Re: Is it possible to use a local drive to cache an NFS share

2012-09-03 Thread michi1
Hi! On 22:27 Mon 03 Sep , Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > Hi :) > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Graeme Russ wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am mounting /home over NFS which is great, but it really kills compile > > times. So I have a local HDD which I have copied all my source code over > > from w

Re: Is it possible to use a local drive to cache an NFS share

2012-09-03 Thread Rajat Sharma
Hi, NFS client support FSCache support which is default in recent kernels CONFIG_NFS_FSCACHE=y, But as I remember, it is a read cache (not even write-through), so a compile load generates lots of new files, so those won't really be benefited by FSCache. But as you are pointing out, your setup is

Re: Is it possible to use a local drive to cache an NFS share

2012-09-03 Thread michi1
Hi! On 23:00 Mon 03 Sep , Graeme Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I am mounting /home over NFS which is great, but it really kills compile > times. So I have a local HDD which I have copied all my source code over > from which I do my coding and compiling. > > What I would love to do is use the loc

Re: Is it possible to use a local drive to cache an NFS share

2012-09-03 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi :) On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Graeme Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I am mounting /home over NFS which is great, but it really kills compile > times. So I have a local HDD which I have copied all my source code over > from which I do my coding and compiling. > > What I would love to do is use

itanium variable sized TLB entries support

2012-09-03 Thread Shentino
Is there a way for the kernel to take advantage of a flexible TLB entry coverage size, as in itanium, or is the pgd/pud/pmd/pte abstraction pretty much hard coded? ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.

Is it possible to use a local drive to cache an NFS share

2012-09-03 Thread Graeme Russ
Hi All, I am mounting /home over NFS which is great, but it really kills compile times. So I have a local HDD which I have copied all my source code over from which I do my coding and compiling. What I would love to do is use the local drive to cache /home. Specifically one user directory under /

Query regarding some blk_queue_XXX functions. (For kernel 2.6.32 SLES 11)

2012-09-03 Thread Pranay Kumar Srivastava
Hi All, I'm using SLES11 (kernel 2.6.32) I recently did a dummy code for block device driver where the whole disk is made of pages in memory. I have some query regarding usage of some of the functions, I've absolutely no idea what the first 2 do. What I was trying to do was that I wanted the

Re: Difference between kernel 3.0.15 and kernel 3.4

2012-09-03 Thread Arun KS
Hello Ritesh, On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Ritesh Harjani wrote: > Hey > just an update, kernel 3.0.15 of Android-ICS and 3.4 of Android-JB. > > Sorry if i am wrong anywhere.. I am new to this :). > Here you go, http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.4 Thanks, Arun > > Thank you > Ritesh > > >

Re: Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 22, Issue 1

2012-09-03 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 2:45 PM, kishore kumar wrote: > hello everybody, > > I am new to kernel programming. > Can anyone tell me how to start it. have you read the following page? http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/WhereDoIBegin Also, please kindly use bottom post. And please strip out the unneeded pa

Re: Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 22, Issue 1

2012-09-03 Thread kishore kumar
hello everybody, I am new to kernel programming. Can anyone tell me how to start it. kishore kumar On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:30 PM, wrote: > Send Kernelnewbies mailing list submissions to > kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >