Re: 2.4 tcp very slow under certain circumstances (Re: netdev issues (3c905B))

2001-02-22 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Jordan, We have exactly the same problem but in our case it depends on the following three conditions: 1, kernel 2.4 (2.2 is fine), 2, windows ip header compression turned on, 3, a free internet access provider in Holland called 'Wish' (which seemes to stand for 'I Wish I had

Re: [Patch] 2.4.2: af_unix.c warnings

2001-02-22 Thread David S. Miller
Russell King writes: The following patch fixes these warnings: Thanks, applied. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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: ipv4: 2.4.2: unused static variables

2001-02-22 Thread David S. Miller
Russell King writes: With CONFIG_SYSCTL=n, I get the following warnings: sysctl_net_ipv4.c:50: warning: `tcp_retr1_max' defined but not used sysctl_net_ipv4.c:52: warning: `ip_local_port_range_min' defined but not used sysctl_net_ipv4.c:53: warning: `ip_local_port_range_max' defined

[UPDATE] zerocopy BETA 3

2001-02-22 Thread David S. Miller
Usual spot: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.2-2.diff.gz Changes since last installment: 1) More errors in TCP receive queue collapser are discovered and fixed. 2) Several URG handling details on receive side are made more consistent and sane. 3)

Re: [rfc] [LONG] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

2001-02-22 Thread Andreas Dilger
I just wrote: I just had a clever idea - on a single-level index you put the header and index data in block 0, and put the directory data in the first indirect block (11 sparse blocks, instead of 511). To clarify (with wonderful ASCII art), an un-indexed directory would have data blocks like:

Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

2001-02-22 Thread Rogier Wolff
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Martin Mares wrote: Hello! True. Note too, though, that on a filesystem (which we are, after all, talking about), if you assume a large linear space you have to create a file, which means you need to multiply the cost of all random-access operations

Re: Via UDMA5 3/4/5 is not functional!

2001-02-22 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:09:29AM +0200, Catalin BOIE wrote: Hi, guys! I want to report a problem. I have an Athlon 900MHz / 256 MB RAM, chipset: VIA VT82c686B, IBM harddrive (IBM-DTLA-307030). At first I tried kernel 2.2.16: - hdparm -u1 -d1 -X69 /dev/hda = I get 36MB/s

Re: [PATCH] nfsd + scalability

2001-02-22 Thread Mark Hemment
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Neil Brown wrote: On Sunday February 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Neil, all, The nfs daemons run holding the global kernel lock. They still hold this lock over calls to file_op's read and write. [snip] Dropping the kernel lock around read and write in

[PATCH] drivers/net/sunhme.c, unbalanced and unchecked ioremap()

2001-02-22 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi all, I found that sunhme.c doesn't check ioremap() return value and doesn't call iounmap() on module unload. Attached patch (for 2.4.1-ac20) should fix it, compiles clearly, but untested (I have no such hardware). Best regards. -- Andrey Panin| Embedded systems software

OOPS: kfree?

2001-02-22 Thread Justin Huff
The box is a Dell Lattitude CP laptop (P233 96meg ram). I've been doing IrDA work using 2.4.1-ac20. I was debugging some problems in my code(user space) when my vim froze (other VTs were fine). I killed the process and the kernel oopsed. Unfortunatly, I haven't been able to reproduce it.

Re: Incorrect module init message..

2001-02-22 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Pavel Machek wrote: Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 05:06:12 + From: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux Kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Incorrect module init message.. Hi!

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

2001-02-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:12:25PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Christoph Hellwig] It would be really good to have something devfs-like just for LVM in setups that don't use LVM, so we could avoid mounting root read/write ^^^devfs? Yes... for device-creation.

3c59x in 2.4.{0,1,2}

2001-02-22 Thread Igor Mozetic
There is probably just some miscoordination between the kernel mainteiners, but anyway. The 3c59x driver shipped with all official 2.4.x kernels lacks the 'medialock' feature. The result on 3c900 10M/combo cards can be unpleasant: kernel log fills up quickly and only reboot helps. However,

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
Which -ac series patch does this match up with or superceed ie should this be considered superior to -ac19 ? I'll be merging most of the 2.4.2 changes if there are any I dont have with Linus for the next -ac which will be a 2.4.2-ac1 and thus somewhat shorter - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Very high bandwith packet based interface and performance problems

