Re: v2.6.20-rt1, yum/rpm

2007-02-27 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the v2.6.20-rt1 kernel, which can be downloaded from the usual place: I have a couple of questions regarding priorities of the softirqs, IRQ handlers, etc. With some exceptions, back in 2.6.18 and prior patches the IRQ threads were prioritized between 50

Re: v2.6.20-rt1, yum/rpm

2007-02-28 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the v2.6.20-rt1 kernel, which can be downloaded from the usual place: I have a couple of questions regarding priorities of the softirqs, IRQ handlers, etc. With some exceptions, back in 2.6.18

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:15 -0500, K.R. Foley wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:22 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: Our first victim!! :-) No kidding!? V0.7.44-02 does not even compile for me. It appears to be full of merge errors. I must be in the twilight zone

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:26 -0500, K.R. Foley wrote: Lee Revell wrote: Meh, I'll try again, maybe it's some weird NFS problem. Lee Hmm. Maybe. I should probably mention that I am doing an FC3 install via NFS from my older SMP system right now while also building V0.7.44-03

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-10 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo, It would seem that in the latest patch RT-V0.7.45-00 we have reverted back to removing the define of jbd_debug which the attached patch (against one of the 2.6.11 versions) fixed. -- kr --- linux-2.6.11/include/linux/jbd.h.orig 2005-03-16 09:18:51.0 -0600 +++

Re: Heads up on 2.6.12-rc1 and later

2005-04-14 Thread K.R. Foley
Tom Duffy wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In testing with 2.6.12-rc1 and -rc2, we've been encountering an issue on SMP machines with the loading of scsi_mod and sd_mod modules. The sd_mod load fails with unresolved symbols. It appears to be a race condition based

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-13 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CC [M] sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.o sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before '__attribute__' sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before ')' token Here's the offending line: 48 static

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-14 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed getting -51-29 but just booted up -51-30 and all is well. Thanks. Just out of curiosity, what was changed between -51-28, 29, and 30? -51-29 had new IO-APIC optimizations - and i reverted them in -51-30. Ingo

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-14 Thread K.R. Foley
Karsten Wiese wrote: Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 16:01 schrieb K.R. Foley: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CC [M] sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.o sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before '__attribute__' sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-14 Thread K.R. Foley
K.R. Foley wrote: K.R. Foley wrote: Karsten Wiese wrote: Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 16:01 schrieb K.R. Foley: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CC [M] sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.o sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before '__attribute__' sound

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-16 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Karsten Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have I corrected the other path of ioapic early initialization, which had lacked virtual-address setup before ioapic_data[ioapic] was to be filled in -51-28? Please test attached patch on top of -51-29 or later. Also on Systems

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-18 Thread K.R. Foley
Karsten Wiese wrote: Am Samstag, 16. Juli 2005 19:15 schrieb Ingo Molnar: * Karsten Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have I corrected the other path of ioapic early initialization, which had lacked virtual-address setup before ioapic_data[ioapic] was to be filled in -51-28? Please test

Re: [announce] 'patchview' script

2005-07-19 Thread K.R. Foley
randy_dunlap wrote: Hi, Someone asked me about a tool like this and I didn't know of one, so I made this little script. 'patchview' merges a patch file and a source tree to a set of temporary modified files. This enables better patch (re)viewing and more viewable context. (hopefully) Are

BUG triggered in Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-32

2005-07-20 Thread K.R. Foley
I had the following happen last night while running while running Con's Interbench. Looking back through my log, I do see one other case where the same BUG triggered from running updatedb (2.6.12-RT-V0.7.51-31), but it didn't have all of the ext3 errors that followed this one. I really don't

Re: 2.6.12 PREEMPT_RT PPC

2005-07-26 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * john cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo, Attached is a patch for 51-28 which brings PPC up to date for 2.6.12 PREEMPT_RT. My goal was to get a more recent vintage of this work building and minimally booting for PPC. Yet this has been stable even under our

Re: 2.6.12 PREEMPT_RT PPC

2005-07-26 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip On X86 -51-36 won't build with CONFIG_BLOCKER=Y without the attached patch. thanks. I changed the include to asm/rtc.h, this should give what PPC wants to have, and should work on all architectures. Released the -37 patch

