Re: unresolved symbols on SPARC with depmod -ae

2001-04-05 Thread David S. Miller
.urem > depmod: .umul > depmod: .udiv > depmod: .rem > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in Try to load one of the modules which show the problem, does it work? If so, it is a bug in depmod's handling of these ".foo" symbols. Later, David S. M

Re: asm/unistd.h

2001-04-05 Thread David S. Miller
e compiler so this is why you see "#define FOO do { } while(0)" 2) It gives you a basic block in which to declare local variables. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: asm/unistd.h

2001-04-05 Thread David S. Miller
, but there hasn't been a gcc release in over 2 years so... Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.3 tcp window id causes problems talking to windows clients

2001-04-06 Thread David S. Miller
o 2.4.4 but if not I'll submit the ID patch seperately. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [CHECKER] __init functions called by non-__init

2001-04-06 Thread David S. Miller
es. It was really good at finding __init bugs though... Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html P

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread David S. Miller
. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [CHECKER] amusing copy_from_user bug

2001-04-10 Thread David S. Miller
special userspace ASI. In fact the user can be given the complete 32-bit or 64-bit virtual address space, the kernel takes up none of it. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAI

Re: [race][RFC] d_flags use

2001-04-12 Thread David S. Miller
Alexander Viro writes: > If nobody objects I'll go for test_bit/set_bit/clear_bit here. Be sure to make d_flags an unsigned long when you do this! :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: [CFT][PATCH] Re: Fwd: Re: memory usage - dentry_cache

2001-04-12 Thread David S. Miller
k against zero, making count possibly go negative and then you'd be there for a _long_ time :-) Just a FYI... Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordom

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread David S. Miller
ter a presentation. It does not work in a relaxed "people sit at tables and comment at arbitrary points in time during a talk" setting such as the kernel summit. Besides putting a microphone at every table (which isn't all that practical honestly) I can't come up with a so

Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

2001-04-17 Thread David S. Miller
hort of it is that sendfile() now acts just like sendmsg() when errors happen mid-send. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.

Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

2001-04-17 Thread David S. Miller
Jesse S Sipprell writes: > On error, -1 is returned in the usual fashion and offset is purported to be > updated to point to the next byte following the last one sent. > > Will the zerocopy patches break this? No, they should not. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To

Re: Very bad behavior of kswapd

2001-04-18 Thread David S. Miller
Rik van Riel writes: > > Watch top: when this program needs the memory that kswapd keep > > in cache they go both at 100% cpu (on SMP) but still the size of > > the program only grows at about 100KB/s, why is kswapd releasing > > it so slowly and taking so much CPU ? > > Because kswapd sti

Re: [PATCH] IP forwarded checksum, kernel 2.2.18-19

2001-04-18 Thread David S. Miller
Martin Gadbois writes: > Hi there! > I realized that some tests were failing due to dropped IP packets. I > traced and discovered the following: Thanks, I've put your patch into my 2.2.x source and will push this to Alan once he starts doing 2.2.20pre patches. Later, David S.

RE: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-18 Thread David S. Miller
uch more than keeping speedstep proprietary. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the

Re: sk->state_chage is not called for listening sockets

2001-04-19 Thread David S. Miller
.3-nfs/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c > --- linux-2.4.3/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c Fri Feb 9 11:34:13 2001 > +++ linux-2.4.3-nfs/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c Thu Apr 12 23:23:59 2001 I've applied this patch, thanks. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] generic rw_semaphores, compile warnings patch

2001-04-19 Thread David S. Miller
D.W.Howells writes: > This patch (made against linux-2.4.4-pre4) gets rid of some warnings obtained > when using the generic rwsem implementation. Have a look at pre5, this is already fixed. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

2001-04-18 Thread David S. Miller
enough in the xfree86 tree", why not lend them a hand and submitting patches to them instead of complaining? Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [PATCH] generic rw_semaphores, compile warnings patch

2001-04-20 Thread David S. Miller
being declared in the parameter list. Indeed, I didn't see this in my setup on sparc64 for some reason. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [PATCH] Longstanding elf fix (2.4.3 fix)

2001-04-22 Thread David S. Miller
ptrace? Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()

2001-04-22 Thread David S. Miller
on Alan's shoulders?" The AC patches are huge, but they have substantially decreased in size during the recent 2.4.4-preX series. And sure, Alan makes conscious decisions to apply patches and eventually work to push them to Linus, but honestly people should consider ways to help decrease h

