Re: [patch 04/16] I/O driver for 8250-compatible UARTs

2005-08-31 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:10:39PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:38:52PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > On Monday 29 August 2005 10:09 am, Tom Rini wrote: > > > linux-2.6.13-trini/drivers/serial/kgdb_8250.c | 594 > > > + > > > > The existing stuff in

FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

2005-08-31 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
Hi Andrew I would like to ask for the inclusion of the general timeout specification API in the -mm tree, looking forward it to bubble up to mainline. For more context, please visit: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/a426e5b0d0

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: * Holger Kiehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: Full vmstat session can be found under: Have you got iostat? iostat -x 10 might be interesting to see for a period while it is going. The following is the

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Lord
>Each of the first three large parts starts with this sequence of bytes Actually, the byte structure of the first 0x100 bytes of each section seems to be very similar. Some kind of header. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:53:19PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:55:12PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > I'll try loading the works into another ARM > > system I have here, and see (1) if it runs as-is, > > and (2) what the disassembly shows. > > You can identify ARM code

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allen Akin wrote: > I believe we're doing well with layered implementation strategies like > Xgl and Glitz. Where we might do better is in (1) extending OpenGL to > provide missing functionality, rather than creating peer low-level APIs; > (2)

Re: [patch 04/16] I/O driver for 8250-compatible UARTs

2005-08-31 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:38:52PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Monday 29 August 2005 10:09 am, Tom Rini wrote: > > linux-2.6.13-trini/drivers/serial/kgdb_8250.c | 594 + > > The existing stuff in drivers/serial is named "8250_*"; is > there a reason you're using

Re: [ck] 2.6.13-ck1

2005-08-31 Thread daniel mclellan
Yes. Linux yavanna 2.6.13-ckx1 #1 Tue Aug 30 04:03:25 EST 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 FX-53 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux On Wednesday 31 August 2005 14:49, Rodney Gordon II wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:03:24PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > These are patches designed to improve

Re: [linux-pm] Re: PowerOP Take 2 0/3 Intro

2005-08-31 Thread Patrick Mochel
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Todd Poynor wrote: > In case it's getting lost in all these details, the main point of all > this is to pose the question: "are arbitrary power parameters arranged > into a set with mutually consistent values (called here an operating > point) a good low-level abstraction

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Allen Akin
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:29:30AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: | The real goal is to provide a good programming environment for 2D | applications, not to push some particular low-level graphics library. I think that's a reasonable goal. My red flag goes up at the point where the 2D programming

[PATCH][Bug 5132] fix sys_poll() large timeout handling

2005-08-31 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
Sorry everybody, forgot the most important Cc: :) -Nish Hi Andrew, In looking at Bug 5132 and sys_poll(), I think there is a flaw in the current code. The @timeout parameter to sys_poll() is in milliseconds but we compare it to (MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT / HZ), which is jiffies/jiffies-per-sec or

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:55:12PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > I'll try loading the works into another ARM > system I have here, and see (1) if it runs as-is, > and (2) what the disassembly shows. You can identify ARM code quite readily - look for a large number of 32-bit words naturally aligned

[PATCH] remove die_notifiers if CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL not set

2005-08-31 Thread Christoph Lameter
Use of die_notifiers is a debugging feature that is only used if CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is set. For a kernel without debugging there is no need of die notifiers. This will generate no code for notify_die if debugging is not on. Seems that there is an expectation that future distro releases will

Re: [ck] 2.6.13-ck1

2005-08-31 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:03:24PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and > interactivity. > It is configurable to any workload but the default ck* patch is aimed at the > desktop and ck*-server is available with more emphasis on serverspace.

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/1 2.6.13] framebuffer: bit_putcs() optimization for 8x* fonts

2005-08-31 Thread Knut Petersen
The special case for s_pitch == 2 saves about 270 ms system time (2120 -> 1850ms) with a 16x30 font. Compared to what? How much is the function call overhead? Your version of the inline code inserted after an if (idx==2) in bit_putcs against my version of the inline code. cu, knut

Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

2005-08-31 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:14:23PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you want to try to handle version skew ? All kernels built > from GIT trees look like 2.6.13 until Linus releases 2.6.14-rc1. > Possible approaches (requiring changes to the kernel Makefile). > 1) Use the SHA1 of HEAD to

