Frank,
could anyone please give me a hints how dev_queue_xmit() is using tx data
queue (HAL_TX_QUEUE_DATA) to transmit data queue.
actually I want to use data queue for sending beacon frame, ofcourse not
real implementation
but for an experiment, a research purpose..
It's probably *far*
Because if you look at the definition for:
struct sky2_rx_le {
__le32 addr;
__le16 length;
u8 ctrl;
u8 opcode;
} __attribute((packed));
(As an example)
If the chips does LE accesses, then marking lenght as being an LE
value isn't enough. It also
On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 10:30 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
The patch fixes the problem on my machine. Should I add my name to the
signed-off-by list?
put Acked-by, you didn't write any of the code and are not passing it on
in this case so you don't need to sign it off I guess :)
johannes
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Jay Vosburgh wrote:
Add priv_flag to specifically identify bonding-involved devices. Needed
because IFF_MASTER is an unreliable identifier (vlan interfaces above
bonding will inherit IFF_MASTER). Misidentification of devices would
cause notifier events for other devices to be erroneously
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 02:47 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
And we don't need all this stuff on these devices? OK, nl80211
can easily be made optional, too.
Not the whole of nl80211, but I guess some parts for event reporting
etc. could be made optional and the functions tiny do-nothing inlines.
Uh, please don't strip me from the CC list :)
WE-netlink is optional. And WE-ioctl could be made optional
(still on the todo list). You can also disable WE-event and WE-iwspy
for further footprint reduction.
The real question is: Why does removing WE-event reduce footprint? I
guess the
This fixes sky2 driver on big endian machines. I choose not to use the
hardware byteswap facility as it would have required to have a different
definition of the various ring data structures and it looks ugly :) On
powerpc, there is pretty much no overhead at doing byteswap.
The patch has a
Hello!
At least for slow start it is safe, but experiments with atcp for
netchannels showed that it is better not to send excessive number of
acks when slow start is over,
If this thing is done from tcp_cleanup_rbuf(), it should not affect
performance too much.
Note, that with ABC and
Hello!
This path obviously breaks assumption 1) and therefore can lead to ABBA
dead-locks.
Yes...
I've looked at the history and there seems to be no reason for the lock
to be held at all in dev_watchdog_up. The lock appeared in day one and
even there it was unnecessary.
Seems, it
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:44:14PM +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:
Seems, it serializes mod_timer and timer handler to keep timer
in predictable state. Maybe, this is not necessary. A priori, it is required.
Note that in dev_watchdog_down() queue_lock is released before
taking xmit_lock.
pageexec report an oops for tcp_lp_owd_calculator(). This is due to
tcp_lp_remote_hz_estimator can return 0.
This patch fix the handling of lp-flag, so will set lp-flag as FALSE
if rhz = 0
Signed-off-by: Wong Hoi Sing Edison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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diff -urpN 2.6.18-rc6/tcp_lp.c tcp-lp/tcp_lp.c
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 07:33 -0400, jamal wrote:
Jamal - unless there are other outstanding issues I have
missed or someone has had second thoughts this means you
should be OK with the patch going in. Can we get it into
Dave M's tree now?
Hi Russell,
My apologies; at some point i
Core files.
This patch includes core kevent files:
- userspace controlling
- kernelspace interfaces
- initialization
- notification state machines
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S b/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
index
Timer notifications.
Timer notifications can be used for fine grained per-process time
management, since interval timers are very inconvenient to use,
and they are limited.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff --git a/kernel/kevent/kevent_timer.c
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:14:20PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Generic event handling mechanism.
Unfortunately bogofilter on vger.kernel.org decided that socket and
timer notifications are spam, so they will not be found in linux-kernel
archive.
One can use kevent
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:14:20PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Generic event handling mechanism.
I've also updated documentation at
http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Kevent
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Socket notifications.
This patch include socket send/recv/accept notifications.
Using trivial web server based on kevent and this features
instead of epoll it's performance increased more than noticebly.
