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 the same

Re: [ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding

2007-04-30 Thread Rick Jones
What version of the myri10ge driver is this? With the 1.2.0 version that comes with the 2.6.20.7 kernel, there is no myri10ge_lro module parameter. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modinfo myri10ge | grep -i lro [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# And I've been testing IP forwarding using two Myricom 10-GigE NICs

Re: [ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding

2007-04-30 Thread Rick Jones
David Miller wrote: From: Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:48:00 -0700 No problem - just to play whatif/devil's advocate for a bit though... is there any way to tie that in with the setting of net.ipv4.ip_forward (and/or its IPv6 counterpart)? Even ignoring

Re: [ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding

2007-04-30 Thread Rick Jones
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Re: [ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding

2007-04-27 Thread Rick Jones
receive offload enabled. That may need some discussion in netdev - it may then require some changes to default settings or some documentation enhancements. That or I'll learn that the stack is already dealing with the issue... rick jones bryan At 11:06 AM 4/26/2007, Michael S. Tsirkin

Re: [ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding

2007-04-27 Thread Rick Jones
an ethtool command, for some suitable revision of ethtool. rick jones Thanks for listening and re enforcing my search process. bryan At 01:32 PM 4/27/2007, Rick Jones wrote: Bryan Lawver wrote: Your right about the ipoib module not combining packets (I believed you without checking) but I did

Re: [ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding

2007-04-27 Thread Rick Jones
checksum offloading via ethtool: # ethtool -K eth2 rx off /excerpt 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

2007-04-27 Thread Rick Jones
David Miller wrote: From: Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:37:49 -0700 Large Receive Offload (LRO) is enabled by default. This will interfere with forwarding TCP traffic. If you plan to forward TCP traffic (using the host with the Myri10GE NIC as a router or bridge

Re: Unexcepted latency (order of 100-200 ms) with TCP (packet receive)

2007-04-26 Thread Rick Jones
that is flushed through TCP only between tests (and thus does not cause timing problems). Might tcp_abc have crept back-in? 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

Re: net-2.6.22 UDP stalls/hangs

2007-04-23 Thread Rick Jones
. Either that timer didn't get set, didn't fire, or was insufficient to get netserver out of that recv() on the UDP socket, or comms between the two system got fubar for TCP too. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [1/2] 2.6.21-rc7: known regressions

2007-04-16 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:14:40PM -0700, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: Subject: laptops with e1000: lockups References : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229603 Submitter : Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Handled-By : Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL

2.6.21rc7 e1000 media-detect oddness.

2007-04-15 Thread Dave Jones
I booted up 2.6.21rc7 without an ethernet cable plugged in, and noticed this.. e1000: :02:00.0: e1000_probe: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid e1000: probe of :02:00.0 failed with error -5 I plugged a cable in, did rmmod e1000;modprobe e1000, and got this.. e1000: :02:00.0:

Re: [RFT] proxy arp deadlock possible

2007-04-05 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 06:10:42PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 10:44 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Dave, there is a classic AB BA deadlock here. We should break the dependency like this. Could someone who

Re: [PATCH] ethtool: additional 10Gig niceness

2007-04-05 Thread Rick Jones
of a Mbit/s. 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

lockdep report from 2.6.20.5-rc1

2007-04-04 Thread Dave Jones
=== [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6debug #1 --- swapper/0 is trying to acquire lock: (tbl-lock){-+-+}, at: [c05d5664] neigh_lookup+0x43/0xa2 but task

[PATCH] ethtool: additional 10Gig niceness

2007-04-04 Thread Rick Jones
teach ethtool to print 1Mb/s for a 10G NIC and prepare for 10G NICs where it is possible to run something other than 10G update the ethtool.8 manpage with info re same and some grammar fixes Signed-off-by: Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] the likely required asbestos at the ready :) rick jones

NIC data corruption

2007-04-02 Thread Rick Jones
/parity throughout their _entire_ data path? 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] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL

2007-03-30 Thread Rick Jones
on their heartbeats. If the switchover from active to standby is uncommanded it probably means the primary went belly-up which means you don't have the opportunity to make an ioctl call anyway, and you are back to the heartbeats. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: L2 network namespace benchmarking

2007-03-28 Thread Rick Jones
demand, or better yet, disable the interrupt coalescing. Otherwise, measuring peak aggregate request/response becomes necessary. rick jones don't be blinded by bit-rate - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: L2 network namespace benchmarking

2007-03-28 Thread Rick Jones
, and a [EMAIL PROTECTED] if one wants to discuss actual netperf (netperf2 or netperf4) development. 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

has ethtool been patched for 10 gig speed reporting?

2007-03-27 Thread Rick Jones
I have some 10gig nics and ethtool is reporting unknown for the speed. Is there already a patch, or have I found an opportunity? FWIW, the version five bits from sourceforge still report unknown - are they the latest or are there later bits somewhere? thanks, rick jones - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL

2007-03-27 Thread Rick Jones
that such a mechanism exists in HP-UX 11.X and I suspect Solaris !-( I've spent probably the last decade or so attempting to discourage its use in the HP-UX space, but like some daemon from hell it just refuses to die. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev

fix up misplaced inlines.

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Jones
Turning up the warnings on gcc makes it emit warnings about the placement of 'inline' in function declarations. Here's everything that was under net/ Signed-off-by: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c b/net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c index 4c914df..ecfe8da 100644

Re: ping DOS avoidance?

2007-03-15 Thread Rick Jones
as hex values) 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: bridge: faster compare for link local addresses

2007-03-12 Thread Rick Jones
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Re: TCP 2MSL on loopback

2007-03-06 Thread Rick Jones
from TIME_WAIT to ESTABLISHED might be greater, but going back to the good old days of more or less purly clock driven ISN's isn't likely. 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

Re: [NET]: Please revert disallowing zero listen queues

2007-03-06 Thread Rick Jones
pending connection is allowed at any given time. /excerpt I don't have a Solaris, BSD or AIX manpage for listen handy to check them but would not be surprised to see they are similar. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message

Re: TCP 2MSL on loopback

2007-03-06 Thread Rick Jones
space, less the previous connection's window (IIRC). rick jones 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: TCP 2MSL on loopback

2007-03-06 Thread Rick Jones
cannot assume that a packet destined for a given IP address will remain detined for that given IP address as it could go through a module that will rewrite headers etc. Is traffic destined for 127.0.0.1 immune from that? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev

Re: all syscalls initially taking 4usec on a P4? Re: nonblocking UDPv4 recvfrom() taking 4usec @ 3GHz?

2007-02-20 Thread Rick Jones
. If the delay there starts to match the delay as you go out to the right on the graph it would suggest that it is indeed cache effects. 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: degradation in bridging performance of 5% in 2.6.20 when compared to 2.6.19

2007-02-16 Thread Rick Jones
anyone observed similar behaviour? Any inputs or suggestions are welcome. In each case is the malta CPU bound? If not, some idea of the change in CPU util might be helpful. rick jones btw, netperf 2.4.3 just released: ftp://ftp.netperf.org/netperf http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/tags

Re: FC5 iptables-restore failure

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:45:07AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: I've recently been noticing nasty messages come out of FC5: sony:/home/akpm# service iptables stop Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ] Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter

Re: [PATCH] apply cwnd rules to FIN packets with data

2007-02-05 Thread Rick Jones
last data segment with the FIN because cwnd wasn't large enough at the time, should the FIN be sent at that point, even if it is waffer thin? rick jones 2 cents tossed-in from the peanut gallery - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: meaningful spinlock contention when bound to non-intr CPU?

