ip forwarding broken on alpha

1999-10-27 Thread Andrew Gallatin
I have an older AlphaStation 600 5/266 running -current (cvsupped last week) which is setup as a router between 2 100mb networks. When the machine is pushed fairly hard (like running a netperf -tUDP_STREAM -- -m 100 across the router, eg about 10-20k 100byte packets/sec ) the alpha falls over al

Re: ip forwarding broken on alpha

1999-10-28 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an older AlphaStation 600 5/266 running -current (cvsupped > last week) which is setup as a router between 2 100mb networks. > When the machine is pushed fairly hard (like running a netperf > -tUDP_STREAM -- -m 10

Re: ip forwarding broken on alpha

1999-10-28 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Andrew Gallatin writes: > > I have an older AlphaStation 600 5/266 running -current (cvsupped > last week) which is setup as a router between 2 100mb networks. When > the machine is pushed fairly hard (like running a netperf -tUDP_STREAM > -- -m 100 across the router, eg about 10-20k 100by

Re: ip forwarding broken on alpha

1999-10-28 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:32:51 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > exception_return & skipped the ipl lowering & the check for an ast > since I don't think you're ever going to need to check for an ast > after an interrupt. Nonsense. ASTs are a key part of process sche

Re: ip forwarding broken on alpha

1999-10-29 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Andrew Gallatin writes: > > > > I have an older AlphaStation 600 5/266 running -current (cvsupped > > last week) which is setup as a router between 2 100mb networks. When > > the machine is pushed fairly hard (like running a netperf -tUDP_STR

Re: ip forwarding broken on alpha

1999-10-29 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:32:51 -0400 (EDT) > Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > exception_return & skipped the ipl lowering & the check for an ast > > since I don't think you're ever going to need to check for an ast > > after an interr

Re: ip forwarding broken on alpha

1999-10-29 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Doug Rabson writes: > > I think the intention of ASTs is that they are generated whenever you are > returning to user mode. This patch will essentially defer the AST until > the next system call which might be unacceptable. Whoops! I hadn't realized this. > I can see the window and its