On Tue, 29 May 2001, Craig Kulesa wrote:
Mike Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Emphatic yes. We went from cache collapse to cache bloat.
Rik, I think Mike deserves his beer. ;)
:)
...
So is there an ideal VM balance for everyone? I have found that low-RAM
(I seriously doubt
Al Viro writes:
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
For ext2 it is pretty much the same, except ext2_delete_entry() called
ext2_check_dir_entry() with a NULL input (for some reason), but it could
easily supply a valid input value. All callers to ext2_delete_entry()
dereference
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
b) doesn't fix anything that could be triggered - ext2_delete_entry()
can happen only if you've already done lookup. I.e. no problems had been
found in that block back when we were finding the entry.
That means there is no need to check
== Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Gergely Tamas wrote:
Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol partition_name ,
ksyms_base says c01c4020, System.map says c0154160. Ignoring
ksyms_base entry kernel BUG at inode.c:486!
[snip]
On 30 May 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote:
The reason we haven't seen this before is that we had 'force_delete'
that would always set i_nlink = 0. Unfortunately force_delete is toxic
to mmap(), as it will discard any dirty pages rather than flushing
them to storage, so it was removed in the
I was running something on my Dell dual p3 box (optiplex gx300). my kernel
is linux-2.4.3-ac14. I got the following message:
How often did this message occur?
__rwsem_do_wake(): wait_list unexpectedly empty
[4191] c5966f60 = { 0001 })
kenel BUG at rwsem.c:99!
invalid operand:
Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
Just one question: How to reproduce it? Just by loading the module?
Yes, 'modprobe ns558' generates the oops. Thereafter, lsmod
reports that ns558 is initializing.
Stephen
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On 30 May 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote:
Al: Is there any reason why the cases
if (!inode-i_nlink)
and the 'magic nfs path' should be treated differently?
Personally, I'd rather prefer to merge the 2.
I
I think you've mistaken my tone :-)
I wasn't asking anyone to write the driver for me. But, I am at such a
beginning position that I could pull my hair out for a year just trying to
get an idea where to start, or I can ask someone. I am absolutely prepared
to do the work, however I am not
Hello,
I have a fairly quick one: Is there an ioctl flag/call which can be used
to find out the type of the interface being used ?
I would like to somehow be able to tell in my application whether the
interface in question is of type ETHERNET or ATM or FRAME_RELAY etc.
Any/all help will be
Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
Recently, I posted a request here to send your .config files and I
received a good number of them. (thanks!).
Now I want to generate even more different configurations, and a random
.config generator would be ideal. If I write a program which randomly
outputs
Hello
There seems to be a boundary condition bug in do_mmap()
(include/linux/mm.h). It is in kernels as late as 2.4.4 (not sure about
later). I saw it reported on a mailing list a year ago but I guess it
didn't make it to the right place.
In the inline function do_mmap(), there is a check for
I use the 'pgt_offset', 'pmd_offset', 'pte_offset' and 'pte_page' inside a
module to get the physical address of a user space virtual address. The
physical address returned by 'pte_page' is not page aligned whereas the
virtual address was page aligned. Can somebody tell me the reason?
Also, can
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:46:54AM +0200, Jakob Borg wrote:
Hey;
2.4.5 again seems to have the same bug that was introduced in 2.4.4, that
the systems locks up completely when accessing and USB audio device. The
system is a dual P2 400, details to be found in the attached dmesg and
Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
The following patch fixes some ISA PnP #ifdefs (enable modular,
disable when non-available) for 3c509 and smc-ultra.
-#ifdef CONFIG_ISAPNP
+#if defined(CONFIG_ISAPNP) || (defined(CONFIG_ISAPNP_MODULE) defined(MODULE))
Hrrm. AFAICT the token
On Tue, May 29 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote:
yes I get a performance improvement of about 5%
Nice
could you port your patches to the 2.4.5-ac4 kernel? I'd love to see if the ac
improvements and yours add to each other.
Sure:
*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.5-ac4/
--
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
Recently, I posted a request here to send your .config files and I
received a good number of them. (thanks!).
