Poor 5.0/nfs performance

2002-10-28 Thread John De Boskey
Hi, I have a 5.0 system from 10/27. In an attempt to improve performance I commented out the INVARIANTS/WITNESS options: #optionsINVARIANTS #Enable calls of extra sanity checking #optionsINVARIANT_SUPPORT #Extra sanity checks of internal structures, required

sparc64 tinderbox failure

2002-10-28 Thread Mike Barcroft
-- >>> Rebuilding the temporary build tree -- >>> stage 1: bootstrap tools -- >>> stage 2: cleaning up the object tree

Re: Lack of real long double support

2002-10-28 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : I'd like to see Bruce's issues with the 64 bit support taken care : of with long double (and the implicit cast that occurs in the one : case that Bruce complained about in his email, where there is *too : much*

Re: Lack of real long double support (was Re: libstdc++ does notcontain fabsl symbol)

2002-10-28 Thread Terry Lambert
Loren James Rittle wrote: > I will advise RTH about that type of issue. Fortunately, in this > case, I think advertising 53-bit precision but really using 64-bit > precision (i.e. application code overrode system default) doesn't > invalidate the advertised epsilon, in terms of how it is used by t

Re: Current, apache(1/2): no tcp4, only tcp6

2002-10-28 Thread Leif Neland
- Original Message - From: "Leif Neland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:49 AM Subject: Current, apache(1/2): no tcp4, only tcp6 > Some time ago my not often used testserver has stopped serving port 80, > tcp4, and only serves port 80, tcp6.

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:37, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 28-Oct-2002 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:27, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >> On 28-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > >> > John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> I mean, do you know what libgtop is used for? It's used to draw > >>

Re: openssl failure with IDEA

2002-10-28 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-10-28 ] [ Subjecte: Re: openssl failure with IDEA ] > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:16:08AM +, Daniel Flickinger wrote: > > buildworld with MAKE_IDEA=YES set failed and then a manual > > build after make clean, make cleandir (twi

Re: openssl failure with IDEA

2002-10-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:16:08AM +, Daniel Flickinger wrote: > buildworld with MAKE_IDEA=YES set failed and then a manual > build after make clean, make cleandir (twice), make depend, > make obj, make failed: Are you sure you are cvsupping the src-crypto collection? Kris To Uns

Re: Lack of real long double support (was Re: libstdc++ does notcontain fabsl symbol)

2002-10-28 Thread Loren James Rittle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If you really want, I can tell RTH that FreeBSD/i386 absolutely wants >> `long double' to be: >> 53 mantissa bits >> 1024 max exponent > No need. I prefer to keep the 53-bit precision for now, but fix the > exponents. OK

ELCR in PCI-ISA bridge not getting set on resume

2002-10-28 Thread Ian Dowse
Since starting to use -current with ACPI on a Sony C1 laptop, I noticed that after resume, occasionally IRQ 9 would get stuck and not deliver any interrupts. IRQ 9 is shared by sound, USB and the pccard slot. It turned out that something was not saving the ELCR edge/level control registers in the

Re: A success story, of sorts

2002-10-28 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > The temperatures are in kelvin * 10. ie: subtract 2731 to get degrees > celcius, then divide by 10. In my case above: 3281 - 2731 = 550, or 55.0C. Cool. I just wasted an hour hacking up xload to make it display temperature (in dekadegrees Celsius) instead of load average. -GAWollman

DIOCGDINFO, DIOCGSLICEINFO fail

2002-10-28 Thread Nate Lawson
World and kernel from today. newfs_msdos, disklabel both fail on these ioctls. -- moe# uname -a FreeBSD moe 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #9: Mon Oct 28 15:23:20 PST 2002 nate@moe:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOEPRO i386 moe# ls -l /sbin/disklabel -r-xr-xr-x 1 root w

Re: panic: mtx_lock() of spin mutex

2002-10-28 Thread Lars Eggert
John Baldwin wrote: On 18-Oct-2002 Lars Eggert wrote: >John Baldwin wrote: > >>What is line 488 of src/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c? > >fhold(fp) in do_dup(). Hrm. You can try adding some KASSERT()'s that the reference count of that struct file isn't zero or negative. Did that, and the KASSERT ne

Ñåìèíàðû â íîÿáðå

2002-10-28 Thread russiaseminar
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Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld.

