Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-12 Thread Antonio Vargas
other when there was a pipe or udp connection between them. This meant that a marked-as-interactive xterm would, when blocked waiting for an Xserver response, transfer some of its interactiveness to the Xserver, and aparently it worked very good for desktop workloads so, maybe adapting it for th

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-12 Thread Antonio Vargas
blocked waiting for an Xserver response, transfer some of its interactiveness to the Xserver, and aparently it worked very good for desktop workloads so, maybe adapting it for this new scheduler would be good. -- Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network http://network.amigascne.org/ [EMAIL

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-09-01 Thread Antonio Vargas
On 9/1/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Iau, 2005-09-01 at 08:00 +0200, Antonio Vargas wrote: > > 2. whole screen z-buffer, for depth comparison between the pixels > > generated from each window. > > That one I question in part - if the rectangles are

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-09-01 Thread Antonio Vargas
Jb3BMWBwVTA3sk= > =k086 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > - > 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 a

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-09-01 Thread Antonio Vargas
://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network http://wind.codepixel.com/ Las cosas no son lo que parecen, excepto cuando parecen lo que si son. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-09-01 Thread Antonio Vargas
On 9/1/05, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Iau, 2005-09-01 at 08:00 +0200, Antonio Vargas wrote: 2. whole screen z-buffer, for depth comparison between the pixels generated from each window. That one I question in part - if the rectangles are (as is typically the case) large

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Virtualization patches, set 4

2005-08-24 Thread Antonio Vargas
h, have you had a look at the mac-on-linux virtualizer? It's coded for arch-ppc but most probably some of these generic concepts could get merged together... -- Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network http://wind.codepixel.com/ Las cosas no son lo que parecen, excepto cuando parecen lo

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Virtualization patches, set 4

2005-08-24 Thread Antonio Vargas
virtualizer? It's coded for arch-ppc but most probably some of these generic concepts could get merged together... -- Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network http://wind.codepixel.com/ Las cosas no son lo que parecen, excepto cuando parecen lo que si son. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-20 Thread Antonio Vargas
uch memory on i386. > > > Erik > On 32bit: you would have to use read() and write() or mmap() munmap() mremap() to perform your own paging, since you can't fit 15GB on a 4GB address space. On 64bit: you would simply mmap() the whole file and you are done. Most probably

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-20 Thread Antonio Vargas
; -- > +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- > | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands > - Bastian, Erik is dead-on on that one: go 64bit and forget all worries about your 15GB filesize. Just don't forget to look not only x86-64 (intel

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-20 Thread Antonio Vargas
- Bastian, Erik is dead-on on that one: go 64bit and forget all worries about your 15GB filesize. Just don't forget to look not only x86-64 (intel or amd) but also itanium, ppc64 and s390 machines, you never know about surprises! -- Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network http

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-20 Thread Antonio Vargas
and you are done. Most probably the cost of programming and debugging the hand-made paging on 32bit machines will cost more than the difference for a 64bit machine. -- Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network http://wind.codepixel.com/ Las cosas no son lo que parecen, excepto cuando parecen lo

Re: prefetch on ppc64

2005-03-29 Thread Antonio Vargas
le__ ("dcbtst 0,%0" : : "r" (x)); > } > > It seems that doing a prefetch on a NULL pointer, while it doesn't > cause a fault, does waste time looking for a translation of the zero > address. > > Paul. Don't know exactly about power5, but G5 processor is des

Re: prefetch on ppc64

2005-03-29 Thread Antonio Vargas
looking for a translation of the zero address. Paul. Don't know exactly about power5, but G5 processor is described on IBM docs as doing automatic whole-page prefetch read-ahead when detecting linear accesses. -- Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network http://wind.codepixel.com/ Las