Now I want to generate even more different configurations, and a random
.config generator would be ideal. If I write a
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:29:42AM +0200, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
Some things cannot be properly fixed in CML1.
$CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC = y -a $CONFIG_PROC_FS = n
is a good example.
This one has gone away btw
But in general, the current TOOLS cannot do forward dependencies, true.
From: Anuradha Ratnaweera [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
Following patch fixes a compiler warning in aci.c.
I can guess the usefullness of the functiion print_bits that would be
removed if my patch is applied. If this is so, how about putting it
inside
Hi Jens,
I ran this (well, cut-two) on a 4-way box with 4GB of memory and a
modified qlogic fibre channel driver with 32disks hanging off it, without
any problems. The test used was SpecFS 2.0
Peformance is definitely up - but I can't give an exact number, as the
run with this patch was
On Wed, May 30 2001, Mark Hemment wrote:
Hi Jens,
I ran this (well, cut-two) on a 4-way box with 4GB of memory and a
modified qlogic fibre channel driver with 32disks hanging off it, without
any problems. The test used was SpecFS 2.0
Cool, could you send me the qlogic diff? It's the
Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
Andrzej Krzysztofowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-static char name[4][IFNAMSIZ] = { , , , };
+static char name[4][IFNAMSIZ];
Ugh. Sure about that one? the variables have been pointers to zero,
now they're zero...
No, the variables were and
Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
Andrzej Krzysztofowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-static char name[4][IFNAMSIZ] = { , , , };
+static char name[4][IFNAMSIZ];
Ugh. Sure about that one? the variables have been pointers to zero,
now they're zero...
I do not agree. As I understand C name
Paul Gortmaker wrote:
Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
The following patch fixes some ISA PnP #ifdefs (enable modular,
disable when non-available) for 3c509 and smc-ultra.
-#ifdef CONFIG_ISAPNP
+#if defined(CONFIG_ISAPNP) || (defined(CONFIG_ISAPNP_MODULE) defined(MODULE))
Hrrm.
Until I get some feed back that my patches will be accepted, there are a
lot of fixes and updates on hold.
Promise Ultra100 TX2, AMD760(MP), OSB4/CSB5.
Right now there is a 2.2.19 patch and that is it.
Since there are changes being made without understand the total scope of
the issues at
On Tue, 29 May 2001 18:22:57 -0500 (CDT), Paul Walmsley wrote:
I have an 700Mhz Pentium III HP Omnibook 6000 that has been locking up
...
In the hopes of getting an oops from the NMI watchdog, I attempted to
enable the NMI watchdog with both 'nmi_watchdog=1' and 'nmi_watchdog=2'.
Neither seems
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Wed, May 30 2001, Mark Hemment wrote:
Hi Jens,
I ran this (well, cut-two) on a 4-way box with 4GB of memory and a
modified qlogic fibre channel driver with 32disks hanging off it, without
any problems. The test used was SpecFS 2.0
Cool,
David,
Actually it happened only once. then I upgrade my kernel to 2.4.5. problem
disappeared. I just hope this maybe a known problem.
Thanks.
Alex
On Wed, 30 May 2001, David Howells wrote:
I was running something on my Dell dual p3 box (optiplex gx300). my kernel
is linux-2.4.3-ac14.
Sorry, after reading the documentation I couldn't figure out who to send this
to. ksymoops doesn't seem to have done its job correctly, but I include the
output anyway. The problem seems to have occured during updatedb (creates the
slocate file database), which runs daily as a cron job (and has
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Robert Siemer wrote:
From: Anuradha Ratnaweera [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
Following patch fixes a compiler warning in aci.c.
I can guess the usefullness of the functiion print_bits that would be
removed if my patch is
Is there somewhere I can download the collection of POSIX standards docs
free of charge?
;-)
Thankyou,
James
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Hi Jens, all,
In drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c:blk_dev_init(), the high and low queued
sectors are calculated from the total number of free pages in all memory
zones. Shouldn't this calculation be passed upon the number of pages upon
which I/O can be done directly (ie. without bounce pages)?
Hi fellow Matrox users,
Maybe I can help in reporting your problems to Matrox.
Can you give me some more info as to XFree 86 version
and Matrox driver version?
-Rahul
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On Wed, May 30 2001, Mark Hemment wrote:
Hi Jens, all,
In drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c:blk_dev_init(), the high and low queued
sectors are calculated from the total number of free pages in all memory
zones. Shouldn't this calculation be passed upon the number of pages upon
which I/O can be
Hello!
As I read that Alan and Linus are more than busy,
I just retry sending the patch to the list.
The patch allows you to switch off the builtin pc speaker
with sysctl options. No program will then be able to
beep under Linux, nor under X neither in the console.
Normally the speaker keeps
By making this (logical, and needed) feature unconditional, your patch's
size and complexity is reduced by 80%. (see the attached
pc_speaker.patch2)
Ingo
diff -u --recursive linux-2.4.5/drivers/char/vt.c linux-2.4.5-nc/drivers/char/vt.c
--- linux-2.4.5/drivers/char/vt.c Fri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use the 'pgt_offset', 'pmd_offset', 'pte_offset' and 'pte_page' inside a
module to get the physical address of a user space virtual address. The
physical address returned by 'pte_page' is not page aligned whereas the
virtual address was page aligned. Can somebody
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote:
The page aging logic does seems fragile as heck. You never know how
many folks are aging pages or at what rate. If aging happens too fast,
it defeats the garbage identification logic and you rape your cache. If
aging happens too slowly..
less code / one int more in the kernel
or
more code and #ifs / one int less in the kernel
if the #ifdefs bloat the code 4 times the size of the simple patch, then
we obviously want 4 bytes more in the kernel.
And what about the code from kernel/sys.c ? The version you provided
doesn't
[ my usual email is offline at the moment, please CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
for anything urgent until the problem is fixed ]
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:55:38AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Wed, May 30 2001, Mark Hemment wrote:
Hi Jens,
I ran this (well, cut-two) on a 4-way box with 4GB
On Wed, 30 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use the 'pgt_offset', 'pmd_offset', 'pte_offset' and 'pte_page'
inside a module to get the physical address of a user space virtual
address. The physical address returned by 'pte_page' is not page
aligned whereas the virtual address was page
On Wed, May 30 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
I did change the patch so that bounce-pages always come from the NORMAL
zone, hence the ZONE_DMA32 zone isn't needed. I avoided the new zone, as
I'm not 100% sure the VM is capable of keeping the zones it already has
balanced - and
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:59:50AM +0100, Mark Hemment wrote:
Now, when HIGHMEM allocations come in (for page cache pages), they
skip the HIGH zone and use the NORMAL zone (as it now has plenty
of free pages) - the code at the top of __alloc_pages(), which
checks
less code / one int more in the kernel
or
more code and #ifs / one int less in the kernel
if the #ifdefs bloat the code 4 times the size of the simple patch, then
we obviously want 4 bytes more in the kernel.
Okay.
And what about the code from kernel/sys.c ? The version you provided
Hi,
Changes in this release:
- Don't merge requests with -special set. Not a highmem introduced bug.
(discovered by Mark Hemment)
- __scsi_end_request didn't decrement hard_nr_sectors correctly. Not a
highmem introduced bug. (discovered by Mark Hemment)
- Modular IDE/SCSI needs kmap_prot
It seems as though my card will not reset anymore after running windows 98,
even after a cold boot, and recompiling the kernel. Below is the output of
dmesg, lspci -n and ifconfig. Does anyone have any ideas? (please cc
replies)
Linux version 2.4.5 (root@rocket) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
scsi0: Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.1.13
Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter
aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
ahc_intr: AWAITING_MSG for an SCB that does not have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You see, I can't even begin to write one line of code, because I know
nothing about what I am supposed to do. Sure, I know the basics, I have
written toy device drivers for Linux, I know how to implement a driver for
Minix, understand the main loop, handling messages
From: Anuradha Ratnaweera [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Robert Siemer wrote:
Following patch fixes a compiler warning in aci.c.
