RE: [PATCH 2.6.24]S2io: Default to IntA interrupt type when there are less than 4 CPUs in the system.

We will be releasing it to the mainline soon. The patches are getting queued at our end for test and release. It should be out in a couple of weeks. Ram -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andi Kleen Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 10:16 AM

Re: [PATCH 6/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on frv

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 01:15:52PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: Paul E. McKenney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 08:54:46AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: Chris Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cpu_relax() contains a barrier, so it should do the right thing. For non-smp

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Re: troubles with r8169

Francois Romieu пишет: I need help from developers, may be, because I have some troubles with r8169 card. Which kernel do you use ? This problem appeared with the kernel 2.6.19 - 2.6.22 (since I use this laptop). Now I use the last kernel 2.6.22.2 with Gentoo patches. - To

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Re: [PATCH 9/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on ia64

Paul Mackerras wrote: Chris Snook writes: I'll do this for the whole patchset. Stay tuned for the resubmit. Could you incorporate Segher's patch to turn atomic_{read,set} into asm on powerpc? Segher claims that using asm is really the only reliable way to ensure that gcc does what we want,

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Re: [PATCH] [374/2many] MAINTAINERS - PCNET32 NETWORK DRIVER

Ok, 374 patches is just rediculious. So many patches eats up an enormous amount of mailing list resources, and for these patches in particular there are few reasons to split them up at all. The fact that the split up landed you at 300+ patches is a very good indication of that. - To unsubscribe

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Re: Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.]

On Sunday 12 August 2007 22:36, I wrote: Note! There are two more issues I forgot to mention earlier. Oops, and there is also: 3) The bio throttle, which is supposed to prevent deadlock, can itself deadlock. Let me see if I can remember how it goes. * generic_make_request puts a bio in

Re: [PATCH] [374/2many] MAINTAINERS - PCNET32 NETWORK DRIVER

On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 23:36 -0700, David Miller wrote: Ok, 374 patches is just rediculious. So many patches eats up an enormous amount of mailing list resources, and for these patches in particular there are few reasons to split them up at all. The fact that the split up landed you at 300+

Re: [PATCH 6/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on frv

David Howells wrote: Chris Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cpu_relax() contains a barrier, so it should do the right thing. For non-smp architectures, I'm concerned about interacting with interrupt handlers. Some drivers do use atomic_* operations. I'm not sure that actually answers my

Re: 2.6.23-rc2: WARNING: at kernel/irq/resend.c:70 check_irq_resend()

2007/8/10, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c === --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c @@ -735,7 +735,8 @@ void fastcall send_IPI_self(int vector)

Re: [PATCH] [374/2many] MAINTAINERS - PCNET32 NETWORK DRIVER

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:46:49PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 23:36 -0700, David Miller wrote: Ok, 374 patches is just rediculious. So many patches eats up an enormous amount of mailing list resources, and for these patches in particular there are few reasons to

Re: [PATCH] [374/2many] MAINTAINERS - PCNET32 NETWORK DRIVER

From: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:46:49 -0700 I tried to send 1 patch over the last couple of days. Unfortunately, it's 100KB and disappears into the void. The posting limit is 400K for linux-kernel, netdev, and one or two of the other lists. - To unsubscribe from

Re: [RFC PATCH v0.1] net driver: mpc52xx fec

On 10/08/07 10:02 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: Em Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Domen Puncer escreveu: +static u8 null_mac[6]; const OK. ... +static void fec_set_paddr(struct net_device *dev, u8 *mac) +{ + struct fec_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev); + struct

Re: [PATCH] [374/2many] MAINTAINERS - PCNET32 NETWORK DRIVER

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 00:18 -0700, David Miller wrote: The posting limit is 400K for linux-kernel, netdev, and one or two of the other lists. Apologies. Posted it twice over 2 days. Anyway, I supposed you could kill the spool entries if you want. cheers, Joe - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: dm9000: add set_mac_address()

probe time: read MAC address from SROM dev open (interface up): write dev-dev_addr[] to RX filter (or identity) registers EEPROM update support is available separately, via an ethtool sub-ioctl. Jeff ok regards michael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Distributed storage.

On Sun, Aug 12 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2007 13:55, Jens Axboe wrote: I don't like structure bloat, but I do like nice design. Overloading is a necessary evil sometimes, though. Even today, there isn't enough room to hold bi_rw and bi_flags in the same variable on

Re: Distributed storage.

