Re: Question: Status of VIA chipsets and 2.2 kernels

2001-05-09 Thread Robert Cohen
Gerhard Mack wrote: > > Ugh why VIA? They have been a constant source of trouble for me on both > linux and windows. I have my doubts about their ability to get a chipset > right in the first place. > > Some other possible Athlon boards: > Asus A7M266 (AMD chipset) > Asus A7A266 (ALI chipse

Re: Patch to make ymfpci legacy address 16 bits

2001-05-09 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Jeff Garzik writes: > Pavel Roskin wrote: >> You may need to save some data in memory when the system goes >> to suspend and restore them afterwards. I believe that the PCI >> config space should be saved by BIOS. Everything else is the >> responsibility of the driver. > > In ACPI land the kernel

Re: odd insmod problem

2001-05-09 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 09 May 2001 12:54:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marius aamodt eriksen) wrote: > insmod /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.4.o > >i get a whole bunch (50 in fact) unresolved symbols. going through >some of them, i can see that they do in fact exist. for example: > > root@gone:~ > grep i

Re: Question: Status of VIA chipsets and 2.2 kernels

2001-05-09 Thread Robert Cohen
Mark Hahn wrote: > > > a P3 machine with a ASUS CUV4X-E motherboard which uses the apollo pro > > 694X northbridge and a 686B southbridge. > > I haven't seen any reports of problem with this; it's the duals that need > the noapic workaround at the moment. > > > An athlon machine with an ASUS A

Bad aic7xxx driver or bad harddisk?

2001-05-09 Thread Steven J. Hill
Greetings. I recently bought an IBM Ultrastar 18GB Model DDYS-T18350N which is an UltraSCSI 1 RPM drive. Here are the system specifications: DELL Precision 420 - Pentium III at 800MHz - 256MB worth of RambusDIMMs - (2) on-board Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapters - (1) 9.1GB - Fuj

Re: nfs MAP_SHARED corruption fix

2001-05-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > If some page wasn't yet visible in the dirty_pages list by the time > __sync_one started, we'll find I_DIRTY_PAGES set. This is enforced by > the locking order (sync_one first clears the I_DIRTY_PAGES and then > it starts browsing the dirty_pages l

Re: Linux 2.4 Scalability, Samba, and Netbench

2001-05-09 Thread Kenichi Okuyama
> "AMT" == Andrew M Theurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AMT> I would like to help improve SMP scalability on this workload. If you AMT> have questions or comments about the above results, or if you are AMT> conducting similar tests, please send email to AMT> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have some ide

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread Andreas Dilger
Daniel writes: > The ext2 indexing patch is apparently stable but it's still pre-alpha > until the hash function is finalized. I could see using it to run > performance tests of ext2+indexing against the alternatives, but only > if you are prepared to rerun mke2fs later. Then there is the mat

Re: nfs MAP_SHARED corruption fix

2001-05-09 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:38:01PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 May 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:02:16PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > Why don't you clean I_DIRTY_PAGES ? > > > > we don't have visibilty on the inode_lock from there, we

USB broken in 2.4.4? Serial Ricochet works, USB performance sucks.

2001-05-09 Thread clameter
I recently got a ricochet 128k GS wireless modem and I am running it with kernel 2.4.4 and ppp 2.4.1. Using the USB connection (configured to operatate at 460kbit) I get up to 2kbyte per second. With serial(at 115kbit) this goes up to 8kbyte per second. Why is this? (Note to all prospective Ri

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3 (simple benchmarks)

2001-05-09 Thread Ricardo Galli
> It would be great to see a table of ReiserFS/XFS/Ext2+index performance > results. Well, to make it really fair it should be Ext3+index so I'd > better add 'backport the patch to 2.2' or 'bug Stephen and friends to > hurry up' to my to-do list. You can find a simple benchmark (an average of thr

[PATCH] writepage method changes

2001-05-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Well, Here is the updated version of the patch to add the "priority" argument to writepage(). All implementations have been fixed. No referenced bit changes as I still think its not worth passing this information down to writepage(). Note: I've removed ramfs_writepage(). If there is no writep

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread jlnance
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:19:53PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > It would be great to see a table of ReiserFS/XFS/Ext2+index performance > > results. Well, to make it really fair it should be Ext3+index so I'd > > better add 'backport the patch to 2.2'

