Re: [PATCH] block: Make CFQ default to IOPS mode on SSDs

2015-06-09 Thread Romain Francoise
Hi, On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:42:29AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > There are a few options to handle this. The attached might work, not > tested at all. Basically it adds an io sched registration hook, that is > called when we are adding the disk on the queue. Non-rotational > detection should be d

Re: [PATCH] block: Make CFQ default to IOPS mode on SSDs

2015-06-09 Thread Romain Francoise
Hi, On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:55:21PM -0700, Tahsin Erdogan wrote: > --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c > +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c > @@ -4460,7 +4460,7 @@ static int cfq_init_queue(struct request_queue *q, > struct elevator_type *e) > cfqd->cfq_slice[1] = cfq_slice_sync; > cfqd->cfq_target_l

Re: [PATCH 3.17 00/25] 3.17.1-stable review

2014-10-13 Thread Romain Francoise
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 04:24:53AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.17.1 release. > There are 25 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > let me know.

Re: [PULL] vhost: infrastructure changes for 3.16

2014-06-12 Thread Romain Francoise
x27;m glad to see that this change made its way into mainline after all! Would you be willing to take the following on top? From: Romain Francoise Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:26:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] vhost-net: don't open-code kvfree Commit 23cc5a991c ("vhost-net: extend device allocation

Re: [PATCH v1] vhost: avoid large order allocations

2014-05-13 Thread Romain Francoise
"Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: > Please dont' do this, extra indirection hurts performance. > Instead, please change vhost_net_open and scsi to allocate the whole > structure with vmalloc if kmalloc fails, along the lines of > 74d332c13b2148ae934ea94dac1745ae92efe8e5 Back in January 2013, you didn

Re: Performance regression in v3.14

2014-05-07 Thread Romain Francoise
Johan Hovold writes: > So I guess that idle-active difference is normal for acpi-cpufreq and > that the problem only arises in or with the intel_pstate driver. I've also noticed some performance issues with intel_pstate in powersave mode, in my case playing fullscreen video was very choppy. Swit

Re: [PATCH] vhost-net: fall back to vmalloc if high-order allocation fails

2013-06-28 Thread Romain Francoise
"Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:46:47PM +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: >> Creating a vhost-net device allocates an object large enough (34320 bytes >> on x86-64) to trigger an order-4 allocation, which may fail if memory if >> fra

Re: [PATCH] vhost-net: fall back to vmalloc if high-order allocation fails

2013-01-28 Thread Romain Francoise
David Miller writes: > I'm not going to apply this vmalloc patch, because if I apply it the > fundamental problem here just gets swept under the carpet even longer. No problem, I'll keep this as a local change until vhost-net's allocation strategy gains some sanity. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe fr

[PATCH] vhost-net: fall back to vmalloc if high-order allocation fails

2013-01-23 Thread Romain Francoise
, object size: 65536, order: 4 node 0: slabs: 8/8, objs: 8/8, free: 0 In that situation, rather than forcing the caller to use regular virtio-net, try to allocate the descriptor with vmalloc(). Signed-off-by: Romain Francoise --- drivers/vhost/net.c | 18 +++--- 1 file changed, 15

Re: Major network performance regression in 3.7

2013-01-06 Thread Romain Francoise
Willy Tarreau writes: > That makes me think that I should try 3.8-rc2 since LRO was removed > there :-/ Better yet, find a way to automate these tests so they can run continually against net-next and find problems early... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Fairly reproduceable crash in 3.7.1 Null pointer rb_erase+0xc4/0x292

2013-01-02 Thread Romain Francoise
Marc MERLIN writes: > I had pretty repeated crashes when plugging power back into my running > laptop, but the display just freezes and I can't get a dump. > For the crash here, I did: suspend to RAM, plug power back in, wake up. > Laptop crashed about 3 seconds after wakeup. Sounds like https:

Re: Linux 3.7-rc8

2012-12-03 Thread Romain Francoise
Hi, Linus Torvalds writes: > Does that fix the printk's for you too? Yep, works for me, thanks! Tested-by: Romain Francoise -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More major

Re: Linux 3.7-rc8

2012-12-03 Thread Romain Francoise
Hi Linus, Linus Torvalds writes: > Linus Torvalds (5): > fs/buffer.c: make block-size be per-page and protected by the page lock > blockdev: remove bd_block_size_semaphore again > direct-io: don't read inode->i_blkbits multiple times > blkdev_max_block: make private to fs

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Do not remove vmlinux when cleaning external module

2012-11-10 Thread Romain Francoise
Pawel Moll writes: > Since commit 1f2bfbd00e466ff3489b2ca5cc75b1cccd14c123 "kbuild: > link of vmlinux moved to a script" make clean with M= > argument (so cleaning external module) removes vmlinux, > System.map and couple of other files from the *main* kernel > build directory! This not what was

Re: RFC: sign the modules at install time

2012-10-20 Thread Romain Francoise
Linus Torvalds writes: > I like how the default makefiles do that "create and use random key" > thing by default. THAT is what I want to see. Yes, however the key generation itself is horribly verbose and doesn't mix very well with the output of a parallel build. Now that the modules are signed

Re: Linux 2.6.32.60

2012-10-11 Thread Romain Francoise
Hi Willy, Willy Tarreau writes: > RDRAND certainly qualifies as a source of entropy and I judged it was > appropriate for a backport for this reason. Nobody has objected about > this during the review, but maybe you have a different opinion and valid > reasons for these patches to be reverted ?

Re: Linux 2.6.32.60

2012-10-10 Thread Romain Francoise
Hi Willy, Willy Tarreau writes: > I've just released Linux 2.6.32.60. > This release contains, among others, a number of fixes for random and NTP, > including for the NTP leap second bug. Users should upgrade. I'm somewhat surprised to see that it also includes a new feature, namely support fo

Re: Linux 3.6-rc5

2012-09-10 Thread Romain Francoise
t means that we'll end up > using the fallback code-path even when we could still execute > the digest function. However, this isn't a big deal as nobody > but the test path would supply zero-length associated data. > > Reported-by: Romain Francoise > Signed-of

Re: Linux 3.6-rc5

2012-09-09 Thread Romain Francoise
Jussi Kivilinna writes: > Does reverting e46e9a46386bca8e80a6467b5c643dc494861896 help? It does, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.

Re: Linux 3.6-rc5

2012-09-09 Thread Romain Francoise
Still seeing this BUG with -rc5, that I originally reported here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=134653220530264&w=2 [ 26.362567] [ cut here ] [ 26.362583] kernel BUG at crypto/scatterwalk.c:37! [ 26.362606] invalid opcode: [#1] SMP [ 26.362622] Modul

Re: 3.6-rc2 Panic -- Network interrupt

2012-08-17 Thread Romain Francoise
Pete Clements writes: > Fyi: > Get below panic with 3.6-rc2 soon after boot (hand copy of screen). > [] ? tcp_v4_rcv+0x626/0x740 > [] ? ip_local_deliver_finish+0x6f/0x120 > [] ? ip_rcv+0x2b0/0x2b0 > [] ? ip_rcv_finish+0xe3/0x2d0 > [] ? __netif_receive_skb+03a8/0x4a0 > [] ? process_backlog+0x6