Null pointer dereference when bringing up bonding device on kernel-2.6.24-2.fc9.i686

2008-01-28 Thread Benny Amorsen
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430391 Bringing up interface bond0: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip: c0506fd8 *pde = 7f5f8067 Oops: [#1] SMP Modules linked in: bonding ipv6 xt_pkttype ipt_LOG ipt_iprange ipt_REJECT

Re: e1000 performance issue in 4 simultaneous links

2008-01-11 Thread Benny Amorsen
David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No IRQ balancing should be done at all for networking device interrupts, with zero exceptions. It destroys performance. Does irqbalanced need to be taught about this? And how about the initial balancing, so that each network card gets assigned to one

Re: [PATCH] Re: Nested VLAN causes recursive locking error

2008-01-02 Thread Benny Amorsen
Jarek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subject: [PATCH] nested VLAN: fix lockdep's recursive locking warning Allow vlans nesting other vlans without lockdep's warnings (max. 8 levels). Reported-by: Benny Amorsen Tested-by: Benny Amorsen (?) NEEDS TESTING! Signed-off-by: Jarek

Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0

2007-11-16 Thread Benny Amorsen
DM == David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reply: Opcode: reply (0x0002) Sender HW: 00:AA.00:AA:00:AA Sender IP: 192.168.0.1 Target HW: 00:AA:00:AA:00:AA Target IP:192.168.0.1 DM And this is exactly a sensible response in my opinion. Why send the reply at all? Sending a unicast

Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket filter

2007-11-16 Thread Benny Amorsen
DM == David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DM When the user does a recvmsg() or a poll() on the socket, we will DM notice the bad checksum then and increment InErrors. We could in DM this case correct the InDatagrams counter by decrementing it in DM this case. Does that mean that InDatagrams

Re: [PATCH 2/2] [e1000 VLAN] Disable vlan hw accel when promiscuous mode

2007-11-14 Thread Benny Amorsen
AK == Kok, Auke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AK actually the impact can be quite negative, imagine doing a tcpdump AK on a 10gig interface with vlan's enabled - all of a sudden you AK might accidentally flood the system with a 100-fold increase in AK traffic and force the stack to dump all those

Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure

2007-06-24 Thread Benny Amorsen
DM == David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DM Containers are I believe a step backwards, and we're better than DM that. Are there any alternative proposals? I guess it would be a start if you could run processes with a different policy table as default. Ideally traffic from those processes

Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure

2007-06-23 Thread Benny Amorsen
DM == David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DM To be honest I think this form of virtualization is a complete DM waste of time, even the openvz approach. You are only considering the security values of OpenVZ. Where I work, OpenVZ and Linux-vserver are used for their ability to cleanly

Re: Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down

2006-12-20 Thread Benny Amorsen
AvdV == Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AvdV even if you have NO power savings you still don't meet your AvdV criteria. That's basic ethernet for you AvdV That's what I was trying to say; your criteria is unrealistic AvdV regardless of what the kernel does, ethernet already