From: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:33:58 +1100
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:38 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
David Miller wrote:
Perhaps the problem can be dealt with using ELF relocations.
There is another case, discussed yesterday on netdev, where run
From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:18:14 -0700 (PDT)
Please don't subject us to another couple months of hair-pulling only
to have Linus yank the thing out again, there are certainly more
useful things to spend time on :-)
Good call. Dwarf2 unwinding
From: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:03:14 +1100
Linus Torvalds writes:
We should just do this natively. There's been several tests over the years
saying that it's much more efficient to do sti/cli as a simple store, and
handling the oops, we got an
From: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 22:13:22 +1000
[NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device
These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the
network subsystem as it manages the carrier status. So it now
makes sense to allocate some memory
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:00:05 -0700
Herbert Xu wrote:
[NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device
These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the
network subsystem as it manages the carrier status. So it now
makes
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:22:17 -0700
Andrew Morton wrote:
Five minutes after boot is when jiffies wraps. Are you sure it's
a list-screwup rather than a jiffy-wrap screwup?
Hm, its suggestive, isn't it? Apparently they've already fixed
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:45:42 -0700
David Miller wrote:
I'm not so certain now that we know it's the jiffies wrap point :-)
The fixes in question are attached below and they were posted and
discussed on netdev:
Yep, this patch gets
From: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:41:55 +1100
Implement skb_partial_csum_set, for setting partial csums on untrusted
packets.
Use it in virtio_net (replacing buggy version there), it's also going
to be used by TAP for partial csum support.
Signed-off-by:
From: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:24:51 +1000
On Monday 07 April 2008 15:13:44 Herbert Xu wrote:
On second thought, this is not going to work. The network stack
can clone individual pages out of this skb and put it into a new
skb. Therefore whatever scheme we
From: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:41:14 +1000
If only there were some kind of, I don't know... summit... for kernel
people...
I'm starting to disbelieve the myth that because we can discuss
technical issues on mailing lists, we should talk primarily about
From: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:06:16 +1000
I'm not sure what the right number is here. Say worst case is header which
goes over a page boundary then MAX_SKB_FRAGS in the skb, but for some reason
that already has a +2:
/* To allow 64K frame to be packed as
From: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:50:27 +1000
But I was curious as to why the +2 in the MAX_SKB_FRAGS definition?
To be honest I have no idea.
When Alexey added the TSO changeset way back then, it had the
+2, from the history-2.6 tree:
commit
You sent these patches to kvm-owner, ie. the mailing list owner, and
not the list itself which would be plain kvm.
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From: Max Krasnyansky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:59:02 -0700
Dave, do you want me to put all outstanding TUN patches into a git tree so
that you can pull them in one shot ?
Otherwise if you're ok with applying them one by one please apply this one.
Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky
From: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:32:12 +1000
The problem with introducing checksum offload and gso to tun is they
need to set dev-features to enable GSO and/or checksumming, which is
supposed to be done before register_netdevice(), ie. as part of
TUNSETIFF.
...
From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:16:02 -0700 (PDT)
It doesn't apply cleanly to net-next-2.6, as I just tried to
stick this into my tree.
Ignore this, I did something stupid.
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From: Max Krasnyansky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:52:54 -0700
This is on top of the latest and greatest :). Assuming virt folks are ok with
the API this should go into 2.6.27.
Really? :-)
It doesn't apply cleanly to net-next-2.6, as I just tried to
stick this into my tree.
From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:41:47 -0400
looks mostly OK, but stuff like the above should be
(void __user *) arg
Did you check this with sparse (Documentation/sparse.txt)?
Jeff, I already added this particular patch to the tree
a week or so ago.
From: Max Krasnyansky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:00:19 -0700
Rusty Russell wrote:
On Thursday 14 August 2008 00:30:16 Mark McLoughlin wrote:
A very simple approach is attached; I did consider doing a TUNGETFLAGS
that would return tun-flags, but I think it's nicer to have a
From: Mark McLoughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:58:11 +
We don't really have a max tx packet size limit, so allow configuring
the device with up to 64k tx MTU.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rusty, ACK?
If so, I'll toss this into net-next-2.6,
From: Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:50:55 +0200
It is undesirable to use TCP/IP for this purpose since network
connectivity may not exist between host and guest and if it exists the
traffic can be not routable between host and guest for security reasons
or TCP/IP
From: Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:02:23 -0600
There is already an AF_IUCV for s390.
