Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi guys, we need critical sections for userland here. This is basically to avoid a process being switched out while holding a user level spinlock. Yeah, great idea, cooperative multitasking is the new black! DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you have: a) Evidence or a paper to prove that this is a bad idea? I need evidence or a paper to prove that it is a bad idea to allow a userland process to hold the CPU indefinitely? b) A helpful suggestion? Why don't you tell us what you're

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071004 02:05] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi guys, we need critical sections for userland here. This is basically to avoid a process being switched out while holding a user level spinlock. Yeah, great idea, cooperative

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071004 03:01] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you have: a) Evidence or a paper to prove that this is a bad idea? I need evidence or a paper to prove that it is a bad idea to allow a userland process to hold the CPU

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not worth my time to engage someone with your mind set, you posses neither the technical nor interpersonal skill to be useful to me. This could be the beginning of a wonderful friendship... For context see my replies in this thread to Kip Macy

Recommended S-ATA controller?

2007-10-04 Thread Peter B
What PCI 32/33 S-ATA controller is recommended for a x86/FreeBSD-6 system that is stable and reliable in terms of hardware design, and software drivers ? My current Promise card is said to abuse PCI burst mode, in essence it will exploit to tight timing margins. And the motherboard doesn't have

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Wilko Bulte
Quoting Alfred Perlstein, who wrote on Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:19:02AM -0700 .. * Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071004 03:01] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you have: a) Evidence or a paper to prove that this is a bad idea? I need evidence or a

SCSI and SAN

2007-10-04 Thread Sharad Chandra
Hello, How to distinguish if /dev/da* devices are internal scsi drivers or LUNs of external SAN? Is there any tool? Thanks for any advice. Sharad Chandra ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: SCSI and SAN

2007-10-04 Thread Eric Anderson
Sharad Chandra wrote: Hello, How to distinguish if /dev/da* devices are internal scsi drivers or LUNs of external SAN? camcontrol devlist -v Might help you.. Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071004 03:01] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you have: a) Evidence or a paper to prove that this is a bad idea? I need evidence or a paper to prove that it is a bad idea to allow a

Re: Recommended S-ATA controller?

2007-10-04 Thread Richard Collyer
Peter B wrote: What PCI 32/33 S-ATA controller is recommended for a x86/FreeBSD-6 system that is stable and reliable in terms of hardware design, and software drivers ? My current Promise card is said to abuse PCI burst mode, in essence it will exploit to tight timing margins. And the

Re: SCSI and SAN

2007-10-04 Thread Wilko Bulte
Quoting Sharad Chandra, who wrote on Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:25:00PM +0530 .. Hello, How to distinguish if /dev/da* devices are internal scsi drivers or LUNs of external SAN? Is there any tool? /var/run/dmesg.boot I would think. And then you would need to map things manually.

Re: How to enable more than 256 pty's?

2007-10-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-02 15:41, Vlad GALU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/2/07, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vlad GALU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The symptoms were exhibited even with rev. 1.16. I've CC'ed him so he can catch up with the thread. Which symptoms? I can no longer

Re: How to enable more than 256 pty's?

2007-10-04 Thread Vlad GALU
On 10/4/07, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-02 15:41, Vlad GALU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/2/07, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vlad GALU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The symptoms were exhibited even with rev. 1.16. I've CC'ed him so he can catch

Re: How to enable more than 256 pty's?

2007-10-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-04 18:05, Vlad GALU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/4/07, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-02 15:41, Vlad GALU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/2/07, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vlad GALU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The symptoms were exhibited even with

Re: SCSI and SAN

2007-10-04 Thread Tom Judge
Sharad Chandra wrote: Hello, How to distinguish if /dev/da* devices are internal scsi drivers or LUNs of external SAN? Is there any tool? Thanks for any advice. Sharad Chandra ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071004 04:15] wrote: Quoting Alfred Perlstein, who wrote on Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:19:02AM -0700 .. * Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071004 03:01] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you have: a) Evidence or a paper to

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071004 06:05] wrote: His point about telling us what you're really doing, so we might off other ways to do it is valid. We don't know why you are using homegrown user-level spinlocks instead of pthread mutexes. Priority ceiling mutexes and running in

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071004 03:28] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not worth my time to engage someone with your mind set, you posses neither the technical nor interpersonal skill to be useful to me. This could be the beginning of a wonderful

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071004 06:05] wrote: His point about telling us what you're really doing, so we might off other ways to do it is valid. We don't know why you are using homegrown user-level spinlocks instead of pthread mutexes.

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Attilio Rao
2007/10/3, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071002 19:46] wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Hi guys, we need critical sections for userland here. This is basically to avoid a process being switched out while holding a user level

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Julian Elischer
Attilio Rao wrote: 2007/10/3, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071002 19:46] wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Hi guys, we need critical sections for userland here. This is basically to avoid a process being switched out while holding

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Oct 4, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071004 06:05] wrote: His point about telling us what you're really doing, so we might off other ways to do it is valid. We don't know why you are using

FYI: 3Ware 9650 can cause data corruption

2007-10-04 Thread Peter B
3ware 9650 in RAID6 mode with firmware version 3.08.00.004 seems to cause data corruption when rebuilding a single disc with raid6. http://www.webmasternetwork.se/f4t23551.html (Swedish) I thought this was serious enough for people to know. If another mailinglist is more appropiate for this

Re: FYI: 3Ware 9650 can cause data corruption

2007-10-04 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Peter B wrote: 3ware 9650 in RAID6 mode with firmware version 3.08.00.004 seems to cause data corruption when rebuilding a single disc with raid6. http://www.webmasternetwork.se/f4t23551.html (Swedish) I thought this was serious enough for people to know. If another mailinglist is more