Re: Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II

2013-11-15 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sábado, 26 de octubre de 2013 00:32:25 Fengguang Wu escribió: > What's the kernel you are running? And it's writing to a hard disk? > The stalls are most likely caused by either one of > > 1) write IO starves read IO > 2) direct page reclaim blocked when >- trying to writeout PG_dirty

Re: Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II

2013-11-15 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sábado, 26 de octubre de 2013 00:32:25 Fengguang Wu escribió: What's the kernel you are running? And it's writing to a hard disk? The stalls are most likely caused by either one of 1) write IO starves read IO 2) direct page reclaim blocked when - trying to writeout PG_dirty pages

Re: Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II

2013-10-25 Thread Diego Calleja
El Viernes, 25 de octubre de 2013 18:26:23 Artem S. Tashkinov escribió: > Oct 25, 2013 05:26:45 PM, david wrote: > >actually, I think the problem is more the impact of the huge write later > >on. > Exactly. And not being able to use applications which show you IO > performance like Midnight

Re: Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II

2013-10-25 Thread Diego Calleja
El Viernes, 25 de octubre de 2013 18:26:23 Artem S. Tashkinov escribió: Oct 25, 2013 05:26:45 PM, david wrote: actually, I think the problem is more the impact of the huge write later on. Exactly. And not being able to use applications which show you IO performance like Midnight Commander.

Re: BUG?: "Cannot map mmconfig aperture"

2008-02-22 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:26:56 +0100 (CET), Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Thanks. Nothing new there. Can you please apply the patch below and > provide the output of the ioremap code ? [0.155485] ACPI: bus type pci registered [0.155581] PCI: Found Intel Corporation

Re: BUG?: Cannot map mmconfig aperture

2008-02-22 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:26:56 +0100 (CET), Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Thanks. Nothing new there. Can you please apply the patch below and provide the output of the ioremap code ? [0.155485] ACPI: bus type pci registered [0.155581] PCI: Found Intel Corporation

Re: BUG?: "Cannot map mmconfig aperture"

2008-02-21 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:53:39 +0100 (CET), Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hmm, that's confusing. Can you please provide a complete boot log ? > > Thanks, Sure [0.00] Linux version 2.6.25-rc2-00342-g5d9c4a7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease)

Re: BUG?: Cannot map mmconfig aperture

2008-02-21 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:53:39 +0100 (CET), Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hmm, that's confusing. Can you please provide a complete boot log ? Thanks, Sure [0.00] Linux version 2.6.25-rc2-00342-g5d9c4a7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease)

BUG?: "Cannot map mmconfig aperture"

2008-02-20 Thread Diego Calleja
I get the following new message in my dmesg: [0.155476] ACPI: bus type pci registered [0.155567] PCI: Found Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory Controller Hub with MMCONFIG support. [0.161149] PCI: Cannot map mmconfig aperture for segment 0 [0.161181] PCI: Using

BUG?: Cannot map mmconfig aperture

2008-02-20 Thread Diego Calleja
I get the following new message in my dmesg: [0.155476] ACPI: bus type pci registered [0.155567] PCI: Found Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory Controller Hub with MMCONFIG support. [0.161149] PCI: Cannot map mmconfig aperture for segment 0 [0.161181] PCI: Using

Re: [PATCH] [8/18] BKL-removal: Remove BKL from remote_llseek

2008-01-28 Thread Diego Calleja
El Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:10:34 +0100, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > So you get overlapping reads. Probably not good. This was discussed in the past i think -> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/124 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/130 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] [8/18] BKL-removal: Remove BKL from remote_llseek

2008-01-28 Thread Diego Calleja
El Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:10:34 +0100, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: So you get overlapping reads. Probably not good. This was discussed in the past i think - http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/124 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/130 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [RFC] ext3: per-process soft-syncing data=ordered mode

2008-01-24 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:36:00 +0300, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Greetings! > > data=ordered mode has proven reliable over the years, and it does this by > ordering filedata flushes before metadata flushes. But this sometimes > causes contention in the order of a 10x slowdown for

Re: [RFC] ext3: per-process soft-syncing data=ordered mode

2008-01-24 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:36:00 +0300, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Greetings! data=ordered mode has proven reliable over the years, and it does this by ordering filedata flushes before metadata flushes. But this sometimes causes contention in the order of a 10x slowdown for certain

