oops in kmem_cache_free

2001-02-25 Thread holger
ther infos), Holger Feb 24 21:37:08 nova kernel: printing eip: Feb 24 21:37:08 nova kernel: c0126ca3 Feb 24 21:37:08 nova kernel: Oops: 0002 Feb 24 21:37:08 nova kernel: CPU:0 Feb 24 21:37:08 nova kernel: EIP:0010:[kmem_cache_free+99/176] Feb 24 21:37:08 nova kernel: EFLAGS: 00010006 Feb 2

Re: [regression] external HDD in USB3 enclosure cannot be dynamically removed (Re: Linux 3.7.5)

2013-02-12 Thread Holger Hoffstätte
;> I'd like to keep that patch in stable, but I need to understand what >> exactly is failing with it. > > Note that Holger ran into the same problem using a mainline (3.8-rc5) > kernel. Yup, which is why I'll try 3.8-rc7 first. Glad this has some attention. :) -h

OOPS in sysctl.c

2008-02-05 Thread Holger Schurig
I have an embedded target (PXA255 based) where I have a nice running kernel 2.6.15. Today I'm trying to get 2.6.24 running on it. To get suspend/resume working, I had to add a patch from the current development kernel, but after this things seemed to work fine. Unfortunately I can reproducibly tri

Re: OOPS in sysctl.c

2008-02-05 Thread Holger Schurig
> I have an embedded target (PXA255 based) where I have a nice > running kernel 2.6.15. Today I'm trying to get 2.6.24 running > on it. Whatever the problem is, sysfs works now flawlessly even after a suspend/resume with v2.6.24-7284-g9ef9dc6. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: kara_am

2008-02-05 Thread Holger Schurig
am kara wrote: > I have a suggestion for the documentation of the > kernel. Placing a comment about the function of each > file and folder inside the kernel. > > This comment maybe short but saves a lot of time of a > code reviewer. I have a suggestion for the documentation of e-mails. Use a pro

Enabling hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS in 3.6 by default

2012-10-25 Thread Holger Kiehl
system administrator or distributions enable this? Regards, Holger PS: Please CC me as I am not on the list. [1] http://www.dwd.de/AFD [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/at.git;a=commitdiff;h=f4114656c3a6c6f6070e315ffdf940a49eda3279 [3] https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/t

Re: Enabling hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS in 3.6 by default

2012-10-26 Thread Holger Kiehl
Hello Kees, first, many thanks for trying to help! On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Kees Cook wrote: Hi Holger, On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:13:40PM +, Holger Kiehl wrote: as of linux 3.6 hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS have been enabled by default. This breaks the application AFD [1] of which

Re: [PATCH] libata: Forcing PIO0 mode on reset must not freeze system

2008-02-11 Thread Holger Macht
On Mon 11. Feb - 22:11:32, Tejun Heo wrote: > Holger Macht wrote: > >> It should be called via ata_acpi_{ap|dev}_notify() callbacks installed > >> via acpi_install_notify_handler(). Can you add dump_stack() in the > >> function and verify that it actually is b

Re: [PATCH] libata: Forcing PIO0 mode on reset must not freeze system

2008-02-11 Thread Holger Macht
On Mon 11. Feb - 20:16:38, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > Holger Macht wrote: > >> In the above example, even the reset sequence itself can cause hang if > >> the hardware is implemented slightly differently. The reason why > >> set_piomode() locks up but r

Re: [PATCH] libata: Forcing PIO0 mode on reset must not freeze system

2008-02-11 Thread Holger Macht
On Mon 11. Feb - 11:37:15, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > Holger Macht wrote: > > Calling ap->ops->set_piomode(ap, dev) on a device/controller which got > > already removed, locks the system hard. Reproducibly on an X60 attached to > > a dock station con

Re: [PATCH] libata: Forcing PIO0 mode on reset must not freeze system

2008-02-11 Thread Holger Macht
On Mon 11. Feb - 11:37:15, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > Holger Macht wrote: > > Calling ap->ops->set_piomode(ap, dev) on a device/controller which got > > already removed, locks the system hard. Reproducibly on an X60 attached to > > a dock station con

[PATCH] libata: Register for dock events when the drive is inside a dock station

2008-02-14 Thread Holger Macht
If a device/bay is inside a docking station, we need to register for dock events additionally to bay events. If a dock event occurs, the dock driver will call the appropriate handler (ata_acpi_ap_notify() or ata_acpi_dev_notify()) for us. Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [PATCH] libata: Forcing PIO0 mode on reset must not freeze system

2008-02-14 Thread Holger Macht
On Mon 11. Feb - 22:11:32, Tejun Heo wrote: > Holger Macht wrote: > >> It should be called via ata_acpi_{ap|dev}_notify() callbacks installed > >> via acpi_install_notify_handler(). Can you add dump_stack() in the > >> function and verify that it actually is b

Re: [PATCH] libata: Register for dock events when the drive is inside a dock station

2008-02-14 Thread Holger Macht
On Thu 14. Feb - 13:40:48, Holger Macht wrote: > If a device/bay is inside a docking station, we need to register for dock > events additionally to bay events. If a dock event occurs, the dock driver > will call the appropriate handler (ata_acpi_ap_notify() or > ata_acpi_dev_noti

Re: [ 00/27] 3.6.10-stable review

2012-12-07 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:58:44 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.6.10 release. Patched against 3.6.9/builds/works fine on 3 Gentoo ~x86 machines, two generic i5/i7 boxes (one ATI with Evergreen chip) and an old T60 Thinkpad. No borkage detecte

Problems with ixgbe driver

2013-06-14 Thread Holger Kiehl
ource code. Below I have added some additional information. Please CC me since I am not subscribed to any of these lists. And please do not hesitate to ask if more information is needed. Many thanks in advance. Regards, Holger Loading ixgbe module 3.15.1 without any options: 2013-06-14T10:01:15

RE: Problems with ixgbe driver

2013-06-17 Thread Holger Kiehl
Hello, first, thank you for the quick help! On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, Tantilov, Emil S wrote: -Original Message- From: netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Holger Kiehl Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 4:50 AM To: e1000-de...@lists.sf.net Cc: linux

Re: [ 00/73] 3.8.13-stable review

2013-05-10 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 09 May 2013 15:31:23 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.13 release. There This patchset broke my internet, with all sorts of weird effects like Samba clients having problems to talk to the server and only partially working DNS resol

drm/radeon: continued dead graphics with X on Thinkpad T60 with kernel 3.8.x/3.9.x

2013-03-28 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
but need some pointers how to proceed. 3.7.10 is the last kernel that works (very well) but is unmaintained, and it would be nice to move on to 3.8.5 to benefit from ongoing bug fixes. thanks! Holger -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

What happened to TRIM support for raid linear/0/1/10?

2012-08-08 Thread Holger Kiehl
Hello, I have been using the patches posted by Shaohua Li on 16th March 2012: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1203.2/00048.html for several month on a very busy file server (serving 9 million files with 5.3 TiB daily) without any problems. Is there any chance that these patch

Re: [PATCH] libata: Register for dock events when the drive is inside a dock station

2008-02-21 Thread Holger Macht
On Wed 20. Feb - 12:11:32, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Holger Macht wrote: >> On Thu 14. Feb - 13:40:48, Holger Macht wrote: >>> If a device/bay is inside a docking station, we need to register for dock >>> events additionally to bay events. If a dock event occurs, the do

Re: OOPS in sysctl.c

2008-02-07 Thread Holger Schurig
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 20:03:53 you wrote: > Please, post .config and "ls -lR /proc/sys" output _before_ > suspend/resume. Just a note: I don't use vanilla v2.6.24, but v2.6.24 plus a bunch of patches on top of it. I minimized them and for v2.6.24, this is the minimal number of patches ne

Re: OOPS in sysctl.c

2008-02-07 Thread Holger Schurig
> Please, post .config and "ls -lR /proc/sys" output _before_ > suspend/resume. # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.24 # Thu Feb 7 11:43:09 2008 # CONFIG_ARM=y CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION=y CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO=y CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y CONFIG_GENERI

