Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:31 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions. I doubt that _any_ of the regressions that are user-visible are

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 21:15 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: OK, I will, but I first of all need to learn how to tell if benchmarks are better or worse. Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions. It

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions. I doubt that _any_ of the regressions that are user-visible are scheduler-related. They all tend to be disk IO

Re: [PATCH] 1 Wire drivers illegally overload NETLINK_NFLOG

2005-07-22 Thread Harald Welte
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:05:59PM -0400, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:54:27 -0400), Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: --- a/include/linux/netlink.h +++ b/include/linux/netlink.h @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ #define NETLINK_IP6_FW

Re: [patch 2/2] Touchscreen support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-22 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Friday 22 July 2005 19:28, Pavel Machek wrote: This adds support for touchscreen on Sharp Zaurus sl-5500. Vojtech, please apply, I have couple more commnets... +static int ucb1x00_thread(void *_ts) +{ + struct ucb1x00_ts *ts = _ts; + struct task_struct *tsk = current; + int

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:15:14PM -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:07 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: I will get flames for this, but my laptop boots faster and sometimes responds faster in 2.4.27 than in 2.6.12. Sorry, but this is the fact

Re: PROBLEM: Failure to deliver SIGCHLD

2005-07-22 Thread Edgar Toernig
Michael Harris wrote: [2.] The problem occurs in a forking server similar in function to inetd. The server employs a very simple SIGCHLD handler that loops on wait(2), until all zombie processes have been collected. For no immediately apparent reason, the parent process behaves as if it no

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[GIT PATCH] ACPI for 2.6

2005-07-22 Thread Brown, Len
Hi Linus, Please pull from: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-2.6.git/ for a single patch that removes some recently added debugging console messages. thanks! -Len ec.c | 17 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) commit

Re: sys_times() return value

2005-07-22 Thread Andrew Morton
Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, ARM folk have recently pointed out a problem with sys_times(). When the kernel boots, we set jiffies to -5 minutes. This causes sys_times() to return a negative number, which increments through zero. However, some negative numbers are used to

RE: Kernel doesn't free Cached Memory

2005-07-22 Thread Al Boldi
Dick Johnson wrote: { On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 08:27 -0300, Vinicius wrote: [...] I have a server with 2 Pentium 4 HT processors and 32 GB of RAM, this server runs lots of applications that consume lots of memory to. When I stop this applications, the kernel doesn't free memory (the

RE: kernel optimization

2005-07-22 Thread Al Boldi
Adrian Bunk wrote: { On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 07:55:48PM +0100, christos gentsis wrote: i would like to ask if it possible to change the optimization of the kernel from -O2 to -O3 :D, how can i do that? if i change it to the top level Makefile does it change to all the Makefiles? And since

RE: Giving developers clue how many testers verifiedcertain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Al Boldi
Lee Revell wrote: { On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 21:15 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: OK, I will, but I first of all need to learn how to tell if benchmarks are better or worse. Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions. } Scheduler

Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-22 Thread Matthew Helsley
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:23 -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: actually, let me also say that CKRM is on a continuum that includes current (global) /proc tuning for various subsystems, ulimits, and at the other end, Xen/VMM's. it's conceivable that CKRM could wind up being useful and fast

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