Setting ipv6 route flags

2005-11-24 Thread Gabor Fekete
Sorry if this email arrived twice on the list. (This time I subscribed.) Hi, I realized that in route.c the inet6_rtm_new_route() function the inet6_rtm_to_rtmsg() does not take into account the user supplied flags. This way it seems to be not possible to set the RTF_DEFAULT flag of a default rou

[PATCH] ibm_emac: fix graceful stop timeout handling

2005-11-24 Thread Eugene Surovegin
This patch fixes graceful stop timeout handling in PPC4xx EMAC driver. Currently, when we stop TX/RX channels we just do some number of loops without relying on actual spent time. This has finally bitten me on one of our systems (heavy network traffic during start up, RX channel is stopped seve

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] ioat: DMA engine support

2005-11-24 Thread Andi Kleen
> >Just pointing out that it's not clear it will always be a big help. > > > > > > > Agree it should default to in-cache. This would mean no DMA engine by default. Clearly there needs to be some heuristic to decide by default. We'll see how effective it will be in the end. -Andi - To unsubscr

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] ioat: DMA engine support

2005-11-24 Thread Avi Kivity
Andi Kleen wrote: As an example, an NFS server reads some data pages using iSCSI and sends them using NFS/TCP (or vice versa). For TX this can be done zero copy using a sendfile like setup. Yes, or with aio send for anonymous memory. For RX it may help - but my point was that

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] ioat: DMA engine support

2005-11-24 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 05:24:34PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > >>Don't forget that there are benefits of not polluting the cache with the > >>traffic for the incoming skbs. > >> > >> > > > >Is that a general benefit outside benchmarks? I would expect > >most real programs

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] ioat: DMA engine support

2005-11-24 Thread Avi Kivity
Andi Kleen wrote: Don't forget that there are benefits of not polluting the cache with the traffic for the incoming skbs. Is that a general benefit outside benchmarks? I would expect most real programs to actually do something with the data - and that usually involves needing it in cache.

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] ioat: DMA subsystem

2005-11-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 04:00:50PM +0100, Ingo Oeser wrote: > Hi, > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > explanation of this function would be nice. remember to answer "how?" > > and "why?", not "what?". > > Wasn't it the other way around? > Citing linux/Documentation/CodingStyle, section 7 "Comments": >

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] ioat: DMA subsystem

2005-11-24 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi, Jeff Garzik wrote: > explanation of this function would be nice. remember to answer "how?" > and "why?", not "what?". Wasn't it the other way around? Citing linux/Documentation/CodingStyle, section 7 "Comments": "Generally, you want your comments to tell WHAT your code does, not HOW." HOW

Re: Fw: [Fwd: [Bug 5644] New: NFS v3 TCP 3-way handshake incorrect, iptables blocks access]

2005-11-24 Thread Olaf Kirch
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:08:27PM +0100, Harald Welte wrote: > Jozsef Kadlecsik doesn't recall those patches/changes (even though he's > our "Mr. TCP state tracking" and is indicated as the author of one of > the two patches. > > I also don't recall having seen any of those patches before. But t

Re: Fw: [Fwd: [Bug 5644] New: NFS v3 TCP 3-way handshake incorrect, iptables blocks access]

2005-11-24 Thread Harald Welte
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:44:19PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > Please make sure this gets looked at, and at least reviewed. Jozsef Kadlecsik doesn't recall those patches/changes (even though he's our "Mr. TCP state tracking" and is indicated as the author of one of the two patches. I also don

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] ioat: DMA subsystem

2005-11-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> +++ b/drivers/dma/cb_list.h > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ > +/* Extra macros that build on */ > +#ifndef CB_LIST_H > +#define CB_LIST_H > + > +#include > + > +/* Provide some safty to list_add, which I find easy to swap the arguments > to */ > + > +#define list_add_entry(pos, head, member) list_add(

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove drivers/net/eepro100.c

2005-11-24 Thread Catalin Marinas
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:15:48PM +, Russell King wrote: >> Well, I've run 2.6.15-rc2 on what I think was the ARM platform which >> exhibited the problem, but it doesn't show up. > > The test was merely a "did it successfully BOOTP" because I can't > g

Re: Mouse issues in -mm

2005-11-24 Thread Marc Koschewski
* Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-23 22:26:43 -0500]: > On Wednesday 23 November 2005 21:06, Frank Sorenson wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Marc Koschewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Just booted into 2.6.15-rc2-mm1. The 'mouse problem' (as reported > > >>earlier) still >

Re: 2.6.15-rc2-mm1

2005-11-24 Thread Harald Welte
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:22:18AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at > > include/asm/semaphore.h:123 > > in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0 > > [] dump_stack+0x17/0x19 > > [] __might_sleep+