Resend: [PATCH] remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(strtok) from frv_ksyms.c

2005-08-31 Thread Jesper Juhl
Andrew, Got some feedback on this one from David Howells > Looks okay to me. > > David so I'm resending it in the hope that you'll drop it into -mm (or NACK it if you don't like it) :-) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [PATCH] remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(strtok) from

Re: [patch 04/16] I/O driver for 8250-compatible UARTs

2005-08-31 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Monday 29 August 2005 10:09 am, Tom Rini wrote: > linux-2.6.13-trini/drivers/serial/kgdb_8250.c | 594 + The existing stuff in drivers/serial is named "8250_*"; is there a reason you're using "kgdb_8250" rather than "8250_kgdb"? > + * serial8250_unregister_by_port -

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/1 2.6.13] framebuffer: bit_putcs() optimization for 8x* fonts

2005-08-31 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Knut Petersen wrote: > I added the multiply back because gcc (v. 3.3.4) does generate the fastest > code > if I write it this way. The multiply is not generally faster, so your version may be the fastest, but in other situations it will be a lot slower. My version is

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/1 2.6.13] framebuffer: bit_putcs() optimization for 8x* fonts

2005-08-31 Thread Knut Petersen
Hi Roman! +static inline void __fb_pad_aligned_buffer(u8 *dst, u32 d_pitch, u8 *src, + u32 s_pitch, u32 height) +{ + int i, j; + + if (likely(s_pitch==1)) + for(i=0; i < height; i++) + dst[d_pitch*i] = src[i]; I added the multiply back

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Arjan van de Ven wrote: The GPL terms that require GPL conversion of any code that runs on Linux is not supported by US Law. Many would disagree, but that's OK. In short, it's just like any other proprietary app running on Linux. If it uses no Linux code (which it does not), then the GPL does

Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

2005-08-31 Thread tony . luck
Do you want to try to handle version skew ? All kernels built from GIT trees look like 2.6.13 until Linus releases 2.6.14-rc1. Possible approaches (requiring changes to the kernel Makefile). 1) Use the SHA1 of HEAD to provide a precise identification. 2) Use $(git-rev-tree linus

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Jim Gettys
Well, I'm sure you'll keep us honest... ;-). - Jim On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:06 -0700, Allen Akin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:48:11PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: > | Certainly replicating OpenGL 2.0's programmability through Render makes > | no sense at all to me (or most

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Allen Akin
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:48:11PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: | Certainly replicating OpenGL 2.0's programmability through Render makes | no sense at all to me (or most others, I believe/hope). If you want to | use full use of the GPU, I'm happy to say you should be using OpenGL. When expressed

Re: [PATCH] mm: return ENOBUFS instead of ENOMEM in generic_file_buffered_write

2005-08-31 Thread Steve French
> As noticed by Dmitry Torokhov, write() can not return ENOMEM It turns out that Linux is ok here returning ENOMEM (even from a strict POSIX perspective) so the patch is not needed. I consulted our longstanding POSIX workgroup representative to see what he could find out about this topic, and

Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] add missing select's to DVB_BUDGET_AV

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Krufky
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:59:07PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: I also added this to linuxtv.org CVS. But I'm not sure it is critical enough to put it in stable. If I were a -stable maintainer, I'd include both patches after they were included in Linus' tree

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: On Wed, Aug 31 2005, Holger Kiehl wrote: # ./oread /dev/sdX and it will read 128k chunks direct from that device. Run on the same drives as above, reply with the vmstat info again. Using kernel 2.6.12.5 again, here the results: [snip] Ok, reads as

Re: Fw: suspicious behaviour in pcwd driver.

2005-08-31 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi Dave, > drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd.c does this if it detects > a temperature out of range.. > > if (temp_panic) { > printk (KERN_INFO PFX "Temperature overheat trip!\n"); > machine_power_off(); > } > > Two problems here are.. > > 1.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> The GPL terms that require GPL conversion of any code that runs on Linux > is not supported by US Law. Many would > disagree, but that's OK. In short, it's just like any other proprietary > app running on Linux. If it uses no Linux code (which > it does not), then the GPL does not apply to it

