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* Re: Kernel oops on setting sky2 interfaces down
From: Rene Mayrhofer @ 2009-07-28  7:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: netdev, Richard Leitner
In-Reply-To: <20090727153548.7c0d9f85@nehalam>

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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Does this help?
Trying right now, will report results as soon as I have them.

Rene
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* Re: Kernel oops on setting sky2 interfaces down
From: Rene Mayrhofer @ 2009-07-28  7:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: netdev, Richard Leitner
In-Reply-To: <20090727093018.4a830259@nehalam>

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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:03:17 +0200
> Rene Mayrhofer <rene.mayrhofer@gibraltar.at> wrote:
> 
>> Stephen Hemminger schrieb:
>>> You could try commenting out sky2_shutdown which does the Wol
>>> power down stuff. Maybe changing setting of Wake On Lan would
>>> help as well.
>>>
>>> What happens if you take interface down 'ip link set eth0 down' (or ifconfig)?
>>>
>>> There are several different register writes in the shutdown path.
>>> You could add code to check if a particular access is disabling
>>> the PCI buss with:
>>>
>>>     sky2_write(... som register...)
>>>     BUG_ON(sky2_read16(sky2->hw, B0_CTST) == 0xffff);
>> I tried adding that wherever it seemed to make sense, resulting in
> 
> Does the platform use MSI? Perhaps it generates a bogus interrupt when
> powered off.

Potentially:

[root@gibraltar3-esys-master ~]# cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:        311   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:          2   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  2:          0    XT-PIC-XT        cascade
  4:        440   IO-APIC-edge      serial
  7:          0   IO-APIC-edge      parport0
  8:         87   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
 14:     124214   IO-APIC-edge      ide0
 15:          0   IO-APIC-edge      ide1
 19:         95   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ata_piix
 20:        962   IO-APIC-fasteoi   asak
 21:       3644   IO-APIC-fasteoi   testnet
 22:     108021   IO-APIC-fasteoi   hb
 23:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, voip
504:     188598   PCI-MSI-edge      lan
505:       7989   PCI-MSI-edge      dmz
506:     317686   PCI-MSI-edge      gibsrv
507:      84129   PCI-MSI-edge      wan
NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
LOC:   11928173   Local timer interrupts
RES:          0   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:          0   Function call interrupts
TLB:          0   TLB shootdowns
TRM:          0   Thermal event interrupts
SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

Do I interpret this correctly that MSI is used by sky2 (those above are
the network interface names)? Sorry for my ignorance in this regard, but
I haven't consciously used or debugged MSI so far.

best regards,
Rene
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* Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Don't run __qdisc_run() on a stopped TX queue
From: Herbert Xu @ 2009-07-28  7:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: krkumar2, jarkao2, netdev
In-Reply-To: <20090727.212107.161491585.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 09:21:07PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> Good point, but this only suggests that we might want to undo that
> queue runner exclusivity state bit for this case especially when we
> know that we are feeding a multiqueue device.

I'm not convinced that would generate a postivie outcome.  If
you remove the exclusivity and go back to taking two locks in
turns (the qdisc lock or the xmit lock) then the only case where
you might win is if multiple CPUs perform qdisc_run at the same
time.

However, in that case you'll now have two locks bouncing around
instead of one and my guess would be that the cache overhead
would offset any gain that is made from the parallel processing.

But I think the fundamental question is should we treat the scenario
where each CPU is transmitting to its own TX queue as the ideal
and optimise for that over the case where the CPUs are transmitting
more or less randomly into the queues.

Cheers,
-- 
Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/
Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

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* Re: [PATCH] net: shrink net_device by #ifdef-ing protocol-specific members
From: Rémi Denis-Courmont @ 2009-07-28  6:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <4A6DC314.2010303@ixiacom.com>

On Monday 27 July 2009 18:09:08 ext Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote:
> +#if defined(CONFIG_AX25) || defined(CONFIG_AX25_MODULE)
>  	void			*ax25_ptr;	/* AX.25 specific data */
> +#endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS
>  	struct wireless_dev	*ieee80211_ptr;	/* IEEE 802.11 specific data,
>  						   assign before registering */
> +#endif

If I'm not mistaken, AX.25 can only be used with ARPHRD_AX25 devices, no? 
Should there be a single opaque pointer for all non-generic address families 
do, that would only be used by the one matching the header type?

