Re: kern/13644

2000-01-25 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
> Matt Dillon wrote: > > :> Ah, indeed! nul/NUL == ascii. 'nil' should removed from our vocabulary. > :> Jonathan Bresler wrote: > : > : NIL or nil, is the nil pointer from lisp. lisp is often the > :first time many people start to understans that data can drive > :programs. this

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-25 Thread Omar Thameen
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 09:48:43AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 19), Charles Sprickman said: > > > More importantly, this machine is just sitting here waiting to be put > > in production, so I'm more than willing to play around with it like > > this while I still can...

Re: Performance issue with rfork() and single socketpairs versus multiple socketpairs.

2000-01-25 Thread James Bailie
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 09:12:31AM -0800, Brian D. Moffet wrote: > Okay, stupid question. socketpair returns 2 sockets which according to > the man page are "indistinguishable". Does this mean that you can read and > write to either socket pair? Yes sir. > pipe(2) returns 2 file descriptors,

Re: Performance issue with rfork() and single socketpairs versus multiple socketpairs.

2000-01-25 Thread Scott Hess
"Alfred Perlstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you probably want to experiment with pools attached to the > pipe, and you ought to be using pipe rather than socketpair. My tests indicate that pipe performance in this case is identical to socketpair performance. Perhaps because I'm sendi

3.4R - missing ARP response?

2000-01-25 Thread Milon Papezik
Hi all, I have a problem with 3.4-RELEASE on Compaq Deskpro machines with new Fast Ethernet cards with i82559 chip. I installed them from 3.4-R ISO image without problems noticed (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/3.4-install.iso). I can use networking with Cisco router

Re: Performance issue with rfork() and single socketpairs versus multiple socketpairs.

2000-01-25 Thread Brian D. Moffet
Okay, stupid question. socketpair returns 2 sockets which according to the man page are "indistinguishable". Does this mean that you can read and write to either socket pair? pipe(2) returns 2 file descriptors, one of which is a read and one of which is a write fd. The other end flips these a

Re: Performance issue with rfork() and single socketpairs versus multiple socketpairs.

2000-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000125 11:51] wrote: > > :OK, so let's say I did spend some time implementing it in terms of semget() > :and semop(). Would you be totally apalled if the performance turned out to > :be about the same as using a single socketpair? Do you have a very strong

Re: Performance issue with rfork() and single socketpairs versus multiple socketpairs.

2000-01-25 Thread Peter Wemm
"Brian D. Moffet" wrote: > Okay, stupid question. socketpair returns 2 sockets which according to > the man page are "indistinguishable". Does this mean that you can read and > write to either socket pair? Yep, you can write to either end and it will come out the other end. > pipe(2) returns

Re: Performance issue with rfork() and single socketpairs versus multiple socketpairs.

2000-01-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
:OK, so let's say I did spend some time implementing it in terms of semget() :and semop(). Would you be totally apalled if the performance turned out to :be about the same as using a single socketpair? Do you have a very strong :feeling that it should be significantly better. [Again, under :3.

Re: How to write a device-driver?

2000-01-25 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2124 00:00], Joachim Jäckel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Here´s some information to the card I'd like to support: > >It's a Miro DC10+ Video Grabber Card for Non-Linear Video-Editing. >It uses a Siemens SAA7110, a Zoran 36060+36067 and a ADV chip to en- >and decode the video-informat

Re: Performance issue with rfork() and single socketpairs versus multiple socketpairs.

2000-01-25 Thread Scott Hess
"Scott Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Matthew Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > :Unfortunately, I've found that having a group of processes reading > > :from a group of socketpairs has better performance than having > > :them all read from a single socketpair. I've been unable to > > :

Re: kern/13644

2000-01-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> Ah, indeed! nul/NUL == ascii. 'nil' should removed from our vocabulary. :> : : NIL or nil, is the nil pointer from lisp. lisp is often the :first time many people start to understans that data can drive :programs. this is a good thing. : :jmb I don't know anybody under the

Re: kern/13644

2000-01-25 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
> > Ah, indeed! nul/NUL == ascii. 'nil' should removed from our vocabulary. > NIL or nil, is the nil pointer from lisp. lisp is often the first time many people start to understans that data can drive programs. this is a good thing. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel

2000-01-25 Thread Brian D. Moffet
I have to agree here, one of the major issues in writing device drivers, which I used to do for a living, is getting proper documentation for the devices themselves. For something like video cards, it's even worse because the cards change so rapidly. I can imagine that there will be some issues

drivers

2000-01-25 Thread Andrew G. Sverdlichenko
Hello. If we have a character device driver with and more than one open handles for it, can read() and ioctl() choose which one is used? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: indirection in bus space

2000-01-25 Thread Takahashi Yoshihiro
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Luoqi Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think it is difficult to implement such conversion because: > > > > - Not only bus space stuff also resource manager stuff need to > > perform such conversion. > > Why? Both bus_space_handle_t and bus_space_tag_t

Re: Performance issue with rfork() and single socketpairs versus multiple socketpairs.

2000-01-25 Thread Scott Hess
"Matthew Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :Unfortunately, I've found that having a group of processes reading from a > :group of socketpairs has better performance than having them all read from > :a single socketpair. I've been unable to determine why. > > The problem is that when you ha