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Ming Zhang
forgot to attach lspci output. it is a 133MB PCI-X card but only run at 66MHZ. quick question, where I can check if it is running at 64bit? 66MHZ * 32Bit /8 * 80% bus utilization ~= 211MB/s then match the upper speed I meet now... Ming 02:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell MV88SX5081

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Ming Zhang
join the party. ;) 8 400GB SATA disk on same Marvel 8 port PCIX-133 card. P4 CPU. Supermicro SCT board. # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath] [raid6] [raid10] [faulty] md0 : active raid0 sdh[7] sdg[6] sdf[5] sde[4] sdd[3] sdc[2] sdb[1] sda [0]

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: The Core File System code is a separate proprietary module and is not released under the GPL Are you going to post an analysis on the legality of this on merkeylaw.com ? ;) I am very open to discussions of this.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > The Core File System code is a separate proprietary module and is not > released under the GPL Are you going to post an analysis on the legality of this on merkeylaw.com ? ;) -- All Rights Reversed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Keith Packard
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 23:33 -0700, Allen Akin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:26:53PM -0400, David Reveman wrote: > | On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:03 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > | > In general, the whole concept of programmable graphics hardware is > | > not addressed in APIs like xlib and Cairo.

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Jon Smirl
On 8/31/05, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Certainly replicating OpenGL 2.0's programmability through Render makes > no sense at all to me (or most others, I believe/hope). If you want to > use full use of the GPU, I'm happy to say you should be using OpenGL. >

Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.13-rc7 (WORKS) (2.6.13, DRQ/System CRASH)

2005-08-31 Thread Justin Piszcz
I do not even have IDE Taskfile Access enabled, so how is the kernel printing these error messages before it freezes? linux-2.6.13/drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c:printk(KERN_ERR "%s: no DRQ after issuing %sWRITE%s\n", lqqq ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Tokarev
Holger Kiehl wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 31 2005, Holger Kiehl wrote: >> [] >>> I used the following command reading from all 8 disks in parallel: >>> >>>dd if=/dev/sd?1 of=/dev/null bs=256k count=78125 >>> >>> Here vmstat output (I just cut something out

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Jim Gettys
Certainly replicating OpenGL 2.0's programmability through Render makes no sense at all to me (or most others, I believe/hope). If you want to use full use of the GPU, I'm happy to say you should be using OpenGL. - Jim On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 23:33 -0700, Allen

[ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
The Solera Networks DS File System kernel patches have been posted at ftp.soleranetworks.com and can be downloaded via anonymous ftp access. These patches are for the 2.4.29, and 2.6.9 kernels. These patches includes all kernel changes made to the Linux kernel and GPL code that allows

Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?

2005-08-31 Thread Christopher Friesen
Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:43:45PM +, Christopher Friesen wrote: Last time I got interested in this, the management of the event queues was still a fairly major performance hit. Hmm ..I dont see any event queues being managed by dyn-tick patch. Are you referring

Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?

2005-08-31 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:43:45PM +, Christopher Friesen wrote: > Last time I got interested in this, the management of the event queues > was still a fairly major performance hit. > > Has this overhead been brought down to reasonable levels? Hmm ..I dont see any event queues being managed

Linux Kernel 2.6.13-rc7 (WORKS) (2.6.13, DRQ/System CRASH)

2005-08-31 Thread Justin Piszcz
All, I am trying to get everyone together on this to hopefully solve a serious bug that I have seen on multiple machines with: a) A Promise ATA/133 controller (ATA/100 works OK) b) Kernel 2.6.12 or 2.6.13 (2.6.13-rc7 appears to be OK) The drive is a Seagate 7200.8 400GB 7200RPM 8MB cache

Re: tty problem

2005-08-31 Thread Nilesh Agrawal
On 8/31/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mer, 2005-08-31 at 21:20 +0530, Nilesh Agrawal wrote: > > mdacon: MDA with 8K of memory detected. > > Console: switching consoles 1-16 to mono MDA-2 80x25 > > You've compiled in the MDA driver, probably not what you want to load on > that

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Aug 31 2005, Holger Kiehl wrote: > ># ./oread /dev/sdX > > > >and it will read 128k chunks direct from that device. Run on the same > >drives as above, reply with the vmstat info again. > > > Using kernel 2.6.12.5 again, here the results: [snip] Ok, reads as expected, like the buffered

