On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:48:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
And fairness by euid is probably a hell of a lot easier to do than
trying to figure out the wakeup matrix.
For the record, you actually don't need to track a whole NxN matrix
(or do
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:
More afterthoughts. If a mutex is used to protect access against
removal. There is no reason to hold reference to it.
kernel_thread()
{
/* wanna dereference my_obj */
mutex_lock();
verify my_obj is there and use it if so.
Currently the uart_info structure is allocated on an open, so it's not
available until that point in time. The trouble is that console_init() is
called before memory is set up, so you can't allocate the uart_info
until it's too late for the console or a debugger that wants to work
early,
On 4/18/07, Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the record, you actually don't need to track a whole NxN matrix
(or do the implied O(n**3) matrix inversion!) to get to the same
result. You can converge on the same node weightings (ie dynamic
priorities) by applying a damped function at
Peter Williams wrote:
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
Ingo Molnar wrote:
this is the second release of the CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler)
patchset, against v2.6.21-rc7:
http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/sched-cfs-v2.patch
i'd like to thank everyone for the tremendous amount of feedback
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:21:53PM +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
I'd imagine that other serial drivers might get upset having their
-get_mcrtl() called prior to being opened. Perhaps we should be fixing
this in uart_read_proc()?
I looked at other serial drivers and I could not find
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
But note that most of the reported CFS interactivity wins, as surprising
as it might be, were due to fairness between _the same user's tasks_.
And *ALL* of the CFS interactivity *losses* and complaints have been
because it did the wrong thing
On Saturday 14 April 2007 09:01, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:20:10 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
One thing that comes to mind is that you will
Mark Glines wrote:
One minor question: is it even possible to be completely fair on SMP?
For instance, if you have a 2-way SMP box running 3 applications, one of
which has 2 threads, will the threaded app have an advantage here? (The
current system seems to try to keep each thread on a
On Friday 13 April 2007 02:35, Marat Buharov wrote:
[17179569.184000]ERROR: Invalid checksum
Seems like you have buggie bios. As the workaround try to start your
kernel with noacpi parameter.
Solution: Upgrade the BIOS firmware with the latest version available from the
manufacturer.
The driver crashes the kernel on HPT302N chips due to the missing initializer
for 'hpt302n.settings' having been unfortunately overlooked so far. :-
Much thanks to Mike Mattie for pin-pointing the reason of crash.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Posting at last -- please
On Sunday 15 April 2007 11:50, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:38:18PM +0400, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
I updated the BIOS to the latest version, but the problem persists.
Boots option pci = noacpi not solved the problem. Reporting bios bug
disappears when setting pci =
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
perhaps a more fitting term would be 'precise group-scheduling'. Within
the lowest level task group entity (be that thread group or uid group,
etc.) 'precise scheduling' is equivalent to 'fairness'.
Yes. Absolutely. Except I think that at least if
James Morris wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
I'm not sure if AppArmor can be made good security for the general case,
but it is a model that works in the limited http environment
(eg .htaccess) and is something people can play with and hack on and may
be possible to configure
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 21:14 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
As I said earlier, I see a case where two mounts that are peers of each
other can become un-identical if we dont propagate the allowusermnt.
As a practical example.
/tmp and /mnt are peers of each other.
/tmp has its
* Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, maybe we can approximate it by spreading out the
statistics: right now you have things like
- last_ran, wait_runtime, sum_wait_runtime..
be per-thread things. [...]
yes, yes, yes! :) My thinking is struct sched_group embedded into
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
Thinking of the scheduler as a CPU bandwidth allocator, this means
handing out shares of CPU bandwidth to all users on the system, which
in turn hand out shares of bandwidth to all sessions, which in turn
hand out shares of bandwidth to all
I only have CONFIG_NUMA=y for build testing: surprised when trying a memhog
to see lots of other processes killed with No available memory (MPOL_BIND).
memhog is killed correctly once we initialize nodemask in constrained_alloc().
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Perhaps
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:46:20PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 16:05 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
Allows architectures to advertise that they support MSI rather than listing
each architecture as a PCI_MSI dependency.
rev2:
* update i386 and x86_64 as well
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
I'm not arguing against fairness. I'm arguing against YOUR notion of
fairness, which is obviously bogus. It is *not* fair to try to give out
CPU time evenly!
Perhaps on the rare occasion pursuing the right course demands an act of
unfairness,
Jiri,
Which solution did you chose to implement? From what I remember, we
last discussed Dmitry's idea of specifying an axis for an effect, then
combine several effects to achieve complex effects.
