Re: How to diagnose a process stuck in D state?

2008-02-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Stephen Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off: I'm not subscribed to the list (I don't think I could > handle the volume), so please make sure you CC me if you reply. > > I run an application on one of my machines; it often hangs, with the > process

Re: New RTC drivers don't provide the sysctl to set max user frequency

2008-02-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Feb 5, 2008 5:54 PM, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is every application that uses /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq > supposed to be updated to use the new /sys interface? IMHO the default should be increased to 1024 - the current default of 64 dates back to the 486 era. This would e

Re: missing asm-x86_64 detection

2008-01-31 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 31, 2008 6:13 PM, Reinaldo Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > system is x86_64! > > :/# grep model\ name /proc/cpuinfo > model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 > model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 What does "head -20 /usr/src/config-2.6.24" say? Lee -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 30, 2008 1:54 PM, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IANAL, and I would therefore ask a lawyer whether, and if yes under > which circumstances, shipping a binary driver written for another OS > dynamically linked into the Linux kernel would not be a criminal offense. > Please stop thr

Re: tickless/dynticks + cpufreq = tsc unstable

2008-01-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 25, 2008 6:02 PM, Michael Tokarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it normal that once I enable cpufreq on > a tickless system, it spews a warning: > > Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -288201154 ns) > > ? Yes, it's normal. Dual core AMD64 machines really do have unstable TSC. Lee -- To u

Re: Is it possible to change IRQ for certain device?

2008-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 14, 2008 12:30 AM, Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2008 10:57 PM, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 11, 2008 11:57 AM, Jan Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is a shared IRQ a problem for you? IRQ handlers are

Re: Is it possible to change IRQ for certain device?

2008-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 11, 2008 11:57 AM, Jan Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suppose, that VGA card does not need unique IRQ, but programmers, > which wrote driver, want it. I can imagine, that VGA card have many > interrupts, especially in the OpenGL games, but I cannot assign unique > IRQ for VGA card at a

Re: Improve hackbench

2008-01-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 4, 2008 3:10 AM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/hackbench.c > Why not lose the #ifdef and just use PTHREAD_STACK_MIN? Lee -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL P

Re: Treat disk space like memory space

2007-11-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Nov 15, 2007 5:24 PM, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ I realize this is probably better implemented outside of the kernel, but > it seems like it might be of interest here. Please redirect me to > a more appropriate place if you can think of one (other than > /dev/null that

Re: Out-of-tree modules [was: Linux Security *Module* Framework]

2007-10-29 Thread Lee Revell
On 10/29/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quad_dsp - http://jengelh.hopto.org/p/quad_dsp/ > > Provides a /dev/dsp style node for legacy applications that support > neither ALSA nor the AOSS wrapper nor more-than-2-channel sound. > (I think that should read "AND more than 2 channel s

Re: VM question - accounting of SysV SHM

2007-10-17 Thread Lee Revell
On 10/17/07, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:49:07 -0400 > "Lee Revell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry to ask this question on the list but I've Googled and found > > nothing. > > > > Is

VM question - accounting of SysV SHM

2007-10-17 Thread Lee Revell
Sorry to ask this question on the list but I've Googled and found nothing. Is system V shared memory accounted for as Cached, or as normal application memory? I have an application that uses SysV shared memory and O_DIRECT for all IO, but when it starts up, the cached column in vmstat seems to go

Re: getting FUSD compiled with current kernels

2007-09-29 Thread Lee Revell
On 9/29/07, Florian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My goal is to hack up oss2jack [3] to use ALSA pcm devices.. And a later goal > is to create a virtual ALSA soundcard [which would multiplex access to a real > non hw-mixing capable soundcard] to finally end the dmix software mixing woes > li

Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches

2007-09-11 Thread Lee Revell
On 9/11/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:16 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > +~~ > > +Evolutions (GUI) > > I take it you mean: Evolution > > > +Some people seem to use this successfully for patches. > > + > > +W

Re: allow non root users to set io priority "idle" ?

