Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Tokarev wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: [] RAID-10 is not the same as RAID 0+1. It is. Yes, there's separate module for raid10, but what it - basically - does is the same as raid0 module over two raid1 modules will do. It's just a bit more efficient (less levels, more room

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
with LKML volume. -- 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 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Phillip Susi wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Quite honestly, the main place I have found O_DIRECT useful is in keeping programs doing large i/o quantities from blowing the buffers and making the other applications run like crap. If you application is running alone, unless you are very short

Re: Raid 0 Swap?

2006-12-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
in the linux-raid archives, won't rehash here. -- 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: open(O_DIRECT) on a tmpfs?

2007-01-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
, feel free to point it out. Hugh p.s. You said O_DIRECT (for example) - what other open flag do you think tmpfs should support which it does not? -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from

Re: open(O_DIRECT) on a tmpfs?

2007-01-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Peter Staubach wrote: Hugh Dickins wrote: On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: In many cases the use of O_DIRECT is purely to avoid impact on cache used by other applications. An application which writes a large quantity of data will have less impact on other applications by using

Re: open(O_DIRECT) on a tmpfs?

2007-01-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Thursday 04 January 2007 17:19, Bill Davidsen wrote: Hugh Dickins wrote: In many cases the use of O_DIRECT is purely to avoid impact on cache used by other applications. An application which writes a large quantity of data will have less impact on other

Re: open(O_DIRECT) on a tmpfs?

2007-01-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 17:20, Bill Davidsen wrote: Denis Vlasenko wrote: But O_DIRECT is _not_ about cache. At least I think it was not about cache initially, it was more about DMAing data directly from/to application address space to/from disks, saving

Re: installing only the newly (re)built modules

2007-01-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
this, but the copy runs so fast I never really thought about it as an issue. -- 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

Re: compiling linux kernels with gcc 4.x

2007-01-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
, that at least tells you why. Is there anyway we can compile lower versions of linux using gcc 4.x. Im using a arm-linux-gcc. I can't even give you a guess on that, other than patching your kernel with individual patches used to avoid compilation problems. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.6.20-rc4: regression: iptables failed to load rules

2007-01-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Tomasz Kvarsin wrote: During boot into 2.6.20-rc4 iptables says iptables-restore: line 15 failed. And works fine with my default kernel: 2.6.18.x I bet you enabled the new transport-agnostic netfilter, and didn't enable some of the actual rules

Re: installing only the newly (re)built modules

2007-01-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexy Khrabrov wrote: The 2.6 build system compiles only those modules whose config changed. However, the install still installs all modules. Is there a way to entice make modules_install to install only those new modules we've actually just changed/built

Re: ACPI buttons in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2

2005-07-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Brown, Len wrote: I agree that the value of _LID can be usefult to user-space and I'll be sure it is restored as a property of the lid device under sysfs -- available as a simple file read like it was under /proc. You're missing the point, removing the /proc feature breaks existing code. You

Re: Kernel cached memory

2005-08-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gábor Lénárt wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:47:50PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gábor Lénárt wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 05:46:58PM +0800, Ashley wrote: I've a server with 2 Operton 64bit CPU and 12G memory, and this server is used to run applications which

Re: Finding out which SCSI drive is mapped to which device

2005-08-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
to be for SCSI devices which are not disks, tapes or CD-ROMs. All my SCSI devices are disks. I only need to find out which SCSI ID maps to sda, and which ID to sdb etc. For human information cat /proc/scsi/scsi might do -- bill davidsen SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center http

Re: Linux 2.6.13-rc4 (snd-cs46xx)

2005-08-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
succeeded. Sorry for that. I blame it on it being late when I wrote it and trying several different ways. :-P You are hardly the first person to implement the it doesn't work right, but it sure is FAST! algorithm. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put

Re: Acer Aspire 1691WCLi no boot problem

2005-08-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
[234] all boot fine, but the damn sound doesn't work. FC3 just didn't work, FC4 hangs if I use play test sound but otherwise works. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe

Re: Determining if the current processor is Hyperthreaded

2005-08-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
is listed and more than one. There is no other thread there, it's like which one is the other hand? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: i387 floating-point test program/benchmark