The implementation would specify the axis using the upper bits of the
effect type.
The patches you
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Crispin Cowan wrote:
Please explain why labels are necessary for effective confinement. Many
systems besides AppArmor have used non-label schemes for effective
confinement: TRON, Janus, LIDS, Systrace, BSD Jail, EROS, PSOS, KeyOS,
AS400, to name just a few. This claim seems
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
For example, maybe we can approximate it by spreading out the statistics:
right now you have things like
- last_ran, wait_runtime, sum_wait_runtime..
be per-thread things. Maybe some of those can be spread out, so that you
put a part of them
I have a GIT tree (iwlwifi, but the problem is my idiocy, not the tree ;).
What's the command to get a diff of what I would merge if I said 'git pull'?
(similar to what 'cvs diff' does - AFAICT, 'git diff HEAD .' diffs my *current*
pull of the tree against itself and does nothing...
From: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:13:46 +0100
Note that I expect Sun put in the invalid ROM intentionally, as we have
similar cases with other cards that have totally messed up ROMs in
Sun-branded versions. Personally I think that's an utterly bad decision
Hi!
One reason was that there are (were?) a number of machines which only
powered
down properly using apm. It was discussed as part of shutting down after
power
failure when your UPS is running out of power.
um ... what does APM have to do with legacy PM? two different issues,
From: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:16:32 +0100
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:28:07AM -0700, Seokmann Ju wrote:
Hello David,
On Mon 4/16/2007 10:02 PM, David Miller wrote:
I'm in transit for a redeye to NY so I won't be able to modify the
patch, If you
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
Perhaps on the rare occasion pursuing the right course demands an act of
unfairness, unfairness itself can be the right course?
I don't think that's the right issue.
It's just that fairness != equal.
Do you think it fair to pay everybody the
From: Andrew Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:28:02 -0700
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
I don't think a module option is a good idea at this point. The problem
is you broke some so far perfectly working setups, which is not okay.
The only first step
Adds proper lines to help output of kconfig so people can find the module names.
Also fixed some broken leading spaces versus tabs.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/Kconfig
b/arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/Kconfig
index 40acb67..c0749d2
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I agree that the
Len Brown wrote:
Linux version 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6
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Linux version 2.6.20-1.3023.fc7
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(Red Hat 4.1.2-5)) #1 SMP Sun Mar 25 22:12:02 EDT 2007
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Len Brown wrote:
On Saturday 14 April 2007 09:01, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:20:10 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
Stephen Clark wrote:
Hello,
I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it
failed on both.
FC7 test4 will be out any day now. Please test that -- test2 is ancient
now.
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the body of a
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Stephen Clark wrote:
Hello,
I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it
failed on both.
FC7 test4 will be out any day now. Please test that -- test2 is ancient
now.
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To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Christian Hesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 13 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
as usual, any sort of feedback, bugreports, fixes and suggestions are
more than welcome,
When trying to suspend a system patched
with suspend2
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, James Morris wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
I'm not sure if AppArmor can be made good security for the general case,
but it is a model that works in the limited http environment
(eg .htaccess) and is something people can play with and hack on and may
be
scsi0 : pata_ali
PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0
ata1.00: ATA-5: HITACHI_DK23CA-20, 00H1A0A3, max UDMA/100
drive can do 100
ata1.00: 39070080 sectors, multi 16: LBA
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33=== configured as 33
How is this system actually set up -
Stephen Clark wrote:
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Stephen Clark wrote:
Hello,
I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it
failed on both.
FC7 test4 will be out any day now. Please test that -- test2 is ancient
now.
Ok I'll try that when it comes out -
अभिजित भोपटकर (Abhijit Bhopatkar) wrote:
The mm structures of interactive tasks are marked and
the pages belonging to them are never shifted to inactive
list in lru algorithm. Thus keeping interactive tasks in
memory as long as possible.
The interactivity is already determined by schedular so
we
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:54:00 +0200 Valerie Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Running benchmark tests (FFSB) on an ext4 filesystem, I noticed a
performance degradation (about 15-20 percent) in sequential write tests
between 2.6.19-rc6 and 2.6.21-rc4 kernels.
I ran the same tests on ext3
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's the command to get a diff of what I would merge if I said 'git pull'?
$ git fetch
$ git diff master origin
Andreas.
--
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
PGP key fingerprint = 58CA
* Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
perhaps a more fitting term would be 'precise group-scheduling'.