New Amiga Driver

2001-05-09 Thread AmigaLinux A2232 Driver Project
Hi there, I've written a driver for the Amiga multi-serial ZorroII board "A2232" that I'd like to see included into the main kernel tree. This is the driver HPA allocated majors 224 and 225 for. Greetings, Enver diff -urN linux/CREDITS linux-2.4.4-a2232/CREDITS --- linux/CREDITS Sat Apr

Re: nfs MAP_SHARED corruption fix

2001-05-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:02:16PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Why don't you clean I_DIRTY_PAGES ? > > we don't have visibilty on the inode_lock from there, we could make a > function in fs/inode.c or export the inode_lock to do that, but t

Re: nfs MAP_SHARED corruption fix

2001-05-09 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:02:16PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Why don't you clean I_DIRTY_PAGES ? we don't have visibilty on the inode_lock from there, we could make a function in fs/inode.c or export the inode_lock to do that, but the flag will be collected when the inode is released anywa

Re: Patch to make ymfpci legacy address 16 bits

2001-05-09 Thread Zach Brown
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:08:15PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Why does maestro.c not use my suggestion? Because it doesn't use struct > pci_driver. I finally found an able hacker with maestro hardware with power management. He not only fixed the nasty pm races that were causing channel corrup

Re: REVISED: Experimentation with Athlon and fast_page_copy

2001-05-09 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Samstag, 5. Mai 2001 09:13 schrieben Sie: > > My (very) old Athlon 550 (model 1, stepping 2) show it on my MSI MS-6167 > > (AMD Irongate C4) with your 2.4.4-ac5, now :-( > > Manfred has a good explanation for that. Im hoping it also explains the > VIA problem too > > > I am open for any test f

Re: Patch to make ymfpci legacy address 16 bits

2001-05-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hi, Jeff! > Basically the PCI core should implement what PM is necessary, because > eventually struct pci_driver will become a more generic struct driver. I just wanted to make sure that you don't expect any problems if we go this way. > Why does maestro.c not use my suggestion? Because it doe

Re: nfs MAP_SHARED corruption fix

2001-05-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > In addition to the two changes I proposed to Andrea's new patch, I > also realized we might want to do a fdatasync() when locking files. If > we don't, then locking won't be atomic on mmap()... > > Here therefore is Andrea's patch with the changes

Re: Linux 2.4 Scalability, Samba, and Netbench

2001-05-09 Thread Chris Evans
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > significant problems with lockmeter. csum_partial_copy_generic was the > > highest % in profile, at 4.34%. I'll see if we can get some space on > > Are you using Antons optimisations to samba to use sendfile ? And you might like to try 2.4.4 (I saw 2.4.

Re: Linux 2.4 Scalability, Samba, and Netbench

2001-05-09 Thread Bruce Allan
Andrew Theurer wrote: > I do have kernprof ACG and lockmeter for a 4P run. We saw no > significant problems with lockmeter. csum_partial_copy_generic was the > highest % in profile, at 4.34%. I'll see if we can get some space on > http://lse.sourceforge.net to post the test data. The Netfinit

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > It would be great to see a table of ReiserFS/XFS/Ext2+index performance > results. Well, to make it really fair it should be Ext3+index so I'd > better add 'backport the patch to 2.2' or 'bug Stephen and friends to > hurry up' to my to-do list. Is th

ECN bits and ZyXEL routers.

2001-05-09 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
the reference to zyxel (from Jeff G ?) : >ZyXEL P681 -> firmware v2.50(T.05)b6 | 03/28/2001) btw: it is already offically release version 2.50(T.05)| 04/13/2001 and the ECN issue is fixed. I have asked if the developers would ake actoin on the other routers/firewalls as well to fix the ECN

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 16:49, john slee wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:38:14AM +0300, Mart?n Marqu?s wrote: > > We are waiting for a server with dual PIII, RAID 1,0 and 5 18Gb > > scsi disks to come so we can change our proxy server, that will run > > on Linux with Squid. One disk will go i

Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

2001-05-09 Thread Edgar Toernig
Larry McVoy wrote: > > Let's review: ECC is nice, but it doesn't solve all data corruption > problems. Applications which do their own end to end data integrity > checks will catch many more error cases than what ECC catches. I think you have a wrong idea why the ECC is there. ECC deals with

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space

2001-05-09 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Hello, I have uploaded a new release of X15 that hopefully solves all the RFC bugs. I say hopefully because I haven't had the opportunity to fully test the request pipelining. Is there anything to automatize such tests? >From what I could measure X15 is still a good 5% faster than TUX. You can

