Re: 3 years since last 2.2 release, why still on kernel.org main page?

2007-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
a handy place to the the current 2.2 kernel, which some people run for reasons which are valid to them. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscrib

Re: [PATCH] swsusp: Use platform mode by default

2007-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
n't report problems with suspend and hibernate is that it's been a problem on and off and when it breaks people don't bother to chase it, they just don't use it unless it's critical, or they install suspend2. I only suggest that if 'platform' is more correct use that, don't change it again. Then fix pla

Re: upgrade linux kernel

2007-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
t sure it's worth doing. The system I'm on is RH8.0 patched to run later kernels when my development machine went down. I got 2.5.52 to boot, last stable was 2.5.47-ac6 and I gave up. Unless you have some major need to upgrade the kernel without the distribution, grab the latest RH kernel,

Re: undeprecate raw driver.

2007-05-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
ot; when it is, in fact, only deprecated. in short, do *not* remove its "deprecated" status. rather, remove its "obsolete" status and *make* it deprecated. Correct. Like the weird lady next door who fancies you, it's old, it's ugly, but it's not likely to go away any time

Re: [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful" document

2007-05-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jeff Garzik wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 07:26:13PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You don't need volatile in that case, rmb() can be used. rmb() invalidates all compiler assumptions,

Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
tc. Can you collect and post those. Both for the failing case (2*5.5T) and the working case (4*2.55T) is possible. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: parallel port problems with 2.6.21_rc5 and 2.6.21_rc6_git3-20070410174235

2007-05-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
not likely to be upgraded. Non-critical in the sense that I'm sure I can run old kernels for a decade if needed, but hopefully something to be fixed. Since there's no regressions list any more, I guess we will all have to complain about problems individually. :-( -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAI

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

2007-05-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Given that and the fact that there is another idea which can be tested from Tong Li, I think that decision can be postponed, Linus willing. There appear to be enough testers to be driving evolution now, authors may disagree, of course. Several folks added to cc list... -- Bill Davidsen &

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v9

2007-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
done by Nick Piggin in nicksched. There are a lot of mutually incompatible approaches being evaluated, and that's good for the future. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked."

Re: swap-prefetch: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
r i/o, so to some extent I feel as if this is a fix for a problem we shouldn't have. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: swap-prefetch: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
comparing 2.5.43-mm2 responsiveness with 2.4.19-ck7, you know I always test your stuff ;-) Guess it might need a bit of polish for current hardware, I was testing on *small* machines, deliberately. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompe

Re: mkfs.ext2 triggerd RAM corruption

2007-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
kernel versions: vanilla 2.6.16 - 2.6.20 (<2.6.16 doesn't run on any of the systems I can do tests with). Please note: I could reproduce this on serveral systems, all of them use ECC memory and the memory of most of them the memory is monitored using EDAC. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTE

Preempt of BKL and with tickless systems

2007-05-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
waiting for me to run my numbers with all values of HZ and not, and tell the world what I found? ;-) -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from

Some CFS and sd04[68] results for kernel build

2007-05-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
I have a results page here, I will repeat tests with tuning if asked. http://www.tmr.com/~davidsen/Kernel%20build%20time%20results.html -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: [REPORT] First "glitch1" results, 2.6.21-rc7-git6-CFSv5 + SD 0.46

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Con Kolivas wrote: On Friday 27 April 2007 08:00, Bill Davidsen wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SD 0.46 1-2 FPS cfs v5 nice -19 219-233 FPS cfs v5 nice 0 1000-1996 cfs v5 nice -10 60-65 FPS the p

Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
consistent. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
getting ready to boot and test the x86_64 version. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: If the result is fixing things which then don't get fixed in mainline, as Adrian notes That whole premise is flawed. The *rule* for the stable tree is that things don't get merged into the stable tree unless they are fixed

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
my time on maintaining regression lists for 2.6.22 - and maintaining such lists is not something special noone else could do equally well. And the next kernel will go out with no list to warn users, and no to-do list for -stable. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have m

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
y programs broke, as was true with threading changes. Bad reliability is the reward for bad code, but if a kernel change makes that obvious some people think it's a regression. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than

Re: Back to the future.

2007-04-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
has addressed them. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
ould still wake up. It's *technically* doable, but it's just a pain to do right now) And timer somehow so cron jobs could still run. Ideal for critical but rarely used machines like fallover servers, the user documentation download site, or similar. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Best CONFIG_HZ value for scheduler testing?