This is a scarecrow and irrelevant to this discussion.
And this is exactly why I asked that any arguments in this thread
avoid talking about virtualization technology and why
From: Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:44:26 -0600
We want this communication mechanism to be simple and reliable as we
want to implement the backends drivers in the host userspace with
minimum mess.
One implication of your statement here is that TCP is
From: Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.apana.org.au
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:35:50 +0800
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:09:52PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
tun: Fix sk_sleep races when attaching/detaching
That patch doesn't apply anymore because of contextual changes
caused by the first patch. Here's
From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 22:18:47 +0930
We check for finished xmit skbs on every xmit, or on a timer (unless
the host promises to force an interrupt when the xmit ring is empty).
This can penalize userspace tasks which fill their sockbuf. Not much
From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:27:05 +0930
On Tue, 19 May 2009 12:10:13 pm David Miller wrote:
What you're doing by orphan'ing is creating a situation where a single
UDP socket can loop doing sends and monopolize the TX queue of a
device. The only control
From: Patrick Ohly patrick.o...@intel.com
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:47:22 +0200
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 23:44 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
This patch adds skb_orphan to the start of dev_hard_start_xmit(): it
can be premature in the NETDEV_TX_BUSY case, but that's uncommon.
Would it be possible
From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:38:29 +0930
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:55:53 pm David Miller wrote:
From: Patrick Ohly patrick.o...@intel.com
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:47:22 +0200
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 23:44 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
This patch adds
From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:24:57 +0930
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 06:32:53 am Eric Dumazet wrote:
Also, taking a reference on socket for each xmit packet in flight is very
expensive, since it slows down receiver in __udp4_lib_lookup(). Several
cpus are fighting
From: Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:54:24 +0200
We also can avoid the sock_put()/sock_hold() pair for each tx packet,
to only touch sk_wmem_alloc (with appropriate atomic_sub_return() in
sock_wfree()
and atomic_dec_test in sk_free
We could initialize
From: Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.apana.org.au
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:55:30 +0800
Calling skb_orphan like this should be forbidden. Apart from the
problems already raised, it is a sign that the driver is trying to
paper over a more serious issue of not cleaning up skb's timely.
Yes
From: Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.apana.org.au
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 11:08:30 +0800
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:02:54PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
In particular the case of handling a device without usable TX
completion event indications is still quite troublesome.
e
Which particular devices
From: Fischer, Anna anna.fisc...@hp.com
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:55:16 +
This patch adds a 'hairpin' (also called 'reflective relay') mode
port configuration to the Linux Ethernet bridge kernel module.
A bridge supporting hairpin forwarding mode can send frames back
out through the port
From: Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.apana.org.au
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:19:26 +1000
I'm in the process of repeating the same experiment with cxgb3
which hopefully should let me turn interrupts off on descriptors
while still reporting completion status.
Ok, I look forward to seeing your work
From: Shreyas Bhatewara sbhatew...@vmware.com
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:56:45 -0700
+ uint32_t rxdIdx:12;/* Index of the RxDesc */
Don't use uint32_t et al. sized types, use u32 and friends
throughout.
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From: Stephen Hemminger shemmin...@vyatta.com
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:39:23 -0700
Why not use NETIF_F_LRO and ethtool to control LRO support?
In fact, you must, in order to handle bridging and routing
correctly.
Bridging and routing is illegal with LRO enabled, so the kernel
automatically
From: Shreyas Bhatewara sbhatew...@vmware.com
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:34:57 -0700 (PDT)
+{
+ struct vmxnet3_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
+ u8 *base;
+ int i;
+
+ VMXNET3_WRITE_BAR1_REG(adapter, VMXNET3_REG_CMD,
VMXNET3_CMD_GET_STATS);
+
+ /* this does assume
From: Shreyas Bhatewara sbhatew...@vmware.com
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:18:42 -0700 (PDT)
Ethernet NIC driver for VMware's vmxnet3
From: Shreyas Bhatewara sbhatew...@vmware.com
This patch adds driver support for VMware's virtual Ethernet NIC: vmxnet3
Guests running on VMware hypervisors
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:24:00 +0200
Assuming it's okay with davem, I think it makes sense to merge this
patch through Rusty's tree because vhost is the first user of the new
interface. Posted here for completeness.