[PATCH 2/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Cleanup

2005-08-31 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:28:43PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > Following patches related to dynamic tick are posted in separate mails, > for convenience of review. The first patch probably applies w/o dynamic > tick consideration also. > > Patch 2/3 -> Dyn-tick cleanups This patch cleans

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Aug 31 2005, jmerkey wrote: > > 512 is not enough. It has to be larger. I just tried 512 and it still > limits the data rates. Please don't top post. 512 wasn't the point, setting it properly is the point. If you need more than 512, go ahead. This isn't Holger's problem, though, the

[PATCH 3/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Recover walltime upon wakeup

2005-08-31 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:28:43PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > Following patches related to dynamic tick are posted in separate mails, > for convenience of review. The first patch probably applies w/o dynamic > tick consideration also. > > Patch 3/3 -> Use lost tick information in

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.13, Inconsistent kallsyms data

2005-08-31 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Paulo Marques ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> Jim McCloskey wrote: |> >When I try to compile 2.6.13, using a complete tarball from |> >kernel.org, the compilation fails with: |> > |> >--- |> > SYSMAP System.map |> >

[PATCH 1/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Fix lost tick calculation in timer_pm.c

2005-08-31 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:28:43PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > Following patches related to dynamic tick are posted in separate mails, > for convenience of review. The first patch probably applies w/o dynamic > tick consideration also. > > Patch 1/3 -> Fixup lost tick calculation in

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Piggin
Holger Kiehl wrote: meminfo.dump: MemTotal: 8124172 kB MemFree: 23564 kB Buffers: 7825944 kB Cached: 19216 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 25708 kB Inactive: 7835548 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree:0 kB

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread David Reveman
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 23:33 -0700, Allen Akin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:26:53PM -0400, David Reveman wrote: > | On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:03 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > | > In general, the whole concept of programmable graphics hardware is > | > not addressed in APIs like xlib and Cairo.

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/1 2.6.13] framebuffer: bit_putcs() optimization for 8x* fonts

2005-08-31 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Knut Petersen wrote: > +static inline void __fb_pad_aligned_buffer(u8 *dst, u32 d_pitch, u8 *src, + > u32 s_pitch, u32 height) > +{ > + int i, j; > + > + if (likely(s_pitch==1)) > + for(i=0; i < height; i++) > + dst[d_pitch*i] =

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread jmerkey
512 is not enough. It has to be larger. I just tried 512 and it still limits the data rates. Jeff Jens Axboe wrote: On Wed, Aug 31 2005, jmerkey wrote: I have seen an 80GB/sec limitation in the kernel unless this value is changed in the SCSI I/O layer for 3Ware and other controllers

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Aug 31 2005, jmerkey wrote: > > > I have seen an 80GB/sec limitation in the kernel unless this value is > changed in the SCSI I/O layer > for 3Ware and other controllers during testing of 2.6.X series kernels. > > Change these values in include/linux/blkdev.h and performance goes from

Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] add missing select's to DVB_BUDGET_AV

2005-08-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:59:07PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > Add missing select's to DVB_BUDGET_AV fixing the following compile > > error: > > > > <-- snip --> > > > > ... > > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > > drivers/built-in.o: In

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:55:12PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Mmm.. curious sequence in the first 512 bytes of > the DWL-G730AP firmware binary. It has this > sequence of bytes repeated several times: > > 81 40 20 10 08 04 02 81 40 20 10 08 04 02 ... > > That should be recognizable to

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread jmerkey
I'll try this approach as well. On 2.4.X kernels, I had to change nr_requests to achieve performance, but I noticed it didn't seem to work as well on 2.6.X. I'll retry the change with nr_requests on 2.6.X. Thanks Jeff Tom Callahan wrote: From linux-kernel mailing list. Don't do

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Tom Callahan
>From linux-kernel mailing list. Don't do this. BLKDEV_MIN_RQ sets the size of the mempool reserved requests and will only get slightly used in low memory conditions, so most memory will probably be wasted. Change /sys/block/xxx/queue/nr_requests Tom Callahan TESSCO Technologies

Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] add missing select's to DVB_BUDGET_AV

2005-08-31 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Add missing select's to DVB_BUDGET_AV fixing the following compile > error: > > <-- snip --> > > ... > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > drivers/built-in.o: In function `frontend_init': > budget-av.c:(.text+0xb9448): undefined reference to

