Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2

2007-03-15 Thread Martin Bligh
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: and that's how i think unification of architectures should be done: move code into kernel/* and drivers/*, _not_ into another architecture. That way all architectures benefit. Don't be silly. Did you even *look* at the patches?

Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2

2007-03-16 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: x86_64 is going to acquire more functionality that will not be available for i386. We plan f.e. to add virtual memmap support for x86_64. Virtual What advantage would that have over the current setup? We already should handle

Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2

2007-03-16 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Martin Bligh wrote: You have to do some sort of lookup anyway, and Andy seemed to have them all folded into one. What lookup would you need to do? On x86_64 even the TLB use is hidden by the existing 2M entries for 1-1 mappings. Or are you

[PATCH] leave loglevel at 7 through sysrq output so you can actually read it

2007-04-05 Thread Martin Bligh
We carefully set loglevel to 7, and print the sysrq messsage as to what event we're doing, but we can't actually see the output as it sets it back before calling the handler, rather than after. Move the assignment down one line. Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -aurpN -X

Re: [PATCH] leave loglevel at 7 through sysrq output so you can actually read it

2007-04-06 Thread Martin Bligh
Roman Zippel wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Martin Bligh wrote: We carefully set loglevel to 7, and print the sysrq messsage as to what event we're doing, but we can't actually see the output as it sets it back before calling the handler, rather than after. Move the assignment down one line. I

Re: The performance and behaviour of the anti-fragmentation related patches

2007-03-02 Thread Martin Bligh
None of this is going anywhere, is is it? I will test my changes before I send them to you, but I cannot promise you that you'll have the computers or software needed to reproduce the problems. I doubt I'll have full time access to such systems myself, either. 32GB is pretty much the minimum

Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86_64: Switch to SPARSE_VIRTUAL

2007-04-02 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Dave Hansen wrote: I completely agree, it looks like it should be faster. The code certainly has potential benefits. But, to add this neato, apparently more performant feature, we unfortunately have to add code. Adding the code has a cost: code

Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86_64: Switch to SPARSE_VIRTUAL

2007-04-02 Thread Martin Bligh
Note that these arguments on DISCONTIG are flame bait for many SGIers. We usually see this as an attack on DISCONTIG/VMEMMAP which is the existing best performing implementation for page_to_pfn and vice versa. Please lets stop the polarization. We want one consistent scheme to manage memory

Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86_64: Switch to SPARSE_VIRTUAL

2007-04-02 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: If it works I would be inclined to replaced old sparsemem with Christoph's new one on x86-64. Perhaps that could cut down the bewildering sparsemem ifdef jungle that is there currently. But I presume it won't work on 32bit because

Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86_64: Switch to SPARSE_VIRTUAL

2007-04-02 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Martin Bligh wrote: For 64GB you'd need 256M which would be a quarter of low mem. Probably takes up too much of low mem. Yup. We could move whatever you currently use to handle that into i386 arch code. Or are there other platforms that do

change SCSI owner in bugzilla

2008-01-07 Thread Martin Bligh
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:00:33 -0600 From: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Osterlund [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,

Re: change SCSI owner in bugzilla

2008-01-08 Thread Martin Bligh
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, changed it. I don't think this is the right way to do it, as you'll get email for every change to every bug until it's assigned, but seeing as that's what you asked for, and we can't seem to get vger to take bounces, I

Re: change SCSI owner in bugzilla

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Bligh
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edit / Prefs / Email Preferences / Users to watch add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to that list and you'll be notified about new bugs and changes to existing bugs. Still, I'd like the list to be notified, not only me (eg. I might be

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-13 Thread Martin Bligh
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9267 Kernel: 2.6.23.1 No response from developers Urm, well, if no-one ever tells the SCSI list it's unrealistic to expect anyone to be working on it. As far as I can tell, email was sent to Andrew Vasquez only on 31 October. However, the

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

2007-12-11 Thread Martin Bligh
- Lots of device IDs have been removed from the e1000 driver and moved over to e1000e. So if your e1000 stops working, you forgot to set CONFIG_E1000E. Wouldn't it make sense to just default this to on if E1000 was on? As far as I can see that's not true, which will screwing everybody

