Re: Object code duplication in sound/pci/echoaudio/

2015-05-19 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Mon, 18 May 2015 10:55:29 +0200 Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 15 May 2015 15:33:13 +0200, > Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > > On 05/14/2015 10:32 PM, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 May 2015 22:15:28 +0200 > > > Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > >

Re: Object code duplication in sound/pci/echoaudio/

2015-05-19 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Mon, 18 May 2015 10:55:29 +0200 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de wrote: At Fri, 15 May 2015 15:33:13 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On 05/14/2015 10:32 PM, Giuliano Pochini wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2015 22:15:28 +0200 Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: There are fourteen files

Re: Object code duplication in sound/pci/echoaudio/

2015-05-14 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Mon, 11 May 2015 22:15:28 +0200 Denys Vlasenko wrote: > There are fourteen files in sound/pci/echoaudio/, namely: > > darla20.c darla24.c echo3g.c gina20.c gina24.c indigo.c > indigodj.c indigodjx.c indigoio.c indigoiox.c layla20.c > layla24.c mia.c mona.c > > Which use the following method

Re: Object code duplication in sound/pci/echoaudio/

2015-05-14 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Mon, 11 May 2015 22:15:28 +0200 Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: There are fourteen files in sound/pci/echoaudio/, namely: darla20.c darla24.c echo3g.c gina20.c gina24.c indigo.c indigodj.c indigodjx.c indigoio.c indigoiox.c layla20.c layla24.c mia.c mona.c Which use the

Re: Instead of IP addresses the kernel started to show zero's

2012-10-20 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:50:10 +0200 Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 15:36 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > Add netdev to the CC list. > > netdev already in the CC list by Borislav Petkov > > Reporter was (kindly) requested to try 3.6-rc7 +, and we got no answer. Sorry for the late

Re: Instead of IP addresses the kernel started to show zero's

2012-10-20 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:50:10 +0200 Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 15:36 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: Add netdev to the CC list. netdev already in the CC list by Borislav Petkov Reporter was (kindly) requested to try 3.6-rc7 +, and we got no answer. Sorry

Re: Instead of IP addresses the kernel started to show zero's

2012-09-30 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:26:07 +0400 Alexey Vlasov wrote: > Hi. > > Here it writes LOG target from syslog: > > Sep 25 03:23:49 l24 kernel: ip:SYN-OUTPUT-HTTP IN= OUT=eth0 > SRC= DST= LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 > TTL=64 ID=22467 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=52829 DPT=80

Re: Instead of IP addresses the kernel started to show zero's

2012-09-30 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:26:07 +0400 Alexey Vlasov ren...@renton.name wrote: Hi. Here it writes LOG target from syslog: Sep 25 03:23:49 l24 kernel: ip:SYN-OUTPUT-HTTP IN= OUT=eth0 SRC= DST= LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=22467 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=52829

Re: [patch 1/2] echoaudio semaphore to mutex

2007-12-10 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Kevin Winchester wrote: Convert the semaphore to a mutex in echoaudio.c Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's an 1:1 change. It looks fine to me. Acked-by: Giuliano Pochini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Giuliano. -- To unsubscribe from thi

Re: [patch 1/2] echoaudio semaphore to mutex

2007-12-10 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Kevin Winchester wrote: Convert the semaphore to a mutex in echoaudio.c Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's an 1:1 change. It looks fine to me. Acked-by: Giuliano Pochini [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Giuliano. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

ppc+k3b=crash

2007-04-09 Thread Giuliano Pochini
When insert a CD-R that contains data and k3b is running the machine hard locks. k3b writes on the console: /dev/hdd READ TOC/PMA/ATIP invalid length returned Disk info: [...] Used size: [...] Sys-rq doesn't work and there is nothing in the logs. I tested kernels back to 2.6.14 and they all

ppc+k3b=crash

2007-04-09 Thread Giuliano Pochini
When insert a CD-R that contains data and k3b is running the machine hard locks. k3b writes on the console: /dev/hdd READ TOC/PMA/ATIP invalid length returned Disk info: [...] Used size: [...] crash Sys-rq doesn't work and there is nothing in the logs. I tested kernels back to 2.6.14 and they