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Lord
Hans Reiser wrote: > XFS used to have the performance problems that Alan described but fixed them > in > the linux port, yes? > > Hans Hmm, we do things somewhat differently on linux, but I suspect most of it is due to hardware getting faster underneath us. Steve - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH] make distclean tries to delete dirs in tmpfs

2001-05-09 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > make distclean deletes anything with size 0. This includes > directories, while making the kernel in tmpfs or ramfs. > Wouldn't it be better to fix tmpfs/ramfs to report something s

Re: [PATCH] x86 page fault handler not interrupt safe

2001-05-09 Thread Brian Gerst
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > I dont see where the alternative patch ensures the user didnt flip the > > direction flag for one > > Yeah. > > We might as well just make it "eflags & IF", none of the other flags > should matter (or we explicitly want them

Small es1371 documentation fix (joyport) (fwd)

2001-05-09 Thread Sasi Peter
Same patch should be applied for the es1370 also. (at least the joystick part.) -- SaPE - Peter, Sasi - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://sape.iq.rulez.org/ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 15:36:21 -0400 From: David Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: MCradiolists: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token

2001-05-09 Thread Jesper Juhl
Alan Cox wrote: >> I just unpacked a fresh copy of 2.4.4 and patched it to 2.4.5pre1 and >> ran into a problem. When I attempt to change the type (through >> menuconfig) of CPU to compile for, the following gets dumped to the >> console: > > > Grab the menuconfig diff from the -ac patches .

Re: ATAPI Tape Driver Failure in Kernel 2.4.4, More

2001-05-09 Thread Tim Moore
Use SCSI emulation instead of ATAPI for the tape device. Also make sure your mt is >= 0.5. [tim@abit tim]# mt -v mt-st v. 0.5b [tim@abit linux]# dump -v dump 0.4b [tim@abit linux]# restore -v restore 0.4b17 [dmesg exerpts - tape is /dev/st0] ... hdd: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive ... scsi

Re: MCradiolists: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
> I just unpacked a fresh copy of 2.4.4 and patched it to 2.4.5pre1 and > ran into a problem. When I attempt to change the type (through > menuconfig) of CPU to compile for, the following gets dumped to the > console: Grab the menuconfig diff from the -ac patches . Menuconfig had a bug in bra

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread Hans Reiser
Steve Lord wrote: > > > > XFS is very fast most of the time (deleting a file is so slow its like us > > ing > > old BSD systems). Im not familiar enough with its behaviour under Linux yet. > > Hmm, I just removed 2.2 Gbytes of data in 3 files in 37 seconds (14.4 > seconds system time), no

Re: [PATCH] make Xircom cardbus modems work

2001-05-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Bill, > > Does the attached patch work for you? Yup, works fine for me (compiled in.) Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.

Re: page_launder() bug

2001-05-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 9 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > Marcelo Tosatti writes: > > > Let me state it a different way, how is the new writepage() framework > > > going to do things like ignore the referenced bit during page_launder > > > for dead swap pages? > > > > Its not able to ignore the refe

Re: [PATCH][CFT] (updated) ext2 directories in pagecache

2001-05-09 Thread Andreas Dilger
Daniel writes [re index directories]: > This is lightly tested and apparently stable. I was looking at the new patch, and I saw something that puzzles me. Why do you set the EXT2_INDEX_FL on a new (empty) directory, rather than only setting it when the dx_root index is created? Setting the flag

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Lord
> > XFS is very fast most of the time (deleting a file is so slow its like us > ing > old BSD systems). Im not familiar enough with its behaviour under Linux yet. Hmm, I just removed 2.2 Gbytes of data in 3 files in 37 seconds (14.4 seconds system time), not tooo slow. And that is on a

ATAPI Tape Driver Failure in Kernel 2.4.4, More

2001-05-09 Thread Mark Bratcher
Hi, I just upgraded from kernel 2.2.17 to 2.4.4. I use a Seagate ATAPI tape drive, model STT2A. I use dump to do backups (probably not relevant). I have more data regarding tape backup failures. Here is what I get: * In a full tape dump of about 50MB or so, everything goes smoothly. No erro

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread Hans Reiser
Daniel Podlejski wrote: > In linux-kernel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > : We are waiting for a server with dual PIII, RAID 1,0 and 5 18Gb scsi disks to > : come so we can change our proxy server, that will run on Linux with Squid. > : One disk will go inside (I think?) and the other 4 on a tower