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

2007-12-11 Thread Martin Bligh
I can't see this compile failure posted anywhere: http://test.kernel.org/results/IBM/126049/build/debug/stderr arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.S: Assembler messages: arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.S:23: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop' arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/syscall.S:25: Error:

Re: OOM notifications

2007-10-26 Thread Martin Bligh
Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:15:31 -0400 Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, AIX contains the SIGDANGER signal to notify applications to free up some unused cached memory: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0007.0/0901.html There have been a few

Re: OOM notifications

2007-10-26 Thread Martin Bligh
Rik van Riel wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:11:12 -0700 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, but in terms of high-level userspace interface, being able to select() on a group of priority buckets (spread across different nodes, zones and cgroups) seems a lot more flexible than any

Re: Urgent bugzilla mainteinance needed

2007-09-24 Thread Martin Bligh
Bugzilla really shouldn't be accepting any mail with empty reverse-path (MAIL FROM:) Updated to handle this case. Ah, then should be easy fix then. I don't have access to the system though, will have to helplessly wait until one of the guys picks up... :( Sorry, can't fix this - I don't have

Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches

2007-09-11 Thread Martin Bligh
Chris Friesen wrote: Randy Dunlap wrote: +Thunderbird (GUI) + +By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to +coerce it into being nice. Can someone describe the problems with just attaching the patch in Thunderbird? It's what Martin says he does on the linked

[PATCH] Add seq_file howto to Documentation/

2007-07-23 Thread Martin Bligh
Add seq_file howto to Documentation/ Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Taken from kernelnewbies with Randy's permission. diff -aurpN -X /home/mbligh/.diff.exclude linux-2.6.22/Documentation/seq_file_howto.txt 2.6.22-seq_file_doc/Documentation/seq_file_howto.txt ---

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-08 Thread Martin Bligh
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:10:15 -0700 Martin J. Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't this easily fixable by just adding an additional dirty flag that says atime has changed? Then we only cause a write when we remove the inode from the inode cache, if only atime is

Re: [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and driver model

2007-10-10 Thread Martin Bligh
The rules for sysfs files are the following: - one value, in text format, per file. - no action apon open/close - binary files are only allowed for pass-through type files that the kernel does not touch (like for firmware and pci config space) -

Re: [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and driver model

2007-10-10 Thread Martin Bligh
Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:24:43AM -0700, Martin Bligh wrote: The rules for sysfs files are the following: - one value, in text format, per file. - no action apon open/close - binary files are only allowed for pass-through type files

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-08-01 Thread Martin Bligh
Nick Piggin wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:14:08AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Tuesday 31 July 2007 07:41, Nick Piggin wrote: I haven't given this idea testing yet, but I just wanted to get some opinions on it first. NUMA placement still isn't ideal (eg. tasks with a memory policy will not

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-08-01 Thread Martin Bligh
This topic seems to come up periodically every since we first introduced the NUMA scheduler, and every time we decide it's a bad idea. What's changed? What workloads does this improve (aside from some artificial benchmark like stream)? To repeat the conclusions of last time ... the primary

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-08-02 Thread Martin Bligh
Nick Piggin wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:52:11PM -0700, Martin Bligh wrote: And so forth. Initial forks will balance. If the children refuse to die, forks will continue to balance. If the parent starts seeing short lived children, fork()s will eventually start to stay local. Fork

Re: sched: CPU #1's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node!

2013-02-25 Thread Martin Bligh
Do you mean we can remove numaq x86 32bit code now? Wouldn't bother me at all. The machine is from 1995, end of life c. 2000? Was useful in the early days of getting NUMA up and running on Linux, but is now too old to be a museum piece, really. M. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: sched: CPU #1's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node!

2013-02-25 Thread Martin Bligh
4, it does not CC to TJ and other numa guys... attached workaround the problem for now. but it will assume NUMAQ would not have SRAT table. Martin, can you confirm that numaq does not have srat? No, it's pre-SRAT. I forget the exact name of the table, but no SRAT until x440. OTOH, you

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-24 Thread Martin Bligh
On 1/24/07, Martin Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two years ago, maddog tried to convince me that Brazil would be a perfect place to hold a kernel summit, and that the Brazillian government was 100% behind linux, and could provide a wonderful location, yadda, yadda, yadda. What I told him