Re: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online are missing

2007-03-14 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:56:52 + Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right, here's the ARM fix which is now in the ARM tree: > [...] The following patch seems to fix the issue (+ minor style fix). I'm not sure it's ok due to my poor knowledge of this code. Signed-off-

Re: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online are missing

2007-03-14 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:56:52 + Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, here's the ARM fix which is now in the ARM tree: [...] The following patch seems to fix the issue (+ minor style fix). I'm not sure it's ok due to my poor knowledge of this code. Signed-off-by: Giuliano Pochini

Re: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online are missing

2007-03-12 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Heiko Carstens wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 10:26:52PM +0100, Giuliano Pochini wrote: Since 2.6.20 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online isn't there anymore. The directories exist, though. I also tested linux-2.6.21rc3. I had a look at the archives and I found nothing

Re: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online are missing

2007-03-12 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Heiko Carstens wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 10:26:52PM +0100, Giuliano Pochini wrote: Since 2.6.20 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online isn't there anymore. The directories exist, though. I also tested linux-2.6.21rc3. I had a look at the archives and I found nothing

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online are missing

2007-03-11 Thread Giuliano Pochini
Since 2.6.20 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online isn't there anymore. The directories exist, though. I also tested linux-2.6.21rc3. I had a look at the archives and I found nothing about the removal of that file, which is still documented in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt. I don't know if other

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online are missing

2007-03-11 Thread Giuliano Pochini
Since 2.6.20 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online isn't there anymore. The directories exist, though. I also tested linux-2.6.21rc3. I had a look at the archives and I found nothing about the removal of that file, which is still documented in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt. I don't know if other

Re: Hard lock with a CD-R and k3b

2007-01-10 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I have a CD-R that makes linux lock hard when I start k3b. Oops, I sent this message by mistake. I'm still investigating this issue. -- Giuliano. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Hard lock with a CD-R and k3b

2007-01-10 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I have a CD-R that makes linux lock hard when I start k3b. I copied these messages from the console by hand (I hope there are no errors). NB: these are not kernel messages (there's nothing in the logs and sysrq doesn't work). This is what k3b prints and I'm aware it's not very useful: [...]

Hard lock with a CD-R and k3b

2007-01-10 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I have a CD-R that makes linux lock hard when I start k3b. I copied these messages from the console by hand (I hope there are no errors). NB: these are not kernel messages (there's nothing in the logs and sysrq doesn't work). This is what k3b prints and I'm aware it's not very useful: [...]

Re: Hard lock with a CD-R and k3b

2007-01-10 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I have a CD-R that makes linux lock hard when I start k3b. Oops, I sent this message by mistake. I'm still investigating this issue. -- Giuliano. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: why the interrupt handler should be marked "static" for it is never called directly from another file.

2005-08-11 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, n l wrote: > could you explain its reason for using static ? Anything which is never referenced from another file should be static in order to keep namespace pollution low. -- Giuliano. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: why the interrupt handler should be marked static for it is never called directly from another file.

2005-08-11 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, n l wrote: could you explain its reason for using static ? Anything which is never referenced from another file should be static in order to keep namespace pollution low. -- Giuliano. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

SCSI I/O error

2001-07-02 Thread Giuliano Pochini
>From my logs: Jun 29 14:19:56 Jay kernel: SCSI disk error : host 1 channel 0 id 5 lun 0 return code = 802 Jun 29 14:19:56 Jay kernel: Current sd08:11: sense key Recovered Error Jun 29 14:19:56 Jay kernel: Additional sense indicates Recovered data with error correction applied Jun 29

SCSI I/O error

2001-07-02 Thread Giuliano Pochini
From my logs: Jun 29 14:19:56 Jay kernel: SCSI disk error : host 1 channel 0 id 5 lun 0 return code = 802 Jun 29 14:19:56 Jay kernel: Current sd08:11: sense key Recovered Error Jun 29 14:19:56 Jay kernel: Additional sense indicates Recovered data with error correction applied Jun 29

VIA & context switches

2001-06-06 Thread Giuliano Pochini
controller, etc. (but different eth) and they run with a load average of 0.5-1 and 1000-2000 cs/s. Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Network {AS6665} ->)|(<- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

