Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

2013-10-23 Thread Michael Chang
2013/10/23 Michael Chang : > 2013/10/23 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk : >> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:25:39PM +, Woodhouse, David wrote: >>> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 10:43 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >>> > >>> > And looking at bit deeper in the x86/linu

Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

2013-10-23 Thread Michael Chang
2013/10/23 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk : > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:25:39PM +, Woodhouse, David wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 10:43 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> > >> > And looking at bit deeper in the x86/linux boot spec: >> > >> > EFI HANDOVER PROTOCOL >> > >> > This protocol

Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

2013-10-23 Thread Michael Chang
2013/10/23 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.w...@oracle.com: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:25:39PM +, Woodhouse, David wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 10:43 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: And looking at bit deeper in the x86/linux boot spec: EFI HANDOVER PROTOCOL This protocol

Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

2013-10-23 Thread Michael Chang
2013/10/23 Michael Chang mch...@suse.com: 2013/10/23 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.w...@oracle.com: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:25:39PM +, Woodhouse, David wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 10:43 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: And looking at bit deeper in the x86/linux boot spec

Re: encrypted hibernation (was Re: Hibernation considerations)

2007-08-12 Thread Michael Chang
and cleanly unmount the filesystem that was > using it? (and preferably put it all back together after resume). > If you lose the device key, how are you going to get luks to find it again when resuming? Wouldn't it make more sense to have it remember the key? I can't see it being advisabl

Re: encrypted hibernation (was Re: Hibernation considerations)

2007-08-12 Thread Michael Chang
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Re: CFS review

2007-08-10 Thread Michael Chang
boot. (The scripts gives info about CPU characteristics, interrupts, modules, etc. -- you know, all those "unknown" variables.) And perhaps a patch to show what parts you commented out, too, so one can tell if anything got broken (unintentionally). -- Michael Chang Please avoid

Re: CFS review

2007-08-10 Thread Michael Chang
info about CPU characteristics, interrupts, modules, etc. -- you know, all those unknown variables.) And perhaps a patch to show what parts you commented out, too, so one can tell if anything got broken (unintentionally). -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments

Re: rtc max frequency setting

2007-08-05 Thread Michael Chang
f the Linux RTC (realtime clock - /dev/rtc) as timing mechanism. This wakes up the process every 1/1024 seconds to check the current time. Useless with modern Linux kernels configured for desktop use as they already wake up the process with similar accuracy when using normal timed sleep. [1] MPlayer de

Re: rtc max frequency setting

2007-08-05 Thread Michael Chang
every 1/1024 seconds to check the current time. Useless with modern Linux kernels configured for desktop use as they already wake up the process with similar accuracy when using normal timed sleep. [1] MPlayer dev-SVN-r23777-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Chang
saying? > I'm happy that SD was perfect for you. It wasn't for others, and it had > nobody who was even interested in trying to solve those issues. -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Send me ODT, RTF, or HTML instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philo

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Chang
, and it had nobody who was even interested in trying to solve those issues. -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Send me ODT, RTF, or HTML instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Thank you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-26 Thread Michael Chang
lso appears a bit dated on sourceforge... release 0.4.0 on 2006-01-15. Just thought I'd mention it. -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Send me ODT, RTF, or HTML instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Thank you. - To unsu

Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-26 Thread Michael Chang
nlikely for some other reason which alludes me at the moment?) -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Send me ODT, RTF, or HTML instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Thank you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-26 Thread Michael Chang
switching from state A to state B, and from B to C, etc.; wouldn't it be a bad thing if state B happened to be (in the future) this state-shifting userspace daemon of which you speak? (Or is that likely to be impossible/unlikely for some other reason which alludes me at the moment?) -- Michael Chang

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-26 Thread Michael Chang
thought I'd mention it. -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Send me ODT, RTF, or HTML instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Thank you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Chang
models sold with low-end sub $500 PCs... -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Send me ODT, RTF, or HTML instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Thank you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&q

Re: [ck] Re: howto get a patch merged (WAS: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Chang
e that appear to be supporting this patch. I can only wonder whether it's possible this request never got to any of them. -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Send me ODT, RTF, or HTML instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Thank you. - T

Re: [ck] Re: howto get a patch merged (WAS: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Chang
of them. -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Send me ODT, RTF, or HTML instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Thank you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Chang
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Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH] mm: swap prefetch improvements

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Chang
th the code compensating for its own activity in the "detect activity" mechanism -- assuming there wasn't a major impact in e.g. maintainability or something. As for the burstyness... considering the "no negative impact" stance, I can understand that. But it seems inefficient, a

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH] mm: swap prefetch improvements

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Chang
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Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH] mm: swap prefetch more improvements

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Chang
w, anyways, is that swap prefetch should provide... "something for (almost) nothing", if I'm interpreting this right.) That said, there are probably some cases (seti) where swap prefetch during the run of that batch program would help. On the flip side, there are also some cases where ba

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH] mm: swap prefetch more improvements