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
and the transmitter is unrestricted, what happens? Does it have to do with TCP_FORMAL_WINDOW (eg. automatically reduce window size to zero when queue backs up?) Read RFC1122. Basically your guess is right. The sender sends data, and gets back acks saying 'window 0'. It will then do

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac15

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
We can take page faults in interrupt handlers in 2.4 so I had to use a spinlock, but that sounds the same We can? Woah, please explain. vmalloc does a lazy load of the tlb. That can lead to the exception table being walked on an IRQ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac15

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
We can take page faults in interrupt handlers in 2.4 so I had to use a spinlock, but that sounds the same Umm? The above doesn't really make sense. We can take a page fault on the kernel region with the lazy page directory filling, but that code will just set the PGD entry and exit

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
If you want stability, run the real Linus 2.4. If you want all the I think the key word is actually probably 'predictability'. The Linus tree is conservative. (IMHO too conservative and probably in his not conservative enough 8)) really minor bug fixes and more of the experimental code, run

Re: Detecting SMP

2001-02-22 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: So, one would normally expect this to mean an SMP board rather than multiple processors, _HOWEVER_, I can imagine a very clever MP-aware BIOS implementation which detects that there are many processors and prepares MP floating config table and does

Re: Very high bandwith packet based interface and performance problems

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
TCP _requires_ the remote end ack every 2nd frame regardless of progress. um, I thought the spec says that ACK every 2nd segment is a SHOULD not a MUST? Yes its a SHOULD in RFC1122, but in any normal environment pretty much a must and I know of no stack significantly violating it.

Update to kernel test suite article

2001-02-22 Thread Michael D. Crawford
After I posted the URL in the comments on tonight's Slashdot article on "Making Software Suck Less", I thought I should incorporate some of the comments people had made about my article over the past few weeks: Using Test Suites to Validate the Linux Kernel

ll_rw_block/submit_bh and request limits

2001-02-22 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, The following piece of code in ll_rw_block() aims to limit the number of locked buffers by making processes throttle on IO if the number of on flight requests is bigger than a high watermaker. IO will only start again if we're under a low watermark. if

some char * optimizations in kernel

2001-02-22 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello everybody, looking through the sources I found several pieces like lib/vsprintf.c, line 111: const char *digits="0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; As tested with egcs-2.91.60 even with -O3 there is a difference between const char

Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

2001-02-22 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi Linus, Hi LKML people, On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:19:45PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: In article 97230a$16k$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: allocate blocks one at a time. Make the blocksize something nice and big, not just 4kB or 8kB or something. Btw, this

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread J . A . Magallon
Building with gcc-2.96: In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/raid/md.h:50, from init/main.c:24: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/raid/md_k.h: In function `pers_to_level': /usr/src/linux/include/linux/raid/md_k.h:41: warning: control reaches end of non -void function

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

2001-02-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:52:51AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Peter Samuelson] How often do you run MAKEDEV or vgscan? [Christoph Hellwig] On every bootup, _before_ doing mount -a A mere 'vgchange -ay' works fine for *my* boot processes. Is there a particular reason to do

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Werner Almesberger
Alan Cox wrote: I think the key word is actually probably 'predictability'. The Linus tree is conservative. (IMHO too conservative and probably in his not conservative enough 8)) Hmm, given that there are several patches in your tree that never seem to make it to Linus' tree, would it make

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
Hmm, given that there are several patches in your tree that never seem to make it to Linus' tree, would it make sense to flag patches that should go into 2.4 as "Not for Alan; Linus _please_ pick it up" (and to keep on pushing until Linus does) ? Im trying to push stuff to Linus in a

Loop dev 2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha
Hello! I want to report a constant problem I'm having with the loopback block driver in the new releases of the 2.4.x series of the Linux kernel. The problem is that when that when trying to use a loop device the process hangs (whether it is mount/mke2fs, etc, but not losetup). And it can't be

Re: PROBLEM: Network hanging - Tulip driver with Netgear (Lite-On)

2001-02-22 Thread Pat Verner
Rebuilt the kernel using using 2.4.1 + patch-2.4.1-ac20 : Initial state is good, and now ping works. However, if I run IPTRAF, then the card grinds to a halt after receiving about 2.6 Mbytes on try 1, then 11 Mbytes on try 2, after which it will neither receive or transmit :-( After this the

2.4 vs 2.2 performance under load comparison

2001-02-22 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
Good morning, I did a comparison between 2.4 and 2.2.18 (+ Andrea's patches), using the respective latest SuSE kernels, but the results should apply to the versions in general. Situation: SAP R/3 + SAP DB + benchmark driver running on a single node 4 CPU SMP machine, tuned down to 1GB of RAM.