2005-08-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
i387_bench.c i387_bench.c:27: parse error before `cpuset' i387_bench.c:27: warning: data definition has no type or storage class i387_bench.c:34: unknown field `sa_handler' specified in initializer -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
device using ftape for control updates cost more than a small house. I can obviously keep an old slow machine to do the job, but I'd like to know if I need to. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

Re: [PATCH] Clarify i386/Kconfig explanation of the HIGHMEM config options

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
will avoid confusion when you have two unrelated reasons for enabling the same feature. -- 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

Re: 2.6.19 kernel series, SATA, wodim (cd recording), synaptics update,

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
programs as well. Do not use cdrecord derivates but the original as derivates may have bugs that are not present in the original. That cuts both ways. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from

Re: Will there be security updates for 2.6.17 kernels?

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
the new unchanged behavior. See VCD not readable for details. -- 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

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Alan wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:50:14 -0500 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I miss an alternate method of handling ftape devices, or are these old beasts now unsupported? I occasionally have to be able to handle that media, since the industrial device using ftape for control

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
or even deadline might be helpful. -- 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 at http

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
had other values, may be needed on some hardware but not others, etc. Cleanups are good, but may not be as obvious as they appear. Not that there's a lack of places to remove visual cruft, but perhaps someone could look at casts and ask if each hides a real type mismatch. -- bill davidsen

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
. -- 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 at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
the data for one file at once, because it avoids seeks, even if it uses the drive for seconds. The code has gone too far in the direction of throughput, at the expense of response to other processes, given the (common) behavior noted. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
over, it's quite possibly the best solution there is.' I think any solution is going to be ugly, unfortunately. -- 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

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
reflecting this. Please clarify how this would interact with quota, and why it wouldn't allow someone to run me out of disk. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
that with an otherwise unmodified large program which uses fprintf(). That worked on all of the major UNIX variants as well. -- 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

Re: Choosing a HyperThreading/SMP/MultiCore kernel ?

2007-01-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:03:49 EST, Lennart Sorensen said: I would expect any distribution should work on these (as long as the kernel they use isn't too old.). Of course if it is a Mac, you need a distribution that supports their firmware (which is of course not a PC

Re: Linux v2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
with vanilla linux-2.6.20-rc5. What target? I had no such problem with x86, haven't tried the x86_64 build yet. Haven't even been able to try a boot, but the build was fine ;-) -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
/block/hda/queue/max_sectors_kb $ echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches $ dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10240 -- 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

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Tokarev wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: If I got it right (and please someone tell me if I *really* got it right!), the problem is elsewhere. Suppose you have a filesystem, not at all related to databases and stuff. Your usual root filesystem, with your /etc/ /var and so on directories

Re: Choosing a HyperThreading/SMP/MultiCore kernel ?

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:18:31 EST, Bill Davidsen said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:03:49 EST, Lennart Sorensen said: I would expect any distribution should work on these (as long as the kernel they use isn't too old.). Of course if it is a Mac, you

[2.6.20-rc5]KVM - Win98SE won't install

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
to try, let me know. I did run with -d, nothing written in qemu.log. -- Bill Davidsen He was a full-time professional cat, not some moonlighting ferret or weasel. He knew about these things. Linux version 2.6.20-rc5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #3 SMP Sun

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

2007-01-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
the problem to see if there's a better solution possible? I've used vmalloc in the past, and not had a problem, but it is a fair question, how do you find out how much space is available? Other than a binary vmalloc/release loop. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc

Re: Initramfs and /sbin/hotplug fun

2007-01-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
something to complete boot, but it could just be a thinko. -- 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

Re: Simple utility to measure disk random access time

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
/hdb Seeker v2.0, 2007-01-15, http://linux.inet.hr/how_fast_is_your_disk.html Disk too small, size: 0 blocks -- 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

Re: obsolete versus deprecated, and a new config option?

2007-01-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
, one-step way to enforce that absolutely in a build. thoughts? I think it's a good idea, but doing it right may be more work than the benefit justifies. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
by an user-level daemon such as acpid, blanking the screen, dimming the lcd-panel light à la mac, etc... Any idea how much power this saves? And for the vast rest of us who do run X, this seems to parallel the work of a well-tuned screensaver. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates

Re: Probably wrong place to ask

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
, or is this particular cf known to be a bad bird? I do that with CF and memory stick, what kernel, distribution, etc? I would suspect something in hotplug not noticing. I presume you have tried this from cold boot, so any issues with unplugging and plugging another flash are removed. -- bill

Re: Threading...