2007-04-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
are at 1000, that's just my default and I didn't bother to change it. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21

2007-04-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
tainted or not? Does this open another multi-month flame war around GPL, BSD, NDA, source available but not GPL, and all the other things we talked to death about inserting non-GPL modules? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incom

[REPORT] 2.6.21 vs. 2.6.21-sd046 vs. 2.6.21-CFSv7

2007-04-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
sts with server load later this week, have to add disk for the database. Hope this initial report is useful, I may be able to update ctxbench later today and try that. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: [REPORT] 2.6.21 vs. 2.6.21-sd046 vs. 2.6.21-CFSv7

2007-04-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: System: Intel 6600 Core2duo, 2GB RAM, X nice 0 for all tests, display using i945G framebuffer Test: playing a 'toon with mplayer while kernel build -j20 running. Tuning: not yet, all scheduler parameters were default Result: base 2.6.21 showed some pauses and after

Re: [REPORT] 2.6.21 vs. 2.6.21-sd046 vs. 2.6.21-CFSv7

2007-05-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Huey (hui) wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:58:45PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Followup: I reran with sd-0.46, setting rr_interval to 40, and then 5 (default was 16). Neither appeared to give a useful video playback. I did try setting the make to nice 10, and that made the playback

Re: [REPORT] 2.6.21 vs. 2.6.21-sd046 vs. 2.6.21-CFSv7

2007-05-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Con Kolivas wrote: On Tuesday 01 May 2007 05:29, Bill Davidsen wrote: System: Intel 6600 Core2duo, 2GB RAM, X nice 0 for all tests, display using i945G framebuffer Bill thanks for testing. Test: playing a 'toon with mplayer while kernel build -j20 running. Umm I don't think

Re: SATA exceptions

2007-07-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
re-fail 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 253 253 000Old_age Hmm... This is pretty high too. Do the counts increase on this machine too? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the w

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
ly version where I never see this in test or with real use is cfs-v13. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal

2007-07-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
yone keeps on using /proc -- and I do[*] -- we will never get rid of it. Is there some reason why you should get rid of it? Is it causing a lot work to maintain? [*] Does someone have an alternative for /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/{state,info}? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We h

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've taken mainline git tree (freshly integrated CFS!) out for a multimedia spin. I tested watching movies and listenign to music in the presence of various sleep/burn loads, pure burn loads, and mixed loads. All was

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've taken mainline git tree (freshly integrated CFS!) out for a multimedia spin. I tested watching movies and listenign to music in the presence of various sleep/burn loads, pure burn loads, and mixed loads. All was peach

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 07/13/2007 05:19 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I should really go back to 2.6.21.6, 2.6.22 has many bizarre behaviors with FC6. Automount starts taking 30% of CPU (unused at the moment) Can you confirm wheth

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
I didn't get a comment on my suggestion for a quick and dirty fix for -assume-clean issues... Bill Davidsen wrote: Neil Brown wrote: On Thursday June 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's now churning away 'rebuilding' the brand new array. a few questions/thoughts. why does it need to do

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
el that the current performance suggests room for improvement. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Re: [md-accel PATCH 00/19] md raid acceleration and the async_tx api

2007-06-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
ave run in production with just one patchset added. There are enough other changes in an -rc to confuse the issue, and I don't run them in production (at least not usually). -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers s

Re: How would I do this? (expert tricks) OT

2007-06-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
you can use redirect to send it to a program of your choosing, which can run a script if you really want to. Beware that rate limiting is desirable if you are going to start a process for ANY type of attack packets. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from t

Re: Question about fair schedulers

2007-06-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
ng. Face it, if you have more jobs than CPU no scheduler is going to make you really happy. Alberto. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubs

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
or in Intel microcode was being fixed. However, it listed only Windows related sites for the "fix" download. Is this the same TLB issue? And are these really fixes for Windows to flush the TLB properly the way Linux does? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more t

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
efault, but I have nothing using at on my test machine. Why is it looping so fast when there are no mount points defined? If the config changes there's no requirement to notice right away, is there? -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting thing

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
fected. Allow it to be selected by the "features" so that admins can evaluate the implications without a reboot? That would be a convenient interface if you could provide it. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with smal

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In several places I have code similar to: wait.tv_sec = time(NULL) + 1; wait.tv_nsec = 0; Ok, that definitely should work. Does the patch below help? Spectacularly no!

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does the patch below help? Doesn't seem to apply against 2.6.22.1, I'm trying 2.6.22.6 as soon as I recreate it. Spectacularly no! With this patch the "glitch1" script with multiple scrolling window

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does the patch below help? Doesn't seem to apply against 2.6.22.1, I'm trying 2.6.22.6 as soon as I recreate it. Applied to 2.6.22-git9, building now. - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does the patch below help? Spectacularly no! With this patch the "glitch1" script with multiple scrolling windows has all xterms and glxgears stop totally dead for ~200ms once per second. I didn't properly test any

[RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend?

2007-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
the original boot - total uptime since first boot, not counting the time suspended - time since resume - some other time around six minutes Any of the first three could be useful and "right" for some casesm thus discussion invited. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "

Where did KVM go in 2.6.22-git9?