Re: Linux 2.4.3ac13

2001-04-23 Thread David S. Miller
Alan Cox writes: > 2.4.3-ac13 > oSwitch to NOVERS symbols for rwsem (me) > | Called from asm blocks so they can't be versioned Yes they most certainly can be versioned inside of an asm. Use the "i" constraint, we've been doing this on spar

Re: 2.2.19pre10 doesn't compile on alphas (sunrpc)

2001-02-12 Thread David S. Miller
Alan Cox writes: > I suspect adding > > #define BUG() __asm__ __volatile__("call_pal 129 # bugchk") > > to include/asm-alpha/page.h will do the right thing, since it works on 2.4 You have to add a few bits to arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c I could be wrong

Re: [UPDATE] zerocopy patch against 2.4.2-pre2

2001-02-12 Thread David S. Miller
ts us get to the next stage which is to use your tools, numbers, and some profiling to see if we can get some of that cpu overhead back. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[UPDATE] zerocopy + powder rule

2001-02-12 Thread David S. Miller
The only change is to update things to 2.4.2-pre3: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.2p3-1.diff.gz All the reports I am getting now appear to be consistent, and they all basically show me that: 1) There are no known bugs (as in things that crash the kernel or c

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-17 Thread David S. Miller
Jeff Garzik writes: > And in another message, On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > 3) The acenic/gbit performance anomalies have been cured > >by reverting the PCI mem_inval tweaks. > > > Just to be clear, acenic should or should not use MWI? >

Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel

2001-02-18 Thread David S. Miller
about side effects of UDP path-mtu, then I will turn off UDP path-mtu by default in 2.4.x because it is obviously very broken either conceptually or in our implementation. :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

[UPDATE] Zerocopy BETA 1, against 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread David S. Miller
ally, in my own testing, latency over loopback seems to have improved) Some verbose TCP debugging is enabled in this release, most of the messages are harmless %99 of the time. If these messages bother you just set "FASTRETRANS_DEBUG" back to "1" in include/net/tcp.h Thanks. Late

Re: 2.4 tcp very slow under certain circumstances (Re: netdev issues (3c905B))

2001-02-21 Thread David S. Miller
Ookhoi writes: > We have exactly the same problem but in our case it depends on the > following three conditions: 1, kernel 2.4 (2.2 is fine), 2, windows ip > header compression turned on, 3, a free internet access provider in > Holland called 'Wish' (which seemes to stand for 'I Wish I had a

Re: Problem with 2.2.19pre9 (Connection closed.)

2001-02-21 Thread David S. Miller
Alan Cox writes: > Dave - any ideas, shall we back it out and work on it for 2.2.20 ? The one change which is probably causing this is non-critical, so let me study things quickly tonight and if I come up with nothing I'll show you what you can revert safely. Later, David S. Mille

Re: 2.4 tcp very slow under certain circumstances (Re: netdev issues (3c905B))

2001-02-21 Thread David S. Miller
e TCP sequence numbers to calculate an "always changing" ID number in the IPv4 headers to placate these broken windows machines. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

[UPDATE] Zerocopy BETA 2 against 2.4.2 final.

2001-02-21 Thread David S. Miller
in (1.5K mtu on gbit still has some warts). Once those are cleared and everyone involved is satisfied that there are no performance regressions against vanilla 2.4.2, I will ask Alan to consider including it. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/sunhme.c, unbalanced and unchecked ioremap()

2001-02-22 Thread David S. Miller
Andrey Panin writes: > I found that sunhme.c doesn't check ioremap() return value and doesn't > call iounmap() on module unload. Attached patch (for 2.4.1-ac20) should fix it, > compiles clearly, but untested (I have no such hardware). Thanks I've applied this patch.

Re: [Patch] 2.4.2: af_unix.c warnings

2001-02-22 Thread David S. Miller
Russell King writes: > The following patch fixes these warnings: Thanks, applied. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vg

Re: ipv4: 2.4.2: unused static variables

2001-02-22 Thread David S. Miller
he sysctl layer what legal range the user's setting of a particular sysctl must reside in. The fix is to enclose these things in CONFIG_SYSCTL, which I have done in my tree, thanks for bringing this to my attention. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send

[UPDATE] zerocopy BETA 3

2001-02-22 Thread David S. Miller
being discussed by Pekka and Alexey. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FA

A plea for help, forwarded message from postmaster@morotsmedia.se

2001-02-23 Thread David S. Miller
Unless someone can tell me who is the recipient on the linux-kernel list generating these bogus virus bounces back to me, I am going to have no choice but to unsubscribe the entire *.se domain to try and get rid of this guy. Thanks. Your mail was recieved, but looked like it might contain a

Re: A plea for help, forwarded message from postmaster@morotsmedia.se

2001-02-23 Thread David S. Miller
.. > -- > Jakob Borgmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) > UNIX/network adminmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED](development) > systems programmermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) >http://jakob.borg.pp.se/ T

Re: possible bug x86 2.4.2 SMP in IP receive stack

2001-02-25 Thread David S. Miller
Sounds like a bug wrt. SKB allocations in the Myrinet driver. You're the author of most of that code, so I'm sure you're the best one to audit it :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

RE: UDP attack? How to suppress kernel msgs?

2001-02-25 Thread David S. Miller
This should fix your problem: --- include/net/sock.h.~1~ Thu Feb 22 21:12:12 2001 +++ include/net/sock.h Sun Feb 25 21:26:16 2001 @@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ * Enable debug/info messages */ -#if 0 +#if 1 #define NETDEBUG(x)do { } while (0) #else #define NETDEBUG(x)do { x; }

Re: [UPDATE] zerocopy BETA 3

2001-02-25 Thread David S. Miller
27;d like people to have to test the zerocopy stuff for me, they'll get the ID fix if they do that :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at htt

Re: New net features for added performance

2001-02-26 Thread David S. Miller
ne, but my hunch is that it will lead to worse data packing via such an allocator. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/m

Re: [UPDATE] zerocopy.. While working on ip.h stuff

2001-02-26 Thread David S. Miller
the IP header itself fits totally in a cache line, the options afterwardsd likely will not and thus require another cache miss. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [UPDATE] zerocopy.. While working on ip.h stuff

2001-02-26 Thread David S. Miller
me to live field, so I see no reason why they can't do smart things with special IP options either (besides efficiency concerns :-). Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: New net features for added performance

2001-02-26 Thread David S. Miller
ce idea and I currently see no holes in it. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ

Re: 2.4 tcp very slow under certain circumstances (Re: netdev issues (3c905B))

2001-02-26 Thread David S. Miller
Simon Kirby writes: > Has such a patch gone in to the kernel yet? Yep, it is in both the zerocopy and AC patches. (Linus is away at the moment) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mess

Re: New net features for added performance

2001-02-26 Thread David S. Miller
tack from SKB origin to device. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: New net features for added performance

2001-02-26 Thread David S. Miller
it, and then for those that don't have these problems at all we can make NULL a special value for this "post-header" pointer. You can pick some arbitrary number, sure, that is another way to do it. Such a size would need to be chosen very carefully though. Later, David S. M

Re: RFC: vmalloc improvements

2001-02-26 Thread David S. Miller
vmalloc() causes). Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.4.1 network (socket) performance

2001-02-26 Thread David S. Miller
AF_UNIX act just like everyone else. This was always just a performance hack, and one which makes less and less sense as time goes on. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: rsync over ssh on 2.4.2 to 2.2.18

2001-02-27 Thread David S. Miller
Russell King writes: > Please note: although I am using 2.2.15pre13, it is _not_ the cause of > this problem How do you know this? There are so many deadly TCP bugs fixed since 2.2.15pre13 I don't know how you can assert this. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsub

Re: rx_copybreak value for non-i386 architectures

2001-02-27 Thread David S. Miller
so that all packets get copied into new buffers where they can have their header aligned. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vge

Re: [RFC] pci_dma_set_mask()

2001-02-28 Thread David S. Miller
; please feel free to make minor adjustments and submit :) Jeff/Zach, I agree, I'm fully for such a patch, but please update the documentation! It is the most important part of the patch. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: The IO problem on multiple PCI busses

2001-03-01 Thread David S. Miller
Dan Malek writes: > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > I played around with something akin to this, and some of the necessary > > Xfree86-4.0.x hackery needed, some time ago. But I never finished > > this. > > Sounds pretty sweet. How a

Re: Kernel is unstable

2001-03-01 Thread David S. Miller
t each page fault. Linus didn't find it to be such a gain, and in fact the one place that does gain from such merging (sys_brk()) does the merging by hand :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: The IO problem on multiple PCI busses

2001-03-01 Thread David S. Miller
is a 'real' one, the one on which the PCI-->ISA bridge lives, why not use that one :-) Then you could find such an ISA bridge, open that PCI device, then finally perform the PCI_IOCTL_GETIOBASE thingy on it, but I don't like this get-iobase idea at all, see my next email in this t

