Re: Looking for testers with these NICs

From: Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 17:37:48 EST


On 9 October 2002 15:14, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:31:17PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > ewrk3.c
>
> I've got a few of these laying around. Send whatever patches you want
> tested and I'll give it a shot.

Please do your best in trying to break it, especially since you say you have
more than one. Can you plug them all in one box?

I'd suggest SMP/preempt heavy IO. Is there stress test software for NICs?
What is pktgen?

--
vda

diff -u --recursive linux-2.5.40org/drivers/net/ewrk3.c linux-2.5.40/drivers/net/ewrk3.c --- linux-2.5.40org/drivers/net/ewrk3.c Tue Oct 1 05:06:58 2002 +++ linux-2.5.40/drivers/net/ewrk3.c Thu Oct 3 12:09:46 2002 @@ -930,6 +930,7 @@ spin_unlock(&lp->hw_lock); }

+/* Called with lp->hw_lock held */ static int ewrk3_rx(struct net_device *dev) { struct ewrk3_private *lp = (struct ewrk3_private *) dev->priv; @@ -1055,8 +1056,9 @@ }

/* - ** Buffer sent - check for TX buffer errors. - */ +** Buffer sent - check for TX buffer errors. +** Called with lp->hw_lock held +*/ static int ewrk3_tx(struct net_device *dev) { struct ewrk3_private *lp = (struct ewrk3_private *) dev->priv; @@ -1631,6 +1633,7 @@ u_long iobase = dev->base_addr; int i, j, status = 0; u_char csr; + unsigned long flags; union ewrk3_addr { u_char addr[HASH_TABLE_LEN * ETH_ALEN]; u_short val[(HASH_TABLE_LEN * ETH_ALEN) >> 1]; @@ -1745,19 +1748,26 @@ }

break; - case EWRK3_GET_STATS: /* Get the driver statistics */ - cli(); - ioc->len = sizeof(lp->pktStats); - if (copy_to_user(ioc->data, &lp->pktStats, ioc->len)) - status = -EFAULT; - sti(); + case EWRK3_GET_STATS: { /* Get the driver statistics */ + typeof(lp->pktStats) *tmp_stats = + kmalloc(sizeof(lp->pktStats), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!tmp_stats) return -ENOMEM; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&lp->hw_lock, flags); + memcpy(tmp_stats, &lp->pktStats, sizeof(lp->pktStats)); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->hw_lock, flags);

+ ioc->len = sizeof(lp->pktStats); + if (copy_to_user(ioc->data, tmp_stats, sizeof(lp->pktStats))) + status = -EFAULT; + kfree(tmp_stats); break; + } case EWRK3_CLR_STATS: /* Zero out the driver statistics */ if (capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) { - cli(); + spin_lock_irqsave(&lp->hw_lock, flags); memset(&lp->pktStats, 0, sizeof(lp->pktStats)); - sti(); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->hw_lock,flags); } else { status = -EPERM; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



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