It is enabled only if CONFIG_XPAD_FF is set to y.
Implementation is using force feedback support for memoryless devices.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kratochvil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/usb/input/Kconfig |8 +++
drivers/usb/input/xpad.c | 116 +
2
Bill Huey (hui) wrote:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:58:45PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Followup: I reran with sd-0.46, setting rr_interval to 40, and then 5
(default was 16). Neither appeared to give a useful video playback. I
did try setting the make to nice 10, and that made the playback
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote:
[..]
Trond .. any chance for implement clear NFS statistics part of kernel
code for nfsstat -z ?
kloczek
--
---
*Ludzie nie mają problemów, tylko sobie sami je stwarzają*
Con Kolivas wrote:
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 05:29, Bill Davidsen wrote:
System: Intel 6600 Core2duo, 2GB RAM, X nice 0 for all tests, display
using i945G framebuffer
Bill thanks for testing.
Test: playing a 'toon with mplayer while kernel build -j20 running.
Umm I don't think
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:22:30AM -0500, Dean Nelson wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:33:32PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Dean Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Taking it one step further, if you added the notion of a thread pool,
where upon exit, a thread isn't destroyed but
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Doesn't need to be ELF notes. The current (3.0.5+) domain builder has
pluggable binary parsers. Right now there are two: ELF (obviously
...) and binary (with a multiboot-like header). Filling the
informations such as virt_base is a function of the parser, so when
Some Kconfig menus are very unsorted, so finding the option you want to
change takes careful reading of the complete menu.
I'm about to change some of the menus to be more user-friendly, starting
with the general setup and working my way through the rest as time permits.
In order to make the
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
On 2007.05.02 15:04:44 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Phillip Susi wrote:
I seem to remember seeing some patches go by at some point that
allowed one of the rom type embeded system filesystems to directly
execute binaries out
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:48:11PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
Olaf Hering wrote:
On Tue, May 01, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
drivers/firewire/Kconfig | 60 ++
NACK.
Upgrade the current drivers/ieee1394/ with the new code,
Last time I believe I was the only one who
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:28:27PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
- Check for GNU extension __FUNCTION__
__FUNCTION__ is prefered over __func__
-
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On Wed, 2 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:28:27PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
- Check for GNU extension __FUNCTION__
__FUNCTION__ is prefered over __func__
Is there a reason for that?
- __FUNCTION__ is a GNU extension
- __func__ is C99
- __func__
Hello together,
The description of this option needs to be extended to be correct:)
--- /usr/src/linux-2.6.21/drivers/usb/input/Kconfig 2007-04-27
18:02:46.0 +0200
+++ Kconfig.new 2007-05-02 16:47:56.0 +0200
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@
depends on USB_HID INPUT=n
config
Stefan == Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stefan Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stefan ---
Stefan drivers/firewire/fw-cdev.c| 954 ++
Stefan include/linux/firewire-cdev.h | 268 +
Stefan 2 files changed, 1222 insertions(+)
Hi,
My servers are running 2.6.21 (oficial source code) since today and i
can see an error in syslog :
May 2 16:41:27 zz11 kernel: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:596!
May 2 16:41:27 zz11 kernel: invalid opcode: [#1]
May 2 16:41:27 zz11 kernel: SMP
May 2 16:41:27 zz11 kernel: Modules linked
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:45:54AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Dean Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:51:41AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
I might send ia64-sn-xpc-convert-to-use-kthread-api.patch+fixes off to
Tony, as people put quite a bit of review and test
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 01:05 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
thanks. Can you apply this patch please:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/13/190
It somehow did not make it into 2.6.21.
Alas, poor me. I ain't going to merge a contention-reduction patch when
we're at -rc6. If a patch fixes a
On Wed, 2 May 2007 17:03:22 +0200 (CEST)
Tomasz Kłoczko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, David R. Litwin wrote:
[..]
I'm just found something new in filtered folder by ZFS word in RSS feed
from blogs.sun.com and on firs look it may be some continuation of this
thread:
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:37:48AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
Doesn't apply against the latest ff tree. Can you please regenerate,
not losing whatever change caused it to reject?
What's the ff tree? Is 'f' next to 'm' on your keyboard?
It depends on the tas() elimination patch, which I sent to
On 2 May, 14:00, Rajib Majumder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am wondering if 2.4.x/2.6.x kernel is scalable enough to run on
8-CPU hardware. Do we have any scalability comparison data between
2.4/2.6 kernels and beyond 4-CPU?
If yes, is the scalablity is near linear?