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
Nokia Devices R&D, Maemo Software, Helsinki


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* Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Don't run __qdisc_run() on a stopped TX queue
From: Jarek Poplawski @ 2009-07-28  6:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: herbert, krkumar2, netdev
In-Reply-To: <20090727.212107.161491585.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 09:21:07PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:48:13 +0800
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:28:44PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >>
> >> There is a locking benefit even for non-default qdiscs.
> >> 
> >> Instead of two choke points (qdisc lock and queue lock) there
> >> is now only one (qdisc lock) and consdiering the cost of
> >> things like setting up IOMMU mappings and hitting chip
> >> registers the qdisc lock is the shortest held of the two.
> > 
> > But only one CPU can process a given qdisc at one time so I don't
> > see why there is a second choke point if you use a single queue
> > with a non-default qdisc.
> 
> Good point, but this only suggests that we might want to undo that
> queue runner exclusivity state bit for this case especially when we
> know that we are feeding a multiqueue device.

I guess the main sacrifice of Herbert's idea is sch_multiq, and we
could probably consider some compromise like doing qdisc_run (with
qdisc_restart) a callback or only adding a "if default qdisc" check,
depending on costs/gains.

Jarek P.

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* Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 13760] New: 2.6.30 kernel locks up with pppoe in back trace (regression)
From: Igor M Podlesny @ 2009-07-28  6:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: bugzilla-daemon, bugme-daemon, netdev
In-Reply-To: <20090723000100.d74d6b1c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

[...]
> Could have been a problem in net core, perhaps.
>
> Below is a ppp fix from 2.6.31, but it seems unlikely to fix your problem.
>
> It would help if we could see that trace, please.  A digital photo
> would suit.

	Here it is:

		http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=22516

	(It's 2.6.30.3)
	
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* Re: net-next-2.6 phonet causes build error
From: Eric Dumazet @ 2009-07-28  6:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: remi.denis-courmont, netdev
In-Reply-To: <20090727.193157.168527559.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:09:24 +0200
> 
>> I currently use gcc-3.4.6, and current net-next-2.6 doesnt compile
>> for me (but linux-2.6 does compile properly so I just know this is
>> already fixed upstream)
> 
> Eric, just FYI, I am not going to merge Linus's tree into
> net-2.6 (and therefore not into net-next-2.6 either) unless
> there is some conflict to resolve.
> 
> So if you need this build fix, please integrate it locally
> by whatever means works best for you.

Thanks for the info David :)

Dont worry, I can deal with it !

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* Re: [PATCH v2] IPVS: logging sizeof(struct ip_vs_conn) on startup
From: Eric Dumazet @ 2009-07-28  5:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Simon Horman
  Cc: David Miller, heder, netdev, lvs-users, malcolm, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <20090728001926.GA20230@verge.net.au>

Simon Horman a écrit :
> 
> Surprisingly its a very common question amongst users,
> because they want to know how much memory they need.
> It is of course all a bit silly, because the amount of
> memory used by the connection table is usually very small,
> but people still ask.
> 

If SLUB is used 

$ cat /sys/kernel/slab/ip_vs_conn/object_size

If SLAB is used, take fourth column of :

$ grep ip_vs_conn /proc/slabinfo

BTW these take into account L1 cache size alignment

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* Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Don't run __qdisc_run() on a stopped TX queue
From: David Miller @ 2009-07-28  4:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: herbert; +Cc: krkumar2, jarkao2, netdev
In-Reply-To: <20090728024813.GA23992@gondor.apana.org.au>

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:48:13 +0800

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:28:44PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>>
>> There is a locking benefit even for non-default qdiscs.
>> 
>> Instead of two choke points (qdisc lock and queue lock) there
>> is now only one (qdisc lock) and consdiering the cost of
>> things like setting up IOMMU mappings and hitting chip
>> registers the qdisc lock is the shortest held of the two.
> 
> But only one CPU can process a given qdisc at one time so I don't
> see why there is a second choke point if you use a single queue
> with a non-default qdisc.

Good point, but this only suggests that we might want to undo that
queue runner exclusivity state bit for this case especially when we
know that we are feeding a multiqueue device.

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* Re: [PATCH] pxaficp-ir - remove incorrect net_device_ops
From: Eric Miao @ 2009-07-28  3:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Marek Vasut
  Cc: linux-arm-kernel, Russell King - ARM Linux, samuel, netdev,
	Alexander Beregalov
In-Reply-To: <200907240257.10906.marek.vasut@gmail.com>

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Marek Vasut wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This patch fixes broken pxaficp-ir. The problem was in incorrect
> net_device_ops being specified which prevented the driver from
> operating. The symptoms were:
>  - failing ifconfig for IrLAN, resulting in
> 	SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
>  - irattach working for IrCOMM, but the port stayed disabled
> 
> Moreover this patch corrects missing sysfs device link.
> 
> btw. guys, be honest, when did you last tested pxaficp-ir on real hardware? ;-)
> 

Well, this seems to be brought by the net_device_ops change, which seems
to happen silently without any of us being notified.

OK, netdev and Alex are copied, so that we can look into this issue a bit
deeper:

1. it looks to me that SIOCSIFFLAGS actually returned -EADDRNOTAVAIL, which
   is likely caused by eth_validate_addr, the default eth_addr comes with
   irda should be "00:00:00:00:00:00" if not explicitly specified (kzalloc),
   and this should be the problem, solution ?  Either give a valid address
   to the irda net_device or remove this 'ndo_validate_addr'. And which is
   a correct fix will impact on the .ndo_set_mac_address

2. '.ndo_change_mtu' ? It looks to me that Irda device doesn't care too much
   about the MTU, eth_change_mtu is supposed to work just fine and not to
   cause any side effects, and may just benefit later irda device drivers if
   there is a weird device happens to care about MTU

- eric

Marek's original patch in attachment.

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>From 28b229f0f3f807d775a7e70b96c018eef935a24a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:44:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] pxaficp-ir - remove incorrect net_device_ops

This patch fixes broken pxaficp-ir. The problem was in incorrect
net_device_ops being specified which prevented the driver from
operating. The symptoms were:
 - failing ifconfig for IrLAN, resulting in
	SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
 - irattach working for IrCOMM, but the port stayed disabled

Moreover this patch corrects missing sysfs device link.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/irda/pxaficp_ir.c |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/pxaficp_ir.c b/drivers/net/irda/pxaficp_ir.c
index 4edbdbe..f5b7d83 100644
--- a/drivers/net/irda/pxaficp_ir.c
+++ b/drivers/net/irda/pxaficp_ir.c
@@ -820,9 +820,6 @@ static const struct net_device_ops pxa_irda_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_stop		= pxa_irda_stop,
 	.ndo_start_xmit		= pxa_irda_hard_xmit,
 	.ndo_do_ioctl		= pxa_irda_ioctl,
-	.ndo_change_mtu		= eth_change_mtu,
-	.ndo_validate_addr	= eth_validate_addr,
-	.ndo_set_mac_address	= eth_mac_addr,
 };
 
 static int pxa_irda_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
@@ -847,6 +844,7 @@ static int pxa_irda_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (!dev)
 		goto err_mem_3;
 
+	SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &pdev->dev);
 	si = netdev_priv(dev);
 	si->dev = &pdev->dev;
 	si->pdata = pdev->dev.platform_data;
-- 
1.6.3.3


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* Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Don't run __qdisc_run() on a stopped TX queue
From: Herbert Xu @ 2009-07-28  2:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: krkumar2, jarkao2, netdev
In-Reply-To: <20090727.192844.163233275.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:28:44PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> There is a locking benefit even for non-default qdiscs.
> 
> Instead of two choke points (qdisc lock and queue lock) there
> is now only one (qdisc lock) and consdiering the cost of
> things like setting up IOMMU mappings and hitting chip
> registers the qdisc lock is the shortest held of the two.

