Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-02-02 Thread Vasily Averin
Alexander, thank you very much for reporting and testing. Pavel, this is one more remainder: please do not forget to replace patches in new kernels. :) On 02/03/2011 03:09 AM, Solar Designer wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 04:53:47PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote: I've prepared new patch from la

Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-02-02 Thread Solar Designer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 04:53:47PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote: > I've prepared new patch from last version of sources, please use it instead > of 1.0.41.0. On my test node it works well. > Please confirm that it works on your node too, then we'll include this > patch into our official kernels. C

Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-02-01 Thread Solar Designer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 04:53:47PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote: > I've prepared new patch from last version of sources, please use it instead > of 1.0.41.0. On my test node it works well. > Please confirm that it works on your node too, then we'll include this > patch into our official kernels. T

Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-01-31 Thread Vasily Averin
On 01/31/2011 07:03 PM, Solar Designer wrote: Vasily, I am impressed by your handling of my little problem report - your attention, the time you're putting into this, and the status updates. This exceeds my expectations (as a user of OpenVZ). Thank You! It's because of you are might and great

Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-01-31 Thread Solar Designer
Vasily, I am impressed by your handling of my little problem report - your attention, the time you're putting into this, and the status updates. This exceeds my expectations (as a user of OpenVZ). Thank You! On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 06:55:27PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote: > I've recompiled driver

Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-01-31 Thread Vasily Averin
On 01/31/2011 01:05 PM, Vasily Averin wrote: On 01/31/2011 11:29 AM, Vasily Averin wrote: just FYI: I've found this hardware locally, node is free for investigation. I'm reinstalling Centos to this node right now and then I will try to reproduce reported issue. I can confirm this issue, upload

Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-01-31 Thread Vasily Averin
On 01/31/2011 11:29 AM, Vasily Averin wrote: just FYI: I've found this hardware locally, node is free for investigation. I'm reinstalling Centos to this node right now and then I will try to reproduce reported issue. I can confirm this issue, upload to this node is normal, but download is slow.

Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-01-31 Thread Vasily Averin
just FYI: I've found this hardware locally, node is free for investigation. I'm reinstalling Centos to this node right now and then I will try to reproduce reported issue. thank you, Vasily Averin On 01/30/2011 11:28 AM, Solar Designer wrote: On 01/30/2011 11:08 AM, Vasily Averin wrot

Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-01-30 Thread Solar Designer
> On 01/30/2011 11:08 AM, Vasily Averin wrote: > >could you please check 2.1.3 driver version? > >ftp://ftp.hogchain.net/pub/linux/attansic/atl1/centos5.2/ For certain reasons, this is a bit time-consuming for me to test, but I'll leave your message flagged as needing further work in case I find t

Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-01-30 Thread Vasily Averin
On 01/30/2011 11:08 AM, Vasily Averin wrote: On 01/29/2011 08:50 PM, Solar Designer wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 07:08:25PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote: On 01/29/2011 06:52 PM, Solar Designer wrote: It appears that linux-2.6.18-atl1-1.0.41.0.patch in RHEL5 branch OpenVZ kernels is your additi

Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-01-30 Thread Vasily Averin
On 01/29/2011 08:50 PM, Solar Designer wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 07:08:25PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote: On 01/29/2011 06:52 PM, Solar Designer wrote: It appears that linux-2.6.18-atl1-1.0.41.0.patch in RHEL5 branch OpenVZ kernels is your addition, not Red Hat's, correct? yes, it's our pa

Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-01-29 Thread Solar Designer
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 07:08:25PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote: > On 01/29/2011 06:52 PM, Solar Designer wrote: > >It appears that linux-2.6.18-atl1-1.0.41.0.patch in RHEL5 branch OpenVZ > >kernels is your addition, not Red Hat's, correct? > > yes, it's our patch, prepared 4 years ago, sources were

Re: [Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-01-29 Thread Vasily Averin
On 01/29/2011 06:52 PM, Solar Designer wrote: Hi, It appears that linux-2.6.18-atl1-1.0.41.0.patch in RHEL5 branch OpenVZ kernels is your addition, not Red Hat's, correct? yes, it's our patch, prepared 4 years ago, sources were taken from http://atl1.sourceforge.net/ I have a machine with

[Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

2011-01-29 Thread Solar Designer
Hi, It appears that linux-2.6.18-atl1-1.0.41.0.patch in RHEL5 branch OpenVZ kernels is your addition, not Red Hat's, correct? I have a machine with this NIC chip (onboard). It uses this driver, which mostly works fine. However, there's an OpenVZ-specific bug where TCP data transfer throughput f