Within the lowest level task group entity (be that thread group or
uid group, etc.) 'precise scheduling' is equivalent to 'fairness'.
Yes. Absolutely. Except I think that at
johann deneux napsal(a):
Jiri,
Which solution did you chose to implement? From what I remember, we
last discussed Dmitry's idea of specifying an axis for an effect, then
combine several effects to achieve complex effects.
I think you mean motor instead of axis, because I don't push real
18 Nis 2007 Çar tarihinde, Ingo Molnar şunları yazmıştı:
* S.Çağlar Onur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- schedule();
+ msleep(1);
which Ingo sends me to try also has the same effect on me. I cannot
reproduce hangs anymore with that patch applied top of CFS while one
console
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
I only have CONFIG_NUMA=y for build testing: surprised when trying a memhog
to see lots of other processes killed with No available memory (MPOL_BIND).
memhog is killed correctly once we initialize nodemask in constrained_alloc().
Signed-off-by: Hugh
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
With the patch applied, I don't see *any* new activity in those
S.M.A.R.T.
attributes over multiple hibernates (Linux suspend-to-disk).
Scratch that -- operator failure. ;)
The patch makes no
* S.Çağlar Onur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
great! Could you please unapply the hack above and try the proper
fix below, does this one solve the hangs too?
Instead of that one, i tried CFSv3 and i cannot reproduce the hang
anymore, Thanks!...
cool, thanks for the quick turnaround!
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Crispin Cowan wrote:
James Morris wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
I'm not sure if AppArmor can be made good security for the general case,
but it is a model that works in the limited http environment
(eg .htaccess) and is something people can play
* Christian Hesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i took a quick look at suspend2 and it makes some use of yield().
There's a bug in CFS's yield code, i've attached a patch that should
fix it, does it make any difference to the hang?
This patch should apply cleanly against what? The second
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:23, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Len Brown wrote:
Linux version 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6
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On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
I'll patch it locally on my own machines, but what about the tens
of thousands of other Seagate notebook drive owners out there?
This is a problem with Seagate specifically, spinning
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:35:22PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
I only have CONFIG_NUMA=y for build testing: surprised when trying a memhog
to see lots of other processes killed with No available memory (MPOL_BIND).
memhog is killed correctly once we initialize nodemask in constrained_alloc().
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:23, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Len Brown wrote:
Here is how it should work. CONFIG_ACPI and CONFIG_APM should both
available in a kernel build. However, at boot time, of ACPI is
active, then APM should be disabled.
The pm_active flag used
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:50:17PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
this is the third release of the CFS patchset (against v2.6.21-rc7), and
can be downloaded from:
http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/
this is a pure fix reported regressions release so there's much less
churn:
5 files
On 4/18/07, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
With the patch applied, I don't see *any* new activity in those
S.M.A.R.T.
attributes over multiple hibernates (Linux suspend-to-disk).
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
With the patch applied, I don't see *any* new activity in those
S.M.A.R.T.
attributes over multiple hibernates (Linux suspend-to-disk).
Scratch that -- operator failure. ;)
* William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It appears to me that the following can be taken in for mainline (or
rejected for mainline) independently of the rest of the cfs patch.
yeah - it's a patch written by Suresh, and this should already be in the
for-v2.6.22 -mm queue. See:
Hi Paul:
Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So this doesn't change process_input_packet(), which treats the case
where the first byte is 0xff (PPP_ALLSTATIONS) but the second byte is
0x03 (PPP_UI) as indicating a packet with a PPP protocol number of
0xff. Arguably that's wrong since
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:55:52 -0400 Kyle McMartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With the move to initramfs and heavily modular configs, which include
loading storage drivers from early userspace, it's becoming harder
to provide users with a way of overriding module parameters at boot.
Currently,
Hello,
I'm having a problem on the newest version of linus's git tree with my qla2xxx
card. This is on a UP box, the problem doesn't happen on my similarly
configured SMP box. When I unload and then try to load the qla2xxx driver again
I get this message
kobject_add failed for 3:0:0:0 with
* Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think Ingo's idea of a new sched_group to contain the generic
parameters needed for the key calculation, works better than adding
more fields to existing strctures (that would, of course, host
pointers to it). Otherwise I can already the the
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 22:33, Con Kolivas wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 22:14, Nick Piggin wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:33:56PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 18:55, Nick Piggin wrote:
Again, for comparison 2.6.21-rc7 mainline:
508.87user
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Christian Hesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i took a quick look at suspend2 and it makes some use of yield().
