Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-14 Thread Con Kolivas
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:25, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 09:37 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: I have to say, this whole thread has been pretty damn worthless in general in my not-so-humble opinion. This thread has really gone OT, but

Re: [discuss] Re: NUMA support for dual core Opteron

2005-07-14 Thread yhlu
EFI support in x86-64? Is EFI only support IA64? Is acpi in EFI? YH On 7/14/05, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:52:58 -0700 yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andi, How do yo think about make x86-64 kernel support openfirmware interface? I don't like it. We

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:08 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: Audio did show slightly larger max latencies but nothing that would be of significance. On video, maximum latencies are only slightly larger at HZ 250, all the desired cpu was achieved, but the average latency and number of missed

Patch for ub and blank CDs in 2.6.12

2005-07-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
This patch fixes a microcode lockup in my CD-ROM adapters when a blank CD is inserted. However, do not try to burn CDs yet! I'm pretty sure that trying it will end in coasters. - Fix a few cases where we were unable to resynchronize with replies for previous commands. The main thing is to

Re: [PATCH] Filesystem capabilities support

2005-07-14 Thread Nicholas Hans Simmonds
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 05:45:58AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: On 7/16/05, Nicholas Hans Simmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I'm not qualified to comment on the implementation I do have a few small codingstyle comments :-) diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c ---

Re: RFC: Hugepage COW

2005-07-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, David Gibson wrote: I'm still not at all sure what you're getting at. Do you mean the demand-allocation patches which were floating around at some point - I gather they're important for doing sensible NUMA allocation of hugepages. They have a small overlap with the COW

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-14 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:08 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: Audio did show slightly larger max latencies but nothing that would be of significance. On video, maximum latencies are only slightly larger at HZ 250, all the desired cpu was achieved, but

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: It's buggy, that I know. setting kernel_hz (the new boot parameter) to 250 causes my system clock to run at something like 4-5 times normal speed 4 times normal. You don't actually make the timer interrupt happen at 250Hz, so the timer will be

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-14 Thread Sam Song
Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, in this case, the whinging resulted in finding a _real_ bug and locating why your ports weren't being found. So I guess it's good for something. Indeed! The old kernel didn't have such an advantage. Can you mail me a diff of the changes you made

Re: [announce] linux kernel performance project launch at sourceforge.net

2005-07-14 Thread randy_dunlap
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:27:48 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: Some oprofile listings from a few of the test runs would be also nice. That is in the works. We will upload profile data. I'm having problem with oprofile on some versions of kernel and that is being investigated right now. If

Re: [rfc patch 2/2] direct-io: remove address alignment check

2005-07-14 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Tejun Heo wrote: Daniel McNeil wrote: This patch relaxes the direct i/o alignment check so that user addresses do not have to be a multiple of the device block size. I've done some preliminary testing and it mostly works on an ext3 file system on a ide disk. I have seen trouble when the

Re: Sandisk Compact Flash

2005-07-14 Thread David Hinds
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:04:38PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ma newbie to compactflash driver , I am using mpc862 PPC processor on my custom board having 64mb ram running linuxppc-2.4.18 kernel . i am using Sandisk Extreme CF 1GB which is 133x high speed, but found the performance

Re: PS/2 Keyboard is dead after resume.

2005-07-14 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:35, Andrew Haninger wrote: Hello. I'm using Linux Kernel 2.6.12.2 plus suspend 2.1.9.9 and acpi-20050408 with the hibernate-1.10 script. My machine is a Shuttle SK43G which has a VIA KM400 chipset with an Athlon XP CPU. Suspension seems to work well. However,

Re: RFC: Hugepage COW

2005-07-14 Thread David Gibson
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 07:00:11PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, David Gibson wrote: Well, the COW patch implements a fault handler, obviously. What specifically where you thinking about? About a fault handler of course and about surrounding scalability issues. I

Re: [rfc patch 2/2] direct-io: remove address alignment check

2005-07-14 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Daniel McNeil wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:16, Badari Pulavarty wrote: How does your patch ensures that we meet the driver alignment restrictions ? Like you said, you need atleast even byte alignment for IDE etc.. And also, are there any restrictions on how much the minimum IO size has to

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