Re: HELP!!! -CURRENT libtool problem.

1999-07-13 Thread David O'Brien
You're correct in that better awareness is almost definitely the key. Would you consider posting the -stable and -current port build results You can find the realtime results from http://bento.freebsd.org/ -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Thread stack allocation (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc_r Makefile src/lib/libc_r/uthread pthread_private.h uthread_create.c uthread_gc.c uthread_init.c)

1999-07-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 10:53:49PM +0400, Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: I don't see how MAP_ANON is better than MAP_STACK. It consumes fewer resources. Each time you grow the stack, it adds another vm_map_entry to the vm_map and (eventually) allocates another vm_object. Using MAP_ANON, there is

Re: objtrm problem probably found (was Re: Stuck in objtrm)

1999-07-13 Thread Alan Cox
Before this thread on "cache coherence" and "memory consistency" goes any further, I'd like to suggest a time-out to read something like http://www-ece.rice.edu/~sarita/Publications/models_tutorial.ps. A lot of what I'm reading has a grain of truth but isn't quite right. This paper appeared as a

Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU?

1999-07-13 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote ... In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Bria I suggested about half a year ago that we should officially desupport non-FPU configurations in 4.0. Unfortunately, my resolution was soundly defeated. Why shouldn't we? Noone uses machines without FPUs anymore. What

Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU?

1999-07-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Wilko Bulte wrote in list.freebsd-current: As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote ... In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Bria I suggested about half a year ago that we should officially desupport non-FPU configurations in 4.0. Unfortunately, my resolution was soundly defeated. Why

Re: objtrm problem probably found (was Re: Stuck in objtrm)

1999-07-13 Thread Mike Smith
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 10:38:03PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: I said: than indirect function calls on some architectures: inline branched code. So you still have a global variable selecting locked/non-locked, but it's a boolean, rather than a pointer. Your atomic macros are then {

Re: LOCK overheads (was Re: objtrm problem probably found)

1999-07-13 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Matthew Dillon: Wow, now that *is* expensive! The K6 must be implementing it in microcode for it to be that bad. K6-200: 244 [21:57] roberto@keltia:src/C ./locktest 0 ... empty 26.84 ns/loop 1proc 22.62 ns/loop 2proc 22.64 ns/loop empty w/locks 17.58 ns/loop 1proc

Re: LOCK overheads (was Re: objtrm problem probably found)

1999-07-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :mode 1 17.99 ns/loop nproc=1 lcks=no :mode 3 166.33 ns/loop nproc=1 lcks=yes ... :This is a K6-2 350. Locks are pretty expensive on them. Wow, now that *is* expensive! The K6 must be implementing it in microcode for it to be that bad. I

Re: When will -CURRENT support PCMCIA modems again?

1999-07-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Lehey writes: : I've just updated my laptop from 3.2-RELEASE to 4.0-CURRENT, and I : find that PCMCIA modems (sio) are no longer supported. I'm playing : around with it to get it to work, but so far I've just managed to get : panics out of sioprobe. Before I

panic in -current (trap 12)

1999-07-13 Thread Jean-Marc Zucconi
This is with a current kernel - a kernel built 2 days ago runs ok. The system crashes at boot, just after the disk checks. I don't have a core dump, only the message printed on screen: fault code: supervisor read , page not present instruction pointer: 0xc0175396 from my kernel: c0175234 t