Re: AMD graphics performance regression in 4.15 and later

2018-04-11 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
On 04/11/2018 05:37 AM, Christian König wrote: >> With your patches my EPYC box is unusable with  4.15++ kernels. >> The whole Desktop is acting weird.  This one is using >> an Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750/8740 / R7 250E] GPU. >> >> Box is  2 * EPYC 7281 with 128 GB ECC RAM >> >> Also a 14C Xeon

Re: AMD graphics performance regression in 4.15 and later

2018-04-11 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
On 04/11/2018 05:37 AM, Christian König wrote: >> With your patches my EPYC box is unusable with  4.15++ kernels. >> The whole Desktop is acting weird.  This one is using >> an Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750/8740 / R7 250E] GPU. >> >> Box is  2 * EPYC 7281 with 128 GB ECC RAM >> >> Also a 14C Xeon

Re: AMD graphics performance regression in 4.15 and later

2018-04-09 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
On 04/09/2018 05:42 AM, Christian König wrote: > Backporting all the detection logic is to invasive, but you could just > go into drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c and forcefull use the > other code path. > > Just look out for "#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB" checks and disable those. Do you mean

Re: AMD graphics performance regression in 4.15 and later

2018-04-09 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
On 04/09/2018 05:42 AM, Christian König wrote: > Backporting all the detection logic is to invasive, but you could just > go into drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c and forcefull use the > other code path. > > Just look out for "#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB" checks and disable those. Do you mean

Re: AMD graphics performance regression in 4.15 and later

2018-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
uot; patch reverted. Is that safe to run or are there possible bad interactions with other changes. Cheers, Jean-Marc On 04/06/2018 01:20 PM, Christian König wrote: > Am 06.04.2018 um 18:42 schrieb Jean-Marc Valin: >> Hi Christian, >> >> On 04/09/2018 07:48 AM, Christian Kö

Re: AMD graphics performance regression in 4.15 and later

2018-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
uot; patch reverted. Is that safe to run or are there possible bad interactions with other changes. Cheers, Jean-Marc On 04/06/2018 01:20 PM, Christian König wrote: > Am 06.04.2018 um 18:42 schrieb Jean-Marc Valin: >> Hi Christian, >> >> On 04/09/2018 07:48 AM, Christian Kö

Re: AMD graphics performance regression in 4.15 and later

2018-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Hi Christian, On 04/09/2018 07:48 AM, Christian König wrote: > Am 06.04.2018 um 17:30 schrieb Jean-Marc Valin: >> Hi Christian, >> >> Is there a way to turn off these huge pages at boot-time/run-time? > > Only at compile time by not setting CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE.

Re: AMD graphics performance regression in 4.15 and later

2018-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Hi Christian, On 04/09/2018 07:48 AM, Christian König wrote: > Am 06.04.2018 um 17:30 schrieb Jean-Marc Valin: >> Hi Christian, >> >> Is there a way to turn off these huge pages at boot-time/run-time? > > Only at compile time by not setting CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE.

Re: AMD graphics performance regression in 4.15 and later

2018-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
why firefox and/or the user space stack is doing this > constant allocation/freeing of memory. > > There is also a bug tracker on bugs.kernel.org about this, but I can't > find it any more of hand. > > Regards, > Christian. > > Am 06.04.2018 um 02:30 schrieb Jean-Marc Valin: &

Re: AMD graphics performance regression in 4.15 and later

2018-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
why firefox and/or the user space stack is doing this > constant allocation/freeing of memory. > > There is also a bug tracker on bugs.kernel.org about this, but I can't > find it any more of hand. > > Regards, > Christian. > > Am 06.04.2018 um 02:30 schrieb Jean-Marc Valin: &

AMD graphics performance regression in 4.15 and later

2018-04-05 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Hi, I noticed a serious graphics performance regression between 4.14 and 4.15. It is most noticeable with Firefox (tried FF57 through FF60) and causes scrolling to be really choppy/sluggish. I've confirmed that the problem is also there on 4.16, while 4.13 works fine. After a bisection, I've

AMD graphics performance regression in 4.15 and later

2018-04-05 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Hi, I noticed a serious graphics performance regression between 4.14 and 4.15. It is most noticeable with Firefox (tried FF57 through FF60) and causes scrolling to be really choppy/sluggish. I've confirmed that the problem is also there on 4.16, while 4.13 works fine. After a bisection, I've

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-03-23 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Hi, Sorry I haven't replied recently about that bug, but I have to admit I have no idea where to start. There actually seems to be much more fundamental problems with the kernel on my machines. I initially realised that even without using suspend to RAM, I was still getting crashes when docking.

