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2016-09-15 Thread Jones
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Re: Max number of TCP sessions

2006-11-16 Thread Rick Jones
tions as to the number of 10 KByte/s connections you could support. It would be a bit of handwaving, but give yourself say a 20% pad and you'll probably be OK. rick jones > > Kind Regards > > James > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe n

Re: network devices don't handle pci_dma_mapping_error()'s

2006-12-06 Thread Rick Jones
east one of your DMA allocation retries succeed. While tossing a TCP|UDP|SCTP|etc packet could be plusungood, especially if the IOMMU fills frequently (for some suitable definiton of frequently), is it really worth the effort to save say an ACK? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down

2006-12-20 Thread Rick Jones
packets queued What implications does c have for something like tcpdump? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Network card IRQ balancing with Intel 5000 series chipsets

2007-01-02 Thread Rick Jones
nt paths through the system. No issues about reordering, but perhaps some on cache lines going hither and yon. The question boils down to - Should the application (via the scheduler) dictate where its connections are processed, or should the connections dictate where the application runs? rick jon

Re: Network card IRQ balancing with Intel 5000 series chipsets

2007-01-02 Thread Rick Jones
for load, not the number of interrupts. (for network interrupts obviously) And hopefully some knowledge of NUMA so it doesn't "balance" the interrupts of a NIC to some far-off (topology-wise) CPU... rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netd

Re: Two Dual Core processors and NICS (not handling interrupts on one CPU/assigning a Two Dual Core processors and NICS (not handling interrupts on one CPU / assigning a CPU to a NIC)

2007-01-16 Thread Rick Jones
the topologically closest CPU. (Not that some irqbalancer programs recognize that just yet :) Now, if both CPU0 and CPU1 are saturated it might make sense to put some interrupts on 2 and/or 3. One of those fun "it depends" situations. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-11-06 Thread Rick Jones
Jay - So, where do you and I stand wrt the proposed changes to bonding.txt? Are we at an impass? sincerely, rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: bizarre network timing problem

2007-11-06 Thread Rick Jones
Felix von Leitner wrote: Thus spake Rick Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Past performance is no guarantee of current correctness :) And over an Ethernet, there will be a very different set of both timings and TCP segment sizes compared to loopback. My guess is that you will find setting the lo

Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-11-06 Thread Rick Jones
Jay Vosburgh wrote: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, where do you and I stand wrt the proposed changes to bonding.txt? Are we at an impass? Nope, I'm doing a doc update next to incorporate several things, the reordering stuff included (which I plan to change

Re: [PATCH] bonding: Documentation update

2007-11-14 Thread Rick Jones
support 802.3ad. 8. Where does a bonding device get its MAC address from? Not part of your change, but since you are editing the section, drop the "from" in the section title, or perhaps put it at the beginning so we don't have a dangling whatchamacallit. rick jones - To unsu

Re: [PATCH 10/13] tg3: Increase the PCI MRRS

2007-11-15 Thread Rick Jones
the current value of the MRRS get displayed in lspci output? It wouldn't be a slam dunk, but if someone were looking at that and saw the value large they might make an educated guess. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH] LRO ack aggregation

2007-11-20 Thread Rick Jones
. In some experiements a while back I thought I saw that LRO on the receiver was causing him to send fewer ACKs already? IIRC that was with a Myricom card, perhaps I was fooled by it's own ACK LRO it was doing. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev

Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.

2007-11-21 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:43:06AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > There seems to be rough consensus that the kernel currently has too many > exported symbols. A lot of these exports are generally usable utility > functions or important driver interfaces; but another large part are > functions

Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.

2007-11-27 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:25:33AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > 1) Why is everyone so concerned that export symbol space is large? > - does it cost cpu or running memory? > - does it cause bugs? > - or are you just worried about "evil modules"? To clarify something here,

Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.

2007-11-27 Thread Rick Jones
The real problem is that these drivers are not in the upstream kernel. Are there common reasons why these drivers are not upstream? One might be that upstream has not accepted them. Anything doing or smelling of TOE comes to mind right away. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.

2007-11-27 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:09:42PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:00:37PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:25:33AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > > 1) Why is everyone so concerned that expo

Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.