I'm fine with that, please add my:
From: Patrick McHardy ka...@trash.net
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:26:17 +0100
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Version 2 description:
The patch to iproute2 has not changed, so I'm not including
it this time. Patch 4/4 (the netlink interface) is basically
unchanged as well but included for completeness.
From: Arnd Bergmann a...@arndb.de
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:00:36 +0100
c) prepare a combined patch for net-next.git, or
This is probably fine.
I'll be taking patches into net-next-2.6 right after Linus
releases 2.6.33-rc1.
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From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:57:06 +1030
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:46:43 pm Rusty Russell wrote:
Hi Dave,
Nice driver optimization from Shirley, but requires a new virtio hook.
Do you want to take both? I have nothing else overlapping it.
Dave, any
From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:49:05 +1030
From: Shirley Ma mashi...@us.ibm.com
There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
This is redundant, since virtio_ring
From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:50:04 +1030
From: Shirley Ma mashi...@us.ibm.com
virtio_net receives packets from its pre-allocated vring buffers, then it
delivers these packets to upper layer protocols as skb buffs. So it's not
necessary to pre-allocate
From: Arnd Bergmann a...@arndb.de
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:22:15 +0100
This is the fourth version of the macvtap driver,
based on the comments I got for the last version
I got a few days ago. Very few changes:
* release netdev in chardev open function so
we can destroy it properly.
*
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:39:11 +0200
Dave, I see it's marked not applicable:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/44207/
the patch applies to net-next as of
b3b3f04fb587ecb61b5baa6c1c5f0e666fd12d73.
Can this be queued up please?
Should I resubmit with
Just for the record I'm generally not interested in vhost
patches.
If it's a specific network one that will be merged via
the networking tree, yes please CC: me.
But if it's a bunch of changes to vhost.c and other pieces
of infrastructure, feel free to leave me out of it. It just
clutters my
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:37:37 +0200
Dave, so while Rusty's on vacation, what's the best way to get vhost
infrastructure fixes in? Are you ok with getting pull requests and
merging them into net-next? That should keep the clutter in your inbox
to the
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:34:25 +0200
Implicitly, I guess. He said if there's an issue Michael Tsirkin is the
best person to resolve it, this was wrt merging his virtiolguest tree.
He didn't mention vhost, I wrote all of vhost though, there shouldn't be
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:44:40 +0200
The following changes since commit 655ffee284dfcf9a24ac0343f3e5ee6db85b85c5:
Jiri Pirko (1):
wireless: convert to use netdev_for_each_mc_addr
are available in the git repository at:
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:53:55 +0200
The following tree includes patches fixing issues with vhost-net in
2.6.34-rc1. Please pull them for 2.6.34.
Pulled, thanks a lot.
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 20:35:02 +0300
David,
The following tree includes a patch fixing an issue with vhost-net in
2.6.34-rc3. Please pull for 2.6.34.
Pulled, thanks Michael.
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From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 15:07:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 00:32:45 +0300
The following tree includes a couple of enhancements that help vhost-net.
Please pull them for net-next. Another set of patches
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 00:32:45 +0300
The following tree includes a couple of enhancements that help vhost-net.
Please pull them for net-next. Another set of patches is under
debugging/testing and I hope to get them ready in time for 2.6.35,
so there
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 14:21:01 +0300
This is an amended pull request: I have rebased the tree to the
correct patches. This has been through basic tests and seems
to work fine here.
The following tree includes a couple of enhancements that help
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:08:07 +0300
Userspace virtio server has the following hack
so guests rely on it, and we have to replicate it, too:
Use port number to detect incoming IPv4 DHCP response packets,
and fill in the checksum for these.
The
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:04:39 +0300
Since using the module involves updating the management tools
as well, if we go down this route it will be much less painful
for everyone to do push it upstream.
Ok, you can make your case to Patrick McHardy and if
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 19:41:27 +0300
David,
The following tree includes more fixes dealing with
error handling in vhost-net. It is on top of net-2.6.
Please merge it for 2.6.35.
Thanks!
The following changes since commit
From: Pankaj Thakkar pthak...@vmware.com
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:18:22 -0700
The plugin is guest agnostic and hence we did not want to rely on
any kernel provided functions.
While I disagree entirely with this kind of approach, even that
doesn't justify what you're doing here.
memcpy() and
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:25:30 +0300
David, please pull the following fixes for 2.6.35.
Thanks!