Any input is
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:43:18PM -0700, Cabot, Mason B wrote:
Hello all,
I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against
NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly outperforms ext3 for
video workloads. The Windows CIFS client will attempt a poor-man's
David Rientjes wrote:
Replace function instances of __attribute__ ((unused)) with
__attribute_unused__.
Cc: Geoff Levand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/interrupt.c |4 ++--
arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/time.c |2
Dean Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:22:30AM -0500, Dean Nelson wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:33:32PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Dean Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Taking it one step further, if you added the notion of a thread pool,
where upon
From: Nick Piggin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am pleased to release this latest spin of the raid acceleration
patches for merge consideration. This release aims to address all
pending review items including MD bug fixes and async_tx api changes
from Neil, and concerns on channel
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:49:01PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
I want to get rid of PG_reserved eventually. Is it possible to use PG_arch_1
for this?
Yup.
Andrew - Feel free to drop this or just sit on it until I send a
replacement. Whichever is easier.
Jeff
--
I have two processes with the same tty open, one opens blocking and
one opens nonblocking.
If the blocking process blocks doing a write (due to flow control,
just going to fast, etc...) the nonblocking process will also block
when it writes until the blocking process unblocks.
This seems to
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:54:04PM -0400, Gerhard Mack wrote:
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Cabot, Mason B wrote:
Hello all,
I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against
NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly outperforms ext3 for
video workloads. The Windows
Fix misnamed fields of 'struct clock_event_device' in the kernel-doc comment.
Convert the acronyms to uppercase, while at it...
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/clockchips.h | 10 +-
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Index:
On Wed, 02 May 2007, Con Kolivas wrote:
Anyway, good, bad or indifferent I intend to keep it around for comparison to
drive cfs further.
Well, just to let you know some of us really like the design, and prefer to
use SD and have an extremely strict scheduling priority set through nice
levels,
Original-Nachricht
Datum: Wed, 02 May 2007 17:30:32 +0400
Von: Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Simon Arlott [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linux Kernel Mailing list
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL
PROTECTED],
Dean Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd typed up some questions for you about the new patch I need to create
which I'd just sent to you, so I won't repeat them here.
Before proceeding to far with your above changes, you might wait to see
the proposal that Robin Holt is putting together for
On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:38:47 -0400
Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:37:48AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
Doesn't apply against the latest ff tree. Can you please regenerate,
not losing whatever change caused it to reject?
What's the ff tree? Is 'f' next to 'm' on
On 5/2/07, Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+/* The lib/crc16.c implementation uses the standard (0x8005)
+ * polynomial, but we need the ITU-T (or CCITT) polynomial (0x1021).
+ * The implementation below works on an array of host-endian u32
+ * words, assuming they'll be transmited msb
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Williams, Dan J wrote:
From: Nick Piggin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am pleased to release this latest spin of the raid acceleration
patches for merge consideration. This release aims to address all
pending review items including MD bug fixes and async_tx api changes
Hi,
I'm attaching the phantom driver -v2. Please drop
input-ff-add-ff_raw-effect.patch
input-phantom-add-a-new-driver.patch
before applying this patch. Thanks.
--
add sensable phantom driver
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
commit d8cb58f904b80e250383e68832204fafaf02da8b
tree
On 4/29/07, Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cyclades, use IS_CYC_Z macro
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
commit 167ae9073fef562913c9d68d32da883da5444fbc
tree 5d5795a789e6ce98a5a1226cf88e2b98b1d9a12a
parent b462f2fd89bff92e55be6a5317a3be0ad6a93ad8
author Jiri Slaby [EMAIL
On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:17:00 -0400
Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have two processes with the same tty open, one opens blocking and
one opens nonblocking.
If the blocking process blocks doing a write (due to flow control,
just going to fast, etc...) the nonblocking process will
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:21:40PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Conceivably we could address this in the filesystem without mucking other
things up. But I'd have thought the simplest damage-control would be to
detect this pattern in samba and to then
John Stoffel wrote:
Stefan == Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Hmm, I'm just spotting some artifacts after a recent file-renaming patch:
Stefan --- /dev/null
Stefan +++ linux_juju/include/linux/firewire-cdev.h
^^^
Stefan @@
Michel Lespinasse wrote:
On my system, every e1000_watchdog() invocation calls e1000_read_phy_reg()
twice: first near the top of e1000_check_for_link() within the
e1000_media_type_copper hw-get_link_status condition, then within
e1000_update_stats() to read and update the idle_errors statistic.
Christian Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Global cache is easy to understand - file system / inode caches. What
exactly is buffers, though?
