Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-02-17 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:53:51AM -0500, David Mansfield wrote: > This may be a bit OT, but when you say O_DIRECT, that implies that you > can pass that flag to open(2) and it will bypass the page cache, and yes. > read directly into user-space buffers (zero-copy IO)? Does this also yes. >

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-02-17 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:53:51AM -0500, David Mansfield wrote: This may be a bit OT, but when you say O_DIRECT, that implies that you can pass that flag to open(2) and it will bypass the page cache, and yes. read directly into user-space buffers (zero-copy IO)? Does this also yes.

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-02-16 Thread David Mansfield
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:05:12PM +0100, Sasi Peter wrote: > > > This isn't obvious. Your working may not fit in cache and so the kernel > > > understand it's worthless to swapout stuff to make space to a polluted > > > cache. > > > > But your understanding agrees on

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-02-16 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:05:12PM +0100, Sasi Peter wrote: > > This isn't obvious. Your working may not fit in cache and so the kernel > > understand it's worthless to swapout stuff to make space to a polluted > > cache. > > But your understanding agrees on that the larger chunks for each

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-02-16 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:05:12PM +0100, Sasi Peter wrote: This isn't obvious. Your working may not fit in cache and so the kernel understand it's worthless to swapout stuff to make space to a polluted cache. But your understanding agrees on that the larger chunks for each stream we

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-02-16 Thread David Mansfield
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:05:12PM +0100, Sasi Peter wrote: This isn't obvious. Your working may not fit in cache and so the kernel understand it's worthless to swapout stuff to make space to a polluted cache. But your understanding agrees on that the

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-24 Thread Sasi Peter
> > (30+ high speed streams from 4 disks does really need some caching). > This isn't obvious. Your working may not fit in cache and so the kernel > understand it's worthless to swapout stuff to make space to a polluted cache. But your understanding agrees on that the larger chunks for each

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-24 Thread Sasi Peter
(30+ high speed streams from 4 disks does really need some caching). This isn't obvious. Your working may not fit in cache and so the kernel understand it's worthless to swapout stuff to make space to a polluted cache. But your understanding agrees on that the larger chunks for each stream

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:43:26AM +0100, Sasi Peter wrote: > (30+ high speed streams from 4 disks does really need some caching). This isn't obvious. Your working may not fit in cache and so the kernel understand it's worthless to swapout stuff to make space to a polluted cache. > Can't say,

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-23 Thread Sasi Peter
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > 2.2.19preXaaX Virtually disabled I/O cache extention-by-swapout, working > > on previous (semi)stock kernels (raid+ide patched) :( > Can you measure a performance degradation because of that? Previous kernels was > certainly not a good example

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:52:57AM +0100, Sasi Peter wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Godfrey Livingstone wrote: > > > You MUST apply this patch before the two raid patches. The VM patch stablises > > the 2.2.18 virtual memory system and if you don't apply my two repackaged > > patches will fail.

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-23 Thread Sasi Peter
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Godfrey Livingstone wrote: > You MUST apply this patch before the two raid patches. The VM patch stablises > the 2.2.18 virtual memory system and if you don't apply my two repackaged > patches will fail. The above VM patch has been accepted into 2.2.19pre3 and > many people

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-23 Thread Sasi Peter
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Godfrey Livingstone wrote: You MUST apply this patch before the two raid patches. The VM patch stablises the 2.2.18 virtual memory system and if you don't apply my two repackaged patches will fail. The above VM patch has been accepted into 2.2.19pre3 and many people are

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:52:57AM +0100, Sasi Peter wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Godfrey Livingstone wrote: You MUST apply this patch before the two raid patches. The VM patch stablises the 2.2.18 virtual memory system and if you don't apply my two repackaged patches will fail. The above

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-23 Thread Sasi Peter
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: 2.2.19preXaaX Virtually disabled I/O cache extention-by-swapout, working on previous (semi)stock kernels (raid+ide patched) :( Can you measure a performance degradation because of that? Previous kernels was certainly not a good example because

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:43:26AM +0100, Sasi Peter wrote: (30+ high speed streams from 4 disks does really need some caching). This isn't obvious. Your working may not fit in cache and so the kernel understand it's worthless to swapout stuff to make space to a polluted cache. Can't say, of

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
On 13 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is at > look official enough to me... > > raid-2.2.18-B0 12-Jan-2001 10:18 392k yep, it is the 'official' 2.2.18 RAID patch. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
On 13 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mingo/ look official enough to me... raid-2.2.18-B0 12-Jan-2001 10:18 392k yep, it is the 'official' 2.2.18 RAID patch. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-13 Thread junio
> "GL" == Godfrey Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GL> There is as yet no official patch for raid 0.90 for 2.2.18 GL> This question would be better asked on linux raid list GL> [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is at look official enough

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-13 Thread Godfrey Livingstone
There is as yet no official patch for raid 0.90 for 2.2.18 This question would be better asked on linux raid list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can apply the patches below. If you apply the following you get the raid patched kernel.

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-13 Thread Godfrey Livingstone
There is as yet no official patch for raid 0.90 for 2.2.18 This question would be better asked on linux raid list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can apply the patches below. If you apply the following you get the raid patched kernel.