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread K.R. Foley
Esben Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfectly understood. I've had two customers ask me to increase the priorities for them, but those where custom kernels, and a config option wasn't necessary. But since I've had

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread K.R. Foley
Esben Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, K.R. Foley wrote: Esben Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfectly understood. I've had two customers ask me to increase the priorities for them, but those where custom kernels

fix ultrastor.c compile error

2005-04-22 Thread K.R. Foley
This simple patch fixes a compile error in the ultrastor driver. Patch was originally submitted by Barry K. Nathan as referenced here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=111391774018717w=2 I just regenerated it against your current git tree. Please apply. -- kr Signed-off-by: K.R

2.6.12-rc3 won't boot from aic7899

2005-04-23 Thread K.R. Foley
I am having a problem getting my Dell Precision 620 with dual PIII 933's and 512 Mb memory to boot 2.6.12-rc3. The problem seems to be the aic7899. The aic7899 driver is compiled into the kernel along with the rest of scsi. I have had to compile in the scsi for every version of 2.6.12-x, but

Re: fix ultrastor.c compile error

2005-04-23 Thread K.R. Foley
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, K.R. Foley wrote: This simple patch fixes a compile error in the ultrastor driver. Patch was originally submitted by Barry K. Nathan as referenced here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=111391774018717w=2 I just regenerated it against your

Real-Time Preemption -RT-V0.7.51-17 - Keyboard Problems

2005-07-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Sorry Ingo. Missed cc'ing lkml the first time. Ingo, I have an issue with keys VERY SPORADICALLY repeating, SOMETIMES, when running the RT patches. The problem manifests itself as if the key were stuck but happens far too quickly for that to be the case. I realize that the statements above are

Re: Real-Time Preemption -RT-V0.7.51-17 - Keyboard Problems

2005-07-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Dave Neuer wrote: On 7/8/05, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo, I have an issue with keys VERY SPORADICALLY repeating, SOMETIMES, when running the RT patches. snip 2.6.12 doesn't seem to have the problem at all, only when running the RT

Re: Real-Time Preemption -RT-V0.7.51-17 - Keyboard Problems

2005-07-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Doug Maxey wrote: On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:13:26 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo, I have an issue with keys VERY SPORADICALLY repeating, SOMETIMES, when running the RT patches. The problem manifests itself as if the key were stuck but happens far too

Re: Real-Time Preemption -RT-V0.7.51-17 - Keyboard Problems

2005-07-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo, I have an issue with keys VERY SPORADICALLY repeating, SOMETIMES, when running the RT patches. The problem manifests itself as if the key were stuck but happens far too quickly for that to be the case. I realize

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

2005-07-12 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I observed a situation on a dual xeon where IOAPIC_POSTFLUSH , if on, would actually cause spurious interrupts. It was odd cause it's suppose to stop them .. If there was a lot of interrupt traffic on one IRQ , it would cause

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

2005-07-12 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I observed a situation on a dual xeon where IOAPIC_POSTFLUSH , if on, would actually cause spurious interrupts. It was odd cause it's suppose to stop them

Re: [PATCH 0/5] ppc RT: Realtime preempt support for PPC

2005-03-16 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: hi Frank - sorry about the late reply, was busy with other things. Your ppc patches look mostly mergeable, with some small details still open: * Frank Rowand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patches are: 1/5 ppc_rt.patch - the core realtime functionality for PPC what is

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-00

2005-03-19 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 20:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: the biggest change in this patch is the merge of Paul E. McKenney's preemptable RCU code. The new RCU code is active on PREEMPT_RT. While it is still quite experimental at this stage, it allowed the removal of locking cruft

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-00

2005-03-21 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 20:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the -V0.7.41-00 Real-Time Preemption patch (merged to 2.6.12-rc1), which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ 3ms latency in the NFS client code. Workload was a

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

2005-03-22 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hm, another thing: i think call_rcu() needs to take the read-lock. Right now it assumes that it has the data structure private, but that's only statistically true on PREEMPT_RT: another CPU may have