MCradiolists: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token

2001-05-09 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, I just unpacked a fresh copy of 2.4.4 and patched it to 2.4.5pre1 and ran into a problem. When I attempt to change the type (through menuconfig) of CPU to compile for, the following gets dumped to the console: -[ Start of screendump ]- scripts/Menuconfig: CONFIG_M386: command no

Re: page_launder() bug

2001-05-09 Thread David S. Miller
Marcelo Tosatti writes: > > Let me state it a different way, how is the new writepage() framework > > going to do things like ignore the referenced bit during page_launder > > for dead swap pages? > > Its not able to ignore the referenced bit. > > I know we want that, but I can't see an

Re: Patch to make ymfpci legacy address 16 bits

2001-05-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Hi, Jeff! > > Thanks for your very (!!!) fast response :-) > > > > http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/ymfpci_pm.diff > > > > Why not use pci_driver::{suspend,resume} ? > > I'm just a bit conservative. There are several drivers that don't use this > mechanism, notably

2.4.4, 2.4.5pre1 crashes

2001-05-09 Thread Jakob Borg
Hi, 2.4.3 is the latest kernel that works for me. The symptoms when booting a later kernel is a clean boot as far as kdm (KDE's xdm replacement). When logging in there, the system freezes completely about halfway through login. I can find no messages in the logs, and once /var/log/messages had a

Re: [PATCH] Fixes for Incorrect kmalloc() Sizes

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
> The kernel ixj.c and associated files are severely out of date and cause > hard machine hangs when used (kernel 2.4.n). I suggest that the files > in the telephony directory be brought up to date with the current CVS > code. At least the CVS code only causes an OOPS and doesn't kill the >

Re: Patch to make ymfpci legacy address 16 bits

2001-05-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hi, Jeff! Thanks for your very (!!!) fast response :-) > > http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/ymfpci_pm.diff > > Why not use pci_driver::{suspend,resume} ? I'm just a bit conservative. There are several drivers that don't use this mechanism, notably trident and maestro. Do you think it's saf

2.4.4 pmd_alloc/pte_alloc used with too many (3) args with mm/memory.c

2001-05-09 Thread Alex Buell
Has anyone got a patch to fix the following error when compiling 2.4.4 on SparcStation 4? make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/mm' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -m32 -pipe -mno-fpu -fcall-used-g

Unable to re-enable DMA after DMA timeout (why?)

2001-05-09 Thread James Turinsky (LKML)
Here is what happens after several days running with either the kernel activating DMA or activating it manually (hdparm -d1 /dev/hda) in at least 2.4.2 through 2.4.5-ac5: hda: timeout waiting for DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 hda: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy

Question

2001-05-09 Thread Krishnan Ananthanarayanan
Hi, I was wondering if there is any mechanism to notify a module of an event such as arrival of data on a socket. I am trying to find out if a function in a module can be invoked if such an event occurs. This solves the problem of polling the socket for data. Thanks a ton in advance. Krishnan.

Re: Patch to make ymfpci legacy address 16 bits

2001-05-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Pavel Roskin wrote: > If you want to play further with APM and ymfpci, I made a stub for proper > apm support in the ymfpci driver. It's available here: > > http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/ymfpci_pm.diff Why not use pci_driver::{suspend,resume} ? > You may need to save some data in memor

Re: [PATCH] Fixes for Incorrect kmalloc() Sizes

2001-05-09 Thread David
The kernel ixj.c and associated files are severely out of date and cause hard machine hangs when used (kernel 2.4.n). I suggest that the files in the telephony directory be brought up to date with the current CVS code. At least the CVS code only causes an OOPS and doesn't kill the whole mach

Re: page_launder() bug

2001-05-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 9 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > Marcelo Tosatti writes: > > You want writepage() to check/clean the referenced bit and move the page > > to the active list itself ? > > Well, that's the other part of what my patch was doing. > > Let me state it a different way, how is the ne

Re: Patch to make ymfpci legacy address 16 bits

2001-05-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hi, Pete! Next time you are asking my opinion please cc: me, so that I can quote you. Yes, I think you have fixed a terrible bug in ymfpci. Decoding only 10-bit addresses is extremely dangerous, considering that only 388-38b is reserved, while 788-78b etc are not. In order to get your patch acc

