Re: networking todo, was Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2

2000-09-20 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:56:57PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: >Just use __cacheline_aligned instead, like I did with the >ip_local_data in the patch you just rejected. There is still the >problem that generic SMP x86 kernels use a 32byte cacheline. Not a >problem currently becau

Re: networking todo, was Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2

2000-09-20 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:38:24AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > We must be talking about different things. It of course detects it on > ACK input, but only for data it did send itself. Every TCP detects > reordering automatically on the input with the sequence number check, > but all we still do is

Re: networking todo, was Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2

2000-09-20 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:29:39PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:38:24AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > We must be talking about different things. It of course detects it on > > ACK input, but only for data it did send itself. Every TCP detects > > reordering automatic

Re: networking todo, was Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2

2000-09-20 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:24:28PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > That would just break the whole idea behind softnet. When you're juggling I agree ;(. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ a

Re: networking todo, was Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2

2000-09-19 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 03:51:37 +0200 From: "Andi Kleen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Receiver side SMP reordering is still there, but I'm not sure if it is >fixable (but it'll surely hit people that cannot use Linux senders, I >just see the reports) > > Reordering is

Re: networking todo, was Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2

2000-09-19 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 03:14:10 +0200 From: "Andi Kleen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The ipid handling is still fishy, it will break when you talk to more destinations than the inetpeer cache can take (I fixed it in my local tree with the appended patch) I don't like this change, please

Re: networking todo, was Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2

2000-09-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 06:13:38PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 03:14:10 +0200 >From: "Andi Kleen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >The ipid handling is still fishy, it will break when you talk to >more destinations than the inetpeer cache can take (I fixed it in >

Re: networking todo, was Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2

2000-09-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 06:54:30PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 03:51:37 +0200 >From: "Andi Kleen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Receiver side SMP reordering is still there, but I'm not sure if it is >>fixable (but it'll surely hit people that cannot use

Re: networking todo, was Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2

2000-09-19 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Wed, 20 Sep 2000 04:38:24 +0200 From: "Andi Kleen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We must be talking about different things. It of course detects it on ACK input, but only for data it did send itself. Every TCP detects reordering automatically on the input with the sequence numb