_xmit()
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:17:24PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
I thus decided to now try plain 2.6.23-rc8 whether it's corrupted, too.
OK, after 3 hours of compilation the ONLY datapoint I can give right now is:
1 (one) boot on 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 had the BUG in /var/log/messages,
1 (one) boot on
Please provide feedback on the code and/or architecture.
Last time i posted them i received little. They are now updated to
work with the latest net-2.6.24 from a few hours ago.
Patch 1: Introduces batching interface
Patch 2: Core uses batching interface
Patch 3: get rid of dev-gso_skb
What
This patch adds the usage of batching within the core.
cheers,
jamal
[NET_BATCH] net core use batching
This patch adds the usage of batching within the core.
Performance results demonstrating improvement are provided separately.
I have #if-0ed some of the old functions so the patch is more
This patch removes dev-gso_skb as it is no longer necessary with
batching code.
cheers,
jamal
[NET_BATCH] kill dev-gso_skb
The batching code does what gso used to batch at the drivers.
There is no more need for gso_skb. If for whatever reason the
requeueing is a bad idea we are going to leave
On 10/7/07, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yinghai Lu wrote:
On 10/6/07, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
commit a606d2a111cdf948da5d69eb1de5526c5c2dafef
Author: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri Oct 5 22:56:05 2007 -0400
[netdrvr] forcedeth: interrupt handling
On 10/7/07, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
The 'fe-lock' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git fe-lock
OK, I've successfully tested patches 1-5 on an AMD64 system with
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet
Yinghai Lu wrote:
On 10/7/07, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
The 'fe-lock' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git fe-lock
OK, I've successfully tested patches 1-5 on an AMD64 system with
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804
Yinghai Lu wrote:
On 10/7/07, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yinghai Lu wrote:
On 10/6/07, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
commit a606d2a111cdf948da5d69eb1de5526c5c2dafef
Author: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri Oct 5 22:56:05 2007 -0400
[netdrvr] forcedeth: interrupt
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 06:20:56PM +0200, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
This is an initial version of the BNX2X, the Linux driver for the
BCM5771X 10Gb Ethernet controller family.
Although the chip is very different from the 5706-8 family we based the
driver code on the BNX2 driver.
Since the hardware
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:32:48PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index dbfdb75..a8fb231 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3300,6 +3300,8 @@ P:
Herbert Xu wrote:
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 05:29:11PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
I think this doesn't completely fix it, when dev_unicast_add is
interrupted by dev_mc_add before the unicast changes are performed,
they will get committed in the dev_mc_add context, so we might still
call
jamal wrote:
+ while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(skbs)) != NULL)
+ q-ops-requeue(skb, q);
-requeue queues at the head, so this looks like it would reverse
the order of the skbs.
Excellent catch! thanks; i will fix.
As a side note: Any batching driver should _never_ have to
From: jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:38:19 -0400
How is the policy to define the qdisc queues locked/mapped to tx rings?
For these high performance 10Gbit cards it's a load balancing
function, really, as all of the transmit queues go out to the same
physical port so you
It seems prettier to just draw graphs and since this one is small file;
here it is attached. The graph demos a patched net-2.6.24 vs a plain
net-2.6.24 kernel with a udp app that sends on 4 CPUs as fast as the the
lower layers would allow it.
Refer to my earlier description of the test setup
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