Re: ZFS arc_reclaim_needed: better cooperation with pagedaemon

2010-08-23 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 23/08/2010 02:52 Artem Belevich said the following: Do you by any chance have a graph showing kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size behavior in addition to the stuff included on your graphs now? Yes, I do and not by a chance :-) All I can tell from your graphs is that v_free_count+v_cache_count

Re: ZFS arc_reclaim_needed: better cooperation with pagedaemon

2010-08-23 Thread Artem Belevich
Ah! After re-reading your first email and I think I've finally got what you're saying -- with your change ARC would only start giving up memory when pagedaemon is awake. Presumably once it's awake it will also run through inactive list pushing some of it to cache. On the other hand existing code

Re: ZFS arc_reclaim_needed: better cooperation with pagedaemon

2010-08-23 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 23/08/2010 10:28 Artem Belevich said the following: If we could also deal with zone fragmentation issue you've written in another thread, that should bring ZFS even closer to being usable without shaman-style (the one with lots of muttering, swearing and dancing around) tuning. Actually,

Re: Winbond Watchdog

2010-08-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au writes: They're LPC ISA devices, I don't know if they appear in any PNP or ACPI tables though. Same issue with ichwd: ISTR there is actually supposed to be an entry for it in an ACPI table, but on the motherboard I had when I tested it before I committed

Re: A simple and hopefully usable FreeBSD live CD

2010-08-23 Thread Ed Schouten
* Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net wrote: could you please upload the resulting ISO so that people who don't want to create it themselves can test your CD? Prrr... I have a horrible internet connection and the resulting ISO is about 600 MB big. I'll see what I can do. -- Ed Schouten

Re: Winbond Watchdog

2010-08-23 Thread perryh
Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: On 23/08/2010, at 1:24, Xin LI wrote: 2010/8/7 Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav d...@des.no: Xin LI delp...@delphij.net writes: I'm still polishing up the driver, there seems to be no way to figure out the base port address directly (datasheet said it's

Re: A simple and hopefully usable FreeBSD live CD

2010-08-23 Thread Lars Engels
Quoting Ed Schouten e...@80386.nl: Hello all, A couple of major releases ago, we had a FreeBSD disc1.iso which also included the livefs. Nowadays the livefs comes on a separate disc. This livefs disc has a couple of issues in my opinion: - The livefs disc does not feature any installsets,

A simple and hopefully usable FreeBSD live CD -- now with images

2010-08-23 Thread Ed Schouten
Hi all, Per Lars's request I've uploaded an ISO of the FreeBSD live CD for amd64: URL:http://people.freebsd.org/~ed/FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201008-amd64-ed.iso.xz Size: 422452056 bytes (403 MB) SHA256: e0b7ac8eac713ecd5ccdbf107c80563260e6000b27838b003ca11a42ae6ae700 Have fun! -- Ed

Re: Question about printcpuinfo in sys/amd64/amd64/indentcpu.c

2010-08-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, August 20, 2010 10:14:46 am Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, Currently the code in identcpu.c does a check for a specific cpu value extension. This is set to 0x8004 (even though the corresponding code below iterates through 0x8002:0x8005): It does not invoke 0x8005 (,

Re: kld modules remain loaded if MOD_LOAD handler returns an error

2010-08-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, August 20, 2010 1:13:53 pm Ryan Stone wrote: Consider the following modules: /* first.c */ static int *test; int test_function(void) { return *test; } static int first_modevent(struct module *m, int what, void *arg) { int err = 0; switch (what) {

Re: intel i5 - core? or core2?

