Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Maxime Villard
Le 17/12/2018 à 23:35, Jason Thorpe a écrit : On Dec 17, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Maxime Villard wrote: Now I'm re-putting the subject on the table, because, as if it wasn't already glaringly obvious, COMPAT_SVR4 is broken beyond repair. I keep unintentionally finding bugs in it, and it just doesn't

RFC: vioif(4) multiqueue support

2018-12-18 Thread Shoichi Yamaguchi
Hi all, I implemented a patch that make vioif(4) support multi-queue. And I have put the patch on ftp.n.o. I used vioif(4) multiqueue on qemu-kvm on Linux kernel 4.19.5. And It seems to be working fine. https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/yamaguchi/vioif_mutilq.patch The summary of the

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Jaromír Doleček
Le mar. 18 déc. 2018 à 13:16, Maxime Villard a écrit : > It is clear that COMPAT_SVR4 is completely buggy, but to be clear on the > use of the code: +1 to removal for COMPAT_SVR4, there is always attic. I remember I've been also doing some mechanical changes in the area in past, and also

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Maxime Villard
Le 18/12/2018 à 06:51, Martin Husemann a écrit : On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 02:35:11PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote: On Dec 17, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Maxime Villard wrote: Now I'm re-putting the subject on the table, because, as if it wasn't already glaringly obvious, COMPAT_SVR4 is broken beyond

Re: Importing libraries for the kernel

2018-12-18 Thread Martin Husemann
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 08:53:54AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > They did _not_ cause measureable performance problems of any kind, and > though it is theoretically possible to do this sort of thing via a > tightly-protected userspace helper process, I prototyped that too and > it gets very

Re: Importing libraries for the kernel

2018-12-18 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 03:19:45PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:07:23PM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 6:30 AM Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 12:58:21AM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote: > > > > Before that, I want to

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Jason Thorpe
> On Dec 18, 2018, at 12:39 AM, Maxime Villard wrote: > > I've made one: > > http://wiki.netbsd.org/attic_museum/ > > I took the entries from src/doc/CHANGES. This is great, thanks. -- thorpej

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Jason Thorpe
> On Dec 18, 2018, at 4:16 AM, Maxime Villard wrote: > > Judging by the configuration files: > > * COMPAT_SVR4 is available on sparc, sparc64, *68k, sun2, sun3, atari, > hp300, amiga. This is in terms of files.svr4 inclusions. I suspect that > a part of these inclusions were added

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Michael van Elst
thor...@me.com (Jason Thorpe) writes: > AFAIK, none of our m68k platforms ever had a "native" SVR4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix Also some hardware running NetBSD/mvme68k had a native SVR4. AFAIK mac68k only got up to SVR3. The compat code was also necessary to run some m68k SunOS

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Klaus Klein
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 06:20:12PM -, Michael van Elst wrote: > thor...@me.com (Jason Thorpe) writes: > > > AFAIK, none of our m68k platforms ever had a "native" SVR4. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix A donation of which is what made COMPAT_SVR4 on m68k possible. :-) Not that I'd

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article , Jaromír DoleÄ ek wrote: >Le mar. 18 déc. 2018 à 13:16, Maxime Villard a écrit : >> It is clear that COMPAT_SVR4 is completely buggy, but to be clear on the >> use of the code: > >+1 to removal for COMPAT_SVR4, there is always attic. > >I remember I've been also doing some

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread maya
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 02:57:54PM +0100, Maxime Villard wrote: > Should I re-start a fight about dropping COMPAT_SVR4? Because I keep finding > bugs, and it's becoming tiring. Over time I've come across at least a good > dozen of bugs in it, by just grepping through the tree searching for