There's a bug in CFS's yield code, i've attached a patch that should
fix it, does it make any difference to the hang?
This patch
* Christian Hesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
although probably your suspend2 problem is still not fixed, it's
worth a try nevertheless. Which suspend2 patch did you apply, and
was it against -rc6 or -rc7?
You are right again. ;-)
Linux 2.6.21-rc7
Suspend2 2.2.9.11 (applies cleanly
* Christian Hesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linux 2.6.21-rc7
Suspend2 2.2.9.11 (applies cleanly to -rc7)
CFS v3 (without any additional patches)
And it still hangs on suspend.
i just tried the same and it suspended+resumed just fine:
Restarting tasks ... done.
Suspend2 debugging info:
-
Hello,
The following two patches are against the input tree and improve the
wistron_btns driver.
The first patch is mostly trivial, it fixes a typo that I introduced in
the previous batch.
The second patch adds led support to the driver (and therefore also
dependency on the led class).
See
This fix a typo on the TM610 definition, inserted in my recent patch
add-acerhk-database.
Eric
From: Eric Piel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wriston_btns: Fix typo for TM610
I did a typo in a previous patch for wistron_btns add acerhk database. This
patch fixes this typo that prevented PROG2 key to work.
On Thursday 19 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Christian Hesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
although probably your suspend2 problem is still not fixed, it's
worth a try nevertheless. Which suspend2 patch did you apply, and
was it against -rc6 or -rc7?
You are right again. ;-)
Linux
This patch adds support for mail and wifi leds. It modifies the Kconfig
file to automatically pull led_class with wistron_btns, hopefully
everyone is fine with this.
It doesn't add support for bluetooth led because, so far, it seems all
the laptops with bluetooth have led and bluetooth system
Hi,
don't you consider this useful for some drivers. There are many cases, when
tty_insert_flip_stringio might be used.
--
tty, add io tty_insert_flip_string variants
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
commit a7dafceb31ff535b793227036f5b2b6a1e8cf233
tree
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:35:20 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
don't you consider this useful for some drivers. There are many cases, when
tty_insert_flip_stringio might be used.
I couldn't see anyone who really benefitted when I first looked at this
but if you've got a
On Wednesday April 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:55:52 -0400 Kyle McMartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With the move to initramfs and heavily modular configs, which include
loading storage drivers from early userspace, it's becoming harder
to provide users with a way of
Alan Cox napsal(a):
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:35:20 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
don't you consider this useful for some drivers. There are many cases, when
tty_insert_flip_stringio might be used.
I couldn't see anyone who really benefitted when I first looked at
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:47:13AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
Fixed by changing /etc/fstab and rebuilding initrd, but IMO rootfstype=
should have worked.
I think these are both issues that should be solved by smarts in the
initrd.
This is getting away from the intent of Kyle's
Stephen Clark wrote:
I tried this on 2.6.20.2 it applied to libata with some fuzz and I had
to manually edit libata.h
When I did a shutdown I still got the click/pop.
I also noticed the last thing displayed on the lcd before it goes blank is
Synchronizing SCSI Disks - then the click/pop.
HTH,
Stephen Clark wrote:
So this is the pop I hear on my new laptop that is using
libata=combined_mode
when I shut my system down. I didn't get the pop with the same disk
drive in an older
laptop that was only ide. It sounds like a relay closing or opening, but
is really my
drive head doing an
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Shaohua Li wrote:
Looks there is init order issue of sysfs files. The new refreshed patch
should fix your bug.
Yes, that did fix the hang on resume from STR -- that now works fine.
However:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle$ cat available_drivers
Tejun Heo wrote:
This really isn't a regression. It's been always like that with libata.
libata doesn't make devices go into standby mode and shutdown(8) does
it for libata. The problem here is that libata does issue
SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE on shutdown. So, the sequence of event is...
1.
On Thursday 19 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Christian Hesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linux 2.6.21-rc7
Suspend2 2.2.9.11 (applies cleanly to -rc7)
CFS v3 (without any additional patches)
And it still hangs on suspend.
i just tried the same and it suspended+resumed just fine:
Hi kernel people,
Just upgraded by home box to 2.6.20.7. Wow.