But only one CPU can process a given qdisc at one time so I don't
see why there is a second choke point if you use a single queue
with a non-default qdisc.

Cheers,
-- 
Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/
Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

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* Re: net-next-2.6 phonet causes build error
From: David Miller @ 2009-07-28  2:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dada1; +Cc: remi.denis-courmont, eric.dumazet, netdev
In-Reply-To: <4A6D60B4.1070601@cosmosbay.com>

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:09:24 +0200

> I currently use gcc-3.4.6, and current net-next-2.6 doesnt compile
> for me (but linux-2.6 does compile properly so I just know this is
> already fixed upstream)

Eric, just FYI, I am not going to merge Linus's tree into
net-2.6 (and therefore not into net-next-2.6 either) unless
there is some conflict to resolve.

So if you need this build fix, please integrate it locally
by whatever means works best for you.

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* Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Don't run __qdisc_run() on a stopped TX queue
From: David Miller @ 2009-07-28  2:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: herbert; +Cc: krkumar2, jarkao2, netdev
In-Reply-To: <20090725032436.GA30741@gondor.apana.org.au>

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:24:36 +0800

> Dave, remember our discussion about the benefits of using multiqueue
> TX just for the sake of enarlging the TX queues? How about just
> going back to using a single queue for non-default qdiscs (at
> least until such a time when non-default qdiscs start doing
> multiple queues internally)?
> 
> Yes it would mean potentially smaller queues for those non-default
> qdisc users, but they're usually the same people who want the
> hardware to queue as little as possible in order to enforce whatever
> it is that their qdisc is designed to enforce.

There is a locking benefit even for non-default qdiscs.

Instead of two choke points (qdisc lock and queue lock) there
is now only one (qdisc lock) and consdiering the cost of
things like setting up IOMMU mappings and hitting chip
registers the qdisc lock is the shortest held of the two.

So going to one queue would be a serious regression.

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* Re: [PATCH] ip: fix logic of reverse path filter sysctl
From: David Miller @ 2009-07-28  1:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: shemminger; +Cc: netdev
In-Reply-To: <20090724123005.35450325@nehalam>

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:30:05 -0700

> Even though reverse path filter was changed from simple boolean to trinary control,
> the loose mode only works if both all and device are configured because of
> this logic error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Good catch, applied, thanks Stephen!

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* Re: [PATCH v2] IPVS: logging sizeof(struct ip_vs_conn) on startup
From: Simon Horman @ 2009-07-28  0:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller
  Cc: heder, netdev, eric.dumazet, lvs-users, malcolm, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <20090727.114845.177925839.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:48:45AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Hannes Eder <heder@google.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:13:57 +0200
> 
> > No more guessing, how much memory used by IPVS for a connection.
> > 
> > [ The number printed is a lower bound, as ip_vs_conn_cache uses
> > SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN. ]
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <heder@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
> 
> Who needs to know this?  A developer?
> 
> They can run tools such as 'pahole' et al. to fish out this
> information even when only a kernel binary is available.
> 
> For the user, it's just noise.
> 
> I'm not applying this, sorry.

Surprisingly its a very common question amongst users,
because they want to know how much memory they need.
It is of course all a bit silly, because the amount of
memory used by the connection table is usually very small,
but people still ask.

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* ESP - Differing Lengths Passed from ESP
From: Vlad Dogaru @ 2009-07-27 23:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev

Hello,

Is there any reason that, in an ablkcipher_request, fields nbytes and 
src->length differ by 12 bytes? I'm asking this on netdev since the data 
comes from ESP, apologies if this is inappropriate.