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
; so I've got one idle processor all the time. This sounds so unlikely I hesitate to mention it, but you are not, by any chance, running pthreads on one and nptl on the other, are you? -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers

Re: VCD not readable under 2.6.18

2006-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Infact, just inserting a CD is enough. No need for a media player to try and access the files. :) The backend must be polling and trying to mount the disc upon insertion. Kernel 2.6.16 and before did that fine, but kernel 2.6.17 and above don't and give error

Re: sysfs file creation result nightmare (WAS radeonfb: Fix sysfs_create_bin_file warnings)

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
it fixed. Failing to init the fb is certainly a good way to make sure the problem isn't overlooked, but perhaps a bit shy in the area of letting the user find out what the error was. Perhaps a warning would be better. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting

Re: noexec=on doesn't work

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
; the NX bit seems to not work. Straining my memories of i586, I don't think that it even COULD do noexec... I don't have any here to try at the moment. In any case an option which isn't known or isn't implemented should generate a warning. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates

Re: [patch 14/23] x86 microcode: dont check the size

2006-12-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
; or some similar logic to do what the manual suggests, that zero is a valid value. I may be totally misreading this, of course, I'm taking the manual quote as gospel. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: PREEMPT is messing with everyone

2006-12-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
and confusing. #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT #include linux/preempt.h #endif #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT preempt_disable(); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT preempt_enable(); #endif -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

Re: Meaning of keycodes unclear

2006-12-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
and still have function keys as other things wanted them. Hope that answers your question. -- 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

Re: IDE HPA

2005-09-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
as a separate and distinct area, the DM driver would come in handy. This follows the same philosophy as fakeraid (BIOS RAID): we simply export the entire disk, and Device Mapper (google for 'dmraid') handles the vendor-proprietary RAID metadata. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
, and it originally came from that root, then this is the time to put in a hook for transitions to=from the all-idle state. Various arch may have things other than the PIT which should (or at least can) be stopped, and which need to be restarted. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
devise a way for programs like ndiswrapper to provide their own stack, for instance. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
hardware, which can't be replaced due to resources (money, slots, batter life). -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
to implement is a practical reason) why all stacks need to be the same size? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mike Galbraith wrote: At 12:38 PM 9/7/2005 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: You must have something more useful to work on, which would ADD value to the kernel instead of breaking existing installations. Ripping out petty stuff which works is a waste of your time and talent, please find something

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jan Kiszka wrote: 2005/9/7, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a technical reason (hard to implement is a practical reason) why all stacks need to be the same size? Because of static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void) { struct thread_info *ti

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
mainly at the acronym level, all are called BSD. Question: does colinux get around all this crap by using the Windows drivers and running in essentially microkernel mode? Windows as the new NDISwrapper ;-) -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
? It's not old hardware that's the problem, it's new hardware which isn't supported. And unlike desktops, there's a lot less in the way of hardware options on a lappie, you take what you get, you get what you can afford, and often that means running on what someone else chooses. -- -bill davidsen

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
hang whatever makes sense there. That hopefully would result in readable code for both power reduction (laptop) and for the strange things that embedded systems sometimes do. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions (v3)

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
butchered it then that would have been a bug that should have been fixed. Oh. OK. Meanwhile, 2.6.19-rc6 remains unfixed. Has anyone verified that nmi watchdog works at all in 2.6.19-rc6? I haven't built a kernel since rc2, other things have been taking my time. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL

Re: RAID extremely slow

2012-07-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
of job one on older kernels. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com 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 to majord

Re: RAID extremely slow

2012-07-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kevin Ross wrote: On 07/27/2012 09:45 PM, Grant Coady wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:45:18 -0700, you wrote: On 07/27/2012 12:08 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Have you set the io scheduler to deadline on all members of the array? That's kind of job one on older kernels. I have not, thanks

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
things about which to be confused. ;-) Yours Manuel -- 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: Driver removals

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:26:26PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... In general, if a driver works and is being used, until it *needs* attention I see no reason to replace it. I don't agree that it forces people to try the new driver is a valid reason, being unmaintained

Re: Is there a blackhole /dev/null directory?

