Re: Linux 2.4.0-ac7

2001-01-11 Thread Jens Axboe
12 04:47:18 2001 +++ drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Fri Jan 12 04:47:40 2001 @@ -1389,3 +1389,4 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_make_request); EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_release_request); EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_unplug_device); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(queued_sectors); -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread Jens Axboe
00) before inclusion. ?? What do you mean exploit the elevator? -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux-2.4.0-ac7: Unresolved symbol queued_sectors in scsi_mod.o

2001-01-12 Thread Jens Axboe
pmod. Fixed in -ac8 -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware

2001-01-12 Thread Jens Axboe
interrupt on IDE. Regardless of merging etc. Still doesn't reach nic levels, but it's _bad_ anyway :-) -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the F

Re: can't build small enough zImage for floppy

2001-01-12 Thread Jens Axboe
on it. Maybe a BIOS issue that a fw upgrade will fix? -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.4.0-ac9

2001-01-14 Thread Jens Axboe
kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.0-ac9/loop-2 and see if it helps? -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.1-pre3 kernel oops from kmem_cache_create(...)

2001-01-15 Thread Jens Axboe
it too. So just remove the latter loop_init() call and it should be fine. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-18 Thread Jens Axboe
locked down. Yes I agree, that values should probably be tweaked a bit. I'll try and squeeze some testing in to generate the best possible values. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-18 Thread Jens Axboe
. Good, so it's getting closer. Actually, the dbench numbers being this close (or better) is only due to blk-xx optimizations. The latency is much smaller, which usually really hurts dbench quite a bit in testing. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-18 Thread Jens Axboe
. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-18 Thread Jens Axboe
. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-18 Thread Jens Axboe
changes that Andrea suggested too? Thanks. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: lvm-oops in 2.4.1pre8

2001-01-20 Thread Jens Axboe
that should merge all the known fixes out there. It's planned for inclusion into 2.4.1. If you are doing updates, could you include this patch too? All it does is waste memory. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs --- /kt/linux-2.4.1-pre9/drivers/md/lvm.c Fri Dec 29 23:07:22 2000

Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Jens Axboe
devices we have already? -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-22 Thread Jens Axboe
try 2.4.1-pre8 with blk_started_io() and blk_finished_io() defined to nothing in include/linux/blkdev.h? This will disable the max-locked-buffers heuristic. Also, are the numbers above consistent for repeated runs (with boots in between)? -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-23 Thread Jens Axboe
) { \ 100,/* read passovers */ 200,/* write passovers */ Just do this mod on top of your x tree. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-24 Thread Jens Axboe
to do is excellent and mainly due to the batch freeing changes. In most real life situations, throughput on account of no care for latency is not ideal. Even though dbench performance drops a bit, you will see better distribution of the bandwidth between the threads. Think file serving. -- * Jens

Re: 2.4.0-pre10 Hard lockup writing to fs on loop devices

2001-01-24 Thread Jens Axboe
I've gotten about it at least several others are seeing this too. And I can reproduce it here. I'm working on the next patch, the last one still had a deadlock. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: patchlet for cs46xx

2001-01-25 Thread Jens Axboe
case you return -EFAULT go segv the caller. I think the confusion usually is that put/get_user return -EFAULT directly. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs

2001-01-26 Thread Jens Axboe
by Jens Axboe at SUSE that it is still there, and appears to be generic (not hardware nor kernel configuration specific) problem. Yes, and please try: *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.1-pre10/loop-3 and see if you can reproduce. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs

Re: 2.4.0 CDROM problem, ILLEGAL REQUEST

2001-01-26 Thread Jens Axboe
and known bug, sr_do_ioctl now does retries etc for queued packets from the uniform layer and thus we get some printkts that you normally wouldn't see. The error should only be cosmetic. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Running 2.4.0-ac11

2001-01-26 Thread Jens Axboe
repeated 62 times Running magicdev by any chance? rpm -e magicdev -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Running 2.4.0-ac11

2001-01-27 Thread Jens Axboe
? -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

2001-01-27 Thread Jens Axboe
that this is the 'get last written' command, and even with the quiet flag we get the IDE error status printed. Could you try and add goto use_toc; add the top of drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c:cdrom_get_last_written() and see if that makes the error disappear? -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE

Re: System hangs completely

2001-01-27 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Jan 27 2001, Scott M. Hoffman wrote: Have you tried it with the modutiles 2.4.0 required by kernel 2.4.0? It's more serious than that, MO drives and 2.4.x are no quite getting along yet in general... -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: 2.4.1-pre10 deadlock (Re: ps hang in 241-pre10)

2001-01-27 Thread Jens Axboe
this: they will all allocate a request and just submit it immediately, no "reservation". Right, the I/O path doesn't do this and it would seem more appropriate to have such users use their own requests instead of eating from the internal pool. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE L

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs

2001-01-27 Thread Jens Axboe
It should be safe. Thanks for the feedback. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.1-pre10 deadlock (Re: ps hang in 241-pre10)

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 28 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: How about this instead? I really don't like this one. It will basically re-introduce the old behaviour of waking people up in a trickle, as far as I can tell. The reason we want the batching is to make

Re: Q: Release of 2.4.1

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
if there are. It needs a bit more testing, and crypto hasn't been verified either. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
. Everything survived, worked flawlessly and I'm happy my disk did too :-) Many thanks for the fine work! Thanks for the testing, it does indeed look promising if it survives a beating like that :-) -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
3321 imapdinterruptible_sleep_on_locked and the cpu load is artificially inflated to 9.17 Which patch specifically? -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
; } -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 29 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: Try this ll_rw_blk.c change instead, on top of pre11. Include Linus' mm fixes of course. On top of ac12 I mean, pre11 already has a different (but functional) change. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

[SLUG] Re: Linux Disk Performance/File IO per process

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
doesn't provide either, but at least with Stephen's sard patches you can get system wide I/O metrics. ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/sct/fs/profiling -- Jens Axboe -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11 / ll_rw_b watermark metric?

2001-01-29 Thread Jens Axboe
, but you're right it's wrong. But it is certainly better than 2.4.0-pre8 approach, as with 200MB of memory (exactly 192MB left unused) you can end up with low_queued_sectors == 0... And it does not give you optimal behavior. Same here, definitely not right either. Dunno how I missed that. -- Jens

Re: Bolck Device problem or Compaq Smart array 2 problem? kernel -2.4 .0+

2001-01-29 Thread Jens Axboe
? I did some fixes for cpq after the blk merge in 2.4.1-pre, and got reports that it works. However, I don't have the necessary hardware to test myself. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Bolck Device problem or Compaq Smart array 2 problem? kernel -2.4 .0+

2001-01-29 Thread Jens Axboe
s etc hangs, do a ps -eo cmd,wchan and see if you can catch it. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jens Axboe
. [...] - replace is with b_index Then, the get_queue functions basically end up doing the mapping of b_dev - queue,b_index To clarify, will be b_index be in the buffer_head or not? It should not -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jens Axboe
aliasing, you get screwed. This is BAD DESIGN, once again. And he's wrong too, we don't do this all the time. If /dev/hda is ide-cd controlled, then it can't be accessed through /dev/sr0 -- and vice versa. sg vs sr is different, one is a char the other a block device. -- Jens Axboe

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: ATA overlap/queuing support ?

2001-05-17 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, May 17 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: ATA-overlap or ATAPI-overlap? The later is known as DSC based on SFF-8020/8070/8090, I have forgotten where it is located but I have the docs, and it is supported in ide-floppy and ide-tape. And ide-cd -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-05-18 Thread Jens Axboe
of time. That's why streaming media applications like a dvd player should use raw I/O -- to bypass system cache. See /dev/raw* -- Jens Axboe - 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: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-05-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, May 19 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: /dev/raw* Where? I can't find it in my .config (grep RAW .config). I am using 2.4.4-ac11 and playing w/ 2.4.5-pre3. It's automagically included, no config options necessary (drivers/char/raw.c) -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-05-21 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, May 21 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: On Sat, May 19 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: /dev/raw* Where? I can't find it in my .config (grep RAW .config). I am using 2.4.4-ac11 and playing w/ 2.4.5-pre3. It's automagically included

Re: [PATCH] struct char_device

2001-05-22 Thread Jens Axboe
(of course still changing :) BTW, max_sectors/max_segments/hardsect_size already in place. Still some to go. -- Jens Axboe - 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: Loopback, unable to release

2001-05-23 Thread Jens Axboe
or resource busy) = 44 _exit(1)= ? also I have loop.o as module, and use count never decreases, in fact right now it is at 294. Uhm weird. Are you talking about module use count or loop reference count? -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice.