Re: OOPS in sysctl.c

2008-02-07 Thread Holger Schurig
> erp. We'd really like to know what we did to fix it, and then > get that fix back into 2.6.24.x. Agreed :-) One more finding: after turning off CONFIG_SLUB and usng CONFIG_SLAB instead, I cannot reproduce the bug. Also, a quite bit Qt-Embedded 3.x programm survives without any trouble the

[PATCH] sysctl: allow embedded targets to disable sysctl_check.c

2008-02-07 Thread Holger Schurig
Disable sysctl_check.c for embedded targets. This saves about about 11 kB in .text and another 11 kB in .data on a PXA255 embedded platform. Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux.orig/init/Kconfig +++ linux/init/Kconfig @@ -475,6 +475,17 @@ If unsure say

[PATCH] libata: Forcing PIO0 mode on reset must not freeze system

2008-02-10 Thread Holger Macht
ally know what I'm doing because I don't have the big picture. There's surely a better way to check if the device/controller is still functional than calling ata_link_{online,offline}. Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c

Re: [ 00/46] 3.5.3-stable review

2012-08-20 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
can tell the fix works; in my case I noticed repeatable hangs when trying to "move files to the trash" in XFCE and these hangs are now gone. Have not noticed any negative side effects either. thanks Holger -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&qu

Re: [regression] external HDD in USB3 enclosure cannot be dynamically removed (Re: Linux 3.7.5)

2013-02-13 Thread Holger Hoffstätte
.8 and the stable trees, or do a revert of the whole > series and just let 3.9 carry the full patchset. Good news! This one does indeed work as expected - the device can be removed and is gone for good. Upstream & Stable plz :) thanks all! Holger -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [PATCH] libata: Register for dock events when the drive is inside a dock station

2008-02-26 Thread Holger Macht
cpi_dev_notify()) for us. > > > > Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > > > diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c > > index 9e8ec19..563ad72 100644 > > --- a/drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c > > +++

[PATCH] partitions/ibm.c

2001-02-26 Thread Holger . Smolinski
preferred solution would be having partition schemes as loadable modules, too. Maybe I'll find some time to post the approriate patch on this list soon... Regards, Holger Smolinski IBM Germany Linux/390 Kernel Development Schönaicher Str.220, D-71032 Böblingen >Reading patch-2.4.2

Re: [PATCH] partitions/ibm.c

2001-02-26 Thread Holger . Smolinski
fill_geometry functions to make HDIO_GETGEO work like others. Gruesse / Regards Dr. Holger Smolinski Linux for S/390 Design & Development, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, Schoenaicher Str. 220, D-71032 Boeblingen Phone/FAX: +49 7031 16 (x902) - 4652/3456 ibmpart.diff

PROBLEM: Filesystem corruption with 2.4.1-pre3 and raid5

2001-01-14 Thread Holger Kiehl
() at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:93 I have this system now for several years and it has always been very stabel under 2.2.x. In fact this is my first filesystem corruption. If I forget anything or more information is required please tell me. Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

PROBLEM: More filesystem corruption with 2.4.1-pre3 and SW raid5

2001-01-15 Thread Holger Kiehl
Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.2 Procps 2.0.4 Mount 2.10r Net-tools 1.53 Console-tools 1999.03.02 Sh-utils 2.0 Modules Loaded w83781d sensors i2c-piix4 i2c-isa i2c-core Holger - To unsubs

More filesystem corruption under 2.4.1-pre8 and SW Raid5

2001-01-18 Thread Holger Kiehl
early useless. After the test is done everything is back to normal. The same behavior was observed under 2.2.18. Holger #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include static void create_files(int, int, char *), delete_files

Re: More filesystem corruption under 2.4.1-pre8 and SW Raid5

2001-01-19 Thread Holger Kiehl
nd you correctly: with 48MB you do get corruption and with 192MB not? And if you do see corruption are you using SW Raid, SMP? With 1 I also had no problem, my next step was 5. Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: More filesystem corruption under 2.4.1-pre8 and SW Raid5

2001-01-19 Thread Holger Kiehl
k. Then I tried with 1 files and "mem=64m" and I get the corruption. So if I conclude correctly: we both have SMP + ext2 and you do not have SW raid and I do, that its definetly a SW raid bug? Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Serious file system corruption with RAID5+SMP and kernels above2.4.0

2001-01-20 Thread Holger Kiehl
can now reproduce this problem within 10 minutes. Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] - filesystem corruption on soft RAID5 in 2.4.0+

2001-01-22 Thread Holger Kiehl
ve an raid 5 array - SMP+ext2 without > raid5 is ok. > > Holger, what's your ext2 block size, and do you run with a degraded > array? > No, I do not have a degraded array and the blocksize of ext2 is 4096. Here is what /proc/mdstat looks like: afdbench@florix:~/test

Why is LINK_MAX so low?

2000-12-18 Thread Holger Kiehl
Hello Why is LINK_MAX in linux only 127? The values for other operating systems is as follows: solaris 32767 hpux 32767 irix 3 In reallity LINK_MAX for ext2 is 32000, so why is this only 127? Please cc to me since I am not on this list. Thanks, Holger - To unsubscribe

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac18

2001-03-12 Thread Holger Lubitz
Hmm, I seem to have missed the changelog posting for ac17. However, I noticed that the overclocked CPU detection code was dropped between ac16 and ac17. Since the changelog did not mention it - was the feature dropped intentionally, and if so, why? Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac18

2001-03-12 Thread Holger Lubitz
sad to see it go again) Holger - 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/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: UDMA 100 / PIIX4 question

2001-03-20 Thread Holger Lubitz
I also noticed that operations on a lot of files (like scanning for all files in a filesystem as done by updatedb) got really slow with the 2.4 vfat fs, with a very high percentage (in the 90s) of CPU time attributed to "system". Has anybody else noticed this? Holger - To unsubscribe from

Re: UDMA 100 / PIIX4 question

2001-03-21 Thread Holger Lubitz
sk reads: 64 MB in 2.30 seconds = 27.83 MB/sec the kernel is 2.4.2ac18 btw. i know its not the most recent, but that shouldn't matter. this behaviour has been there for a long time. i am not even sure if this was ever any different. holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: UDMA 100 / PIIX4 question

2001-03-22 Thread Holger Lubitz
gether. Having the root fs in the outermost partition might give slightly faster transfers, but slightly longer seeks to get there. > [root@via DiskPerf-1.0.3]# ./DiskPerf /dev/hda Is that an unreleased version? kernel.org still has 1.0.1. Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &quo

Re: NTP on 2.4.2?

2001-03-23 Thread Holger Lubitz
Russell King wrote: > Is anyone else using NTP with 2.4.2, and if so, are you synchronising > properly? Works for me. (RH7, ntp-4.0.99j-7, Kernel 2.4.2-ac23 - but worked with plain 2.4.2, too) Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [PATCH] - filesystem corruption on soft RAID5 in 2.4.0+

2001-01-23 Thread Holger Kiehl
Jan 23 00:53:50 cube last message repeated 16 times This happens under a very high load (120) and is properly not raid related. What's the meaning of this? Thanks, Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: VIA KT133A Northbridge bug reported

2001-05-29 Thread Holger Lubitz
rt from DOS or a Windows reboot: If the screen stays black, the chip has an error." As far as I understand it, the problem is only affecting "warm reboots". And I couldn't care less about warm reboots - my machines usually run 24/7 :) Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send

RE: As of 2.6.13-rc1 Fusion-MPT very slow

2005-08-06 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 15:40 +, Holger Kiehl wrote: No I did not get it. Can you please send it to me or tell me where I can download it? OK, since this has stalled, how about trying a different approach. If you apply the attached patch it will

RE: As of 2.6.13-rc1 Fusion-MPT very slow

2005-08-06 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, James Bottomley wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 21:12 +, Holger Kiehl wrote: drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c:505: error: unknown field â..get_hold_mcsâ.. specified in initializer drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c:505: warning: excess elements in struct initializer

RE: As of 2.6.13-rc1 Fusion-MPT very slow

2005-08-09 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: On Sunday, August 07, 2005 8:30 AM, James Bottomley wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 05:59 +, Holger Kiehl wrote: Thanks, removing those it compiles fine. This patch also solves my problem, here the output of dmesg: Well ... the transport class

As of 2.6.13-rc1 Fusion-MPT very slow

2005-07-26 Thread Holger Kiehl
ystems are unmounted the fusion driver tells me that it puts the two controllers in power save mode. Then kernel whants to flush the SCSI disks but hangs forever. This does not happen when doing a reboot. Holger -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: As of 2.6.13-rc1 Fusion-MPT very slow

2005-08-01 Thread Holger Kiehl
back SCSI device sdj: 143552136 512-byte hdwr sectors (73499 MB) SCSI device sdj: drive cache: write back sdj: sdj1 Attached scsi disk sdj at scsi5, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Anything else I can try or provide? Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

RE: As of 2.6.13-rc1 Fusion-MPT very slow

2005-08-01 Thread Holger Kiehl
No I did not get it. Can you please send it to me or tell me where I can download it? Thanks, Holger -- On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: I provided an application called getspeed as an attachment in the email I sent last Friday. Did you receive that, or do I need to resend? If

Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-29 Thread Holger Kiehl
Hello I have a system with the following setup: Board is Tyan S4882 with AMD 8131 Chipset 4 Opterons 848 (2.2GHz) 8 GB DDR400 Ram (2GB for each CPU) 1 onboard Symbios Logic 53c1030 dual channel U320 controller 2 SATA disks put together as a SW Raid1 for system, swap and spare

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-30 Thread Holger Kiehl
with "blockdev --setra" setings? Yes, I did play a little bit with it but this only changed read performance, it made no measurable difference when writting. Thanks, Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-30 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Al Boldi wrote: Holger Kiehl wrote: Why do I only get 247 MB/s for writting and 227 MB/s for reading (from the bonnie++ results) for a Raid0 over 8 disks? I was expecting to get nearly three times those numbers if you take the numbers from the individual disks. What limit

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-30 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:20:56PM +, Holger Kiehl wrote: Hello I have a system with the following setup: Board is Tyan S4882 with AMD 8131 Chipset 4 Opterons 848 (2.2GHz) 8 GB DDR400 Ram (2GB for each CPU) 1 onboard Symbios

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: On Wed, Aug 31 2005, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:06:21PM +, Holger Kiehl wrote: How does one determine the PCI-X bus speed? Usually only the card (in your case the Symbios SCSI controller) can tell. If it does, it'll be

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:06:21PM +, Holger Kiehl wrote: How does one determine the PCI-X bus speed? Usually only the card (in your case the Symbios SCSI controller) can tell. If it does, it'll be most likely in 'dmesg'. Ther

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
try my block tracing stuff so we can see what is going on at the queue level. But lets gather some more info first, since it requires testing -mm. Ok, please then just tell me what I must do. Thanks, Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: Holger Kiehl wrote: 3236497 total 1.4547 2507913 default_idle 52248.1875 158752 shrink_zone 43.3275 121584 copy_user_generic_c 3199.5789

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: On Wed, Aug 31 2005, Holger Kiehl wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: Nothing sticks out here either. There's plenty of idle time. It smells like a driver issue. Can you try the same dd test, but read from the drives instead? Use a b

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: On Wed, Aug 31 2005, Holger Kiehl wrote: # ./oread /dev/sdX and it will read 128k chunks direct from that device. Run on the same drives as above, reply with the vmstat info again. Using kernel 2.6.12.5 again, here the results: [snip] Ok, reads as

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: * Holger Kiehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: Full vmstat session can be found under: Have you got iostat? iostat -x 10 might be interesting to see for a period while it is going. The following is the

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: Holger Kiehl wrote: meminfo.dump: MemTotal: 8124172 kB MemFree: 23564 kB Buffers: 7825944 kB Cached: 19216 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 25708 kB Inactive: 7835548 kB HighTotal

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-09-01 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Holger Kiehl wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: Holger Kiehl wrote: meminfo.dump: MemTotal: 8124172 kB MemFree: 23564 kB Buffers: 7825944 kB Cached: 19216 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 25708 kB

Re: SATA kernel-buffered read VERY slow (not raid, Promise TX300 card); 2.6.23.1(vanilla)