2007-11-27 Thread Rick Jones
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:15:23PM -0800, Rick Jones wrote: The real problem is that these drivers are not in the upstream kernel. Are there common reasons why these drivers are not upstream? One might be that upstream has not accepted them. Anything doing or smelling

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-30 Thread Rick Jones
Could the corruption be seen in a tcpdump trace prior to transmission (ie taken on the sender) or was it only seen after the data passed out the NIC? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majo

Re: e1000 driver problems

2007-12-04 Thread Rick Jones
us, one at a time request/response, never tries to have both sides talking at the same time. Finally, when/if you migrate to 1000Base-T, everything has to be set to auto-neg anyway. rick jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a messa

delay via-rhine irq initialisation.

2007-12-11 Thread Dave Jones
r the alloc_tbufs(), but I feel if a real interrupt occured, this diff would stand more chance of doing the right thing. Comments? Dave Delay irq registration until after we've allocated ring buffers, otherwise DEBUG_SHIRQ will complain. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [RFC] ehea: kdump support using new shutdown hook

2007-12-12 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:53:43PM +0100, Thomas Klein wrote: > +static void ehea_update_adapter_handles(struct ehea_adapter *adapter) > +{ > +int i, k; > +int j = 0; > + > +memset(adapter->res_handles, sizeof(adapter->res_handles), 0); arguments wrong way around. Dave

Re: Scaling Max IP address limitation

2007-06-24 Thread David Jones
Robert Iakobashvili wrote: Hi, On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:20:01 -0500 David Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to add multiple IP addresses ( v6 ) to my FC7 box on eth0. > But I am hitting a max limit of 4000 IP address . Seems like there is a > limiting variable

Re: Scaling Max IP address limitation

2007-06-25 Thread David Jones
Ok I have tried it on a Pentium-M ( 32 Bit ,) with 512 MB RAM and Core 2 Duo with 1Gig RAM ( running SMP kernel , 2 CPUS) with same results. Cant go more than ~4K addresses. I have tried them with vanilla and custom kernels all 2.6.19+ versions. Results are same on both systems , so thats th

Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-25 Thread Rick Jones
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 02:00:07PM -0700, Rick Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Simple test included test -> desktop and vice versa traffic with 128 and 4096 block size in netperf-2.4.3 setup. Is that in conjunction with setting the test-specific -D to set TCP_NODE

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc5] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable

2007-06-25 Thread Rick Jones
upper bound on the RTO, and wouldn't deal with non-machine-local link failover. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

a maze of twisty stats, most different

2007-06-27 Thread Rick Jones
of ethtool, and I've just not seen it? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: a maze of twisty stats, most different

2007-06-28 Thread Rick Jones
Chris Snook wrote: Rick Jones wrote: It seems that every driver, when providing support for ethtool -S functionality, has considerable lattitude when it comes to the stats provided. Clearly this is very nice for the driver writer(s) as it allows them to provide whatever stats they feel are

Re: a maze of twisty stats, most different

2007-06-28 Thread Rick Jones
e be having the drivers stick stats in multiple places? Or are we back to wanting drivers to have a common set of stats they keep? rick jones unafraid to show his ignorance of how things work, and how :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body o

Re: [E1000-devel] e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?

2007-07-02 Thread Rick Jones
quot; (ee el kay) - applying that same "telephone" game (consistency? nah) to e1000 to get e1k, which if you look at it quickly enough looks like elk. OK, that's half in jest, but only half. I may be wrong, but I don't think I've seen anyone shortening the current e1000

Re: L2 network namespaces + macvlan performances

2007-07-09 Thread Rick Jones
sub-MSS send. When Nagle is involved, things can be very timing-sensitive, change the timing ever so slightly and you can have a rather larger change in throughput. That could be dealt-with either with the larger send sizes mentioned above, or by adding a test-specific -D option to set TCP_NODEL

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable (take 2)

2007-07-12 Thread Rick Jones
Does that pretty much sum it up? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable (take 2)

2007-07-12 Thread Rick Jones
, that would cause RTO to be 1second. I suspect that what is happening here is that a link goes down in a trunk somewhere for some number of seconds, resulting in a given TCP segment being retransmitted several times, with the doubling of the RTO each time. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable (take 2)

2007-07-12 Thread Rick Jones
contexts, the general answer is that the device failover time is fixed, and the application layer time is similarly constrained by end-user expectation/requirement. Often as not, layer 8 and 9 issues tend to dominate and expect to trump (in this case layer 4 issues). rick jones - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable (take 2)