Re: 2.6.11 low latency audio test results

2005-03-09 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: OK, I have run some simple tests with JACK, Hydrogen, and 2.6.11. 2.6.11 does not seem to be much of an improvement over 2.6.10. It may in fact be slightly worse. This was what I expected, as it appears that a number of latency fixes in the VM got preempted by the 4-level page

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-03-11 Thread K.R. Foley
Steven Rostedt wrote: +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT +#define PICK_SPIN_LOCK(otype,bit,name) spin_##otype(bh-b_##name##_lock) +#else +#define PICK_SPIN_LOCK(otype,bit,name) bit_spin_##otype(bit,bh-b_state); +#endif + Oops, extra semicolon on the non RT side. I'll try again. -- Steve Haven't tried it

2.6.12-rc1 won't boot if SCSI drivers are selected as modules

2005-04-01 Thread K.R. Foley
I have an old Dell Precision 620 workstation with dual PIII 933's and 512 Mb memory. It also uses AIC-7899P U160/m SCSI controllers with one U160 drive (boot drive) and one slower 18 Gb. I have been running many different variants of the kernel on this system for quite some time with much

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread K.R. Foley
Gene Heskett wrote: snip It was up to 43-04 by the time I got there. This one didn't go in cleanly Ingo. From my build-src scripts output: --- Applying patch realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-04 [...] patching file lib/rwsem-spinlock.c Hunk #5 FAILED at 133. Hunk #6 FAILED at

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread K.R. Foley
Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 13:27, K.R. Foley wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: snip It was up to 43-04 by the time I got there. This one didn't go in cleanly Ingo. From my build-src scripts output: --- Applying patch realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-04 [...] patching

Re: 2.6.12-rc1 won't boot if SCSI drivers are selected as modules

2005-04-02 Thread K.R. Foley
Jon Smirl wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 7:17 AM, K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old Dell Precision 620 workstation with dual PIII 933's and 512 Mb memory. It also uses AIC-7899P U160/m SCSI controllers with one U160 drive (boot drive) and one slower 18 Gb. I have been running many different

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc1-V0.7.35-00

2005-01-15 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the -V0.7.35-00 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ The two dozen split out latency patches (including PREEMPT_BKL) that were in -mm are in BK now, so i've rebased the -RT patchset

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc1-V0.7.35-00

2005-01-21 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the -V0.7.35-00 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ The two dozen split out latency patches (including PREEMPT_BKL) that were in -mm are in BK now, so i've rebased the -RT patchset

2.6.13-rc6-rt15 won't compile without HR-Timers

2005-08-24 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo, Without the attached patch 2.6.13-rc6-rt15 won't compile for me with CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS not configured. -- kr --- linux-2.6.13/include/linux/timer.h.orig 2005-08-24 11:15:22.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.13/include/linux/timer.h 2005-08-24 11:15:35.0 -0500 @@ -76,6 +76,7

2.6.13-rc7-rt3 compile fix

2005-08-26 Thread K.R. Foley
2.6.13-rc7-rt3 won't compile without the simple patch below. -- kr --- linux-2.6.13/kernel/rt.c.orig 2005-08-26 15:51:35.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.13/kernel/rt.c 2005-08-26 15:51:55.0 -0500 @@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ struct rt_mutex_waiter *w; struct plist *curr1; -

Re: 2.6.13-rc7-rt3 compile fix

2005-08-26 Thread K.R. Foley
Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 16:17 -0500, K.R. Foley wrote: 2.6.13-rc7-rt3 won't compile without the simple patch below. - __raw_spin_lock(old_owner-task-pi_lock); + __raw_spin_lock(old_owner-task-pi_lock); TRACE_WARN_ON_LOCKED(plist_empty(waiter

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt6

2005-08-17 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 10:24 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: OK the output from netconsole still seems like netconsole itself is causing some problems. But I think it is also showing this lockup. I'll recompile my kernel as UP and

Re: [BUG] 2.6.19-rt14 does not compile with CONFIG_NO_HZ

2006-12-15 Thread K.R. Foley
Remy Bohmer wrote: Hello, For your Information, I get the following compile error when CONFIG_NO_HZ is NOT configured on 2.6.19.1-rt14: -- CC kernel/sched.o kernel/sched.c: In function '__schedule': kernel/sched.c:4135: error:

