XFS -git changes and Linux-VServer patch porting

2007-07-18 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
Linux-VServer patch adds 2 new flags: barrier and iunlink. With recent changes in -git (filestreams), XFS now lacks di_flags bits to add these. iunlink flag adds Copy-on-Write semantics to hard links, while barrier flag signifies a filesystem barrier no virtual context can pass. I'd like to know

Re: is RSDL an "unfair" scheduler too?

2007-03-19 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/19/07, David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't suggest adding any unfairness! I suggested being fair by > user/job/process instead of being fair by thread (which is actually > unfair as it favors multi threaded processes over single threaded > processes). Wouldn't that be unf

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/18/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hm. Sounds rather a lot like the... X sucks, fix X and RSDL will rock your world. RSDL is perfect. ...that I've been getting. Blah. Nothing's perfect. Especially not computer programs. Still, it's not a smart decision on KDE's part. It wi

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/18/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 07:47 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > So neither does a good job with this load. > that sorely depends on what you mean by good job. > > It seems like what you call a good job is preserving the speed of the > gui(X + a

Re: [ck] Re: is RSDL an "unfair" scheduler too?

2007-03-17 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/18/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 06:24 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Maybe we're all discussing the problem because we have reached the point > where we need two types of schedulers : one for the desktop and one for > the servers. After all, this is alr

Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

2007-03-12 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/8/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Re-added the ext4 development tree to the -mm lineup. It has stuff in it. And broken stuff too :-) The nanoseconds patch is broken on x86_64 - makes mtimes from the future: e.g. year 2431. I suspect an endianness issue. x86 works fine a

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-11 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/11/07, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 11 March 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: Just to comment, I've been running one of the patches between 20-ck1 and this latest one, which is building as I type, but I also run gkrellm here, version 2.2.9. Since I have been running this mi

Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

2007-02-17 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 2/18/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Generally, the penalties for getting this stuff wrong are very very high: orders of magnitude slowdowns in the right situations. Which I suspect will make any system-wide knob ultimately unsuccessful. Yes, they were. Now, it's an extremely