Re: [Pvfs2-developers] FUSE

2010-02-02 Thread Bradley W. Settlemyer
In fuse work I've done and seen, it is possible to extract decent performance from fuse, but it isn't free. By default, FUSE only performs I/O 4K at a time. With the direct_io mount option, you get the benefit of only a single copy from userspace to userspace effectively for I/O buffers and t

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] FW: compile kernel module on powerpc64

2007-11-07 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
f getting your email to the list raises the bar...which > might not be all-bad. :-) > > Thanks, > -sam > > On Nov 7, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Bradley W Settlemyer wrote: > > > There is a registered user: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > The mail sent to walt was from [

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] FW: compile kernel module on powerpc64

2007-11-07 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
There is a registered user: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The mail sent to walt was from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't have good answers on how to help users debug this problem as it can be subtle to detect I guess. Mailing the list owner probably won't help as those accounts are so swamped with spam that my sp

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Distribution by hostname

2006-10-10 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
Sam Lang wrote: How about just add PVFS_sys_dist_get_IO_server_aliases() and PVFS_sys_dist_set_IO_server_mapping(). Under the hood each distribution orders the IO servers it'll use according to the mapping then does business as usual. This instead of the random starting point and sequential o

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Distribution by hostname

2006-10-09 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
Julian Martin Kunkel wrote: Hi, So I think we're mostly trying to work out what our API should really be, whether we should extend the distro functionality vs. going totally to hints, and if we go to hints what that API should look like, right? probably the distribution needs a function which i

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Problem with PINT_cached_config

2006-08-02 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
Murali fixed it. Bad config file. When I was using pvfs2-genconfig I must have somehow made a dedicated metaserver rather than just 2 data servers, which is what I was trying to do. Sorry about the interruption. Thanks Brad Bradley W Settlemyer wrote: Hello I'm having a problem

[Pvfs2-developers] Problem with PINT_cached_config

2006-08-02 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
Hello I'm having a problem with detecting the number of IO servers -- it doesn't make any sense. Here is a program sample: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~:71> software/pvfs2/bin/pvfs2-cp pvfs2.patch /parl/bradles/software/pvfs2/mnt/foo.3 BWS: num_io: -1075277896 BWS get_num_io: 1 BWS - num_dfiles: 1

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Status of the head

2006-07-21 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
(which I just mailed to, but I'm not sure are appropriate for the main romio tree). Thanks for the note, I will begin reintegrating with the head now. Cheers, Brad Robert Latham wrote: On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 02:48:49PM -0400, Bradley W Settlemyer wrote: Hello The last 3 or 4 times that

[Pvfs2-developers] Status of the head

2006-07-21 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
Hello The last 3 or 4 times that I've moved my work into sync with the head of the source tree, the head has been broken. I want to be a little more cautious this time with my work -- I find a bunch of bugs, but they mostly turn out to not be due to my changes, and it takes me several days

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] PVFS web site

2006-07-17 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
Btw, if we're talking about usability issues as well, I would suggest getting rid of the home button, and instead making the big image up top be a link to the homepage. I always expect header images like that to take me to the 1st page. Cheers, Brad Walt Ligon wrote: hey guys Brad has mad

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Re: BMI TCP socket close for sock buf size

2006-07-17 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
I used it in the server for my thesis also. Phil Carns wrote: The server is definitely not using the msgpairarray code right now. I think it would be handy to keep it in the common area, though, because it could be used for server to server communication in the future. It actually started ou

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] problems creating new trove-simple interface

2006-06-28 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
cal to physical offsets exactly like you want. It's easy enough to check, should just require a single line change in the sys-create.sm client state machine. Cheers, Brad John Bent wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Bradley W Settlemyer wrote: Hmm, its an interesting idea. You could try modifyi

[Pvfs2-developers] Is CVS broken again?

