Re: Resetting a PCI device

2001-04-27 Thread Tim Wright
omo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ &q

Re: Resetting a PCI device

2001-04-27 Thread Tim Wright
- - 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/ -- Tim Wright

Re: Problem with i810_audio driver

2001-04-24 Thread Tim Wright
that a soft reboot from win2k leaves the cs42xx stuff screwed on my Thinkpad T20 so it wouldn't be surprising to hear of issues with other sound chips. I need to get around to dumping the registers in the good and bad case to determine what on earth it futzed with and undo it. Tim -- Tim Wri

Re: Problem with i810_audio driver

2001-04-24 Thread Tim Wright
reboot from win2k leaves the cs42xx stuff screwed on my Thinkpad T20 so it wouldn't be surprising to hear of issues with other sound chips. I need to get around to dumping the registers in the good and bad case to determine what on earth it futzed with and undo it. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-18 Thread Tim Wright
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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-18 Thread Tim Wright
ernel" 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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beavert

Re: [PATCH] i386 rw_semaphores fix

2001-04-10 Thread Tim Wright
> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http

Re: [PATCH] i386 rw_semaphores fix

2001-04-10 Thread Tim Wright
ead the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "

Re: uninteruptable sleep (D state => load_avrg++)

2001-04-04 Thread Tim Wright
wind up with a stuck process. Regards, Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "Rimmer

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-04 Thread Tim Wright
ou do not feel that this is the correct way to architect an application, but if the changes don't hurt you, why sabotage changes that also allow a different method to work. There isn't one true way to do anything in computing. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMA

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-04 Thread Tim Wright
itect an application, but if the changes don't hurt you, why sabotage changes that also allow a different method to work. There isn't one true way to do anything in computing. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested

Re: uninteruptable sleep (D state = load_avrg++)

2001-04-04 Thread Tim Wright
a "fast wait" state, and the process is nominally runnable. All a bit hand-wavy I know, but it worked well enough. The really important part of all this is that you should never sleep uninterruptibly for anything that you cannot absolutely guarantee will happen, otherwise you wind up with a stuck pro

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-04-03 Thread Tim Wright
ome form of labelling. Equally obviously, this does not solve the problem of e.g. fibre-channel connected tape drives. Regards, Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-04-03 Thread Tim Wright
this does not solve the problem of e.g. fibre-channel connected tape drives. Regards, Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nob

Re: unistd.h and 'extern's and 'syscall' "standard(?)"

2001-04-01 Thread Tim Wright
be 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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: unistd.h and 'extern's and 'syscall' standard(?)

2001-04-01 Thread Tim Wright
ernel" 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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Tim Wright
; > -Justin Except when the "sticky" bit is set. This is useful for shared temporary directories. Files can be created by anyone, but they can only be unlinked by the owner or by the superuser. Take a look at the permissions of /var/tmp. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [E

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Tim Wright
Except when the "sticky" bit is set. This is useful for shared temporary directories. Files can be created by anyone, but they can only be unlinked by the owner or by the superuser. Take a look at the permissions of /var/tmp. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IDE and APM (standby) incompatibility on thinkpad T21?

2001-03-28 Thread Tim Wright
C any responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > DS > > - > 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 ht

Re: Oops from gpm.c

2001-03-28 Thread Tim Wright
t; > If anyone can tell me where the default slackware puts oops info, I'll gladly put it >here. > It's not a kernel oops. The author of gpm decided to use the term 'oops' in their userland code. Personally, I think that's unwise. You don't have a kernel problem. Tim -- Tim Wri

Re: Oops from gpm.c

2001-03-28 Thread Tim Wright
oops info, I'll gladly put it here. It's not a kernel oops. The author of gpm decided to use the term 'oops' in their userland code. Personally, I think that's unwise. You don't have a kernel problem. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux

Re: IDE and APM (standby) incompatibility on thinkpad T21?

2001-03-28 Thread Tim Wright
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalab

Re: [PATCH] gcc-3.0 warnings

2001-03-26 Thread Tim Wright
riable to indicate that you grabbed the lock, but I'd argue that this obfuscates the code as well as making it less efficient. It's no good looking to see if the lock has been grabbed - if you failed at the first stage, it may still be locked by a different CPU. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or

Re: [PATCH] gcc-3.0 warnings

2001-03-26 Thread Tim Wright
that this obfuscates the code as well as making it less efficient. It's no good looking to see if the lock has been grabbed - if you failed at the first stage, it may still be locked by a different CPU. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technolo

PATCH: fix comments in

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
of a common timeout function for several + * timeouts. You can use this field to distinguish between the different + * invocations. */ struct timer_list { struct list_head list; -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Cente

Re: your mail

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
cribe 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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
possible for V6 to kill processes when you run out > of swap > It was actually worse than that. Grab your copy of "Lions", and check lines 4375-4377 in function xswap(). A failure to allocate space in the swapmap caused a panic. Same problem in xalloc(). Tim -- Tim Wright

Re: use the kernel to change an irq?