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Chang
of memory, meaning that performing the prefetch at that time is futile, unhelpful, or otherwise unwanted. Would it be better to be less yield-y in this circumstance? -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH] sched: staircase deadline misc fixes

2007-03-29 Thread michael chang
ven lower, maybe <0.75 or <2?) and that is not a "niced" load. -- -- Michael Chang ~Just the crazy copy cat~ - 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: [ck] Re: [PATCH] sched: staircase deadline misc fixes

2007-03-29 Thread michael chang
load. -- -- Michael Chang ~Just the crazy copy cat~ - 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: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread michael chang
e of a nice 0, but I'm not sure how that would scale to nice 19 or nice -19. -- -- Michael Chang ~Just the crazy copy cat~ - 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: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread michael chang
attempted to answer Con's question of how much CPU a nice 5 process should get relative to nice 0, etc., apart from maybe Con himself. Personally, I think a nice 5 process should get 50% of the CPU time of a nice 0, but I'm not sure how that would scale to nice 19 or nice -19. -- -- Michael Chang

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

2007-03-13 Thread michael chang
On 3/13/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:05:23PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:46, David Miller wrote: > > From: Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:58:11 +1100 > > > > >

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

2007-03-13 Thread michael chang
On 3/13/07, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:05:23PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:46, David Miller wrote: From: Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:58:11 +1100

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread michael chang
and is currently in vanilla. To me, that fundamentally clashes with the design behind RSDL. That said, I could be wrong -- Con appears to have something that could be very promising up his sleeve that could come out sooner or later. Once he's written it, of course. In any case, RSDL seems very promising, for the most part. -- Michael Chang - 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: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-12 Thread michael chang
On 3/12/07, jos poortvliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Op Monday 12 March 2007, schreef Al Boldi: > > It only takes one negatively nice'd proc to affect X adversely. goes faster than ever)? Or is this really the scheduler's fault? Take this with a grain of salt, but, I don't think this is the

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-12 Thread michael chang
On 3/12/07, jos poortvliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op Monday 12 March 2007, schreef Al Boldi: It only takes one negatively nice'd proc to affect X adversely. goes faster than ever)? Or is this really the scheduler's fault? Take this with a grain of salt, but, I don't think this is the

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread michael chang
behind RSDL. That said, I could be wrong -- Con appears to have something that could be very promising up his sleeve that could come out sooner or later. Once he's written it, of course. In any case, RSDL seems very promising, for the most part. -- Michael Chang - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.28 for 2.6.20

2007-03-10 Thread michael chang
On 3/10/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:56:57PM -0500, michael chang wrote: > On 3/10/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >BTW, Con, I think that you should base your work on 2.6.20.[23] and not > >2.6.20 next

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.28 for 2.6.20

2007-03-10 Thread michael chang
On 3/10/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, Con, I think that you should base your work on 2.6.20.[23] and not 2.6.20 next time, due to this conflict. It will get wider adoption. Maybe I'm naive, but I find this hard to understand -- 2.6.20.2 didn't exist when Con published his

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.28 for 2.6.20

2007-03-10 Thread michael chang
On 3/10/07, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, Con, I think that you should base your work on 2.6.20.[23] and not 2.6.20 next time, due to this conflict. It will get wider adoption. Maybe I'm naive, but I find this hard to understand -- 2.6.20.2 didn't exist when Con published his

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.28 for 2.6.20

2007-03-10 Thread michael chang
On 3/10/07, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:56:57PM -0500, michael chang wrote: On 3/10/07, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, Con, I think that you should base your work on 2.6.20.[23] and not 2.6.20 next time, due to this conflict. It will get

Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

2007-02-17 Thread michael chang
On 2/17/07, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 18 February 2007 05:45, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > > Maintainers are far too busy off testing code for > > 16+ cpus, petabytes of disk storage and so on to try it for themselves. > > Plus they worry incessantly that my

Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

2007-02-17 Thread michael chang
On 2/16/07, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 17 February 2007 13:15, michael chang wrote: > On 2/16/07, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm thru with bashing my head against the wall. > > I do hope this post isn't in any way redundant

Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

2007-02-17 Thread michael chang
On 2/16/07, Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 17 February 2007 13:15, michael chang wrote: On 2/16/07, Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thru with bashing my head against the wall. I do hope this post isn't in any way redundant, but from what I can see, this has never

Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

2007-02-17 Thread michael chang
On 2/17/07, Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 18 February 2007 05:45, Chuck Ebbert wrote: Con Kolivas wrote: Maintainers are far too busy off testing code for 16+ cpus, petabytes of disk storage and so on to try it for themselves. Plus they worry incessantly that my patches

Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

2007-02-16 Thread michael chang
On 2/16/07, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm thru with bashing my head against the wall. I do hope this post isn't in any way redundant, but from what I can see, this has never been suggested... (someone please do enlighten me if I'm wrong.) Has anyone tried booting a kernel with

Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

2007-02-16 Thread michael chang
On 2/16/07, Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thru with bashing my head against the wall. I do hope this post isn't in any way redundant, but from what I can see, this has never been suggested... (someone please do enlighten me if I'm wrong.) Has anyone tried booting a kernel with the