The following changes since commit 91a72a70594e5212c97705ca6a694bd307f7a26b:
net/core: neighbour update Oops (2010-07-14 18:02:16 -0700)
are
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:32:31 +0300
The following changes since commit 4cfa580e7eebb8694b875d2caff3b989ada2efac:
r6040: Fix args to phy_mii_ioctl(). (2010-07-21 21:10:49 -0700)
are available in the git repository at:
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 14:36:06 +0300
The following tree includes more regression fixes for vhost-net
in 2.6.36. It is on top of net-2.6.
Please merge it for 2.6.36.
Pulled, thanks Michael.
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:42:22 +0200
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git vhost-net
Pulled, thanks!
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:27:32 +0200
It looks like it was a quiet cycle for vhost-net:
probably because most of energy was spent on bugfixes
that went in for 2.6.36.
People are working on multiqueue, tracing but I'm not
sure it'll get done in time for
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:59:01 +0200
David,
Not sure if it's too late for 2.6.36 - in case it's not, the following tree
includes a last minute bugfix for vhost-net, found by code inspection.
It is on top of net-2.6.
Thanks!
The following changes
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:23:01 +0200
Please merge the following fix for 2.6.36.
Thanks!
The following changes since commit a27e13d370415add3487949c60810e36069a23a6:
econet: fix CVE-2010-3848 (2010-11-24 11:51:47 -0800)
are available in the
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:09:43 +0200
Please merge the following fix for 2.6.37.
It is also applicable to -stable.
Thanks!
The following changes since commit a19faf0250e09b16cac169354126404bc8aa342b:
net: fix skb_defer_rx_timestamp() (2010-12-10
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:23:26 +0200
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:44:13PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
Please merge the following tree for 2.6.38.
Thanks!
Rusty Acked it as is, so please pull the below.
Thanks very much!
The following changes
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 17:44:40 +0200
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git vhost-net
Pulled, thanks Michael.
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:57:26 +0200
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:32:50PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
From: Bruce Rogers brog...@novell.com
Under harsh testing conditions, including low memory, the guest would
stop receiving packets. With this patch
From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:32:50 +1030
From: Bruce Rogers brog...@novell.com
Under harsh testing conditions, including low memory, the guest would
stop receiving packets. With this patch applied we no longer see any
problems in the driver while
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:33:49 +0200
copy_from_user is pretty high on perf top profile,
replacing it with __copy_from_user helps.
It's also safe because we do access_ok checks during setup.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Is Rusty
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:04:04 +0200
The following changes since commit 1fc050a13473348f5c439de2bb41c8e92dba5588:
ipv4: Cache source address in nexthop entries. (2011-03-07 20:54:48 -0800)
are available in the git repository at:
From: Michał Mirosław mirq-li...@rere.qmqm.pl
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:01:35 +0200 (CEST)
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław mirq-li...@rere.qmqm.pl
Applied.
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From: Michał Mirosław mirq-li...@rere.qmqm.pl
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:01:35 +0200 (CEST)
Not tested in any way. The original code for offload setting seems broken
as it resets the features on every netback reconnect.
This will set GSO_ROBUST at device creation time (earlier than connect
From: Ian Campbell ian.campb...@eu.citrix.com
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 13:29:19 +0100
From 0b56469abe56efae415b4603ef508ce9aec0e4c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Campbell ian.campb...@citrix.com
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 10:58:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] xen: netfront: assume all hw features are
From: Ian Campbell ian.campb...@eu.citrix.com
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:26:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] xen: netback: use unsigned type for one-bit bitfield.
Fixes error from sparse:
CHECK drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c:29:40: error: dubious one-bit signed
From: Ian Campbell ian.campb...@eu.citrix.com
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 10:55:55 +0100
You mean the !X86_VISWS I presume? It doesn't make sense to me either.
No, I think 32-bit x86 allmodconfig elides XEN because of it's X86_TSC
dependency.
And, well, you could type make allmodconfig on your tree
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 02:10:07 +0300
Rusty, I think it will be easier to merge vhost and virtio bits in one
go. Can it all go in through your tree (Dave in the past acked
sending a very similar patch through you so should not be a problem)?
And in
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:28:28 +0300
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 06:56:17PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
There's no need for the guest to validate the checksum if it have been
validated by host nics. So this patch introduces a new flag -
From: Stephen Hemminger shemmin...@vyatta.com
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:36:29 -0400
Use per-cpu variables to maintain 64 bit statistics.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger shemmin...@vyatta.com
I'll apply this, thanks.