Re: [Ltt-dev] [PATCH 00/09] atomic.h : standardizing atomic primitives

2007-01-27 Thread Martin Bligh
Wasn't it buildroot from Erik Andersen ? http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ No, it was http://l4x.org/k/ It still appears to be operating, with scary-looking results. Jan, is there any way in which you can help us publish a full suite of cross-compiler binaries? That's going to be tricky,

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm1

2007-01-29 Thread Martin Bligh
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:12:31 +0530 Suparna Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:01:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:56:08 -0800 Martin J. Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - It seems that people have been busy creating the

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-13 Thread Martin Bligh
Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:38:05PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: Seriously, though, please please pretty please do not allow a facility for going through a simple interface to get accesses to irqs and memory regions into the mainline kernel, with or without toy ISA examples.

Re: [Changelog] - Potential performance bottleneck for Linxu TCP

2006-11-29 Thread Martin Bligh
Wenji Wu wrote: From: Wenji Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings, For Linux TCP, when the network applcaiton make system call to move data from socket's receive buffer to user space by calling tcp_recvmsg(). The socket will be locked. During the period, all the incoming packet for the TCP socket

[PATCH] Fix up compiler warnings in megaraid driver

2006-12-04 Thread Martin Bligh
Fix up compiler warnings in megaraid driver Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -aurpN -X /home/mbligh/.diff.exclude linux-2.6.19/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c 2.6.19-megaraid/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c --- linux-2.6.19/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c2006-12-04 17:52:00.0

Re: [patch 00/10] [RFC] SLUB patches for more functionality, performance and maintenance

2007-07-09 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A cmpxchg is less costly than interrupt enabe/disable That sounds wrong. Martin Bligh was able to significantly increase his LTTng performance by using cmpxchg. See his article

Re: [patch 00/10] [RFC] SLUB patches for more functionality, performance and maintenance

2007-07-09 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Martin Bligh wrote: Those numbers came from Mathieu Desnoyers (LTTng) if you want more details. Okay the source for these numbers is in his paper for the OLS 2006: Volume 1 page 208-209? I do not see the exact number that you referred

Performance regression in 2.6.22-git1 (new sched code?)

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Bligh
~ 1% on 4-way x86_64 http://test.kernel.org/perf/kernbench.elm3b6.png ~ 4% on 16-way NUMA-Q (i386) http://test.kernel.org/perf/kernbench.moe.png ~ 1.5% on 4-way i386 http://test.kernel.org/perf/kernbench.elm3b132.png There's readprofiles and stuff available from here:

Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

2007-06-18 Thread Martin Bligh
So if you make changes to random-driver.c you can do `git-log random-driver.c|grep Tested-by to find people who can test your changes for you. You would'nt even need to search in GIT. Maybie even when ever a patchset is being proposed a mail could be sent to appropriate hardware/or feature

Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

2007-06-18 Thread Martin Bligh
Natalie Protasevich wrote: On 6/18/07, Martin Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if you make changes to random-driver.c you can do `git-log random-driver.c|grep Tested-by to find people who can test your changes for you. You would'nt even need to search in GIT. Maybie even when ever

Re: regression tracking (Re: Linux 2.6.21)

2007-06-18 Thread Martin Bligh
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: I'm seeing this long (198) thread and just have no idea how it has ended (wiki? hand-mailing?). I'm hoping it's not ended. IOW, I really don't think we _resolved_ anything, although the work that Adrian started is continuing

Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

2007-06-18 Thread Martin Bligh
Sure, simplicity is a key - but most of reporters on bugs are pretty professional folks (or very well rounded amateurs :) We can try still why not? the worst that can happen will be empty fields. mmm. added complexity and interface clutter for little or no benefit is what I'm trying to avoid -

Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

2007-06-18 Thread Martin Bligh
Maybe searching free text fields can then be implemented. Then every message exchange in bugzilla can be used for extracting such info - questions about HW specifics are asked a lot, almost in every one. It's a shame we cant' use this information. I was once searching for VIA and got zero

Re: gmail is a bit too popular..

