Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] tg3: Move tg3 firmware into separate file

2005-07-17 Thread David S. Miller
From: "Nathanael Nerode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:55:45 -0400 > This is partly for the purpose of doing firmware loading in the future, > but it's also a matter of tidiness. So make the change when we do the loading like that in the future. The fact that you are forcing the

Re: [NET]: Kill skb->tc_classid

2005-07-17 Thread Patrick McHardy
Thomas Graf wrote: @@ -535,7 +530,6 @@ static struct meta_ops __meta_ops[TCF_ME [META_ID(TCINDEX)] = META_FUNC(int_tcindex), #ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT [META_ID(TCVERDICT)]= META_FUNC(int_tcverd), - [META_ID(TCCLASSID)]

2.6 networking and SMP question

2005-07-17 Thread Arvind Gopalan
In 2.4 AFAIK, we could utilize multiple CPUs for receive processing if there were two/ more NICs that were doing receives but not if there is only 1 NIC. Has anything changed with regards to this aspect in 2.6?. Are there any other heuristics / criteria that can be used to distribute interrupts ac

Re: [NET]: Kill skb->tc_classid

2005-07-17 Thread Thomas Graf
* Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-07-17 04:09 > Kill skb->tc_classid. It leaves a hole on 64 bit machines, I didn't > try to plug it since with all the planned changes we probably need > some restructuring at the end anyway. I have no objections to this, looks perfectly fine to me. > @@

Re: Losing many many packets in a large,consecutive calls to sendTo - why ?

2005-07-17 Thread Ben Greear
John Que wrote: Hello, I wrote a simple , user space program (in "C") which opens 400 UDP sockets ; each of them sends a message. I saw in the sniffer that many packets are not sent. I am working with 2.4.20-8 kernel. I am creating 400 DIFFERENT instances of socket in the usual way : so

Re: ping behaviour

2005-07-17 Thread Andy Furniss
Andy Furniss wrote: Hmm - I did some testing on old kernels, though I know I sorted it to 2ms I haven't got that kernel anymore and setting a vanilla 2.4.26 to hz 500 made the forwarded traffic cycle with 5ms not 2ms, local doesn't cycle but isn't constant and gives 5ms varience. Running the

Losing many many packets in a large,consecutive calls to sendTo - why ?

2005-07-17 Thread John Que
Hello, I wrote a simple , user space program (in "C") which opens 400 UDP sockets ; each of them sends a message. I saw in the sniffer that many packets are not sent. I am working with 2.4.20-8 kernel. I am creating 400 DIFFERENT instances of socket in the usual way : socket(AF_INET,SOCK_