2002-10-28 Thread Doug Barton
IMO it's more a matter of POLA for those upgrading to -current for the first time. For those that don't realize exactly how different 5.x is, spelling out the steps of installing device.hints, installing the new loader, etc. makes their life easier. This should go on the "Comprehensive guide to up

Re: options GEOM and NODEVFS

2002-10-28 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
Peter Wemm wrote: > > Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > > > p.p.s. i need NODEVFS to run vmware2 (/dev/rtc is not > >DEVFS friendly). > > This should take only a few minutes to fix by somebody who knows what they > are doing. I'd do it, but I do not have vmware and have no desire to start. > >

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: > > To build little applets that activate a flashing red light when > > certain files are written? > > Why do you need the inode number to do that. Just kqueue on the > file itself using a regular fd, and in that case you can stat(2) > the file if you really need the i-node nu

Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld.

2002-10-28 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > /boot/loader though is a different story. 'make installkernel' does not > install the new loader. However, most non-ancient 4.x loaders can > boot a 5.x kernel sufficiently well that this shouldn't be a crisis. Or, > they used to be able to when I last tried it (not too long ago).

Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before aninstallworld.

2002-10-28 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : If it does need them, somebody had better tell my systems. I've got old : 3.x bootblocks on some of them. Sorry, you are right. : /boot/loader though is a different story. 'make installkernel' does not : instal

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread Nate Lawson
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > On 28-Oct-2002 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > You're probably right. But without waiting to re-architect libgtop, I > > think the immediate problem needs to be fixed. Shall I just commit my > > original patch that uses libkvm? > > Use v_cachedid and v_cac

Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld.

2002-10-28 Thread Peter Wemm
"M. Warner Losh" wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Peter Wemm wrote: > : > : > 'make installworld' without ... a new kernel would be rather messy. > : > : > ... a reminder of the sequence is probably in order: > : > buildworld > :

Re: another lock order reversal

2002-10-28 Thread Lars Eggert
Lars Eggert wrote: lock order reversal 1st 0xc6f47a68 vnode interlock (vnode interlock) @ /usr/src/sys/nfsclient/nfs_vnops.c:2629 2nd 0xc04b8640 vm page queue mutex (vm page queue mutex) @ /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_kern.c:424 Still present on yesterday's -current. Lars -- Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: A success story, of sorts

2002-10-28 Thread Peter Wemm
Garrett Wollman wrote: > I have no clue how to interpret the output from `sysctl > hw.acpi.thermal'. peter@mobile[2:44pm]~-100> sysctl hw.acpi.thermal hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0 hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 30 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 3281 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1 hw.acpi.therm

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:37, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 28-Oct-2002 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:27, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >> On 28-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > >> > John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> I mean, do you know what libgtop is used for? It's used to draw > >>

A success story, of sorts

2002-10-28 Thread Garrett Wollman
Last week I decided to blow away my newer laptop's ancient 4.3 installation (well, actually, Lose XP decided to do it for me, but that's another story). I had just gotten my complimentary developer's CD set from FreeBSDmall.com (thanks, guys!) and decided to reinstall everything from scratch. So

Re: options GEOM and NODEVFS

2002-10-28 Thread Peter Wemm
Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > p.p.s. i need NODEVFS to run vmware2 (/dev/rtc is not >DEVFS friendly). This should take only a few minutes to fix by somebody who knows what they are doing. I'd do it, but I do not have vmware and have no desire to start. rtc.c already has the make_dev() cal

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread John Baldwin
On 28-Oct-2002 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:27, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 28-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: >> > John Baldwin wrote: >> >> I mean, do you know what libgtop is used for? It's used to draw >> >> little applets that display load averages and other silly syst

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:27, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 28-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > > John Baldwin wrote: > >> I mean, do you know what libgtop is used for? It's used to draw > >> little applets that display load averages and other silly system > >> monitor stuff in small spaces in GUI's.

