Re: [PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-30 Thread Joachim Nilsson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:23:46PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:15:31PM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote: > > > This is really interesting. What NIC's do you use? > > Both (linux box and hurd box) have rtl8139 chips. > Same here. Aha! That helps a lot. Fortunately Donald

Re: [PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-29 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:30:14 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > It's hard to believe you get no package loss in GNU Mach 1. Do you flood > the GNU/Hurd box from a GNU/Linux box? I have seen horrible package loss in > that situation, which was much better with GNUMach v2. I think that's not because

Re: [PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-29 Thread Daniel Wagner
> This is really interesting. What NIC's do you use? Both (linux box and hurd box) have rtl8139 chips. daniel ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: [PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:15:31PM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote: > > This is really interesting. What NIC's do you use? > > Both (linux box and hurd box) have rtl8139 chips. Same here. -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann

Re: [PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-29 Thread Joachim Nilsson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:04:44PM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's hard to believe you get no package loss in GNU Mach 1. Do you flood > > the GNU/Hurd box from a GNU/Linux box? I have seen horrible package loss in > > that situation, which was m

Re: [PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-29 Thread Daniel Wagner
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's hard to believe you get no package loss in GNU Mach 1. Do you flood > the GNU/Hurd box from a GNU/Linux box? I have seen horrible package loss in > that situation, which was much better with GNUMach v2. I see the same situation here. When I fl

Re: [PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-29 Thread Daniel Wagner
Joachim Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In comparison to what else is missing in the Hurd right now it is > surely a bit unimportant. And I don't mean to belittle your work > in any way! No offense taken. > I don't think your patch is wrong - it looks quite good actually. > It might just b

Re: [PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-29 Thread Joachim Nilsson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:30:14PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:44:36AM +0100, Joachim Nilsson wrote: > > When I flood ping GNUmach2 I get 1% loss and no package loss with > > GNUmach1. Maybe we can spur some interest in tuning these numbers > > a bit? > It's hard to

Re: [PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-29 Thread Joachim Nilsson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:14:45AM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote: > Joachim Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I flood ping GNUmach2 I get 1% loss and no package loss with > > GNUmach1. Maybe we can spur some interest in tuning these numbers > > a bit? > Hmm, I don't know if this very impor

Re: [PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:44:36AM +0100, Joachim Nilsson wrote: > > PING 192.168.1.4 (192.168.1.4): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.0 ms > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=5.1 ms > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=4.2 ms > 6

Re: [PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-29 Thread Daniel Wagner
Joachim Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I flood ping GNUmach2 I get 1% loss and no package loss with > GNUmach1. Maybe we can spur some interest in tuning these numbers > a bit? Hmm, I don't know if this very important. The TCP/IP protocol handles very well any packet loss :) I rath

Re: [PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-28 Thread Joachim Nilsson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:24:05PM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote: > [snip] > I've tested the patch and the kernel is quite stable and didn't see > any panic under have net last (ping -f). Daniel, you're awsome! :-) I've tested it too and it works great with the OSKit from Savannah. Even when I had

[PATCH] soft interrupts

2003-01-28 Thread Daniel Wagner
Hello At the moment the softint handler is called from softclock handler. This leads to a panic which I have reported here [1]. The main idea of this patch is that the softint handler should be called directly from spl0 and splx_cli. The invariant is that only after all outstanding hardware in