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all in 2.6.19-rc6? I
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On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:33 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
What you say sounds good, assuming that the cost of a sleep is less than
the cost of the busy wait. But this may be hardware, the waits may be
very small and frequent, and if it's hitting a small hardware window
(i = 0; i < conf->raid_disks; i++) {
in a manner which can be understood without alcoholic fortification?
I don't find either hard to read, but you suggestion isn't equivalent,
since it increments rather than decrements the index.
I admit I probably would write it the same way Neil did...
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you can't do a backup and/or
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supposition is that it currently is NOT working as intended, since
disabling SMT scheduling is reported to help.
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NFS, I did some light testing with 2.6.20-git14
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Florin Iucha wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:36:23PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Florin Iucha wrote:
Hello, it's me and my 70 GB of photos again.
I have tested both CIFS and NFSv4 clients in kernel 2.6.20-rc1 . CIFS
passed with flying colors and NFSv4 stalled after 7 GB
rmless to
remove.
Where is the initialization performed, then?
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Yours sincerely and thanks for all your efforts
Uwe
P. S.: I do not think this is a hardware error as I did not have those problems
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The communications program "kermit" can do this, google for the source,
or try kermit.columbia.edu first, and read the source to see how they do
it. I'm reasonably sure ioctl() is the answer, but that's choice three
for your research.
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their own domain of excellence ;-)
Good catch, David, you're like a spider on a web waiting for the naive
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BTW: What happened to "FreeBSD User Giacomo" and his Samsung DVD writer ?
Any news to report ? A happy ending perchance ?
Bill Davidsen: [about filtering dangerous SCSI commands]
My suggestion would be to add an ioctl, like SET_SCSI_UNFILTERED, whic
Avi Kivity wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Starting a VM for Win98SE:
[ debug snip info ]
Known issue. It will be a while before we can support the '95 family on
Intel as it makes heavy use of real mode.
Thanks for the quick answer, I'll investigate other virtualization
solutions.
Please
explicitly doing
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system, and you have the patch, why not just apply it to your kernel and
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Indan Zupancic wrote:
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Tasos Parisinos wrote:
The main purpose behind the creation of this module was to create the
cryptographic infrastructure to develop an in-kernel system of signed
modules.
Although this functionality
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Who cares if the user specifies max_loop=8 but still is able to open up
/dev/loop8, loop9, etc.? max_loop=X basically meant (at least to me)
"have at least X" l
. There's no code
to ask for input, nor anyway to positively decide which connected
terminal is the terminal to ask.
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Until Namesys is stable there's no support team. It's not my impression
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ery last test made. Since the mode
filter is not told what mode will be used but just subtracts modes that
are not allowed this should be safe.
Far better to have a drive which works slowly than one which works
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Stephen Clark wrote:
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Alan Cox wrote:
it seems broken to manipulate xfer_mask after returning from the
driver's ->mode_filter hook.
this patch is more than just a speed-limited warning printk, afaics
I actually suggested that order because the only
works for me" reports. I'll revert to an FC6 kernel before load gets
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icular bootup code.
The patch is unintrusive.
I'm missing something, what limits this to systems running under kvm?
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it seems broken to manipulate xfer_mask after returning from the
driver's ->mode_filter hook.
this patch is more than just a speed-limited warning printk, afaics
eading is worth if if
you wind up convinced that the default settings are fine for you.
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display and being able to mount filesystems, even if the kernel is
technically running. When there were stable and development kernel
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I'm not objection to the removal of the drivers, just noting that
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. Therefore it should go in -mm and
hopefully give the user an option to select which is appropriate.
With luck I'll get to shake out that patch in combination with kvm later
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Willy Tarreau wrote:
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:18:44AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:05, Bill Davidsen wrote:
jos poortvliet wrote:
Well, imho his current staircase scheduler already does a better job
compared to mainline, but it won't make
Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:46:22PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Adrian Bunk wrote:
This patch contains the scheduled removal of the OBSOLETE_OSS options
for 2.6.22.
If these are drivers for which there are thought to be useful ALSA
drivers, would
..
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With luck I'll get to shake out that patch in combination with kvm later
today.
Great thanks!. I've appreciated all the feedback so far.
I did try, the 2.6.21-rc3-git3 doesn't want to kvm for me, and your
patch may
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Please, could you now rethink plugable scheduler as well? Even if one had to
be chosen at boot time and couldn't be change thereafter, it would still allow
a few new thoughts to be included.