On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: You did not comment on the one about putting the bio destructor in the -endio handler, which looks dead simple. The majority of cases just use the default endio handler and the default destructor. Of the remaining cases, where a specialized

Re: ATA over ethernet swapping

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:11 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I've been working on this for quite some time. And should post again soon. Please see the patches: http://programming.kicks-ass.net/kernel-patches/vm_deadlock/current/ For now it requires one uses SLUB, I hope that SLAB

Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways? [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])

Paul Clements wrote: Well, if people would like to see a timeout option, I actually coded up a patch a couple of years ago to do just that, but I never got it into mainline because you can do almost as well by doing a check at user-level (I basically ping the nbd connection periodically and if

[PATCH] e100 module loads 1/2 times

Hi Auke, Jesse, for a long time, I've been annoyed by version 3.5.17 of the e100 driver which refuses to load on first time and only loads on second time. Since I always had the original 2.3.43 driver in kernel 2.4, I did not care that much. Recently, I encountered real troubles with 2.3.43 in a

Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways? [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: per the message below MD (or DM) would need to be modified to work reasonably well with one of the disk components being over an unreliable link (like a network link) are the MD/DM maintainers interested in extending their code in this direction? or would they prefer

Re: Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:44:00PM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 12 August 2007 22:36, I wrote: Note! There are two more issues I forgot to mention earlier. Oops, and there is also: 3) The bio throttle, which is supposed to prevent deadlock, can itself

Re: [1/1] Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.]

Hi Daniel. On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 04:16:10PM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Your patch is close to the truth, but it needs to throttle at the top (virtual) end of each block device stack instead of the bottom (physical) end. It does head in the direction of eliminating

Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways? [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, David Greaves wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: per the message below MD (or DM) would need to be modified to work reasonably well with one of the disk components being over an unreliable link (like a network link) are the MD/DM maintainers interested in extending their

Re: Distributed storage.

On Monday 13 August 2007 00:28, Jens Axboe wrote: On Sun, Aug 12 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: Right, that is done by bi_vcnt. I meant bi_max_vecs, which you can derive efficiently from BIO_POOL_IDX() provided the bio was allocated in the standard way. That would only be feasible, if we

Re: Distributed storage.

On Monday 13 August 2007 00:45, Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: You did not comment on the one about putting the bio destructor in the -endio handler, which looks dead simple. The majority of cases just use the default endio handler and the default

Re: Distributed storage.

On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007 00:28, Jens Axboe wrote: On Sun, Aug 12 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: Right, that is done by bi_vcnt. I meant bi_max_vecs, which you can derive efficiently from BIO_POOL_IDX() provided the bio was allocated in the

Re: Distributed storage.

On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007 00:45, Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: You did not comment on the one about putting the bio destructor in the -endio handler, which looks dead simple. The majority of cases just use the

Re: [PATCH 9/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on ia64

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Chris Snook wrote: Paul Mackerras wrote: Chris Snook writes: I'll do this for the whole patchset. Stay tuned for the resubmit. Could you incorporate Segher's patch to turn atomic_{read,set} into asm on powerpc? Segher claims that using asm is really the only

Re: Distributed storage.

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:08:57AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: But that idea fails as well, since reference counts and IO completion are two completely seperate entities. So unless end IO just happens to be the last user holding a reference to the bio, you cannot free

[KJ] replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c

Hi, Replacing kmalloc with kzalloc and cleaning up memset in drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c Signed-off-by: Surya Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c index e7fdcf1..2dca5a7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c +++

Re: Distributed storage.

On Monday 13 August 2007 02:13, Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007 00:45, Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: You did not comment on the one about putting the bio destructor in the -endio handler, which looks

Re: Distributed storage.

On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007 02:13, Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007 00:45, Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: You did not comment on the one about putting the bio

Re: Distributed storage.

On Monday 13 August 2007 03:06, Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: Of course not. Nothing I said stops endio from being called in the usual way as well. For this to work, endio just needs to know that one call means end and the other means destroy, this is

Re: Distributed storage.

On Monday 13 August 2007 02:18, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:08:57AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: But that idea fails as well, since reference counts and IO completion are two completely seperate entities. So unless end IO just happens to be

drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c

Hi, Replacing kmalloc with kzalloc and cleaning up memset in drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c Signed-off-by: Surya Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c b/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c index 9f1b6ab..d36dd53 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c +++

Re: Distributed storage.

On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007 03:06, Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: Of course not. Nothing I said stops endio from being called in the usual way as well. For this to work, endio just needs to know that one call

Re: Distributed storage.

On Monday 13 August 2007 03:22, Jens Axboe wrote: I never compared the bio to struct page, I'd obviously agree that shrinking struct page was a worthy goal and that it'd be ok to uglify some code to do that. The same isn't true for struct bio. I thought I just said that. Regards, Daniel - To

Re: [PATCH] [70/2many] MAINTAINERS - ARPD SUPPORT

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:23:36 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 90c1b81..ac2226b 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ ARPD SUPPORT P:

Re: Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.]

On Monday 13 August 2007 01:14, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Oops, and there is also: 3) The bio throttle, which is supposed to prevent deadlock, can itself deadlock. Let me see if I can remember how it goes. * generic_make_request puts a bio in flight * the bio gets past the

Re: Distributed storage.

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:12:33AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is not a very good solution, since it requires all users of the bios to know how to free it. No, only the specific -endio needs to know that, which is set by the bio owner, so this knowledge lies in

Re: Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.]

On Monday 13 August 2007 01:23, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:36:23PM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: (previous incomplete message sent accidentally) On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:54, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:55:38PM

Re: Distributed storage.

On Monday 13 August 2007 04:03, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:12:33AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is not a very good solution, since it requires all users of the bios to know how to free it. No, only the specific -endio needs to know

Re: Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:04:26AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007 01:14, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Oops, and there is also: 3) The bio throttle, which is supposed to prevent deadlock, can itself deadlock. Let me see if I can remember how it

Re: [PATCH] [374/2many] MAINTAINERS - PCNET32 NETWORK DRIVER

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, David Miller wrote: Ok, 374 patches is just rediculious. So many patches eats up an enormous amount of mailing list resources, and for these patches in particular there are few reasons to split them up at all. The fact that the split up landed you at 300+ patches is a

Re: Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.]

On Monday 13 August 2007 05:04, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:04:26AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007 01:14, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Oops, and there is also: 3) The bio throttle, which is supposed to prevent deadlock,

Re: Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:18:03AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: No. Since all requests for virtual device end up in physical devices, which have limits, this mechanism works. Virtual device will essentially call either generic_make_request() for new physical device

Re: Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 05:18:14AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If limit is for 1gb of pending block io, and system has for example 2gbs of ram (or any other resonable parameters), then there is no way we can deadlock in allocation, since it will not force page

Re: [PATCH 1/4] Net: mac80211, remove bitfields from struct ieee80211_tx_packet_data

On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 15:08 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: + if (control-flags IEEE80211_TXCTL_REQ_TX_STATUS) + pkt_data-flags |= IEEE80211_TXPD_REQ_TX_STATUS; + if (control-flags IEEE80211_TXCTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT) + pkt_data-flags |= IEEE80211_TXPD_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT; +

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Net: mac80211, remove bitfields from struct ieee80211_txrx_data

On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 15:08 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: - unsigned int fragmented:1; /* whether the MSDU was fragmented */ + /* whether the MSDU was fragmented */ +#define IEEE80211_TXRXD_FRAGMENTED BIT(0) +#define IEEE80211_TXRXD_TXUNICASTBIT(1) +#define

Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways? [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would this just be relevant to network devices or would it improve support for jostled usb and sata hot-plugging I wonder? good question, I suspect that some of the error handling would be similar (for devices that are unreachable not haning the system for example),

[kj] is_power_of_2 in net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c

Replacing n (n - 1) for power of 2 check by is_power_of_2(n) Signed-off-by: vignesh babu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c b/drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c index 63de89e..d23bf6e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c +++ b/drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c @@ -36,6

Re: [PATCH] [504/2many] MAINTAINERS - USB PEGASUS DRIVER

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index d822865..fc87fa7 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -4764,6 +4764,7 @@ L:[EMAIL PROTECTED] L:

Re: [PATCH for 2.6.24] SCTP: Rewrite of sctp buffer management code

Dave, Neil Sorry about that. Not sure what happened to that patch. Here is the good patch with witespace cleanups. -vlad -- SCTP: Rewrite of sctp buffer management code This patch introduces autotuning to the sctp buffer management code similar to the TCP. The buffer space can be grown if

Re: [PATCH] [374/2many] MAINTAINERS - PCNET32 NETWORK DRIVER

Am Montag 13 August 2007 09:18 schrieb Al Viro: On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:46:49PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 23:36 -0700, David Miller wrote: Ok, 374 patches is just rediculious. So many patches eats up an enormous amount of mailing list resources, and for

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