Re: Oopses in 2.4.1 (lots of them)

2001-02-22 Thread Arthur Pedyczak
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: report got ignored). After running for 4 days I got many, many oopses. They were trigerred by xscreensaver, and some other X-related apps. After dopping to runlevel 3, the system seemed O.K. Nothing unusual in graphics: Riva TNT2 That makes it harder

Re: [Ext2-devel] [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

2001-02-22 Thread tytso
From: Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:24:08 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain Is it worth it? Well, it means you lose an index entry from each directory block, thus reducing your fanout at each node of the tree by a worse case of 0.7% in the worst

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Adam Sampson
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, the patch looks huge (it's a meg and a half compressed, 6+ megs uncompressed), but most of the patch by far is S/390 updates and the new Cris architecture. I get this while compiling 2.4.2: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/src/linux/include -Wall

[PATCH] IBM ServeRAID driver version 4.50 update

2001-02-22 Thread Pim Zandbergen
Could someone make sure IBM's latest ServeRAID drivers get merged into the mainstream kernel? The standard kernel sources contain a hopelessly outdated version. IBM do not seem to actively submit their work, so that's why I am asking. You can find version 4.50 at

PATCH: fix the msdos.c compile error

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
(Or turn off minix partitions) diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla/include/linux/genhd.h linux.ac/include/linux/genhd.h --- linux.vanilla/include/linux/genhd.h Thu Jan 4 22:50:47 2001 +++ linux.ac/include/linux/genhd.h Thu Feb 22 10:24:06 2001 @@

Re: [PATCH] IBM ServeRAID driver version 4.50 update

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
Could someone make sure IBM's latest ServeRAID drivers get merged into the mainstream kernel? The standard kernel sources contain a hopelessly outdated version. 4.50 has the same Linux kernel code as the stuff merged. The newer stuff is firmware only it seems - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: ll_rw_block/submit_bh and request limits

2001-02-22 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Feb 22 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: The following piece of code in ll_rw_block() aims to limit the number of locked buffers by making processes throttle on IO if the number of on flight requests is bigger than a high watermaker. IO will only start again if we're under a low watermark.

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
"Adam Sampson wrote:" I get this while compiling 2.4.2: msdos.c:403: `MINIX_PARTITION' undeclared (first use in this function) msdos.c:403: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once msdos.c:403: for each function it appears in.) msdos.c:406: `MINIX_NR_SUBPARTITIONS' undeclared

Re: TESTERS PLEASE - improvements to knfsd for 2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Brown) writes: I am looking forward to seeing lots of downloads and absolutely no problem reports but is seems unlikely. Alan Cox has suggested that these changes may not be appropriate for 2.4, so we might have to wait for 2.5 to see them on kernel.org, but we

ipv4: 2.4.2: unused static variables

2001-02-22 Thread Russell King
Hi, With CONFIG_SYSCTL=n, I get the following warnings: sysctl_net_ipv4.c:50: warning: `tcp_retr1_max' defined but not used sysctl_net_ipv4.c:52: warning: `ip_local_port_range_min' defined but not used sysctl_net_ipv4.c:53: warning: `ip_local_port_range_max' defined but not used These are

HDD good choice ?

2001-02-22 Thread f5ibh
Hi ! I'm running 2.4.x or 2.2.19 (2.4.x is fine but I experienced a bad Oops using my hamradio packet radio system with it ... and nobody seems interested by my reports .. sniff). I would like to change my HDD. My motherboard is a Asus P5A with a K6-2 500 (overcloked to 550hz .. in test). The

[Patch] 2.4.2: af_unix.c warnings

2001-02-22 Thread Russell King
Hi, In 2.4.2 with CONFIG_SYSCTL=n, I'm seeing the following warnings while compiling af_unix.c: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/v2.4/linux-p720t/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mapcs-32 -march=armv4 -mtune=arm7tdmi -mshort-load-bytes -msoft-float

Updated patch for the [2.4.x] NFS 'missing directory entry a.k.a. IRIX server' problem...