2007-07-13 Thread Rick Jones
Ilpo Järvinen wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Rick Jones wrote: One question is why the RTO gets so large that it limits failover? If Linux TCP is working correctly, RTO should be srtt + 2*rttvar So either there is a huge srtt or variance, or something is going wrong with RTT estimation

Re: [PATCH 0/1] ixgbe: Support for Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters - Take #2

2007-07-23 Thread Rick Jones
average latency. That is also in top of trunk, otherwise, for 2.4.3 you can skip that and do the math to conver to megabits/s yourself and not get all the other derived values. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message

specifying scopid's for link-local IPv6 addrs

2007-07-23 Thread Rick Jones
tures. Is this a requirement which might be expected to remain in the future, or is it something which might just go away? That will have an effect on netperf future development. thanks, rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a mes

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable (take 2)

2007-07-23 Thread Rick Jones
David Miller wrote: From: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:55:10 -0700 Fine, but so? I suspect the point of the patch is to provide a lower cap on the accumulated backoff so data starts flowing over the connection within that lower cap once the link is restored/

Re: specifying scopid's for link-local IPv6 addrs

2007-07-24 Thread Rick Jones
NET6 to fe80::207:43ff:fe05:9d%2 (fe80::207:43ff:fe05:9d) port 0 AF_INET6 : +/-2.5% @ 99% conf. Cool - it establishes the data connection just fine. To further demonstrate my ignorance :) is that %n suffix something one might expect in most/all getaddrinfo()'s or is that unique to th

Re: specifying scopid's for link-local IPv6 addrs

2007-07-24 Thread Rick Jones
Well, I spoke too soon - while it got me past my EINVAL, the connection establishement timed-out. Either I picked the wrong value for n, or I may yet need to make some tweaks to netperf. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a mes

Re: [PATCH 0/1] ixgbe: Support for Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters - Take #2

2007-07-26 Thread Rick Jones
Thanks for the feedback Rick. We haven't used the netperf trunk. The person who actually got these numbers will be trying the netperf trunk little later and we will post the results.. Just in case someone has top-of-trunk worries, the basic single-stream, bidirectional stuff is in the 2.4.3 rel

Re: RFC: on [ab]use of skb->cb by VLAN code

2007-07-31 Thread Rick Jones
While that doesn't break the bitbank it does get rather close. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24]S2io: Default to IntA interrupt type when there are less than 4 CPUs in the system.

2007-08-10 Thread Rick Jones
conditions change. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Driver writer hints (was [PATCH 3/4] Add ETHTOOL_[GS]PFLAGS sub-ioctls)

2007-08-10 Thread Rick Jones
ignored. (i.e. a list of 5 strings is returned, but bit 24 is set) Is that to enable "hidden" bits? If not I'd think that emitting some sort of "UNKNOWN_FLAG" might help flush-out little oopses like forgetting a string. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add ETHTOOL_[GS]FLAGS sub-ioctls

2007-08-10 Thread Rick Jones
enabled by default? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding

2007-05-01 Thread Rick Jones
Loic Prylli wrote: On 4/30/2007 2:12 PM, Rick Jones wrote: Speaking of defaults, it would seem that the external 1.2.0 driver comes with 9000 bytes as the default MTU? At least I think that is what I am seeing now that I've started looking more closely. rick jones That's th

Re: [PATCH 10/11][TG3]: Reduce spurious interrupts.

2007-05-07 Thread Rick Jones
On how "topologically big" a system has this resurrection of the PIO read been tried so far? rick jones ever the paranoid :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.

Re: [PATCH 10/11][TG3]: Reduce spurious interrupts.

2007-05-07 Thread Rick Jones
Michael Chan wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 09:39 -0700, Rick Jones wrote: On how "topologically big" a system has this resurrection of the PIO read been tried so far? If you're asking how much impact the read will have on performance, the answer is that it will depend

smp_affinity, MSI-X and 2.6.21.1

2007-05-07 Thread Rick Jones
Folks - Is it a bug, or a feature that after changing a device's smp_affinity via echo "N" >> /proc/irq/M/smp_affinity that the new mask isn't visible via cat /proc/irq/M/smp_affinity until after actual interrupts are taken? rick jones - To unsubscribe fro