2007-05-07 Thread Martin Bligh
Satyam Sharma wrote: On 5/7/07, John Anthony Kazos Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the linux-kernel -list subscribers domain popularity analysis I got following results: 2101 gmail.com 49 googlemail.com 46 gmx.de 41 redhat.com 33 yahoo.com 23 suse.de

Re: [Changelog] - Potential performance bottleneck for Linxu TCP

2006-11-29 Thread Martin Bligh
Wenji Wu wrote: From: Wenji Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greetings, For Linux TCP, when the network applcaiton make system call to move data from socket's receive buffer to user space by calling tcp_recvmsg(). The socket will be locked. During the period, all the incoming packet for the TCP socket

[PATCH] Fix up compiler warnings in megaraid driver

2006-12-04 Thread Martin Bligh
Fix up compiler warnings in megaraid driver Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -aurpN -X /home/mbligh/.diff.exclude linux-2.6.19/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c 2.6.19-megaraid/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c --- linux-2.6.19/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c2006-12-04 17:52:00.0

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-13 Thread Martin Bligh
Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:38:05PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: Seriously, though, please please pretty please do not allow a facility for "going through a simple interface to get accesses to irqs and memory regions" into the mainline kernel, with or without toy ISA examples.

Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2

2007-03-15 Thread Martin Bligh
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: and that's how i think unification of architectures should be done: move code into kernel/* and drivers/*, _not_ into another architecture. That way all architectures benefit. Don't be silly. Did you even *look* at the patches?

Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2

2007-03-16 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: x86_64 is going to acquire more functionality that will not be available for i386. We plan f.e. to add virtual memmap support for x86_64. Virtual What advantage would that have over the current setup? We already should handle

Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2

2007-03-16 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Martin Bligh wrote: You have to do some sort of lookup anyway, and Andy seemed to have them all folded into one. What lookup would you need to do? On x86_64 even the TLB use is hidden by the existing 2M entries for 1-1 mappings. Or are you

Re: The performance and behaviour of the anti-fragmentation related patches

2007-03-02 Thread Martin Bligh
None of this is going anywhere, is is it? I will test my changes before I send them to you, but I cannot promise you that you'll have the computers or software needed to reproduce the problems. I doubt I'll have full time access to such systems myself, either. 32GB is pretty much the minimum

Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86_64: Switch to SPARSE_VIRTUAL

2007-04-02 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Dave Hansen wrote: I completely agree, it looks like it should be faster. The code certainly has potential benefits. But, to add this neato, apparently more performant feature, we unfortunately have to add code. Adding the code has a cost: code

Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86_64: Switch to SPARSE_VIRTUAL

2007-04-02 Thread Martin Bligh
Note that these arguments on DISCONTIG are flame bait for many SGIers. We usually see this as an attack on DISCONTIG/VMEMMAP which is the existing best performing implementation for page_to_pfn and vice versa. Please lets stop the polarization. We want one consistent scheme to manage memory

Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86_64: Switch to SPARSE_VIRTUAL

2007-04-02 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: If it works I would be inclined to replaced old sparsemem with Christoph's new one on x86-64. Perhaps that could cut down the bewildering sparsemem ifdef jungle that is there currently. But I presume it won't work on 32bit because

Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86_64: Switch to SPARSE_VIRTUAL

2007-04-02 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Martin Bligh wrote: For 64GB you'd need 256M which would be a quarter of low mem. Probably takes up too much of low mem. Yup. We could move whatever you currently use to handle that into i386 arch code. Or are there other platforms that do

[PATCH] leave loglevel at 7 through sysrq output so you can actually read it

2007-04-05 Thread Martin Bligh
We carefully set loglevel to 7, and print the sysrq messsage as to what event we're doing, but we can't actually see the output as it sets it back before calling the handler, rather than after. Move the assignment down one line. Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -aurpN -X

Re: [PATCH] leave loglevel at 7 through sysrq output so you can actually read it

2007-04-06 Thread Martin Bligh
Roman Zippel wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Martin Bligh wrote: We carefully set loglevel to 7, and print the sysrq messsage as to what event we're doing, but we can't actually see the output as it sets it back before calling the handler, rather than after. Move the assignment down one line. I

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-24 Thread Martin Bligh
On 1/24/07, Martin Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Two years ago, maddog tried to convince me that Brazil would be a perfect place to hold a kernel summit, and that the Brazillian government was 100% behind linux, and could provide a wonderful location, yadda, yadda, yadda. What I to