No. Really.
I absolutely
ver worked, or if
in fact anyone ever took this path. I assume that the value of sz caused
the loop exit in all cases, since this has been in the code at least
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of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10240
$ echo 192 > /sys/block/hda/queue/max_sectors_kb
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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
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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
or things to try, let me know. I did run with -d,
nothing written in qemu.log.
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the problem to see if there's a better solution
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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
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and this warning:
gaimboi:davidsen> ./da /dev/hdb
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Disk too small, size: 0 blocks
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s to imply that they *shouldn't* be using that
feature. period. which suggests there should be an easy, 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
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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
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, 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
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with FC5 I can't; so I've got one idle processor all the time.
This sounds so unlikely I hesitate to mention it, but you are not, by
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have to go edit the files all over again.
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BD> You may be able to move one board to another slot, but looking at
BD> the bandwidth I suspect you may need a server motherboard with
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ere were nothing at all present, although
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snow.
If all this whining doesn't indicate a problem, I might suggest
eliminating it, since it tends to hide any real problem.
compressed dmesg and config attached.
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Joerg Roedel wrote:
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:32:13AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Goes out with an error message:
cc -I /home/davidsen/downloads/kernel.org/linux-2.6.20-git13/include -MMD -MF ./.kvmctl.d
-g -c -o kvmctl.o kvmctl.c
kvmctl.c:29:2: error: #error libkvm: userspace
with
a lot of files would benefit, when CPU and memory requirements are not a
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Jörn Engel wrote:
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Actually I am interested in the common case, where the machine is not
out of space, or memory, or CPU, but when it is appropriately sized to
the workload. Not that I lack interest in corner cases
imes by the fact that qemu provides disk
images which then (normally) get partitions, I'm not sure you aren't
having the same problem.
None of which justifies the OOPS, of course, nice kernels don't go down.
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Avi Kivity wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a great place for KVM user questions, this
is it, and kvm-devel seems a poor place for user questions, while the
chat room is real time and depends on the question and the answer
being in the same place at the same time.
kvm
it becomes a "jackpot case" and is correct in result but too slow to be
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Neil's NFS stuff. The NFS server test data is on RAID10 ;-)
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Well, at work i probably have an USB floppy lying around somewhere,
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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
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set this page to defaults." Because
those starting points will cover a majority of the options. Useful for
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ig enable -F ACPI
disabling CONFIG_APM
$ kconfig disable SCSI
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE depends on CONFIG_SCSI
$ kconfig disable -f SCSI
disabling USB_STORAGE
$ make
I think depends and select provide this now, the postulated "requires"
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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
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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
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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 w
s :
for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(procfsentries); --i >= 0; ) {
Long 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.
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;-)
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
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Tomoki Sekiyama wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for your comments.
I'm sorry for my late reply.
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> - I wonder if dirty_limit_ratio is the best name we could choose.
>> vm_dirty_blocking_ratio, perhaps? Dunno.
>>
> I don't like it, bu
s required.
Regards,
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Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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variation is to give those processes at the head of the queue short
Fundamentally, the scheduler cannot do it by itself. You can create cases
where the load is precisely identical and one person wants X and another
person wants Y. The scheduler cannot know what's important to you.
DS
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and can't
change it, so we need some tweaking for problem Y".
And everything is totally fixable - at least as long as people are willing
to!
Linus
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kmount servers and eepro100 did, but since I'm no longer
responsible for those machines I can't retest. Perhaps someone will be
able to provide data points.
IBM current offerings as of about three years ago, I had a few dozen of
them at one time.
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&
could only address 1MB.
And having run clients with three users on an XT with just that 640kB
and UNIX, I don't think he was wrong about the memory for that time,
just the O/S.
BTW: anyone got a copy of PC/IX (SysIII for XT) around? I'd love to run
that in a VM just for the comparison.
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you need to open
it and issue an ioctl. Which is a bloody bad idea, for obvious
reasons...
Agreed. What would be a right way? Global device ala ptmx/tun/tap?
New syscall? Something else?
OG.
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of that hub.
Uh, I think I found the reason for the strange behaviour at
shutdown/suspend. When I unload the usblp module, then the iPod is
recognized.
And that's not the case with 2.6.20?
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is useful.
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