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-03-23 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Hi, Sorry I haven't replied recently about that bug, but I have to admit I have no idea where to start. There actually seems to be much more fundamental problems with the kernel on my machines. I initially realised that even without using suspend to RAM, I was still getting crashes when docking.

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-23 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Luming Yu a écrit : > what about removing psmouse module? Trying that now. Any particular reason you suspect that one? Jean-Marc > On 1/23/07, Jean-Marc Valin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> will be a device driver. Common causes of suspend/resume problems

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-23 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Luming Yu a écrit : what about removing psmouse module? Trying that now. Any particular reason you suspect that one? Jean-Marc On 1/23/07, Jean-Marc Valin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will be a device driver. Common causes of suspend/resume problems from the list you give below

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-22 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
>>> will be a device driver. Common causes of suspend/resume problems from >>> the list you give below are acpi modules, bluetooth and usb. I'd also be >>> consider pcmcia, drm and fuse possibilities. But again, go for unloading >>> everything possible in the first instance. >> Actually, the

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-22 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
>> I just encountered the following oops and general protection fault >> trying to suspend/resume my laptop. I've got a Dell D820 laptop with a 2 >> GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It usually suspends/resumes fine but not always. The >> relevant errors are below but the full dmesg log is at >>

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-22 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
I just encountered the following oops and general protection fault trying to suspend/resume my laptop. I've got a Dell D820 laptop with a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It usually suspends/resumes fine but not always. The relevant errors are below but the full dmesg log is at

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-22 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
will be a device driver. Common causes of suspend/resume problems from the list you give below are acpi modules, bluetooth and usb. I'd also be consider pcmcia, drm and fuse possibilities. But again, go for unloading everything possible in the first instance. Actually, the reason I sent this

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-21 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
>> I just encountered the following oops and general protection fault >> trying to suspend/resume my laptop. I've got a Dell D820 laptop with a 2 >> GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It usually suspends/resumes fine but not always. The >> relevant errors are below but the full dmesg log is at >>

Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-21 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Hi, I just encountered the following oops and general protection fault trying to suspend/resume my laptop. I've got a Dell D820 laptop with a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It usually suspends/resumes fine but not always. The relevant errors are below but the full dmesg log is at

Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-21 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Hi, I just encountered the following oops and general protection fault trying to suspend/resume my laptop. I've got a Dell D820 laptop with a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It usually suspends/resumes fine but not always. The relevant errors are below but the full dmesg log is at

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-21 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
I just encountered the following oops and general protection fault trying to suspend/resume my laptop. I've got a Dell D820 laptop with a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It usually suspends/resumes fine but not always. The relevant errors are below but the full dmesg log is at

Low latency patches

2005-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
) on Linux. Jean-Marc P.S. Please include me in CC, I'm not subscribed. -- Jean-Marc Valin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Université de Sherbrooke - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordo

Low latency patches

2005-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
) on Linux. Jean-Marc P.S. Please include me in CC, I'm not subscribed. -- Jean-Marc Valin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Université de Sherbrooke - 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

Re: ext3 bug

2005-02-28 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
at that time (2GB free on the swap), so I doubt that's the problem in my case. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Valin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Université de Sherbrooke - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ext3 bug

2005-02-28 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
free on the swap), so I doubt that's the problem in my case. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Valin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Université de Sherbrooke - 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

Re: ext3 bug

2005-02-27 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Valin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Université de Sherbrooke - 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

Re: ext3 bug

2005-02-27 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
reboot, I was able to run fsck on the disk (many, many errors) and it went fine after. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Valin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Université de Sherbrooke - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: ext3 bug

2005-02-27 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
to run fsck on the disk (many, many errors) and it went fine after. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Valin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Université de Sherbrooke - 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

Re: ext3 bug

2005-02-27 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
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ext3 bug

2005-02-26 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
ing. The filesystem is on a USB hard disk. The actual dump is in attachment. I'm running Debian unstable with a custom 2.6.10 kernel on a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Valin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Université de Sherbrooke Feb 27 01:15:48 idefix kernel: [ cut here ]

ext3 bug

2005-02-26 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
. The actual dump is in attachment. I'm running Debian unstable with a custom 2.6.10 kernel on a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Valin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Université de Sherbrooke Feb 27 01:15:48 idefix kernel: [ cut here ] Feb 27 01:15:48 idefix kernel: PREEMPT