Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > But yeah, if Debian/sid is just using random compiler snapshots of the > day, I htink we can just bury this as "pointless". Err, debian/sid *isn't* defaulting to gcc-4.2 yet, but it is made available to people who want to install it and play with it.

Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm hoping your Debian/sid gcc version is some very experimental > known-buggy one, and not something that people _expect_ to be solid and > work well? No such luck. :( Debian's close to moving to gcc-4.2 as the default compiler in sid. We've

Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm hoping your Debian/sid gcc version is some very experimental known-buggy one, and not something that people _expect_ to be solid and work well? No such luck. :( Debian's close to moving to gcc-4.2 as the default compiler in sid. We've rebuilt

Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: But yeah, if Debian/sid is just using random compiler snapshots of the day, I htink we can just bury this as pointless. Err, debian/sid *isn't* defaulting to gcc-4.2 yet, but it is made available to people who want to install it and play with it.

Re: OpenAFS gatekeepers request addition of AFS_SUPER_MAGIC to magic.h

2006-12-29 Thread Stephen Frost
* Adam Megacz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --- include/linux/magic.h 2006-12-29 15:48:50.0 -0800 > +++ include/linux/magic.h 2006-11-29 13:57:37.0 -0800 > @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ > > #define ADFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xadf5 > #define AFFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xadff > -#define

Re: OpenAFS gatekeepers request addition of AFS_SUPER_MAGIC to magic.h

2006-12-29 Thread Stephen Frost
* Adam Megacz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: --- include/linux/magic.h 2006-12-29 15:48:50.0 -0800 +++ include/linux/magic.h 2006-11-29 13:57:37.0 -0800 @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ #define ADFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xadf5 #define AFFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xadff -#define

Re: [git patches] libata fixes

2006-12-20 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > FWIW the Tejun cleanups are a fix, split into three reviewable pieces. > > Also, my local iomap branch has advanced sufficiently enough that I > think it's high time to kill those libata warnings that spew on every > build. (I hear the crowds roar)

Re: [git patches] libata fixes

2006-12-20 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: FWIW the Tejun cleanups are a fix, split into three reviewable pieces. Also, my local iomap branch has advanced sufficiently enough that I think it's high time to kill those libata warnings that spew on every build. (I hear the crowds roar) Perhaps

Re: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Lion Vollnhals ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 14.08.2005, 09:29 -0400 schrieb Willem Riede: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:54:35 +, Allen Martin wrote: > > That is disappointing. I was seriously considering a motherboard with your > > chipset because of its impressive

Re: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Lion Vollnhals ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Am Sonntag, den 14.08.2005, 09:29 -0400 schrieb Willem Riede: On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:54:35 +, Allen Martin wrote: That is disappointing. I was seriously considering a motherboard with your chipset because of its impressive specifications, but

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jakob Oestergaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is really the clever way to run a 64-bit system - 99% of what is > commonly run on most systems only gains overhead from the 64-bit address > space - tools like postfix, cron, syslog, apache, ... will not gain from > being native 64-bit. For

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jakob Oestergaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is really the clever way to run a 64-bit system - 99% of what is commonly run on most systems only gains overhead from the 64-bit address space - tools like postfix, cron, syslog, apache, ... will not gain from being native 64-bit. For most

Re: Kernel header policy

2005-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Marc Aurele La France ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > To that end, I would propose, as a possible technical solution, extending > the kernel build process to detect these errors during kernel development. Well, couple stupid comments: #1: I'm not *entirely* sure Linus reads every mail to lkml..

Re: Kernel header policy

2005-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Marc Aurele La France ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To that end, I would propose, as a possible technical solution, extending the kernel build process to detect these errors during kernel development. Well, couple stupid comments: #1: I'm not *entirely* sure Linus reads every mail to lkml..