More details about benchmark and server itself (evserver_kevent.c)
can be found on
poll/select() notifications.
This patch includes generic poll/select and timer notifications.
kevent_poll works simialr to epoll and has the same issues (callback
is invoked not from internal state machine of the caller, but through
process awake).
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL
Hi,
this is our current version of the IBM eHEA Ethernet Device Driver. We added
minor bug fixes and changes to the last version.
Jeff, this driver has been discussed on the netdev, linux-ppc and
kernel mailing list. We didn't receive any further comments since our previous
patch set from
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.c | 605
drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.h | 361 ++
2 files changed, 966 insertions(+)
--- linux-2.6.18-rc6-orig/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.c
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
drivers/net/ehea/ehea_hcall.h | 51 +++
drivers/net/ehea/ehea_phyp.c | 705 ++
drivers/net/ehea/ehea_phyp.h | 454 +++
3 files changed, 1210 insertions(+)
---
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
drivers/net/Kconfig |9 +
drivers/net/Makefile |1 +
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff -Nurp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.18-rc6/drivers/net/Kconfig
patched_kernel/drivers/net/Kconfig
--- linux-2.6.18-rc6/drivers/net/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h| 444 +
drivers/net/ehea/ehea_hw.h | 290 +
2 files changed, 734 insertions(+)
--- linux-2.6.18-rc6-orig/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
drivers/net/ehea/Makefile |6 ++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- linux-2.6.18-rc6-orig/drivers/net/ehea/Makefile 1970-01-01
01:00:00.0 +0100
+++ kernel/drivers/net/ehea/Makefile2006-09-04 11:41:18.0
This patch makes the needlessly global e1000_phy_igp_get_info() static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c.old 2006-09-01
21:00:00.0 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c 2006-09-01
Hello.
People on this list might find this paper interesting:
http://www.csc.kth.se/~snilsson/public/papers/trash/
Abstract is below. Feel free to redistribute.
Cheers.
--ro
TRASH - A dynamic LC-trie and hash data structure
Robert Olsson and Stefan
On Monday 04 September 2006 13:43, Robert Olsson wrote:
Hello.
People on this list might find this paper interesting:
http://www.csc.kth.se/~snilsson/public/papers/trash/
Looks nice. Have you looked at using it for local TCP/UDP socket
lookups too or would that be part of the unified flow
Andi Kleen writes:
On Monday 04 September 2006 13:43, Robert Olsson wrote:
Hello.
People on this list might find this paper interesting:
http://www.csc.kth.se/~snilsson/public/papers/trash/
Looks nice. Have you looked at using it for local TCP/UDP socket
lookups too or
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 06:39:29AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
1) Does e100 driver work on ARM?
FWIW, e100 seems to work okay for me on an intel ixp2400 (xscale based)
board, an ixp2850 (xscale based) board and an ixp2350 (xscale3 based)
board. ixp2350 works both with hardware coherency turned
On Monday 04 September 2006 14:53, Robert Olsson wrote:
No we haven't put struct socket in the leafs (result node) yet we just kept
dst entries and some stateful flow variables that we used for active GC
and flow logging so far. So 128 bit flow version of the dst hash. It would
have
Andi Kleen writes:
The reason I'm asking is that we still have trouble with the TCP hash tables
taking far too much memory, and your new data structure might provide a nice
alternative.
Yes it's dynamic and selftuning so no need reserve memory in advance and still
comparable
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:35:09AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
wireless.c and driver WE support in its current form must die.
I doubt you'll have anyone argue this point; not even JT. I doubt he
cares how WE is ultimately implemented, only that things continue
to just work.
The problems
Hi,
just came back from vacation, sorry for the delay.
On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 23:59 +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
BTW, if anyone would like to be dropped off this growing cc list, please
let us know.
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:45:55PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
Sébastien Dugué
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The eepro100 removal has been blocked for almost a year by a vague
suggestion from Russell that e100 doesn't work on ARM. But he doesn't
have that machine anymore. So, we're stuck in limbo.
Russell might have tested it on an Integrator/AP (not sure
On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 15:28 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 12:10:35PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
I am wondering about that too. IIRC, the IO_NOTIFY_* constants are not
part of the ABI, but only internal to the kernel implementation. I think
Zach had suggested
On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 12:10 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
I am wondering about that too. IIRC, the IO_NOTIFY_* constants are not
part of the ABI, but only internal to the kernel implementation. I think
Zach had suggested inferring THREAD_ID notification if the pid
Michael Buesch wrote:
On Monday 04 September 2006 06:38, Larry Finger wrote:
John,
Please queue the following patch for wireless-2.6. It removes some code that was made obsolete by
the wireless statistics changes of several weeks ago, but was not noticed them.
Thanks,
Larry
John,
Please queue the following patch for wireless-2.6. It removes some code that
was made obsolete by
the wireless statistics changes of several weeks ago, but was not noticed them.
Thanks,
Larry
=
This patch removes code that was make obsolete when the wireless statistics
[UDPv6]: Enforce mandatory checksums as per RFC 2460
The current behaviour of computing outgoing checksums is not
compliant with RFC 2460, as per section 8.1:
Unlike IPv4, when UDP packets are originated by an IPv6 node,
the UDP checksum is not optional. That is, whenever
originating a UDP
Hello!
Some people reported that this program runs in 9.997 sec when run on
FreeBSD.
Try enclosed patch. I have no idea why 9.997 sec is so magic, but I
get exactly this number on my notebook. :-)
Alexey
=
This patch enables sending ACKs each 2d received segment.
It does not
Philip Molter wrote:
Is there any additional information that I can give to help get some
more work targeted at this bug? I've been getting this
lockup three or
four times a week per server (I have four of them exhibiting
this behavior).
The network setup is fairly complicated, but
Hi developers,
i made a patch for an PXA270-evalboard with DM9000
ethernet contoller. The Interrupt can be high- or low-
active dependant of the wiring of the MDC-(57)pin.
Because of this hardware dependency you shoud be able
to configure this behaviour in struct resource dm9000_resources[]
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:17:08PM +0200, Jürgen Schindele wrote:
i made a patch for an PXA270-evalboard with DM9000
ethernet contoller. The Interrupt can be high- or low-
active dependant of the wiring of the MDC-(57)pin.
Because of this hardware dependency you shoud be able
to configure
The patch has a couple of places where I reversed 2 assignments, they
are harmless, it was before I figured out that the chip will
(apparently) not access a descriptor before it's been told to do so
via
MMIO, and thus the order of the writes to the descriptors is
irrelevant
(I was also
Jürgen Schindele [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
[...]
Please comment an review my patch which is attached here
diff --git a/drivers/net/dm9000.c b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
index 24996da..0a71f7b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dm9000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
@@ -598,10 +598,11 @@ static int
dm9000_open(struct
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 23:05 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
The patch has a couple of places where I reversed 2 assignments, they
are harmless, it was before I figured out that the chip will
(apparently) not access a descriptor before it's been told to do so
via
MMIO, and thus the
On 9/2/06, Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thanks for your response!
Yes, The code is under net/sched in the source tree.
The file act_police.c in the directoy net/sched don't exist. there is
police.c that have a very similar code act_police.c (that i have found on
internet)
Go to
Hi developers,
i made a patch for an PXA270-evalboard with DM9000
ethernet contoller. The Interrupt can be high- or low-
active dependant of the wiring of the MDC-(57)pin.
Because of this hardware dependency you shoud be able
to configure this behaviour in struct resource dm9000_resources[]
Michael Chan wrote:
Philip Molter wrote:
Is there any additional information that I can give to help get some
more work targeted at this bug? I've been getting this
lockup three or
four times a week per server (I have four of them exhibiting
this behavior).