Re: smp_affinity, MSI-X and 2.6.21.1

2007-05-07 Thread Rick Jones
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 13:53 -0700, Rick Jones wrote: Folks - Is it a bug, or a feature that after changing a device's smp_affinity via echo "N" >> /proc/irq/M/smp_affinity that the new mask isn't visible via cat /proc/irq/M/smp_affinity unt

a wrinkle to consider when benchmarking with LRO

2007-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
good ACK avoidance heuristics - I just wanted to make sure this behaviour I was seeing was on the record somewhere as it may not be obvious to everyone. happy benchmarking, rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to

Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

2007-05-10 Thread Rick Jones
small sends, which suggests that they would be coalesced either implicitly by the Nagle algorithm or explicitly with TCP_CORK no? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

2007-05-10 Thread Rick Jones
Vlad Yasevich wrote: Rick Jones wrote: It is the reverse - GSO will segment one super-packet just before calling the driver so that the stack is traversed only once. In my case, I am trying to send out multiple skbs, possibly small packets, in one shot. GSO will not help for small packets

Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

2007-05-10 Thread Rick Jones
gments and then dropping the others, thus transmitting IP datagrams which had no hope of being reassembled into anything other than frankengrams. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

2007-05-10 Thread Rick Jones
jamal wrote: The discussion seems to have steered into protocol coalescing. My tests for example were related to forwarding and not specific to any protocol. Just the natural tendency of end-system types to think of end-system things rather than router things. rick jones - To unsubscribe

Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

2007-05-10 Thread Rick Jones
er" queue develops in the first place wouldn't one? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

2007-05-10 Thread Rick Jones
10.20. OK, I promise no more old HP-UX stories for the balance of the week :) Taking some count of the list might be a triffle too complicated. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More maj

Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

2007-05-10 Thread Rick Jones
r next qdisc skb, as a cache line miss is far more expensive than a locked operation (if lock already in L1 cache of course) Might they not build on on top of the other? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [E

Re: [patch] ip_local_port_range sysctl has annoying default

2007-05-14 Thread Rick Jones
.route.flush' net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 3276861000 I cannot imagine there is anything "safer" about 61000 than 63355. They both have that "sign-bit" set. While it is "security through obscurity" having the same default port range as other platforms wo

Re: [patch] ip_local_port_range sysctl has annoying default

2007-05-14 Thread Rick Jones
Note that the high-order bit is set for all ports above 32768, so this dragon would be stepped on pretty badly by Linux's default (and indeed, the default for most OS's). However, by "the very top", I think he was referring to the range 61000-65535, not all ports from 32768 up. Alan Cox clarifie

Re: smp_affinity, MSI-X and 2.6.21.1

2007-05-15 Thread Rick Jones
/proc/irq/69/smp_affinity ,0004 hpcpc106:~/s2io-2.0.19-8893# cat /proc/interrupts | grep 69 69: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI eth2:MSI-X-6-RX It would be nice if this could find its way into the kernel at some point - 2.6.23 or 2.6.24 perhaps? rick jones -An

Re: [PATCH] e1000: Fix msi enable leak on error, don't print error message, cleanup

2007-05-16 Thread Rick Jones
o remain over time and aren't there times when it does indeed mean that someone should be looking into it? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH] e1000: Fix msi enable leak on error, don't print error message, cleanup

2007-05-16 Thread Rick Jones
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Rick Jones wrote: Some more of my paranoid questions :) So, if a driver tries to enable MSI and that is unsuccessful (I'll try to avoid using the possibly loaded term "fails") shouldn't that show-up _somewhere_? It already does -- in /proc/inter

Re: [PATCH] e1000: Fix msi enable leak on error, don't print error message, cleanup

2007-05-16 Thread Rick Jones
Jeff Garzik wrote: Rick Jones wrote: But that is rather incidental isn't it? Would some sort of system health monitor be likely to be checking that for interrupt flavors? And Well, that's where the information is exported in a standard way. I hope you're not suggestin

Re: PROBLEM: SIS900 Driver change in Linux Kernel 2.6.21 causes kernel panic.

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:33:18PM -0700, - wrote: > Kernel version 2.6.20.4 works. What I'm experiencing is a kernel panic as > soon as the first received packet comes in via the sis900 ethernet > interface. The machine is locked up and part of the kernel panic message > is lost as it has sc

Correct rp_filter help text.