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-13 Thread junio
"GL" == Godfrey Livingstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GL There is as yet no official patch for raid 0.90 for 2.2.18 GL This question would be better asked on linux raid list GL [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mingo/ look official enough to me...

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-12 Thread Oliver Teuber
hi use the 2.2.18aa2 patch from andrea ... raid 0.9 is included! cu, oli ftp://ftp.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.2/2.2.18aa2.bz2 On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:42:33PM +0100, Takacs Sandor wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > I tried to apply it. If I

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-12 Thread Oliver Teuber
hi use the 2.2.18aa2 patch from andrea ... raid 0.9 is included! cu, oli ftp://ftp.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.2/2.2.18aa2.bz2 On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:42:33PM +0100, Takacs Sandor wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: I tried to apply it. If I

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:36:13PM -0600, Jens Petersohn wrote: > My appologies if this has been asked before. I'm looking for > Ingo Molnar's RAID patch for 2.2.18-final. I tried applying A2, but > it has a number of conflicts in raid1.c which I cannot resolve in > my meager spare time. I had

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Takacs Sandor wrote: > If I see it there is no raid patch for 2.2.18 final, only > 2.2.18pre13. This patch (raid-2.2.18-A2) rejects some diffs. I will apply > it by hand :) I've allready done it: http://www.escape.de/users/outback/linux/raid-2.2.18.bz2 But it's untested,

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Takacs Sandor
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jens Petersohn wrote: > > > try http://www.linuxraid.org/ > > > Check lower on the page. There is a patch for the patch to bring it up > to A3. This resulting patch will apply semi-cleanly (with fuzz) to the > final kernel. Oh, I see it. So, mingo why not create an A3

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Jens Petersohn
> > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > I tried to apply it. If I finish it I will send the patch to mingo :) > > > > try http://www.linuxraid.org/ > > If I see it there is no raid patch for 2.2.18 final, only > 2.2.18pre13. This patch (raid-2.2.18-A2) rejects some diffs. I will

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Takacs Sandor
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I tried to apply it. If I finish it I will send the patch to mingo :) > > try http://www.linuxraid.org/ If I see it there is no raid patch for 2.2.18 final, only 2.2.18pre13. This patch (raid-2.2.18-A2) rejects some diffs. I will apply it by hand :) --

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
> I tried to apply it. If I finish it I will send the patch to mingo :) try http://www.linuxraid.org/ - 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: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Takacs Sandor
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jens Petersohn wrote: > My appologies if this has been asked before. I'm looking for > Ingo Molnar's RAID patch for 2.2.18-final. I tried applying A2, but > it has a number of conflicts in raid1.c which I cannot resolve in > my meager spare time. I tried to apply it. If I

Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Jens Petersohn
My appologies if this has been asked before. I'm looking for Ingo Molnar's RAID patch for 2.2.18-final. I tried applying A2, but it has a number of conflicts in raid1.c which I cannot resolve in my meager spare time. Thanks in advance, --Jens Petersohn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Jens Petersohn
My appologies if this has been asked before. I'm looking for Ingo Molnar's RAID patch for 2.2.18-final. I tried applying A2, but it has a number of conflicts in raid1.c which I cannot resolve in my meager spare time. Thanks in advance, --Jens Petersohn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Takacs Sandor
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jens Petersohn wrote: My appologies if this has been asked before. I'm looking for Ingo Molnar's RAID patch for 2.2.18-final. I tried applying A2, but it has a number of conflicts in raid1.c which I cannot resolve in my meager spare time. I tried to apply it. If I

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
I tried to apply it. If I finish it I will send the patch to mingo :) try http://www.linuxraid.org/ - 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: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Takacs Sandor
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: I tried to apply it. If I finish it I will send the patch to mingo :) try http://www.linuxraid.org/ If I see it there is no raid patch for 2.2.18 final, only 2.2.18pre13. This patch (raid-2.2.18-A2) rejects some diffs. I will apply it by hand :) --

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Jens Petersohn
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: I tried to apply it. If I finish it I will send the patch to mingo :) try http://www.linuxraid.org/ If I see it there is no raid patch for 2.2.18 final, only 2.2.18pre13. This patch (raid-2.2.18-A2) rejects some diffs. I will apply it by hand

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Takacs Sandor
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jens Petersohn wrote: try http://www.linuxraid.org/ Check lower on the page. There is a patch for the patch to bring it up to A3. This resulting patch will apply semi-cleanly (with fuzz) to the final kernel. Oh, I see it. So, mingo why not create an A3 patch for

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Takacs Sandor wrote: If I see it there is no raid patch for 2.2.18 final, only 2.2.18pre13. This patch (raid-2.2.18-A2) rejects some diffs. I will apply it by hand :) I've allready done it: http://www.escape.de/users/outback/linux/raid-2.2.18.bz2 But it's untested,

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:36:13PM -0600, Jens Petersohn wrote: My appologies if this has been asked before. I'm looking for Ingo Molnar's RAID patch for 2.2.18-final. I tried applying A2, but it has a number of conflicts in raid1.c which I cannot resolve in my meager spare time. I had to