Re: 2.6.19-rt14 slowdown compared to 2.6.19

2006-12-22 Thread K.R. Foley
Chen, Tim C wrote: Ingo, We did some benchmarking on 2.6.19-rt14, compared it with 2.6.19 kernel and noticed several slowdowns. The test machine is a 2 socket woodcrest machine with your default configuration. Netperf TCP Streaming was slower by 40% ( 1 server and 1 client each

Re: 2.6.19-rt14 slowdown compared to 2.6.19

2006-12-22 Thread K.R. Foley
Chen, Tim C wrote: Ingo, We did some benchmarking on 2.6.19-rt14, compared it with 2.6.19 kernel and noticed several slowdowns. The test machine is a 2 socket woodcrest machine with your default configuration. Netperf TCP Streaming was slower by 40% ( 1 server and 1 client each

Re: v2.6.19-rt6, yum/rpm

2006-12-07 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the 2.6.19-rt6 tree, which can be downloaded from the usual place: Attached patch fixes rtc histogram. Looks like it got broken around 2.6.18-rt?, probably during the merge for 2.6.18? -- kr --- linux-2.6.19/drivers/char/rtc.c.orig 2006-12-06

Re: v2.6.19-rt6, yum/rpm

2006-12-07 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: The attached patch is necessary to build 2.6.19-rt8 without KEXEC enabled. Without KEXEC enabled crash.c doesn't get included. I believe this is correct. -- kr --- linux-2.6.19/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c.orig 2006-12-07 09:35:22.0 -0600 +++

patch-2.6.21.3-rt9 misnamed?

2007-05-31 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo, I believe that patch-2.6.21.3-rt9 is misnamed. It applies cleanly to 2.6.21 but seems to contain stuff that is already in 2.6.21.3. -- kr - 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: patch-2.6.21.3-rt9 misnamed?

2007-05-31 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo, I believe that patch-2.6.21.3-rt9 is misnamed. It applies cleanly to 2.6.21 but seems to contain stuff that is already in 2.6.21.3. yes - it includes all of 2.6.21.3. Ingo So actually it is not really misnamed

Re: patch-2.6.21.3-rt9 misnamed?

2007-05-31 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo, I believe that patch-2.6.21.3-rt9 is misnamed. It applies cleanly to 2.6.21 but seems to contain stuff that is already in 2.6.21.3. yes - it includes all of 2.6.21.3

Re: Problem with 2.6.20 based kernels on SUSE 9.3

2007-05-22 Thread K.R. Foley
this one - maybe it`s worth taking a look: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Waiting_for_Mandatory_Device regards roland List: linux-kernel Subject:Problem with 2.6.20 based kernels on SUSE 9.3 From: K.R. Foley kr () cybsft ! com Date: 2007-02-12 15:51:51 Message-ID

Re: v2.6.21-rt3

2007-05-21 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: i'm pleased to announce the v2.6.21-rt3 kernel, which can be downloaded from the usual place: This is actually regarding v2.6.21-rt5 but I don't remember seeing an announcement for that one. The attached patch is necessary if you happen to have RTC_HISTOGRAM enabled, which

2.6.12-rc1 won't boot if SCSI drivers are selected as modules

2005-04-01 Thread K.R. Foley
I have an old Dell Precision 620 workstation with dual PIII 933's and 512 Mb memory. It also uses AIC-7899P U160/m SCSI controllers with one U160 drive (boot drive) and one slower 18 Gb. I have been running many different variants of the kernel on this system for quite some time with much

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread K.R. Foley
Gene Heskett wrote: It was up to 43-04 by the time I got there. This one didn't go in cleanly Ingo. From my build-src scripts output: --- Applying patch realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-04 [...] patching file lib/rwsem-spinlock.c Hunk #5 FAILED at 133. Hunk #6 FAILED at 160.