2008-01-03 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
all I'd say it's not the card or the driver.. hth, Holger -- 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/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Scheduler behaviour

2007-12-07 Thread Holger Wolf
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:15:30 +0100 Holger Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We discovered performance degradation with dbench when using kernel 2.6.23 compared to kernel 2.6.22. In our case we booted a Linux in a IBM System z9 LPAR with 256MB of ram with 4 CPU&#

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-12 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:44:26 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] >> Maybe turning off sendfile or NAPI just lead to random success - so far >> it really looks like tso on the r8169 is the common cause. > > TSO on the r8169

Re: SATA kernel-buffered read VERY slow (not raid, Promise TX300 card); 2.6.23.1(vanilla)

2007-12-31 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
ems during the week and might be able to contribute some findings. Holger -- 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/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-29 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
or off triggers/untriggers the corruption reliably. I will try 2.6.22.x over the weekend, and before I bother lkml with dmesg/.config etc. I wanted to fish for initial thoughts. thanks Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-30 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
ate broken files with tso and the unique patterns that Eric suggested, if that helps tracking down the tso corruption. thank you! Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at h

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-30 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Btw, the r8169 has NAPI enabled. kernel config: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/kernel-config-x86-2.6.23.9 dmesg: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/dmesg lspci -vv: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/lspci thanks Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-02 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
ecent regression in .23/.24. All files can be found here: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/r8169-tso/ I will gladly try out any other tweaks but need some guidance as I don't know what exactly to change - maybe without NAPI for the r8169? thank you Holger -- To unsubscribe from

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-02 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:00:03 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:26:54 -0800, Rick Jones wrote: > >> Could the corruption be seen in a tcpdump trace prior to transmission >> (ie taken on the sender) or was it only seen after the data passed out >>

Scheduler behaviour

2007-12-05 Thread Holger Wolf
501.371.64 -20.12% 541.281.66 -29.60% 62 1.5 1.69 -12.84% regards Holger Wolf -- To unsubscribe from th

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-06 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:54:29 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] >> Should I file this in bugzilla? > > Yes. Thanks for responding - will do. I verified with 2.6.24-rc4 (same bug) and have some new information about this. Despit

Re: [PATCH 3/3] wireless/libertas: don't cast a pointer to pointer of list_head

2007-12-06 Thread Holger Schurig
> BTW: I'm not so sure where this patch should go to. To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, as Dan Williams (libertas maintainer) monitors this list. The wireless development tree is wireless-2.6, branch everything. You patch doesn't apply to this tree currently, but it's easy to fix. I'll bring it in shape

bug in checkpath.pl

2007-11-28 Thread Holger Schurig
I have a case where scripts/checkpatch.pl returns a false error. First, here is the code: static int lbs_scan_add_rates_tlv(u8 *tlv) { int i; struct mrvlietypes_ratesparamset *rate_tlv = (struct mrvlietypes_ratesparamset *) tlv; rate_tlv->header.type = cp

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-15 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:19:43 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > I have now gone back to enable TSO since vsftp with sendfile really seems > to be the only app that causes this. I have simply set it to > use_sendfile=NO and no corruption occurs at all; the machine is stable and > f

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-15 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:44:26 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] >> Maybe turning off sendfile or NAPI just lead to random success - so far >> it really looks like tso on the r8169 is the common cause. > > TSO on the r8169

Re: Fusion-MPT much faster as module

2005-03-22 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Holger Kiehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello On a four CPU Opteron compiling the Fusion-MPT as module gives much better performance when compiling it in, here some bonnie++ results: Version 1.03 --Sequential Output-- --Sequential

RE: Fusion-MPT much faster as module

2005-03-22 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Holger, this problem remains unresolved, does it not? Have you done any more experimentation? I must say that something funny seems to be happening here. I have two MPT-based Dell machines, neither of which is

Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] DVB at76c651.c driver seems to be dead code

2005-02-11 Thread Holger Waechtler
remove this code as long we know it is working and continously tested by the dbox2 folks. Instead it may make sense to move the dbox2 sources into the mainstream source tree. Andreas, what do you think? Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&quo

Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] [RFC: 2.6 patch] DVB: possible cleanups

