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Hello, I've got a very strange problem. Lately I've been setting up my linux servers for network (layer2) redundancy with a bridge interface containing two ethernet interfaces connecting to two switches. So far I didn't have any problems with it, but now a very strange thing happens with a new server I'm installing. The server is an ibm x346 having two onboard BCM5721 cards, the

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net> Once virtio starts using the DMA API, we won't be able to safely DMA from the stack. virtio-net does a couple of config DMA requests from small stack buffers -- switch to using dynamically-allocated memory. This should have no effect on any performance-critical code paths. Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net> Once virtio starts using the DMA API, we won't be able to safely DMA from the stack. virtio-net does a couple of config DMA requests from small stack buffers -- switch to using dynamically-allocated memory. This should have no effect on any performance-critical code paths. Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"

Ben Greear wrote: > Well, it seems we could and should fix veth to work, but it will have > to do equivalent work of copying an skb most likely, so either way > you'll probably get a big performance hit. Using the same pktgen script (i.e with clone=0) I see that a veth-->bridge-->veth configuration gives about 400K PPS forwarding performance where

Ben Greear wrote: > Well, it seems we could and should fix veth to work, but it will have > to do equivalent work of copying an skb most likely, so either way > you'll probably get a big performance hit. Using the same pktgen script (i.e with clone=0) I see that a veth-->bridge-->veth configuration gives about 400K PPS forwarding performance where

Hi I didn't get bridgeing to work with Linux kernel 2.6.10 (coldfire 5485) yet. When i try to configure bridgeing with "brctl", everything seems to be ok, but i if i try to ping through my bridge, i see ARP-Request arriving on the other side, but the ARP-Responses do not go back through the bridge. Now i could read in

When sending control commands, virtio net sets up several buffers for DMA. The buffers are all part of the net device which means it's actually allocated by kvmalloc so it's in theory (on extreme memory pressure) possible to get a vmalloc'ed buffer which on some platforms means we can't DMA there. Fix up by moving the DMA buffers into a separate structure. Reported-by: Mikulas

When sending control commands, virtio net sets up several buffers for DMA. The buffers are all part of the net device which means it's actually allocated by kvmalloc so in theory (on extreme memory pressure) it's possible to get a vmalloc'ed buffer which on some platforms means we can't DMA there. Fix up by moving the DMA buffers out into a separate structure. Reported-by:

Please see the following thread to get some context on this http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121564433018903&w=2 Basically the issue is that current multi-cast filtering stuff in the TUN/TAP driver is seriously broken. Original patch went in without proper review and ACK. It was broken and confusing to start with and subsequent patches broke it completely. To give you an idea of

Please see the following thread to get some context on this http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121564433018903&w=2 Basically the issue is that current multi-cast filtering stuff in the TUN/TAP driver is seriously broken. Original patch went in without proper review and ACK. It was broken and confusing to start with and subsequent patches broke it completely. To give you an idea of

Add raw network backend option which uses a packet socket to provide raw networking access. Once the socket is opened it's bound to a provided host interface, such that packets received on the interface are delivered to the VM and packets sent by the VM are sent to the interface. This is functionally similar to the existing pcap network backend, with the same advantages and problems.

Add raw network backend option which uses a packet socket to provide raw networking access. Once the socket is opened it's bound to a provided host interface, such that packets received on the interface are delivered to the VM and packets sent by the VM are sent to the interface. This is functionally similar to the existing pcap network backend, with the same advantages and problems.

This switches virtio to use the DMA API unconditionally. I'm sure it breaks things, but it seems to work on x86 using virtio-pci, with and without Xen, and using both the modern 1.0 variant and the legacy variant. Changes from v2: - Fix really embarrassing bug. This version actually works. Changes from v1: - Fix an endian conversion error causing a BUG to hit. - Fix a DMA ordering issue

This switches virtio to use the DMA API unconditionally. I'm sure it breaks things, but it seems to work on x86 using virtio-pci, with and without Xen, and using both the modern 1.0 variant and the legacy variant. Changes from v2: - Fix really embarrassing bug. This version actually works. Changes from v1: - Fix an endian conversion error causing a BUG to hit. - Fix a DMA ordering issue

Some people asked about getting involved with vhost. Here's a short list of projects. vhost-net driver projects - profiling would be very helpful, I have not done any yet - tap support - working on it now - merged buffers - working on it now - scalability/fairness for large # of guests - working on it now - logging support with dirty page tracking in kernel - working on it now - indirect

Some people asked about getting involved with vhost. Here's a short list of projects. vhost-net driver projects - profiling would be very helpful, I have not done any yet - tap support - working on it now - merged buffers - working on it now - scalability/fairness for large # of guests - working on it now - logging support with dirty page tracking in kernel - working on it now - indirect

This patch convert rx mode setting to be done in a workqueue, this is a must for allow to sleep when waiting for the cvq command to response since current code is executed under addr spin lock. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> --- Changes since V1: - use RTNL to synchronize rx mode worker --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file

It appears that interfaces participate in STP's forwarding delay even when STP is disabled for a given bridge. I can remedy by setting the FD to 0 for each new bridge, but I'm wondering if this is by design or oversight. [root@ ~]# brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0.690 8000.00065b8bce3e no eth1.690

Hi all: The code used to busy poll for cvq command which turns out to have several side effects: 1) infinite poll for buggy devices 2) bad interaction with scheduler So this series tries to use cond_resched() in the waiting loop. Before doing this we need first make sure the cvq command is not executed in atomic environment, so we need first convert rx mode handling to a workqueue. Please

Hi all: The code used to busy poll for cvq command which turns out to have several side effects: 1) infinite poll for buggy devices 2) bad interaction with scheduler So this series tries to use cond_resched() in the waiting loop. Before doing this we need first make sure the cvq command is not executed in atomic environment, so we need first convert rx mode handling to a workqueue. Note that,