2007-02-02 Thread Rick Jones
are doing much better than I currently do, particularly from an architecture perspective - I think that it may involve all the prequeue/try to get the TCP processing on the user's stack stuff but I'm _far_ from certain. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev

Re: meaningful spinlock contention when bound to non-intr CPU?

2007-02-02 Thread Rick Jones
Andi Kleen wrote: Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Still, does this look like something worth persuing? In a past life/OS when one was able to eliminate one percentage point of spinlock contention, two percentage points of improvement ensued. The stack is really designed to go fast

Re: meaningful spinlock contention when bound to non-intr CPU?

2007-02-02 Thread Rick Jones
, lock_sock_nested at their same offsets. However, if I run the multiple-connection-per-thread code, and have each service 32 concurrent connections, and bind to a CPU other than the interrupt CPU, the lock contention in this case does appear to go away. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: meaningful spinlock contention when bound to non-intr CPU?

2007-02-02 Thread Rick Jones
Yes the wakeup happens deep inside the critical section and if the process is running on another CPU it could race to the lock. Hmm, i suppose the wakeup could be moved out, but it would need some restructuring of the code. Also to be safe the code would still need to at least hold a reference

meaningful spinlock contention when bound to non-intr CPU?

2007-02-01 Thread Rick Jones
to eliminate one percentage point of spinlock contention, two percentage points of improvement ensued. 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: meaningful spinlock contention when bound to non-intr CPU?

2007-02-01 Thread Rick Jones
Rick Jones wrote: A 2.6.10-rc5 kernel onto each system thanks to pointers from Dan Frazier. gaak - 2.6.20-rc5 that is. - 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

Re: why would EPIPE cause socket port to change?

2007-01-23 Thread Rick Jones
that the port assignments are not changed. (fwiw this is one of two reasons i've found for libnss-ldap to leak sockets... causing nscd to crash.) Of course, that seems rather odd too - why does libnss-ldap check the socket name on a socket after an EPIPE anyway? rick jones - To unsubscribe from

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
. (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 the line unsubscribe netdev in the body

Re: Network card IRQ balancing with Intel 5000 series chipsets

2007-01-02 Thread Rick Jones
. 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 jones - To unsubscribe

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 netdev in the body

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 devices don't handle pci_dma_mapping_error()'s

2006-12-06 Thread Rick Jones
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 list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Max number of TCP sessions

2006-11-16 Thread Rick Jones
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 netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: 2.6.19-rc1: Volanomark slowdown

2006-11-08 Thread Rick Jones
?) to show a perfomance effect with netperf and it didn't do 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] bcm43xx: Readd dropped assignment

2006-10-20 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 04:40:00PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: On Wednesday 18 October 2006 01:12, Daniel Drake wrote: Larry Finger pointed out a problem with my ieee80211 IV/ICV stripping patch, which I forgot about. Sorry about that. The patch readds the frame_ctl assignment

Re: [PATCH 2/3] netpoll: rework skb transmit queue

2006-10-20 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:25:32PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:52:26 -0700 (PDT) David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:25:27 -0700 Sorry, but why should we treat out-of-tree vendor

Re: BCM5461 phy issue in 10M/Full duplex

2006-10-18 Thread Rick Jones
Kumar Gala wrote: I was wondering if anyone has had any issues when trying to force a BCM5461 phy into 10M/full duplex. I seem to be having an issue in the two managed switches I've tried this on but autoneg to 10/half. This causes a problem in that I start seeing a large number of frame

Remove useless comment from sb1250

2006-10-17 Thread Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c index db23249..1eae16b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c +++ b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c @@ -2903,7 +2903,7 @@ #endif dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(struct sbmac_softc

Re: Suppress / delay SYN-ACK

2006-10-13 Thread Rick Jones
Eric Dumazet wrote: Rick Jones a écrit : More to the point, on what basis would the application be rejecting a connection request based solely on the SYN? True, it isn't like there would suddenly be any call user data as in XTI/TLI. DATA payload could be included in the SYN packet. TCP

getaddrinfo - should accept IPPROTO_SCTP no?