2010-08-23 Thread Domagoj S.
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Anonymous swel...@gmail.com wrote: Domagoj S. rank1see...@gmail.com writes: 8.1 RELEASE  32bit # gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD] As per:  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html core2 is supported It's not! `core' and `core2' for

Re: kld modules remain loaded if MOD_LOAD handler returns an error

2010-08-23 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 23/08/2010 15:10 John Baldwin said the following: On Friday, August 20, 2010 1:13:53 pm Ryan Stone wrote: Consider the following modules: /* first.c */ static int *test; int test_function(void) { return *test; } static int first_modevent(struct module *m, int what, void *arg)

Re: kld modules remain loaded if MOD_LOAD handler returns an error

2010-08-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, August 23, 2010 11:04:20 am Andriy Gapon wrote: on 23/08/2010 15:10 John Baldwin said the following: On Friday, August 20, 2010 1:13:53 pm Ryan Stone wrote: Consider the following modules: /* first.c */ static int *test; int test_function(void) { return *test;

Re: Question about printcpuinfo in sys/amd64/amd64/indentcpu.c

2010-08-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:07 AM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: On Friday, August 20, 2010 10:14:46 am Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi,     Currently the code in identcpu.c does a check for a specific cpu value extension. This is set to 0x8004 (even though the corresponding code below

Re: kld modules remain loaded if MOD_LOAD handler returns an error

2010-08-23 Thread Attilio Rao
2010/8/23 Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua: on 23/08/2010 15:10 John Baldwin said the following: On Friday, August 20, 2010 1:13:53 pm Ryan Stone wrote: Consider the following modules: /* first.c */ static int *test; int test_function(void) {     return *test; } static int

Re: PCI config space is not restored upon resume (macbook pro)

2010-08-23 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Thursday 19 August 2010 12:48 am, Oleg Sharoyko wrote: On 16 August 2010 22:21, Jung-uk Kim j...@freebsd.org wrote: In theory, we can shadow video ROM and execute it in emulation *iff* it actually contains x86 real mode code.  It won't be too hard but I am not sure whether it is worth

Re: ZFS arc_reclaim_needed: better cooperation with pagedaemon

2010-08-23 Thread jhell
On 08/23/2010 03:28, Artem Belevich wrote: Can anyone test the patch on a system with mix of UFS/ZFS filesystems and see if the change mitigates or solves the issue with inactive memory excessively backpressuring ARC. I have a system currently patched up to ZFSv15 and mm@'s metaslab patch

Re: ZFS arc_reclaim_needed: better cooperation with pagedaemon

2010-08-23 Thread jhell
On 08/23/2010 16:42, jhell wrote: On 08/23/2010 03:28, Artem Belevich wrote: Can anyone test the patch on a system with mix of UFS/ZFS filesystems and see if the change mitigates or solves the issue with inactive memory excessively backpressuring ARC. I have a system currently patched up to

Re: A simple and hopefully usable FreeBSD live CD

2010-08-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
From: Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com I have, for longer than I can count, create my own livecds because the media that's produced have a shortcoming for some reason or other. I automated my own build from sources (not .iso) of combined install + live CDROMs, a frighteningly long time ago: My top

Re: ZFS arc_reclaim_needed: better cooperation with pagedaemon

2010-08-23 Thread Artem Belevich
Could you try following experiments before and after the patch while monitoring kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size and vm.stats.vm.v_inactive_count. First prepare the data. * You'll need some files totalling around the amount of physical memory on your box. Multiple copies of /usr/src should do the

Re: ZFS arc_reclaim_needed: better cooperation with pagedaemon

2010-08-23 Thread jhell
On 08/23/2010 22:10, Artem Belevich wrote: First prepare the data. * You'll need some files totalling around the amount of physical memory on your box. Multiple copies of /usr/src should do the trick. * Place one copy on UFS filesystem and another on ZFS Experiment #1: * Prime ARC by

Re: Why doesn't ppc(4) check non-ENXIO failures during probe?

2010-08-23 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: 201008171615.21103@freebsd.org John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org writes: : So more or less it's for BIOSes with ISA that doesn't feature plug : and play (286s, 386s, some 486s?)? Just trying to fill in the gap :). : : Yes, it may perhaps still be useful for some x86

Re: Modules and Buses

2010-08-23 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: 20100819170643.38362078@dlink.ua Alexandr Rybalko r...@dlink.ua writes: : On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:18:46 -0400 : John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: : : On Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:38:05 am Alexandr Rybalko wrote: : Hi all, : : Can someone say, how `make` in