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Lord
Mmm.. curious sequence in the first 512 bytes of the DWL-G730AP firmware binary. It has this sequence of bytes repeated several times: 81 40 20 10 08 04 02 81 40 20 10 08 04 02 ... That should be recognizable to somebody, I think. I'll try loading the works into another ARM system I have

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: On Wed, Aug 31 2005, Holger Kiehl wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: Nothing sticks out here either. There's plenty of idle time. It smells like a driver issue. Can you try the same dd test, but read from the drives instead? Use a bigger

Re: [PATCH][FAT] FAT dirent scan with hin take #3

2005-08-31 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
"Machida, Hiroyuki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Right, it looks like TLB, which holds cache "Physical addres" > correponding to "Logical address". In this case, PID and file name > to be looked up, perform role of "Logical address". But, there is the big difference between hint table and TLB.

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Implement shared page tables

2005-08-31 Thread Dave McCracken
--On Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:44:24 +0100 Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you don't have Nick's test at the start of copy_page_range(): > if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_HUGETLB|VM_NONLINEAR|VM_RESERVED))) { > if (!vma->anon_vma) > return 0;

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread jmerkey
I have seen an 80GB/sec limitation in the kernel unless this value is changed in the SCSI I/O layer for 3Ware and other controllers during testing of 2.6.X series kernels. Change these values in include/linux/blkdev.h and performance goes from 80MB/S to over 670MB/S on the 3Ware controller.

Re: tty problem

2005-08-31 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-08-31 at 21:20 +0530, Nilesh Agrawal wrote: > mdacon: MDA with 8K of memory detected. > Console: switching consoles 1-16 to mono MDA-2 80x25 You've compiled in the MDA driver, probably not what you want to load on that hardware - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: Holger Kiehl wrote: 3236497 total 1.4547 2507913 default_idle 52248.1875 158752 shrink_zone 43.3275 121584 copy_user_generic_c 3199.5789

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Aug 31 2005, Holger Kiehl wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: > > >Nothing sticks out here either. There's plenty of idle time. It smells > >like a driver issue. Can you try the same dd test, but read from the > >drives instead? Use a bigger blocksize here, 128 or 256k. > > >

Ran 2.6.13-rc7 for a few days, upgraded to 2.6.13, box crashed in less than 6 hours.

2005-08-31 Thread Piszcz, Justin
Did anything critical change from -rc7 to 2.6.13? I had -rc7 running on three machines for: > 1 week > 3 days > 2 days Respectively... I upgraded to 2.6.13 this morning and only in less than 6 hours the machine locked up, I am not home at the moment so I cannot verify what happened; but nobody

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 - breaks USB unplug

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Ritz
hi On Wednesday 31 August 2005 14.12, Marc Ballarin wrote: > Hi, > > -rc6-mm2 breaks USB unplug for me. Happens with every USB device, > gcc-3.3.5 and gcc-3.4.4 as well as preempt and non-preempt and is 100% > reproducible. > -rc6-mm1 seems fine. > > Reverting the following part of >

Re: Telecom Clock driver for MPCBL0010 ATCA compute blade.

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Gross
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 15:31, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 8/31/05, Mark Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 14:19, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > On 8/30/05, Mark Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, Mark Gross wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 30

Re: aoe fails on sparc64

2005-08-31 Thread Ed L Cashin
Jim MacBaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Using aoe on a sparc64 system gives strange results: > ... > The log says: > > Aug 31 15:18:49 sunny kernel: devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<6> > etherd/e0.0: unknown partition table > Aug 31 15:18:49 sunny kernel: aoe: 0011d8xx e0.0 v4000

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/1 2.6.13] framebuffer: bit_putcs() optimization for 8x* fonts

2005-08-31 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > Roman, okay if you have a 'Signed-off-by' line? Okay. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: tty problem

2005-08-31 Thread Nilesh Agrawal
> > Please send more info --- output of dmesg, kernel config, hardware desription. > Tony I am compiling a 2.6.12 kernel, trying to have all relevant drivers in-built (no modules). Hardware details: Intel Motherboard, P4 2.0 GHz VideoCard: 82845 Chipset graphics controller IDE/ATA controller:

Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: jack, PREEMPT_DESKTOP, delayed interrupts?

2005-08-31 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:08:08 -0500 "Jack O'Quin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JACK sources already include a CHECK_PREEMPTION() macro which expands > to Ingo's special gettimeofday() calls. The trace is turned on and > then off automatically before and after the realtime critical section > in

Re: [PATCH 1/1] block: CFQ refcounting fix

2005-08-31 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Aug 31 2005, Brian King wrote: > diff -puN drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c~cfq_refcnt_fix > drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c > --- linux-2.6/drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c~cfq_refcnt_fix 2005-08-30 > 17:26:55.0 -0500 > +++ linux-2.6-bjking1/drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c 2005-08-31 >

PROBLEM: 2.6.13 crash on sparc64 in sunsu_kbd_ms_interrupt

2005-08-31 Thread Jim MacBaine
1. 2.6.13 crash on sparc64 in sunsu_kbd_ms_interrupt 2. I'm running 2.6.13/sparc64 on a diskless Sun Ultra 5 workstation. After an uptime between 5 and 20 minutes after start, the kernel crashes, system stalls. 3. sparc64 sun keyboard sunsu_kbd_ms_interrupt 4. vanilla 2.6.13 5. Last working

[2.6 patch] add missing select's to DVB_BUDGET_AV

2005-08-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:47:14PM -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > I wish I had seen this before 2.6.13 was released... I guess this only > goes to show that there haven't been any testers using saa7134-hybrid > dvb/v4l boards that depend on the tda1004x module, during the 2.6.13-rc > series

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Implement shared page tables

2005-08-31 Thread Martin J. Bligh
>> They're incompatible, but you could be left to choose one or the other >> via config option. > > Wouldn't need config option: there's /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space > for the whole running system, compatibility check on the ELFs run, and > the infinite stack rlimit: enough ways to

[BUG] wrong ide disk sector size (2.6.12.1)

2005-08-31 Thread René Rebe
Hi all, I experience a rather strange bug that the same kernel (binary) sometimes does recognize the disk correctly and sometimes not. When loaded via Grub from CD it works fine: hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB), CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) after installation of this kernel binary and the

Re: [PATCH 2.6] I2C: Drop I2C_DEVNAME and i2c_clientname

2005-08-31 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Ter, 2005-08-30 às 23:20 +0200, Jean Delvare escreveu: > Hi Mauro, > > > (...) it would be nice not to have a different I2C > > API for every single 2.6 version :-) It would be nice to change I2C > > API once and keep it stable for a while. > The Linux 2.6 development model is designed around

Re: [FYI] 2.6.13-rt3 and a nanosleep jitter test.

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Walker
No problem .. There are some other tests in there though .. I've been using them for stress testing .. Apparently you don't need HRT on to use them either. Daniel On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:19 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:13 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > Sorry, that's

Re: [FYI] 2.6.13-rt3 and a nanosleep jitter test.

2005-08-31 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:12 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > There is already a suite HRT of tests they include a nanosleep jitter > test with 8 or 9 other tests.. > > find them inside the hrt-support patch at http://high-res-timer.sf.net Wow, they are hidden nicely :-) I was looking for a tar

Re: [FINAL WARNING] Removal of deprecated serial functions - please update your drivers NOW

2005-08-31 Thread Alan Cox
I think this is all that is needed for Mwave. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ../linux.vanilla-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/char/mwave/mwavedd.c 2005-08-25 17:04:20.0 +0100 +++ drivers/char/mwave/mwavedd.c2005-08-31 16:16:29.128028248 +0100 @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@

Re: tty problem

2005-08-31 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-08-31 at 20:36 +0530, Nilesh Agrawal wrote: > Booting in single user mode, the same problem persists. I cant see > anything after the screen gets filled. > Does anyone know where is the problem?? What sort of machine - a very old Cyrix system with built in video perhaps ? - To

Re: [PATCH] PREEMPT_RT vermagic

2005-08-31 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:29:44AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:20:17AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Ingo, > > > This patch adds a vermagic hook so PREEMPT_RT modules can be > > > distinguished from

Re: [FYI] 2.6.13-rt3 and a nanosleep jitter test.

2005-08-31 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:13 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > Sorry, that's http://high-res-timers.sf.net/ Thanks, But I always seem to prefer to rewrite the wheel than to use one that already exists. ;-) Probably explains why my cars are always in the shop! -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [FYI] 2.6.13-rt3 and a nanosleep jitter test.

