Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-06 Thread misho
yes, you are right regards, misho - Original Message - From: "Luigi Rizzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "misho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 5:00 AM Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-05 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:50:46AM +0200, misho wrote: > Hi Luigi, > > I found this bug several days ago, but I don;t have free time to send you > simple patch. > In my opinion it;s better to disable interrupts in xxx_intr() code when > device is in polling mode. > Something like this: I have co

Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-05 Thread misho
XP_CSR_SCB_INTRCNTL, FXP_SCB_INTR_DISABLE); return; } if (ether_poll_register(fxp_poll, ifp)) { ... regards, misho - Original Message - From: "Luigi Rizzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Nottebrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, Dec

Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-05 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > >i just committed a patch to dev/fxp/if_fxp.c pci/if_dc.c and > >pci/if_sis.c which should fix this. It's a very simple one so you > >can just fetch the diff from the cvs repository and rebuild the > >ker

Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-05 Thread Michael Nottebrock
Luigi Rizzo wrote: > i just committed a patch to dev/fxp/if_fxp.c pci/if_dc.c and > pci/if_sis.c which should fix this. It's a very simple one so you > can just fetch the diff from the cvs repository and rebuild the > kernel, without having to upgrade the whole system. The system boots fine now,

Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-04 Thread Luigi Rizzo
[Bcc to -stable] On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:14:37PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: ... > > and enable it at runtime as follows (by default it is disabled): > > > > sysctl kern.polling.enable=1 > > Putting that into /etc/sysctl.conf results in a solid hang on bootup i just committ

Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-04 Thread Michael Nottebrock
Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Could you try and insert an "ifconfig" (to see the status of the > interface) before the point where it hangs ? Done, output attached. I inserted the 'ifconfig' into /etc/rc.network, just between the "#gifconfig"-section and the "# Set up all the network interfaces..."-se

Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-04 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
On 2001.12.03 22:17 Luigi Rizzo wrote: > [Bcc to -stable because of relevance there] > > With the approval of the release engineer, a revised version of > the network polling code is now in STABLE. It would be great if > you could try it out and send feedback, so we con sort out issues > (if an

Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-04 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> Putting that into /etc/sysctl.conf results in a solid hang on bootup > here, right after IP Filter init and before the interfaces come up: thanks, I am investigating this, it should be trivial to fix. Could you try and insert an "ifconfig" (to see the status of the interface) before the point

Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-04 Thread Michael Nottebrock
Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > options DEVICE_POLLING > options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended > > and enable it at runtime as follows (by default it is disabled): > > sysctl kern.polling.enable=1 Putting that into /etc/sysctl.conf results in

Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-04 Thread David Xu
could you patch rl driver, we have 100 RealTek 8139 cards here. Regards, -- David Xu Luigi Rizzo wrote: >[Bcc to -stable because of relevance there] > >With the approval of the release engineer, a revised version of >the network polling code is now in STABLE. It would be great if >you could t

Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-04 Thread Maxim Konovalov
Hi Luigi, On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > [Bcc to -stable because of relevance there] > > With the approval of the release engineer, a revised version of > the network polling code is now in STABLE. It would be great if > you could try it out and send feedback, so we con sort out issu

Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-03 Thread 'Luigi Rizzo'
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:37:31AM -, Lawrence Farr wrote: > Have you any tests I could run to verify it's stability? no, other than flood the interfaces with traffic and see the difference when turning kern.polling.enable on and off... cheers luigi > Lawrence Farr > EPC Dir

RE: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE.

2001-12-03 Thread Lawrence Farr
Have you any tests I could run to verify it's stability? Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Luigi Rizzo > Sent: 04 December 2001 06:18 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: HEADS-UP: net polling code no