* Reiser3 mount times are drastically reduced,
even when journal replay is needed
(I have few 100Gb+ reiser3 partitions mounted at boot)
* sit pseudo-interface is gone. In previous kernel, I tried
to disable it in kernel config
Ingo Molnar wrote: [Wed Apr 18 2007, 06:02:28PM EDT]
* Christian Hesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
although probably your suspend2 problem is still not fixed, it's
worth a try nevertheless. Which suspend2 patch did you apply, and
was it against -rc6 or -rc7?
You are right
Robert Hancock wrote:
Tejun Heo wrote:
This really isn't a regression. It's been always like that with libata.
libata doesn't make devices go into standby mode and shutdown(8) does
it for libata. The problem here is that libata does issue
SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE on shutdown. So, the sequence of
Denis Vlasenko wrote:
* From make menuconfig questions it looks like SATA/PATA
rewrite (in the form of libata) is almost finished. Hehe,
untangling IDE mess was quite a feat, and Jeff did it. Kudos.
ADMA mode on nvidia chipsets still seems broken despite massive
amount of SATA fixes
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
That's one reason why i dont think it's necessarily a good idea to
group-schedule threads, we dont really want to do a per thread group
percpu_alloc().
I still do not have clear how much overhead this will bring into the
table, but I think (like
Tejun Heo wrote:
1. shutdown(8) issues SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE followed by STANDBY_NOW
2. kernel shutdown starts
3. libata shutdown issues SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4. power goes off
Okay, after some experimentatino, it's the STANDBY_NOW that
is causing the Power-Off_Retract_Count to increment on my
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Len Brown wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:23, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
ok, i get it now and -- correct me if i'm wrong -- all my legacy PM
removal patch was doing was exposing a design boo-boo in which
APM/ACPI contention was being handled by a macro in a
While the Staircase Deadline scheduler has not been completely killed off and
is still in -mm I would like to fix some outstanding issues that I've found
since it still serves for comparison with all the upcoming schedulers.
While still in -mm can we queue this on top please?
A set of
Mark Lord wrote:
Tejun Heo wrote:
1. shutdown(8) issues SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE followed by STANDBY_NOW
2. kernel shutdown starts
3. libata shutdown issues SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4. power goes off
Okay, after some experimentatino, it's the STANDBY_NOW that
is causing the Power-Off_Retract_Count to
Since there is so much work currently ongoing with alternative cpu schedulers,
as a standard for comparison with the alternative virtual deadline fair
designs I've addressed a few issues in the Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler
which improve behaviour likely in a noticeable fashion and released
Package: linux-kernel
Version: 2.6.18-4-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12)
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I also have recurrent problems with
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
I am running on a Pentium 3 with a Linksys LNE100TX V5.1
PCI ethernet card, which
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:23:15PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
p.p.s. patch improvements that will let me avoid doing any of that
myself always welcome. :-)
well, I'm sorry that I've known about the APM issue for a long time
and done nothing about it. I did ping davej when he broke it,
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
All the exports in utrace are totally unused, and not really something
I'd want modules to use anyway :)
Please leave the exports in place.
Very early in Documentation/utrace.txt, it says:
The UTRACE is infrastructure code for tracing and controlling user
threads.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:39:25PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
On Sunday 15 April 2007 11:50, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
A kernel derived from 2.6.21-rc6-git1 (2.6.20-1.3053.fc7.x86_64 from
Fedora rawhide to be more precise) did boot on the hardware in
question, though; but only when I gave it
From: Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:16:18 +0400
The proposal it to make sock_orphan before detaching the callback
in netlink_release() and to check for the sock to be SOCK_DEAD in
netlink_dump_start() before setting a new callback.
As discussed in this thread
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
Perhaps on the rare occasion pursuing the right course demands an act of
unfairness, unfairness itself can be the right course?
I don't think that's the right issue.
It's just that fairness !=
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:35:22 +0100 (BST)
Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I only have CONFIG_NUMA=y for build testing: surprised when trying a memhog
to see lots of other processes killed with No available memory (MPOL_BIND).
memhog is killed correctly once we initialize nodemask in
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:23:15PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
p.p.s. patch improvements that will let me avoid doing any of that
myself always welcome. :-)
well, I'm sorry that I've known about the APM issue for a long time
and done nothing
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:48:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
And fairness by euid is probably a hell of a lot easier to do than
trying to figure out the wakeup matrix.
For the record, you actually don't need to track a whole
On Thursday 19 April 2007 09:59, Con Kolivas wrote:
Since there is so much work currently ongoing with alternative cpu
schedulers, as a standard for comparison with the alternative virtual
deadline fair designs I've addressed a few issues in the Staircase Deadline
cpu scheduler which improve
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