Re: [RFC] pci_set_dma_mask() + doc :)

2001-03-01 Thread David S. Miller
Zach Brown writes: > please feel free to flame or apply, I'm not sure I'm really fond of the > code example.. Seems fine to me. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Re: The IO problem on multiple PCI busses

2001-03-01 Thread David S. Miller
omething akin to this, and some of the necessary Xfree86-4.0.x hackery needed, some time ago. But I never finished this. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The IO problem on multiple PCI busses

2001-03-01 Thread David S. Miller
offset/size pairs, based upon the BAR value of interest, to mmap and everything is fine. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger

Re: The IO problem on multiple PCI busses

2001-03-01 Thread David S. Miller
ecially the GSC one. At least the rope one does something reasonable when you have a 64-bit kernel. The horrors you've told me about the IOMMUs and stream-caches on these chips further confirms my theory :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: The IO problem on multiple PCI busses

2001-03-01 Thread David S. Miller
reated these problems. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Q: explicit alignment control for the slab allocator

2001-03-01 Thread David S. Miller
Manfred, why are you changing the cache alignment to SMP_CACHE_BYTES? If you read the original SLAB papers and other documents, the code intends to color the L1 cache not the L2 or subsidiary caches. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.4.2 TCP window shrinking

2001-03-02 Thread David S. Miller
er seen it twice with 2.4.x We need desperately to know exactly what OS the xxx.xxx.1.14 machine is running. Because you've commented out the first two octets, I cannot check this myself using nmap. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

Re: The IO problem on multiple PCI busses

2001-03-02 Thread David S. Miller
l variant you can encode the bus/dev/etc. info in the device's resource and decode this at ioremap() time, see?). Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: The IO problem on multiple PCI busses

2001-03-02 Thread David S. Miller
ails. This header is also where the physical address and the actual creation of the page table mappings will occur. The generic PCI code will only provide the skeletal parts of the mmap() method and call into the arch-specific hooks coded in asm/pcimmap.h Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TCP Congestion Window Bug?

2001-03-03 Thread David S. Miller
l to tp->snd_cwnd, marking the connection as _not_ application limited. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] tiny MM performance and typo patches for 2.4.2

2001-03-04 Thread David S. Miller
at least for me. The address_space is %99 of the time (unless swapping, and in that case the address is constant :-)) inside of an inode struct so this change actually makes the hash worse. I looked at this one time myself... Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch

2001-03-05 Thread David S. Miller
Russell King writes: > A while ago, I looked at what was required to convert the OHCI driver > to pci_alloc_consistent, and it turns out that the current interface is > highly sub-optimal. It looks good on the face of it, but it _really_ > does need sub-page allocations to make sense for USB

Re: So, what about kwhich on RH6.2?

2001-01-03 Thread David S. Miller
swer? Alan? I do not understand, I just got a working 2.2.19-pre6 build on one of my 6.2 Sparc64 systems, what kind of failure do you see? Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: [RFC, PATCH] TLB flush changes for S/390

2001-01-03 Thread David S. Miller
MP tlb flushing traffic from vmscan runs is desirable, thus no flush. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.0 on sparc64 build problems

2001-01-05 Thread David S. Miller
The sparc64 config should never allow you to build the amd7930 and dbri sbus sound drivers, that is a bug, and I'll fix that. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.0 Kernel Fails to compile when CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP is selected

2001-01-05 Thread David S. Miller
You need to enable both CONNTRACK and full NAT in your configuration. Rusty, why doesn't the Config stuff just enforece this if it is necessary when enabling FTP support etc.? Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

Re: Error building 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-05 Thread David S. Miller
be more stringent and disallow illegal combinations such as this one. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.0 on sparc64 build problems

2001-01-05 Thread David S. Miller
.x fix came from a similar bug report from Horst von Brand :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: reset_xmit_timer errors with 2.4.0

2001-01-05 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:22:39 +0100 From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On/Dnia Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:52:52AM -0800, Patrick Michael Kane wrote > With 2.4.0 installed, I've started to see the following errors: > > reset_xmit_timer sk=cfd889a0 1 when=0x3b4a,

Re: 2.4.0 TCP SYN problem

2001-01-05 Thread David S. Miller
the problem? If so, please send a bug report to Sun telling them that they improperly discard IP packets using ECN. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-06 Thread David S. Miller
Unified diffs only please... Thanks. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch] single copy pipe rewrite

