gianfar driver with realtime patch does not work

2010-04-27 Thread Xianghua Xiao
I'm trying to get 834x/TSEC gianfar.c working with 2.6.33/RT. when PREEMPT is disabled gianfar driver worked well. if PREEMPT is enabled, especially when PREEMPT_RT is enabled, network(gianfar) will be disconnected in about 2-3 minutes under iperf. In an older version (2.6.18-rt) where NAPI is d

Re: [PATCH] Fix DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 603/e300

2010-04-28 Thread Xianghua Xiao
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > So we tried to speed things up a bit using flush_hash_pages() directly > but that falls over on 603 of course meaning we fail to flush the TLB > properly and we may even end up having it corrupt memory randomly by > accessing a hash

Re: [PATCH] Fix DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 603/e300

2010-05-03 Thread Xianghua Xiao
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Maindoor wrote: > Any updates on this ? I need something similar. > > Thanks, > Maindoor. > > --- On *Thu, 4/29/10, Benjamin Herrenschmidt *wrote: > > > From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on

Re: Kernel errors at very early stage

2010-05-05 Thread Xianghua Xiao
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Dunda, Matthias wrote: > Hi all- > > we've built a custom board with a FSL MPC8568EMDS CPU. > > U-Boot works so far - at least it is able to load a Linux kernel and a > flattened device tree via network and launch the kernel. > > I get no output on the serial consol

Re: Query regarding 2.6.335 RT[Ingo's] and Non-RT performance

2010-08-12 Thread Xianghua Xiao
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Jeff Angielski wrote: > On 08/11/2010 06:18 PM, Manikandan Ramachandran wrote: >> >> Hello All, >>     I created a very simple program which has higher priority than >> normal tasks and runs a tight loop. Under same test environment I ran >> this program on both n