Re: [RFC] global page support

2007-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Sat 13 Oct 2007 22:48:44 +0200, a écrit : > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:11AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > --- i386/i386at/model_dep.c 26 Nov 2006 20:01:47 - 1.9.2.10 > > > kernel_page_dir[lin2pdenum(0)] = > > kernel_page_dir[lin2pdenum(LINEAR_MIN

Re: [RFC] global page support

2007-10-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! While reading through the Intel manuals... On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:11AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Global pages permit to keep the kernel pages in the TLB whatever the > current process, here is a patch for supporting them. On my Pentium M, I > get a 5% speedup on dd < /dev/zer

Re: SIOCGIFHWADDR support for pfinet

2007-10-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! As people started working on DHCP support again... On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:15:24PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > At Tue, 03 Aug 2004 16:03:11 +0200, > Marco Gerards wrote: > > On debian-hurd someone noticed SIOCGIFHWADDR does not exist for > > GNU/Hurd. I have included the required

Re: Problems with Hurd on Mach on Xen: disk access

2007-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Sat 13 Oct 2007 14:36:20 +0200, a écrit : > Assertion `copy->size <= PAGE_SIZE' failed in file "xen/block.c", line 457 > panic: Debugger invoked, but there isn't one! Non-page aligned more-than-a-page writes i/o are not supported yet, see the comment: "Should probably be enough

Problems with Hurd on Mach on Xen: disk access

2007-10-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello Samuel, as well as the remaining interested audience! #v+ $ sudo xm create -c gnuzifer WARING! Can't find version 3.1.0 of xen utils, fallback to default version! Using config file "/etc/xen/gnuzifer". GNU Mach 1.3.99 Running on xen-3.0-x86_32. One module @8c000: 1036KB AT386 boot: physi