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-08 Thread Diego Calleja
http://freebsd.org http://netbsd.org http://openbsd.org http://opensolaris.org There're so many options, that wasting your time arguing with people that thinks that you're a troll is worthless. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-08 Thread Diego Calleja
http://freebsd.org http://netbsd.org http://openbsd.org http://opensolaris.org There're so many options, that wasting your time arguing with people that thinks that you're a troll is worthless. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN

2008-01-02 Thread Diego Calleja
El Wed, 2 Jan 2008 03:32:18 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > It might make sense to offer ext4 in -mm and even in early -rc kernels, > but I've already seen people using ext4 simply because a stable kernel > offered it - and that's definitely not intended. But isn't that the

Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN

2008-01-02 Thread Diego Calleja
El Wed, 2 Jan 2008 03:32:18 +0200, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: It might make sense to offer ext4 in -mm and even in early -rc kernels, but I've already seen people using ext4 simply because a stable kernel offered it - and that's definitely not intended. But isn't that the whole

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-04 Thread Diego Calleja
As usually, if someone finds errors in http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_24 , let me know it or change it yourself. -- 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: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-12-04 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 4 Dec 2007 22:47:45 +0100, "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > That is what I like of C++, with good placement of high level features > like const's and & (references) one can gain fine control over what > gets copied or not. But...if there's some way Linux can get "language

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-12-04 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 4 Dec 2007 22:47:45 +0100, J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: That is what I like of C++, with good placement of high level features like const's and (references) one can gain fine control over what gets copied or not. But...if there's some way Linux can get language

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-04 Thread Diego Calleja
As usually, if someone finds errors in http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_24 , let me know it or change it yourself. -- 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: Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs?

2007-11-17 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:42:51 -0800, Martin Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I don't think that setting a max process count by default is a > good/viable solution. I don't see why...OS X had a default limit of 100 processes per uid (increased to 266 in 10.5) and "it works" (many people

Re: Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs?

2007-11-17 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:42:51 -0800, Martin Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I don't think that setting a max process count by default is a good/viable solution. I don't see why...OS X had a default limit of 100 processes per uid (increased to 266 in 10.5) and it works (many people notices

Re: Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs?

2007-11-16 Thread Diego Calleja
El Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:51:27 -0800, Martin Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Dear kernel hackers, > > This is a message from below 0x7FFF. Please look at this bug (it's > not a new concept but still): > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/163185 Can't see that page:

Re: Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs?

2007-11-16 Thread Diego Calleja
El Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:51:27 -0800, Martin Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Dear kernel hackers, This is a message from below 0x7FFF. Please look at this bug (it's not a new concept but still): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/163185 Can't see that page: --

[PATCH] Improve cgroup printks

2007-11-10 Thread Diego Calleja
ns This patch lowers the priority of those messages, adds a "cgroup: " prefix to another couple of printks and kills the useless reference to the source file. Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- 2.6/kernel/cgroup.c.old 2007-11-10 11:35:51.0 +010

[PATCH] Improve cgroup printks

2007-11-10 Thread Diego Calleja
ns This patch lowers the priority of those messages, adds a cgroup: prefix to another couple of printks and kills the useless reference to the source file. Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 2.6/kernel/cgroup.c.old 2007-11-10 11:35:51.0 +0100 +++ 2.6/kernel/cgroup.c

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

2007-10-03 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:32:00 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Heh. The "remove sk98lin driver" bullet is sadly wrong. We had to > reinstate it because it supported some cards that the skge driver doesn't > handle. Thanks, fixed - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

2007-10-03 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:32:00 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Heh. The remove sk98lin driver bullet is sadly wrong. We had to reinstate it because it supported some cards that the skge driver doesn't handle. Thanks, fixed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

2007-10-02 Thread Diego Calleja
El Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:41:49 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > So there's a final -rc out there, and right now my plan is to make this > series really short, and release 2.6.23 in a few days. So please do give > it a last good testing, and holler about any issues you

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

2007-10-02 Thread Diego Calleja
El Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:41:49 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: So there's a final -rc out there, and right now my plan is to make this series really short, and release 2.6.23 in a few days. So please do give it a last good testing, and holler about any issues you find!

