On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:40:39AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Jack Steiner wrote:
>
> [snip nice detective work]
>
> >Has anyone else seen this problem? I am considering adding
> >a config option to allow a site to control the batch size
> >used for per_cpu_pagesets. Are there other ideas that s
Jack Steiner wrote:
[snip nice detective work]
Has anyone else seen this problem? I am considering adding
a config option to allow a site to control the batch size
used for per_cpu_pagesets. Are there other ideas that should
be pursued?
What about using a non power of 2 for the batch? Like 5.
If
Dave,
As mentioned earlier, the current check_bridge_mode() code assumes
that AGP bridges are PCI devices. This isn't always true. Definitely
not for HP zx1 chipset and the same seems to be the case for SGI's AGP
bridge.
The patch below fixes the problem by picking up the AGP_MODE_3_0 bit
from
Performnace of a number of MPI benchmarks degraded when we upgraded
from 2.4 based kernels to 2.6 based kernels. Surprisingly, we isolated
the cause of the degradation to page coloring problems caused by
the per_cpu_pagesets feature that was added to 2.6. I'm sure that
this feature is a signifi
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:31:44AM -0500, Michael Raymond wrote:
> Again the idea is that the handler function was registered by root or
> some priviledged developer making a conscious decision. This is currently
> protected by permissions on the /dev/uli file. If you'd like me to add
> permi
These are all valid concerns.
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:22:37AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> This is one thing that bothers me most about this approach. User
> code is invoked before acknowledging the interrupt to the interrupt
> controller. As a general rule, kernel code should not trust u
Tony,
This is a one-liner to make the mbcs driver depend on SGI_TIOCX in the
drivers/char/Kconfig file.
Thanks,
-Bruce
Signed-off-by: Bruce Losure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: tiocx-test-2.6.12/drivers/char/Kconfig
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--- tiocx-tes
This patch detects the existence of an uncached physical AMO address setup
by EFI's XPBOOT (SGI) and converts it to an uncached virtual AMO address.
Depends on a patch submitted on 23 March 2005 with the subject of:
[PATCH 2/3] SGI Altix cross partition functionality (2nd revision)
Signed-off
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:22:37AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> However, I think that the thing that bothers me *most* about SGI's ULI
> approach is that a full context switch is not done. The ULI runs as
> if it were in the interrupted process's context. `current' isn't
> changed, so it runs with
