[RFC][PATCH][4/4] RSS controller documentation (v2)

2007-02-25 Thread Balbir Singh
--- Signed-off-by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/memctlr.txt | 70 ++ 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+) diff -puN /dev/null Documentation/memctlr.txt --- /dev/null 2007-02-02 22:51:23.0 +0530 +++ linux-2.6.20-balbir/Documentation/m

[RFC][PATCH][3/4] Add reclaim support (v2)

2007-02-25 Thread Balbir Singh
Changelog 1. Move void *container to struct container (in scan_control and vmscan.c and rmap.c) 2. The last set of patches churned the LRU list, in this release, pages that can do not belong to the container are moved to a skipped_pages list. At the end of the isolation they are added b

[RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control) (v2)

2007-02-25 Thread Balbir Singh
This is a repost of the patches at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/24/65 The previous post had a misleading subject which ended with a "(". This patch applies on top of Paul Menage's container patches (V7) posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/88 It implements a controlle

[RFC][PATCH][2/4] Add RSS accounting and control (v2)

2007-02-25 Thread Balbir Singh
Changelog 1. Be consistent, use the C style of returning 0 on success and negative values on failure 2. Change and document the locking used by the controller (I hope I got it right this time :-)) 3. Remove memctlr_double_(un)lock routines 4. Comment the usage of MEMCONTROL_DONT_CHECK_LIMI

[PATCH] libata: handle ata_pci_device_do_resume() failure while resuming (v2)

2007-02-25 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:43:18 +0300 Dmitriy Monakhov wrote: > >> Since commit:553c4aa630af7bc885e056d0436e4eb7f238579b >> ata_pci_device_do_resume() can return error code, all callers was updated >> except this one. >> >> Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <

RE: RFC/patch: down_timeout_interruptible()

2007-02-25 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> I gave it a quick try (must admit, not too tested) and it seems that >> the setting of TIF_SIGPENDING without really having a signal queued >> is not having easily visible ugly consequences. > >what happens if you get a signal around the time t

2.6.20-rc1: CIFS cheers, NFS4 jeers

2007-02-25 Thread Florin Iucha
Hello, it's me and my 70 GB of photos again. I have tested both CIFS and NFSv4 clients in kernel 2.6.20-rc1 . CIFS passed with flying colors and NFSv4 stalled after 7 GB. Configuration: Server: PIII/1GHz, 512 MB RAM, Debian testing, distro kernel 2.6.18-3-vserver-686, Intel E1000 NIC,

Correction 2.6.21-rc1 Was: 2.6.20-rc1: CIFS cheers, NFS4 jeers

2007-02-25 Thread Florin Iucha
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:45:00AM -0600, Florin wrote: > After the writing stalls, I have echoed 't' into /proc/sysrq-trigger > and got a trace, which is at http://iucha.net/20-rc1/after.1. There was > no oops before the trace request; the 'before' dmesg is at > http://iucha.net/20-rc1/before.1 .

Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough

2007-02-25 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:01:06PM -0500, David Woodhouse wrote: > Yeah, I did that before giving up on it for the day and going in search > of dinner. It changes the failure mode to a BUG() in > cache_free_debugcheck(), at line 2876 of mm/slab.c > It smells like the pages weren't actually reserved

[PATCH -mm 5/6] Freezer: Remove PF_NOFREEZE from bluetooth threads

2007-02-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remove PF_NOFREEZE from the bluetooth threads, adding try_to_freeze() calls as required. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/bluetoot

[PATCH -mm 4/6] Freezer: Remove PF_NOFREEZE from rcutorture thread

2007-02-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remove PF_NOFREEZE from the rcutorture thread, adding a try_to_freeze() call as required. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/rcut

[PATCH -mm 2/6] Freezer: Fix memory ordering in refrigerator

2007-02-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> refrigerator() can miss a wakeup, "wait event" loop needs a proper memory ordering. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/power/process.c

[PATCH -mm 6/6] Freezer: Add try_to_freeze calls to all kernel threads

2007-02-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add try_to_freeze() calls to the remaining kernel threads that do not call try_to_freeze() already, although they set PF_NOFREEZE. In the future we are going to replace PF_NOFREEZE with a set of flags that will be set to indicate in which situations the