Thanks,
Vlad

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* Re: Kernel oops on setting sky2 interfaces down
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2009-07-27 22:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rene Mayrhofer; +Cc: netdev, Richard Leitner
In-Reply-To: <4A6D8975.4050000@gibraltar.at>

Does this help?

--- a/drivers/net/sky2.c	2009-07-27 15:28:27.653757064 -0700
+++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c	2009-07-27 15:34:24.358730966 -0700
@@ -2763,6 +2763,11 @@ static int sky2_poll(struct napi_struct 
 	int work_done = 0;
 	u16 idx;
 
+	if (unlikely(status == ~0)) {
+		dev_info(&hw->pdev->dev, "device status error\n");
+		goto clear_napi;
+	}
+
 	if (unlikely(status & Y2_IS_ERROR))
 		sky2_err_intr(hw, status);
 
@@ -2779,6 +2784,7 @@ static int sky2_poll(struct napi_struct 
 			goto done;
 	}
 
+clear_napi:
 	napi_complete(napi);
 	sky2_read32(hw, B0_Y2_SP_LISR);
 done:

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* Re: ixgbe: panic in ixgbe_clean_rx_irq()
From: Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P @ 2009-07-27 22:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Todd Merritt; +Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090727T214746-75@post.gmane.org>

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Todd Merritt wrote:

> We're getting a panic in the same function with the stable version of the ixgbe
> driver 2.0.38.2-1 on redhat 5 kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.  Is there a dev
> release of the driver that might have a fix in it ?

Are you also running with preemption enabled?  We're having a very tough 
time reproducing this bug in our lab, so no, we don't have any fix for it 
yet.

-PJ

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* Re: ixgbe: panic in ixgbe_clean_rx_irq()
From: Todd Merritt @ 2009-07-27 21:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.64.0907241142370.2084@ppwaskie-MOBL2.amr.corp.intel.com>

Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr <at> intel.com> writes:

> 
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 17:21 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > > I'm going to run a test with a no-preempt kernel over night...
> > 
> > The no-preempt kernel has been stable for 17 hours, while running a four
> > times 10GbE pktgen load test (using 1024 bytes packets).
> > 
> > Kernel git version (git describe):
> >  v2.6.31-rc1-932-g8e321c4
> > 
> > Git ("git log e594e96..8e321c4 drivers/net/ixgbe") reports not changes
> > to the ixgbe driver between these two kernel versions.
> 
> Thanks for the additional info Jesper.  This is definately a good data 
> point.  I'm not sure where to go with the preemption debugging at this 
> point with our driver under heavy load.  We're still trying to repro here.  
> I'll keep digging around though in the meantime.
> 
> This is the second preemption-induced bug from ixgbe we've had reported in 
> a few days.  Eek!
> 
We're getting a panic in the same function with the stable version of the ixgbe
driver 2.0.38.2-1 on redhat 5 kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.  Is there a dev
release of the driver that might have a fix in it ?

Thanks,
Todd




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* Re: r8169 (+others ?) and note_interrupt performance hit on 2.6.30.x
From: Jarek Poplawski @ 2009-07-27 21:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michal Soltys; +Cc: Francois Romieu, netdev
In-Reply-To: <4A6CA3EF.7080909@ziu.info>

Michal Soltys wrote, On 07/26/2009 08:43 PM:

...
> Anwyay, not sure if this is useful, so if there is anything better
> I could do, just push me in the right direction.

Short test of 2.6.29? (Unless you prefer a bisection...)

Jarek P.

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* Re: [PATCH NEXT 12/12] netxen: update version to 4.0.41
From: Dhananjay Phadke @ 2009-07-27 21:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20090727.123807.268367807.davem@davemloft.net>

Agreed that it duplicates work in individual drivers,
and the naming style followed by different vendors.

But the problem is ethtool can work only after driver
has successfully initialized interfaces. Otherwise,
ethtool gets no chance to tune up/down.