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread John Baldwin
On 28-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> I mean, do you know what libgtop is used for? It's used to draw >> little applets that display load averages and other silly system >> monitor stuff in small spaces in GUI's. It seems to work quite >> happily w/o any inode numbers or d

NEWCARD panic

2002-10-28 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
Dear Hackers, after upgrading to the recent (as of this weekend) -current i'm having a 100% reproducible panic. the card i'm trying to make to work is RealPort Ethernet 10/100 + Modem56 (REM56G-100) it does work in Linux in W2K, it did not work before upgrade, but at least it did not panic. i

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: > I mean, do you know what libgtop is used for? It's used to draw > little applets that display load averages and other silly system > monitor stuff in small spaces in GUI's. It seems to work quite > happily w/o any inode numbers or dev_t's for non-UFS filesystems. > I just do

build broken

2002-10-28 Thread Eric J. Chet
Hello I just tried a -current buildworld which failed: --- "/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac/Makefile", line 2: warning: duplicate script for target "-s" ignored make: don't know how to make doc-common-s. Stop --- Anybody else seeing this? Thanks, Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMA

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: > Sheesh, > does anyone actually _use_ libgtop against kernel core dumps? > If not then it shouldn't be groveling around in the kernel > fondling implementation details. Instead, it should be using > stat(2), or at the worst using a sysctl to get xvnode structures. As an alter

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread John Baldwin
On 28-Oct-2002 John Baldwin wrote: > > On 28-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: >> John Baldwin wrote: >>> Yes. This means that you don't need to even look at v_tag to see >>> if it is a UFS vnode or not. What does libgtop want with >>> device and inode numbers anways? Does it actually do anything

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > > > Terry is right. It needs to be the same inode number that is reported by > > stat and getdirents. It's unfortunate that you can't do a getattr or stat > > based on the address of the vnode. I have actually used and relied on this > > behavior in th

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread John Baldwin
On 28-Oct-2002 Jeff Roberson wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> John Baldwin wrote: >> > Yes. This means that you don't need to even look at v_tag to see >> > if it is a UFS vnode or not. What does libgtop want with >> > device and inode numbers anways? Does it actually do

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread John Baldwin
On 28-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> Yes. This means that you don't need to even look at v_tag to see >> if it is a UFS vnode or not. What does libgtop want with >> device and inode numbers anways? Does it actually do anything >> useful with them or does it just print th

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > Yes. This means that you don't need to even look at v_tag to see > > if it is a UFS vnode or not. What does libgtop want with > > device and inode numbers anways? Does it actually do anything > > useful with them or does it jus

Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before aninstallworld.

2002-10-28 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : M. Warner Losh wrote: : : > Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > : ... 'installkernel' is not filling it's contract: it is : > : not ensuring that the next boot uses the new kernel. : > : > Are you s

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: > Yes. This means that you don't need to even look at v_tag to see > if it is a UFS vnode or not. What does libgtop want with > device and inode numbers anways? Does it actually do anything > useful with them or does it just print them somewhere? Is a user > going to care if

Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld.

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Kargl
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:56:34AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > M. Warner Losh wrote: > > >Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >: ... 'installkernel' is not filling it's contract: it is > >: not ensuring that the next boot uses the new kernel. > > > >Are you sure you need new bootblocks?

Re: Request: remove ssh1 fallback

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Kientzle
Thus spake Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... remove ssh1 fallback from the default ... David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Removing SSH 1 ... is going to break compatibility ... Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: POLA: before breaking compatibility, warn people. ... "Warning: switch

Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld.

