RE: /proc/net/dev regression

2015-01-12 Thread David Laight
From: Al Viro > > I think the problem with wmnet is not that it was expecting the fields > > to be aligned because it never had problems before (when definitely more > > than 10 megabytes were received, wmnet is crappy but not _that_ crappy). > > > > I think the problem really was here, > > > >

Re: /proc/net/dev regression

2015-01-11 Thread Carlos R. Mafra
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 at 1:39:13 +, Al Viro wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 01:33:35AM +, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > > I think the problem with wmnet is not that it was expecting the fields > > to be aligned because it never had problems before (when definitely more > > than 10 megabytes w

Re: /proc/net/dev regression

2015-01-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 01:33:35AM +, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > I think the problem with wmnet is not that it was expecting the fields > to be aligned because it never had problems before (when definitely more > than 10 megabytes were received, wmnet is crappy but not _that_ crappy). > > I thi

Re: /proc/net/dev regression

2015-01-10 Thread Carlos R. Mafra
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 at 1:00:36 +, Al Viro wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 12:27:06AM +, Al Viro wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:25:18PM +, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > > [mafra@linux-g29b:wmnet]$ cat net_dev_bad.txt > > > Inter-| Receive

Re: /proc/net/dev regression

2015-01-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 12:27:06AM +, Al Viro wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:25:18PM +, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > [mafra@linux-g29b:wmnet]$ cat net_dev_bad.txt > > Inter-| Receive| Transmit > > face |bytespackets errs drop fifo f

Re: /proc/net/dev regression

2015-01-10 Thread Carlos R. Mafra
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 at 0:27:06 +, Al Viro wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:25:18PM +, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > [mafra@linux-g29b:wmnet]$ cat net_dev_bad.txt > > Inter-| Receive| Transmit > > face |bytespackets errs drop fifo fram

Re: /proc/net/dev regression

2015-01-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:25:18PM +, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > [mafra@linux-g29b:wmnet]$ cat net_dev_bad.txt > Inter-| Receive| Transmit > face |bytespackets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes > packets errs drop fifo coll

/proc/net/dev regression

2015-01-10 Thread Carlos R. Mafra
I use a dockapp called 'wmnet' [1] to monitor the speed of my internet connection and after the kernel v3.18 it does no longer work properly (it still doesn't work in v3.19-rc3) I bisected the problem and the culprit is this commit: commit 6e094bd805a9b6ad2f5421125db8f604a166616c Author: Rafał Mi