2006-06-15 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
So, umm, is CVS broken again? Todays server log: [D 06/15 10:37] About to retrieve attributes for handle 1048576 [D 06/15 10:37] (0x893c008) rmdirent (prelude sm) state: perm_check (status = 0)[D 06/15 10:37] reading dirdata handle (coll_id = 0x781495c5, handle = 1048576, key = de (3), val_b

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] help debugging request processor/distribution

2006-06-14 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
I've seen similar behavior to this using Myrinet (jazz) also. I haven't ever gotten it with TCP though, so maybe mine was due to something a little different (basically, it looked like a message with the tag was sent, but never delivered). Are you certain that its just a BMI tcp issue? Cheer

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Does CVS work rt now?

2006-06-12 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
me either. I'll keep debugging. -sam On Jun 12, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Bradley W Settlemyer wrote: It no longer core dumps when I do a pvfs2-ls on a freshly created filesystem, but I still cannot get pvfs2-ls to function on a just created file system. Is it me or you? Cheers, brad

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Does CVS work rt now?

2006-06-12 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
ging. -sam On Jun 12, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Bradley W Settlemyer wrote: It no longer core dumps when I do a pvfs2-ls on a freshly created filesystem, but I still cannot get pvfs2-ls to function on a just created file system. Is it me or you? Cheers, brad Sam Lang wrote: Brad, I think this

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Does CVS work rt now?

2006-06-12 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
keyval strings. I had the wrong values for the lengths. I've committed a fix, can you update and try again? -sam On Jun 12, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Bradley W Settlemyer wrote: I'm not certain whether its something I've done or what, but it's pretty screwed up. I just did a pv

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Does CVS work rt now?

2006-06-12 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
or re-create your storage spaces. I can't think of anything else that would bite you...the nightly tests seem to have passed last night... -sam On Jun 12, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Bradley W Settlemyer wrote: I just did a cvs update this morning, not having much luck with the filesystem

[Pvfs2-developers] Does CVS work rt now?

2006-06-12 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
I just did a cvs update this morning, not having much luck with the filesystem. Is pvfs2-cp or pvfs2-touch working for anyone else at the moment? Create is returning me an invalid argument problem. [D 14:58:55.314670] Handle created: 4294967297 [D 14:58:55.314828] (0x86a2f10) create (FR sm) s

[Pvfs2-developers] Setting the dfile count

2006-06-08 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
Hello In trying to set the dfile count, I'm finding that the attribute mask is set to attr.mask = 0x3f during file creation. I apparently need there to be a 1 in the 7th bit position (<<25) in order to set the dfile count (based on pvfs2-types.h). I am passing in the number of dfiles I

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] IB support question

2006-02-22 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
Assert is also redefined in that same ib file. So we may think about changing that one also if the def from assert.h won't cut it, or at least using a #undefine there. I also have to tweak the iba headers, but that seems to be limited to just adding a const to make so messages go away. Brad

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] IB support question

2006-02-22 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
Pete, It appears that compile errors I'm running into with PVFS2 and Silverstorm/Mellanox infiniband are definitions in the ib code that duplicate definitions in kernel headers. Specifically: #define likely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1) #define unlikely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x),

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] IB support question

2006-02-14 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
I'm not certain how to use --with-ib. So vapi.h is at: /usr/include/iba/vapi/vapi.h so I did setenv CFLAGS "-I/usr/include/iba/vapi" and then just configured like ./configure --with-ib=/usr However, the libraries appear to be in /lib64, so I'm still not clear on what I'm doing. When I try

[Pvfs2-developers] IB support question

2006-02-14 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
Hello, I'm trying to build PVFS2 with IB support using Mellanox/Silverstorm drivers. Is this a supported configuration? Cheers, Brad ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers@beowulf-underground.org http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mail

[Pvfs2-developers] Mailing list outage

2006-01-19 Thread Bradley W Settlemyer
Hello PVFS/PVFS2 mailing list users, The mailing lists have been unavailable due to system failures. We have attempted to restore the mailing lists, however any mail or administrative requests sent in the last several days may have been rejected or lost. Sorry about the inconvenience.