VIA context switches

2001-06-06 Thread Giuliano Pochini
controller, etc. (but different eth) and they run with a load average of 0.5-1 and 1000-2000 cs/s. Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Network {AS6665} -)|(- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Problems even with 512 block size MOs

2001-05-06 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> recent 2.4 kernels have incredible bad performance for me when handling MO > drives. Going back 2.2 shows better performance. > Copying a 6.5 MByte file with cp returns nearly immediately on the > commandline, but umount nearly takes forever. Maximum rate detected by > xosview during umount

Re: Problems even with 512 block size MOs

2001-05-06 Thread Giuliano Pochini
recent 2.4 kernels have incredible bad performance for me when handling MO drives. Going back 2.2 shows better performance. Copying a 6.5 MByte file with cp returns nearly immediately on the commandline, but umount nearly takes forever. Maximum rate detected by xosview during umount was

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-20 Thread Giuliano Pochini
is lost and I have to reboot to get it > back: I can't try this case because I haven't a floppy. When I ehect the cd I can recover it by unmounting it. But the CD is read-only. I can try with a MO, but the actual problem is that eject is buggy. It's not a kernel bug. I'll fix it... Bye.

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-20 Thread Giuliano Pochini
to reboot to get it back: I can't try this case because I haven't a floppy. When I ehect the cd I can recover it by unmounting it. But the CD is read-only. I can try with a MO, but the actual problem is that eject is buggy. It's not a kernel bug. I'll fix it... Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny

Re: Oscillations in disk write compaction, poor interactive performance

2001-04-19 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> The problem is that at the low point in the cycle, the machine is > unusable. It is utterly unresponsive until the writes complete, which can > take a very long time (in the case of the ppc machine, several minutes!) > Anything that does disk I/O will block for a long time - having 'ls' take

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-19 Thread Giuliano Pochini
0.2, I don't remember the author) sends a SCSI command to eject the disk, but it's broken because it doesn't even try to umount the partition. It gets confused by my unusual fstab. I'll fix it as soon as I have some spare time. Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Network {AS6

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-19 Thread Giuliano Pochini
, but it's broken because it doesn't even try to umount the partition. It gets confused by my unusual fstab. I'll fix it as soon as I have some spare time. Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Network {AS6665} -)|(- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: Oscillations in disk write compaction, poor interactive performance

2001-04-19 Thread Giuliano Pochini
The problem is that at the low point in the cycle, the machine is unusable. It is utterly unresponsive until the writes complete, which can take a very long time (in the case of the ppc machine, several minutes!) Anything that does disk I/O will block for a long time - having 'ls' take two

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-18 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> vmware and one or two other apps I've also seen do this. WHen you unlock the > cdrom door as root you can unlock it even if a file system is mounted Right, so I'll check what eject(1) does. It might eject the disk even if it failed to unmount. Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- S

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-18 Thread Giuliano Pochini
elf. > > eject(1) line 36: > >If the device is currently mounted, it is unmounted before >ejecting. But it doesn't get unmounted. I eject the disk but I can still see and read the (cached) files ! Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Network {AS6665} ->)|(<-

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-18 Thread Giuliano Pochini
The kernel should not allow someone to >> eject a mounted media. > > rpm -e magicdev Magicdev is not installed. Ok, I'm the only one with this problem, I'll manage to find the bug by myself. Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Network {AS6665} ->)|(<- - To unsubscr

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-18 Thread Giuliano Pochini
. rpm -e magicdev Magicdev is not installed. Ok, I'm the only one with this problem, I'll manage to find the bug by myself. Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Network {AS6665} -)|(- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-18 Thread Giuliano Pochini
before ejecting. But it doesn't get unmounted. I eject the disk but I can still see and read the (cached) files ! Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Network {AS6665} -)|(- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-18 Thread Giuliano Pochini
vmware and one or two other apps I've also seen do this. WHen you unlock the cdrom door as root you can unlock it even if a file system is mounted Right, so I'll check what eject(1) does. It might eject the disk even if it failed to unmount. Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Network

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-17 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> > My fstab: > > > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 > > noauto,user,ro 0 0 > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdmac hfs > > noauto,user,ro 0 0 > > Change your fstab to read instead: > > /dev/cdrom/mnt/cdromauto

