Re: net TODO

2006-03-27 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:36:25 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:30:17 -0800 Randy.Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in Documentation/networking/TODO, the Jamal netdev Rx polling API change is done, right? (NAPI) Are any of the others done? Should this TODO file

Re: net TODO

2006-03-27 Thread David S. Miller
From: Randy.Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:40:42 -0800 so Dave, can you just remove Documentation/networking/TODO ? or do you want a patch for that? I'll kill it off. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: net TODO

2006-03-20 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:30:17 -0800 Randy.Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in Documentation/networking/TODO, the Jamal netdev Rx polling API change is done, right? (NAPI) Are any of the others done? Should this TODO file be removed or updated or reference

RE: SKB tutorial, Blog, and NET TODO

2005-07-30 Thread Leonid Grossman
, 2005 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SKB tutorial, Blog, and NET TODO From: Leonid Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:11:13 -0700 - TSO support for IPv6 - USO (UDP TSO) support - support for multiple hardware queues/channels

Re: SKB tutorial, Blog, and NET TODO

2005-07-25 Thread Jamal Hadi Salim
Sorry, I read my emails in a LIFO manner - typically that works well with last email in thread covering all the previous, but occasionally something is left over. On Sat, 2005-23-07 at 18:14 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: i.e you map the time slots to weights and priorities on the rings to the

Re: SKB tutorial, Blog, and NET TODO

2005-07-24 Thread David S. Miller
From: Jamal Hadi Salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:14:52 -0400 Setting the skb-prio to be used by the driver sounds reasonable. Another alternative would be what was already mentioned to change the call to hardware_start_transmit() to take a prio option. The driver should take

Re: SKB tutorial, Blog, and NET TODO

2005-07-24 Thread David S. Miller
From: Thomas Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 03:24:37 +0200 * David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-07-24 18:08 The next issue is how to demultiplex from the number of prios we want, to what the hardware actually supports if the latter is smaller. That's what I meant with

Re: SKB tutorial, Blog, and NET TODO

2005-07-23 Thread Jamal Hadi Salim
On Fri, 2005-22-07 at 15:52 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: Sounds OK. What happens if the top-level queue pulls out a packet with a certain priority, and that priority's queue in the device is stopped? Will it look for lower-priority packets and try to send those? All of this kind of logic

Re: SKB tutorial, Blog, and NET TODO

2005-07-21 Thread Patrick McHardy
David S. Miller wrote: From: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:38:37 +0200 If its about outgoing traffic, shouldn't a prio-qdisc as root qdisc do just fine? skb-priority can be used to select a queue. Incoming traffic with pre-classification by the NIC would require