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
the analysis. Yes, if this was an original program requirement it would or should have been a feature. Real world cases sometimes use tools in creative ways. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked

Re: Driver removals

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:07:41PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:26:26PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... In general, if a driver works and is being used, until it *needs* attention I see no reason to replace

Re: Driver removals

2008-02-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:08:13 EST, Bill Davidsen said: can never make you see why technological extortion is evil. People have always moved to new drivers without pushing because they were *better*, guess that model is dead. And the drivers get better because

Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release.

2007-02-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
a bad idea type simply contribute nothing. Because user threading can avoid context switches, there will always be cases where it will outperform o/s threads for hardware reasons. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: smp and irq conflict

2007-02-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
that. I think you are just running out of bus. -- 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

Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release.

2007-02-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
this part of your argument seems to be incorrect ;) How does that work? Switching between kernel threads requires going into the kernel, user level thread switches are all done in user mode. Do you have some way to change o/s threads w/o going into the kernel? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
. And if that changes, it need only change in one place. Making good administration difficult because it fits some pedantic metal model is NOT a good way to decide which features to offer in a kernel. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release.

2007-02-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:12:32PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: Because user threading can avoid context switches, there will always be cases where it will outperform o/s threads for hardware reasons. actually.. switching from one

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Well, at work i probably have an USB floppy lying around somewhere, but i doubt that it uses floppy.c ;-), -- 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

Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
is something mostly done by advanced user doesn't mean it should be difficult or time-consuming. And why say should have done for the SCSI mess, it's correctable, if everyone agrees that you are right (who would dare disagree ;-) then it can be fixed. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We

Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
starting points will cover a majority of the options. Useful for device drivers as well, particularly network cards and disk controllers, where there are a vast number of choices. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
also, from long habit (accessing a remote compile server with slow dialup). -- 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

Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
$ kconfig disable -f SCSI disabling USB_STORAGE $ make I think depends and select provide this now, the postulated requires might make building the trees easier. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
works. Agreed, I've already had problems typing faster than I think, twice, as as I hit ENTER saying wait, that's a SCSI device and then wow, it worked anyway! Nice job on the whole, but setting transfer modes is desirable, still. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
problem that will end up biting you some other way if you force it back on. I think deciding to turn off DMA which works fine in old kernels qualifies as a serious driver problem, which is why it should be under user control. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from

Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:04:31AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: There's no reason we shouldn't be able to do exactly that with config symbols in Kconfig-land. The only difference is that we've got slightly different semantics for our depend keyword. Things which don't have

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20] isdn-capi: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriate

2007-02-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
time ago, that produced better code. I did not check recently though. Why would you write --i = 0 instead of just i--? The size of an array can't be negative. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked

Re: 2.6.20: Modular fb and logo crash

2007-02-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
;-) I used to see this when loading from a booted system, but not when the modules were in initrd. Don't know if that offers you any help or not. Clearly you want the fb built-in so you see the penguins, anyway. ;-D -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
, as mine only seems to manifest with RAID5+XFS. The RAID rebuilds with no problem, and I've not had any problems with RAID5+ext3. Hopefully it's not the raid which is the issue. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

Re: speed trends in pata world.

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
, 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 Slashdot - To unsubscribe from

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 more to fear from

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

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
? 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 line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 see :( -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
,76933.3,98.6667,386852,72,183016,29.6667,79530.7,99,512082,39.6667,678.567,0,16:10:16/64,1230.33,10.,12349,32.,2945,17.,1258,11,8183,22.,2867,20. 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

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 driver

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 list: send the line unsubscribe

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 [EMAIL

Re: Reiser @ wired.com

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

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: SATA exceptions

2007-07-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal

2007-07-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 have more to fear from

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 peachy here

Re: [PATCH 000 of 2] md: Introduction - bugfixes for md/raid{1,10}

2007-06-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
for remote mirrors I do have a few systems doing 2 mirrors as well. This set of patches definitely will be in my kernel by this afternoon. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send

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