Re: [Ltt-dev] [PATCH 00/09] atomic.h : standardizing atomic primitives

2007-01-27 Thread Martin Bligh
> Wasn't it buildroot from Erik Andersen ? > >http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ > No, it was http://l4x.org/k/ It still appears to be operating, with scary-looking results. Jan, is there any way in which you can help us publish a full suite of cross-compiler binaries? That's going to be

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm1

2007-01-29 Thread Martin Bligh
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:12:31 +0530 Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:01:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:56:08 -0800 "Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - It seems that people have been busy

Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

2007-06-18 Thread Martin Bligh
> So if you make changes to random-driver.c you can do `git-log > random-driver.c|grep Tested-by" to find people who can test > your changes for you. You would'nt even need to search in GIT. Maybie even when ever a patchset is being proposed a mail could be sent to appropriate hardware/or

Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

2007-06-18 Thread Martin Bligh
Natalie Protasevich wrote: On 6/18/07, Martin Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > So if you make changes to random-driver.c you can do `git-log >> > random-driver.c|grep Tested-by" to find people who can test >> > your changes for you. >> >>

Re: regression tracking (Re: Linux 2.6.21)

2007-06-18 Thread Martin Bligh
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: I'm seeing this long (198) thread and just have no idea how it has ended (wiki? hand-mailing?). I'm hoping it's not "ended". IOW, I really don't think we _resolved_ anything, although the work that Adrian started is continuing

Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

2007-06-18 Thread Martin Bligh
Sure, simplicity is a key - but most of reporters on bugs are pretty professional folks (or very well rounded amateurs :) We can try still why not? the worst that can happen will be empty fields. mmm. added complexity and interface clutter for little or no benefit is what I'm trying to avoid -

Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

2007-06-18 Thread Martin Bligh
> Maybe searching free text fields can then be implemented. Then every > message exchange in bugzilla can be used for extracting such info - > questions about HW specifics are asked a lot, almost in every one. > It's a shame we cant' use this information. I was once searching for > "VIA" and got

Re: gmail is a bit too popular..

2007-05-07 Thread Martin Bligh
Satyam Sharma wrote: On 5/7/07, John Anthony Kazos Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the linux-kernel -list subscribers domain popularity > analysis I got following results: > >2101 gmail.com > 49 googlemail.com > 46 gmx.de > 41 redhat.com > 33 yahoo.com > 23

Performance regression in 2.6.22-git1 (new sched code?)

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Bligh
~ 1% on 4-way x86_64 http://test.kernel.org/perf/kernbench.elm3b6.png ~ 4% on 16-way NUMA-Q (i386) http://test.kernel.org/perf/kernbench.moe.png ~ 1.5% on 4-way i386 http://test.kernel.org/perf/kernbench.elm3b132.png There's readprofiles and stuff available from here:

[PATCH] Add seq_file howto to Documentation/

2007-07-23 Thread Martin Bligh
Add seq_file howto to Documentation/ Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Taken from kernelnewbies with Randy's permission. diff -aurpN -X /home/mbligh/.diff.exclude linux-2.6.22/Documentation/seq_file_howto.txt 2.6.22-seq_file_doc/Documentation/seq_file_howto.txt ---

Re: [patch 00/10] [RFC] SLUB patches for more functionality, performance and maintenance

2007-07-09 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A cmpxchg is less costly than interrupt enabe/disable That sounds wrong. Martin Bligh was able to significantly increase his LTTng performance by using cmpxchg. See his a

Re: [patch 00/10] [RFC] SLUB patches for more functionality, performance and maintenance

2007-07-09 Thread Martin Bligh
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Martin Bligh wrote: Those numbers came from Mathieu Desnoyers (LTTng) if you want more details. Okay the source for these numbers is in his paper for the OLS 2006: Volume 1 page 208-209? I do not see the exact number that you referred

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-08 Thread Martin Bligh
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:10:15 -0700 "Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why isn't this easily fixable by just adding an additional dirty flag that says atime has changed? Then we only cause a write when we remove the inode from the inode cache, if only atime is

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-08-01 Thread Martin Bligh
Nick Piggin wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:14:08AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Tuesday 31 July 2007 07:41, Nick Piggin wrote: I haven't given this idea testing yet, but I just wanted to get some opinions on it first. NUMA placement still isn't ideal (eg. tasks with a memory policy will not