2001-05-24 Thread Jens Axboe
it has run out. No point in reporting a condition that was recovered. I'd still say, that if you get bad block errors reported from your disk it's long overdue for replacement. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-25 Thread Jens Axboe
and not at the mercy of some global value. You might want to assign that max_sect array too, otherwise it's just going to waste space :-) Take a look at how ps2esdi handles requests -- always processing just the first segment. Alas, it doesn't matter how big the request is. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] check kmalloc return in ide-cd.c (244-ac16)

2001-05-25 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, May 25 2001, Rasmus Andersen wrote: Hi. This patch adds a check for the return value from kmalloc in ide_cdrom_open. Applies against ac16. Thanks, applied. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Add missing spin_unlock_irq to ide.c (244ac16)

2001-05-25 Thread Jens Axboe
; } This isn't right. Granted the locking isn't straight forward here, but take a look at ide_write_setting - ide_spin_wait_hwgroup and the latters return value. BTW, also try and follow local style when making such changes. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Disabling interrupts before block device request call

2001-05-25 Thread Jens Axboe
preventing the other plugged queues from being run until you return. You could use a timer or similar to call you on a specified timeout instead. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: 2.4.5: 'mount /cdrom' doesn't work

2001-05-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, May 26 2001, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, With 2.4.5 my CD and DVD drives have become unaccessable. Can you reproduce this problem? Any kernel messages? And please show what happens. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-26 Thread Jens Axboe
. As long as you work on current_nr_sectors, the only thing that Paul's patch will accomplish is make the queue smaller. It will buy you nothing. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-26 Thread Jens Axboe
if you can only handle eg 64 sectors per request with sg, you could do just start I/O on as many segments as you can and simply don't dequeue the request until it's completely done. So the max_sectors patch is never really needed if you know what you are doing. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from

Re: 2.4.5: 'mount /cdrom' doesn't work

2001-05-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, May 26 2001, Harald Dunkel wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: On Sat, May 26 2001, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, With 2.4.5 my CD and DVD drives have become unaccessable. Can you reproduce this problem? Any kernel messages? And please show what happens. Currently I

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread Jens Axboe
for bounce buffers above a certain page. Of course I can hack up something for 2.4 as well, but is this really a pressing need? -- Jens Axboe - 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

[patch][rfc]: highmem block support

2001-05-27 Thread Jens Axboe
: *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.5/ -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http

[patch] 4GB I/O, 2nd edition

2001-05-28 Thread Jens Axboe
Compaq smart array driver -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-29 Thread Jens Axboe
machine, dual proc, and I run a very memory/IO/CPU intensive test, so your mileage may vary with different applications. Could you try the 4GB I/O patches and see if they boost performance of such cases? *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.5/ -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe

[patch] 4GB I/O, cut three

2001-05-29 Thread Jens Axboe
this? This includes: - memory zoning at init time - page_to_bus - pci_map_page / pci_unmap_page - set_bh_sg - KM_BH_IRQ (for HIGHMEM archs) I think that's it, feel free to send me questions and (even better) patches. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

[patch] I/O scheduler starvation

2001-05-29 Thread Jens Axboe
on this later. -- Jens Axboe --- drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c~ Tue May 29 17:53:58 2001 +++ drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Tue May 29 17:54:38 2001 @@ -742,7 +742,6 @@ case ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE: if (!q-back_merge_fn(q, req, bh, max_segments

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-30 Thread Jens Axboe
/ -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch] 4GB I/O, cut three

2001-05-30 Thread Jens Axboe
handle the extra zone? -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: ll_rw_blk.c and high memory

2001-05-30 Thread Jens Axboe
. I doubt it would matter much, the throttling is mainly meant for machines short on memory. For machines with lots of RAM, the throttling will probably never be activated anyway. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: [patch] 4GB I/O, cut three

2001-05-30 Thread Jens Axboe
. to reduce the amount of changes you can defer the zone_dma32 patch and possibly plug it in later. Yes, I did modular patches for this reason. Thanks! -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

[patch] 4GB I/O, cut four

2001-05-30 Thread Jens Axboe
-highmem-all-4 if you want. For 2.4.5: *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.5/ or for 2.4.5-ac4 (just one big patch, sorry) *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.5-ac4/ -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Zerocopy NBD

2001-05-30 Thread Jens Axboe
) casting and checking for highmem pages. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: determining size of cdrom

2001-05-30 Thread Jens Axboe
/CDROMREATOCENTRY if you want, did you see those? -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch]: ide dma timeout retry in pio

