Re: slabtop replacement was Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)
On 23/12/2007, Karol Swietlicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/12/2007, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A manpage for slabinfo would be useful though. Anybody > > volunteering to write one? > > > > -Andi > > That would be me. > I'm a newbie and never wrote a man page before, so it will take a few > days, but I'm bored and out of ideas for any new code for the moment > being. Should be fun. > > Karol Swietlicki I'm dropping out from this one. I worked for a good while, and I really see no way of improving what the usage information (slabinfo -h) already provides. It's a good description, and I'm starting to think that adding a man page is overkill. If I am misunderstanding something and what is desired is in fact usage information in the man page format, I can provide such a page, no problem. At least now I know how to write man pages. Karol Swietlicki -- 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: slabtop replacement was Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)
On 23/12/2007, Karol Swietlicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22/12/2007, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A manpage for slabinfo would be useful though. Anybody volunteering to write one? -Andi That would be me. I'm a newbie and never wrote a man page before, so it will take a few days, but I'm bored and out of ideas for any new code for the moment being. Should be fun. Karol Swietlicki I'm dropping out from this one. I worked for a good while, and I really see no way of improving what the usage information (slabinfo -h) already provides. It's a good description, and I'm starting to think that adding a man page is overkill. If I am misunderstanding something and what is desired is in fact usage information in the man page format, I can provide such a page, no problem. At least now I know how to write man pages. Karol Swietlicki -- 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: slabtop replacement was Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)
On 22/12/2007, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A manpage for slabinfo would be useful though. Anybody > volunteering to write one? > > -Andi That would be me. I'm a newbie and never wrote a man page before, so it will take a few days, but I'm bored and out of ideas for any new code for the moment being. Should be fun. Karol Swietlicki -- 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: slabtop replacement was Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)
On 22/12/2007, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A manpage for slabinfo would be useful though. Anybody volunteering to write one? -Andi That would be me. I'm a newbie and never wrote a man page before, so it will take a few days, but I'm bored and out of ideas for any new code for the moment being. Should be fun. Karol Swietlicki -- 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: Kernel Development & Objective-C
On 30/11/2007, Ben Crowhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Loïc Grenié wrote: > > 2007/11/29, Ben Crowhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? > >> > > Lots of people will think of better reasons why ObjC is not used... > > > > Loïc Grenié > > > Which I'm looking forward to hear :) > > Thank you for your appropriate response. Here are a few reasons off the top of my head: 1. Adding extra unneeded complexity. Debugging would be harder. 2. Not many people can code ObjC when compared to the number of C coders. 3. If it ain't broken... Why fix it. The kernel works, right? Good. You can find a great explanation somewhere out there, I'm not sure who wrote it and the thing was explaining why C++ is not a great choice for the Linux kernel. Some things going against C++ will also go against ObjC. I cannot find it, but it is out there somewhere. I'm a newbie and I might be wrong, but the above is what I believe to be true. Karol Swietlicki - 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: Kernel Development Objective-C
On 30/11/2007, Ben Crowhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Loïc Grenié wrote: 2007/11/29, Ben Crowhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? snip Lots of people will think of better reasons why ObjC is not used... Loïc Grenié Which I'm looking forward to hear :) Thank you for your appropriate response. Here are a few reasons off the top of my head: 1. Adding extra unneeded complexity. Debugging would be harder. 2. Not many people can code ObjC when compared to the number of C coders. 3. If it ain't broken... Why fix it. The kernel works, right? Good. You can find a great explanation somewhere out there, I'm not sure who wrote it and the thing was explaining why C++ is not a great choice for the Linux kernel. Some things going against C++ will also go against ObjC. I cannot find it, but it is out there somewhere. I'm a newbie and I might be wrong, but the above is what I believe to be true. Karol Swietlicki - 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: [uml-devel] uml doesn't work on 2.6.24-rc2
On 23/11/2007, Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 07:08:47PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Thanks. My other problem is (probably you are aware) that recent -mm > > kernels don't compile for UML. > > The patch below fixes the build for rc3-mm1 for me. > > Jeff There must be something more to it. I got a clean -mm and it still does not build after applying the patch. It does have less problems, but it still won't build. I tried to get it to compile for half an hour, but considering the amount of sleep I got (and my experience), there is no surprise that I failed miserably. After fixing the complaint about a structure not having a 'x86' member, it died in the linker complaining about stuff relating to rwsem.h. Karol Swietlicki - 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: [uml-devel] uml doesn't work on 2.6.24-rc2
On 23/11/2007, Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 07:08:47PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: Thanks. My other problem is (probably you are aware) that recent -mm kernels don't compile for UML. The patch below fixes the build for rc3-mm1 for me. Jeff There must be something more to it. I got a clean -mm and it still does not build after applying the patch. It does have less problems, but it still won't build. I tried to get it to compile for half an hour, but considering the amount of sleep I got (and my experience), there is no surprise that I failed miserably. After fixing the complaint about a structure not having a 'x86' member, it died in the linker complaining about stuff relating to rwsem.h. Karol Swietlicki - 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/
