Re: "covering set" of PCI kernels?

2011-03-31 Thread Michael
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On Mar 31, 2011, at 5:09 PM, David Young wrote: Today I am trying to answer the question, "what is the smallest set of kernel configurations to build, in order to compile all machine-dependent PCI code and all PCI drivers at least once?" Th

Re: "covering set" of PCI kernels?

2011-03-31 Thread Matt Thomas
On Mar 31, 2011, at 2:09 PM, David Young wrote: > Today I am trying to answer the question, "what is the smallest > set of kernel configurations to build, in order to compile all > machine-dependent PCI code and all PCI drivers at least once?" > > The answer I have come up with so far is, "All G

Re: "covering set" of PCI kernels?

2011-03-31 Thread Paul Goyette
I would be surprised if there are not some drivers in i386/conf/ALL that are not in GENERIC... On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, David Young wrote: Today I am trying to answer the question, "what is the smallest set of kernel configurations to build, in order to compile all machine-dependent PCI code and a

"covering set" of PCI kernels?

2011-03-31 Thread David Young
Today I am trying to answer the question, "what is the smallest set of kernel configurations to build, in order to compile all machine-dependent PCI code and all PCI drivers at least once?" The answer I have come up with so far is, "All GENERIC kernels for architectures having a pci/ directory, th

Re: high sys time, very very slow builds on new 24-core system

2011-03-31 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:25:37PM +0100, Julio Merino wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > >[...] > > ? ? ? ? ? I wonder if some tool has reverted to using /var/tmp for its > > ? ? ? ? ? intermediate files, or similar. ?Don't see an obvious > > ? ? ? ? ? culprit

Re: high sys time, very very slow builds on new 24-core system

2011-03-31 Thread Julio Merino
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: >[...] >           I wonder if some tool has reverted to using /var/tmp for its >           intermediate files, or similar.  Don't see an obvious >           culprit for that, however. gcc uses /var/tmp by default unless you provide the

filesystem writing inodes when it oughtn't?

2011-03-31 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:53:22PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > 2) About 200 xfers/sec (about 3MB/sec worth) is still going on > to the SSD for much of the build process. It's all writes. > All build directories (obj, dest, tools, release) are on > a sepa

Re: high sys time, very very slow builds on new 24-core system

2011-03-31 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 05:24:12PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > All cores spend well over 50% time in 'sys', even when all or almost > all are running cc1 processes. The kernel is amd64 -current GENERIC > from about 1 week ago -- no DIAGNOSTIC, DEBUG, KMEMSTATS, LOCKDEBUG, > etc. I am g

netbsd at Dell M710

2011-03-31 Thread 6bone
hello, some time ago Jean-Yves Migeon has solved some netbsd NIC problems at DELL M710 Servers. Unfortunately there are also some other issues with the perc controler. So it is not possible to run netbsd at the DELL Server. Can anyone port the driver for the M710 Server? I can offer access to