Re: page_launder() bug

2001-05-09 Thread David S. Miller
Marcelo Tosatti writes: > You want writepage() to check/clean the referenced bit and move the page > to the active list itself ? Well, that's the other part of what my patch was doing. Let me state it a different way, how is the new writepage() framework going to do things like ignore the ref

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread Daniel Podlejski
In linux-kernel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : We are waiting for a server with dual PIII, RAID 1,0 and 5 18Gb scsi disks to : come so we can change our proxy server, that will run on Linux with Squid. : One disk will go inside (I think?) and the other 4 on a tower conected to the : RAID, whic

Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

2001-05-09 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Wed, 9 May 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Gérard Roudier wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > which is a text version of the paper I mentioned before. The basic > > > message of the paper is that it really doesn't help much to have thi

Small es1371 documentation fix (joyport)

2001-05-09 Thread David Riley
The documentation for the es1371 driver doesn't mention how to activate/specify the joystick port's base address (I had to look in the code). This patch fixes it. The same probably applies to the es1370 as well as other cards, but lacking said cards, I couldn't say for sure. You may wish to re-

Race between try_to_swap_out() and swapin_readahead()

2001-05-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Ok, what prevents this from happening: CPU0CPU1 try_to_swap_out() ... entry = get_swap_page(); if (!entry.val) goto out_unlock_restore; swapin_readahead() finds valid swap entry just allocate

Re: pci_pool_free from IRQ

2001-05-09 Thread David S. Miller
Pete Zaitcev writes: > A fix in pci remove does not fix regular processing. I see. Here is where I was confused. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: 2.4.4-ac[356]: network (8139too) related crashes

2001-05-09 Thread Danny ter Haar
Andris Pavenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >With kernels 2.4.4-ac[356] I'm getting system freezing on FTP transfer after >some time. I'm trying to upload about 6.5Mb file using MC (transfer speed > about 300-1000Kb/s). With these kernel versions I'm getting random total >freezing system (no any

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed :: AOL ::: Spam filter

2001-05-09 Thread God
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:08:31PM -0400, God wrote: > > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > > > 2) They certainly are. Every once in a while they go through a period of > > >silently dropping all email coming from hosts that don't h

Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

2001-05-09 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Larry McVoy wrote: > > which is a text version of the paper I mentioned before. The basic > > message of the paper is that it really doesn't help much to have things > > like ECC unless you can be sure that 100% of the rest of your sy

Re: oops

2001-05-09 Thread Terry Shull
Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > > May 9 10:05:11 localhost kernel: EIP:0010:[call_policy+427/608] > > I saw it before, but was unable to track it down. > What is your kernel version? > > -- Pete I'm running 2.4.4-ac6 right now. It also does it in ac5 and 2.4.5-pre1. - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: page_launder() bug

2001-05-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 8 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > Marcelo Tosatti writes: > > Ok, this patch implements thet thing and also changes ext2+swap+shm > > writepage operations (so I could test the thing). > > > > The performance is better with the patch on my restricted swapping tests. > > Nice.

Re: Nasty Requirements for non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules?

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
> and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in > themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those > sections when you distribute them as separate works. > > For example, suppose I ship you a tarball that has the source & binaries > for both a

Re: standard queue implementation?

2001-05-09 Thread Eli Carter
george anzinger wrote: > > Eli Carter wrote: > > > > All, > > > > I did a quick look in include/linux for a standard implementation of an > > array-based circular queue, but I didn't see one. > > > > I was thinking something that could be declared, allocated, and then > > used with an addq and a

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:08:31PM -0400, God wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > 2) They certainly are. Every once in a while they go through a period of > >silently dropping all email coming from hosts that don't have PTRs. > >This would be no worse. > > ACK

Re: Nasty Requirements for non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules?

2001-05-09 Thread mirabilos
> If the free software community understood and accepted this, by the way, > then I think that it removes the need for the LGPL, it's redundant. What is when compiling a DOS/DJGPP programme? IIRC it is statically linked to the libc-dos. IIRC the LGPL here prevents the remaining DOS programme code

Re: Nasty Requirements for non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules?

