Re: Using the same serial port for both serial console and kgdb debugging

2010-05-31 Thread luca ellero
Paul Fisher ha wrote: Hello list, I'm trying to get kgdb setup working. I have two PCs but unfortunately only one serial port in each of those. So far everything worked great, but several days ago the monitor of the second machine was taken away from my desk, and now one of the machines is

Fixed quantum scheduling

2010-05-31 Thread Vimal
Hi all, I have a set of N processes and would like them to be scheduled such that each process gets only a fixed time slice (that can be set) and nothing more than it. I read through the documentation of Completely Fair Scheduler/Round Robin scheduling and resource limitation using cgroups, but

Re: how does a filesystem submit a block IO request

2010-05-31 Thread Joel Fernandes
I'm learning block devices in Linux. It seems submit_bio can be used by file systems to submit block IO requests. But after I search for it in the linux kernel, I didn't see file systems like ext2 and ext3 use it. So how does a file system usually submit a request? I didn't find a wrapper of