From: "Ian McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 13:59:04 +1200
> Wouldn't it be more likely commit 5d0b6f2bdaf7e016e750cd24164a241512d968a3
>
> as this touches net/ipv4/tcp_output.c and is also in same general area?
This commit makes us account transmit memory properly. Previousl
From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:14:28 -0700
> [SCTP]: Allow spillover of receive buffer to avoid deadlock.
>
> This patch fixes a deadlock situation in the receive path by allowing
> temporary spillover of the receive buffer.
>
> - If the chunk we receive ha
From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:14:38 -0700
> [SCTP]: Prevent possible infinite recursion with multiple bundled DATA.
>
> There is a rare situation that causes lksctp to go into infinite recursion
> and crash the system. The trigger is a packet that contains
From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:14:45 -0700
> [SCTP]: Fix panic's when receiving fragmented SCTP control chunks.
>
> Use pskb_pull() to handle incoming COOKIE_ECHO and HEARTBEAT chunks that
> are received as skb's with fragment list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sridh
From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:14:50 -0700
> [SCTP]: Fix state table entries for chunks received in CLOSED state.
>
> Discard an unexpected chunk in CLOSED state rather can calling BUG().
>
> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, th
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:10:19 -0700
> It makes sense to add this simple statistic to keep track of received
> multicast packets.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, thanks Stephen.
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From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 17:17:50 +1000
> Anyway, the same issue affects DCCP (and SCTP too probably). Here
> is a patch that does the same thing for DCCP.
Thanks for catching that, applied.
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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:24:22 +0400
> No in-kernel users require it to be exported, so if you do think it
> should not be exported I will force external module changes.
What are the alternatives?
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From: Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 00:52:35 +0100
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 05:21:36PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > > With such extensive patches for netrom and rose modules that will go
> > > into a future 2.6.x kernel, I think i
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 13:36:56 +0400
> Hardware folks could also create it's own implementation and show
> community if theirs approach is good or not.
Designing hardware for non-existing software infrastructure is
risky buisness :-)
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From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:24:52 +0900 (JST)
> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It is critical that we free the inet6 device structure using an RCU
callback in order for this locking strategy to work.
An RCU head needs to be added to
From: John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 15:06:00 -0400
> Xiaoliang (David) Wei wrote:
> > Hi gurus,
> >
> >I am reading the code of tcp_highspeed.c in the kernel and have a
> > question on the hstcp_cong_avoid function, specifically the following
> > AI part (line 136~14
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:54:38 -0700
> Atomically create attributes when class device is added. This avoids the
> race between registering class_device (which generates hotplug event),
> and the creation of attribute groups.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen
From: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 21:08:39 -0700
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 06:41:58PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:54:38 -0700
> >
> > > Atomically cr
From: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 15:59:04 -0700
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:00:50PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > The networking bit by Stephen is a bug fix.
>
> Good point. Ok, feel free to send both patches to Linus now if you
&g
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:42:05 -0700
> In case of sysfs failure, don't let device be brought up.
> It can be cleared by unregister_netdevice so module can be unloaded
> normally.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm not so sure
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:23:41 -0700
> This follows after the earlier two patches.
>
> Change the initialization of the class device portion of the net device
> to be done earlier, so that any races before registration completes are
> harmless. Add a
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 15:31:34 -0700
> Use NULL instead of 0 for a null pointer value (sparse warning):
> drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c:1781:30: warning: Using plain integer as NULL
> pointer
>
> Correct timeout argument to use milliseconds instead of jiffi
How many times are you going to post this same patch over and over
again? Please don't do that, thank you.
We all saw it the first time.
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Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 13:50:02 -0400
> Does this patch will be used?
Your patch is in the tree already.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 13:50:02 -0400
> Does this patch will be used?
>
> This patch resolved the following problem: When I send IPv4 packet(contain
> Record Route Option) which need to be fragmented to the router, the router
> can not fragment it correctly. After fragme
From: Stefan Rompf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 12:13:56 +0200
> the linkwatch code can overflow on a jiffies wrap, scheduling
> work with a too large delay. If the delay is >0x8000,
> internal_add_timer() seems to overflow too, hiding the bug, so
> this isn't triggered too easily
From: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 11:29:15 +
> Hi!
>
> > TCP Low Priority is a distributed algorithm whose goal
> > is to utilize only
> > the excess network bandwidth as compared to the ``fair
> > share`` of
> > bandwidth as targeted by TCP. Available from:
> >
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 09:54:58 -0700
> The issue is are there network devices that can't sleep during
> register_netdevice?
Oh right, I forgot about that.
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From: "Wong Edison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 01:50:36 +0800
> > Or, just include it, and select it with the TCP_CONGESTION socket
> > option when you want it. Sorry, this does require app modifications.
>
> i would like to have more information about this
> so within the app
> a
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 23:51:32 +0400
> Since nocopy is actually equal to dma into mapped buffer,
> so we get something close to 6 times less CPU usage, and if it can be
> lineary transferred into performance gain, we found where the most
> significant par
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 12:01:07 -0700
> Something like this would handle errors better, but introduce possible
> problems for drivers that call register_netdevice with irq's disabled.
> There was some comment about racing with linkwatch, but don't see how
From: Stefan Rompf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 12:18:59 +0200
> seems documentation got lost when the RFC2863-patch was applied. Having
> documentation is good, so I resend it ;-)
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Rompf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, thanks Stefan.
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From: Wei Yongjun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 20:36:14 -0400
> I had tested the patch under linux system, maybe this mail is correct.
>
> Fix error point to options in ip_options_fragment(). optptr get a error
> pointer to the ipv4 header, correct is pointer to ipv4 options.
>
> S
From: Samuel Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 00:23:33 +0300
> As agreed with Jean Tourrilhes, I am taking over IrDA
> maintainership.
>
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Samuel Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 00:23:44 +0300
> This patch removes the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
> - irias_find_attrib
> - irias_new_string_value
> - irias_new_octseq_value
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <[EMA
From: Samuel Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 00:23:59 +0300
> Minimal PNP hotplug support for the smsc-ircc2 driver. A modular driver
> will be modprobed via hotplug, but still bypasses driver model probing.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: S
From: Samuel Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 00:24:10 +0300
> Since sir_kthread.c pretty much duplicates the workqueue functionality,
> we'd better switch.
> The SIR fsm has been merged into sir_dev.c and thus sir_kthread.c is
> deleted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAI
From: Stefan Rompf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 18:51:49 +0200
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Acked-by: Stefan Rompf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, thanks everyone.
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From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 14:40:49 -0700
> Agreed, especially since rtnl is now a real mutex. The case, that
> I was worried about:
> rtnl_lock()
> spin_lock_irq(&mylock);
> x = register_netdevice();
> ...
>
> Doesn't show up in any curre
From: Chris Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 18:44:30 + (GMT)
> Does this sound like a bug or by design?
>
> Does it make sense that ip_queue mangled packets be subjected to TSO,
> given that the TCP header can be messed with by the user mode code?
This is by design. Netfi
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 16:24:22 +0400
> I hope he does not take offence at name shortening :)
Perhaps you are still not convinced how truly expensive the code path
from netif_receive_skb() to the protocol receive processing really is.
Van's channels elim
From: Jon DeVree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:48:18 -0400
> I've noticed in the past that the address owned by an interface is
> still pingable after that interface is brought down.
People bring this up all the time and this behavior is
intentional.
Linux uses a "host based" add
From: Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 21:07:31 +0100 (IST)
> Is there a better way to deal with TSO besides documenting:
>
> "disable TSO on all interfaces which /ever/ potentially could be used
> to reach TCP-MD5 authenticated BGP peers."
>
> ?
When you have a rule inst
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:14:52 -0700
> This is a signed-off version of yesterday's fix, plus the bridge
> code no longer needs to be so tricky.
I'll apply this stuff, thanks a lot.
Although since I have the blocking --> raw notifier fixup in
my tree I
From: Alexey Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:02:16 +0400
> inet6_csk_xit does not free skb when routing fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, thanks a lot.
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From: Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 21:17:33 +0100 (IST)
> On Wed, 10 May 2006, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > When you have a rule installed that will add MD5, just mark the
> > route as not being TSO capable.
>
> Ah, didn't realis
From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 21:20:26 +1000
> These patches abstract out the protocol-specific encapsulation parts of
> IPsec into what I've termed xfrm_mode objects. This allows us to share
> a little bit more code. But more importantly, it allows us to add new
> e
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 10:40:37 +0400
> > It is absolutely necessary to find ways to get rid of these layering
> > costs. "Layering is how you design networking protocols, not how you
> > implement them."
>
> If I provide a patch which will allow to mar
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 20:18:15 +0400
> Here is profile result:
> 1463625 78.0003 poll_idle
> 19171 1.0217 _spin_lock_irqsave
> 15887 0.8467 _read_lock
> 14712 0.7840 kfree
> 13370 0.7125 ip_frag_queue
> 11896 0.6340 delay_pmtmr
This patch looks fine, applied.
Thanks a lot Patrick.
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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:47:11 +0400
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:53:44AM +0200, Brice Goglin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > > Imho you will want to work directly with pages shortly.
> > >
> >
> > We had thought about doing this, but were a little
From: Karsten Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 19:46:23 +0200
> Even with fiber cards ethtool reports that the connected port is TP,
> the patch fix this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, thanks a lot Karsten.