2001-02-22 Thread Trond Myklebust
Hi, After having tried to thrash out what exactly is the kernel interface for telldir/seekdir w.r.t. the existence of negative offsets with the glibc people, I've finally found a way to work within the current scheme. The problem at hand is that we currently would like to support the

Re: EXT2-fs error

2001-02-22 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Well, here's the whole situtation... Compiled 2.4.2 and reboot forcing fsck. No errors. Tried mounting a cd image via loopback to see if loopback was working again. Mount hangs. Reboot command stalled waiting for filesystems to unmount. Force with alt-sysreq-s,u,b. Booted w/o any errors.

Linux 2.4.2ac1

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.2-ac1 o Merge Linus 2.4.2 tree | We now have disagreeing ymfpci fixes. I've kept the ones | I tested for now. o Back out sr.c change(me) o Fix moxa smartio driver

watchdog implemention

2001-02-22 Thread Michael Peter
Hey, is there any documentation , how the software watchdog is implemented ? I'm particularly interested in programming the IO-APIC. What do I have to do that the PIT gets rerouted so that it triggers an NMI. Thanks in advance. Michael Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Problem with 2.2.19pre9 (Connection closed.)

2001-02-22 Thread Jes Sorensen
"Markus" == Markus Germeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Markus Tell me if I can provide you with further data to nail down Markus this bug. Alan forwarded a patch to me from DaveM which fixed it for me. Markus Jes: I thought about your information that ssh connections do Markus not show this

Re: Problem with 2.2.19pre9 (Connection closed.)

2001-02-22 Thread Markus Germeier
Hi all, I did some further investigation and found the following: It seems to me that this is a linux - solaris problem. I have no problems with AIX 4.1.4, IRIX 6.5 or WIN2K. However all solaris boxes I have access to (2.6, 7, 8, sparc and intel) give me a "connection closed" after 2h, which is

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/sunhme.c, unbalanced and unchecked ioremap()

2001-02-22 Thread David S. Miller
Andrey Panin writes: I found that sunhme.c doesn't check ioremap() return value and doesn't call iounmap() on module unload. Attached patch (for 2.4.1-ac20) should fix it, compiles clearly, but untested (I have no such hardware). Thanks I've applied this patch. Later, David S. Miller

Re: [patch] VIA 4.2x driver for 2.2 kernels (fwd)

2001-02-22 Thread Rogerio Brito
This message was apparently intended to be sent to the list. []s, Roger... - Forwarded message from Pozsar Balazs [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Pozsar Balazs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [patch] VIA 4.2x driver for 2.2 kernels Date:

random PID generation

2001-02-22 Thread Heusden, Folkert van
Hi, I wrote a patch against 2.2.18 and 2.4.1 to have the kernel generate random PIDs. You can find it at http://vanheusden.com/Linux/security.php3 (amongst other patches). Beware: pretty much experimental and likely to make your linux-pc perform like a win95 platform. Greetings, Folkert van

Linux-2.4.2 IPv6

2001-02-22 Thread Dragos, Radu
Linux-2.4.2 does not have IPv6 support ??? - 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 at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: ARP out the wrong interface

2001-02-22 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, dean gaudet wrote: 2.2.18 and 2.4 apparently have a patch called "arpfilter" integrated which should allow you to: # sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.arpfilter=1 to get much stricter behaviour regarding ARP replies. hmm, so i'm working with a 2.4.1-ac20-TUX-P5

via82cxxx_audio playing too fast AND Re: PATCH: Via audio rate lock,for testing

2001-02-22 Thread Sergei Haller
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: Can you guys test this patch, and let me know if it fixes Via audio problems on your kernel? It should apply against 2.4.1 or 2.4.1-acXX kernels. high! I tried to apply this patch to clean 2.4.1 and to 2.4.1-ac20, which has the same via82cxxx_audio.c

[Oops] 2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread f5ibh
Hi! 2.4.2 oopsed after several seconds. Just after launching ax25 related stuff. Here is the raw Oops : -- Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffc printing eip: c0113cf3 *pde = 1063 *pde = OOps = 0 EIP: 0010:[c0113cf3] EFLAGS:

filesystem statistics

2001-02-22 Thread Andries . Brouwer
Now that people are discussing the right hash function to use, and the amount of space taken by filenames in various schemes, I wondered how these things are on a random machine. Here some statistics. Andries -- Statistics on a

Re: Via UDMA5 3/4/5 is not functional!