2007-05-17 Thread Dave Jones
As mentioned in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5015 The helptext implies that this is on by default. This may be true on some distros (Fedora/RHEL have it enabled in /etc/sysctl.conf), but the kernel defaults to it off. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git

Re: [PATCH] [TCP] Sysctl: document tcp_max_ssthresh (Limited Slow-Start)

2007-05-18 Thread Rick Jones
nds of segments (or more) per RTT via the traditional slow-start procedures. This might degrade TCP performance when packet losses start to occur. With limited slow-start, TCP increments the congestion window by at most tcp_max_ssthresh/2 segments per RTT when the congestion window is is above

Re: [PATCH] e1000: Don't enable polling in open() (was: e1000: assertion hit in e1000_clean(), kernel 2.6.21.1)

2007-05-21 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:51:35PM -0700, Auke Kok wrote: > Herbert Xu wrote: > "netif_poll_enable can only be called if you've previously called > netif_poll_disable. Otherwise a poll might already be in action > and you may get a crash like this." > > Removing the call to netif_poll_enabl

Re: [PATCH] e1000: Don't enable polling in open() (was: e1000: assertion hit in e1000_clean(), kernel 2.6.21.1)

2007-05-21 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:58:27PM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: > >> This probably doesn't solve the latter bug. > >> The code you reference isn't there in the kernel tested in that bug > >> (2.6.21) In 2.6.21, netif_poll_enable is only called from > >> e1000_up(), not e1000_open() > > > > Yes

Re: Socket hangs in read() when putting interface down

2007-06-05 Thread Rick Jones
NET, SOCK_STREAM although I suppose it could be SCTP) rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Remove incorrect comment from hamradio/scc.

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Jones
scc_rxint doesn't call this function at all. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8146 Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/scc.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/scc.c index 6fdaad5..30bed2a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/scc.c +++ b/

typo in via-velocity.c

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Jones
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8160 Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c index 25b75b6..b670b97 100644 --- a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c +++ b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c @@ -1562,7 +1562,7 @@ stati

Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

2007-06-06 Thread Rick Jones
> RX queues - yes, I can see; TX queues, it doesnt make sense to put different rings on different CPUs. To what extent might that preclude some cachelines bouncing hither and yon between the CPUs? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev"

Re: warnings in git-wireless

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:04:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > There _should_ be some #ifdeffable thing which is being passed to cpp when > we run sparse (but I'm not sure what it is). #ifdef __CHECKER__ (See include/linux/compiler.h, this is how we implement __user & friends) Dave

Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-08 Thread Rick Jones
really is. So, for aggregate tests using netperf2, one has to calculate service demand by hand. Sum the throughput as KB/s, convert the CPU util and number of CPUs to a microseconds of CPU consumed per second and divide to get microseconds per KB for the aggregate. rick jones - To unsubscri

Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-08 Thread Rick Jones
eal with that a little would be to increase SO_SNDBUF in netperf with the -s option. That at least is something I did back in 2.4 days rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-08 Thread Rick Jones
jamal wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-06 at 10:27 -0700, Rick Jones wrote: [..] you cannot take the netperf service demand directly - each netperf is calculating assuming that it is the only thing running on the system. It then ass-u-me-s that the CPU util it measured was all for its work. This

Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

2007-06-13 Thread Rick Jones
I'm starting to wonder how a multi-queue NIC differs from a bunch of bonded single-queue NICs, and if there is leverage opportunity there. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordom

Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-21 Thread Rick Jones
ELAY, or was Nagle left-on? If the latter, perhaps timing issues could be why the confidence intervals weren't hit since the relative batching of 128byte sends into larger segments is something of a race. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: [PATCH 2/6] e1000e: remove namespace collisions with e1000

2007-08-14 Thread Rick Jones
1e or e1ke or heck, even elke if one wanted to be a triffle playful would certainly help distinguish this driver from its grandfather. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More maj

Re: [PATCH] [IPv6]: Invalid semicolon after if statement

2007-08-15 Thread Dave Jones
t the entire tree for these > things :-))) Indeed. Here's another one. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_u32.c b/net/netfilter/xt_u32.c index 74f9b14..bec4279 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/xt_u32.c +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_u32.c @@ -36

lockdep report in the bonding code.