... how about putting it inside an #ifdef DEBUG?
This is exactly what I did some month ago with my little working
tree.
So will you be
On Tue, 29 May 2001 19:30:06 GMT, in fa.linux.kernel you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
After using the 'map_user_kiobuf', I observed the followiing:
1. 'kiobuf-maplist[0]-virtual' contains a different virtual address than
the user space buffer address
2. But these two addresses are
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
scsi0: Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.1.13
Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter
aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
ahc_intr: AWAITING_MSG for an SCB that does not have
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote:
The page aging logic does seems fragile as heck. You never know how
many folks are aging pages or at what rate. If aging happens too fast,
it defeats the garbage identification logic and you rape your cache. If
aging happens too slowly..
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Nico Schottelius wrote:
the default value is 0, that is good enough.
hmm.. I don't think so... value of 1 would be much better, because
0 normally disables the speaker.
i confused the value. Yes, an initialization to 1 would be the correct,
ie.:
+++
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote:
The page aging logic does seems fragile as heck. You never know how
many folks are aging pages or at what rate. If aging happens too fast,
it defeats the garbage identification logic and you rape
Hi,
Is there changes for handling a serial port between kernel 2.2 and 2.4 ?
Thanks
sebastien person
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have a couple of user DMA drivers up and running, but in light of
your comment, I am not so sure.
I'm sorry, it seems I lied. Although map_user_kiobuf in 2.2 used to lock
the pages, apparently that's no longer necessary. You just need to make
sure they're marked
Hi folks!
All of a sudden I experienced at least two Oopses looking like the
attached one, which is from process X (the other was bash, but the message
had nearly scrolled away). Since I can't find this exact code sequence in
arch/i386/entry.S (it appeared exactly the same in the bash Oops) I am
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
After some more testing it's entirely plausible (though unfortunately we
don't have anything conclusive) that we have a hardware problem.
Having added a new drive (hdc as reported below) and booted root=/dev/hdc2
with nothing mounted on hda, we have
On 30 May 2001 11:38:13 +0200,
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dawson Engler writes:
Is there any way to automatically find these? E.g., is any routine
with asmlinkage callable from user space?
This is only universally done in generic and
@@ -643,9 +631,7 @@
eexp_hw_tx_pio(dev,data,length);
}
dev_kfree_skb(buf);
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
spin_unlock_irqrestore(lp-lock, flags);
-#endif
enable_irq(dev-irq);
return 0;
They are done this way to get good non SMP performance. Your changes would
ruin that.
I
The following patch removes unnecessary #ifdefs from eexpress.c
They are neccessary
Yes, you are right.
I was suggested by improper part of spinlock.h ...
Forget this patch.
@@ -643,9 +631,7 @@
eexp_hw_tx_pio(dev,data,length);
}
dev_kfree_skb(buf);
-#ifdef
David Woodhouse wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
-#ifdef CONFIG_ISAPNP
+#if defined(CONFIG_ISAPNP) || (defined(CONFIG_ISAPNP_MODULE) defined(MODULE))
The result here would be a 3c509 module which differs depending on whether
the ISAPNP module happened to be compiled at the same time or
David Woodhouse wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
-#ifdef CONFIG_ISAPNP
+#if defined(CONFIG_ISAPNP) || (defined(CONFIG_ISAPNP_MODULE) defined(MODULE))
The result here would be a 3c509 module which differs depending on whether
the ISAPNP module happened to be compiled at the same
Hi,
This adds the PNP80f7 compat Id to 3c509.c, making it now autodetect my
'3C509B EtherLink III'.
BTW, there is a problem there:
It has a card id of TCM5094 and a function id of PNP80f7, the cardid is
already there, but only probed as function id...
Anyway, I will let the dust settle on
2 months since I last did that, so I should do it again soon..
Some things cannot be properly fixed in CML1.
$CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC = y -a $CONFIG_PROC_FS = n
is a good example.
Thats a tool not a language limit.
Alan
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The rebuild firmware option was the right answer in this
case. It is now working.
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:19:02 -0600
From: Justin T. Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Michael David [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2.4.5 panic while starting aic7xxx
SCSI subsystem driver
Hi,
Attached is a patch I came up with recently to do add zerocopy support to
NBD for writes. I'm not intending that this should go into the kernel
before at least 2.5, I'm just sending it here in case it is useful to anyone.
I wrote it is a simple way to experiment with the new zerocopy code
On Wed, May 30 2001, Steve Whitehouse wrote:
+ if (PageHighMem(page))
+ offset = (int)bh-b_data;
+ else
+ offset = (int)bh-b_data - (int)page_address(page);
Side note:
offset = bh_offset(bh);
will handle this nicely for you. No need for (nasty)
Hi,
I downloaded the linux 2.4.5 sources and built and installed them on my
system. Since then, I've noticed strange file system behavior:
marvin:~ cd /tmp
marvin:/tmp ls -la
total 2656
drwxrwxrwt6 root root 1024 May 30 12:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 1024 Feb 18
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:16:08PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
Has anybody used this successfully in a recent kernel? With 2.4.5 it seems to
detect the device successfully:
Are you _sure_ you are using usb-uhci and not uhci? :)
Any oops message available from a serial console?
empeg.c:
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Steve Whitehouse wrote:
Hi,
Attached is a patch I came up with recently to do add zerocopy support to
NBD for writes. I'm not intending that this should go into the kernel
before at least 2.5, I'm just sending it here in case it is useful to anyone.
I wrote it is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Wed, 30 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use the 'pgt_offset', 'pmd_offset', 'pte_offset' and 'pte_page'
inside a module to get the physical address of a user space virtual
address. The physical address returned by 'pte_page' is not page
aligned whereas the
Hi,
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Steve Whitehouse wrote:
[info about NBD patch deleted]
Cool.
Are you seeing performance improvements with the patch ?
Yes, but my testing is not in anyway complete yet. The only network device
I have which is supported by zerocopy is loopback and there
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Edsel Adap wrote:
I downloaded the linux 2.4.5 sources and built and installed them on my
system. Since then, I've noticed strange file system behavior:
marvin:/tmp ln -s foo bar
lrwxrwxrwx1 adap users 3 May 30 12:09 bar - bar
Notice that the
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Steve Whitehouse wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Steve Whitehouse wrote:
[info about NBD patch deleted]
Cool.
Are you seeing performance improvements with the patch ?
Yes, but my testing is not in anyway complete yet. The only network device
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Pete Wyckoff wrote:
__pa(page_address(pte_page(pte))) is the address you want. [or
pte_val(*pte) (PAGE_SIZE-1) on x86 but this is platform-dependent.]
Does this work on x86 non-kmapped highmem user pages too? (i.e. is
page-virtual valid for every potential user
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Rose, Daniel wrote:
It seems as though my card will not reset anymore after running windows 98,
even after a cold boot, and recompiling the kernel. Below is the output of
dmesg, lspci -n and ifconfig. Does anyone have any ideas? (please cc
replies)
Have you tried
if you go to opengroup.org you can read the single-unix standard for
free... you need to register though. (it's not quite the same as
POSIX...)
-dean
On Wed, 30 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there somewhere I can download the collection of POSIX standards docs
free of charge?
;-)
Hi. A few weeks ago there was a discussion centering on the Athlon-optimized
fast_copy_page routine and how the prefetch might be causing problems on Via
motherboards. Unfortunately Alan's proposed fixes (to not prefetch the final 320
bytes)
don't seem to help...at least on my iWill KT-133A
Hi all,
This patch remove some NULL parameters tests in kfree-like functions and add this
directly in function.
