From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Pull request for 'ipg-fixes' branch Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:48:35 -0500 Message-ID: <478943C3.2010805@garzik.org> References: <20080110233508.GA13315@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , linux@horizon.com, Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Francois Romieu Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:40344 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759350AbYALWsl (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:48:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080110233508.GA13315@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Francois Romieu wrote: > Please pull from branch 'ipg-fixes' in repository > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/romieu/netdev-2.6.git ipg-fixes > > to get the changes below. > > I have tested the driver with a PIV HT based motherboard. The network > controller is connected to a fast ethernet switch (yeah, I'm cheap). > A second host is performing two loop of scp in both direction for a > 400Mb file. The files are sha1sumed after each scp. I have added a > 'ping -q -f -l16' from the computer under test after some time. > > After 35 copies from the computer under test and 28 copies to it > (the ping eats a bit): > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 1019040 1003860 15180 0 20556 936792 > -/+ buffers/cache: 46512 972528 > Swap: 2031608 0 2031608 > > Before: > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 1019040 572036 447004 0 14988 525924 > -/+ buffers/cache: 31124 987916 > Swap: 2031608 0 2031608 > > /proc/slabinfo before and after the test are attached. > > The driver is still a POMS but it seems better now. > > I will not be available to work further on this issue before sunday. > I'd appreciate being Cced though. > > Distance from 'net-2.6/master' (27d1cba21fcc50c37eef5042c6be9fa7135e88fc) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 286c83ce6e8263a5c4c55a57b4c1040800de0171 > d42f3afc953f9c99ffe84667a3ecf0d3b69f3d64 > 358bf4b8e8cbde5d6411b219e93a61728c892685 > a58cceed4464ba8ae94294184c15f43e92a5de89 > > Diffstat > -------- > > drivers/net/ipg.c | 36 ++++++++++++------------------------ > 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) hrm... tried to pull this, but received non-ipg stuff too