Re: Degradation of GNU/Hurd ``system performance''

2011-09-06 Thread Richard Braun
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:42:22AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: The slowdown might be a result of the growing memory usage, causing a need to swap all the time. There is no audible thrashing though while the system behaves sluggish... And also, it wouldn't explain the crash while

Re: Intel's EPT effect on virtualized Hurd

2011-09-06 Thread Sergio López
2011/9/6 Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org: Mmm, but isn't enabling EPT automatic already? That is, people which have it will benefit from it, and people which don't won't. Yes, it's automatic. But I think it's worth noting somewhere that, in certain kind of hardware, a virtualized

Re: Intel's EPT effect on virtualized Hurd

2011-09-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sergio López, le Tue 06 Sep 2011 10:40:38 +0200, a écrit : 2011/9/6 Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org: Mmm, but isn't enabling EPT automatic already? That is, people which have it will benefit from it, and people which don't won't. Yes, it's automatic. But I think it's worth noting

Re: Build improvements and warning fixes

2011-09-06 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:22:23 +0200, Guillem Jover guil...@hadrons.org wrote: [PATCH 01/17] Add a .gitignore file [PATCH 02/17] Enable silent builds by default if available I'm resending these two, as they seem to have fallen through the cracks. I remember. Sorry. What do you think

Mach projected buffers for user-space device drivers? (was: Build improvements and warning fixes)

2011-09-06 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! [projected buffers] On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:14:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: Ah, right (hard to answer sanely while following the GHM). Well, anyway, grepping through the whole hurd+gnumach+glibc code didn't show any use of this. In fact, this projected

Re: Interface for SCSI transactions ?

2011-09-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: AIUI it's device_get_status() in linux/dev/glue/block.c for the linux IDE SCSI devices. Yeah. That is my favorite candidate among the files in my CVS copy. But i was uncertain to which side of the RPC gap this belongs, because i could not spot a function

Re: Interface for SCSI transactions ?

2011-09-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schmitt, le Tue 06 Sep 2011 15:56:30 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault wrote: AIUI it's device_get_status() in linux/dev/glue/block.c for the linux IDE SCSI devices. Yeah. That is my favorite candidate among the files in my CVS copy. CVS Copy? The CVS repository is outdated. Which

Re: Build improvements and warning fixes

2011-09-06 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 13:23:41 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:22:23 +0200, Guillem Jover guil...@hadrons.org wrote: [PATCH 01/17] Add a .gitignore file [PATCH 02/17] Enable silent builds by default if available I'm resending these two, as they seem to have fallen

Re: Interface for SCSI transactions ?

2011-09-06 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 12:33:00AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: However, I realize that the status parameter of the device_get_status RPC is out only, not inout, so device_get_status alone can not provide complete support. One way would be to use a set/get pair. Well, if we need to go

Re: Interface for SCSI transactions ?

2011-09-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Tue 06 Sep 2011 01:28:13 +0200, a écrit : On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 12:33:00AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: However, I realize that the status parameter of the device_get_status RPC is out only, not inout, so device_get_status alone can not provide complete

Re: Interface for SCSI transactions ?

2011-09-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: [...] my favorite candidate among the files in my CVS copy. Samuel Thibault: CVS Copy? The CVS repository is outdated. Which documentation advised you to check it out? I have to guess a bit. But it looks like

Re: Intel's EPT effect on virtualized Hurd

2011-09-06 Thread Ognyan Kulev
На 6.09.2011 01:42, Samuel Thibault написа: Mmm, but isn't enabling EPT automatic already? That is, people which have it will benefit from it, and people which don't won't. When trying the Hurd, there could be alternatives for the computer, e.g. at home and at work. So this information may