2007-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
what depends have changed with each release. I see KVm depends on X86_CMPXCHG64 which simply doesn't seem to be defined directly anywhere. Going back to 2.6.21.6 until whatever changed is at least documented. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from t

2.6.22-git13 crash

2007-07-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
built from 2.6.22-git9 config, used oldconfig. Crashes so early it doesn't seem to get to the network card. config: www.tmr.com/~davidsen/config-2.6.22-git13.gz screen dump: www.tmr.com/~davidsen/dump-2.6.22-git13.jpg Not much info, and probably seen elsewhere. -- bill davidsen <[EM

Re: [RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend?

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
reported makes no sense at all. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

Re: 2.6.22-git13 crash

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gabriel C wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: built from 2.6.22-git9 config, used oldconfig. Crashes so early it doesn't seem to get to the network card. config: www.tmr.com/~davidsen/config-2.6.22-git13.gz screen dump: www.tmr.com/~davidsen/dump-2.6.22-git13.jpg Not much info, and probably

Final glitch1 report WRT cfs

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
smoothness in the older version, I'm going to put my efforts into other characterizations. The test source will remain on the server, but I'm won't do more with it unless someone finds it useful. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the

Re: [RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend?

2007-07-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:54:37AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: So is setting it to a random number considered correct behavior? Any of the first three values I mentioned would make sense, but the value I see is neither time since resume, time since power-on to do

Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery

2007-07-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
software I rarely use. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: [RFH] Partition table recovery

2007-07-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
in the second level extendeds). How can I politely say this code really needs comments? To quote the late R. W. Benway, "If it was hard to write it should be hard to understand." (regarding code in FORTRAN II on punched cards, ca 1965) Rene. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
el code could effect reliability if not security. I worry that an old 2.4 kernel would be an issue, even in kvm, if that were the case. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: man-pages-2.59 and man-pages-2.60 are released

2007-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
e push to mirrors, etc. So it would just be a single step added to an automated procedure. You could have a link in "Old" as requested, and any other links as well. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the m

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
any details? One of the folks in a chat was saying something similar, but thought that causing as crash was the extent of it, rather than any access violation. Obviously I don't know the extent of that claim, so more information would be good. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "W

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v18

2007-07-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
I am satisfied with the performance of CFS. Especially the desktop is noticably smoother. Thanks! Kind regards, Vegard Nossum -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Sla

Re: Old bug in tg3 driver unfixed?

2007-07-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
s. I have that chip in a system, but I didn't find it quickly, it may be at another location, unless the controller which shows up as 3C940 on my ASUS P4P800 is the Broadcom. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: [2.6 patch] the overdue eepro100 removal

2007-07-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
nd day to support new cards for this chip. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Suspend2 is getting a new name.

2007-07-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
if you have no hope of getting this code into the mainline kernel. :-( -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: [PATCH] ata: Add the SW NCQ support to sata_nv for MCP51/MCP55/MCP61

2007-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
patches there as well. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Re: blink driver power saving

2007-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
y to put them higher or lower than the pseudo disk light (or not). -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: speed trends in pata world.

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
risky," but at least the older kernels truly sucked at guessing the correct speeds. Backups are advised if you do this, etc,etc. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slas

Re: Big sized packets have been dropped strangly

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
slow (it almost took 10 minutes to transfer 100KB files). I don't know why it is and how to solve it. Any suggestions are appreciated! http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/4434f7c5d38d9292 I think that's relevant. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have m

Re: RAID performance is not too well....

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
ot;format a partition" do you mean "create an array?" Or ??? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
ood SCSI drives TCQ helps alot - up to 2x the difference and more - with multiple I/O threads) Well, what the driver does is minimal. It just passes through all the commands to the harddrive. After all, NCQ/TCQ gives the harddrive more responsibility regarding request scheduling. Oh well, I

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
7,20. I looked at these before, did you really run with a chunk size of just under 16GB, or does "15696M" have some inobvious meaning? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the w

Re: [2.6 patch] the overdue eepro100 removal

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Please do not make unnecessary kernel changes which require changes in our systems. Kok, Auke wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the overdue removal of the eepro100 driver. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The hardware supported by this

Re: [2.6 patch] the overdue eepro100 removal

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:01:56PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Please do not make unnecessary kernel changes which require changes in our systems. If you think the e100 driver fixes your problems use it and be happy. But since you don't have to test system behavior

Re: Liunx power consumption on laptops -- Enormous progress in the last few months

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
assume that unloading the drivers is still desirable if no USB hardware is in use. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: [patch 0/4] SATA power savings patches (ALPM)