The network setup is fairly
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:35:58PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
1. Writing zero to the upper part of the TxDescStartAddr register (via
the MMIO region) somehow also clears the lower part, and writing the
upper and lower halves the other way round fixes it. The RxDescAddr
Am Monday 04 September 2006 22:16 schrieb Francois Romieu:
+#include ehea.h
+#include ehea_qmr.h
+#include ehea_phyp.h
Afaik none of those is included in this patch nor in my 2.6.18-git tree.
They are in 5, 3 and 2, respectively
Happy bissect in sight.
The driver should get merged as
Arnd Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
[...]
The driver should get merged as a single commit anyway, even
if split diffs are posted for review. Even if it gets merged
like this, bisect will work since the Kconfig option is added
in the final patch.
I have seen/done worse but it's not exactly
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:35:58PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
2. SYSErr asserts pretty soon after upping eth0, and the PCI status
register reports a parity error when this happens. In this case,
the restart logic seems to make things worse, and in fact, when
commenting it
Hello!
sarcasm
What I great idea. Now I just have to get every host I want to
interoperate with to support a nonstandard configuration. The scary
part is that if I motivate it with Linux is too stupid to handle
standard tunnel-mode IPsec I might actually get away with it.
sarcasm
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:46:46PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:17:08PM +0200, J?rgen Schindele wrote:
i made a patch for an PXA270-evalboard with DM9000
ethernet contoller. The Interrupt can be high- or low-
active dependant of the wiring of the MDC-(57)pin.
John,
Please add this patch by Martin Langer to wireless-2.6.
Larry
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This patch prints microcode revision, patchlevel, date and time to
KERN_INFO. Also, version 4.xx microcodes (rev0x128) will be rejected
by the driver, because they still do not work.
New stuff in wireless-dev -- I'd say more, but everytime I try to
say more, vger's new bogofilter rejects my email as spam...WTF???
John
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Hi,
On 05/09/06, John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
New stuff in wireless-dev -- I'd say more, but everytime I try to
say more, vger's new bogofilter rejects my email as spam...WTF???
Please read
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/2/44
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Hi Stephen !
So I now have the driver working with the patches I gave you. However,
when I set it up with a 100bT link and transfer a huge file from another
machine (about 10MB/sec throughput), I get a few of these in dmesg
eth2: hw csum failure.
Call Trace:
[CFFEF8D0] [C000F460]
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To: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: New stuff in wireless-dev
Hi,
On 05/09/06, John
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:21:21AM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
Hi,
On 05/09/06, John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
New stuff in wireless-dev -- I'd say more, but everytime I try to
say more, vger's new bogofilter rejects my email as spam...WTF???
Please read
Unneeded byte swap was occurring.
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/sky2.c
@@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@ static int sky2_status_intr(struct sky2_
case OP_RXCHKS:
skb = sky2-rx_ring[sky2-rx_next].skb;
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:42:27 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This fixes sky2 driver on big endian machines. I choose not to use the
hardware byteswap facility as it would have required to have a different
definition of the various ring data structures and it looks ugly :)
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 20:34 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Unneeded byte swap was occurring.
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/sky2.c
@@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@ static int sky2_status_intr(struct sky2_
case OP_RXCHKS:
skb =
It may not need any swapping, it is hard to tell what the hardware
will do without experimentation.
Yes... did you have a chance to test the vlan stuff on LE machines
(x86) ? did it work with the BE swapping you were doing ? I've
purposedly removed in my patches the hardware side swapping of
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:42:38 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 20:34 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Unneeded byte swap was occurring.
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/sky2.c
@@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@ static int
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 20:56 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:42:38 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 20:34 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Unneeded byte swap was occurring.
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c
+++
Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:
sarcasm mode is not accepted. Linux does exactly standard tunnel-mode IPsec.
It does not give you device to make you totally happy.
The sarcasm was a commentary to the just switch protocols then comment.
Probably, you are not aware that standard IPsec tunnel device,
Stephen J. Bevan wrote:
Really... if saying our configuration is so screwed up that we have to
run a different over-wire protocol isn't an admission of failure I don't
If you use ipip the over-wire protocol is identical, see RFC 3884
section 3.1 or you can test it right now using
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