[PATCH -mm 1/6] Freezer: Read PF_BORROWED_MM in a nonracy way

2007-02-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The reading of PF_BORROWED_MM in is_user_space() without task_lock() is racy. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/power/process.c |8 +++- 1 file changed, 7 insertio

[PATCH -mm 0/6] Freezer changes

2007-02-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, The following series of patches contains modifications of the task freezer that harden it and prepare it to be used in the CPU hotplug. Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

[PATCH -mm 3/6] Freezer: Close theoretical race between refrigerator and thaw_tasks

2007-02-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If the freezing of tasks fails and a task is preempted in refrigerator() before calling frozen_process(), then thaw_tasks() may run before this task is frozen. In that case the task will freeze and no one will thaw it. To fix this race we can call freez

Re: [PATCH] Remove redundant #ifdef __KERNEL__ checks.

2007-02-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Robert P. J. Day wrote: Remove the redundant intermediate checks for __KERNEL__ since, as soon as one ends, the next one starts. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> However, what's much worse is that this already has put series of constants which are part of the ABI under _

Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit-1.5.5

2007-02-25 Thread Marco Costalba
On 2/26/07, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/26/07, Marco Costalba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P.S: There is also a Qt4 version (works under Windows) downloadable > from git://repo.or.cz/qgit4.git it is a little bit experimental > tough. Is the QT4 Windows port working against t

Re: [RFC/PATCH] revokeat/frevoke system calls V5

2007-02-25 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Alan, On 2/26/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Whats the status on this, I was suprised to see something so important just go dead ? It's not dead. You can find the latest patches here: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/penberg/linux/revoke/patches/ and user-space tests here: http://www.cs.

Re: [RFC/PATCH] revokeat/frevoke system calls V5

2007-02-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Pekka Enberg wrote: Hi Alan, On 2/26/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Whats the status on this, I was suprised to see something so important just go dead ? It's not dead. You can find the latest patches here: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/penberg/linux/revoke/patches/ and user-space tests

Re: [linux-usb-devel] usbfs2: Why asynchronous I/O?

2007-02-25 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:51:46AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > This deserves to be discussed on LKML. Are you sure? I thought it already got pretty well answered on the USB mailing list (see David's response for one such response.) thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [linux-usb-devel] usbfs2: Why asynchronous I/O?

2007-02-25 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:51:46AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > This deserves to be discussed on LKML. > > Are you sure? I thought it already got pretty well answered on the USB > mailing list (see David's response for one such response.) Well, I was sure a

Re: [kvm-devel] PIO port width on various archs?

2007-02-25 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 10:58 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > I'm changing the kvm userspace interface to be more friendly to other > archs. One issue is the PIO port size. x86 uses 16 bits to hold the > port size (64K ports). Is that an issue for other archs? > > I guess I could change it to __u32,

Re: [kvm-devel] PIO port width on various archs?

2007-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 10:58 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: I'm changing the kvm userspace interface to be more friendly to other archs. One issue is the PIO port size. x86 uses 16 bits to hold the port size (64K ports). Is that an issue for other archs? I guess I could

[PATCH] sata_mv: fix DMA boundary, 64-bit PCI DMA issues

2007-02-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
commit b350d3ae0a21fd093d99644a3cfb90f4fb275cb2 Author: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon Feb 26 01:26:06 2007 -0500 [libata] sata_mv: clean up DMA boundary issues, turn on 64-bit DMA The chips covered by sata_mv have a 32-bit DMA boundary they must not cross, not a 64K

D-Link DGE-528T (r8159) autonegotation of 1000 Mbps link does not work

2007-02-25 Thread Petri T. Koistinen
Hi! I just brought two D-Link DGE-528T (uses r8159 driver) network adapters to have nice 1 Gbps home network between two computers. I have gigabit crossover cable that is connected like this Pin Connector #1 Connector #2 1white/orange white/green 2orangegreen 3white/green

2.6.21-rc1: known regressions (part 1)

2007-02-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.21-rc1 compared to 2.6.20 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm considering

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