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-08-01 Thread Martin Bligh
This topic seems to come up periodically every since we first introduced the NUMA scheduler, and every time we decide it's a bad idea. What's changed? What workloads does this improve (aside from some artificial benchmark like stream)? To repeat the conclusions of last time ... the primary

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-08-02 Thread Martin Bligh
Nick Piggin wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:52:11PM -0700, Martin Bligh wrote: And so forth. Initial forks will balance. If the children refuse to die, forks will continue to balance. If the parent starts seeing short lived children, fork()s will eventually start to stay local. Fork

Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches

2007-09-11 Thread Martin Bligh
Chris Friesen wrote: Randy Dunlap wrote: +Thunderbird (GUI) + +By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to +coerce it into being nice. Can someone describe the problems with just attaching the patch in Thunderbird? It's what Martin says he does on the linked

Re: [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and driver model

2007-10-10 Thread Martin Bligh
The rules for sysfs files are the following: - one value, in text format, per file. - no action apon open/close - binary files are only allowed for "pass-through" type files that the kernel does not touch (like for firmware and pci config space)

Re: [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and driver model

2007-10-10 Thread Martin Bligh
Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:24:43AM -0700, Martin Bligh wrote: The rules for sysfs files are the following: - one value, in text format, per file. - no action apon open/close - binary files are only allowed for "pass-through"

Re: Urgent bugzilla mainteinance needed

2007-09-24 Thread Martin Bligh
Bugzilla really shouldn't be accepting any mail with empty reverse-path (MAIL FROM:<>) Updated to handle this case. Ah, then should be easy fix then. I don't have access to the system though, will have to helplessly wait until one of the guys picks up... :( Sorry, can't fix this - I don't

Re: OOM notifications

2007-10-26 Thread Martin Bligh
Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:15:31 -0400 Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, AIX contains the SIGDANGER signal to notify applications to free up some unused cached memory: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0007.0/0901.html There have been a few

Re: OOM notifications

2007-10-26 Thread Martin Bligh
Rik van Riel wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:11:12 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sure, but in terms of high-level userspace interface, being able to select() on a group of priority buckets (spread across different nodes, zones and cgroups) seems a lot more flexible than any

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-13 Thread Martin Bligh
> > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9267 > > > Kernel: 2.6.23.1 > > > > No response from developers > > Urm, well, if no-one ever tells the SCSI list it's unrealistic to expect > anyone to be working on it. As far as I can tell, email was sent to > Andrew Vasquez only on 31 October.

Re: sched: CPU #1's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node!

2013-02-25 Thread Martin Bligh
>>> 4, it does not CC to TJ and other numa guys... >> >> attached workaround the problem for now. >> but it will assume NUMAQ would not have SRAT table. > > Martin, can you confirm that numaq does not have srat? No, it's pre-SRAT. I forget the exact name of the table, but no SRAT until x440.

Re: sched: CPU #1's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node!

2013-02-25 Thread Martin Bligh
> Do you mean we can remove numaq x86 32bit code now? Wouldn't bother me at all. The machine is from 1995, end of life c. 2000? Was useful in the early days of getting NUMA up and running on Linux, but is now too old to be a museum piece, really. M. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

change SCSI owner in bugzilla

2008-01-07 Thread Martin Bligh
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:00:33 -0600 From: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Osterlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Re: change SCSI owner in bugzilla

2008-01-08 Thread Martin Bligh
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, changed it. I don't think this is the right way to do it, as you'll get email for every change to every bug until it's assigned, but seeing as that's what you asked for, and we can't seem to get vger to take bounces, I

Re: change SCSI owner in bugzilla

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Bligh
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Edit / Prefs / Email Preferences / Users to watch add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to that list and you'll be notified about new bugs and changes to existing bugs. Still, I'd like the list to be notified, not only me (eg. I might be

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

2007-12-11 Thread Martin Bligh
>- Lots of device IDs have been removed from the e1000 driver and > moved over to e1000e. So if your e1000 stops working, you forgot > to set CONFIG_E1000E. Wouldn't it make sense to just default this to on if E1000 was on? As far as I can see that's not true, which will screwing everybody

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

2007-12-11 Thread Martin Bligh
I can't see this compile failure posted anywhere: http://test.kernel.org/results/IBM/126049/build/debug/stderr arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.S: Assembler messages: arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.S:23: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop' arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/syscall.S:25: Error: