Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2006-May-01 18:01:01 -0400, Allen wrote: Man I would LOVE to find a good sun box. Nothing huge, just a box I can use to toy with Solaris and oldschool stuff like early SunOS. This won't be one box. Sun hardware and software has undergone a lot of churn over the years and you will need to

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-05-01 14:02, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the patch below. It restores the behavior of the beep only happening for invalid input by axeing the BSD/OS partition type from the lookup table. Much better, since this is the behavior we

Re: gvinum start volume returns EBUSY

2006-05-02 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:27:11PM -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote: When rebuilding a degraded plex with gvinum start volume on a mounted filesystem, gvinum reports errno: 16 (EBUSY). In the CVS: src/sys/geom/vinum/geom_vinum_init.c, lines 363-364 (of MAIN, added 2005-Oct-09, rev 1.10.2.1) has

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 07:36 am, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-05-01 14:02, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the patch below. It restores the behavior of the beep only happening for invalid input by axeing the BSD/OS partition type from the lookup

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since I'm on 5.4 I guess I just haven't got your changes yet. Thanks for doing it, though. Be nice not to have to remember to patch boot.S every time I rebuild. You don't have to, since installworld does not touch the MBR. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav -

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-05-02 Thread Eric Anderson
Coleman Kane wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:29:20PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:16:04PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:13:22PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:23:32PM -0500,

Re: which running thread gests the external signal

2006-05-02 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Daniel Eischen wrote: POSIX states any thread that is in sigwait() (with the specified signal in the wait mask), or has the signal unmasked (in the threads signal mask) can receive the signal. If you want a certain thread to receive a process-wide signal, then the only sure way (POSIX) to do

Re: which running thread gests the external signal

2006-05-02 Thread joerg
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:58:56PM +0300, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: However, this is not fully clean: all the other threads should *ignore* the signals, not *block* them. Threads don't have signal queues. POSIX specifies that a process has a *global* list of pending signals and a *thread-local*

Re: which running thread gests the external signal

2006-05-02 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: Daniel Eischen wrote: POSIX states any thread that is in sigwait() (with the specified signal in the wait mask), or has the signal unmasked (in the threads signal mask) can receive the signal. If you want a certain thread to receive a process-wide

memory allocation / deallocation within the kernel

2006-05-02 Thread Bharma Ji
I am trying to understand the impact of memory allocation / deallocation within the kernel. As I understand a) Kernel memory is not pageable ie the one you get from using kernel malloc(there may be exceptions) b) Does this imply that if I have 1 GB of RAM - then I cannot reserve more than 1 GB of

Re: memory allocation / deallocation within the kernel

2006-05-02 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Bharma Ji wrote: I am trying to understand the impact of memory allocation / deallocation within the kernel. As I understand I can't answer all your questions, but can point at a few examples in current kernel code. a) Kernel memory is not pageable ie the one you get

FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 available

2006-05-02 Thread Scott Long
All, I'm foregoing the formal pretty announcement for 6.1-RC2 because the message needs to get out and I don't have an hour to spend on making it look nice. FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 is available for download. This is the last RC before the release. Please test it to make sure that there have been no

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 07:36 am, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-05-01 14:02, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the patch below. It restores the behavior of the beep only happening for invalid input by axeing the BSD/OS

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-02 Thread Eric Anderson
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 07:36 am, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-05-01 14:02, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the patch below. It restores the behavior of the beep only happening for invalid input by