From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/15] spidernet driver bug fixes
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:00:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466F2581.2080808@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070611181429.GA4397@austin.ibm.com>
Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 01:20:20PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:06:08PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:12:31AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 14:17 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
>>>>> The major bug fixes are:
>>>> I realise it's late, but shouldn't "major bugfixes" be going into 22 ?
>>> Yeah, I suppose, I admit I've lost track of the process.
>> You need to order your bug fixes first in the queue.
>
> OK, here are the patches, re-ordered. There is a different number
> than last time, as I threw out one, merged one, and got cold feet
> on a third one. They still pass the tests.
>
> The first five patches focus on three serious bugs, fixing crashes or
> hangs.
>
> -- patch 1 -- kernel crash when ifdown while receiving packets.
> -- patch 2,3,4 -- device driver deadlocks on "RX ram full" mesgs.
> (kernel stays up, ifdown/up clear the problem).
> -- patch 5 -- misconfigured TX interrupts results in 3x-4x per
> degradation for small packets.
>
> -- patch 6 -- rx stats may be mangled
> -- patch 7 -- hw checksum sometimes breaks ipv6 operation
>
> -- patches 8-15 -- misc tweaks, and documentation.
>
>
> I re-ran my stress tests with patches 1-7 applied; they pass.
This is a bit frustrating, because this includes many patches that you
ALREADY told me to queue for 2.6.23, which I did, in
netdev-2.6.git#upstream.
Should I just drop all spidernet patches and start over?
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-12 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-07 19:17 [PATCH 0/18] spidernet driver bug fixes Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:20 ` [PATCH 1/18] spidernet: skb used after netif_receive_skb Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:22 ` [PATCH 2/18] spidernet: checksum and ethtool Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:24 ` [PATCH 3/18] spidernet: beautify error messages Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:25 ` [PATCH 4/18] spidernet: move a block of code around Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:27 ` [PATCH 5/18] spidernet: zero out a pointer Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:29 ` [PATCH 6/18] spidernet: null out skb pointer after its been used Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:33 ` [PATCH 7/18] spidernet: Don't terminate the RX ring Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:35 ` [PATCH 8/18] spidernet: enhance the dump routine Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:39 ` [PATCH 9/18] spidernet: reset the card when an rxramfull is seen Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:41 ` [PATCH 10/18] spidernet: service TX later Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:43 ` [PATCH 11/18] spidernet: increase the NAPI weight Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:45 ` [PATCH 12/18] spidernet: don't flag rare packets as bad packets Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:51 ` [PATCH 13/18] spidernet: Cure RX ram full bug Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:53 ` [PATCH 14/18] spidernet: silence the ramfull messages Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:55 ` [PATCH 15/18] spidernet: minor RX optimization Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 19:57 ` [PATCH 16/18] spidernet: fix misnamed flag Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 20:01 ` [PATCH 17/18] spidernet: turn off descriptor chain end interrupt Linas Vepstas
2007-06-07 20:05 ` [PATCH 18/18] spidernet: driver docmentation Linas Vepstas
2007-06-08 1:12 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 0/18] spidernet driver bug fixes Michael Ellerman
2007-06-08 17:06 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-06-08 17:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-11 18:14 ` [PATCH 0/15] " Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 18:17 ` [PATCH 1/15] spidernet: null out skb pointer after its been used Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 18:21 ` [PATCH 2/15] spidernet: Cure RX ram full bug Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 18:23 ` [PATCH 3/15] spidernet: Don't terminate the RX ring Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 18:26 ` [PATCH 4/15] spidernet: silence the ramfull messages Linas Vepstas
2007-06-13 20:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-14 22:29 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-06-14 23:12 ` [PATCH] spidernet: Replace literal with const Linas Vepstas
2007-07-02 12:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-11 18:29 ` [PATCH 5/15] spidernet: turn off descriptor chain end interrupt Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 18:32 ` [PATCH 6/15] spidernet: skb used after netif_receive_skb Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 18:35 ` [PATCH 7/15] spidernet: checksum and ethtool Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 18:41 ` [PATCH 8/15] spidernet: beautify error messages Linas Vepstas
2007-06-13 20:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-11 18:48 ` [PATCH 9/15] spidernet: enhance the dump routine Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 18:52 ` [PATCH 10/15] spidernet: invalidate unused pointer Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 18:59 ` [PATCH 11/15] spidernet: service TX later Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 19:02 ` [PATCH 12/15] spidernet: increase the NAPI weight Linas Vepstas
2007-06-13 20:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-13 20:49 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-14 22:08 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 19:05 ` [PATCH 13/15] spidernet: move a block of code around Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 19:09 ` [PATCH 14/15] spidernet: fix misnamed flag Linas Vepstas
2007-06-11 19:12 ` [PATCH 15/15] spidernet: driver docmentation Linas Vepstas
2007-06-13 20:10 ` [PATCH 1/15] spidernet: null out skb pointer after its been used Jeff Garzik
2007-06-14 22:00 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-06-12 2:01 ` [PATCH 0/15] spidernet driver bug fixes Michael Ellerman
2007-06-12 23:00 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-06-12 23:32 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-06-13 0:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-13 16:14 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-06-13 18:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-13 19:01 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-13 19:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-13 20:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-13 23:55 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-06-13 18:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-14 22:08 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " David Woodhouse
2007-06-14 23:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-14 23:03 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-14 23:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-14 23:07 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-14 23:32 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-06-13 1:33 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-06-13 1:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-13 13:53 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-06-13 18:45 ` Jeff Garzik
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