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From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:28:43 -0700
> Many users of skb_checksum_help() are just using it to recalculate
> outbound checksum, so why not expose the interface in a more useful
> way. Suggested by Ingo Oeser.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL
From: Simon Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 18:02:00 +0100
> This patch adds a new function, neigh_table_init_no_netlink() which
> does everything the neigh_table_init() does, except add the table to
> the netlink all-arp-tables chain. In addition neigh_table_init() has a
> check
From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 03:10:34 -0700
> It's a bit sad to be taking a clone of a clone like this.
> Avoidable?
Besides, clones of clones are illegal, if it's already a clone
you must make a copy.
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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 08:02:58 -0700
> > -#defineNETDEV_ALIGN32
> > +#defineNETDEV_ALIGNL1_CACHE_BYTES
> > #defineNETDEV_ALIGN_CONST (NETDEV_ALIGN - 1)
>
> I don't know about the fixed value of 32, but if this pat
From: Ranjit Manomohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:19:06 -0700 (PDT)
> Heres a new version which does a copy instead of the clone to avoid
> the double cloning issue.
I still very much dislike this patch because it is creating
1 more clone per packet than is actually necessary a
From: Mark A Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:39:06 -0700
> I discovered that in some cases, send(), sendmsg(), and sendto() are not
> thread-safe. Although the man page for these functions does not specify
> whether these functions are supposed to be thread-safe, my reading of
From: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:39:23 -0700
> How about:
How about, just leave it alone? :-)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 16:41:01 -0700
> kfree_skb(NULL) is legal so the conditional here is unneeded.
>
> But the increased calls to kfree_skb(NULL) would probably bring the
> "unlikely()" hordes descending on kfree_skb, so maybe:
And unfortunately as
From: Kelly Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:02:29 +1000
> On Friday 05 May 2006 12:48, Kelly Daly wrote:
> > done! I will continue with implementation of default netchannel for now.
Some context? It's been a week since we were discussing this,
so I'd like to know what we're l
From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 03:22:21 +0200
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > 3) Clone the skb and have dev_queue_xmit_nit() consume it.
> >
> > That should actually be pretty easy.
>
> On second thought, thats not so great either. netdev_nit
> just globally signal
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 16:28:58 -0700
> There is a potential jiffy wraparound bug in the transmit watchdog
> that is easily avoided by using time_after().
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, thanks Stephen.
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From: Kelly Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:02:29 +1000
> +/* handles default chan buffers that nobody else wants */
> +static int default_netchannel_thread(void *unused)
> +{
> + wait_queue_t wait;
> + struct netchannel_buftrailer *bp;
> + struct sk_buff *skbp;
> +
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:19:09 +0400
> +static int netchannel_convert_skb_ipv4(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
> unetchannel *unc)
> +{
...
> + switch (unc->proto) {
> + case IPPROTO_TCP:
...
> + case IPPROTO_UDP:
...
Why do
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:59:23 +0400
> And what if we use ESP which would place it's hashed sequence number as
> port?
If it makes you happy put something like:
case TCP:
case UDP:
case SCTP:
case DCCP:
...
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:24:07 -0700
> Read Linus's comments on standards. We make software for users, not for
> academic use.
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/5725
>
> If we added this then paranoid users would set it.
I totally agree, and naming t
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:16:06 -0700
> If it is 2.6.5 that is over 2+ years old. Please try with something
> past the Pleistocene era...
R O F L!
If that doesn't belong in a quotes file, I don't know what
does :-)
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From: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 00:12:38 +0400
> A single caller passes __u32. Inside function "net" is compared with
> __u32 (__be32 really, just wasn't annotated).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, but I had to fix your changelog,
From: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:49:40 +0400
> Casting BE16 to int and back may or may not work. Correct, to be sure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 20:48:43 +0200
> This patch removes the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL(tr_source_route).
>
> (No, the usage in net/llc/llc_output.c can't be modular.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:36:46 +0400
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, thanks Alexey.
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From: John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 14:28:23 -0400
> The problem really is that the window_clamp variable is overloaded.
> It's used as a kind of cache for rcvbuf -> window conversion, but also
> as a user-settable bound in window size. On examination, it looks like
>
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 12:40:45 +0400
> Some external patches, which can be built both as static build and as
> module just check that value, and thus will fail with unresolved symbol
> when cn and module are built as modules.
>
> The right set of operati
From: "Angelo P. Castellani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:24:00 +0200
> Using NewReno, if a sk_buff is timed out and is accounted as lost_out,
> it should also be removed from the sacked_out.
>
> This is necessary because recovery using NewReno fast retransmit could
> take up to
From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:24:58 -0700
> Please pull the following SCTP updates from
>master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sridhar/lksctp-2.6.git
Pulled, thanks a lot Sridhar.