2001-02-22 Thread Ricardo Galli
Then I tried kernel 2.4.1. I issued exactly the same hdparm command. i got in syslog the message: "ide0: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional"! I had the same problem. Add append="ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66 ide0=autotune ide1=autotune hda=autotune hdb=autotune hdc=autotune" to lilo.conf.

Re: Linux-2.4.2 IPv6

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
Linux-2.4.2 does not have IPv6 support ??? Linux 2.2 and 2.4 have IPv6 - 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 at

Re: Via UDMA5 3/4/5 is not functional!

2001-02-22 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:38:48PM +0100, Ricardo Galli wrote: Then I tried kernel 2.4.1. I issued exactly the same hdparm command. i got in syslog the message: "ide0: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional"! I had the same problem. Add append="ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66 ide0=autotune

Linux 2.4.1 network (socket) performance

2001-02-22 Thread Richard B. Johnson
Hello, I am trying to find the reason for very, very poor network performance with sustained data transfers on Linux 2.4.1. I found a work-around, but don't think user-mode code should have to provide such work-arounds. In the following, with Linux 2.4.1, on a dedicated 100/Base link:

Re: linux ac20 patch got error:

2001-02-22 Thread Adam Schrotenboer
Mike Galbraith wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: A rather incomprehensible message, so let's flesh this out a bit. Basically the problem occurs when patching linux/fs/reiserfs/namei.c It can't find it, presumably due to an error in 2.4.1, where it appears to me

Re: Problem with DMA buffer (in 2.2.15)

2001-02-22 Thread Christoph Baumann
I messed up my subscription to this list yesterday so any answer to my question didn't reach me (I looked through the archive up to 20:50 yesterday). Now as I read my question again I decided to add some more details. But when reading the buffer isn't allocated This is of course rubbish. I meant

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac1

2001-02-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.2-ac1 o Merge Linus 2.4.2 tree ... Hi Alan, is it possible that you send a list of all the changes in 2.4.2ac1 compared to plain 2.4.2? Thanks in advance Adrian -- Nicht weil die

Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

2001-02-22 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, February 21, 2001 07:30:47 PM -0800 Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: I'd love to hear the results from R5, as that seems to be the reiserfs favourite, and I'm trying it out in 2.4.2 because it was so easy to plug in..

Re: [PATCH] IBM ServeRAID driver version 4.50 update

2001-02-22 Thread Pim Zandbergen
4.50 has the same Linux kernel code as the stuff merged. The newer stuff is firmware only it seems The Linux kernel code comes with version 4.20. I count 128 lines of "diff -u" output on ips.c and 44 on ips.h. It also looks like both versions have different patches applied to them. - To

Re: Problem with DMA buffer (in 2.2.15)

2001-02-22 Thread Norbert Roos
Christoph Baumann wrote: is to do this in steps of PAGE_SIZE. What I'm looking for is a kernel routine to force the mapping of previous unmapped pages. Browsing through the source in mm/ I found make_pages_present(). Could this be the solution? I hadn't the Have you already looked at

Re: Changes to ide-cd for 2.4.1 are broken?

2001-02-22 Thread John Fremlin
Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] You know all about this stuff, so probably I am mistaken. However, my copy of SFF8020-r2.6 everywhere has "Sense 02 ASC 3A: Medium not present" without giving subcodes to distinguish Tray Open from No Disc. So, it seems to me that drives

Re: Loop dev 2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Colonel
In list.kernel.owner, you wrote: I want to report a constant problem I'm having with the loopback block driver in the new releases of the 2.4.x series of the Linux kernel. Pick up the loop patches from Axboe at : *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/ I solved all my problems

Re: Problem with DMA buffer (in 2.2.15)

2001-02-22 Thread Christoph Baumann
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:38:53PM +0100, Norbert Roos wrote: Christoph Baumann wrote: is to do this in steps of PAGE_SIZE. What I'm looking for is a kernel routine to force the mapping of previous unmapped pages. Browsing through the source in mm/ I found make_pages_present(). Could

Linux CREDITS file

2001-02-22 Thread Kai Petzke
Hello, I am listed as one of the authors of linux in the CREDITS file distributed with the kernel. As I've moved, I ask you to change my adress as follows. Old: N: Kai Petzke E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://physik.tu-berlin.de/~wpp P: 1024/B42868C1 D9 59 B9 98 BB 93 05 38 2E 3E 31 79 C3 65

Wrong data [was Re: Incorrect module init message..]

