Re: [PATCH 4/4]: Kill fastpath_{skb,cnt}_hint.

2007-03-03 Thread Baruch Even
* David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070303 08:22]: BTW, I think I figured out a way to get rid of lost_{skb,cnt}_hint. The fact of the matter in this case is that the setting of the tag bits always propagates from front of the queue onward. We don't get holes mid-way. So what we can do is

Re: [PATCH] spidernet: Fix problem sending IP fragments

2007-03-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Geoff, I suspect gelic_net might have the same problem... Cheers, Ben. On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 18:39 +0100, Norbert Eicker wrote: On Fri 2.3.2007 00:34, Linas Vepstas wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:52:54PM -0600, Chris Engel wrote: I tried to apply this patch to 2.6.21-rc2 and CHECKSUM_HW

Re: [PATCH] ehea: Optional TX/RX path optimized for SMP

2007-03-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 04:06 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Jan-Bernd Themann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any concerns about this approach? Yes. You should fix the NAPI code instead of trying to work around it. NAPI is being fixed but the fix will take time to get in. In the meantime,

Re: Extensible hashing and RCU

2007-03-03 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:45:36PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 3/2/07, Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for this report. (Still avoiding cache misses studies, while they obviously are the limiting factor) 1) The entire point of going to a

Re: [PATCH 4/4]: Kill fastpath_{skb,cnt}_hint.

2007-03-03 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, David Miller wrote: From: Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:13:40 +0200 One drawback for this approach is that you now walk the entire sack block when you advance one packet. If you consider a 10,000 packet queue which had several losses at the

Re: [PATCH] bridge: avoid ptype_all packet handling

2007-03-03 Thread Stefan Rompf
Am Freitag, 2. März 2007 22:26 schrieb David Miller: The DHCP client should only care about a particular interface's traffic, the one it wants to listen on. Also, a DHCP client should close the socket between address acquisition and renewal. The only interesting events in that period are

Re: [PATCH 4/4]: Kill fastpath_{skb,cnt}_hint.

2007-03-03 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, David Miller wrote: From: Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:13:40 +0200 One drawback for this approach is that you now walk the entire sack block when you advance one packet. If you consider a 10,000

Re: [PATCH] bridge: avoid ptype_all packet handling

2007-03-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:22:11PM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03 Mar 2007 03:14:29 +0100 That's pretty common with many x86 server boards because they come with two NICs by default but must people only plug the cable into one. However the distro

Re: anthropology of linux: help needed

2007-03-03 Thread Roel Bindels
m a a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ac uk schreef: Hello, This is a rather strange e-mail for these mailing lists, I know. I am a third year Social Anthropology student in the University of Durham doing my dissertation (thesis) on the Anthropology of GNU/Linux. I would really appreciate if you could

Re: [patch] at76_usb wireless driver

2007-03-03 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, I'd be glad if someone could review the at76_usb wireless driver, it adds support for the at76c503, at76c505 and at76c505a wireless USB adapters. Since it exceeds the lists size limit, please git-clone http://honk.sigxcpu.org/git/at76c503a.git/ The projects homepage is:

Re: [patch] at76_usb wireless driver

2007-03-03 Thread Johannes Berg
Pavel should know better and have told you that wireless got it's own list ;) Quoting fully to make linux-wireless aware. I guess we'll want to take out netdev on replies to this. johannes On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 16:00 +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: Hi, I'd be glad if someone could review the

Re: [patch] at76_usb wireless driver

2007-03-03 Thread Johannes Berg
Looks pretty good, a few more comments. KEVENT_* constants and functions are really really confusing when the kevent subsystem is being discussed on netdev all the time. They're also quite meaningless, please rename them to something like AT76_DEVEVENT_* or whatever. While at that, the kevent()

Re: SWS for rcvbuf MTU

2007-03-03 Thread John Heffner
David Miller wrote: From: John Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:16:39 -0500 Please don't apply the patch I sent. I've been thinking about this a bit harder, and it may not fix this particular problem. (Hard to say without knowing exactly what it is.) As the comment above

Re: [PATCH][BUG][SECURITY] Re: Weird problem with PPPoE on tap interface

2007-03-03 Thread Florian Zumbiehl
Hi, From: Florian Zumbiehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:38:44 +0100 As noone seems to have an opinion on this: Here is a patch that does work for me and that should solve the problem as far as that is easily possible. It is based on the assumption that an interface's

Wifi support for iproute2

2007-03-03 Thread Stephan Maka
Hello I've always felt uncomfortable by the usability of the wireless-tools (iwconfig, iwlist), but I really love iproute2. That's why I started to implement ip wifi. My GIT tree is located at: http://cthulhu.c3d2.de/~astro/git/iproute2.git/ I wonder if this has a chance to get merged in

Session ID 0 with PPPoE

2007-03-03 Thread Florian Zumbiehl
Hi, I noticed that the PPPoE code doesn't allow session id 0x to be used for an actual session but rather considers 0 a special value denoting that the socket is unbound. Now, when reading RFC 2516, I couldn't really find anything that would forbid 0x as a session id. Only 0x is

Re: Wifi support for iproute2

2007-03-03 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 02:26:53 +0100 Stephan Maka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've always felt uncomfortable by the usability of the wireless-tools (iwconfig, iwlist), but I really love iproute2. That's why I started to implement ip wifi. My GIT tree is located at:

Re: Session ID 0 with PPPoE

2007-03-03 Thread David Miller
From: Florian Zumbiehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 03:30:00 +0100 I noticed that the PPPoE code doesn't allow session id 0x to be used for an actual session but rather considers 0 a special value denoting that the socket is unbound. Now, when reading RFC 2516, I couldn't really

Re: [PATCH][BUG][SECURITY] Re: Weird problem with PPPoE on tap interface

2007-03-03 Thread David Miller
From: Florian Zumbiehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 02:55:16 +0100 Below you find a slightly changed version of the patch I already applied your first patch, so if you have any fixes to submit please provide them as relative patches to your original change. Thank you. - To

VPN vs. conntrack

2007-03-03 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Dear All: Our IS/IT in their infinite wisdom made us to switch from ESP to UDP encapsulation for the VPN. It worked ok for a while, but the following seems to happen now (not sure how recently it started, sorry). At first, everything works fine. A VPN client sends its packets through a