[reiserfs-list] No quota ???

2001-09-20 Thread dgeo
I've got a kernel 2.4.10-pre13, (I tried with 2.4.7 patched, 2.4.9...), software raid5, nfsd and I cant use quotas... with the 2.4.7 patched, I could use 'usrquota' in fstab, but quotas were not functionnal. with 2.4.10-pre13, the 'usrquota' option is invalid, I can't mount anything whith it and r

Re: [reiserfs-list] [PATCH] Bitmap Hinting

2001-09-20 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, I have been runing this along with the preemption patch on -pre12 without problems. Reiserfsck(ing) a snapshot shows no corruptions. The fs in question is fairly active - a 1G snapshot fills in about 12-18hours... I am keeping a couple of good backups just in case... Thanks, Ed Tomlins

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool

2001-09-20 Thread Alan Cox
> If this analysis is correct: > We really need to run RT processes with RT priorities! > > It is also possible that multimedia applications needs to be rewritten = > to I dont believe this is an application problem. Applications allocating memory can end up doing page outs for other people. Its

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool

2001-09-20 Thread Roger Larsson
On Friday 21 September 2001 01.15, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > > > Right, the patch is returning the length preemption was unavailable > > > > > (which is when a lock is held) in us. So it is indded 4ms. > > > > > > > > > > But, I think Dieter is saying

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Significant performace improvements on reiserfs systems

2001-09-20 Thread Robert Love
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 19:15, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > All I'm saying is that you should check for >= 0, not == 0. And I am saying we already keep track of that, we have a preemption counter. > But anwyays it's pretty depressing to see such a costly check needed to > get latency right with the p

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool

2001-09-20 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > > Right, the patch is returning the length preemption was unavailable > > > > (which is when a lock is held) in us. So it is indded 4ms. > > > > > > > > But, I think Dieter is saying he _sees_ 0.5~1s latencies (in the form > > > > of audio skips).

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Significant performace improvements on reiserfs systems

2001-09-20 Thread Robert Love
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 18:37, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 06:24:48PM -0400, Robert Love wrote: > > > > if (current->need_resched && current->lock_depth == 0) { > > unlock_kernel(); > > lock_kernel(); > > } > nitpicking: the above is fine but it isn't complete, it may

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool

2001-09-20 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 21. September 2001 00:03 schrieb Oliver Xymoron: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Dieter Nützel wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 20. September 2001 23:10 schrieb Robert Love: > > > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 04:21, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > > You've forgotten a one liner. > > > > > > > > > > #includ

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Significant performace improvements on reiserfs systems

2001-09-20 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Donnerstag, 20. September 2001 22:52 schrieb Robert Love: > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 13:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Andrew, are these still maintained or should I pull out the reiserfs > > > bits? > > > > This is the reiserfs part - it applies to 2.4.10-pre12 OK. > > > > For the purposes of Rob

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool

2001-09-20 Thread Robert Love
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 04:21, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > You've forgotten a one liner. > > > > #include > > +#include > > woops, didn't trapped it because of gcc 3.0.2. thanks. > > > But this is not enough. Even with reniced artsd (-20). > > Some shorter hiccups (0.5~1 sec). > > I'm not fa

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool

2001-09-20 Thread Robert Love
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 03:57, Dieter Nützel wrote: > You've forgotten a one liner. > > #include > +#include > > But this is not enough. Even with reniced artsd (-20). > Some shorter hiccups (0.5~1 sec). Note (I am repeated myself from an email I just sent) that the conditional schedule won'

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Significant performace improvements on reiserfs systems

2001-09-20 Thread Robert Love
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 13:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Andrew, are these still maintained or should I pull out the reiserfs bits? > > This is the reiserfs part - it applies to 2.4.10-pre12 OK. > > For the purposes of Robert's patch, conditional_schedule() > should be defined as > > if (cu

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Significant performace improvements on reiserfs systems

2001-09-20 Thread Robert Love
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 13:08, Dieter Nützel wrote: > I examined that ReiserFS suffer from kupdated since 2.4.7-ac3. > When ever I do "kill -STOP kupdated" the performance is much better. > I know this is unsafe... The patches that are going around in this thread (stuff from Andrew Morton and Andre

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool

2001-09-20 Thread Randy.Dunlap
george anzinger wrote: > > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > those are kernel addresses, can you resolve them via System.map rather > > than trying to find their start/end line number? > > Uh, trying to find??? These are the names and line numbers provided by > the PPC macros. The only time the

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool

2001-09-20 Thread Robert Love
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 02:31, Dieter Nützel wrote: > Here are some results for 2.4.10-pre12 (Andrea's VM :-) > > Athlon II 1 GHz (0.18 µm) > MSI MS-6167 Rev 1.0B (Irongate C4) > 640 MB PC100-2-2-2 SDRAM > IBM DDYS 18 GB U160 (on AHA-2940UW) > ReiserFS 3.6 on all partitions > > Sound driver is the

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Significant performace improvements on reiserfs systems

2001-09-20 Thread Chris Mason
On Thursday, September 20, 2001 07:08:25 PM +0200 Dieter Nützel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please have a look at Robert Love's Linux kernel preemption patches and > the conversation about my reported latency results. > Andrew Morton has patches that significantly improve the reiserfs late

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Significant performace improvements on reiserfs systems

2001-09-20 Thread Dieter Nützel
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Beau Kuiper wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > > > > > On Thursday, September 20, 2001 03:12:44 PM +0800 Beau Kuiper > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Resierfs on 2.4 has always been bog slow. > > > > > > I have identified kupdated as the