2001-05-09 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:06:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > As part of our operating system / networking research, we have > > written a loadable kernel module for Linux. We would like to > > distribute the source but we're not sure if our development > > office will allow us to release it unde

[PATCH] make distclean tries to delete dirs in tmpfs

2001-05-09 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi there, make distclean deletes anything with size 0. This includes directories, while making the kernel in tmpfs or ramfs. This patch solves it, by not deleting directories in this rule. Patch applies to any official kernel and with offsets even to recent ac series. --- linux-2.4.2-ac19/Make

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread Joel Jaeggli
I have a proxy server that's been running 2.4.3pre4 with reiserfs for the partitions on the cache disks. it has an uptime of 43 days at this point. it wasn't very stable at all (two crashes in one week) with 2.4.2. I'll be building 2.4.4 something when I get back from ghana to the US, but I don't

Re: pci_pool_free from IRQ

2001-05-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> From: "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:52:45 -0700 (PDT) > Ummm... What Alan's saying is: > > 1) Whatever driver is trying to shut down from IRQ context >is broken must be fixed. pci_pool is fine. > > 2) The Documentation/ files which suggest that such dev

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread Hans Reiser
Alan Cox wrote: > > that reiserfs has had lots of bugs, and is marked as experimental in kernel > > 2.4.4. Not to mention that the people of RH discourage there users from using > > it. > > At the time Red Hat 7.1 was mastered Reiserfs was not stable. The reiserfs in > the RH kernel has some of t

Re: [Linux/TP600] RE: PCMCIA Cards on 2.4.0

2001-05-09 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
> > Well, 2.4.0 does not seem to be able to talk to > > the card. The first sign of trouble is the lines: > > > > cs: socket c13d4800 timed out during reset. > > Try increasing setup_delay. > > > > at the point where other kernels say instead: > > > > cs: cb_alloc(bus 5): vendor 0x10b7, device

Re: [PATCH] allocation looping + kswapd CPU cycles

2001-05-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Mark Hemment wrote: > > On Tue, 8 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > Actually, the change was made because it is illogical to try only > > once on multi-order pages. Especially because we depend upon order > > 1 pages so much (every task struct allocated). We depend up

Re: Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 0.3.1 available

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Best
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:50:15PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:40:25PM -0500, Steve Best wrote: >> Release 0.3.1 of JFS was made available today. >> >> Drop 31 on May 9, 2001 (jfs-0.3.1.tar.gz) includes fixes to the >> file system and utilities. >> >> For more deta

Re: standard queue implementation?

2001-05-09 Thread george anzinger
Eli Carter wrote: > > All, > > I did a quick look in include/linux for a standard implementation of an > array-based circular queue, but I didn't see one. > > I was thinking something that could be declared, allocated, and then > used with an addq and a removeq. A deallocator would also be goo

Re: Nasty Requirements for non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules?

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
> As part of our operating system / networking research, we have > written a loadable kernel module for Linux. We would like to > distribute the source but we're not sure if our development > office will allow us to release it under the GPL (at least > initially). Before meeting with the lawyers

Re: USB Problem with reenabling hub

2001-05-09 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > > switching it back on, a problem occurs with reenabling the ports on > > that USB hub. The kernel output follows. > > > Comments anyone? > > Next time, post your /proc/version. I thought this was unnecessary in this case, because my mail headers nicely reveal which ver

Nasty Requirements for non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules?

2001-05-09 Thread Scott C. Karlin
It appears that Linus Torvalds has stated that it is possible to have a non-GPL'd (or even binary only) Linux device driver kernel module dynamically linked to the kernel "assuming all the nasty requirements are met." [see reference below] What, specifically, are the "nasty requirements?" * Is

Re: Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 0.3.1 available

2001-05-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Steve, On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:40:25PM -0500, Steve Best wrote: > Release 0.3.1 of JFS was made available today. > > Drop 31 on May 9, 2001 (jfs-0.3.1.tar.gz) includes fixes to the > file system and utilities. > > For more details about the problems fixed, please see the README. would it

Re: Linux 2.4 Scalability, Samba, and Netbench

2001-05-09 Thread Andrew M. Theurer
Alan Cox wrote: > > > significant problems with lockmeter. csum_partial_copy_generic was the > > highest % in profile, at 4.34%. I'll see if we can get some space on > > Are you using Antons optimisations to samba to use sendfile ? > > Alan Not yet. As I understand it, we need a supported ni

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-09 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:God <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Agreed. For now ECN has been disabled here. I got tired of so many sites > not supporting it that I gave up. Maybe by 2.8.x kernels it will be worth > turning back on. Thats not to say h

Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 0.3.1 available

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Best
Release 0.3.1 of JFS was made available today. Drop 31 on May 9, 2001 (jfs-0.3.1.tar.gz) includes fixes to the file system and utilities. For more details about the problems fixed, please see the README. Steve JFS for Linux http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jfs - To uns