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Kientzle
M. Warner Losh wrote: Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : ... 'installkernel' is not filling it's contract: it is : not ensuring that the next boot uses the new kernel. Are you sure you need new bootblocks? I've not had issues and am pretty careless about when I do installworld vs ins

Re: options GEOM and NODEVFS

2002-10-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maksim Yevmenkin writes: >the question is: are options GEOM and NODEVS compatible? No, they are not. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: options GEOM and NODEVFS

2002-10-28 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
"Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" wrote: > > ÷ Mon, 28.10.2002, × 20:42, Maksim Yevmenkin ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: > > > p.s. sorry if this is a FAQ. man geom(4) and quick grep > > in /sys/conf and /sys/i386/conf came up with nothing. > > > > p.p.s. i need NODEVFS to run vmware2 (/dev/rtc is not > >DEVFS

Re: 5.0-20021027-CURRENT.iso cdrom will not mount

2002-10-28 Thread eculp
Quoting John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | - Makoto Matsushita's Original Message - | > | > jwd>The iso(s) boot correctly and sysinstall works fine. The disks | > jwd> are formated and newfs'd correctly. However, when sysinstall | > jwd> tries to mount the cdrom, the following error is r

Re: options GEOM and NODEVFS

2002-10-28 Thread Vladimir B.
÷ Mon, 28.10.2002, × 20:42, Maksim Yevmenkin ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: > p.s. sorry if this is a FAQ. man geom(4) and quick grep > in /sys/conf and /sys/i386/conf came up with nothing. > > p.p.s. i need NODEVFS to run vmware2 (/dev/rtc is not >DEVFS friendly). Do not know about GEOM with NODEVFS, b

options GEOM and NODEVFS

2002-10-28 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
Dear Hackers, this weekend i have updated my laptop to recent -current. after booting it with my kernel i got few messages saying something like /dev/ad0s[a-e]: Device not configured and then system dropped to /bin/sh. so i booted GENERIC kernel and it was working fine. i took a close look on my

Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes

2002-10-28 Thread John Baldwin
On 26-Oct-2002 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 14:15, John Baldwin wrote: >> Well, here's the thing. If libgtop is intended to be used only with live >> kernels then it might be a better idea to use xvnode's that you get with >> from the kernel. Alternatively, you could grab the

Kernel build with cvsup from about 6am pst.

2002-10-28 Thread eculp
This could well be an operator error since I built kernels on two other machines with cvsup's of about 1 1/2 hours earlier. I thought I would send it just in case, while I do a little more investigation. ed cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-pr

Re: Networking

2002-10-28 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Niklas Johannes Saers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Hi all, : I'm wondering a bit on the state of the network-drivers in -CURRENT. : On my laptop running a fairly recent -CURRENT whenever I do a : ifconfig an0 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 : my

Re: 5.0-20021027-CURRENT.iso cdrom will not mount

2002-10-28 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, John wrote: >How many other people are testing the 5.0 sysinstall booted > from a cd and running a local (cd/dvd) install? Try booting and > installing from the iso at usw2.freebsd.org and see if it works > for you. I'm able to boot and install CURRENT snapshot rele

[CFR] ipfilter IPv6 support in rc

2002-10-28 Thread Hajimu UMEMOTO
Hi, Current rc doesn't support IPv6 setup for ipfilter. So I made the patches. The former is for both 4-STABLE and 5-CURRENT. In addition to the former one, 5-CURRENT requires the latter one for /etc/rc.d/ipfilter. This patch is not for /etc/rc.network6 as usual IPv6 related setups but for /etc

Re: [-current] Re: 5.0-20021027-CURRENT.iso cdrom will not mount

2002-10-28 Thread stephan mantler
FWIW, I'm experiencing the same issues with the Oct 25 ISO. The 5.0-DP1 CD installs fine but boot2 couldn't find the loader; this seems to be a disk geometry problem since I also can't list the contents of /boot or most other subdirs. Although I didn't have much time to investigate yet. Hardware:

Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before aninstallworld.