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-17 Thread Giuliano Pochini
My fstab: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdmac hfs noauto,user,ro 0 0 Change your fstab to read instead: /dev/cdrom/mnt/cdromautonoauto,user,ro0

I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
My fstab: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdmac hfs noauto,user,ro 0 0 I insert an apple cd (hfs) and mount /mnt/cdmac If I type eject /mnt/cdrom the cd momes out but df shows it's

Re: new aic7xxx driver problems

2001-04-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> What's the PCI id of the card you are using? Bus 1, device 3, function 0: Class 0100: PCI device 9004:5078 (rev 3). IRQ 24. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=4. I/O at 0x1800 [0x18ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80881000 [0x80881fff].

Re: new aic7xxx driver problems

2001-04-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
ning up and nothing more. > > Did you apply a patch, or upgrade using the tar file? If the latter, > you're missing some changes to the SCSI layer that make the initial > bus settle delay implimentation more sane. :-/ I'll try the patch this night. Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<-

Re: new aic7xxx driver problems

2001-04-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
file? If the latter, you're missing some changes to the SCSI layer that make the initial bus settle delay implimentation more sane. :-/ I'll try the patch this night. Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Network {AS6665} -)|(- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

Re: new aic7xxx driver problems

2001-04-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
What's the PCI id of the card you are using? Bus 1, device 3, function 0: Class 0100: PCI device 9004:5078 (rev 3). IRQ 24. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=4. I/O at 0x1800 [0x18ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80881000 [0x80881fff].

I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
My fstab: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdmac hfs noauto,user,ro 0 0 I insert an apple cd (hfs) and mount /mnt/cdmac If I type eject /mnt/cdrom the cd momes out but df shows it's

Re: new aic7xxx driver problems

2001-04-12 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> >I have two Adaptec 2930CU (ultra narrow) cards. I modified the driver to > >make them work in ultra mode. > > Can you elaborate on what you had to modify ? I just added AHC_ULTRA to the features of 7850 AHC_AIC7850_FE = AHC_SPIOCAP|AHC_AUTOPAUSE|AHC_TARGETMODE|AHC_ULTRA,

Re: new aic7xxx driver problems

2001-04-12 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I have two Adaptec 2930CU (ultra narrow) cards. I modified the driver to make them work in ultra mode. Can you elaborate on what you had to modify ? I just added AHC_ULTRA to the features of 7850 AHC_AIC7850_FE = AHC_SPIOCAP|AHC_AUTOPAUSE|AHC_TARGETMODE|AHC_ULTRA,

Re: 2048 byte/sector problems with kernel 2.4

2001-04-04 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> >There WERE direct overwrite media for a while that would, in theory, be > >able to write the data directly, but a combination of high cost, >limited > >sources, and strong questions about the permanence of the recorded data > >severely limited the demand for these and I think that they have

new aic7xxx driver problems

2001-04-04 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I have two Adaptec 2930CU (ultra narrow) cards. I modified the driver to make them work in ultra mode. The card connected to my CDROM and MO drive, operating at different bus clocks, does not behave well. Transfers stop often for 10-20 seconds and it spits out warnings like these: Apr 3

RE: 2048 byte/sector problems with kernel 2.4

2001-04-04 Thread Giuliano Pochini
let you know. > Is this a known problem ? Only with FAT fs AFAIK. ext2 should work fine (or at least it works fine for me since 2.1.153). > I also tried it with 2.2.18 there it works but it seems to be utterly > slow. Yes, it's a request merging problem, fixed in 2.4. Bye.

RE: 2048 byte/sector problems with kernel 2.4

2001-04-04 Thread Giuliano Pochini
y with FAT fs AFAIK. ext2 should work fine (or at least it works fine for me since 2.1.153). I also tried it with 2.2.18 there it works but it seems to be utterly slow. Yes, it's a request merging problem, fixed in 2.4. Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Network {AS6665} -)|(- - To unsubs

new aic7xxx driver problems

2001-04-04 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I have two Adaptec 2930CU (ultra narrow) cards. I modified the driver to make them work in ultra mode. The card connected to my CDROM and MO drive, operating at different bus clocks, does not behave well. Transfers stop often for 10-20 seconds and it spits out warnings like these: Apr 3

Re: 2048 byte/sector problems with kernel 2.4

2001-04-04 Thread Giuliano Pochini
There WERE direct overwrite media for a while that would, in theory, be able to write the data directly, but a combination of high cost, limited sources, and strong questions about the permanence of the recorded data severely limited the demand for these and I think that they have been

Re: Temporary disk space leak

2001-04-02 Thread Giuliano Pochini
g up file > space (as shown in df) until it is completely closed. Yes, I know posix, but I don't think this is the case. I'll try reproduce it... Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Network {AS6665} ->)|(<- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: Temporary disk space leak

2001-04-02 Thread Giuliano Pochini
space (as shown in df) until it is completely closed. Yes, I know posix, but I don't think this is the case. I'll try reproduce it... Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Network {AS6665} -)|(- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Temporary disk space leak

2001-04-01 Thread Giuliano Pochini
[root@Jay Giu]# du -c /home [...] 320120 /home 320120 total [root@Jay Giu]# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda8 253823 65909174807 27% / /dev/sda7 2158320750672 1296240 37% /usr /dev/sda5

Temporary disk space leak

2001-04-01 Thread Giuliano Pochini
[root@Jay Giu]# du -c /home [...] 320120 /home 320120 total [root@Jay Giu]# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda8 253823 65909174807 27% / /dev/sda7 2158320750672 1296240 37% /usr /dev/sda5

RE: linux scheduler limitations?

2001-03-29 Thread Giuliano Pochini
somewhere beyond 1050, the machine > suddently slows down almost top a halt and becomes totally unresponsive, > until I stop the test (SpecWeb). Are you using 2.2.x ? I had the same problem here until I switched to 2.4.x. 2.2 internal locks are not fine grained enough. Bye. Giuliano Pochini -&

4GB -> no boot

2001-03-22 Thread Giuliano Pochini
2.4.2] Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Network {AS6665} ->)|(<- - 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

4GB - no boot

2001-03-22 Thread Giuliano Pochini
2.4.2] Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Network {AS6665} -)|(- - 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://w

RE: 2.4.2 freezes with bad ISOs in IDE cdroms

2001-03-21 Thread Giuliano Pochini
nymore. > (this part of the bugreport is maybe not related to the lockups). > > > Any ideas where to start here? This happens on my blue G3 with 2.2.x too. I think it's a bug in the IDE driver. My old 7300 (mesh) with a SCSI cd just reported a read error on the same disk. Bye. Giuli

RE: 2.4.2 freezes with bad ISOs in IDE cdroms

2001-03-21 Thread Giuliano Pochini
with a SCSI cd just reported a read error on the same disk. Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Network {AS6665} -)|(- - 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.

Re: 128MB lost... where ?

2001-02-26 Thread Giuliano Pochini
Kernel 2.4.2-SMP compiled with egcs-2.91.66.) Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Corporation {AS6665} ->)|(<- - 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

Re: 128MB lost... where ?

2001-02-26 Thread Giuliano Pochini
2-SMP compiled with egcs-2.91.66.) Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Corporation {AS6665} -)|(- - 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/

128MB lost... where ?

2001-02-21 Thread Giuliano Pochini
Perhaps this is a faq... I have a dual-800 (mb asus, no AGP) with 1GB ram, but according to /proc/meminfo tells I only have 90KB. I tried "mem=1024" boot parameter without success. How can I get my 128MB back ? Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Cor

128MB lost... where ?

2001-02-21 Thread Giuliano Pochini
Perhaps this is a faq... I have a dual-800 (mb asus, no AGP) with 1GB ram, but according to /proc/meminfo tells I only have 90KB. I tried "mem=1024" boot parameter without success. How can I get my 128MB back ? Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Corporati

nfs volume mounted twice

2001-02-12 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On 2.4.1 the same NFS volume can be mounted twice on the same directory. I recall the capability of multiple mounts on the same mountpoint was removed during 2.3.x. Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Corporation {AS6665} ->)|(<- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

nfs volume mounted twice

2001-02-12 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On 2.4.1 the same NFS volume can be mounted twice on the same directory. I recall the capability of multiple mounts on the same mountpoint was removed during 2.3.x. Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Corporation {AS6665} -)|(- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

2.4.1 tcp ack bug ?

