Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

> o If sock_writepage is called on path via device without SG support, > the cooked up sock_sendmsg() call needs to switch to KERNEL_DS. > Discovered and fixed by Ingo Molnar. Good catch. > This does show that not too many people are testing this all that > thoroughly :-) Basically, any sy

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

Hello! > > What exaclty were the issues with the intel cards and sg+csum? > > > > Any idea how much work it'd require to surmount them? > > Getting Intel to release full specs on how to make use of > TX hardware checksum assist with the eepro100. It simply does not exist for 82559* in all t

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:40:16AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > James H. Cloos Jr. writes: > > What exaclty were the issues with the intel cards and sg+csum? > > > > Any idea how much work it'd require to surmount them? > > Getting Intel to release full specs on how to make use of > TX

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

James H. Cloos Jr. writes: > What exaclty were the issues with the intel cards and sg+csum? > > Any idea how much work it'd require to surmount them? Getting Intel to release full specs on how to make use of TX hardware checksum assist with the eepro100. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

What exaclty were the issues with the intel cards and sg+csum? Any idea how much work it'd require to surmount them? -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. 1024D/ED7DAEA6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 - To unsubscribe from th

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

Tigran Aivazian writes: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > 3) NFS client side activity > > this bit interesting (to me). Do you mean Linux NFS client as present in > the Linux kernel source (nfs filesystem) or just the type of traffic > generated by arbitrary NFS client (e.g

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > 3) NFS client side activity this bit interesting (to me). Do you mean Linux NFS client as present in the Linux kernel source (nfs filesystem) or just the type of traffic generated by arbitrary NFS client (e.g. the builtin one used by SPEC SFS benchmar

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

Tobias Ringstrom writes: > I understand from your comment that you want people to run it on all kinds > of hardware, both with and without hw checksumming, but how do you want us > to test it? Is "my computer works as usual with this patch included" what > you are looking for, or do you want

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > This does show that not too many people are testing this all that > thoroughly :-) Basically, any sys_sendfile() over TCP using a network > card other than loopback/3c59x/sunhme/acenic would fail with -EFAULT > or even worse a kernel crash depending up