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread K.R. Foley
Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 13:27, K.R. Foley wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: It was up to 43-04 by the time I got there. This one didn't go in cleanly Ingo. From my build-src scripts output: --- Applying patch realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-04 [...] patching file

Re: 2.6.12-rc1 won't boot if SCSI drivers are selected as modules

2005-04-02 Thread K.R. Foley
Jon Smirl wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 7:17 AM, K.R. Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an old Dell Precision 620 workstation with dual PIII 933's and 512 Mb memory. It also uses AIC-7899P U160/m SCSI controllers with one U160 drive (boot drive) and one slower 18 Gb. I have been runnin

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:15 -0500, K.R. Foley wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:22 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: Our first victim!! :-) No kidding!? V0.7.44-02 does not even compile for me. It appears to be full of merge errors. I must be in the twilight zone

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:26 -0500, K.R. Foley wrote: Lee Revell wrote: Meh, I'll try again, maybe it's some weird NFS problem. Lee Hmm. Maybe. I should probably mention that I am doing an FC3 install via NFS from my older SMP system right now while also building V0.7.44-03

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-10 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo, It would seem that in the latest patch RT-V0.7.45-00 we have reverted back to removing the define of jbd_debug which the attached patch (against one of the 2.6.11 versions) fixed. -- kr --- linux-2.6.11/include/linux/jbd.h.orig 2005-03-16 09:18:51.0 -0600 +++

Re: Heads up on 2.6.12-rc1 and later

2005-04-14 Thread K.R. Foley
Tom Duffy wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In testing with 2.6.12-rc1 and -rc2, we've been encountering an issue on SMP machines with the loading of scsi_mod and sd_mod modules. The sd_mod load fails with unresolved symbols. It appears to be a race condition based

fix ultrastor.c compile error

2005-04-22 Thread K.R. Foley
This simple patch fixes a compile error in the ultrastor driver. Patch was originally submitted by Barry K. Nathan as referenced here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=111391774018717=2 I just regenerated it against your current git tree. Please apply. -- kr Signed-off-by: K.R

2.6.12-rc3 won't boot from aic7899

2005-04-23 Thread K.R. Foley
I am having a problem getting my Dell Precision 620 with dual PIII 933's and 512 Mb memory to boot 2.6.12-rc3. The problem seems to be the aic7899. The aic7899 driver is compiled into the kernel along with the rest of scsi. I have had to compile in the scsi for every version of 2.6.12-x, but

Re: fix ultrastor.c compile error

2005-04-23 Thread K.R. Foley
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, K.R. Foley wrote: This simple patch fixes a compile error in the ultrastor driver. Patch was originally submitted by Barry K. Nathan as referenced here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=111391774018717=2 I just regenerated it against your

Real-Time Preemption -RT-V0.7.51-17 - Keyboard Problems

2005-07-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Sorry Ingo. Missed cc'ing lkml the first time. Ingo, I have an issue with keys VERY SPORADICALLY repeating, SOMETIMES, when running the RT patches. The problem manifests itself as if the key were stuck but happens far too quickly for that to be the case. I realize that the statements above are

Re: Real-Time Preemption -RT-V0.7.51-17 - Keyboard Problems

2005-07-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Dave Neuer wrote: On 7/8/05, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * K.R. Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ingo, I have an issue with keys VERY SPORADICALLY repeating, SOMETIMES, when running the RT patches. 2.6.12 doesn't seem to have the problem at all, only when ru

Re: Real-Time Preemption -RT-V0.7.51-17 - Keyboard Problems

2005-07-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Doug Maxey wrote: On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:13:26 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ingo, I have an issue with keys VERY SPORADICALLY repeating, SOMETIMES, when running the RT patches. The problem manifests itself as if the key were stuck but happens f

Re: Real-Time Preemption -RT-V0.7.51-17 - Keyboard Problems

2005-07-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ingo, I have an issue with keys VERY SPORADICALLY repeating, SOMETIMES, when running the RT patches. The problem manifests itself as if the key were stuck but happens far too quickly for that to be the case. I r

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

2005-07-12 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I observed a situation on a dual xeon where IOAPIC_POSTFLUSH , if on, would actually cause spurious interrupts. It was odd cause it's suppose to stop them .. If there was a lot of interrupt traffic on one IRQ , it would cause

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

2005-07-12 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I observed a situation on a dual xeon where IOAPIC_POSTFLUSH , if on, would actually cause spurious interrupts. It was odd cause it's suppose