Re: [PATCH] dynamic tick patch

2005-01-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Benjamin Herrenschmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hrm... reading more of the patch & Martin's previous work, I'm not sure > I like the idea too much in the end... The main problem is that you are > just "replaying" the ticks afterward, which I see as a problem for > things like sched_clock()

Re: [PATCH] dynamic tick patch

2005-01-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Benjamin Herrenschmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hrm... reading more of the patch Martin's previous work, I'm not sure I like the idea too much in the end... The main problem is that you are just replaying the ticks afterward, which I see as a problem for things like sched_clock() which

Re: rsync hangs on RedHat 2.4.2 or stock 2.4.4

2001-06-12 Thread Stephen Frost
* David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Russell King writes: > > At the time I suggested it was because of a missing wakeup in 2.4.2 kernels, > > but I was shouted down for using 2.2.15pre13. Since then I've seen these > > reports appear on lkml several times, each time without a

Re: rsync hangs on RedHat 2.4.2 or stock 2.4.4

2001-06-12 Thread Stephen Frost
* David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Russell King writes: At the time I suggested it was because of a missing wakeup in 2.4.2 kernels, but I was shouted down for using 2.2.15pre13. Since then I've seen these reports appear on lkml several times, each time without a solution

'spurious APIC interrupt' - Dell PowerEdge 1400

2001-03-26 Thread Stephen Frost
Running into a problem with one of our Dell PowerEdge 1400 servers. We see these messages very rarely, but after they show up the machine goes into a really odd state: Mar 26 09:37:27 maul kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#1, should never happen. Mar 26 09:37:27 maul kernel: unexpected IRQ

'spurious APIC interrupt' - Dell PowerEdge 1400

2001-03-26 Thread Stephen Frost
Running into a problem with one of our Dell PowerEdge 1400 servers. We see these messages very rarely, but after they show up the machine goes into a really odd state: Mar 26 09:37:27 maul kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#1, should never happen. Mar 26 09:37:27 maul kernel: unexpected IRQ

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* fsnchzjr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Watch Microsoft's Jim Allchin go Linux-bashing!!! > Nice little article on how we're all going to die of herpes from our > repeated exposition to Linux... > http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc Just

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* fsnchzjr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Watch Microsoft's Jim Allchin go Linux-bashing!!! Nice little article on how we're all going to die of herpes from our repeated exposition to Linux... http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc Just

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* David Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP > kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined. I don't have more > time to debug it but I'll strip the config and put it up at > http://stuph.org/smp-config They're

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* David Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined. I don't have more time to debug it but I'll strip the config and put it up at http://stuph.org/smp-config They're trying

Re: Updated zerocopy patches on kernel.org

2001-01-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Now against 2.4.1-pre2: > > ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.1p2-1.diff.gz Tried it with 2.4.1-pre3, didn't have any problem applying it, but when I rebooted the system it pretty much had no interest in talking

Re: Updated zerocopy patches on kernel.org

2001-01-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Now against 2.4.1-pre2: ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.1p2-1.diff.gz Tried it with 2.4.1-pre3, didn't have any problem applying it, but when I rebooted the system it pretty much had no interest in talking TCP

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > Now, the interesting bit here is that the processes can grow to be > > pretty large (200M+, up as high as 500M, higher if we let it ;) ) and what > > happens with MOSIX i

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > but it just doesn't apply when you look at some other applications, > > such as streaming out video data or performing fileserving in a > > high-performance compute cluster where you are serving

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: but it just doesn't apply when you look at some other applications, such as streaming out video data or performing fileserving in a high-performance compute cluster where you are serving bulk data.

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Stephen Frost wrote: Now, the interesting bit here is that the processes can grow to be pretty large (200M+, up as high as 500M, higher if we let it ;) ) and what happens with MOSIX is that entire processes get sent over

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-08 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jes Sorensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "David" == David S Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't question Alexey's skills and I have no intentions of working > against him. All I am asking is that someone lets me know if they make > major changes to my code so I can keep track

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-08 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jes Sorensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: "David" == David S Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't question Alexey's skills and I have no intentions of working against him. All I am asking is that someone lets me know if they make major changes to my code so I can keep track of whats

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Oliver Xymoron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > A 100ms delay sounds like some interrupt shut up or similar (and then > > timer handling makes it limp along). > > Possibly related datapoint: after several days of uptime, my > 2.4.0-test10pre?

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Oliver Xymoron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: A 100ms delay sounds like some interrupt shut up or similar (and then timer handling makes it limp along). Possibly related datapoint: after several days of uptime, my 2.4.0-test10pre? machine went

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > This go around I compiled everything into the kernel, actually. > > If it would be useful I can compile them as modules reboot and then see > > what h

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > Any idea if these issues would cause a general slow-down of a > > machine? For no apparent reason after 5 days running 2.4.0test12 > > everything going

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > machine? For no apparent reason after 5 days running 2.4.0test12 > > everything going through my firewall (set up using iptables) I got about > > 100ms time added on to pings and traceroutes. I'll probably reboot the > > machine tonight and see if that

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Especially if we get that netfilter problem sorted out (see the other > thread about the IP fragmentation issues associated with that one), and > if we figure out why apparently some people have trouble with external > modules (at least one person

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Especially if we get that netfilter problem sorted out (see the other thread about the IP fragmentation issues associated with that one), and if we figure out why apparently some people have trouble with external modules (at least one person has

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: machine? For no apparent reason after 5 days running 2.4.0test12 everything going through my firewall (set up using iptables) I got about 100ms time added on to pings and traceroutes. I'll probably reboot the machine tonight and see if that helps.

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote: Any idea if these issues would cause a general slow-down of a machine? For no apparent reason after 5 days running 2.4.0test12 everything going through my firewall (set up using iptables) I

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote: This go around I compiled everything into the kernel, actually. If it would be useful I can compile them as modules reboot and then see what happens... Even when compiled into the kernel

Re: 2.2.17 & Eepro(10)

2000-11-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jeroen Geusebroek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm having troubles with the eepro driver included in kernel 2.2.17. > It stops sometimes with no apparent reason. The one thing i noticed > is that it seems to have a lot of carrier problems(998!) > > This is part of the result from ifconfig:

Re: 2.2.17 Eepro(10)

2000-11-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jeroen Geusebroek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm having troubles with the eepro driver included in kernel 2.2.17. It stops sometimes with no apparent reason. The one thing i noticed is that it seems to have a lot of carrier problems(998!) This is part of the result from ifconfig:

Re: 32-bit pid_t / security

2000-10-01 Thread Stephen Frost
* Andries Brouwer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So, in the long run we want a large pid_t. What about the short run? > For today the disadvantages are negligeable, and for people who > like security there are definite advantages. Much more the problem is giving people the *impression* of

Re: 32-bit pid_t / security

2000-10-01 Thread Stephen Frost
* Andries Brouwer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So, in the long run we want a large pid_t. What about the short run? For today the disadvantages are negligeable, and for people who like security there are definite advantages. Much more the problem is giving people the *impression* of

Re: Linux kernel modules development in C++

2000-09-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Igmar Palsenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Tell my teacher it's a good idea, he is telling otherwise :) Academics and reality don't tend to equate. :) Something to do with the world not exactly being perfect. The reality is, if you hadn't guessed, Linux is doing rather well. :)

Re: Linux kernel modules development in C++

2000-09-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Igmar Palsenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Tell my teacher it's a good idea, he is telling otherwise :) Academics and reality don't tend to equate. :) Something to do with the world not exactly being perfect. The reality is, if you hadn't guessed, Linux is doing rather well. :)

Re: eepro100 trouble

2000-09-06 Thread Stephen Frost
* Admin Mailing Lists ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:57:54PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > > > > > I'm having endless problem with an eepro100 here. After some trying found out > > > that doing a soft reset

Re: eepro100 trouble

2000-09-06 Thread Stephen Frost
* Admin Mailing Lists ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:57:54PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: I'm having endless problem with an eepro100 here. After some trying found out that doing a soft reset (ctrl+alt+del)