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:25:29PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
http://www.halobates.de/memorywaste.pdf and http://www.halobates.de/memory.pdf
give some
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:23:25PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 1 May 2007 13:43:18 -0700
Cabot, Mason B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against
NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly outperforms ext3 for
video
Hello, i'm running debin sarge(3.1) with kernel 2.6.16.7 and came
across this kernel oops. It locked up shortly afterwords. Its a
terminal server so there is a lot of different things going on so i'm
not sure exactly what caused this to happen. Anyone have any ideas?
Here is the log of what
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have not been following this closely, must you have an
CONFIG_INTEL_IOP_ADMA piece of hardware and/or chipset to use this
feature or can regular desktop users take hold of it as well?
Currently this feature is available on the iop series of
Change synclink_gt driver to use dynamic tty device registration.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- a/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c2007-04-25 22:08:32.0 -0500
+++ b/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c2007-05-02 11:11:34.0 -0500
@@ -3415,6 +3415,9 @@ static
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Williams, Dan J wrote:
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have not been following this closely, must you have an
CONFIG_INTEL_IOP_ADMA piece of hardware and/or chipset to use this
feature or can regular desktop users take hold of it as well?
Currently this
Prarit, Jan: here's the original patch plus the two fixups. Could you please
re-review and ideally re-test this, let me know the result?
Works fine for me - ack. Jan
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:49:32PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
(please CC: me on patches that I submitted, I missed this...)
Unless there is something I'm missing most of these patches seem totally
unsafe.
Hm, no, they were using a lock that was never being used by the core,
thereby protecting
Bill Irwin wrote:
Brain dump before crashing for the night:
The patch refuses to clobber already-present pagetable entries of
whatever origin. There are pagetables prior to this setup covering the
address range just above PAGE_OFFSET. If this theory is correct, you
should only be able to go
Hi Gautham-
Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
Looking at the topology_init() code, I observe that the meaning of
the cpuX/ directory entries in /sys/devices/system/cpu/ might be
different for different architectures.
Looks like, in case of i386, ia64, m32, mips etc, the cpuX directory entries
Bill Irwin wrote:
Brain dump before crashing for the night:
The patch refuses to clobber already-present pagetable entries of
whatever origin. There are pagetables prior to this setup covering the
address range just above PAGE_OFFSET. If this theory is correct, you
should only be able to go a
Williams, Dan J [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have not been following this closely, must you have an
CONFIG_INTEL_IOP_ADMA piece of hardware and/or chipset to use this
feature or can regular desktop users take hold of it as well?
Currently this
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...] The SystemTAP project also plan to use this type of
infrastructure to trace sites hard to instrument. The Linux Kernel
Markers has the support of Frank C. Eigler, author of their current
marker alternative [...]
All of the above don't use
On 5/2/07, Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand your concerns, but *this* patch bundle extends
poll()/select()/epoll, and is not an alternative to kevent or other work in
progress, (and linux centered)
It is adding huge amounts of complexity and at the same time is not
* Vegard Nossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The sys_sched_yield_to() is not callable from userspace on i386
because it is not part of the syscall table
(arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S). This causes sysenter_entry
(arch/i386/kernel/entry.S) to use the wrong count for nr_syscalls (320
From: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about hard drive controllers with RAID accelleration features (but
not full hardware RAID capability) such as the Promise SX4
(http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html#sx4)?
See this thread:
Uwe Bugla wrote:
Original-Nachricht
Datum: Wed, 02 May 2007 17:30:32 +0400
Von: Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Simon Arlott [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linux Kernel Mailing list
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jan Engelhardt
Uwe Bugla wrote:
Original-Nachricht
Datum: Wed, 02 May 2007 17:30:32 +0400
Von: Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Simon Arlott [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linux Kernel Mailing list
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jan Engelhardt
On 5/2/07, Davi Arnaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's quite easy to implement this scheme by write()ing the futexes all
at once but that would break the one futex per fd association. For
atomicity: if one of the futexes can't be queued, we would rollback
(unqueue) the others.
Sounds sane?
I
On Wed, 2 May 2007 12:44:13 +0200 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is currently used as an instrumentation infrastructure for the LTTng
tracer at IBM, Google, Autodesk, Sony, MontaVista and deployed in
WindRiver products. The SystemTAP project also plan to use this type of
It needs verification with the testcase from this thread.
Verified. Bug is fixed.
-Andi
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Please read the
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 19:48 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
Fix misnamed fields of 'struct clock_event_device' in the kernel-doc comment.
