Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

2007-03-12 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 3/13/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:05:23PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:46, David Miller wrote: > > From: Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:58:11 +1100 > > > > >

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

2007-03-12 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 3/13/07, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:05:23PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:46, David Miller wrote: From: Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:58:11 +1100

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1

2005-07-31 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
> >Why was the KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro removed from > >include/linux/version.h? The removal breaks external drivers like > >NDISWRAPPER or nVidia propietary. > > > Hello Felipe, > > I could not regonize a breakage of NVidia (Version 1.0-7667) propietary > drivers. > They work just perfect.

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1

2005-07-31 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc4/2.6.13-rc4-mm1/ Why was the KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro removed from include/linux/version.h? The removal breaks external drivers like NDISWRAPPER or nVidia propietary. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1

2005-07-31 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc4/2.6.13-rc4-mm1/ Why was the KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro removed from include/linux/version.h? The removal breaks external drivers like NDISWRAPPER or nVidia propietary. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1

2005-07-31 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
Why was the KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro removed from include/linux/version.h? The removal breaks external drivers like NDISWRAPPER or nVidia propietary. Hello Felipe, I could not regonize a breakage of NVidia (Version 1.0-7667) propietary drivers. They work just perfect. Indeed they do

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-13 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
> What's your device-mapper/lvm configuration and what 'lvm' command > did you run to trigger this? Nothing special... it happens while booting Fedora Core 4. > 'dmsetup info -c' > 'dmsetup table' > 'lvs --segments -o+devices -a' # cat /etc/fstab /dev/VolGroup00/Root/

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-13 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
What's your device-mapper/lvm configuration and what 'lvm' command did you run to trigger this? Nothing special... it happens while booting Fedora Core 4. 'dmsetup info -c' 'dmsetup table' 'lvs --segments -o+devices -a' # cat /etc/fstab /dev/VolGroup00/Root/

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-12 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
> Changes since 2.6.13-rc2-mm1: I'm seeing this oops with 2.6.13-rc2-mm2: *pde Oops: [#1] last sysfs file: Modules linked in: dm_snapshot dm_mirror ext3 mbcache jbd dm_mod CPU:0 EIP:0060:[]Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.13-rc2mm2) EIP is at

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-12 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
Changes since 2.6.13-rc2-mm1: I'm seeing this oops with 2.6.13-rc2-mm2: *pde Oops: [#1] last sysfs file: Modules linked in: dm_snapshot dm_mirror ext3 mbcache jbd dm_mod CPU:0 EIP:0060:[e081e681]Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.13-rc2mm2) EIP is at

Re: Multi-core, Vanderpool support?

2005-04-19 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 4/15/05, Linda Luu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone happen to know how the upcoming multi-core CPU will be handled > by the kernel? Does it see each core as a physical or logical CPU or ? Can't answer this, but I guess each core will be seen as a physical CPU as they are

Re: Multi-core, Vanderpool support?

2005-04-19 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 4/15/05, Linda Luu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Does anyone happen to know how the upcoming multi-core CPU will be handled by the kernel? Does it see each core as a physical or logical CPU or ? Can't answer this, but I guess each core will be seen as a physical CPU as they are real

Re: crypting filesystems

2005-04-05 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Apr 4, 2005 9:51 PM, Wiktor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using the following method and it seems to be working fine > (involving crypto-loop): > > i have normal ext3 /boot partition, where i store kernel image & initrd. > after lilo boots the kernel, initrd sets up /dev/loop0 to

Re: crypting filesystems

2005-04-05 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Apr 4, 2005 9:51 PM, Wiktor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using the following method and it seems to be working fine (involving crypto-loop): i have normal ext3 /boot partition, where i store kernel image initrd. after lilo boots the kernel, initrd sets up /dev/loop0 to be

Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-03-30 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:28:20 +0200, Matthieu Castet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The memory limits aren't good enough either: if you set them low > > enough that memory-forkbombs are unperilous for > > RLIMIT_NPROC*RLIMIT_DATA, it's probably too low for serious > > applications. > > yes, if you

Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-03-30 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:28:20 +0200, Matthieu Castet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The memory limits aren't good enough either: if you set them low enough that memory-forkbombs are unperilous for RLIMIT_NPROC*RLIMIT_DATA, it's probably too low for serious applications. yes, if you want to run

