Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-21 Thread Robert Olsson
or ~3 hours with high very high load and interface up/down every 5:th sec. Without the patch the irq's gets disabled within a couple of seconds A resolute way of handling the semaphores. :) Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cheers

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-18 Thread Robert Olsson
David Miller writes: > > eth0 e1000_irq_enable sem = 1<- ifconfig eth0 down > > eth0 e1000_irq_disable sem = 2 > > > > **e1000_open <- ifconfig eth0 up > > eth0 e1000_irq_disable sem = 3 Dead. irq's can't be enabled > > e1000_irq_enable miss > > eth0 e1000_irq

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-16 Thread Robert Olsson
David Miller writes: > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > Ok, here is the patch I'll propose to fix this. The goal is to make > > > it as simple as possible without regressing the thing we were trying > > > to fix. > > > > Looks good to me. Tested with -rc8. > > T

Re: [RFC] net: napi fix

2007-12-20 Thread Robert Olsson
David Miller writes: > > Is the netif_running() check even required? > > No, it is not. > > When a device is brought down, one of the first things > that happens is that we wait for all pending NAPI polls > to complete, then block any new polls from starting. Hello! Yes but the reaso

Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

2005-01-27 Thread Robert Olsson
Oh. Linux version 2.6.11-rc2 was used. Robert Olsson writes: > > Andrew Morton writes: > > Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ip_dst_cache1292 1485256 151 > > > I guess we should find a way to make it happen f

Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

2005-01-27 Thread Robert Olsson
Andrew Morton writes: > Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ip_dst_cache1292 1485256 151 > I guess we should find a way to make it happen faster. Here is route DoS attack. Pure routing no NAT no filter. Start = ip_dst_cache 5 30256 15

[BUG] 2.6.* pktgen doesn't set ethnet header properly

2005-01-21 Thread Robert Olsson
Hello! Look at pginfos[i].hh[12] = 0x08; /* fill in protocol. Rest is filled in later. */ pginfos[i].hh[13] = 0x00; --ro Junfeng Yang writes: > Hi, > > I tried to use pktgen module from 2.6.* kernels and found out that I > couldn't receive

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread Robert Olsson
Manfred Spraul writes: > > > > http://Linux/net-development/experiments/010313 > > > The link is broken, and I couldn't find it at www.linux.com. Did you > forget the host? Yes Sir! The profile data from the Linux production router is at: http://robur.slu.se/Linux/net-development/expe

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread Robert Olsson
Jonathan Morton writes: > Nice. Any chance of similar functionality finding its' way outside the > Tulip driver, eg. to 3c509 or via-rhine? I'd find those useful, since one > or two of my Macs appear to be capable of generating pseudo-DoS levels of > traffic under certain circumstances wh

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread Robert Olsson
[Sorry for the length] Rik van Riel writes: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Robert Olsson wrote: > > > CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL enables kernel code for it. But device > > drivers has to have support for it. But unfortunely very few drivers > > has support for it. &g

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread Robert Olsson
Rik van Riel writes: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Mårten Wikström wrote: > > > I've performed a test on the routing capacity of a Linux 2.4.2 box > > versus a FreeBSD 4.2 box. I used two Pentium Pro 200Mhz computers with > > 64Mb memory, and two DEC 100Mbit ethernet cards. I used a S

Re: Preallocated skb's?

2000-09-14 Thread Robert Olsson
Yes ! The FF experiments with 2.1.X indicated improvement factor about 2-3 times with skb recycling. With combination of FF and skb recycling we could reach fast Ethernet wire speed forwarding on 400 Mhz CPU. About ~147 KPPS. As jamal reported the improvement is much less today but the forwar