Convert the acronyms to uppercase, while at it...
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
To
On 5/2/07, Daniel J Blueman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are 128-processor IA64 systems which run recent 2.6 kernels out
there; the per-processor counters, RCU and page-fault scalability work
has been instrumental to the necessary scaling for decent resource
usage on these.
128 cpu is a bit
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
On 5/2/07, Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand your concerns, but *this* patch bundle extends
poll()/select()/epoll, and is not an alternative to kevent or other
work in progress, (and linux centered)
It is adding huge amounts of complexity and at the
isapnp[] is only used for CONFIG_PNP. If this configuration option is
not set, do not declare the array.
Cc: Adam Belay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
sound/isa/wavefront/wavefront.c |2 ++
1 files changed, 2
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
Why would we need to go back to SLAB if we have not switched to SLUB? SLUB
is marked experimental and not the default.
I said above that I thought SLUB ought to be defaulted to on throughout
the -rcs: if we don't do that, we're not going to learn
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
But if Linus' tree is to be better than a warehouse to avoid
awkward merges, I still think we want it to default to on for
all the architectures, and for most if not all -rcs.
At some point I dream that SLUB could become the default but I thought
this
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
On 5/2/07, Davi Arnaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's quite easy to implement this scheme by write()ing the futexes all
at once but that would break the one futex per fd association. For
atomicity: if one of the futexes can't be queued, we would rollback
(unqueue) the
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 06:28:22 David Rientjes wrote:
In the case of !CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT !CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG, type is
unreferened.
The patch didn't compile on i386 defconfig. Fixed now but please
compile test future patches.
That's because it's
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
Subject: [PATCH] [16/34] i386: fix mtrr sections
NACK - obsolete, replaced by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge - x86: clean up identify_cpu
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/7/113 [it's also patch 11/26 in this thread]
It's a leftover of __init to __cpuinit in mtrr code
Hi,
This is a repost of a couple patches I posted about a month ago related to
porting perfmon2 to powerpc. I wanted to see if there were any further
comments on these patches, and also wanted to ask if these should be
submitted separately to the ppc kernel maintainers, or if they should be
On 5/2/07, Davi Arnaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thread A:
int fd = plfutex(addr, 0);
do
poll(fdset+fd);
process network events
queue obj to thread B
if fd:
job processed
thread B:
wait_job();
process_job();
raise_event(addr);
Add an smp_call_function_single() to the powerpc architecture. Since this
is very similar to the existing smp_call_function() routine, the common
portions have been split out into __smp_call_function(). Since the
spin_lock(call_lock) was moved to __smp_call_function(),
smp_call_function() now
Change the powerpc version of topology_init() from an __initcall to
a subsys_initcall to match all other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Corry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: linux-2.6.21/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
===
---
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:47:16PM +0200, Wolfgang Erig wrote:
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:01:56PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Output from kernel with CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG could be useful.
Linux version 2.6.21-gde46c337 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2
20061115 (prerelease) (Debian
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
If we don't want any warnings with CONFIG_PCI=n, CONFIG_SYSFS=n or
CONFIG_PROC_FS=n, we'd have to annotate _many_ functions.
If the lonterm goal is to compile the kernel with -Werror then we need
-Wno-unused-function, not annotating individual
Bill Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bill Irwin wrote:
Brain dump before crashing for the night:
The patch refuses to clobber already-present pagetable entries of
whatever origin. There are pagetables prior to this setup covering the
address range just above PAGE_OFFSET. If this theory is
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It is currently used as an instrumentation infrastructure for the LTTng
tracer at IBM, Google, Autodesk, Sony, MontaVista and deployed in
WindRiver products. The SystemTAP project also plan to use this type of
infrastructure to trace sites hard to
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
I presume the answer is just to extend your quicklist work to
powerpc's lowest level of pagetables. The only other architecture
which is using kmem_cache for them is arm26, which has
#error SMP is not supported, so won't be giving this problem.
In the
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:57:14PM -0400, Ting Yang wrote:
A Proportional Share REsource Allocation Algorithm for Real-Time,
Time-Shared Systems, by Ion Stoica. You can find the paper here:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/37752.html
Good paper ..thanks for the pointer.
I briefly went thr' the
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
David, could you provide some feedback please? The patches are stunningly
free of comments, but you used to do that to me pretty often so my sympathy
is limited ;)
You bastard! :)
Ok, from a brief look ...
[general]
The code adds an extra indirection
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:47:07AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
That doesn't constitute using it.