Re: Coding FATX support for 2.6

2007-09-23 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:51:15 -0400, Hector Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Most xbox-linux users are stuck using 2.4, since there is no FATX driver > for 2.6 and the 2.4 one is unmaintained. I've been thinking about > writing FATX support into 2.6, to finally end this problem (this is >

Urgent bugzilla mainteinance needed

2007-09-23 Thread Diego Calleja
Take a look at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3710 bugzilla tries to send a mail to the reporter, it fails ("unknown user account"), but the error failure is appended as a bugzilla comment. Then bugzilla tries to send that comment to everyone involved in the bug, including the

Urgent bugzilla mainteinance needed

2007-09-23 Thread Diego Calleja
Take a look at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3710 bugzilla tries to send a mail to the reporter, it fails (unknown user account), but the error failure is appended as a bugzilla comment. Then bugzilla tries to send that comment to everyone involved in the bug, including the

Re: Coding FATX support for 2.6

2007-09-23 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:51:15 -0400, Hector Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Most xbox-linux users are stuck using 2.4, since there is no FATX driver for 2.6 and the 2.4 one is unmaintained. I've been thinking about writing FATX support into 2.6, to finally end this problem (this is

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-09 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:02:38 -0400, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > NT maintains atimes by default, at least up to XP. You have to edit the > registry to turn them off, and it is a single global switch -- not per > mountpoint like Unix. > > And it makes a huge difference there, too.

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-09 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:02:38 -0400, Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: NT maintains atimes by default, at least up to XP. You have to edit the registry to turn them off, and it is a single global switch -- not per mountpoint like Unix. And it makes a huge difference there, too. In

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-05 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sun, 5 Aug 2007 09:13:20 +0200, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Measurements show that noatime helps 20-30% on regular desktop > workloads, easily 50% for kernel builds and much more than that (in > excess of 100%) for file-read-intense workloads. We cannot just walk And as

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-05 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sun, 5 Aug 2007 09:13:20 +0200, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Measurements show that noatime helps 20-30% on regular desktop workloads, easily 50% for kernel builds and much more than that (in excess of 100%) for file-read-intense workloads. We cannot just walk And as

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-04 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 4 Aug 2007 19:38:01 +0200, Diego Calleja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Mmmh, "mount -o remount,noatime /" seems to Work For Me in Ubuntu > with util-linux/mount "2.12r-17ubuntu"...but then Google says [1] that > Ubuntu has been shipping with rel

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-04 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 4 Aug 2007 19:17:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > i've got util-linux-2.13-0.46.fc6 and 2.6.22 on that box, shouldnt that > be recent enough? As far as i can see it from the kernel-side code, this > works on the general VFS level and hence should be supported by

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-04 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 4 Aug 2007 18:37:33 +0200, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > thousands of applications. So for most file workloads we give Windows a > 20%-30% performance edge, for almost nothing. (for RAM-starved kernel > builds the performance difference between atime and noatime+nodiratime

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-04 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 4 Aug 2007 18:37:33 +0200, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: thousands of applications. So for most file workloads we give Windows a 20%-30% performance edge, for almost nothing. (for RAM-starved kernel builds the performance difference between atime and noatime+nodiratime

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-04 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 4 Aug 2007 19:17:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: i've got util-linux-2.13-0.46.fc6 and 2.6.22 on that box, shouldnt that be recent enough? As far as i can see it from the kernel-side code, this works on the general VFS level and hence should be supported by ext3

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-04 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 4 Aug 2007 19:38:01 +0200, Diego Calleja [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Mmmh, mount -o remount,noatime / seems to Work For Me in Ubuntu with util-linux/mount 2.12r-17ubuntu...but then Google says [1] that Ubuntu has been shipping with relatime enabled as default for months

Re: inotify and /proc/

2007-07-31 Thread Diego Calleja
El Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:25:21 -0500, Joseph Pingenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > More background, please? > > What's the way to check for a process exiting without spinning? I don't know if it's useful for you, but CONFIG_CONNECTOR and CONFIG_PROC_EVENTS will report process

Re: inotify and /proc/pid

2007-07-31 Thread Diego Calleja
El Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:25:21 -0500, Joseph Pingenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: More background, please? What's the way to check for a process exiting without spinning? I don't know if it's useful for you, but CONFIG_CONNECTOR and CONFIG_PROC_EVENTS will report process