2002-10-28 Thread Marc Recht
> Nearly all GNOME applications crash with an "Abort trap" error, and the > only way I can log out is to restart the X server. Nautilus is > particularly evil because it can get into a situation where it crashes, > restarts itself, and crashes again--repeating the process indefinitely. I'm runn

Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld.

2002-10-28 Thread Patrick Hartling
Juli Mallett wrote: * De: Patrick Hartling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-10-28 ] [ Subjecte: Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld. ] Peter Wemm wrote: Due to sigaction(2) syscall number changes, doing a 'make installworld' without having booted a new kernel

Re: 5.0-20021027-CURRENT.iso cdrom will not mount

2002-10-28 Thread Igor Roboul
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:46:48AM -0500, John wrote: >Abit kr7a motherboard, asus cd (plus two others which didn't > work). This machine boots a 4.7 iso with no problems. Is CD-ROM drive "MASTER" or "SLAVE"? -- Igor Roboul, System administrator at Speech Technology Center http://www.speechpr

Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld.

2002-10-28 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Patrick Hartling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-10-28 ] [ Subjecte: Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld. ] > Peter Wemm wrote: > > Due to sigaction(2) syscall number changes, doing a 'make installworld' > > without having booted a new kernel would

Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld.

2002-10-28 Thread Patrick Hartling
Peter Wemm wrote: Due to sigaction(2) syscall number changes, doing a 'make installworld' without having booted a new kernel would be rather messy. For example, if you tried to reboot with the old kernel, /sbin/init and /bin/sh would get a signal and abort. That would be bad. Does this apply to

Re: 5.0-20021027-CURRENT.iso cdrom will not mount

2002-10-28 Thread John
- Makoto Matsushita's Original Message - > > jwd>The iso(s) boot correctly and sysinstall works fine. The disks > jwd> are formated and newfs'd correctly. However, when sysinstall > jwd> tries to mount the cdrom, the following error is received: > > jwd> Error mounting /dev/acd0c on /

Re: 5.0-20021027-CURRENT.iso cdrom will not mount

2002-10-28 Thread Makoto Matsushita
jwd>The iso(s) boot correctly and sysinstall works fine. The disks jwd> are formated and newfs'd correctly. However, when sysinstall jwd> tries to mount the cdrom, the following error is received: jwd> Error mounting /dev/acd0c on /dist: Operation not supported by device (19). Which type of

Re: Networking

2002-10-28 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Niklas Johannes Saers: > my laptop will freeze until I unplug the card. My fxp0 works great on the > same computer. On another box I'm running, the 3Com 509B card that worked > great with -STABLE gets pings of about 9-10 seconds to a computer it's > hooked directly against. My an0 is a

Networking

2002-10-28 Thread Niklas Johannes Saers
Hi all, I'm wondering a bit on the state of the network-drivers in -CURRENT. On my laptop running a fairly recent -CURRENT whenever I do a ifconfig an0 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 my laptop will freeze until I unplug the card. My fxp0 works great on the same computer. On another box I'

Re: Latest fetch on current broken

2002-10-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Craig Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tracked this down further to the _fetch_writev() function > in libfetch/common.c. Try this patch: Stupid, dumb bug. Of course it is only triggered by specific packet lengths which just happened not to occur during testing :( DES -- Dag-Erling Smo

Re: Dynamic growth of the buffer and buffer page reclaim

2002-10-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I was going to comment on fragmentation issues, but that seems to have :been very well covered. I would like to point out that removing the :buffer_map not only contributes to kernel map fragmentation, but also :contention for the kernel map. It might also prevent us from removing :giant from th

Re: Dynamic growth of the buffer and buffer page reclaim

2002-10-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
Hmm. Well, the real problem is not going to be the struct bio but will instead be the filesystem support. Filesystems expect KVA mapped data from the buffer cache, and they use pointers to the data all over the place. The buffer cache is very efficient, at least as long