- dev_kfree_skb_irq == dev_kfree_skb == kfree_skb
- kfree already handle null parameters :
void kfree (const void *objp)
{
kmem_cache_t *c;
unsigned long flags;
I downloaded the linux 2.4.5 sources and built and installed them on my
system. Since then, I've noticed strange file system behavior:
What file system. Its find on my 2.4.5-ac with ext2
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Since upgrading to 2.4.5-ac4 the Crystal Soundfusion card in my Thinkpad 600X
has stopped working. Trying to play an audio file (with /usr/bin/play from sox
12.16) gives me an oops. Here is the init stuff from dmesg for the sound card:
Crystal 4280/46xx + AC97 Audio, version 1.27.32,
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
The problem is that we allow _every_ task to age pages on the system
at the same time --- this is one of the things which is fucking up.
This should not have any effect on the ratio of cache
reclaiming vs. swapout use, though...
The another
Hi all,
This patch remove some NULL parameters tests in kfree-like functions and
add this directly in function.
- dev_kfree_skb_irq == dev_kfree_skb == kfree_skb
- kfree already handle null parameters :
void kfree (const void *objp)
{
kmem_cache_t *c;
unsigned long
On Wed, 30 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
btw, I think such heuristic is horribly broken ;), the highmem zone
simply needs to be balanced if it is under the pages_low mark, just
skipping it and falling back into the normal zone that happens to be
above the low mark is the wrong thing to
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
You are right, this is definitely something that needs checking. I
really want this to work though. Rik, Andrea? Will the balancing
handle the extra zone?
In as far as it handles balancing the current zones,
it'll also work with one more. In places
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
The problem is that we allow _every_ task to age pages on the system
at the same time --- this is one of the things which is fucking up.
This should not have any effect on the ratio of cache
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:51PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
btw, I think such heuristic is horribly broken ;), the highmem zone
simply needs to be balanced if it is under the pages_low mark, just
skipping it and falling back into the normal
Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 30 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
btw, I think such heuristic is horribly broken ;), the highmem zone
simply needs to be balanced if it is under the pages_low mark, just
skipping it and falling back into the normal zone that happens to
Following is a series of oopses that kept my server not responding for a
while this morning. Running lots of services amoung them a hub for the
openproject IRC network:
May 30 07:58:01 melchi kernel: invalid operand:
May 30 07:58:01 melchi kernel: CPU:0
May 30 07:58:01 melchi kernel:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:57:50PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:
I remember the 2.3.51 kernel as the most usable kernel I ever used
talking about VM.
I also don't remeber anything strange in that kernel about the VM (I
instead remeber well the VM breakage introduced in 2.3.99-pre).
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
I wouldn't go so far as to say totally broken (mostly because I've
tried like _hell_ to find a better way, and [despite minor successes]
I've not been able to come up with something which covers all cases
that even _I_ [hw tech] can think of well).
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:57:50PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:
I remember the 2.3.51 kernel as the most usable kernel I ever used
talking about VM.
I also don't remeber anything strange in that kernel about the VM (I
instead remeber
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 07:24:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
I downloaded the linux 2.4.5 sources and built and installed them on my
system. Since then, I've noticed strange file system behavior:
What file system. Its find on my 2.4.5-ac with ext2
Filesystem: ext2
Architecture: i386
CPU:
Marcus Meissner wrote:
$ ln -s fupp/bar bar
$ ls -la bar
---
Is it peculiar to a specific architecture?
What does strace show for args to the symlink cmd?
-l
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On Wed, 30 May 2001, Tania Oka wrote:
if ((offset + PAGE_ALIGN(len)) offset)
Why are you mailing this the week after it was
fixed ? :)
Rik
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However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose...
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Here are *uninspected* 2.4.5-ac4 results of a checker that warns when a
non-__init function calls an __init function (suggested by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]). There seem to be two cases:
1. The best case: the caller should actually be an __init function
as well. This is a performance
I'm interested in understanding better why the value of ac_mem in the
BSD process accounting code (linux/kernel/acct.c) is calculated the
way it is. My humble uninformed opinion is that it's current
definition is possibly misleading at best and mostly useless at worst.
As a little background:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org
In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still
need fixing to lock against format changes during a
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Doug Bagley wrote:
Does it make sense to others that ac_mem should be changed to reflect
the resident set size?
It does, but doesn't have all that much priority
at the moment. Feel free to send patches, though.
regards,
Rik
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