[RFC] Best method to control a transmit-only mode on fiber NICs (specifically sky2)

2008-02-15 Thread Kyle Moffett
time during netif-up after enabling interrupts; otherwise the immediate link up interrupt gets lost. Once I get approval from the company I will patch the post itself for review. I look forward to your comments and suggestions Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[NET/IPv6] Race condition with flow_cache_genid?

2008-02-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
; write_unlock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock); } Cheers, Kyle Moffett BEGIN QUOTED CODE INVOLVING flow_cache_genid: include/net/flow.h:94: extern atomic_t flow_cache_genid; net/core/flow.c:39: atomic_t flow_cache_genid = ATOMIC_INIT(0); net/core/flow.c:169:flow_cache_lookup

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

2007-09-24 Thread Kyle Moffett
into memory. Kernel is stock Debian and hardly has enough built-in to spit at you, let alone find network/ disks, but it manages to load everything it needs off the automagically-generated initramfs. Cheers, Kyle Moffett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

2007-09-16 Thread Kyle Moffett
be interested in for a real networked filesystem. Cheers, Kyle Moffett - 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 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

2007-09-10 Thread Kyle Moffett
on most CPUs. If you really need it to hit main memory *every* *single* *time* (Why? Are you using it instead of the proper kernel subsystem?) then you probably need a custom inline assembly helper anyways. Cheers, Kyle Moffett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev

Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

2007-09-10 Thread Kyle Moffett
of whether or not the value and/or accessors are flagged volatile or not. And hey, maybe the volatile ops *should* be implemented in inline ASM for future- proof-ness, but that's a separate issue. Cheers, Kyle Moffett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body

Re: [DRIVER SUBMISSION] DRBD wants to go mainline

2007-07-25 Thread Kyle Moffett
conversion. Or with signals, for that matter. Anyway, as Kyle Moffett mentioned elsewhere, you could probably look at other examples (say cifs_demultiplexer_thread() in fs/cifs/connect.c). the basic problem, and what we use signals for, is: it is waiting in recv, waiting for the peer

Re: [DRIVER SUBMISSION] DRBD wants to go mainline

2007-07-23 Thread Kyle Moffett
git tree in a week or so when I've got more free time, but it would really help to have some smaller-ish patches which do any necessary preparatory cleanups. Good luck with your submission! Cheers, Kyle Moffett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body

Re: PM policy, hotplug, power saving (was Re: [PATCH] b44: power down PHY when interface down)

2007-06-30 Thread Kyle Moffett
such devices exist. Currently the tg3 driver turns the PHY off and on during down/ up on a few of my systems, which I use to make a buggy no-name switch recognize STP changes properly. Cheers, Kyle Moffett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body

Re: Scaling Max IP address limitation

2007-06-24 Thread Kyle Moffett
aimed at their foot (Flushing the INPUT chain would basically be analogous to committing network suicide, although there exist other ways to do that with netfilter today. /Unrelated wishful thinking Cheers, Kyle Moffett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev

Re: [BUG][debian-2.6.20-1-686] bridging + vlans + vconfig rem == stuck kernel

2007-05-12 Thread Kyle Moffett
On May 11, 2007, at 01:49:27, Kyle Moffett wrote: On May 10, 2007, at 00:34:11, Kyle Moffett wrote: On May 10, 2007, at 00:25:54, Ben Greear wrote: Looks like a deadlock in the vlan code. Any chance you can run this test with lockdep enabled? You could also add a printk

Re: [BUG][debian-2.6.20-1-686] bridging + vlans + vconfig rem == stuck kernel

2007-05-10 Thread Kyle Moffett
On May 10, 2007, at 00:34:11, Kyle Moffett wrote: On May 10, 2007, at 00:25:54, Ben Greear wrote: Looks like a deadlock in the vlan code. Any chance you can run this test with lockdep enabled? You could also add a printk in vlan_device_event() to check which event it is hanging

[BUG][debian-2.6.20-1-686] bridging + vlans + vconfig rem == stuck kernel

2007-05-09 Thread Kyle Moffett
for bridge interfaces, as well as if-pre-up.d scripts called 00-km-vlan and 00-km-bridge to create the interfaces. If anyone has any suggestions, patches, or debugging tips I'm very interested to hear from you. Thanks! Cheers, Kyle Moffett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [BUG][debian-2.6.20-1-686] bridging + vlans + vconfig rem == stuck kernel

2007-05-09 Thread Kyle Moffett
On May 10, 2007, at 00:25:54, Ben Greear wrote: Kyle Moffett wrote: vconfig D 83CCD8CE 0 16564 16562 (NOTLB) efdd7e7c 0086 ee120afb 83ccd8ce 98f00788 b7083ffa 5384b49a c76c0b05 9ebaf791 0004 efdd7e4e 0007 f1468a90 2ab74174 0362

Re: [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] AF_RXRPC socket family implementation [try #2]

2007-03-17 Thread Kyle Moffett
state and security context on both sides which pertains to a collection of independent and possibly simultaneous RxRPC calls. From the digging around that I did in the kernel socket code a while ago I don't see a cleaner way of implementing it than a new SOCK_RXRPC. Cheers, Kyle Moffett

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the frame diverter

2006-11-13 Thread Kyle Moffett
agree that this should go. Cheers, Kyle Moffett - 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: wireless: recap of current issues (configuration)

2006-01-17 Thread Kyle Moffett
regdomain, ignore the configured regdomain in the presence of APs, etc. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- I lost interest in blade servers when I found they didn't throw knives at people who weren't supposed to be in your machine room. -- Anthony de Boer - To unsubscribe from this list: send

[RFC] Fine-grained memory priorities and PI

2005-12-15 Thread Kyle Moffett
and destructive criticism welcomed! (Just please keep the language clean! :-D) Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? A: Because OCT 31 == DEC 25. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [RFC] Fine-grained memory priorities and PI

2005-12-15 Thread Kyle Moffett
have priorities and lossless/lossy free functions, then the kernel can be much more flexible and configurable about what to do when running low on RAM. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- I lost interest in blade servers when I found they didn't throw knives at people who weren't supposed