2007-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On 06 Aug 2007 13:11:01 +0200, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For IO I suppose the same could happen too. e.g. low priority > task wants to write out a page and keeps it locked until the IO > is finished. High priority task wants to access the page and has > to wait until it is unlocked. M

Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On 7/31/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Almost all of the Reiser3 > code runs under the BKL, and the only other major kernel infrastructure > that has BKL dependencies is the TTY code. Also NFS: $ grep -rIi lock_kernel kernel-source/linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/ | wc -l 94 Lee - To unsubscri

Re: Profiling the Kernel

2007-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On 8/1/07, Mohamed Bamakhrama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi *, > I have a question regarding profiling the Linux kernel code during > runtime (by "profile", I mean the usage of each function/module within > the kernel itself). I googled and found many "system-wide" profiler > such as sysprof, Opr

Re: posible latency issues in seq_read

2007-07-20 Thread Lee Revell
On 7/20/07, Chris Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We've run into an issue (on 2.6.10) where calling "lsof" triggers lost packets on our server. Preempt is disabled, and NAPI is enabled. Can you reproduce with a recent kernel? Lots of latency issues have been fixed since then. Lee - To u

Re: /proc/pid/status -> VmLib: 4294948464 kB

2007-07-12 Thread Lee Revell
On 7/12/07, Marcos David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I´m using RedHat Enterprise Server 4 Update 3 (kernel 2.6.9-34.ELsmp) I was listing the contents of /proc/pid/status file and I came up with a value of: ... VmLib: 4294948464 kB, ... Is this a known bug? Ask Red Hat. Lee - To unsubscrib

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Lee Revell
On 6/28/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ALSA has been the Linux soundsystem for a number of years now and as such, an application that runs under Linux and produces sound more and more can be expected to do so using the Linux API. The only reason it _can_ be seen as a detail is due to

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-27 Thread Lee Revell
On 6/26/07, Andreas Hartmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not put the whole sound system in userland? It has been done before. Sound is just not performance critical at all and it's almost never mission critical. There are dozens of companies selling Linux powered professional audio gear, mul

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-27 Thread Lee Revell
On 6/27/07, Patrick Draper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rene Herman wrote: > So -- the fact that mixing actually works for you when using libaoss > means software mixing is working correctly for your ALSA setup. The only > thing you should do is _use_ ALSA (natively) and not its OSS emulation > so

Re: Stable identification of identical USB hardware

2007-06-18 Thread Lee Revell
On 6/18/07, Michael Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I have to cardbus sockets, how do I get from what I know ("the card > is in socket 0") to "I have to talk to ttyUSB2 to talk to the card"? I > suspect I have to follow the thread from /sys/bus/pci to > /sys/bus/usb/devices, but how exactly

Re: How to diagnose this error?

2007-06-13 Thread Lee Revell
On 6/13/07, Tetsuo Handa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. Something is wrong with my guest Linux on VMware. Host: CentOS5 (2.6.18-8.1.4.el5) on x86_64 (ThinkPad X60) Guest: CentOS5 (2.6.18-8.1.4.el5) on x86_64 on VMware Workstation 5.5.4 using 2 CPUs BUG messages appear frequently (several t

Re: PC speaker

2007-06-12 Thread Lee Revell
On 6/12/07, R.F. Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to write a kernel module which, when loaded, will blow the PC speaker? LOL. May I ask what your use case is? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: tcp/ip stack question

2007-06-07 Thread Lee Revell
On 6/7/07, kernel coder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, I am recieveing the packet on eth1 and want to send it through eth2. I've written code in netif_recieve_skb function .This code changes the mac header in sk_buff structure so that it can be send through other interface card.But when i

Re: Device Driver Etiquette

2007-06-01 Thread Lee Revell
On 6/1/07, Matthew Fredrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: is it acceptable (although not nice) to simply fix it this way, by disabling irqs while it loads the firmware? I would say to just disable IRQs while loading firmware. Almost every server I maintain has some vendor driver which generat

Re: Compact Flash performance...

2007-05-30 Thread Lee Revell
On 5/30/07, Daniel J Blueman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a SanDisk Extreme IV 4GB CF card, capable of 40MB/s read, but am seeing 30MB/s read [1], connected directly to the IDE bus on my ICH8 controller. How do you know it's capable of 40MB/s read? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-18 Thread Lee Revell
On 5/17/07, Tomas Carnecky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Despite it's a Microsoft product, it's actually very nice and useful. A little pad with a few buttons and connectors for a headset. It's an USB device, but it doesn't represent itself as an input/HID device: HID device not claimed by input

Re: Preempt of BKL and with tickless systems

2007-05-08 Thread Lee Revell
On 5/8/07, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think I have a reasonable grip on the voluntary and full preempt models, can anyone give me any wisdom on the preempt of the BKL? I know what it does, the question is where it might make a difference under normal loads. Define normal as server

Re: 24 lost ticks with 2.6.20.10 kernel

2007-05-01 Thread Lee Revell
On 5/1/07, Kok, Auke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michel Lespinasse wrote: > (I've added the E1000 maintainers to the thread as I found the issue > seems to go away after I compile out that driver. For reference, I was > trying to figure out why I lose exactly 24 ticks about every two > seconds, as

Re: High Resolution Timer DOS

2007-04-28 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/28/07, Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, it is not really a DoS. The rescheduling of the process is limited by the scheduler and the available CPU time (depending on the number of runnable tasks in the system). Shouldn't an unprivileged process be rate limited somehow to av

Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

2007-04-28 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/28/07, Mikulas Patocka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I most wonder, why vim fsyncs its swapfile regularly (blocking typing during that) and doesn't fsync the resulting file on :w :-/ Never seen this. Why would fsync block typing unless vim was doing disk IO for every keystroke? Lee - To un

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-28 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/28/07, Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: tried looking for buffer stuff in /proc/asound, couldnt find anything, im using the via82xx driver. Use fuser to see which sound device is used: $ fuser /dev/snd/* /dev/snd/controlC0: 14028 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: 14028m /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-27 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/27/07, Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interesting - I see similar symptoms after upgrading my PC: * old PC was AMD Athlon 64 3000 w/ 2GB of RAM which had no issues * new PC is a Intel Core 2 Duo w/ 4GB of RAM and fails in the way you describe. Driver using an incorrect DMA mask? L

Re: assembly code in the loadable kernel module

2007-04-27 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/27/07, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Most companies require that *ANY* e-mail sent by employees while at work contain disclaimers like those. Some of them even have their mail servers *automatically* attach those footers. These employees should be using gmail (over https) rath

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-27 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/27/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ogg123 never skips. Then i cranked up the load to 50 infinite loops (!). No problems whatsoever. No problems at 100 tasks either. No problems with 250 (!) nice-0 infinite loops running either: Different soundcards support different ranges and d

Re: cpufreq default governor

2007-04-25 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/24/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it actually "not working" though, even at the hardware level? To my knowledge those noises are normal, and aren't even signs of a harware problem. I believe it is the natural result of changing frequencies at any time. If you change fre

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-22 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/22/07, Eric Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not an LKML subscriber. Did you try searching LKML archives? Lee - 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.org/majord

Re: Renice X for cpu schedulers

2007-04-19 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/19/07, Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PS I think that the tasks most likely to be adversely effected by X's CPU storms (enough to annoy the user) are audio streamers so when you're doing tests to determine the best nice value for X I suggest that would be a good criterion. Video

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-16 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/16/07, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I meant that the central requirement on the design and implementation of > audio subsystems is an (ideally guaranteed) bounded maximum of > latencies; and that's exactly the major point where I hear

Re: Disabling x86 System Management Mode

2007-04-16 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/16/07, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chipset: VIA Pro133T http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/legacy/pro133/ VT82C694T north bridge + VT82C686B south bridge AFAIU, the south bridge can be a source of SMIs. Can the north bridge also be a source of SMIs? What I/O ports do I need to

Re: Security computation within Linux kernel

2007-04-08 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/8/07, JanuGerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi every one, I have one question regarding security libraries, already shipped with Linux Kernel. That is, all PKI, RSA libraries, as provided by OpenSSL are already integrated within the linux kernel source code? OR, one have to use OpenSSL s

Re: 2.6.20.3 AMD64 oops in CFQ code

2007-04-04 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/4/07, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I won't say that's voodoo, but if I ever did it I'd wipe down my keyboard with holy water afterward. ;-) Well, I did save the message in my tricks file, but it sounds like a last ditch effort after something get very wrong. Would it reallty b

Re: 2.6.20.4: NETDEV WATCHDOG and lockups

2007-04-03 Thread Lee Revell
On 4/3/07, Christian Kujau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: > Although it's not as bad with servers, many machines are designed to run only > Windows (which normally always uses ACPI) and simply aren't tested well or at > all with ACPI disabled so you can run i

Re: Student Project Ideas

2007-03-29 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/29/07, Russ Meyerriecks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I've been hacking on the Linux kernel all semester for my OS: Internals class. We are given full autonomy in picking our final programming project and I would love for mine to be /useful/ for the Linux kernel and not just a theoret

Re: [Quick question] serial core issue

2007-03-29 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/29/07, Aubrey Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When register serial driver as a console, the driver function my_remove() my_shutdown() seems be never called. So the driver can't reclaim resource when the command "reboot" is issued. Is it intended? Please post your code for review and some

Re: [patch] queued spinlocks (i386)

2007-03-29 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/29/07, Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:06:41PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Until someone fixes all the places in the kernel where scheduling can > be held off for tens of milliseconds, CONFIG_PREEMPT will be an > absolute requirement for ma

Re: strange high system cpu usage.

2007-03-29 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/29/07, Elliott Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What problem are you trying to solve? IOW, how do you know it's not >just an artifact of diferent load average calculation between 2.4 and >2.6? > >Are you actually seeing reduced throughput/performance? Or are you >just looking at load av

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 and rc5-mm2 - problem with cpuidle routine

2007-03-29 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/29/07, Ed Sweetman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Fri Dec 15 10:19:35 PST 2006 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :01:00.0 to 64 NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Fri Dec 15 10:19:35 PST 2006 **WARNING** I2

Re: strange high system cpu usage.

2007-03-29 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/29/07, Elliott Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I've been upgrading a few machines here at work and noticed some problems with high system cpu usage on one machine. In trying to debug the problem I've come across a few confusing stats that I was hoping could be cleared up by som

Re: [patch] queued spinlocks (i386)

2007-03-29 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/29/07, Davide Libenzi wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 03/28, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > Well with my queued spinlocks, all that lockbreak stuff can just come out > > of the spin_lock, break_lock out of the spinlock structure, and > > need_lockbreak just becomes (lock-

Re: 2.6.20.3-rt8 - DMA suffers excessive delay periodically

2007-03-29 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/29/07, Kevin Perros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No it is an "indutrial" motherboard. > Although I don't know what makes it "industrial". > > Regards. > > Is this related to SMM? > > As far as I can tell, the BIOS is Phoenix AwardBIOS v6.00PG. > > Would someone know how to disable SMM in thi

Re: fs/block_dev.c:953: warning: 'found' might be used uninitialized in this function

2007-03-28 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/28/07, Toralf Förster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I compiled current git source 2.6.21-rc5-g28defbe and got this warning: ... fs/block_dev.c: In function `bd_claim_by_kobject': fs/block_dev.c:953: warning: 'found' might be used uninitialized in this function ... Most of these warnings are

Re: 2.6.20.3-rt8 - DMA suffers excessive delay periodically

2007-03-28 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/28/07, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would someone know how to disable SMM in this BIOS? There's no generic way. Try disabling USB keyboard emulation and any unused peripherals. Also google "RTAI disable SMM". > Is this a laptop? They are plagued with SMM problems... No it is an "

Re: oracle sqlplus loop on 2.6.20

2007-03-28 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/28/07, Marco Berizzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everybody. I'm running oracle 10.2.0.1 on Slackware Linux 10.2 After 50 days uptime, sqlplus was looping forever. I have killed all oracle processes and cleared all semaphore and shared memory segment with ipcrm. I have also unmounted & r

Re: 2.6.20.3-rt8 - DMA suffers excessive delay periodically

2007-03-27 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/27/07, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm runnning 2.6.20.3 patched with -rt8 (and glibc 2.3.6). http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/older/patch-2.6.20-rt8 I've written a program to highlight a phenomenon I don't understand. This system includes a PCI board that provides data

Re: [2.6.22 patch] more scheduled OSS driver removal

2007-03-26 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/26/07, Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess he's referring to the well known "Master volume only controls > front output" problem. This really does need to be resolved, as many > other ALSA drivers are effected. Isn't this quite a basic feature?! Is there somewhere to moni

Re: [2.6.22 patch] more scheduled OSS driver removal

2007-03-25 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/25/07, Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that: > - have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and > - whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.20. > Sorry for this late respon

Re: how can I touch softlockup watchdog on all cpus?

2007-03-22 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/22/07, Cestonaro, Thilo (external) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just disable the softlockup watchdog. Thx for your answer, but this is no option for me, as I said in my first post :(. Sounds like you have a fundamentally incompatible set of requirements. Why do you need the softlockup w

Re: how can I touch softlockup watchdog on all cpus?

2007-03-22 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/22/07, Cestonaro, Thilo (external) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You didn't explain _why_ you need to sleep for such a long time, > and as you didn't give a pointer to your code, there's not > much people can do to recommend changes other than "don't do that". The code which is executed betw

Re: [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far

2007-03-19 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/16/07, Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, this is probably caused by SMM code trying to emulate a PS/2 keyboard from a (maybe connected or not) USB keyboard. Unfortunately we have no way to disable this BIOS misfeature in the early boot process. https://mail.rtai.org/pipermail

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/17/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P.S. "utter failure" was too harsh. What sticks in my craw is that the world has to adjust to fit this new scheduler. I have never seen X run nearly as smooth as our favorite proprietary OS on similar spec hardware with ANY scheduler. Lee

Re: Conflict between ide and usb?

2007-03-16 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/16/07, John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem I have, is that when I copy a file from a DVD to harddisk, the internet connection almost dies (it slows down terribly, so much so that established connections actually disconnect, ping looses packets, DNS lookup fails, etc). After c

Re: [ck] RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

2007-03-13 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/13/07, Chris Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lee Revell wrote: > Sounds like Wengophone is broken. It should be using RT threads for > time critical work, as JACK and Ardour2 are doing. If the app has root privileges to set RT policy, then it could also set deeply negative

Re: [ck] RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

2007-03-13 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/13/07, Ash Milsted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Desktop use whilst talking on Wengophone (run at nice -5): Under RSDL some GUI use e.g. opening a new folder in nautilus causes pops (buffer underruns) which do not occur with mainline. I suppose the changes in RSDL might require a lower nice val

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/12/07, David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the problem comes when this isn't enough. if you have several CPU hogs on a system, and they are all around the same priority level, how can the scheduler know which one needs the CPU the most for good interactivity? in some cases you may be able

Re: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29

2007-03-12 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/12/07, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007, Douglas McNaught wrote: >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'd considered it, but with 32 dle entries, the whole strace output >> would be terrabytes & I don't have THAT much disk. Not to mention it >> traces

Re: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online are missing

2007-03-11 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/11/07, Giuliano Pochini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since 2.6.20 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online isn't there anymore. The directories exist, though. I also tested linux-2.6.21rc3. I had a look at the archives and I found nothing about the removal of that file, which is still documented

Re: ABI coupling to hypervisors via CONFIG_PARAVIRT

2007-03-09 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/9/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the sound example to the right really shows it. /dev/dsp has a consistent ABI on a ton of systems. The API below it, varies. Linux got file_operations and ALSA. Solaris/BSD may have its vnode-and-so-on-functions and some sort of OSS.

Re: KVM and rtc missing interupts 2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-08 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/8/07, Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When ever I try and start a guest OS with kvm I get a lot of these rtc > missing interupt messages from the kernel > > [ 468.510878] rtc: lost some interrupts at 1024Hz. I started to debug this a little while ago but I never got too far.