2006-10-13 Thread Rick Jones
IPPROTO_SCTP in the hints. thanks, rick jones http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/trunk/ - 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: Suppress / delay SYN-ACK

2006-10-13 Thread Rick Jones
are validated. I may have some of the timing a bit wrong though. 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

sfuzz hanging on 2.6.18

2006-10-12 Thread Dave Jones
sfuzz.c (google for it if you don't have it already) used to run forver (or until I got bored and ctrl-c'd it) as long as it didn't trigger an oops or the like in 2.6.17 Running it against 2.6.18, I notice that it runs for a while, and then gets totally wedged. It doesn't respond to any signals,

Re: Suppress / delay SYN-ACK

2006-10-12 Thread Rick Jones
the connect request of the client. If not, it should be possible to reject the connect request. How often do you expect the incomming call to be rejected? I suspect that would have a significant effect on whether the whole thing is worthwhile. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Suppress / delay SYN-ACK

2006-10-12 Thread Rick Jones
the application to set socket buffer sizes rather than relying on the system's 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: mii-tool gigabit support.

2006-09-29 Thread Rick Jones
2) develop some style of register description definition type of text file, maybe XML, maybe INI style or something stored in /etc/ethtool as drivername.conf or something like that. This way, ethtool doesn't have to be changed/updated/patched/likely-bug-added for every single device known to

Re: [PATCH][BNX2]: Disable MSI on 5706 if AMD 8132 bridge is present

2006-09-29 Thread Rick Jones
will eventually stop responding after a while. 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: mii-tool gigabit support.

2006-09-27 Thread Rick Jones
With mii-tool we can do the command below and work with a half duplex hub and a full duplex switch. mii-tool -A 10baseT-FD,10baseT-HD eth0 Why, and how often, is that really necessary? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message

Re: mii-tool gigabit support.

2006-09-27 Thread Rick Jones
Auke Kok wrote: Rick Jones wrote: With mii-tool we can do the command below and work with a half duplex hub and a full duplex switch. mii-tool -A 10baseT-FD,10baseT-HD eth0 Why, and how often, is that really necessary? This is a bit of a hypothetical discussion of course, but I can

Re: tc related lockdep warning.

2006-09-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 06:15:21PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: Patrick McHardy wrote: jamal wrote: Yes, that looks plausible. Can you try making those changes and see if the warning is gone? I think this points to a bigger brokeness caused by the move of dev-qdisc to

tc related lockdep warning.

2006-09-24 Thread Dave Jones
= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] - inconsistent {softirq-on-R} - {in-softirq-W} usage. swapper/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[2]:HE1:SE0] takes: (police_lock){-+--}, at: [f8d304fd] tcf_police_destroy+0x24/0x8f [act_police] {softirq-on-R} state

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Re: high latency with TCP connections

2006-09-22 Thread Rick Jones
Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: Hello! transactions to data segments is fubar. That issue is also why I wonder about the setting of tcp_abc. Yes, switching ABC on/off has visible impact on amount of segments. When ABC is off, amount of segments is almost the same as number of transactions. When

Re: Network performance degradation from 2.6.11.12 to 2.6.16.20

2006-09-22 Thread Rick Jones
extensions and gets some additional parallelism in the stack on SMP systems. Why it needs/wants the timestamps I've no idea, I don't think it gets them that way on all platforms. I suppose the next time I do some named benchmarking I can try to take a closer look in the source. rick jones

Re: UDP Out 0f Sequence

2006-09-21 Thread Rick Jones
they may be to reorder traffic. Is this same for all kernel (linux/solaris)? Your application should be written on the assumtion that it is possible, regardless of the specifics of the OSes involved, however unlikely they may be to reorder traffic. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list

Question about David's blog entry for NetCONF 2006, Day 1

2006-09-21 Thread Rick Jones
it was not in promiscuous mode - the delta being (perhaps) multicast frames. rick jones (*) Today, it seems 99 times out of 10 systems are connected to switches not hubs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: UDP Out 0f Sequence

2006-09-20 Thread Rick Jones
. Destination stack is a distant second and source stack an even more distant third. Generally stack writers try to avoid having places in their stacks where things can reorder, but it isn't completely unknown. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body

Re: [PATCH 03/23] e100: Add debugging code for cb cleaning and csum failures.

