Re: What's the state of AF-4Kn support?

2013-09-23 Thread Jia-Shiun Li
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Ravi Pokala rp_free...@mac.com wrote: What you describe is the 'AF-512e' format - 4KB physical sectors *emulating* 512B logical sectors. See [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format#Advanced_Format_512e ; http://www.idema.org/?page_id=2153 ]. With

RE: What's the state of AF-4Kn support?

2013-09-23 Thread rozhuk . im
# install gpart create -s GPT ada1 gpart show gpart add -i 1 -t freebsd-boot -b 40 -s 512 ada1 gpart add -i 2 -t freebsd-ufs -b 552 -s . ada1 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada1 gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada1 # for data gpart create -s GPT ada1 gpart show gpart add -i 1 -t

VPS Project

2013-09-23 Thread Klaus P. Ohrhallinger
Hello; My virtualization project (http://www.7he.at/freebsd/vps/) has its project branch on svn.freebsd.org since a few months now. Since then there was not much progress due to lack of time. Now I am sitting on code updates that I can't commit myself. What is necessary to get commit right to

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-23 Thread Slawa Olhovchenkov
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:58:37PM +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: I've found the paper I was talking about: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/papers/20120601-dxr.pdf It claims that our radix is able to do 6MPPS/core and it does not scale with number of cores. Our radix is bugly and

9.1-RELEASE-p7 devfs_ruleset

2013-09-23 Thread havrik
# uname -r 9.1-RELEASE-p7 # mount -t devfs devfs /var/jail/test/dev/ # devfs -m /var/jail/test/dev/ rule showsets # devfs -m /var/jail/test/dev/ ruleset 4 # devfs -m /var/jail/test/dev/ rule applyset # devfs -m /var/jail/test/dev/ rule showsets 4 # ls /var/jail/test/dev/ acpi audit

Re: What's the state of AF-4Kn support?

2013-09-23 Thread Ravi Pokala
-Original Message- From: Jia-Shiun Li jiash...@gmail.com Date: Sunday, September 22, 2013 11:22 PM To: Ravi Pokala rp_free...@mac.com Cc: freebsd-hardw...@freebsd.org freebsd-hardw...@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the state of AF-4Kn support? On Wed, Sep 18,

Re: About Transparent Superpages and Non-transparent superapges

2013-09-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On Sep 20, 2013, at 19:09 , Cedric Blancher wrote: On 20 September 2013 17:20, Sebastian Kuzminsky s.kuzmin...@f5.com wrote: On Sep 19, 2013, at 22:06 , Patrick Dung wrote: We at Line Rate (now F5) are developing support for 1 Gig superpages on amd64. We're basing our work on 9.1.0 for

Re: What's the state of AF-4Kn support?

2013-09-23 Thread Ravi Pokala
-Original Message- From: rozhuk...@gmail.com Reply-To: rozhuk...@gmail.com Date: Monday, September 23, 2013 1:13 AM To: 'Jia-Shiun Li' jiash...@gmail.com, Ravi Pokala rp_free...@mac.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardw...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: What's the state of AF-4Kn

Re: What's the state of AF-4Kn support?

2013-09-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 23), Jia-Shiun Li said: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Ravi Pokala rp_free...@mac.com wrote: What I'm asking about is AF-4kn - 4KB *logical* as well as physical sectors. All the enterprise HDD vendors have told us is that AF-4Kn drives expect data IO to be 4KB,

Re: About Transparent Superpages and Non-transparent superapges

2013-09-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 20 September 2013 08:20, Sebastian Kuzminsky s.kuzmin...@f5.com wrote: It's transparent for the kernel: all of UMA and kmem_malloc()/kmem_free() is backed by 1 gig superpages. .. not entirely true, as I've found out at work. :( -adrian ___

Re: About Transparent Superpages and Non-transparent superapges

2013-09-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On Sep 23, 2013, at 15:24 , Adrian Chadd wrote: On 20 September 2013 08:20, Sebastian Kuzminsky s.kuzmin...@f5.com wrote: It's transparent for the kernel: all of UMA and kmem_malloc()/kmem_free() is backed by 1 gig superpages. .. not entirely true, as I've found out at work. :( Can you

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-23 Thread Sami Halabi
Hi, http://info.iet.unipi.it/~**luigi/papers/20120601-dxr.pdfhttp://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/papers/20120601-dxr.pdf http://www.nxlab.fer.hr/dxr/**stable_8_20120824.diffhttp://www.nxlab.fer.hr/dxr/stable_8_20120824.diff I've tried the diff in 10-current, applied cleanly but had errors compiling

Re: About Transparent Superpages and Non-transparent superapges

2013-09-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 23 September 2013 14:30, Sebastian Kuzminsky s.kuzmin...@f5.com wrote: On Sep 23, 2013, at 15:24 , Adrian Chadd wrote: On 20 September 2013 08:20, Sebastian Kuzminsky s.kuzmin...@f5.com wrote: It's transparent for the kernel: all of UMA and kmem_malloc()/kmem_free() is backed by 1