Re: Sleeping thread not receive signal until it wakes up

2007-03-07 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/7/07, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interruptible_sleep_on is interruptible, but for your task to actually be awakened and your alarm handler to get some CPU, it needs to be scheduled. If the BKL (big kernel lock) is held, it won't be scheduled until it is released. Yo

Re: [2.6.22 patch] the scheduled removal of OBSOLETE_OSS options

2007-03-07 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/7/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Real problem is that we can expect several "sound does not work anymore" because people doing "make oldconfig" will get no warning at all about the removed options. Remember people complaining about keyboard not working ? Perhaps the real proble

Re: pxa.c cat problem

2007-03-07 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/7/07, Mockern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have two PXA Linux boards, I connected them and tried cat myfile > /dev/ttyS0 on one board and cat < /dev/ttyS0 on another. But I can't see nothing. What is wrong with my pxa.c driver? Impossible to tell without seeing the driver source wh

Re: Problem: how to make kernel thread more faster?

2007-03-06 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/6/07, Mockern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, Is there a way how to make kernel thread more faster? I put some of my code to the kthread, but I noticed that kthread sends data more slow than original driver without kthread. Please post a link to your driver source code. Lee - To unsubsc

Re: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and similar issues

2007-03-06 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/6/07, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The other issue is to avoid "trap door" changes, which occur when a kernel change requires new user tools, and the user tools will not run with older kernels. CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is on by default. So this upgrading the kernel does not req

Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

2007-03-06 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems, that BadRAM is not being maintained very actively and the original author doesn`t seem to have the time pushing it into mainline, but i know it's actively being used by more then just a handful of people. Unfortunately there is n

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-05 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/5/07, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >This looks like -mm stuff if you want it in 2.6.22 This needs to get to 2.6.21, it really is that big an improvement. You can probably speed things up by regression testing against a wide range

Re: [IPW3945] Can't load microcode

2007-03-04 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/4/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Lin

Re: userspace pagecache management tool

2007-03-03 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/3/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But yes, updatedb's pagecache usage will be mainly metadata, and this tool doesn't address metadata pagecache, although it could do so. With no kernel changes? How? I can't find an equivalent API to posix_fadvise() for metadata. Lee - To u

Re: Question: work_queue or kthreads

2007-03-03 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/3/07, Mockern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, I need to use something like the work_queue to separate my ISR and long time sending data function in my driver. I noticed, that after using work_queue my driver became slow than it was before. Should I use kthreads to make it faster or someth

Re: userspace pagecache management tool

2007-03-03 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/3/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The tool uses an LD_PRELOAD hack to intercept glibc's read(), pread(), write(), pwrite(), close() and dup2() functions. pagecache control is done via posix_fadvise() and sync_file_range(). How could this have any effect on the updatedb probl

Re: 3c905B - Transmit error, Tx status register 82

2007-03-01 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/1/07, WHITE, JOE (ASI-AIT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lee, Thanks for the reply. We have tried moving my network connection to a new switch, replaced the cables, but still getting that error. What do I do with that command options 3c59x full_duplex=1, where do I put it? Bare with me as I

Re: 3c905B - Transmit error, Tx status register 82

2007-03-01 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/1/07, WHITE, JOE (ASI-AIT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mar 1 09:44:04 thor kernel: Probably a duplex mismatch. See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt Um... did you check Documentation/networking/vortex.txt? 261 Transmit error, Tx status register 82 262 --

Re: Sound 2.6.19: Soundcard driver often fail to load?