Andi, there was a huge amount of discussion about all this in September last
year (subjects: *markers* and *LTTng*). The outcome of all that was, I
believe, that the kernel should have a static
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
It simple as is, there is no need to overdesign.
There is no reason to go with a limited, too-simple minded design if
we've already identified a much better design. The fact that poll is
used today does not excuse piling on more and more code
On 5/2/07, Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uwe Bugla wrote:
Original-Nachricht
Datum: Wed, 02 May 2007 17:30:32 +0400
Von: Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Simon Arlott [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linux Kernel Mailing list
Am 02.05.2007 09:52 schrieb Greg KH:
Tilman, here's a patch, can you try this on top of your tree that dies?
2.6.21-git3 plus that patch comes up fine.
(Except for a UDP problem I seem to remember I already saw reported
on lkml and which I'll ignore for now in order not to blur the
picture.)
Linus,
Please pull from
git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6 for-linus
There are a few changes in other architectures, that is mostly because
the 64bit relocatable patches code moved a few functions into architecture
dependent code. No real functional changes. Also a few more
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
On 5/2/07, Davi Arnaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thread A:
int fd = plfutex(addr, 0);
do
poll(fdset+fd);
process network events
queue obj to thread B
if fd:
job processed
thread B:
wait_job();
process_job();
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 16:43:44 +0100
From: Daniel J Blueman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Rajib Majumder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Linux Kernel linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Scalability
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Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:21:40PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Conceivably we could address this in the filesystem without mucking other
things up. But I'd have thought the simplest damage-control would be
Davide Libenzi wrote:
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
David, could you provide some feedback please? The patches are stunningly
free of comments, but you used to do that to me pretty often so my sympathy
is limited ;)
You bastard! :)
Ok, from a brief look ...
[general]
The
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:57:14PM -0400, Ting Yang wrote:
A Proportional Share REsource Allocation Algorithm for Real-Time,
Time-Shared Systems, by Ion Stoica. You can find the paper here:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/37752.html
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:06:34PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On May 2 2007 07:19, Pierre Ossman wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
If it works, no problem. just put your sign-off somewhere
and let Andrew (or the appropriate subsys maintainer) have it :)
Well, the appropriate subsys maintainer would be me. :)
Has it been decided that this is the way to
On 5/2/07, Davi Arnaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NO! Every single waiter of the _file descriptor_ is waked, not of the futex.
And how is this better? In this world of yours a program must have
one file descriptor for each single futex which is used like this *per
thread*. There can be
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:47:07AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 2 May 2007 12:44:13 +0200 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is currently used as an instrumentation infrastructure for the LTTng
tracer at IBM, Google, Autodesk, Sony, MontaVista and deployed in
WindRiver
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 08:54 -0400, Peter Keilty wrote:
john stultz wrote:
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 16:26 -0400, Peter Keilty wrote:
From: Peter Keilty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Initial ia64 conversion to the generic timekeeping/clocksource code.
Signed-off-by: Peter Keilty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add compat_ioctl method for tty code to allow processing
of 32 bit ioctl calls on 64 bit systems by tty core,
tty drivers, and line disciplines.
Based on patch by Arnd Bergmann:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.0/1732.html
This patch does not remove tty ioctl entries in
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:28:46AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
I think this should be fixed now. Eric made all those writes
unconditional (to fix a problem with PSE superpages not being created).
The patch is in Andi's queue.
Bill Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It needs verification
On 5/2/07, Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it? Please do tell me more...
Come on, we went through all this. Having to do syscalls for event
retrieval plus the limited channel available for feedback (the POLL*
bits) is to limiting. This is where the kevent stuff innovated and
There are multiple 512 processor altix's in production. :)
Kevin
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 20:56 +0800, Rajib Majumder wrote:
Hi,
I am wondering if 2.4.x/2.6.x kernel is scalable enough to run on
8-CPU hardware. Do we have any scalability comparison data between
2.4/2.6 kernels and beyond
Rajib Majumder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I am wondering if 2.4.x/2.6.x kernel is scalable enough to run on
8-CPU hardware. Do we have any scalability comparison data between
2.4/2.6 kernels and beyond 4-CPU?
If yes, is the scalablity is near linear?
I haven't a clue what the data
On Wednesday, May 2, 2007 7:34 am Robert Hancock wrote:
Jesse Barnes wrote:
On Tuesday, May 01, 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote:
I'm testing it now on my 965...
Bah... nevermind Robert, I see you're doing this already in
pci_mmcfg_reject_broken. I'm about to reboot test now.
Ok, I've
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