Re: [BUG] IT8212 libata driver *still* hard-freezes system on boot on 2.6.22 final.

2007-07-09 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 13:16 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > It would be useful to know if a kernel built with no DMA support for the > > > IT8212 behaved as that might give us a clue about what is choking. If you > > > look in drivers/ata/pata_it821x.c:it821x_init_one you'll see a pair of > > > lines

Re: [BUG] IT8212 libata driver *still* hard-freezes system on boot on 2.6.22 final.

2007-07-09 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 10:49 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:23:24 -0500 > Rodney Gordon II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have been quite busy, and I regret I haven't tried a rc kernel in > > awhile, but, this bug has gone un-fixed still.. Thought I'd

Re: [BUG] IT8212 libata driver *still* hard-freezes system on boot on 2.6.22 final.

2007-07-09 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 10:49 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:23:24 -0500 Rodney Gordon II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have been quite busy, and I regret I haven't tried a rc kernel in awhile, but, this bug has gone un-fixed still.. Thought I'd throw in another heads up

Re: [BUG] IT8212 libata driver *still* hard-freezes system on boot on 2.6.22 final.

2007-07-09 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 13:16 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: It would be useful to know if a kernel built with no DMA support for the IT8212 behaved as that might give us a clue about what is choking. If you look in drivers/ata/pata_it821x.c:it821x_init_one you'll see a pair of lines that say

[BUG] IT8212 libata driver *still* hard-freezes system on boot on 2.6.22 final.

2007-07-08 Thread Rodney Gordon II
Have been quite busy, and I regret I haven't tried a rc kernel in awhile, but, this bug has gone un-fixed still.. Thought I'd throw in another "heads up".. 2.6.22 hang: http://spherevision.org/sync/visual/itelock.jpg lspci -vvv: http://spherevision.org/sync/tmp/lspci.out Pentium-D 830 3.0GHz

[BUG] IT8212 libata driver *still* hard-freezes system on boot on 2.6.22 final.

2007-07-08 Thread Rodney Gordon II
Have been quite busy, and I regret I haven't tried a rc kernel in awhile, but, this bug has gone un-fixed still.. Thought I'd throw in another heads up.. 2.6.22 hang: http://spherevision.org/sync/visual/itelock.jpg lspci -vvv: http://spherevision.org/sync/tmp/lspci.out Pentium-D 830 3.0GHz

[BUG] libata IT821X driver still fails! Hard-freezes system.

2007-06-14 Thread Rodney Gordon II
This is the screen image I took with my digital camera when bootup freezes: http://spherevision.org/sync/visual/itefreeze.jpg After this freeze, not even SysRq commands work. On a side-note, the non-libata drivers boot up, but throw tons of DMA errors after one DVD burn. The kernel I tested this

[BUG] libata IT821X driver still fails! Hard-freezes system.

2007-06-14 Thread Rodney Gordon II
This is the screen image I took with my digital camera when bootup freezes: http://spherevision.org/sync/visual/itefreeze.jpg After this freeze, not even SysRq commands work. On a side-note, the non-libata drivers boot up, but throw tons of DMA errors after one DVD burn. The kernel I tested this

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 00:53, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 16:10, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 09:51 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > On 13/03/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As soon as your cpu is fully utilized, fairness looses or > > >

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 00:53, Con Kolivas wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 16:10, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 09:51 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On 13/03/07, Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As soon as your cpu is fully utilized, fairness looses or interactivity

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

2007-03-09 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Sunday 04 March 2007 01:00, Con Kolivas wrote: > This message is to announce the first general public release of the > "Rotating Staircase DeadLine" cpu scheduler. > > Based on previous work from the staircase cpu scheduler I set out to > design, from scratch, a new scheduling policy design

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

2007-03-09 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Sunday 04 March 2007 01:00, Con Kolivas wrote: This message is to announce the first general public release of the Rotating Staircase DeadLine cpu scheduler. Based on previous work from the staircase cpu scheduler I set out to design, from scratch, a new scheduling policy design which

Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

2007-02-17 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 00:15 -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 13:38 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > mdew . writes: > > > > > On 2/16/07, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This patchset is designed to improve syste

Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

2007-02-17 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 13:38 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > mdew . writes: > > > On 2/16/07, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This patchset is designed to improve system responsiveness and > >> interactivity. > >> It is configurable to any workload but the default -ck patch is aimed at >

Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

2007-02-17 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 13:38 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: mdew . writes: On 2/16/07, Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patchset is designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. It is configurable to any workload but the default -ck patch is aimed at the desktop

Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

2007-02-17 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 00:15 -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 13:38 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: mdew . writes: On 2/16/07, Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patchset is designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. It is configurable

Re: [ck] 2.6.13-ck1

2005-08-31 Thread Rodney Gordon II
t; > > > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 14:49, Rodney Gordon II wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:03:24PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and > > > > interactivity. It is configurable to any wor

Re: [ck] 2.6.13-ck1

2005-08-31 Thread Rodney Gordon II
/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-ck1/patch-2.6.13-ck1-server.bz2 I am having odd lockup problems with just the non-+ 'stable' ck lately.. Trying a large copy will often lock my disk I/O up and I have to do a hard reboot. Nothing shows in logs.. Is anyone having similar problems? -r -- Rodney Gordon II (meff)

Re: [ck] 2.6.13-ck1

2005-08-31 Thread Rodney Gordon II
having odd lockup problems with just the non-+ 'stable' ck lately.. Trying a large copy will often lock my disk I/O up and I have to do a hard reboot. Nothing shows in logs.. Is anyone having similar problems? -r -- Rodney Gordon II (meff) | meff at pobox dot com GPG Key ID

Re: [ck] 2.6.13-ck1

2005-08-31 Thread Rodney Gordon II
: What HZ are you running? Can you set up netconsole or serial console as these will capture something that won't be seen in your logs. Cheers, Con 1: 1000HZ 2: Nope.. I am sorry, one computer household at the moment :( daniel? -r -- Rodney Gordon II (meff) | meff