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:00:39 -0700, Bill Huey (hui) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > The scheduler could have and still can undertake good solid transformation, > but getting folks to listen is another story which is why Con quit. CFS > basically locks him and his ideas out, not just from a

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:00:39 -0700, Bill Huey (hui) [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: The scheduler could have and still can undertake good solid transformation, but getting folks to listen is another story which is why Con quit. CFS basically locks him and his ideas out, not just from a technical

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:07:05 -0700, Bill Huey (hui) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > of how crappy X is. This is an open argument on how to solve, but it > should not have resulted in really one scheduler over the other. Both So your argument is that SD shouldn't have been merged either, because

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:05:25 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > So "modal" things are good for fixing behaviour in the short run. But they > are a total disaster in the long run, and even in the short run they tend > to have problems (simply because there will be cases

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:05:25 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: So modal things are good for fixing behaviour in the short run. But they are a total disaster in the long run, and even in the short run they tend to have problems (simply because there will be cases that

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:07:05 -0700, Bill Huey (hui) [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: of how crappy X is. This is an open argument on how to solve, but it should not have resulted in really one scheduler over the other. Both So your argument is that SD shouldn't have been merged either, because it

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:00:42 +0530, jimmy bahuleyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > building upon or improving existing technology is as important as > inventing new things. if every one insisted on dreaming up new things, i > doubt we would've accomplished anything significant (not just in OS,

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:00:42 +0530, jimmy bahuleyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: building upon or improving existing technology is as important as inventing new things. if every one insisted on dreaming up new things, i doubt we would've accomplished anything significant (not just in OS,

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-19 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:21:53 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > traffic regulations only consider cars? I think not. Yet the same > argument is the core of most GPL v3 objections we've seen in this > thread. No, the core argument of the GPLv3 objections is that you can NOT

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-19 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:21:53 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: traffic regulations only consider cars? I think not. Yet the same argument is the core of most GPL v3 objections we've seen in this thread. No, the core argument of the GPLv3 objections is that you can NOT tell

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:55:09 -0300, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Diego Calleja wrote: > > >> And the FSF is trying to control the design and licensing of > >> hardware throught the influence of their software. > >

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:55:09 -0300, Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Diego Calleja wrote: And the FSF is trying to control the design and licensing of hardware throught the influence of their software. It's not. It's only working to ensure recipients

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:49:19 -0300, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Let me see if I got your position right: when TiVO imposes > restrictions, that's ok, but when others want to find ways to stop it, > then it's not. *Now* I'm confused ;-) Me, I agree that hardware shouldn't

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:49:19 -0300, Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Let me see if I got your position right: when TiVO imposes restrictions, that's ok, but when others want to find ways to stop it, then it's not. *Now* I'm confused ;-) Me, I agree that hardware shouldn't lock

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:52:28 +0200, Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I advocated that they should stay out back then. > But on the other hand I do not see it causing much troubles > having scripts/kconfig/po/da.po etc araound. > > Any opinion about the .po files? These days the

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:52:28 +0200, Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I advocated that they should stay out back then. But on the other hand I do not see it causing much troubles having scripts/kconfig/po/da.po etc araound. Any opinion about the .po files? These days the

Re: [PATCH 1/1] V4L: stk11xx, add a new webcam driver

2007-05-24 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 24 May 2007 16:01:33 +0200 (CEST), Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > +config USB_STK11XX > + tristate "STK11XX based webcams" > + depends on VIDEO_V4L2 > + ---help--- > + This will add support for Syntek webcams such as dc1125 and stk1135. > + > + If you

Re: [PATCH - 1/1] Documentation/HOWTO

2007-05-24 Thread Diego Calleja
d twice, and I didn't notice it. > Torvalds, Care to revert one commit? Agreed, one of them can be removed. > commit 722385f75efd82d9f480f0765a1e97a4d83cac0d > Author: Diego Calleja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu Sep 21 22:37:10 2006 +0200 > > HOWTO: bug rep

Re: [PATCH - 1/1] Documentation/HOWTO

2007-05-24 Thread Diego Calleja
it. Torvalds, Care to revert one commit? Agreed, one of them can be removed. commit 722385f75efd82d9f480f0765a1e97a4d83cac0d Author: Diego Calleja [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Sep 21 22:37:10 2006 +0200 HOWTO: bug report addition I suspect that not many people is subscribed

Re: [PATCH 1/1] V4L: stk11xx, add a new webcam driver

2007-05-24 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 24 May 2007 16:01:33 +0200 (CEST), Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: +config USB_STK11XX + tristate STK11XX based webcams + depends on VIDEO_V4L2 + ---help--- + This will add support for Syntek webcams such as dc1125 and stk1135. + + If you choose to

Re: Google are using linux kernel - what do you know about the source?