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
it an appropriate time to do this. In addition, the patch was changed to allow either HIPM or DIPM as a prerequisite for enabling ALPM, rather than just using HIPM. I suspect these changes would be useful for servers as well, extending run time when a failover to UPS is detected. -- Bill Davidsen <[EM

Re: Reiser @ wired.com

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
is as poor a choice as confusing context with the complete information and taking it as gospel. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from t

Re: [2.6 patch] the overdue eepro100 removal

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:27:55PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: For how many years do you know that there's a new and actively maintained e100 driver for your hardware? And if you don't follow a stable line like the 2.6.16 kernel or a distribution kernel it's simply

Re: [patch v3 1/1] md: Software Raid autodetect dev list not array

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
labeled with such a keyword (at least in the list of git trees I saw). I suspect you wait for 2.5.23 release, or send it to AKPM for inclusion in an "-mm" kernel. That's probably desirable, anyway. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing in

Re: [PATCH 1/2] NBD: set uninitialized devices to size 0

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
ndomly marked both these as 2.6.24 material. If you think that was incorrect, please shout out. I have the feeling that I mentioned nbd issues several releases ago, but never got to getting more info on reproducing them. I try not to submit bugs I can't reproduce, oftem they're my fault :-( -

Re: CFS review

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
t side-by-side need some settling time before smoothing out. Without __update_curr it's absolutely smooth from the start. I posted a LOT of stuff using the glitch1 script, and finally found a set of tuning values which make the test script run smooth. See back posts, I don't have them here. -- Bil

Re: CFS review

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
experienced smaller spikes with that.) Ingo -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: CFS review

2007-08-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is another way to show the problem visually under X (vesa-driver), by starting 3 gears simultaneously, which after laying them out side-by-side need some settling time before smoothing out. Without __update_cur

Re: file system for solid state disks

2007-08-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
important (if it isn't already), perhaps you will be able to design allowing for that capability to be easily added. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To

Re: request for Linux kernel related project ideas

2007-08-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
* problem. that's just part of the academic process. I agree that "pick something interesting, useful or not" is a part of the academic process, but I would never imply that it was a desirable thing. Asking for areas where work would be useful seems like valid research to me. -- Bil

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc4: known regressions

2007-08-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
imitation of just one audio driver, or maybe the user interface for ALSA is broken right now? Is it planned to leave Linux audio in this state? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&q

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
tions which include technical justification for the suggestion. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: speeding up swapoff

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
yway there) According to top, those pages in swap disappear when the process is killed. So, I don't think there are any swap-related performance issues on the shutdown path. Thanks. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-09-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
rt /base/upload - rw clients may mount one or both, with the upload directory as part of base or elsewhere. What will happen here? Trond -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." -

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
st results before I say any more. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you*

2007-09-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
tion, perhaps sanity testing after boot is not a great idea. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you*

2007-09-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mike Frysinger wrote: On 9/1/07, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you want to test that stuff and run it on the current code in the kernel, how about a kernel module? You could "modprobe sanitytest" or something and report to syslog at module load time. And maybe

Re: bogomips discrepancy on Intel Core2 Quad CPU

2007-09-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
ise on all cores. bjd [... copy of output snipped, see the O.P. ...] -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: ramdisk

2007-09-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
ount root, tried: ext2 cramfs vfat <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) Who can give me some hints ? or point me some direction to handle this. I appreciate this very much. regards, Yang -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We

Re: ramdisk

2007-09-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
used "dev" without a leading "/" and while I assumed it was a typo, I thought it was worth mentioning since you were looking for suggestions. I would expect /dev/ram0 to be correct. I would try the decompressed image next, and I have no other ideas at the moment. rega

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-09-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
David Howells wrote: Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mount /base on point1 - rw [ hopefully really r/w ] mount /base on point2 - ro [ hopefully r/o ] I think Al Viro probably has the right idea as to how to fix this: Move the R/O R/W flag into vfsmount and

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
k at it until Monday. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
ot;just change to skge and stop complaining" is also wrong? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
fit from noatime use it. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
nly ways to improve ext3, not journaling atime updates would certainly be one, less frequent updates of dirty inodes, whatever. But if a user wants to give up standards compliance it should be a deliberate choice, not something which the average user will not understand or learn to do. -- Bill

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jeff Garzik wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Being standards compliant is not an argument it's a design goal, a requirement. Standards compliance is like pregant, you are or you're Linux history says different. There was always the "final 1%" of compliance that required silliness we

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
g once in a while, but one of the benefits of noatime is allowing drives to spin down via inactivity. If something does get done in the area of less but non-zero atime tracking, perhaps that could be taken into account. I have to check what "laptop_mode actually does, since my laptops are old insta

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
n live with that. ;-) Your point well taken, not the intent of the patch, but it may indicate where a performance bottleneck happens as well. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&

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