2007-08-16 Thread Dave Jones
A Fedora users reported this against our 2.6.23-rc3 build Dave NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.1.3 (June 13, 2007) bonding: MII link monitoring set to 100 ms ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): bond0: link is not ready bonding: bond0

e1000 autotuning doesn't get along with itself

2007-08-16 Thread Rick Jones
least not during a netperf TCP_RR test. Does anyone else see this? To try to eliminate netperf demo mode I re-ran without it and got the same end results. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More maj

Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCPportsfrom the host TCP port space.

2007-08-20 Thread Rick Jones
% in the second. So, in broad handwaving terms, TSO increased the per-transaction service demand by something along the lines of (23.27 - 17.67)/17.67 or ~30% and the transaction rate decreased by ~6%. rick jones bitrate blindless is a constant concern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: [PATCH 0/9 Rev3] Implement batching skb API and support in IPoIB

2007-08-22 Thread Rick Jones
stuff I posted recently) being rather worse with TSO enabled than with it disabled? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: UDPv4 port allocation problem

2007-08-23 Thread Rick Jones
. rick jones Is the current behaviour intended? Regards, Laszlo Attila Toth - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH 0/9 Rev3] Implement batching skb API and support in IPoIB

2007-08-23 Thread Rick Jones
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Re: [PATCH 0/9 Rev3] Implement batching skb API and support in IPoIB

2007-08-24 Thread Rick Jones
A current hot topic of research is reducing the number of ACK's to make TCP work better over asymmetric links like 3G. Oy. People running Solaris and HP-UX have been "researching" ACK reductions since 1997 if not earlier. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface

2007-08-24 Thread Rick Jones
. The "send a request, wait for reply, send next request, etc etc etc" is a rather common application behaviour afterall. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH 0/9 Rev3] Implement batching skb API and support in IPoIB

2007-08-24 Thread Rick Jones
Bill Fink wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Rick Jones wrote: jamal wrote: [TSO already passed - iirc, it has been demostranted to really not add much to throughput (cant improve much over closeness to wire speed) but improve CPU utilization]. In the one gig space sure, but in the 10 Gig space

Re: [PATCH 0/9 Rev3] Implement batching skb API and support in IPoIB

2007-08-27 Thread Rick Jones
tion on the receiver. I don't know if it can account for all the difference you see. I had completely forgotten these stretch ACK and ucopy issues. ISTR that LRO will induce stretch ACKs as well. Not that I dislike fewer ACKs mind you... :) rick jones - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: pktgen terminating condition

2007-08-28 Thread Rick Jones
is release. Yes, but for what definition of finite? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: pktgen terminating condition

2007-08-28 Thread Rick Jones
I don't even understand why this needs to be discussed to be honest with you :-) Just my (possibly frustrating :) habit of asking questions which help further my understanding of the code :) rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" i

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable (take 2)

2007-08-29 Thread Rick Jones
sort of call-back to TCP or the like. If this failover is out in the middle of the cloud the only way to get a notification back to TCP would be by sending it a packet of some sort and I don't see that happening. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

[PATCH] make _minimum_ TCP retransmission timeout configurable

2007-08-29 Thread Rick Jones
Enable configuration of the minimum TCP Retransmission Timeout via a new sysctl "tcp_rto_min" to help those who's networks (eg cellular) have quite variable RTTs avoid spurrious RTOs. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Lamont Jones <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] make _minimum_ TCP retransmission timeout configurable

2007-08-29 Thread Rick Jones
lue (in MS) for TCP_RTO_MIN. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH] make _minimum_ TCP retransmission timeout configurable

2007-08-29 Thread Rick Jones
I am sure you can use CTL_UNNUMBERED instead of adding yet another sysctl value, as advised in include/linux/sysctl.h ** For new interfaces unless you really need a binary number ** please use CTL_UNNUMBERED. fair enough. i was just repeating past behaviour :) rick jones - To

Re: [PATCH] make _minimum_ TCP retransmission timeout configurable

2007-08-29 Thread Rick Jones
David Miller wrote: From: "Ian McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:32:38 +1200 So I'm suspecting that the default should be changed to 1000 to match the RFC which would solve this issue. I note that the RFC is a SHOULD rather than a MUST. I had a quick look around and not s

Re: [PATCH] make _minimum_ TCP retransmission timeout configurable

2007-08-29 Thread Rick Jones
From what I've seen thusfar, the issue isn't so much actual loss, but very variable RTTs leading to spurrious RTOs. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at ht

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