2007-05-23 Thread Diego Calleja
El Wed, 23 May 2007 16:23:44 +0200, Gergo Szakal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Greetings to all list-members! > > Recently I have read that Google are selling enterprise hardware that > is running a modified version of the Linuk kernel [1]. I decided to ask > them whether the source is

Re: Google are using linux kernel - what do you know about the source?

2007-05-23 Thread Diego Calleja
El Wed, 23 May 2007 16:23:44 +0200, Gergo Szakal [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Greetings to all list-members! Recently I have read that Google are selling enterprise hardware that is running a modified version of the Linuk kernel [1]. I decided to ask them whether the source is available. I

Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

2007-05-19 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 19 May 2007 16:02:37 -0400, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > The chart is at http://www.tmr.com/~davidsen/sched_smooth_01.html for > your viewing pleasure. The only "tuned" result was with sd, since what I > observed was so bad using the default settings. If any scheduler

Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

2007-05-19 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 19 May 2007 16:02:37 -0400, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: The chart is at http://www.tmr.com/~davidsen/sched_smooth_01.html for your viewing pleasure. The only tuned result was with sd, since what I observed was so bad using the default settings. If any scheduler

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: merge MD software raid and LVM in one unique layer.

2007-05-02 Thread Diego Calleja
El Wed, 2 May 2007 20:18:55 +0100, "Miguel Sousa Filipe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I find it high irritanting having two kernel interfaces and two > userland tools that provide the same funcionality, which one should I > use? I doubt users care about kernel's design; however the lack of

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: merge MD software raid and LVM in one unique layer.

2007-05-02 Thread Diego Calleja
El Wed, 2 May 2007 20:18:55 +0100, Miguel Sousa Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I find it high irritanting having two kernel interfaces and two userland tools that provide the same funcionality, which one should I use? I doubt users care about kernel's design; however the lack of

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-29 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:10:28 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > What exactly is the purpose of the 2.6.21 regressions list in the Wiki? AFAIK, submitting its contents to the list periodically CCing the developers, like you did with your lists. If developers care to fix it or not

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-29 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:17:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Bugzilla might not be perfect, but it works and it's better than doing > it by hand. The good thing about the wiki is that it doesn't exclude bugzilla. It's just a "regressions list", it doesn't intends to replace

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-29 Thread Diego Calleja
So far, it seems that most of people's opinion WRT to bug reporting and trackingcan be divided into 2 groups: - People who argues (and they're right) that bugzilla and web interfaces in general suck and that email + an "Adrian-like" solution works better - People who argues that a bug

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-29 Thread Diego Calleja
So far, it seems that most of people's opinion WRT to bug reporting and trackingcan be divided into 2 groups: - People who argues (and they're right) that bugzilla and web interfaces in general suck and that email + an Adrian-like solution works better - People who argues that a bug tracker

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-29 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:17:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Bugzilla might not be perfect, but it works and it's better than doing it by hand. The good thing about the wiki is that it doesn't exclude bugzilla. It's just a regressions list, it doesn't intends to replace

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-29 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:10:28 +0200, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: What exactly is the purpose of the 2.6.21 regressions list in the Wiki? AFAIK, submitting its contents to the list periodically CCing the developers, like you did with your lists. If developers care to fix it or not or

Re: 2.6.21 known regressions (v2) (for -stable team)

2007-04-28 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:03:07 +0200, Thomas Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Please remove this from the regression list. This seems to be an > userspace only problem and is not related to any kernel driver: > amarok and/or audacious seems to repeatedly read/write to the X socket: OK - I

Re: 2.6.21 known regressions (v2) (for -stable team)

2007-04-28 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:03:07 +0200, Thomas Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Please remove this from the regression list. This seems to be an userspace only problem and is not related to any kernel driver: amarok and/or audacious seems to repeatedly read/write to the X socket: OK - I added it

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:42:22 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I bet that's true even of a lot of people who are more "web oriented" than > I am. They may look at webpages, but getting notified by email is still > the wakeup call. There's a difference between "active

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:02:28 -0400, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Problem is, not enough developers pay attention to the -stable > series. Adrian, maybe you could shift your attention there and > stop trying to track the bleeding edge? >From my humble POV, it's a problem that all

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:02:28 -0400, Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Problem is, not enough developers pay attention to the -stable series. Adrian, maybe you could shift your attention there and stop trying to track the bleeding edge? From my humble POV, it's a problem that all this

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:42:22 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I bet that's true even of a lot of people who are more web oriented than I am. They may look at webpages, but getting notified by email is still the wakeup call. There's a difference between active and

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-18 Thread Diego Calleja
El Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:22:59 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > So if you have 2 users on a machine running CPU hogs, you should *first* > try to be fair among users. If one user then runs 5 programs, and the > other one runs just 1, then the *one* program should get

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-18 Thread Diego Calleja
El Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:22:59 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: So if you have 2 users on a machine running CPU hogs, you should *first* try to be fair among users. If one user then runs 5 programs, and the other one runs just 1, then the *one* program should get 50% of

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-17 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:47:32 +0200 (CEST), Tomasz Kłoczko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Realy can't or don't want (?) Relicensing the whole kernel under the CDDL just to be able to get ZFS is not going to happen (I bet that rewriting ZFS is easier than relicensing a large piece of software

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-17 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:47:32 +0200 (CEST), Tomasz Kłoczko [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Realy can't or don't want (?) Relicensing the whole kernel under the CDDL just to be able to get ZFS is not going to happen (I bet that rewriting ZFS is easier than relicensing a large piece of software with

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-16 Thread Diego Calleja
El Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:46:50 +0200 (CEST), Tomasz Kłoczko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > also some other interestig numbers can be founnd on: > http://milek.blogspot.com/2006/08/hw-raid-vs-zfs-software-raid-part-ii.html So software raid can be faster than HW raid. News at 11. - To unsubscribe

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-16 Thread Diego Calleja
El Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:46:50 +0200 (CEST), Tomasz Kłoczko [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: also some other interestig numbers can be founnd on: http://milek.blogspot.com/2006/08/hw-raid-vs-zfs-software-raid-part-ii.html So software raid can be faster than HW raid. News at 11. - To unsubscribe from

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:31:01 +0100 (MET), Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Don't they claim 50+? Already browsing > ftp://ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.1 gives more than 2 > screenfuls [à 25]. I don't know exactly how many architectures does netbsd run, but Linux seems

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:10:20 -0800, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Any specific examples? I have a long list of people who wish to write > new drivers but just don't know which hardware is not yet supported. It'd be interesting to join forces with the BSD guys in this field, they

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:10:20 -0800, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Any specific examples? I have a long list of people who wish to write new drivers but just don't know which hardware is not yet supported. It'd be interesting to join forces with the BSD guys in this field, they surely

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:31:01 +0100 (MET), Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Don't they claim 50+? Already browsing ftp://ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.1 gives more than 2 screenfuls [à 25]. I don't know exactly how many architectures does netbsd run, but Linux seems to

"Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently"

2006-12-21 Thread Diego Calleja
There's a bug in the bugzilla (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7531) that is asking to be reported here. The full dmesg (with and without 'pci=assign-busses') can be found in the link. [17179574.14] Boot video device is :01:05.0 [17179574.14] PCI: Transparent bridge -

Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently

2006-12-21 Thread Diego Calleja
There's a bug in the bugzilla (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7531) that is asking to be reported here. The full dmesg (with and without 'pci=assign-busses') can be found in the link. [17179574.14] Boot video device is :01:05.0 [17179574.14] PCI: Transparent bridge -

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-19 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:46:30 -0500, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/misc/pci.ids' > > That file apparently doesn't exist on an FC6 i686 system Indeed, I forgot to document that. Ubuntu has it there (package pciutils), and

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-19 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:57:45 +1100, Marek Wawrzyczny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I had another, probably crazy idea. Would it be possible to utilize the > current vendor/device PCI ID database to create Linux friendliness matrix > site? I've a script (attached) that looks into

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