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
ivers. But note I'm *not* asking for help with that directly. > I'm merely asking if there's a way to avoid sharing the interrupt... > > Thanks Muchly, > -Jacob > -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beavert

Re: [PATCH] gcc-3.0 warnings

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
easier to follow and less likely to get broken than the alternative of embedding all the unwind code at each error point. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
st: 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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAI

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said

Re: [PATCH] gcc-3.0 warnings

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
edding all the unwind code at each error point. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
when you run out of swap It was actually worse than that. Grab your copy of "Lions", and check lines 4375-4377 in function xswap(). A failure to allocate space in the swapmap caused a panic. Same problem in xalloc(). Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: use the kernel to change an irq?

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
. I'm merely asking if there's a way to avoid sharing the interrupt... Thanks Muchly, -Jacob -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net

Re: your mail

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said

PATCH: fix comments in linux/timer.h

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
data" field enables use of a common timeout function for several + * timeouts. You can use this field to distinguish between the different + * invocations. */ struct timer_list { struct list_head list; -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Li

Re: Incorrect mdelay() results on Power Managed Machines x86

2001-03-22 Thread Tim Wright
his > > behaviour? > > Errmm no.. > > - > 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://ww

Re: Incorrect mdelay() results on Power Managed Machines x86

2001-03-22 Thread Tim Wright
nsubscribe 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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: esound (esd), 2.4.[12] chopped up sound -- solved

2001-03-20 Thread Tim Wright
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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [E

Re: esound (esd), 2.4.[12] chopped up sound -- solved

2001-03-20 Thread Tim Wright
tp://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody

Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

2001-03-14 Thread Tim Wright
nel of course...) > Well, if it sounds useful, I can look into putting up the design documentation (yes, shock, horror, there is some :-). It's pretty thorough and covers most of the issues involved, and hence might be a good talking point, even if we chose to implement quite differently. Tim --

Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

2001-03-14 Thread Tim Wright
nt naming for devices, and, at least in the case of the SCSI (or FC) drives, the name doesn't change, even if you pull a drive from one bus and plug it into a different bus entirely. As I say, this would be massive overkill for Linux, but it's a rather thorough solution :-) Tim -- Tim Wright - [E

Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

2001-03-14 Thread Tim Wright
C) drives, the name doesn't change, even if you pull a drive from one bus and plug it into a different bus entirely. As I say, this would be massive overkill for Linux, but it's a rather thorough solution :-) Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Li

Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

2001-03-14 Thread Tim Wright
look into putting up the design documentation (yes, shock, horror, there is some :-). It's pretty thorough and covers most of the issues involved, and hence might be a good talking point, even if we chose to implement quite differently. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [

Re: 2.4.x: Netfinity 4500 SMP freezes without any trace

2001-03-13 Thread Tim Wright
Sorry for quoting the whole message. Obviously I need some fresh air :-) Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever s

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

2001-03-13 Thread Tim Wright
or the hardware, then they won't jump around. But, yes, if you change the hardware, or someone changes the probe order in the kernel, you can suffer from device name slippage. This is a minor problem on a small home system, and a massive PITA on a large server. You can at least mandate the probe orde

Re: 2.4.x: Netfinity 4500 SMP freezes without any trace

2001-03-13 Thread Tim Wright
CONFIG_RTC is not set > # CONFIG_DTLK is not set > # CONFIG_R3964 is not set > # CONFIG_APPLICOM is not set > > # > # Ftape, the floppy tape device driver > # > # CONFIG_FTAPE is not set > # CONFIG_AGP is not set > # CONFIG_DRM is not set > > # > # Multimed

Re: 2.4.x: Netfinity 4500 SMP freezes without any trace

2001-03-13 Thread Tim Wright
read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "Rimmer, you're a

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

2001-03-13 Thread Tim Wright
changes the probe order in the kernel, you can suffer from device name slippage. This is a minor problem on a small home system, and a massive PITA on a large server. You can at least mandate the probe order on a 2.4 system (see the scsihosts parameter). Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.4.x: Netfinity 4500 SMP freezes without any trace

2001-03-13 Thread Tim Wright
Sorry for quoting the whole message. Obviously I need some fresh air :-) Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever s

Re: kernel lock contention and scalability

2001-03-07 Thread Tim Wright
pinlock. This would reduce the chance that it would be preempted by a thread > that will waste a timeslice spinning on that lock. I don't know whether this > is a good idea either. > That's basically a weaker version of the no-preempt. Not a bad idea, but less than optimal :-) Regards, Tim

Re: Interesting fs corruption story

2001-03-07 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:10:10PM -0500, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > On 06 Mar 2001 17:01:02 -0800, Tim Wright wrote: [...] > > The fix for me was to rebuild the kernel and make sure CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS > > was enabled. So, do you ever use power management and is this similar, or

Re: Interesting fs corruption story

2001-03-07 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:10:10PM -0500, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: On 06 Mar 2001 17:01:02 -0800, Tim Wright wrote: [...] The fix for me was to rebuild the kernel and make sure CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS was enabled. So, do you ever use power management and is this similar, or do you have

Re: kernel lock contention and scalability

2001-03-07 Thread Tim Wright
ea either. That's basically a weaker version of the no-preempt. Not a bad idea, but less than optimal :-) Regards, Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.source

Re: Interesting fs corruption story

2001-03-06 Thread Tim Wright
' but then things would appear to carry on. The fix for me was to rebuild the kernel and make sure CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS was enabled. So, do you ever use power management and is this similar, or do you have a completely different problem ? Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL

Re: kernel lock contention and scalability

2001-03-06 Thread Tim Wright
nization method popular with database peeps is "post/wait" for which SGI have a patch available for Linux. I understand that this is relatively "light weight" and might be a better choice for PG. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linu

Re: kernel lock contention and scalability

2001-03-06 Thread Tim Wright
patch available for Linux. I understand that this is relatively "light weight" and might be a better choice for PG. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforg

Re: Interesting fs corruption story

2001-03-06 Thread Tim Wright
' but then things would appear to carry on. The fix for me was to rebuild the kernel and make sure CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS was enabled. So, do you ever use power management and is this similar, or do you have a completely different problem ? Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.2-acX does not recognize any bus on Intel Serverworks based motherboard

2001-03-02 Thread Tim Wright
> DBG("PCI: Peer bridge fixup\n"); > for (n=0; n <= pcibios_last_bus; n++) { > - > 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/m

Re: Another rsync over ssh hang (repeatable, with 2.4.1 on both ends)

2001-03-02 Thread Tim Wright
get stuck. Given that you are running 2.2.15, you'd need a tcpdump to determine whether you hit one of these or not. I've been bitten too many times assuming something was one big problem only to find out later it was actually several smaller ones. Regards, Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAI

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-03-02 Thread Tim Wright
nt it to - no surprises. The point about arbitrary limits, is, however well taken. The fact that the space for exec args and environment historically was static and of a fixed size is not a good reason to perpetuate the limitation. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROT

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-03-02 Thread Tim Wright
arbitrary limits, is, however well taken. The fact that the space for exec args and environment historically was static and of a fixed size is not a good reason to perpetuate the limitation. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center,

Re: Another rsync over ssh hang (repeatable, with 2.4.1 on both ends)

2001-03-02 Thread Tim Wright
n too many times assuming something was one big problem only to find out later it was actually several smaller ones. Regards, Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Lo

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.2-acX does not recognize any bus on Intel Serverworks based motherboard

2001-03-02 Thread Tim Wright
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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread Tim Wright
version of gcc is released. > No. Provided you grab the update, you can build the 2.4 kernel perfectly happily using the RedHat gcc snapshot. I'm running it successfully on a number of machines. The issue with 2.4 on certain Netfinities is a bad interaction between the NMI watchdog code an

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread Tim Wright
nel.). > > It's too early to say for sure but that seems to have fixed it. Uptime now > nearly an hour under loads of 20-30 which is way more than it has been > able to stay up before. I'll let you know whether its still up tomorrow. > > Million thanks for the tip! > &

Re: Will Mosix go into the standard kernel?

2001-03-01 Thread Tim Wright
on "Linus' latest" implies you're not using Linux in production or that you're very brave :-) Regards, Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.ne

Re: Will Mosix go into the standard kernel?

2001-03-01 Thread Tim Wright
at you're very brave :-) Regards, Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "Rimmer, you're a

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread Tim Wright
fore. I'll let you know whether its still up tomorrow. Million thanks for the tip! - Panu - -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.ne

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread Tim Wright
the RedHat gcc snapshot. I'm running it successfully on a number of machines. The issue with 2.4 on certain Netfinities is a bad interaction between the NMI watchdog code and the systems management card. Changing compilers makes no difference. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL

Wrong data [was Re: Incorrect module init message..]