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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.w...@oracle.com
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:39:54 -0400
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 02:41:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
Add xen-backend:vif module alias to the xen-netback module. This allows
automatic loading of the module.
Dave,
Could you queue this up
From: Michael Witten mfwit...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:55:29 -
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:09:03 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 06:25:55PM -, Michael Witten wrote:
Do not send more than 15 patches at once to the vger
mailing lists!!!
... Don't be a
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:36:14 +0300
The below is what I came up with. We add the feature enabled
by default ...
s/enabled/disabled/ Well, at least you got it right in the
commit message where it counts :-)
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:48:46 +0300
From: Shirley Ma mashi...@us.ibm.com
This adds experimental zero copy support in vhost-net,
disabled by default. To enable, set
experimental_zcopytx module option to 1.
This patch maintains the outstanding
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:31:15 +0300
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 07:26:02PM +0530, Krishna Kumar wrote:
Fix a panic in virtnet_remove. unregister_netdev has already
freed up the netdev (and virtnet_info) due to dev-destructor
being set, while virtnet_info
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:00:46 +0300
The following includes vhost-net fixes - both in the
experimental zero copy mode.
Please pull for 3.1.
Thanks!
Where is this the following? I don't see any GIT url to pull
from or anything :-)
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:32:38 +0300
Fixing a corrupted pull request sent earlier.
Sorry about the noise!
The following includes vhost-net fixes - both in the
experimental zero copy mode.
Please pull for 3.1.
Pulled, thanks!
I'm not reading any RFC without any example code, sorry.
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From: r...@tardy.cup.hp.com (Rick Jones)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:17:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Jones rick.jon...@hp.com
Add a new .bus_name to virtio_config_ops then modify virtio_net to
call through to it in an ethtool .get_drvinfo routine to report
bus_info in ethtool -i output which is
From: Krishna Kumar2 krkum...@in.ibm.com
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:39:11 +0530
Jason Wang jasow...@redhat.com wrote on 11/25/2011 08:51:57 AM:
My description is not clear again :(
I mean the same vhost thead:
vhost thread #0 transmits packets of flow A on processor M
...
vhost thread #0
From: Sasha Levin levinsasha...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:19:42 +0200
Device lock should be held when releasing a device, and specifically
when calling vhost_dev_cleanup(). Otherwise, RCU complains about it:
...
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Cc: k...@vger.kernel.org
Cc:
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:10:02 +0200
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 01:35:52AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
From: Krishna Kumar2 krkum...@in.ibm.com
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:39:11 +0530
Jason Wang jasow...@redhat.com wrote on 11/25/2011 08:51:57 AM:
My
From: Laszlo Ersek ler...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:38:58 +0100
These two together provide complete ordering. Sub-condition (1) is
satisfied by pvops commit 43223efd9bfd.
I don't see this commit in Linus's tree, so I doubt it's valid for
me to apply this as a bug fix to my 'net'
From: Ian Campbell ian.campb...@citrix.com
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 21:23:00 +
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 18:45 +, David Miller wrote:
From: Laszlo Ersek ler...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:38:58 +0100
These two together provide complete ordering. Sub-condition (1) is
satisfied
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:15:12 +0200
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 01:52:35PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
Once you sort this out, reply with an Acked-by: for me, thanks.
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Applied
From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:40:02 +1030
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:52:32 -0800, Mike Waychison mi...@google.com wrote:
Currently, the refill path for RX buffers will always allocate the
buffers as GFP_ATOMIC, even if we are in process context. This will
From: Stephen Hemminger shemmin...@vyatta.com
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:30:38 -0800
Subject: vhost-net: add module alias (v2.1)
By adding some module aliases, programs (or users) won't have to explicitly
call modprobe. Vhost-net will always be available if built into the kernel.
It does
From: Kay Sievers kay.siev...@vrfy.org
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:19:05 +0100
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:07, David Miller da...@davemloft.net wrote:
From: Stephen Hemminger shemmin...@vyatta.com
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:30:38 -0800
Subject: vhost-net: add module alias (v2.1)
By adding some
From: Stephen Hemminger shemmin...@vyatta.com
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:52:36 -0800
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:26:45 +
Alan Cox a...@linux.intel.com wrote:
ACKs, NACKs? What is happening here?
I would like an Ack from Alan Cox who switched vhost-net
to a dynamic minor in the first
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