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-12 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:32:39 -0500, John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CPL=3 scares me; context switches are expensive. can they have direct > hardware access? I'm sure a security model to isolate user mode drivers > could be in place. . . > > . . . huh. Xen seems to run Linux at

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-12 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:32:39 -0500, John Richard Moser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CPL=3 scares me; context switches are expensive. can they have direct hardware access? I'm sure a security model to isolate user mode drivers could be in place. . . . . . huh. Xen seems to run Linux at CPL=3

Re: [patch] nicksched for 2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:02:43 +1100, Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes it is. I have a hack in there that automatically renices any > binary starting with 'XF' to -10 for people who forget. So this > includes XFree86, though maybe it doesn't get the x.org server? X.org's X server binary

Re: [patch] nicksched for 2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:02:43 +1100, Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it is. I have a hack in there that automatically renices any binary starting with 'XF' to -10 for people who forget. So this includes XFree86, though maybe it doesn't get the x.org server? X.org's X server binary is

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-24 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:25:39 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Could someone try this? > > Let's turn that into a real patch. > > --- 25/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c~ide_init_disk-fixWed Feb 23 16:24:44 > 2005 > +++

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device 301)

2005-02-24 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:25:39 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone try this? Let's turn that into a real patch. --- 25/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c~ide_init_disk-fixWed Feb 23 16:24:44 2005 +++

Re: kernel panic on a 2.6.7

2005-01-30 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 31 Jan 2005, at 02:51, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a RedHat 9.0 box with a self compiled 2.6.7 kernel. Today I had this error and a total lockup on the box. Before that (~6h before I had another lockup, but no output to anywhere). Have

Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer

2005-01-27 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 27 Jan 2005, at 19:04, John Richard Moser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What the hell? So instead of bringing something in that works, you bring something in that does significantly less, and gives no savings on overhead or patch complexity why? So you can later come out

Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer

2005-01-27 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 27 Jan 2005, at 19:04, John Richard Moser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What the hell? So instead of bringing something in that works, you bring something in that does significantly less, and gives no savings on overhead or patch complexity why? So you can later come out

Re: porting Linux to a virtual machine

2005-01-26 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 26 Jan 2005, at 07:23, Robert W. Fuller wrote: Has anybody ported Linux to a virtual machine? http://xen.sf.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: porting Linux to a virtual machine

2005-01-26 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 26 Jan 2005, at 07:23, Robert W. Fuller wrote: Has anybody ported Linux to a virtual machine? http://xen.sf.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [patch 1/13] Qsort

2005-01-22 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 23 Jan 2005, at 03:39, Andi Kleen wrote: Felipe Alfaro Solana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AFAIK, XOR is quite expensive on IA32 when compared to simple MOV operatings. Also, since the original patch uses 3 MOVs to perform the swapping, and your version uses 3 XOR operations, I don't s

Re: [Bug 4081] New: OpenOffice crashes while starting due to a threading error

2005-01-22 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 22 Jan 2005, at 18:33, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Hi! I'm suing Arch Linux and the Kernel 2.6.11-rc2 -- it works great. Try to recompile your ^ suing? My God! More legal trouble. Didn't you mean "using"? ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [patch 1/13] Qsort

2005-01-22 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 22 Jan 2005, at 22:00, vlobanov wrote: Hi, I was just reading over the patch, and had a quick question/comment upon the SWAP macro defined below. I think it's possible to do a tiny bit better (better, of course, being subjective), as follows: #define SWAP(a, b, size)\

Re: [patch 1/13] Qsort

2005-01-22 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 22 Jan 2005, at 22:00, vlobanov wrote: Hi, I was just reading over the patch, and had a quick question/comment upon the SWAP macro defined below. I think it's possible to do a tiny bit better (better, of course, being subjective), as follows: #define SWAP(a, b, size)\

Re: [Bug 4081] New: OpenOffice crashes while starting due to a threading error

2005-01-22 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 22 Jan 2005, at 18:33, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Hi! I'm suing Arch Linux and the Kernel 2.6.11-rc2 -- it works great. Try to recompile your ^ suing? My God! More legal trouble. Didn't you mean using? ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [patch 1/13] Qsort

2005-01-22 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 23 Jan 2005, at 03:39, Andi Kleen wrote: Felipe Alfaro Solana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAIK, XOR is quite expensive on IA32 when compared to simple MOV operatings. Also, since the original patch uses 3 MOVs to perform the swapping, and your version uses 3 XOR operations, I don't see any gains