2006-09-19 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:28:38AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: Refine cb cleaning debug printout and print out all cleaned cbs' status. Add debug flag for EEPROM csum failures that were overridden by the user. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Auke Kok

Re: [PATCH 03/23] e100: Add debugging code for cb cleaning and csum failures.

2006-09-19 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 05:40:34PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:28:38AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: + add_taint(TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK); I object to this flag being abused this way. A corrupt EEPROM on a network card has

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Re: high latency with TCP connections

2006-09-18 Thread Rick Jones
David Miller wrote: From: Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:55:16 -0700 Is this really necessary? I thought that the problems with ABC were in trying to apply byte-based heuristics from the RFC(s) to a packet-oritented cwnd in the stack? This is receiver side

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Re: high latency with TCP connections

2006-09-18 Thread Rick Jones
the concern about increases in service demand. But actually, it is not about increasing/decreasing number of ACKs. It is about killing that pain in ass which we used to have because we pretended to be too smart. :) rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Re: high latency with TCP connections

2006-09-18 Thread Rick Jones
of most people and netdev aren't completely overlapping. 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

NIC interrupt assignments under UltraSPARC-T1

2006-09-13 Thread Rick Jones
wont to do) missed something quasi-obvious? thanks, 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][RFC] Re: high latency with TCP connections

2006-09-05 Thread Rick Jones
heuristics from the RFC(s) to a packet-oritented cwnd in the stack? 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

neigh_lookup lockdep warning

2006-09-02 Thread Dave Jones
Seen during boot of a 2.6.18rc5-git1 based kernel. Dave === [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.17-1.2608.fc6 #1 --- swapper/0 is trying to acquire

Re: high latency with TCP connections

2006-08-30 Thread Rick Jones
of a byte-based RFC to packet-counting cwnd? 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?] tcp and delayed acks

2006-08-16 Thread Rick Jones
? (-v 2 on the netperf command line should show what the MSS was for the connection) rick jones BTW, many points scored for including CPU utilization and service demand figures with the netperf output :) [All tests run with maxcpus=1 on a 2.67GHz Woodcrest system.] Recv SendSend

Re: Packet Corruption Support

2006-08-16 Thread Rick Jones
feature should be supported from kernel versions 2.6.16 onwards. I would think that if run on an end system at least, trying to corrupt packets with CKO enabled on a NIC might be, well, difficult. Or does netem disable CKO? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 1/2]: powerpc/cell spidernet bottom half

2006-08-16 Thread Rick Jones
high DMA setup latency, and then if you put it into a system with highish DMA read/write latency... well that didn't make it any better :) 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

Re: [PATCH] Use __always_inline in orinoco_lock()/orinoco_unlock()

2006-08-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:25:58PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.h b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.h index 16db3e1..8fd9b32 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.h @@ -135,11 +135,9 @@ extern irqreturn_t

remove unnecessary config.h includes from drivers/net/

2006-08-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:04:38PM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:21:16 -0400 config.h is automatically included by kbuild these days. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied to net-2.6.19, thanks Dave

IPX changes introduce warning.

2006-08-09 Thread Dave Jones
We've just added an implicit declaration in the latest tree.. net/ipx/af_ipx.c: In function 'ipx_rcv': net/ipx/af_ipx.c:1648: error: implicit declaration of function 'ipxhdr' (Yes, my builds fail on -Werror-implicit, so that things like this get caught early) Probably something simple like a

remove unnecessary config.h includes from net/

2006-08-09 Thread Dave Jones
config.h is automatically included by kbuild these days. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_sip.c~2006-08-09 22:18:48.0 -0400 +++ linux-2.6/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_sip.c 2006-08-09 22:18:53.0 -0400 @@ -8,7

another networking lockdep trace.

