Re: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-10 Thread yodaiken
ogramming it. We latch + * counters 0 and 2 atomically before and after reprogramming to figure it out. + */ -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH for 2.5] preemptible kernel

2001-04-10 Thread yodaiken
w's this going to work for Linux? -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: POSIX 52 53? 54

2001-04-12 Thread yodaiken
ECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- ----- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - T

Re: POSIX 52 53? 54

2001-04-13 Thread yodaiken
gt; > > > > Where can they be found? What do they imply for the kernel? > > > > > > George > > > - > > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: rw_semaphores

2001-04-16 Thread yodaiken
domo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- ----- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: rw_semaphores

2001-04-16 Thread yodaiken
Linux has decided that > "this is not something a reasonable program can do, and if you try to do > it, we'll give you random results back - but they will not be _security_ > holes". We don't need to be _nice_ to unreasonable requests. We just must > never panic,

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-13 Thread yodaiken
y(NULL); > + end_measure(); > + } > + print_buf("empty smp_call_function()"); > + clean_buf(); > + > + set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); > + schedule_timeout(200); > +

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-20 Thread yodaiken
ood next step is to redesign some of those > parts of the VM and buffercache. I don't think this will > be too hard, but they have to *want* to change :) > > Some of those algorithms are approximately O(N^2), for huge > values of N. > > > - > - > To unsubscribe from

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-20 Thread yodaiken
are of such methods or because they were stupid. And when Rob Pike redesigned a new "unix" Plan9 note there is no-preemptive kernel, and the core Linux designers have rejected preemptive kernels too. Now it is certainly possible that things have change and/or all these folks are just p

Re: Multithreaded locks.c

2000-11-04 Thread yodaiken
"); return -EKNUCKLEHEAD; -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - 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: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than

2000-08-29 Thread yodaiken
with the "good enough" for security? On processor A a SIG_STOP is issued to a thread-group while on processor B a thread element has just entered write. How many bytes written is "good enough". I've really exceeded my quota for this news group and will respond privately i

Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2

2000-09-15 Thread yodaiken
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:30:32PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Sure the global system is slower. But the "interactive feel" is faster. Let's pop up little buttons to make it "feel" faster. -- - Victor Yo

Re: the new VM

2000-09-27 Thread yodaiken
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Re: the new VMt

2000-09-25 Thread yodaiken
o we need to go looking for another way of > achieving the same protection? On general principles, I don't see any substitute for clean code in the kernel and my prediction is that if you show me an example of DoS vulnerability, I can show you fix that does not require bean counting. Am I w

Re: the new VMt

2000-09-25 Thread yodaiken
DoS attacks from local users.) I like ENOMEM anyways. > > The same accounting really needs to be done for page tables, as that > represents one of the biggest sources of unaccounted, unswappable > pages which user processes can cause to be created right now. -- -

Re: the new VMt

2000-09-26 Thread yodaiken
kernel code can take the responsible action. -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Re: the new VMt

2000-09-26 Thread yodaiken
n get_per_process_file_use_page(myprocess) Then we could have a config-optional per-process pinned page accounting with the possibility of doing something sensible in a user-space daemon when memory is low. > > --Stephen -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - 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: the new VMt

2000-09-26 Thread yodaiken
management of space. In a truly embedded system, there can easily be a user level root process that watches memory usage and prevents DOS attacks -- if the OS provides settable enforced quotas etc. -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State

Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2

2000-09-16 Thread yodaiken
;feel". Of course, we could actually use benchmarks instead. And, to me, if kernel compiles take longer, I don't care how fast it "feels". > > -- Jamie -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Compan

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-18 Thread yodaiken
; About the only thing I ever want a debugger for is a stacktrace back. If > you give me that, I usually don't need anything else; and in general, you There are debuggers that do other stuff too? I gotta read the adb manual some day. -- ---

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-05 Thread yodaiken
ods. -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - 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: Preallocated skb's?

2000-09-14 Thread yodaiken
load, your latency is already screwed anyways because of large > backlog queue; this is regardless of mitigation. Or maybe the extra delay in congested circumstances will cause more timeouts and that's precisely when you need to improve latency? -- ---

Re: the new VM

2000-09-25 Thread yodaiken
if(kmalloc_all(alloc_vec) == FAIL) return -ENOMEM; else alloc_vec[i].ptr is the pointer. -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: the new VMt

2000-09-25 Thread yodaiken
tmp->next = NULL; walk->next = tmp; walk = tmp; nfds -=__MAX_POLL_TABLE_ENTRIES; } > > --Stephen > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: thread group comments

2000-09-04 Thread yodaiken
nager in 2.4 ? What is the problem with the often proposed CLONE_PARENT solution? -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: the new VMt

2000-09-25 Thread yodaiken
l of them on failure is simple, fast, and robust. -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - 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: the new VMt

2000-09-25 Thread yodaiken
for the case when there is no memory shortage and that only starts going to the slow case when the system is stalling due to memory shortages anyways. > > -- Jamie -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - 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: the new VMt

2000-09-25 Thread yodaiken
dress space quotas and mmap should kill > > the process on low mem for page tables. > > Those quotas being exactly what beancounter is But that is a function specific counter, not a counter in the alloc code. -- ----- Victor Yodai

Re: the new VMt

2000-09-25 Thread yodaiken
d reason). The > counting of page table "beans" is critical. I've seen the assertion before, reasons would be interesting. -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - To u

Re: the new VMt

2000-09-25 Thread yodaiken
be 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/ -- ----- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company.

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-08 Thread yodaiken
uot;unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - 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: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-08 Thread yodaiken
er somewhere so that we could have fast computation of cpu-id on smp machines. > > -Mitch -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - 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: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-08 Thread yodaiken
got about that. (Self-flagellate). However that is > architecture specific. If it's not an SMP Vax port, no big deal. If it The entire concept of an SMP vax port leaves me disoriented. -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machin

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-10 Thread yodaiken
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ker

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI

2000-10-11 Thread yodaiken
do _use_ the operating system to run important applications and an "application goes down or screws up" can be quite serious. -- ----- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com ww

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI

2000-10-12 Thread yodaiken
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Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-28 Thread yodaiken
Nice marketing line, but it is not working code. -- - Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - 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: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains

2001-02-01 Thread yodaiken
resolute no to SMP > support in Linux ;) And perhaps he was right! -- ----- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the