2001-02-22 Thread Tim Wright
OTECTED]> > >To: Mike A. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: Linux Kernel mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Subject: Re: Incorrect module init message.. > > [...] > > Umm... WTF? I just received t

Wrong data [was Re: Incorrect module init message..]

2001-02-22 Thread Tim Wright
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux Kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Incorrect module init message.. [...] Umm... WTF? I just received this message again from Jan 1.. Something is awry with lkml... -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linux OS boilerplate

2001-02-21 Thread Tim Wright
tially failing to setup on this chipset ? Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "Rimm

Re: had: lost interrupt...

2001-02-21 Thread Tim Wright
bad blocks ;-(). > > My IDE setup in .config is below. > > > Cheers, Fons. > [IDE config elided] -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sou

Re: had: lost interrupt...

2001-02-21 Thread Tim Wright
eers, Fons. [IDE config elided] -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "Rimmer, y

Re: Linux OS boilerplate

2001-02-21 Thread Tim Wright
failing to setup on this chipset ? Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "Rimmer, you're a

Re: finding Tekram SCSI dc395U linux patch driver:

2001-02-19 Thread Tim Wright
> Juergen Schoew > - > 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/ -- Tim Wr

Re: finding Tekram SCSI dc395U linux patch driver:

2001-02-19 Thread Tim Wright
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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux

Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kernel tree?

2001-02-13 Thread Tim Wright
rnel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was

Re: PCI bridge handling 2.4.0-test10 -> 2.4.2-pre3

2001-02-13 Thread Tim Wright
e kernel and thus removing the fixup routines (Anyone know the reason > why they're there?). > > Comments?! > > > Adam > -- > Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lackorzynski http://a.home.dhs.org -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: PCI bridge handling 2.4.0-test10 - 2.4.2-pre3

2001-02-13 Thread Tim Wright
me.dhs.org -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "Rimmer, you're a git!"" RD VI -

Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kernel tree?

2001-02-13 Thread Tim Wright
lease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "

Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600

2001-02-12 Thread Tim Wright
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://vger.kernel.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon

Re: TRM-S1040/DC395 Driver?

2001-02-12 Thread Tim Wright
appears to be down. > > Will these be included in the 2.4.x kernel tree? > > Thanks. > > -- > - Nick > - > 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://ww

Re: TRM-S1040/DC395 Driver?

2001-02-12 Thread Tim Wright
. Will these be included in the 2.4.x kernel tree? Thanks. -- - Nick - 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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL

Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600

2001-02-12 Thread Tim Wright
PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Lo

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Tim Wright
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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaver

Re: Enabling ACPI and APM at same time?

2001-02-07 Thread Tim Wright
nd I don't care." > Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > 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: hotplugging with regular PCI cards

2001-02-07 Thread Tim Wright
ica > fax +1 408 261-6631 "Free Software For The Rest Of Us." > - > 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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL

Re: hotplugging with regular PCI cards

2001-02-07 Thread Tim Wright
Of Us." - 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/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Cente

Re: Enabling ACPI and APM at same time?

2001-02-07 Thread Tim Wright
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Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Tim Wright
read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "

Re: Mainboard with Serverworks HE Chipset

2001-01-22 Thread Tim Wright
itors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer > wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, > cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a

Re: Mainboard with Serverworks HE Chipset

2001-01-22 Thread Tim Wright
wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. - 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/

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Tim Wright
er number of threads. I'm also open to suggestions for > > > what benchmarks/test methods I could use for scheduler testing. If > > > you remember what people have used in the past, please let me know. > > > > > > -- > > > Mike Kravetz

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Tim Wright
a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ___ Lse-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lse-tech -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL

Re: Mainboard with Serverworks HE Chipset

2001-01-18 Thread Tim Wright
_watchdog=0' and see what happens. What you describe sounds like the problem I have seen on a few boxes, and disabling the NMI watchdog makes the huge numbers of NMIs and the system hang go away. Still unclear why this is happening. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMA

Re: Mainboard with Serverworks HE Chipset

2001-01-18 Thread Tim Wright
nd disabling the NMI watchdog makes the huge numbers of NMIs and the system hang go away. Still unclear why this is happening. Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.

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

2001-01-15 Thread Tim Wright
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 12:01:04PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > Tim Wright wrote: [...] > > p_lock(lock); > > retry: > > ... > > if (condition where we need to sleep) { > > p_sema_v_lock(sema, lock); > > /* we got woken up */ &

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

2001-01-15 Thread Tim Wright
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 12:01:04PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: Tim Wright wrote: [...] p_lock(lock); retry: ... if (condition where we need to sleep) { p_sema_v_lock(sema, lock); /* we got woken up */ p_lock(lock); goto retry; } ... That's an interesting

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