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-13 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CC [M] sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.o sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before '__attribute__' sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before ')' token Here's the offending line: 48 static

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-14 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I missed getting -51-29 but just booted up -51-30 and all is well. Thanks. Just out of curiosity, what was changed between -51-28, 29, and 30? -51-29 had new IO-APIC optimizations - and i reverted them in -51-30. Ingo

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-14 Thread K.R. Foley
Karsten Wiese wrote: Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 16:01 schrieb K.R. Foley: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CC [M] sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.o sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before '__attribute__' sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error:

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-14 Thread K.R. Foley
K.R. Foley wrote: Karsten Wiese wrote: Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 16:01 schrieb K.R. Foley: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CC [M] sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.o sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before '__attribute__' sound/oss/emu10k1/

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-14 Thread K.R. Foley
K.R. Foley wrote: K.R. Foley wrote: Karsten Wiese wrote: Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 16:01 schrieb K.R. Foley: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CC [M] sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.o sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before '__attribute__'

Re: 2.6.11 low latency audio test results

2005-03-09 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: OK, I have run some simple tests with JACK, Hydrogen, and 2.6.11. 2.6.11 does not seem to be much of an improvement over 2.6.10. It may in fact be slightly worse. This was what I expected, as it appears that a number of latency fixes in the VM got preempted by the 4-level page

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-03-11 Thread K.R. Foley
Steven Rostedt wrote: +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT +#define PICK_SPIN_LOCK(otype,bit,name) spin_##otype(>b_##name##_lock) +#else +#define PICK_SPIN_LOCK(otype,bit,name) bit_spin_##otype(bit,bh->b_state); +#endif + Oops, extra semicolon on the non RT side. I'll try again. -- Steve Haven't tried it

Re: [PATCH 0/5] ppc RT: Realtime preempt support for PPC

2005-03-16 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: hi Frank - sorry about the late reply, was busy with other things. Your ppc patches look mostly mergeable, with some small details still open: * Frank Rowand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The patches are: 1/5 ppc_rt.patch - the core realtime functionality for PPC what is

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-00

2005-03-19 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 20:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: the biggest change in this patch is the merge of Paul E. McKenney's preemptable RCU code. The new RCU code is active on PREEMPT_RT. While it is still quite experimental at this stage, it allowed the removal of locking cruft

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-00

2005-03-21 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 20:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the -V0.7.41-00 Real-Time Preemption patch (merged to 2.6.12-rc1), which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ 3ms latency in the NFS client code. Workload was a

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

2005-03-22 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hm, another thing: i think call_rcu() needs to take the read-lock. Right now it assumes that it has the data structure private, but that's only statistically true on PREEMPT_RT: another CPU may

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt6

2005-08-17 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 10:24 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: OK the output from netconsole still seems like netconsole itself is causing some problems. But I think it is also showing this lockup. I'll recompile my kernel as UP and

2.6.13-rc6-rt15 won't compile without HR-Timers

2005-08-24 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo, Without the attached patch 2.6.13-rc6-rt15 won't compile for me with CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS not configured. -- kr --- linux-2.6.13/include/linux/timer.h.orig 2005-08-24 11:15:22.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.13/include/linux/timer.h 2005-08-24 11:15:35.0 -0500 @@ -76,6 +76,7

2.6.13-rc7-rt3 compile fix

2005-08-26 Thread K.R. Foley
2.6.13-rc7-rt3 won't compile without the simple patch below. -- kr --- linux-2.6.13/kernel/rt.c.orig 2005-08-26 15:51:35.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.13/kernel/rt.c 2005-08-26 15:51:55.0 -0500 @@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ struct rt_mutex_waiter *w; struct plist *curr1; -

Re: 2.6.13-rc7-rt3 compile fix

2005-08-26 Thread K.R. Foley
Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 16:17 -0500, K.R. Foley wrote: > >>2.6.13-rc7-rt3 won't compile without the simple patch below. >> > > - __raw_spin_lock(old_owner->task->pi_lock); > + __raw_spin_lock(_owner->task->pi_lock); >

