From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:24:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101080124.RAA08134@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
I've put a patch up for testing on the kernel.org mirrors:
/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.0-1.diff.gz
It provides a framework for zerocopy transmits and delayed
receive fragment coalescing. TUX-1.01 uses this framework.
Zerocopy transmit requires some driver support, things run
as they did before for drivers which do not have the support
added. Currently sg+csum driver support has been added to
Acenic, 3c59x, sunhme, and loopback drivers. We had eepro100
support coded at one point, but it was removed because we didn't know
how to identify the cards which support hw csum assist vs. ones
which could not.
I would like people to test this hard and report bugs they may
discover. _PLEASE_ try to see if 2.4.0 without this patch produces
the same problem, and if so report it is a 2.4.0 bug _not_ as a
bug in the zerocopy patch. Thank you.
In particular, I am interested in hearing about any new breakage
caused by the zerocopy patches when using netfilter. When reporting
bugs, please note what networking cards you are using as whether the
card actually is using hw csum assist and sg support is an important
data point.
Finally, regardless of networking card, there should be a measurable
performance boost for NFS clients with this patch due to the delayed
fragment coalescing. KNFSD does not take full advantage of this
facility yet.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-08 21:56 Jes Sorensen
2001-01-08 1:24 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-01-08 10:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-08 10:34 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-08 18:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 21:07 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-09 10:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 10:31 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-09 11:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-09 12:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 14:25 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-09 14:33 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-09 15:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 15:27 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-09 16:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 16:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-09 16:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 17:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-09 17:38 ` Jens Axboe
2001-01-09 18:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 19:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 20:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-10 0:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 20:12 ` Jens Axboe
2001-01-09 23:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 23:34 ` Jens Axboe
2001-01-09 23:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-17 5:16 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-09 17:56 ` Chris Evans
2001-01-09 18:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 22:58 ` [patch]: ac4 blk (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1) Jens Axboe
2001-01-09 19:20 ` [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 J Sloan
2001-01-09 18:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-09 15:38 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
2001-01-09 16:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 17:30 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
2001-01-09 18:12 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-09 18:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 17:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-09 21:13 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-09 19:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 20:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 20:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 20:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-09 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 21:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-09 21:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10 7:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-10 8:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10 8:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-10 8:37 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-10 23:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-19 15:55 ` Andrew Scott
2001-01-17 14:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-18 0:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-18 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-18 17:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-18 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-18 21:12 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-19 1:52 ` 2.4.1-pre8 video/ohci1394 compile problem ebi4
2001-01-19 6:55 ` [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 23:06 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
2001-01-09 23:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10 7:51 ` Gerd Knorr
2001-01-12 1:42 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-09 11:42 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-09 10:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-09 11:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 18:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-09 19:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 14:18 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-09 14:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 14:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-09 15:17 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-09 15:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 22:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10 15:21 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-09 15:25 ` Stephen Frost
2001-01-09 15:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 15:48 ` Stephen Frost
2001-01-10 1:14 ` Dave Zarzycki
2001-01-10 1:14 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-10 2:18 ` Dave Zarzycki
2001-01-10 1:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 21:18 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-10 2:56 ` storage over IP (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1) dean gaudet
2001-01-10 2:58 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-10 3:18 ` dean gaudet
2001-01-10 3:09 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-10 3:05 ` storage over IP (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, Alan Cox
2001-01-08 21:48 ` [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 David S. Miller
2001-01-08 22:32 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-01-08 22:37 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-08 22:43 ` Stephen Frost
2001-01-08 22:36 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-09 12:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 13:42 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-09 21:19 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-09 13:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-09 15:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-10 9:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-09 13:08 Stephen Landamore
2001-01-09 13:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 13:47 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-09 19:15 ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-09 19:14 ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-09 22:03 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-09 22:58 ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-09 22:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-09 23:11 ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-10 3:24 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-09 17:46 Manfred Spraul
2001-01-10 8:41 Manfred Spraul
2001-01-10 8:31 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-10 11:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-10 12:03 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-10 12:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-10 16:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-01-13 15:43 ` yodaiken
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