2001-05-28 Thread Jens Axboe
to pio for _one_ hunk. That's 8 sectors tops, then back to dma. Hardly a big issue. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

[patch]: ide dma timeout retry in pio

2001-05-28 Thread Jens Axboe
-ac3 -- Jens Axboe --- ../linux-2.4.5-ac3-clean/drivers/ide/ide.c Mon May 28 20:28:05 2001 +++ drivers/ide/ide.c Mon May 28 20:21:48 2001 @@ -543,10 +543,20 @@ { struct request *rq; unsigned long flags; + ide_drive_t *drive = hwgroup-drive; spin_lock_irqsave

Re: ide retry on 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-04 Thread Jens Axboe
hardware: via 686a of course, with Athlon 500 on a k7m MB It worked sucessfully for you in 2.4.5-ac4 but not in -ac7? I can't see any changes to the patch, so more details on the nature of the problem would be helpful. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: ide retry on 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jun 04 2001, PROFETA Mickael wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:14:04PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: It worked sucessfully for you in 2.4.5-ac4 but not in -ac7? I can't see any changes to the patch, so more details on the nature of the problem would be helpful. Ok

Re: [PATCH] Fix disk statistic reporting to include all disks

2000-08-29 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Aug 30 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: Sounds sane, but what about drivers that don't really use the request queue structure? Stuff like lvm, md, rd (with Neil's patch to fix the lru_list deadlock), and probably new loop. Of course lvm and md get statistics accounted for the low devices

Re: [PATCH] Fix disk statistic reporting to include all disks

2000-08-29 Thread Jens Axboe
next mail) I do agree that having statistics for both makes sense. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] Fix disk statistic reporting to include all disks

2000-08-30 Thread Jens Axboe
very major. That code is hardly performance critical ;-) Then, as we get saner and saner queues, we'll get saner and saner statistics automatically. The above should already be quite sane for IDE. Rigth, for IDE we'd get a per hwgroup stat. Sane for SCSI, too. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [PATCH] Fix disk statistic reporting to include all disks

2000-08-30 Thread Jens Axboe
that disk_index() is going away, will the real minor number be printed? Nope. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Bug: remounting CD-ROM drives does not lock/unlock drive

2000-09-01 Thread Jens Axboe
) ? I don't think that allowing root to unlock a busy tray is that big a deal, we have to assume he/she knows what they are doing anyway. But for now, you can try this patch. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs --- drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c~ Fri Sep 1 13:14:23 2000 +++ drivers/cdrom

Re: [unpatch] ide cd-audio broken in 2.2.17preN (N = 2)

2000-09-04 Thread Jens Axboe
used index feature). Against 2.2.18-pre3 -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs diff -ur --exclude-from /home/axboe/exclude /opt/kernel/linux-2.2.18-pre3/drivers/block/ide-cd.c linux/drivers/block/ide-cd.c --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.2.18-pre3/drivers/block/ide-cd.cMon Sep 4 23:03

Re: [PATCH] sr.c 2.4.0-test8-pre5 breakage

2000-09-06 Thread Jens Axboe
, this is my booboo not Arnaldo's. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: SCSI cdrom is broken in 2.4.0-test8-pre5

2000-09-06 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Sep 06 2000, Lawrence Walton wrote: It appears that SCSI cdroms as modules are broken in 2.4.0-test8. It works fine 2.4.0-test7. cat /dev/scd0 cat: /dev/scd0: No such device Yup, apparently I was a bit too trigger happy. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs

Re: SCSI cdrom is broken in 2.4.0-test8-pre5

2000-09-06 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Sep 06 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: It appears that SCSI cdroms as modules are broken in 2.4.0-test8. It works fine 2.4.0-test7. Bah, try this one instead... -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.0-test8-pre5/drivers/scsi/sr.cWed Sep 6 02:34

Re: Weirdness in block device queues.

