[Netnice-kernels] Update

[Takashi O. <ta...@wi...>]

Hi, netnice-kernel developers!

I forward a status update to the list, just to keep everybody updated.

Have a great holiday!

-- taka

Scott Brumbaugh wrote:
> Here is some status on netnice for linux-2.6.12.
> 
> Since Matt expressed interest in netnice, I am sending a patch to
> linux-2.6.12 that partially ports netnice from 2.6.7.  I decided to
> start from scratch because I had problems booting linux with the code
> in CVS.
> 
> I fixed some locking issues from the 2.6.7 port that caused problems
> with the preemptable kernel.  I am running 2.6.12 configured for SMP +
> preemptable.  I am using gcc 3.3.5 to build and I have found that gcc
> 
>>3.4 will generate some warning in the netnice code.
> 
> Network packets are not passing through the vif schedulers in this
> patch but vif_fork and vif_exit are being called, also nnfs is
> mountable.
> 
> I am not dedicating a lot of time.  I would like to be able to get
> netnice working before making changes to the code already in CVS.
> 
> If interested you can experiment with this patch.  Otherwise I will
> keep you informed.  Here are directions to apply this patch to 2.6.12
> kernel.org sources:
> 
>  gunzip netnice-2.6.12.diff.gz
>  tar xjf linux-2.6.12.tar.bz2
>  cd linux-2.6.12
>  patch -p1 < ../netnice-2.6.12.diff
>  make xconfig
>  make
> 
>  reboot
> 
>  sabrina:~# uname -a
>  Linux sabrina 2.6.12-nnice #1 SMP Sat Dec 17 16:26:15 PST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
>  sabrina:~# mount -t nnfs none /nnfs
>  sabrina:~# ls /nnfs
>  1   2554  2928  2964  2987  3013  3035  6   648  689  7    9
>  12  2873  2937  2982  2988  3017  3040  62  648  689  756  network
>  13  2879  2955  2985  2991  3018  4     63  65   690  756
>  2   2922  2961  2986  3     3034  5     64  66   690  8
>  sabrina:~#
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott B