Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 04 August 2007 09:37, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:19:16PM -0700, I wrote: To be sure, I am not very proud of this throttling mechanism for various reasons, but the thing is, _any_ throttling mechanism no matter how sucky solves the deadlock problem. Over

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 04 August 2007 09:44, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Tuesday 31 July 2007 10:13, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: * storage can be formed on top of remote nodes and be exported simultaneously (iSCSI is peer-to-peer only, NBD requires device mapper and is synchronous) In fact, NBD

e1000 doesn't resume properly from standby (2.6.23-rc2)

2007-08-05 Thread Simon Arlott
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01) Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1012 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 Memory at e302 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] I/O ports

Re: b44 compile error on !PCI

2007-08-05 Thread Meelis Roos
CC [M] drivers/net/b44.o drivers/net/b44.c: In function 'b44_sync_dma_desc_for_device': drivers/net/b44.c:134: error: implicit declaration of function 'dma_sync_single_range_for_device' drivers/net/b44.c: In function 'b44_sync_dma_desc_for_cpu': drivers/net/b44.c:144: error:

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-05 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 01:06:58AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: DST original code worked as device mapper plugin too, but its two additional allocations (io and clone) per block request ended up for me as a show stopper. Ah, sorry, I misread. A show stopper in terms

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-05 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hi Daniel. On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 01:04:19AM -0700, Daniel Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: we can wait in it for memory in mempool. Although that means we already in trouble. Not at all. This whole block writeout path needs to be written to run efficiently even when normal system

Re: [2/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

2007-08-05 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc2. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk6 Andi Kleen

Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions with patches

2007-08-05 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc2 with patches available. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk6

Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions with patches

2007-08-05 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 18:26 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi all, Modpost Subject : modpost bug breaks ia64 cross compilation References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/30 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/418 Last known good : ? Submitter : Jan

Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions with patches

2007-08-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Memory management Subject : [bug] SLUB freeing locks References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/90 Last known good : ? Submitter : Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused-By : ? Handled-By : Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL

[BUG] rt2x00: inconsistent lock state

2007-08-05 Thread Luca Tettamanti
Hello, while testing wireless-dev (git current) and rt2x00 driver lockdep emitted the following warning (shortly after wpa_supplicant upped the interface): ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:00.0[A] - Link [LNKB] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'

Re: [Rt2400-devel] [BUG] rt2x00: inconsistent lock state

2007-08-05 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Hi, If I'm reading the state bits and the message correcly dev_base_lock was aquired for write with IRQ enabled (via register_netdevice), but lockep also saw it aquired for read *in* IRQ (hardirq) context (rt2x00 code path, via rt2x00lib_beacondone - ieee80211_beacon_get); this means that a

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Sunday 05 August 2007 08:08, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: If we are sleeping in memory pool, then we already do not have memory to complete previous requests, so we are in trouble. Not at all. Any requests in flight are guaranteed to get the resources they need to complete. This is guaranteed

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Sunday 05 August 2007 08:01, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 01:06:58AM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote: DST original code worked as device mapper plugin too, but its two additional allocations (io and clone) per block request ended up for me as a show stopper. Ah,

Re: Possible bug in realtek 8169 ethernet driver

2007-08-05 Thread Francois Romieu
Bram [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] The router attached to it indicates a 100mbit link. But that's about it. I cannot get any data over it. I can manually configure it to have an IP address and netmask, but it won't see anything on the local net. DHCP doesn't work either. Nothing out of the

[PATCH 4/4][SSB] Implement ssb_cpu_clock()

2007-08-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
The patch below against 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 implements the ssb_cpu_clock() currently doing nothing, and export it. This function is needed to support the BCM947xx CPUs. It originally comes from the OpenWrt patches. Cc: Felix Fietkau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 3/4][SSB] MIPS core flash driver

2007-08-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
The patch below against 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 fixes the size of the flash window and detect the width of the flash bus (8 or 16 bits). It originally comes from the OpenWrt patches. Cc: Felix Fietkau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/drivers/ssb/driver_mipscore.c

[PATCH 1/4][SSB] EXTIF timing initialization

2007-08-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
The patch below against 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 implements EXTIF timing initialization, currently marked as TODO. It originally comes from the OpenWrt patches. Cc: Felix Fietkau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/drivers/ssb/driver_mipscore.c +++

[PATCH 0/4][SSB] Broadcom MIPS core driver

2007-08-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
The following patches fix and improve the SSB Broadcom MIPS core driver in order to support the BCM947xx CPUs. Patch #1: EXTIF timing initialization Patch #2: EXTIF serial port initialization Patch #3: MIPS core flash driver Patch #4: Implement ssb_cpu_clock() Cc: Felix Fietkau [EMAIL

[PATCH 2/4][SSB] EXTIF serial port initialization

2007-08-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
The patch below against 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 implements EXTIF serial initialization, currently marked as TODO. It originally comes from the OpenWrt patches. Cc: Felix Fietkau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/drivers/ssb/driver_mipscore.c +++

Re: [PATCH 2/4][SSB] EXTIF serial port initialization

2007-08-05 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 01:19:59AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno escreveu: The patch below against 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 implements EXTIF serial initialization, currently marked as TODO. It originally comes from the OpenWrt patches. Comments below Cc: Felix Fietkau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH 6/7] Make qdisc changeable.

2007-08-05 Thread Corey Hickey
Patrick McHardy wrote: + if ((err = sfq_q_init(tmp, opt))) + return err; This will also use defaults for all unspecified values. It would be more consistent with other qdiscs to only change those values that are actually specified, so something like tc qdisc change ...

Re: e1000 doesn't resume properly from standby (2.6.23-rc2)

2007-08-05 Thread Kok, Auke
Simon Arlott wrote: 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01) Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1012 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 Memory at e302 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)