Re: RTL8169 freezes under load

2005-09-05 Thread Ian McDonald
On 06/09/05, Kyle Brantley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > > I recently bought three rtl8169 gigabit cards, along with a gigabit > switch. Trouble is, the computers keep freezing up once the NIC comes > under and "decent" amount of load. Let me lay this out for you a bit: > > Computer A: > -D

RTL8169 freezes under load

2005-09-05 Thread Kyle Brantley
Hi - I recently bought three rtl8169 gigabit cards, along with a gigabit switch. Trouble is, the computers keep freezing up once the NIC comes under and "decent" amount of load. Let me lay this out for you a bit: Computer A: -Dual AMD 2600+ MP -rtl8169 under *64-bit PCI slot* -2.6.12 (vanilla) C

Re: [PATCH] make use of ->private_data in sockfd_lookup

2005-09-05 Thread Eric Dumazet
Benjamin LaHaise a écrit : Please consider the patch below which makes use of file->private_data to store the pointer to the socket, which avoids touching several unused cachelines in the dentry and inode in sockfd_lookup. Hi David Could you please apply this patch, in continuation of Benj

Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: add endian annotations

2005-09-05 Thread viro
BTW, _all_ callers of svc_getnl() have the form ntohl(svc_getnl(...)). Which means that at least this one definitely should convert to host-endian before returning... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

Re: [PATCH 5/8] orinoco: Optimize orinoco_join_ap()

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
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Re: [PATCH] mv643xx: add netpoll api support

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
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Re: [PATCH] mv643xx: Disable per port bandwidth limits

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
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Re: [PATCH] mv643xx: Fix promiscuous mode handling

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
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Re: [PATCH] mv643xx: fix outstanding tx skb counter

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
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Re: [PATCH] mv643xx: fix skb memory leak

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
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Re: [patch 2.6.13-git3 1/5] sis190: unmask the link change events

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
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Re: Question on walking routing table.

2005-09-05 Thread Ben Greear
David S. Miller wrote: You can, BTW, log the value of "__builtin_return_address(0)" at the time of the neighbour table entry creation, so see who asked for it. That might help track it down. Yep, that was helpful. The caller is arp_bind_neighbour. With regard to re-writing the ref-counting l

Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: add endian annotations

2005-09-05 Thread viro
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:55:58PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > * usual s/u32/__be32/. > * add svc_getnl(), svc_putnl() in spirit of svc_getu32(), svc_putu32(). > They return and accept __be32 instead of __u32, respectively. > * convert to svc_getnl(), svc_putnl(). Umm... I'm not particulary

[PATCH] sunrpc: add endian annotations

2005-09-05 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
* usual s/u32/__be32/. * add svc_getnl(), svc_putnl() in spirit of svc_getu32(), svc_putu32(). They return and accept __be32 instead of __u32, respectively. * convert to svc_getnl(), svc_putnl(). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h | 16

Re: eth0 vs. wlan0 [was Re: ieee80211 patches]

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I noticed that wireless patches are now in the mainline. That is good, patches are getting smaller, but it is going to make future user interface changes harder; and thats very bad. There are good reasons to have wireless interfaces as wlanX, with tcpdump showing wireles

Re: [PATCH] cleanup ieee80211_crypto.c

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:15:20AM +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote: I understand removing the NULL pointers, but .name is actually a string "NULL".. Leaving it to be NULL is not a very good idea. This "NULL" algorithm was designed for cases where there is default algorithm f

Re: igmp problem

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 9/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I wrote a few multicast tools, which use these multicast groups: > > 225.109.99.112 > ff02::6d63:7030 > 224.110.99.112 > ff02::6e63:7030 > > I have a Cisco in the middle, and both boxes are in different VLANs. > The Cisco

Re: [Ieee80211-devel] eth0 vs. wlan0 [was Re: ieee80211 patches]

2005-09-05 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 15:37 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > I noticed that wireless patches are now in the mainline. That is good, > patches are getting smaller, but it is going to make future user > interface changes harder; and thats very bad. Only a very early version of the ieee80211 header was i

Re: [Ieee80211-devel] eth0 vs. wlan0 [was Re: ieee80211 patches]

2005-09-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > There are good reasons to have wireless interfaces as wlanX, with > > tcpdump showing wireless packetes, etc; but current patches name it > > ethX, and you get plain ethernet packets on tcpdump. Are we going to > > keep showing wireless interfaces as ethernet ones forever, or do we > > pla

RE: [Ieee80211-devel] eth0 vs. wlan0 [was Re: ieee80211 patches]

2005-09-05 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> Hi! > > I noticed that wireless patches are now in the mainline. That is good, > patches are getting smaller, but it is going to make future user > interface changes harder; and thats very bad. Hi, I'm also happy that these are in mainline now. > > There are good reasons to have wireless interf

eth0 vs. wlan0 [was Re: ieee80211 patches]

2005-09-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I noticed that wireless patches are now in the mainline. That is good, patches are getting smaller, but it is going to make future user interface changes harder; and thats very bad. There are good reasons to have wireless interfaces as wlanX, with tcpdump showing wireless packetes, etc; but c

Re: ieee80211 patches

2005-09-05 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi, Pedro Ramalhais wrote: > Yes, i might want to bring the card UP so that it can scan, but don't > want to associate. Or bring the card UP and configure the card in > Monitor mode. Or bring the card UP and configure the card in Master > mode. Maybe ad-hoc too, not sure. Yes, that sounds useful.

Re: [PATCH] cleanup ieee80211_crypto.c

2005-09-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:15:20AM +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote: > I understand removing the NULL pointers, but .name is actually a string > "NULL".. Leaving it to be NULL is not a very good idea. This "NULL" > algorithm was designed for cases where there is default algorithm for > encryption and enc

Re: [PATCH net-2.6 5/5] tg3: Use status tag to check for new events

2005-09-05 Thread David S. Miller
All 5 patches applied, looks really good. In particular, patch 4 with the prefetching, was particularly nice to see :-) Thanks a lot Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kern