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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 19:52:02 +0400
> While developing first apporoach I've found that input TCP processing
> sometimes refers to dst_entry which can only be obtained through the input
> routing code. You can find appropriate changes in attached increm
From: Andrew Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sendfilev vs. TCP_CORK
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 01:08:56 -0700
> So I was just reading planetsun.org and came across this guy's blog entry:
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tron?entry=is_the_tcp_cork_socket
Sun uses blogs, even from the managemen
Applied.
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From: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 13:29:25 +0200
> Reduce local_df to a bit field and ip_summed to a 2 bits
> field thus saving 13 bits. Move bit fields, packet type,
> and protocol into the spare area between the priority
> and the destructor. Saves 4 bytes on both, 32b
From: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 13:48:10 +0200
> Adds qdisc_alloc() to share code between qdisc_create()
> and qdisc_create_dflt(). Hides the qdisc alignment behind
> macros and makes use of them.
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From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 11:13:04 -0400
> On Tue, 2005-05-07 at 17:03 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
> > Sounds reasonable. As you said, blackhole implies NET_XMIT_SUCCESS,
> > so I propose to use this as default.
> >
>
> Actually i am not sure it makes sense to h
From: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 13:48:11 +0200
> Current behaviour is to not report an error if a rate
> estimator is created together with a qdisc and the
> configuration of the rate estimator is bogus. This leads
> to unexpected behaviour because the user is not noti
From: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 23:28:10 +0200
> Can we agree on NET_XMIT_CN? The dev_xmit callers handle it the same
> way as NET_XMIT_SUCCESS but we still have a chance to check for this
> behaviour within the parent qdisc.
It's not congestion, the packet went in fin
From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:37:42 +1000
> Actually you never applied my patch :)
That's right. I was hoping someone would fix the
Acenic driver, oh well.
> Here they are again. This one makes IPv4 ip_rcv registration happen
> last in af_inet.
Applied, thanks
From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:38:28 +1000
> This patch makes IPv6 rcv registration happen last during initialisation.
Also applied, thanks Herbert.
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From: "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:48:27 -0700
> [TG3]: support for ethtool -C
>
> Add support for ethtool -C with verification of user parameters.
I've added this patch to my tree, thanks Michael.
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From: Robert Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:19:08 +0200
> Thanks Patrick!
>
> It looks straight forward and I don't see any problem in my test setup.
> I'm using a script to load full Internet routing.
I've applied Patrick's patch, thanks a lot everyone.
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From: "Qinghua(Kevin) Ye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:38:57 -0600
> I am thinking about extending the tg3 driver to support Click Polling.
What is Click Polling, and why would we want it?
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From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:50:28 +0200
>- rt hash table allocated using alloc_large_system_hash() function.
Applied.
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From: Robert Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:23:12 +0200
> Below a patch to preallocate memory when doing resize of trie (inflate halve)
> If preallocations fails it just skips the resize of this tnode for this time.
>
> The oops we got when killing bgpd (with full routing) i
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:59:39 +0200
> A trivial patch to improve the readability of dev_set_promiscuity()
> in net/core/dev.c. New code does exactly the same thing as original
> code.
Applied, thanks a lot.
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From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:12:51 +0200
> you were right and the sleeping locks in shaper were broken. Markus
> Kanet noticed this and also tested the patch below that switches
> locking to spinlocks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED
Also applied, thanks a lot.
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:59:40 +0200
> I suspect "#define __ARGS(x) ()" was deprecated before I was born.
Indeed :) Patch applied, thanks.
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Applied, thanks Thomas.
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From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:30:23 +0200
> [NET] hashed spinlocks in net/ipv4/route.c
> - Locking abstraction
> - Spinlocks moved out of rt hash table : Less memory (50%) used by rt hash
> table. it's a win even on UP.
> - Sizing of spinlocks table depend
From: "Qinghua(Kevin) Ye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:19:27 -0600
> Compared to NAPI, click polling will disable Nic interrupts during its
> operation, even there is no any packets in the rx buffer.
This destroys latency if you only recheck the RX buffer using
timer interrupts.
From: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 00:13:24 +0200
> Useful in combination with classful qdiscs to drop or
> temporary disable certain flows, e.g. one could block
> specific ds flows with dsmark.
>
> Unlike the noop qdisc it can be controlled by the user and
> statistic ac
From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:34:14 +0200
> But please check the memset() is there, or else... panic for sure.
It got added by patch 2/3.
So if I had actually applied the "fixed" version of patch 1/3 which
contained the memset(), then patch 2/3 would not have a
Thanks Robert, I've added this to the tree as
Documentation/networking/fib_trie.txt
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From: "Qinghua(Kevin) Ye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:36:40 -0600
> > > Compared to NAPI, click polling will disable Nic interrupts during its
> > > operation, even there is no any packets in the rx buffer.
> >
> > This destroys latency if you only recheck the RX buffer using
> >
From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 19:37:21 +0200
> I would prefer a way that does not require driver patching.
You're going to have to hack the drivers to do this, I think.
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