WiFi and changed MAC addrs

2007-09-05 Thread Ben Woodard
I just spent basically a day of my weekend grappling with this problem http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWifi before I understood it well enough to realize that the fact that Xen changed the MAC addr for my WiFi card was the root cause of the problem. This got me thinking: If a particular p

Re: [PATCH] Customizable TCP backoff patch

2006-10-12 Thread Ben Woodard
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote: + .data = &sysctl_tcp_rto_max, + .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned), sizeof(unsigned long) Good catch. That would have corrupted things badly on some 64b platforms. With all the flux in the area I forgot to change the size

Re: [PATCH] Customizable TCP backoff patch

2006-10-11 Thread Ben Woodard
s test compile failed because I was out of disk. I figured that the code I changed had compiled. I guess not. I really didn't understand Yoshifuji Hideaki's comment. (sorry) -ben Vlad Yasevich wrote: Ben Woodard wrote: ---

Re: [PATCH] Customizable TCP backoff patch

2006-10-10 Thread Ben Woodard
David Miller wrote: From: Ben Woodard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:14:38 -0700 Other issues: 1) 2 "u32" in the tcp_sock is a lot of space to devote to this new state. If it can fit in 2 "u16"'s or even less space, please use tha

Re: [PATCH] Customizable TCP backoff patch

2006-10-03 Thread Ben Woodard
David Miller wrote: From: Ben Woodard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:52:57 -0700 Because these are general utility clusters we run many different programs and so trying to fix this problem in the application is not possible since there are literally hundreds if not thousa

[PATCH] Customizable TCP backoff patch

2006-09-27 Thread Ben Woodard
e common a case than is widely recognized. Signed-off-by: Ben Woodard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ru linux-2.6.18/include/linux/sysctl.h linux-2.6.18.new/include/linux/sysctl.h --- linux-2.6.18/include/linux/sysctl.h 2006-09-19 20:42:06.00