2000-09-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Sep 07 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: request_queue_t *q = blk_get_queue(dev); generic_unplug_device(q); And that would be it. This is already exported and I use it in a Aghr, it's exported in my tree only I see... Oh well, as I wrote I don't see any harm in actually exporting

[release] packet-0.0.2c

2000-09-08 Thread Jens Axboe
table than 0.0.2b -- at least it is for me, your mileage may vary. The patch is against 2.4.0-test7 and can be found at: *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/packet or http://sourceforge.net/projects/packet-cd/ -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [packet-writing] [release] packet-0.0.2c

2000-09-08 Thread Jens Axboe
recounting. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs --- drivers/scsi/scsi_merge.c~ Sat Sep 9 00:20:15 2000 +++ drivers/scsi/scsi_merge.c Sat Sep 9 00:21:49 2000 @@ -818,11 +818,7 @@ /* * First we need to know how many scatter gather segments are needed

Re: Scsi disks duplicated

2000-09-09 Thread Jens Axboe
with sr. Maybe Eric have a comment on this? Det er ikke et SCSI problem, det opstår bare pga den måde SCSI loader sine moduler på. Som jeg skrev, bare brug init_module osv igen, så spiller det som det skal. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Mounting problems with 2.4.0-t8

2000-09-14 Thread Jens Axboe
mount as UDF:s either (fails with the same error). Any interesting errors in the logs? -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://w

Re: (reiserfs) Re: An elevator algorithm (patch)

2000-09-19 Thread Jens Axboe
testing. Also we should make different cases in function of what p-prev is (barrier/head/real_head/normalreq). I don't think it's worthwhile (even with the current algorithm where it's easy to account for p). I suspect you are right, it's marginal. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs

Re: sbpcd bug in 2.4.0...

2000-09-21 Thread Jens Axboe
't see why it should do this. It would make more sense to just leave the current request in the queue, and let end_request deal with dequeueing when it is done. Could you try this patch? Completely untested and note even compiled :) -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs --- /opt/kernel/l

Re: 2.2.18pre7 [OOPS] + [PATCH]

2000-09-22 Thread Jens Axboe
via /proc interface and can't work when /proc is disabled ... Well, maybe the module is locked in an alteranative way ? Can anybody confirm it ? It's not a problem, that piece of code is just there to assure that the module isn't unloaded while someone is reading the proc file. -- * Jens Axboe

Re: cdrecord and 'invalid field in parameter list' error

2000-09-23 Thread Jens Axboe
probably why the drive is complaining. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [Demo program]: Poor elevator performance in 2.4.0-test9pre6

2000-09-25 Thread Jens Axboe
This is my current tree on 2.4.0-test9-pre5. Thanks for the test program, Andrea and I are working on getting a polished patch ready for inclusion that (apparently) also fixes this problem. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2

2000-09-25 Thread Jens Axboe
Different problems, though :(. However, I believe they are solved in Andrea and my current tree. Just needs the final cleaning, more later. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2

2000-09-25 Thread Jens Axboe
it. But if the queue is currently plugged, the scsi_request_fn will not do anything. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2

2000-09-25 Thread Jens Axboe
the ordering algorithm), tiotest performance drops significantly in the 2-thread-reading case. elvtune settings doesn't matter, that's only a matter of the ordering. Interesting. I haven't done any serious benching with the CSCAN introduction in elevator_linus, I'll try that too. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL

Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2

2000-09-25 Thread Jens Axboe
uest_fn)(q); if (major = DAC960_MAJOR+0 major = DAC960_MAJOR+7) (q-request_fn)(q); AFAIR, Eric tried to talk to the Compaq folks (and Leonard too, I dunno) about why they want this. What came of it, I don't know. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from

Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2

2000-09-25 Thread Jens Axboe
ld suffice in scsi_lib for now. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: (Fwd) CD-ROM (SCSI and IDE) not mounting disk

2000-09-25 Thread Jens Axboe
"0" /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/check_media This should be the default though, unless you've changed it along the way. -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrom driver thinks Toshiba DVD-RAM door is open

2000-09-29 Thread Jens Axboe
e the same behaviour here. and is recognized by cdrecord: [snip] I don't know what you'd want to use cdrecord for 8) -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Re: PROBLEM: 2.2.17 hangs when attempting to mount atapi cdrom Teac CD-540E

2000-10-02 Thread Jens Axboe
arily mean that it does in reality... -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: No SCSI burning problem (was: Bug in ide-pci.c)

2000-10-07 Thread Jens Axboe
be an ide-scsi bug on some models. The folks who are seeing corruption, could they try and narrow it down? Is it random data getting written, or data from other locations? -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: No SCSI burning problem (was: Bug in ide-pci.c)

2000-10-07 Thread Jens Axboe
? Is it random data getting written, or data from other locations? If it is ide-scsi then it is device select bug that is know but never made it in the kernel. I have the fix. Plextor is one on the list that fails without it. Something like this? -- * Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SuSE Labs

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