2001-01-06 Thread David S. Miller
multiple writers and it causes a BUG() in pipe_read() when data is stored in both the kiobuf and the normal buffer) A couple months ago David posted a revised version of his patch which fixed both these and some other problems. Most of the fixes were done by Alexey Kuznetsov. Later, D

Re: ip_conntrack locks up hard on 2.4.0 after about 10 hours

2001-01-06 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Sat, 06 Jan 2001 10:37:54 -0500 From: safemode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jan 6 06:18:10 icebox kernel: reset_xmit_timer sk=c17fd040 1 when=0x5d9e, caller=c01a6bf1 I posted a fix for this on Linux-kernel yesterday, had you tested it you would have seen at least this part of yo

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.0 Kernel Fails to compile when CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP is selected

2001-01-06 Thread David S. Miller
t to the pending IRC stuff, so you don't need to send me a fix for that under seperate cover). Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch] single copy pipe rewrite

2001-01-06 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 01:36:22 +0100 From: Manfred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do you still have that patch? I think so, see below. Was it posted to linux-kernel? Yes, it was. I just found a copy, enjoy: diff -ur ../vger3-001101/linux/fs/pipe.c linux/fs/pipe.c --- ../vger3-001101/linux/

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-06 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 21:06:54 -0700 From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David S. Miller" wrote: > > Unified diffs only please... Thanks. Hrm, here's one with a -u option, this what you're looking for? Yes, thanks a lot. Later, David

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-06 Thread David S. Miller
, check out the complex TCP hash tables we have :-) But if it's only a problem because of poorly implemented user applications, let's fix the apps instead of adding the complexity to the kernel. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-06 Thread David S. Miller
stify the patch. If only a forcefully created "benchmark" can show some performance problem, that is not an acceptable reason to champion this patch. Ok? Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [little bit OT] ip _IS_ _NOT_ ifconfig and route ! (was Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!))

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
has suggested to use "ip" exclusively, you will not invoke "ip" with the suggestion I am making. Ifconfig indirectly will, but you won't even notice nor should you care. They will be packaged together, so even that won't be an issue. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PRO

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
nterface so we can kill the : syntax in favor of the above which is cleaner of more accurately represents what is happening. If this is really true, 2.5.x is an appropriate time to make this, no sooner. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

[PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
ard, there should be a measurable performance boost for NFS clients with this patch due to the delayed fragment coalescing. KNFSD does not take full advantage of this facility yet. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH: "Nosuch process")

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
refore I suspect you are perhaps getting rather some form of memory corruption or similar, really, please search the networking code for ESRCH value usage, you will see. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (New Benchmarks)

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
en well supported by your tests :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH:"No such process")

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
st case program and the network device configuration you are using. Are you using netfilter? Are you using tunneling, these sorts of things. Basically, the things we would need need to know to be able to duplicate your precise setup here locally in hopes of triggering the problem ourselves. Later,

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-08 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:39:15 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> don't you think the writepage file operation is rather hackish? Not at all, it's simply direct sendfile support. It does not try to be any fancier than that. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL

[Linux-IrDA]Re: Delay in authentication.

2001-01-08 Thread David S. Miller
y seems like the classic "/etc/nsswitch.conf is told to look for YP servers and you are not using YP", so have a look and fix nsswitch.conf if this is in fact the problem. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-IrDA mailing list

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-08 Thread David S. Miller
o do with your driver, please comment". Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-08 Thread David S. Miller
applies. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-08 Thread David S. Miller
ands the Acenic much better than you, and you would be wise to work with Alexey and not against him. Thanks. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Delay in authentication.gy

2001-01-08 Thread David S. Miller
APIs that works similar to what is available under Linux to solve this problem. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Delay in authentication.

2001-01-08 Thread David S. Miller
ay for the "ICMP port unreachable" message coming back to be uniquely matched to that UDP socket. It can reset sockets illegally in high load scenerios. Solaris and other systems act identically. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-08 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:43:56 -0500 From: Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perhaps you missed it, but I believe Dave's intent is for this to only be a proof-of-concept idea at this time. Thank you Stephen, this is the point Jes continues to miss. Later, Davi

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread David S. Miller
w multiple pages to be passed in an array to the writepage(s) operation. He didn't like that, so I made it take only one page as he requested. He had no other major objections to the infrastructure. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread David S. Miller
ions, are the ones who are getting told that what they did was crap. What was the first thing out of people's mouths? Not "nice work", but "I think writepage is ugly and an eyesore, I hope nobody seriously considers this code for inclusion." Keep designing... like

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