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Walker
Sorry, that's http://high-res-timers.sf.net/ Daniel On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:01 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Thomas, > > I just was wondering how the HR Timers were in the latest -rtX patch and > wrote my own little jitter test using nanosleep. Here's the results: > > On vanilla

Re: tty problem

2005-08-31 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Nilesh Agrawal wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a peculiar problem with the kernel messages being printed during > startup. > During startup the messages are printed only uptill the monitor > (screen) gets filled, the screen doesnt scroll down and no further > messages are printed. However the

Re: [FYI] 2.6.13-rt3 and a nanosleep jitter test.

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Walker
There is already a suite HRT of tests they include a nanosleep jitter test with 8 or 9 other tests.. find them inside the hrt-support patch at http://high-res-timer.sf.net Daniel On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:01 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Thomas, > > I just was wondering how the HR Timers were

Re: [PATCH 5/5] Remove unnecesary capability hooks in rootplug.

2005-08-31 Thread Chris Wright
* Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:20:33PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > Now that capability functions are default, rootplug no longer needs to > > manually add them to its security_ops. > > > > Cc: Greg Kroah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

Re: jack, PREEMPT_DESKTOP, delayed interrupts?

2005-08-31 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:35, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do a "tar cvf usr.tar /usr" just to read/write a lot to disk (this > > within the same SATA disk). Watch memory being used in a system > > monitor applet up to 100%. After a while, hard

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Implement shared page tables

2005-08-31 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > --Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 > 14:42:38 +0100): > > > > Which is indeed a further disincentive against shared page tables. > > Or shared pagetables a disincentive to randomizing the mmap space ;-) Fair

[FYI] 2.6.13-rt3 and a nanosleep jitter test.

2005-08-31 Thread Steven Rostedt
Thomas, I just was wondering how the HR Timers were in the latest -rtX patch and wrote my own little jitter test using nanosleep. Here's the results: On vanilla 2.6.13-rc7-git1 (Yes I need to get over to 2.6.13) # ./jitter starting calibrate finished calibrate: 2133.9060MHz 2133906034 time

Change in NFS client behavior

2005-08-31 Thread Rob Sims
We have noticed when changing from kernel 2.4.23 to 2.6.8 that timestamps of files are not changed if opened for a write and nothing is written. When using 2.4.23 timestamps are changed. When using a local filesystem (reiserfs) with either kernel, timestamps are changed. Symptoms vary with the

Re: APIC version and 8-bit APIC IDs

2005-08-31 Thread Martin Wilck
[ Putting everyone cc again and leaving maciej's reply intact for reference ] Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: The ID is 0x14 for Intel. But that is wrong for AMD CPUs. The actual Dual-Core Why can't hw designers ever get such things right? Sigh... Athlon CPUs we have report an APIC version

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Implement shared page tables

2005-08-31 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > Which is indeed a further disincentive against shared page tables. > > Or shared pagetables a disincentive to randomizing the mmap space ;-) > They're incompatible, but you could be left to choose one or the other > via config option. > > 3% on "a certain industry-standard database

Re: APIC version and 8-bit APIC IDs

2005-08-31 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 15:13, Martin Wilck wrote: > In other words: What would be broken if we just used an APIC ID mask of > 0xFF everywhere? Nothing I think. It's more historical reasons. The physflat subarchitecture patch essentially removed it, but it needs some rework and merging with

Re: [patch 16/16] Add hardware breakpoint support for i386

2005-08-31 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:23:39PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Tom Rini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This adds hardware breakpoint support for i386. This is not as well tested > > as > > software breakpoints, but in some minimal testing appears to be functional. > > This really would need

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.13, Inconsistent kallsyms data

2005-08-31 Thread Paulo Marques
Jim McCloskey wrote: When I try to compile 2.6.13, using a complete tarball from kernel.org, the compilation fails with: --- SYSMAP System.map SYSMAP .tmp_System.map Inconsistent kallsyms data Try setting CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS

Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

2005-08-31 Thread Sven Ladegast
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Alan Cox wrote: Registering means to create an ID for the system? Something out of timestamp plus your PCI IDs and CPU info and so on? Or have the other end issue you some kind of secure cookie, which was my thought. Generating it locally as you suggest would be even

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