Re: 2.6.19-rt14 slowdown compared to 2.6.19

2006-12-22 Thread K.R. Foley
Chen, Tim C wrote: > Ingo, > > We did some benchmarking on 2.6.19-rt14, compared it with 2.6.19 > kernel and noticed several slowdowns. The test machine is a 2 socket > woodcrest machine with your default configuration. > > Netperf TCP Streaming was slower by 40% ( 1 server and 1 client >

Re: 2.6.19-rt14 slowdown compared to 2.6.19

2006-12-22 Thread K.R. Foley
Chen, Tim C wrote: > Ingo, > > We did some benchmarking on 2.6.19-rt14, compared it with 2.6.19 > kernel and noticed several slowdowns. The test machine is a 2 socket > woodcrest machine with your default configuration. > > Netperf TCP Streaming was slower by 40% ( 1 server and 1 client >

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-16 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Have I corrected the other path of ioapic early initialization, which >>had lacked virtual-address setup before ioapic_data[ioapic] was to be >>filled in -51-28? Please test attached patch on top of -51-29 or >>later. Also

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-18 Thread K.R. Foley
Karsten Wiese wrote: Am Samstag, 16. Juli 2005 19:15 schrieb Ingo Molnar: * Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have I corrected the other path of ioapic early initialization, which had lacked virtual-address setup before ioapic_data[ioapic] was to be filled in -51-28? Please test

Re: [announce] 'patchview' script

2005-07-19 Thread K.R. Foley
randy_dunlap wrote: Hi, Someone asked me about a tool like this and I didn't know of one, so I made this little script. 'patchview' merges a patch file and a source tree to a set of temporary modified files. This enables better patch (re)viewing and more viewable context. (hopefully) Are

BUG triggered in Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-32

2005-07-20 Thread K.R. Foley
I had the following happen last night while running while running Con's Interbench. Looking back through my log, I do see one other case where the same BUG triggered from running updatedb (2.6.12-RT-V0.7.51-31), but it didn't have all of the ext3 errors that followed this one. I really don't

Re: 2.6.12 PREEMPT_RT && PPC

2005-07-26 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * john cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ingo, Attached is a patch for 51-28 which brings PPC up to date for 2.6.12 PREEMPT_RT. My goal was to get a more recent vintage of this work building and minimally booting for PPC. Yet this has been stable even under our

Re: 2.6.12 PREEMPT_RT && PPC

2005-07-26 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On X86 -51-36 won't build with CONFIG_BLOCKER=Y without the attached patch. thanks. I changed the include to asm/rtc.h, this should give what PPC wants to have, and should work on all architectures. Released the -37

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread K.R. Foley
Esben Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perfectly understood. I've had two customers ask me to increase the priorities for them, but those where custom kernels, and a config option wasn't necessary. But since I've had

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread K.R. Foley
Esben Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, K.R. Foley wrote: Esben Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perfectly understood. I've had two customers ask me to increase the priorities for them, but those where

Re: v2.6.19-rt6, yum/rpm

2006-12-07 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: > i have released the 2.6.19-rt6 tree, which can be downloaded from the > usual place: > Attached patch fixes rtc histogram. Looks like it got broken around 2.6.18-rt?, probably during the merge for 2.6.18? -- kr --- linux-2.6.19/drivers/char/rtc.c.orig 2006-12-06

Re: v2.6.19-rt6, yum/rpm

2006-12-07 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: The attached patch is necessary to build 2.6.19-rt8 without KEXEC enabled. Without KEXEC enabled crash.c doesn't get included. I believe this is correct. -- kr --- linux-2.6.19/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c.orig 2006-12-07 09:35:22.0 -0600 +++

Re: v2.6.19-rt6, yum/rpm

2006-12-07 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * K.R. Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> The attached patch is necessary to build 2.6.19-rt8 without KEXEC >> enabled. Without KEXEC enabled crash.c doesn't get included. I believe >> this is corre

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc1-V0.7.35-00

2005-01-15 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the -V0.7.35-00 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ The two dozen split out latency patches (including PREEMPT_BKL) that were in -mm are in BK now, so i've rebased the -RT patchset

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc1-V0.7.35-00

2005-01-21 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the -V0.7.35-00 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ The two dozen split out latency patches (including PREEMPT_BKL) that were in -mm are in BK now, so i've rebased the -RT patchset

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