Re: Linux 2.4 Scalability, Samba, and Netbench

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
> significant problems with lockmeter. csum_partial_copy_generic was the > highest % in profile, at 4.34%. I'll see if we can get some space on Are you using Antons optimisations to samba to use sendfile ? Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: Linux 2.4 Scalability, Samba, and Netbench

2001-05-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:30:35PM -0500, Andrew M. Theurer wrote: > I do have kernprof ACG and lockmeter for a 4P run. We saw no > significant problems with lockmeter. csum_partial_copy_generic was the > highest % in profile, at 4.34%. I'll see if we can get some space on > http://lse.sourcefo

Re: 2.4.3-p8 pci_fixup_vt8363 + ASUS A7V "Optimal" = IDE disk corruption

2001-05-09 Thread Juan Quintela
Hi sorry for the delay, it is working for your motherboard the lastest kernels of Mandrake? I think that all the problems have been solved? Sorry for the delay, as I was finishing more things. Later, Juan. > "wayne" == Wayne Whitney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: wa

Re: Linux 2.4 Scalability, Samba, and Netbench

2001-05-09 Thread Andrew M. Theurer
I do have kernprof ACG and lockmeter for a 4P run. We saw no significant problems with lockmeter. csum_partial_copy_generic was the highest % in profile, at 4.34%. I'll see if we can get some space on http://lse.sourceforge.net to post the test data. Andrew Theurer Mike Kravetz wrote: > > On

Routing Problem in 2.4.1 kernel

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Gorchak
- PPP | | POS 1 | | / 10.10.28.10/30 | | / |

Re: oops

2001-05-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> May 9 10:05:11 localhost kernel: EIP:0010:[call_policy+427/608] I saw it before, but was unable to track it down. What is your kernel version? -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Re:

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
> from the interrupt back to the driver. This is not unlike what you must > already be doing for interrupt completion. > > Do pay attention to getting the timer (&t->timer above) properly set up > (see my first response or most any usage in the kernel). > > Have I got this right Alan? The othe

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
> The only way a motherboard BIOS would know if the PCI BIOS used polling > methods instead of interrupt methods is if it was a built in device. For all Such as the motherboard IDE ? > for all bootable devices on the system, regardless of PnPOS settings. Name > one concrete example of a mother

Re: USB Problem with reenabling hub

2001-05-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> switching it back on, a problem occurs with reenabling the ports on > that USB hub. The kernel output follows. > Comments anyone? Next time, post your /proc/version. There were similar things recently (missing urb->dev reinitialization in usb_hub_reset). -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this li

[PATCH] __up_read and gcc-3.0

2001-05-09 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Hi Alan, can you apply this patch to next 2.4.4-acX ? This fixes problem with gcc3.0 (20010426) unable to compile this under some conditions. As __up_write() uses same code ("i" instead of tmp variable), I think that you should apply this. It can cause slower code, as gcc cannot move "movl -

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-09 Thread God
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > 2) They certainly are. Every once in a while they go through a period of >silently dropping all email coming from hosts that don't have PTRs. >This would be no worse. ACK Which do you mean? : -Hosts that don't have valid PTRs (which wou

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Doug Ledford
Alan Cox wrote: > > setup all possible boot devices, only devices non-essential to the boot > > process (sound cards, modems, crap like that) get left unconfigured. Not > > It only has to do minimal setup on them. If the BIOS calls are polled then > assigning an IRQ is quite optional The only

Re:

2001-05-09 Thread george anzinger
Alan Cox wrote: > > > while(!!time_before(jiffies, timer)) > > { > > if(!!(*event & mask)) > > { > > stat = 0; > > break; > > } > > schedule(); > > You want to yield as well otherwise you may just spin anyway > > > Both of these pr

USB Problem with reenabling hub

2001-05-09 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hi all, I have an USB hub built into my monitor (Eizo T761) which disconnects and powers down the hub when the monitor gets switched off. After switching it back on, a problem occurs with reenabling the ports on that USB hub. The kernel output follows. Comments anyone? Regards, Udo. [Detect

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-09 Thread God
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Pekka Savola wrote: > To: Matthew Geier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Matthew Geier wrote: > > > Help is needed to contact these site owners and politely using a standard > > > email ask them that their site was non-conformant. [snip] > > > > > > I tried to

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