2001-02-22 Thread Tim Wright
There's nothing wrong with the mailing list. Pavel, please set your clock correctly :-) Tim On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:45:15AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Pavel Machek wrote: Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 05:06:12 + From: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike A. Harris

Re: had: lost interrupt...

2001-02-22 Thread Fons Rademakers
Hi Tim, thanks for answering. However, I found the problem for my laptop. It was due to the broken /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/... in RH7.0 that was always executing the xlock and xcreensaver on suspend. Correcting this script and not running this xlock stuff the interrupt lost problem

Re: [Ext2-devel] [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

2001-02-22 Thread Andreas Dilger
Daniel writes: All references to "." and ".." are now intercepted and never reach the filesystem level. Ted writes: From: Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll leave that up to somebody else - we now have two alternatives, the 100%, no-compromise INCOMPAT solution, and the

Building a new module from an existing one

2001-02-22 Thread Marcus Ramos
Hello, I plan to make a few changes to 3c90x.c (Ethhernet driver) located at /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/net, in RH7. Since the correspondent object file 3c90x.o resides in /lib/modules/2.2.16-20/net, I ask: how shall I proceed in order to have the C file properly compiled and placed in the

Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

2001-02-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:19:45PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: In article 97230a$16k$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: allocate blocks one at a time. Make the blocksize something nice and big, not just 4kB or 8kB or

Re: Building a new module from an existing one

2001-02-22 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Marcus Ramos wrote: Hello, I plan to make a few changes to 3c90x.c (Ethhernet driver) located at /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/net, in RH7. Since the correspondent object file 3c90x.o resides in /lib/modules/2.2.16-20/net, I ask: how shall I proceed in order to have

Re: linux ac20 patch got error:

2001-02-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: Mike Galbraith wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: A rather incomprehensible message, so let's flesh this out a bit. Basically the problem occurs when patching linux/fs/reiserfs/namei.c It can't find it,

Re: Building a new module from an existing one

2001-02-22 Thread Fernando Fuganti
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Marcus Ramos wrote: Hello, I plan to make a few changes to 3c90x.c (Ethhernet driver) located at /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/net, in RH7. Since the correspondent object file 3c90x.o resides in /lib/modules/2.2.16-20/net, I ask: how shall I proceed in order to have

Re: Wrong data [was Re: Incorrect module init message..]

2001-02-22 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Tim Wright wrote: Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:01:32 -0800 From: Tim Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linux Kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Wrong data

Re: Very high bandwith packet based interface and performance problems

2001-02-22 Thread Rick Jones
Alan Cox wrote: TCP _requires_ the remote end ack every 2nd frame regardless of progress. um, I thought the spec says that ACK every 2nd segment is a SHOULD not a MUST? Yes its a SHOULD in RFC1122, but in any normal environment pretty much a must and I know of no stack

Re: Problem with 2.2.19pre9 (Connection closed.)

2001-02-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: Alan forwarded a patch to me from DaveM which fixed it for me. Jes, could you forward it here as well? The problems I were seeing were much more than every 2 hrs, more like every 10-15 mins. Anyway it seems it got fixed. I've seen IRC sessions

trouble with 2.4.2 just released

2001-02-22 Thread Heitzso
I have two boxes that I immediately tried upgrading the OS on. In both cases I use a script to automate the build with a saved off .config file. simplified .. untar linux tar ball cp config.blat linux/.config cd linux make oldconfig make menuconfig cp .config ../config.blat make bzImage

Re: ll_rw_block/submit_bh and request limits

2001-02-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, Feb 22 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: The following piece of code in ll_rw_block() aims to limit the number of locked buffers by making processes throttle on IO if the number of on flight requests is bigger than a high watermaker. IO will

trouble with 2.4.2 just released

2001-02-22 Thread f5ibh
Hi Heitzso, On the other box I have yet to get a successful build (using a .config that runs 2.4.2-pre4 fine). ld complains about a missing binary file. ld: cannot open binary: no such file or directory ld is not complaining about a missing file. The problem is with the version of ld you