2001-02-07 Thread Giuliano Pochini
IMHO this tcpdump trace is quite strange: 20:56:25.232532 ppp0 < mc105-v-2.royaume.com.6699 > ppp12.shiny.it.33148: . 96265:97725(1460) ack 77 win 8684 (DF) 20:56:25.242532 ppp0 > ppp12.shiny.it.33148 > mc105-v-2.royaume.com.6699: . 77:77(0) ack 88073 win 62780 (DF) 20:56:25.352532 ppp0 <

2.4.1 tcp ack bug ?

2001-02-07 Thread Giuliano Pochini
IMHO this tcpdump trace is quite strange: 20:56:25.232532 ppp0 mc105-v-2.royaume.com.6699 ppp12.shiny.it.33148: . 96265:97725(1460) ack 77 win 8684 (DF) 20:56:25.242532 ppp0 ppp12.shiny.it.33148 mc105-v-2.royaume.com.6699: . 77:77(0) ack 88073 win 62780 nop,nop, sack 1 {90121:97725} (DF)

2.4.1 & zombies

2001-02-05 Thread Giuliano Pochini
.x. e.g. in this moment, with medium load (700 httpd's), there are around 70 zombie cgi's. There aren't processes stuck in Z, they simply take more time to die. Strange. Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Corporation {AS6665} ->)|(<- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

2.4.1 zombies

2001-02-05 Thread Giuliano Pochini
.x. e.g. in this moment, with medium load (700 httpd's), there are around 70 zombie cgi's. There aren't processes stuck in Z, they simply take more time to die. Strange. Bye. Giuliano Pochini -)|(- Shiny Corporation {AS6665} -)|(- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

Re: blk-13B

2001-01-23 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> You could try instrumenting the paths in bdflush and kswapd, to see > what really happens when they run crazy. This would help a lot. :-( My knowledge of the kernel is too poor and I have too few time to study it. I tried the suggestion of A.Arcangeli about size interval. The test is always

Re: blk-13B

2001-01-23 Thread Giuliano Pochini
You could try instrumenting the paths in bdflush and kswapd, to see what really happens when they run crazy. This would help a lot. :-( My knowledge of the kernel is too poor and I have too few time to study it. I tried the suggestion of A.Arcangeli about size interval. The test is always

blk-13B

2001-01-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
Hi! I found the time to make some tests with 2.4 and the blk-13B patch. It performs very well, no process starvation, no missed merges, etc., but sometimes it happens dbflush and kswapd start eating 100% CPU for about 20-30 secs.: 11:02am up 18 min, 5 users, load average: 2.74, 1.97, 1.15

PPC 2.4 ?

2001-01-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
When will the powerpc tree be merged ? Neither the official 2.4 nor the -ac8 work. They don't even compile. Bye. - 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/

PPC 2.4 ?

2001-01-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
When will the powerpc tree be merged ? Neither the official 2.4 nor the -ac8 work. They don't even compile. Bye. - 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/

blk-13B

2001-01-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
Hi! I found the time to make some tests with 2.4 and the blk-13B patch. It performs very well, no process starvation, no missed merges, etc., but sometimes it happens dbflush and kswapd start eating 100% CPU for about 20-30 secs.: 11:02am up 18 min, 5 users, load average: 2.74, 1.97, 1.15

Metadata flush interval

2001-01-07 Thread Giuliano Pochini
2.2.18, SMP. It seems that anything I write in /proc/sys/vm/bdflush does not make any difference. Metadata is always flushed every 5 seconds. Bye. - 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

Metadata flush interval

2001-01-07 Thread Giuliano Pochini
2.2.18, SMP. It seems that anything I write in /proc/sys/vm/bdflush does not make any difference. Metadata is always flushed every 5 seconds. Bye. - 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

USB related crashes

2000-12-26 Thread Giuliano Pochini
How to crash kernel 2.2.17-18: Turn on the USB printer without paper and try to print something. Wait for the "printer.c: usblp0: out of paper" message and turn off the printer. Ok, now "killall gs" will freeze the system. (kernel 2.2.17-18, I did't try 2.4, GCC 2.95.3, PowerPC750) Bye. - To

USB related crashes

2000-12-26 Thread Giuliano Pochini
How to crash kernel 2.2.17-18: Turn on the USB printer without paper and try to print something. Wait for the "printer.c: usblp0: out of paper" message and turn off the printer. Ok, now "killall gs" will freeze the system. (kernel 2.2.17-18, I did't try 2.4, GCC 2.95.3, PowerPC750) Bye. - To

Ethernet stops working in NFS

2000-11-08 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I have a Mac and a PC with a 3com 595 ethernet card. The Mac is the nfs server. When I transfer from the PC to the Mac it's all right. When I transfer a large file (50-100MB) from the Mac to the PC often the connection breaks completely. I can't ping the other machine anymore. Looking at

Ethernet stops working in NFS

2000-11-08 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I have a Mac and a PC with a 3com 595 ethernet card. The Mac is the nfs server. When I transfer from the PC to the Mac it's all right. When I transfer a large file (50-100MB) from the Mac to the PC often the connection breaks completely. I can't ping the other machine anymore. Looking at

Re: Blocked processes <=> Elevator starvation?

2000-11-07 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> I just reproduced the problem in test10-pre7. Here's the > output you requested: > > vmstat 1 > procs memoryswap io system cpu > r b w swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id > 0 2 2 0 45764

Where to get 2.2.x-prex ??

2000-11-02 Thread Giuliano Pochini
Where can I d/l 2.2-pre ? Bye. - 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/

Where to get 2.2.x-prex ??

2000-11-02 Thread Giuliano Pochini
Where can I d/l 2.2-pre ? Bye. - 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: traffic shapping problem with fragmented packets

2000-09-24 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> The problem is not really solvable unless you fix the application to send > smaller packets. The only way to shape traffic in IP is to drop packets There are 3 ways: 1- dropping packets (obvious), 2- buffer packets and delay retransmission (if the receiver gets the packet later, it will ACK

Re: traffic shapping problem with fragmented packets

2000-09-24 Thread Giuliano Pochini
The problem is not really solvable unless you fix the application to send smaller packets. The only way to shape traffic in IP is to drop packets There are 3 ways: 1- dropping packets (obvious), 2- buffer packets and delay retransmission (if the receiver gets the packet later, it will ACK it

Re: [PATCH] abuse of macros in swab.h

2000-09-23 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> +static inline __u64 ___swab16(__u64 x) > +{ > + return (__u64)((x & (__u64)0x00ffULL) << 56) | > + (__u64)((x & (__u64)0xff00ULL) << 40) | > + (__u64)((x & (__u64)0x00ffULL) << 24) | > + (__u64)((x &

Re: [PATCH] abuse of macros in swab.h

2000-09-23 Thread Giuliano Pochini
+static inline __u64 ___swab16(__u64 x) +{ + return (__u64)((x (__u64)0x00ffULL) 56) | + (__u64)((x (__u64)0xff00ULL) 40) | + (__u64)((x (__u64)0x00ffULL) 24) | + (__u64)((x (__u64)0xff00ULL)

Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2

2000-09-16 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> The current HUGE queue size is probably another reason for > the very bad latencies we sometimes see... Yes, but if the queue is short processes are likely to remain blocked in D state for more time and the chances to merge rq are smaller. IMHO we should add a way to give priority to rqs from

Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2

2000-09-16 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> That's one approach; I prefer my "weighted scoring" approach. Supposing we > have three devices: a solid state disk (instant "seeks"), a hard drive and > a tape. The SSD will benefit from merges (fewer commands to process), but > not hugely - set both the metrics at 1, so a 64Kb request is

Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2

2000-09-16 Thread Giuliano Pochini
That's one approach; I prefer my "weighted scoring" approach. Supposing we have three devices: a solid state disk (instant "seeks"), a hard drive and a tape. The SSD will benefit from merges (fewer commands to process), but not hugely - set both the metrics at 1, so a 64Kb request is just

Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2

2000-09-15 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> >It's a good way to avoid stalls, but IMHO I thing the elevator should > > Here you're talking about the latency control logic. Which is tightly dependent on the way we insert new rqs. > >not work this way. The main problem is that it doesn't minimize head > >movement. For example, when

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