2006-08-08 Thread Dave Jones
From a recent rc3-git kernel. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk ---BeginMessage--- Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201560

Re: [RFC] driver adjusts qlen, increases CPU

2006-08-04 Thread Rick Jones
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Re: orinoco driver causes *lots* of lockdep spew

2006-08-03 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:11:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Could we please just get rid of the wireless extensions over netlink code again? It doesn't help to solve anything and just creates a bigger mess to untangle when switching to a fully fledged wireless stack. If we're going

Re: orinoco driver causes *lots* of lockdep spew

2006-08-03 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:58:00AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:11:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:54:41PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is another one of those nasty buggers;

orinoco driver causes *lots* of lockdep spew

2006-08-02 Thread Dave Jones
Wow. Nearly 400 lines of debug spew, from a simple 'ifup eth1'. Dave ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002) == [ INFO: hard-safe - hard-unsafe lock order detected ]

Re: e1000 speed/duplex error

2006-08-01 Thread Rick Jones
traffic _only_ when both sides of the link try to speak at the same time. A typical ping test, being synchronous, 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

neigh_lookup lockdep bug.

2006-07-31 Thread Dave Jones
2.6.18rc2-gitSomething on my firewall box just triggered this.. Dave [515613.791771] === [515613.841467] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] [515613.873284]

Re: RDMA will be reverted

2006-07-25 Thread Rick Jones
David Miller wrote: From: Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:55:24 -0700 Even enough bits for 1024 or 2048 CPUs in the single system image? I have seen 1024 touted by SGI, and with things going so multi-core, perhaps 16384 while sounding initially bizzare would

Re: What is RDMA

2006-07-24 Thread Rick Jones
That TOE/iWARP could end-up being precluded by NAT seems so ironic from a POE2E standpoint. rick jones Purity Of End To END - 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

Re: RDMA will be reverted

2006-07-24 Thread Rick Jones
though mean that the state is per-packet without it having to be based on addressing information. Almost like RDMA arriving saying where the data goes, but this thing says where the processing should happen :) rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev

Re: RDMA will be reverted

2006-07-24 Thread Rick Jones
David Miller wrote: From: Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:29:05 -0700 Nirvana I suppose would be the addition of a field in the header which could be used for the determination of where to process. A Transport Protocol option I suppose, maybe the IPv6 flow id, but knuth

Re: RDMA will be reverted

2006-07-24 Thread Rick Jones
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Re: [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal

2006-07-22 Thread Dave Jones
mainline, and backed out numerous fixes made to it in the mainline kernel. It's a huge effort to get the 'good bits' out of that patch, and letting it die is the only sensible solution IMO. ACKed-by: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] +SK98LIN GIGABBIT ETHERNET DRIVER typo :-) Dave

Re: Netchannles: first stage has been completed. Further ideas.

2006-07-21 Thread Rick Jones
been touched by the cpu in some time and are thus nearly guarenteed to be cold in the cache. This is the kind of work we could think about batching to user sleeping on some socket call. Ultimately isn't that just trying to squeeze the balloon? rick jones nice to see people seeing ACKs

sch_htb compile fix.

2006-07-15 Thread Dave Jones
net/sched/sch_htb.c: In function 'htb_change_class': net/sched/sch_htb.c:1605: error: expected ';' before 'do_gettimeofday' Signed-off-by: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.17.noarch/net/sched/sch_htb.c~2006-07-15 03:40:14.0 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.17.noarch/net/sched/sch_htb.c

Re: I/O Acceleration Technology Nics

2006-07-14 Thread Rick Jones
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