Some suggestions on how to proceed on receive side:
1. support for distributing receive processing across multiple CPUs
(using NIC hw queues).
Multiple hw queues can be used to spread receive processing across CPUs;
this will eliminate main cpu% as a bottleneck for 10GbE performance.
Using a
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 02:45:32PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
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Subject: [RFC] Netlink subscription/multicasting.
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Hello, developers.
Here is some thoughts about netlink subscription/multicasting/group
number.
Hi
Hi Bart, Dave, Patrick,
attached is a patch that converts ebt_ulog to use the generic logging
mechanism (and thus be able to use the nfnetlink_log backend).
This patch breaks userspace compatibility, since the netlink message
format of nfnetlink_log is different than the ebt_ulog one. I cannot
Hi Dave!
This (long-awaited) patch adds the generic nfnetlink-based userspace
logging. nfnetlink_log can be used for any protocol family, and
supports upt to 65535 logging groups (that could go to separate logging
daemons, e.g.).
The patch is incremental to my nf_log update in
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Raise the sis190 driver from the dead
The driver handles the integrated network device found on SiS 965L
chipset. It follows the classical (non-napi) interrupt-driven model
and provides minimal ethtool support.
The code comes from a heavy cleanup/rewrite of the original code
which was removed
add MAINTAINER entry
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -puN MAINTAINERS~sis190-030 MAINTAINERS
--- a/MAINTAINERS~sis190-0302005-07-30 00:19:20.813860702 +0200
+++ b/MAINTAINERS 2005-07-30 00:19:20.838856650 +0200
@@ -2080,6 +2080,12 @@ M: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
W:
Merge some register related information from SiS driver.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -puN drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-040 drivers/net/sis190.c
--- a/drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-040 2005-07-30 00:19:21.869689520 +0200
+++ b/drivers/net/sis190.c 2005-07-30
netconsole support.
This stuff should be factored out of every driver.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -puN drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-010 drivers/net/sis190.c
--- a/drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-010 2005-07-30 00:19:18.700203392 +0200
+++ b/drivers/net/sis190.c
ethtool/mii support
Bug: disabling autonegotiation and setting the link parameters at the
same time does not provide the expected result. More investigation is
needed.
Note: past the initial probe/open time, the link is managed from user-space
or accessed through sis190_phy_task, i.e. in a
Add a dummy read before accessing the status register
SiS driver suggests it.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -puN drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-110 drivers/net/sis190.c
--- a/drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-110 2005-07-30 00:19:29.392469845 +0200
+++ b/drivers/net/sis190.c
New PHY detection code.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -puN drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-120 drivers/net/sis190.c
--- a/drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-120 2005-07-30 00:19:30.442299636 +0200
+++ b/drivers/net/sis190.c 2005-07-30 00:19:30.466295745 +0200
@@ -43,6 +43,10
Added PHY identifier for the Asus K8S-MX motherboard
Note: the same ID appears in the sis900 driver.
Signed-off-by: Lars Vahlenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -puN drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-130 drivers/net/sis190.c
---
Add endian annotations.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -puN drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-090 drivers/net/sis190.c
--- a/drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-090 2005-07-30 00:19:27.289810751 +0200
+++ b/drivers/net/sis190.c
Allow a non-hardcoded ID for the PHY
This is the first step before the driver probes for the PHY address.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -puN drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-100 drivers/net/sis190.c
--- a/drivers/net/sis190.c~sis190-100 2005-07-30 00:19:28.341640217 +0200
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 12:23:05PM +0200, Harald Welte ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 02:45:32PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
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Subject: [RFC] Netlink subscription/multicasting.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, developers.
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
As Patrik mentioned, it was not on the top of his TODO list,
so some discussion about possible directions will not hurt any
development process.
I'm still working on it, I hope to be able to post some code and some
comments on your code tonight.
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Hi Dave!
This fixes a bug with MASQUERADE and nat helpers. The fix applies to
both net-2.6.14 and Linus' current git tree.
I'll send a 2.4.31 version of the patch directly to Marcelo (will Cc
you).
Please apply, thanks.
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Hi Marcelo!
Pleae apply the following trivial fix to your 2.4.x tree. I've already
submitted a 2.6.x fix for this to davem.
Thanks!
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From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EXPORT_SYMTAB does nothing. There's no need to define something if it
doesn't have any effect.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: netdev-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.c
This set of patches updates Host AP driver in the ieee80211-wifi
branch of the netdev-2.6 git tree with changes from my CVS repository
and from additional contributed patches from the past couple of
months. Please apply to the suitable branch(es) in netdev-2.6.
--
Jouni Malinen
Add MODULE_VERSION information for the Host AP kernel modules and
update the version string to indicate which version of the external
Host AP driver is included in the kernel tree.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: netdev-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.c
Added support for setting channel mask for scan requests
('iwpriv wlan0 scan_channels 0x00ff' masks scans to use channels 1-8).
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: netdev-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_common.h
From: Brandon Enochs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
line 129 of hostap_80211_rx.c should read:
LWNG_SETVAL(mactime, 2, 0, 4, rx_stats-mac_time);
not:
LWNG_SETVAL(mactime, 2, 0, 0, rx_stats-mac_time);
The length field is incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index:
Cleaned up scan result processing by converting struct
hfa384x_scan_result into struct hfa384x_hostscan_result. This removes
special cases from result processing since the results are only used
in one, hostscan, format.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index:
Applied patches 1-15 to the new 'sis190' branch of netdev-2.6.git.
Jeff
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:46:13 +0100
Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, its your favourite bug reporter again ;)
A Gentoo user (on CC) has reported many of these messages appearing:
skge ignoring bogus sensor interrups
They appear so frequently that 3GB of logs are generated
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:51:00PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
gcc found an (although perhaps harmless) bug:
CC net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.o
In file included from net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.c:21:
include/net/ieee80211.h:26:5: warning: WIRELESS_EXT is not defined
+++
Jouni Malinen wrote:
Wouldn't the proper fix be to just remove this backwards compatibility
code since WIRELESS_EXT is actually 18 in this tree anyway.. Is there
valid need to keep this header file compatible with older kernel
versions?
Nope. Ripping out such back-compat code would be quite
From: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:27:02 +0200
I double-checked, but couldn't find any problems in this patch. Do these
problems occur with IPv4 or IPv6?
False alarm, it turns out it was likely due to some bogus
change an x86_64 merge introduced into the -mm
Preparations for starting to use net/ieee80211 instead of private
IEEE 802.11 implementation. Include net/ieee80211.h and
net/ieee80211_crypt.h into files that will be needed these in the
future. Remove duplicate definitions from hostap_common.h and
rename WLAN_FC_GET_{TYPE,STYPE} macros for now
From: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:32:26 +0200
[NETFILTER] Add refcounting and /proc/net/netfilter interface to
nfnetlink_queue
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applied, thanks Harald.
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From: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:03:53 +0200
attached is a patch that converts ebt_ulog to use the generic logging
mechanism (and thus be able to use the nfnetlink_log backend).
This patch breaks userspace compatibility, since the netlink message
format of
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:15:23 -0300
Please consider pulling from:
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.14-2.git
All pulled, three comments:
1) Consider renaming sk_setup_caps() to __sk_setup_caps() since
On 7/31/05, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:15:23 -0300
Please consider pulling from:
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.14-2.git
All pulled, three comments:
Applied both patches to 'ieee80211-wifi' branch.
Your patch format was just fine, too. applymbox (in git/tools)
slurped your patches correctly.
NOTE: I don't want to push the updated branch to kernel.org just yet,
in case Linus pulls [because we don't want to surprise him with
unexpected
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