RE: trouble with 2.4.2 just released

2001-02-22 Thread Christopher Chimelis
The problem is with the version of ld you use. Some versions are using ld --oformat and other versions ld -oformat This is quite a recent issue. So check the version of you linker. You can solve the problem changing : ./arch/i386/boot/Makefile: $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat

Re: trouble with 2.4.2 just released

2001-02-22 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:55:28 -0500, Heitzso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ld: cannot open binary: no such file or directory Binutils incompatibility. Linus, please apply. Index: 2.1/arch/i386/boot/Makefile --- 2.1/arch/i386/boot/Makefile Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:42:29 +1100 kaos

pdc202xx corruping file system under 2.4.0 kernel

2001-02-22 Thread David John SUMMERS
Hi, Using the pdc202xx version 0.30 driver for a Promise 20265 chip under the 2.4.0 kernel I'm getting file system corruptions. Whats odd though is that e2fsck can't correct the corrupted file systems. Here is the setup :- Hardware: AMD Athlon Asus A7V motherboard Via Apollo

Re: PROBLEM: Network hanging - Tulip driver with Netgear (Lite-On)

2001-02-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: three Netgear NICs and am experiencing considerable trouble with the=20 combination: Kernel 2.4.[01]:ifconfig shows that the card see's traffic on t= he=20 network, but does not transmit anything (no response to ping). Use a current

CPRM is dead; Thanks Andre!

2001-02-22 Thread Mordechai Ovits
See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17107.html IBM withdrew the proposal. mordy - 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

Re: (BUG) 3c509b and kernel 2.4.x

2001-02-22 Thread Lazarus Long
In reply to message From: Lazarus Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (BUG) 3c509b and kernel 2.4.x Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:13:59 -0800 (Replying to my own message. :-/ ) Non-modular support for 3Com EtherLinkIII cards, specifically the ISA 3c509b, worked fine in kernel 2.2.18.

Re: Porting to 2.4 info

2001-02-22 Thread Jay Miller
I hate to pollute your mailboxes with stuff that almost certainly doesn't concern you, but my ISP went down for about 6-7 hours yesterday after I posted this.. sigh So, um, if you couldn't get in - please try again! (Sorry to the rest of ya'..) - Words by Jay Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010221

nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch

2001-02-22 Thread Scott A McConnell
I am getting NFS errors/warnings VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch expected (0x806/0x6246a), got (0x806/0x62b48) ^/var/run/utmp ^/var/log/wtmp**

Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

2001-02-22 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Phillips) wrote on 20.02.01 in 01022020011905.18944@gimli: But the current hash function is just a place holder, waiting for an better version based on some solid theory. I currently favor the idea of using crc32 as the default hash function, but I welcome

Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

2001-02-22 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Mares) wrote on 22.02.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: One could avoid this, but it would mean designing the whole filesystem in a completely different way -- merge all directories to a single gigantic hash table and use (directory ID,file name) as a key, but we were

Using ACPI to get PCI routing info?

2001-02-22 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Hi, Gigabyte (and/or AMI and/or VIA) decided that it is not worth of effort to create full mptable and since version F5a for 6VXD7 they do not report PCI interrupts as 16-19, but only as traditional 0-15 (and they do not report them as conforms/conforms, but as active-lo/level). For now

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac1

2001-02-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote: Hi Alan, is it possible that you send a list of all the changes in 2.4.2ac1 compared to plain 2.4.2? I doubt Alan has time for requests like this (but more power to him, if he does)... His patch is diff'd against 2.4.2, so just look at the patch. I

(Random?) File System Corruption

2001-02-22 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
[1.] One line summary of the problem: (Seemingly) random file system corruption [2.] Full description of the problem/report: The other day, I downloaded the latest version (at the time) of the kernel: 2.4.1. I had made the kernel a couple times, and had done "make distclean" a couple times.

Re: i82562ET LAN (i815) timeout/lockup with eepro100 driver

2001-02-22 Thread Andrey Savochkin
If it's a VALinux computer, contact them. They've made some progress in tracking different eepro100 problems. Andrey On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:32:07PM +0200, Ionut Dumitrache wrote: The integrated LAN on Intel boards with i815 chipset apparently is not fully supported. In

mkdep fails in 4.2

2001-02-22 Thread al goldstein
Any suggestions would be aprreciated. Symbolic reference problem. - 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 at

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