2007-02-28 Thread Lee Revell
On 2/27/07, Veronique & Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybie the Fedora team should use the asound.conf configuration instead? This doesn't work for apps that use the deprecated /dev/dsp API. Of course, a modern distro should be trying to purge these anyway... Lee - To unsubscribe from t

Re: High CPU usage with sata_nv

2007-02-21 Thread Lee Revell
On 2/21/07, Matthew Fredrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's a 2.6.18 kernel. What we're seeing (by means of the interrupt pin on another card) is extremely large interrupt latency (measured from the time the interrupt pin goes low to the first couple lines of code in the IRQ handler to clear

Re: Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) driver

2007-02-17 Thread Lee Revell
On 2/17/07, Mockern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Where I can find any ADC driver example? Depending on what kind of ADC and what you want to do with it, anything from a simple char device to an ALSA driver could be appropriate. Can you provide more information? Lee - To unsubscribe fro

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Lee Revell
On 2/15/07, Greg Trounson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wasn't disputing legal problems with proprietary drivers nor suggesting people ignore the issue. I was trying to make the point that Linux is adversely affected when lots of users, proprietary developers or otherwise, abandon Linux, and th

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Lee Revell
On 2/15/07, Greg Trounson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:27:10PM -0800, v j wrote: >> You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one >> small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't think that is the point >> here. I am perfectly w

Re: FW: UI getting "killed" randomely on Fedora machines

2007-02-15 Thread Lee Revell
On 2/15/07, Brian D. McGrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good morning all, We're seeing a problem where an application is being killed from what appears to be an out of memory issue. Can anyone offer any insight on this for me? See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting. Lee - To unsubscribe

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-09 Thread Lee Revell
On 2/9/07, Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 20:59 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On 2/9/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would disagree that it's a peripheral issue, it's pretty core these > > days, at least for

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-09 Thread Lee Revell
On 2/9/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would disagree that it's a peripheral issue, it's pretty core these days, at least for any hardware that you can stuff in a laptop (though a fair number of desktops get suspended and resumed these days too). Servers are still the most impor

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3 BUG in drm_ioctl with Rage 128 card

2007-02-03 Thread Lee Revell
On 2/3/07, Eric Buddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: EIP:0060:[<>]Tainted: G M VLI EFLAGS: 00013246 (2.6.20-rc6-mm3 #1) The "M" taint flag indicates that a machine check exception has occured. Check your logs for the MCE and make sure the hardware is OK. Lee - To unsubs

Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release.

2007-01-31 Thread Lee Revell
On 1/29/07, Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. Scheduling fairness. Since kernel does not know about multiple threads behind given process, it can not add it appropriate number of timeslices for execution. Can be solved either by more tight collaboarion of the userspace and kernelspac

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Lee Revell
On 1/31/07, Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:00:15 -0500 Theodore Tso wrote: .. >> More specifically, Dave said that it "seemed rude" to just take the >> driver and send updates, but maybe the best way of dealing with >> out-of-tree drivers like li

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Lee Revell
On 1/31/07, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: More specifically, Dave said that it "seemed rude" to just take the driver and send updates, but maybe the best way of dealing with out-of-tree drivers like lirc is to treat the out-of-tree drivers as a kind of spec release, and just have someon

Re: Nozmi status ?

2007-01-27 Thread Lee Revell
On 1/27/07, Gianluca Alberici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, What is the status of the HSDPA driver after 2.6.19.1 ? Is it part of the kernel tree or not yet ? If not is there any version of ther nozomi pack which is gonna compile under ker > 2.6.18 (the original one is not compiling anymore

Re: prioritize PCI traffic ?

2007-01-26 Thread Lee Revell
On 1/17/07, Hans-Peter Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Montag, 15. Januar 2007 15:53 schrieb Vaidyanathan Srinivasan: > > 33Mhz 32-bit PCI bus on typical PC can do around 100MB/sec... Substract roughly n * 5MB for VIA chipsets, where n is the age (1 <= n <= 4), and even more for SIS, ATI..

Re: list_del corruption with fedora 6 kernels (fc5 was ok)

2007-01-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 00:34 +0100, Karl Kiniger wrote: > how to track this down? Reproduce it with an untainted kernel (no nvidia or vmware modules) and repost. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majord

Re: [2.6.18.2] ide_core bug: kobject_add failed for ide ...

2007-01-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 18:44 +0100, Andreas Hartmann wrote: > Hello, > > ide_core is loaded (while putting in an USB stick) as module the first > time after reboot - all works fine. The USB stick got mounted and a ls > is done to show the files on the root of the filesystem of the stick. > Afterwar

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