The driver defaults are for tuned for typical use cases.
On some frugal systems with lower amount of RAM, the
driver bails out failing to allocate enough ring space
or rx buffers [especially for 32-bit kernels]. This is
also a problem for multi-function (more than one PCI
function per physical port) mode, where number of
interfaces and hence the memory consumption gets
multiplied. For these cases something that can set
the bar before device initialization, is quite helpful.

Thanks,
Dhananjay



David Miller wrote:
> No, it is not good.
> 
> With module parameters we:
> 
> 1) duplicate functionality
> 
> 2) every device driver will name the module parms differently,
>    therefore the interface for the user is different for every device
>    type
> 
> We discuss this all the time, and this is a pretty deep rooted
> belief and requirement for all network drivers.


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* Re: [PATCH] net: Keep interface binding when sending packets with ipi_ifindex = 0
From: Andrew Morton @ 2009-07-27 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Chia-chi Yeh; +Cc: linux-kernel, netdev
In-Reply-To: <6c039e090907231439t1def08a4n10978733bee55bec@mail.gmail.com>

(cc netdev)

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:39:28 -0700
Chia-chi Yeh (_________) <chiachi@android.com> wrote:

> In IPv4, sending a packet with ipi_ifindex = 0 via an interface-bound
> socket will unbind the packet to that interface. This behavior is
> different from IPv6 which treats ipi6_ifindex = 0 as unspecified.
> Furthermore, IPv6 does not allow sending packets to other interface
> than the bound one, but I am not sure if it is necessary in IPv4. The
> following patch keeps the interface binding when ipi_ifindex = 0.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chia-chi
> 
> --- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c	2009-07-24 04:50:45.000000000 +0800
> +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c	2009-07-24 04:51:09.000000000 +0800
> @@ -213,7 +213,8 @@
>  			if (cmsg->cmsg_len != CMSG_LEN(sizeof(struct in_pktinfo)))
>  				return -EINVAL;
>  			info = (struct in_pktinfo *)CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
> -			ipc->oif = info->ipi_ifindex;
> +			if (info->ipi_ifindex)
> +				ipc->oif = info->ipi_ifindex;
>  			ipc->addr = info->ipi_spec_dst.s_addr;
>  			break;
>  		}


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* [GIT]: Networking
From: David Miller @ 2009-07-27 20:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: torvalds; +Cc: akpm, netdev, linux-kernel


1) Enable smc91x to work on Nomadik evaluation ARM borads.
   From Alessandro Rubini

2) Build fix, KS8851 needs MII, from Alexander Beregalov

3) WoL got busted in ixgbe, fix from Andy Gospodarek.

4) Fixed-link support in fs_enet/gianfar/ucc_geth/of-mdio was
   broken unintentionally, fix from Anton Vorontsov.

5) irda memcpys into a spinlock, forgets to initialize it,
   lockdep gets angry, fix from Deepak Saxena

6) ixgbe counts UDP checksum errors that aren't due to an errata,
   fix from Don Skidmore

7) Broadcom CNIC driver doesn't handle ISCSI_KEVENT_IF_DOWN messages
   properly, fix from Michael Chan.

8) Turn WoL on by default in skge if supported, from Rafael J. Wysocki.

9) ROSE protocol uses static buffer for computing procfs output
   strings, which doesn't work very well on SMP, fix from Ralf Baechle

10) When bridging's br_add_if fails, we don't release kobjects properly,
    fix from Xiaotian Feng

11) Fix WoL for 8169 chips, from François Romieu.

12) Several out-of-bounds array access fixes from Roel Kluin
    (eepro, fealnx, at1700, tokenring)

13) Netxen driver fix for suspend/resume, wasn't resetting the
    consumer ring pointer properly.  Fix from Dhananjay Phadke.

14) Wireless fixes from John Linville and the wireless crew.

Please pull, thanks a lot!

The following changes since commit e00b95debb9a0f023b61abcd4b1e74f687276b47:
  Linus Torvalds (1):
        Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../bp/bp

are available in the git repository at:

  master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git master

Ajit Khaparde (1):
      be2net: Bug fix in the non-lro path. Size of received packet was not updated in statistics properly.

Alan Jenkins (3):
      rfkill: fix rfkill_set_states() to set the hw state
      rfkill: remove too-strict __must_check
      acer-wmi: fix rfkill conversion

Alessandro Rubini (1):
      smc91x.h: add config for Nomadik evaluation kit

Alexander Beregalov (1):
      net: KS8851 needs to depend on MII

Andy Gospodarek (1):
      ixgbe: remove unnecessary call to device_init_wakeup

Andy Whitcroft (1):
      rt2x00: Fix chipset detection for rt2500usb

Anton Vorontsov (4):
      of/mdio: Add support function for Ethernet fixed-link property
      fs_enet: Revive fixed link support
      gianfar: Revive fixed link support
      ucc_geth: Revive fixed link support

Bob Copeland (1):
      ath5k: temporarily disable crypto for AP mode

Christian Lamparter (1):
      cfg80211: double free in __cfg80211_scan_done

Dan Carpenter (1):
      p54spi: fix potential null deref in p54spi.c

David S. Miller (1):
      Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/.../linville/wireless-2.6

Deepak Saxena (1):
      net: irda: init spinlock after memcpy

Dhananjay Phadke (1):
      netxen: reset ring consumer during cleanup

Don Skidmore (1):
      ixgbe: fix for 82599 errata marking UDP checksum errors

Javier Cardona (1):
      mac80211: use correct address for mesh Path Error

Johannes Berg (4):
      mac80211: disable mesh
      rfkill: allow toggling soft state in sysfs again
      mac80211_hwsim: fix unregistration
      mac80211_hwsim: fix use after free

Larry Finger (1):
      rtl8187: Fix for kernel oops when unloading with LEDs enabled

Lucy Liu (1):
      ixgbe: Don't priority tag control frames in DCB mode

Luis R. Rodriguez (2):
      ath9k: Tune ANI function processing on AP mode during ANI reset
      ath: add support for special 0x8000 regulatory domain

Marek Vasut (1):
      libertas: Fix problem with broken V4 firmware on CF8381

Mark Ware (1):
      net: Rework mdio-ofgpio driver to use of_mdio infrastructure

Michael Chan (1):
      cnic: Fix ISCSI_KEVENT_IF_DOWN message handling.

Niko Jokinen (1):
      nl80211: Memory leak fixed

Pavel Roskin (1):
      mac80211: fix injection in monitor mode

Rafael J. Wysocki (1):
      skge: Enable WoL by default if supported

Ralf Baechle (1):
      NET: ROSE: Don't use static buffer.

Reinette Chatre (2):
      iwlwifi: only show active power level via sysfs
      iwlwifi: only update byte count table during aggregation

Roel Kluin (1):
      eepro: Read buffer overflow

Uwe Kleine-König (1):
      register at91_ether using platform_driver_probe

Xiaotian Feng (1):
      net/bridge: use kobject_put to release kobject in br_add_if error path

Yi Zou (1):
      ixgbe: Enable FCoE offload when DCB is enabled for 82599

Zhu Yi (1):
      iwmc3200wifi: fix NULL pointer dereference in iwm_if_free

françois romieu (1):
      r8169: WakeOnLan fix for the 8168

roel kluin (3):
      fealnx: Write outside array bounds
      at1700: Read buffer overflow
      tokenring: Read buffer overflow

 drivers/net/Kconfig                         |    1 +
 drivers/net/arm/at91_ether.c                |    3 +-
 drivers/net/at1700.c                        |    2 +-
 drivers/net/benet/be_main.c                 |    8 ++--
 drivers/net/cnic.c                          |   23 +++++++-
 drivers/net/eepro.c                         |    2 +-
 drivers/net/fealnx.c                        |    3 +-
 drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c          |   20 ++++----
 drivers/net/gianfar.c                       |   24 +++------
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.h                   |    1 +
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_dcb_nl.c            |   24 ++++++++
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c              |   52 +++++++++++-------
 drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c        |    7 +++
 drivers/net/phy/mdio-gpio.c                 |   77 ++++++++++++--------------
 drivers/net/r8169.c                         |   13 ++++-
 drivers/net/skge.c                          |    4 +-
 drivers/net/smc91x.h                        |    3 +-
 drivers/net/tokenring/ibmtr.c               |    2 +-
 drivers/net/ucc_geth.c                      |   23 +++------
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c       |    3 +
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ani.c        |   12 ++++
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/regd.c             |   17 ++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c      |    4 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c       |    3 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c |    4 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/netdev.c  |    2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c         |    8 +++-
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/defs.h        |    2 +
 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c       |    6 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54spi.c           |    2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c     |    4 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_leds.c |    3 +-
 drivers/of/of_mdio.c                        |   42 +++++++++++++++
 drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c             |    2 +-
 include/linux/of_mdio.h                     |    3 +
 include/linux/rfkill.h                      |    2 +-
 include/net/rose.h                          |    2 +-
 net/bridge/br_if.c                          |    2 +-
 net/irda/irttp.c                            |    1 +
 net/mac80211/Kconfig                        |    1 +
 net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c                 |   11 +++-
 net/mac80211/tx.c                           |    2 +-
 net/rfkill/core.c                           |   31 ++++++++---
 net/rose/af_rose.c                          |   18 +++----
 net/rose/rose_route.c                       |   23 ++++----
 net/wireless/nl80211.c                      |    5 +-
 net/wireless/scan.c                         |    3 +-
 47 files changed, 336 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)

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* Re: [PATCH] xfrm: export xfrm garbage collector thresholds via sysctl
From: David Miller @ 2009-07-27 20:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: joe; +Cc: nhorman, netdev, herbert, kuznet, pekkas, jmorris, yoshfuji,
	kaber
In-Reply-To: <7E46FEB5-E422-45B2-9D68-010DD7C23B78@nall.com>

From: Joe Nall <joe@nall.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:02:20 -0500

> The problem was seen serving TCP connections over IPSec when the
> server (a 24 core machine w 32GB RAM) and the IPSec host were the same
> (transport not tunnel).

Aha, thanks for the clarification, that makes a lot more sense.

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* Re: [PATCH] xfrm: export xfrm garbage collector thresholds via sysctl
From: Joe Nall @ 2009-07-27 20:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller
  Cc: nhorman, netdev, herbert, kuznet, pekkas, jmorris, yoshfuji,
	kaber
In-Reply-To: <20090727.124011.05728493.davem@davemloft.net>


On Jul 27, 2009, at 2:40 PM, David Miller wrote:

> From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:36:25 -0400
>
>> I think that makes sense, since it means we only keep cache entries
>> for active connections, and clean them up as soon as they close
>> (e.g. I don't really see the advantage to unhashing a xfrm cache
>> entry only to recreate it on the next packet sent).
>
> How is this related to the user's problem?
>
> My impression was that they were forwarding IPSEC traffic when
> running up against these limits, and that has no socket based
> assosciation at all.
>
> Making the XFRM GC limits get computed similarly to how the
> ipv4/ipv6 one's do probably makes sense.

The problem was seen serving TCP connections over IPSec when the  
server (a 24 core machine w 32GB RAM) and the IPSec host were the same  
(transport not tunnel).

The problem was originally identified in an MLS ipsec thin client  
stress test with 25 clients and 200+ windows per client.

We then duplicated the issue with single level xclocks on the same  
hardware.

I then duplicated the problem with two bone stock (not MLS) F10 (and  
later F11) boxes running ab (apache benchmark tool) with 10k requests  
over 2k concurrent connections. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503124

With the gc_thresh raised to 8k, my ab test passes with 5k+  
connections and 100k requests. Our test guys ran 11 workstations with  
about 2200 concurrent X connections over the weekend and I'm hoping  
for some MLS results before we lose the test suite on Wednesday.

joe

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