2005-02-11 Thread Holger Waechtler
ore/dvb_demux.c: dvb_dmx_swfilter_packet dvb_dmx_swfilter_packet() should remain exported to the public, accessing this directly makes sense for some architectures. Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] DVB: remove bouncing address of Alex Woods

2005-02-06 Thread Holger Waechtler
problem and want to solve it. Holger Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes the bouncing email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] of Alex Woods. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-dec/ttusb_dec.c |4 ++-- drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-dec/ttusbdecfe.c |2 +- d

[PATCH/RFC] IPMI watchdog more verbose

2005-02-21 Thread Holger Kiehl
Hello This makes IPMI watchdog more verbose during initialization. It prints the values of timeout and if nowayout is set or not. Currently there is no way to see what these values are, onced initialzed. Please check if this is the correct place to put the printk. Holger--- linux-2.6.10/drivers

usbnet not being loaded in 2.6.11-rc4/5

2005-02-27 Thread Holger Klawitter
been blacklisted, however then I don't grok why it's still in the config and the modules.usbmap). Regards Holger Klawitter (not subscribed) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

2.6.11: usbnet broken

2005-03-02 Thread Holger Klawitter
should be=9031. Hence my Zarus is being recognized as C-750/760 (which is fine as 760 and 860 only differ in memsize). Regards Holger Klawitter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Re: bzDisk compression Q; boot debug Q

2001-06-14 Thread Holger Lubitz
might want to examine upx (http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html). The kernel image compression is still experimental, but already usable. kernels tend to get ~100 K smaller compared to the usual gzip compressed bzImage. Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

VLAN in kernel?

2001-06-19 Thread Holger Kiehl
Hello Some time ago Ben Greear has posted a patch to include VLAN support into the 2.4 kernel. I and many others are using this patch with great success and without any problems for a very long time. What is the reason that this patch is not included into the kernel? Thanks, Holger - To

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-29 Thread Holger Lubitz
nce a day at most. Mine usually run until the next kernel upgrade. But then again, I'm not a kernel hacker, so this is to be taken more as a users point of view. Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

What do these SCSI error messages mean?

2001-07-06 Thread Holger Kiehl
/sec, offset 31. (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 80.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 31. Could someone please tell me from these messages what is wrong with my SCSI-subsystem? Thanks, Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[linux-dvb] Re: 2.5.46: DVB don't work...

2002-11-06 Thread Holger Waechtler
;ll take a look if I get time, but you are looking for a pci module declaration which has a remove function that isnt marked __devexit_p() when the function it calls is I'll fix this in the linux-dvb CVS repository, it will be included in the next 2.5 patchset. Holger -- Info: To uns

[linux-dvb] Re: How to compil dvb CVS with 2.5.52?

2002-12-20 Thread Holger Waechtler
(dev->attach (i2c) == 0) { are you sure? MOD_CAN_QUERY() and __MOD_INC_USE_COUNT() are 2.4 macros, they are deprecated now. The compatibility fake is implemented in compat.h. Could you please check this again and tell me what exactly the problem is? Holger -- Info: To unsubscribe s

Fusion-MPT much faster as module

2005-03-08 Thread Holger Kiehl
. Controller is a Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI. Why is there such a large difference? Holger -- - 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

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-10 Thread Holger Lubitz
t we do here, too. The only exceptions: Our mail server (needs to deliver mail, even to broken sites) and our web proxy server (also needs to connect to broken sites sometimes). Everything else is ECN enabled. And this is the approach I'd suggest to anybody running 2.4 servers. Holger - To unsu

Re: [PATCH] Remove pointless casts from void pointers,

2007-10-26 Thread Holger Schurig
> drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_cs.c |2 +- ACK - 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/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.21

2007-02-10 Thread Holger Macht
e, now it always says laptop is plugged in and does not > show any battery status. Any /proc changes in this release? kpowersave just reflects what HAL thinks, and HAL reflects what the kernel thinks. So please post the content of /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state when AC is not plugged in to figure ou

Re: [patch 2/3] acpi: Add a docked sysfs file to the dock driver.

2006-12-09 Thread Holger Macht
he 'docked' file, which is obviously bad. Thanks, Holger - 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/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

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