Re: GSOC - Community Bonding

2014-05-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Subhashish Pradhan, le Sat 26 Apr 2014 00:03:40 +0530, a écrit : > This week I am going through GNU Mach documentation and code: > Mach 3 Kernel Principles.[2] > Mach 3 Kernel Interfaces.[3] > > Over the following weeks I'll go through some glibc and some Hurd code > and documentation. Als

Re: [PATCH 2/3] i386: add io_map_cached

2014-05-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Justus Winter, le Fri 02 May 2014 21:33:01 +0200, a écrit : > io_map_cached is like io_map, but reuses the old mapping if it is > applicable. But AIUI, if it is not applicable, it does not unmap the previous mapping, so we lose virtual memory. A really transparent io_map_cached seems not

Re: hurd and BIOS/RTC problem

2014-05-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Riccardo Mottola, le Wed 14 May 2014 16:07:19 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Do you have HWCLOCKACCESS enabled in /etc/default/hwclock and rcS? > >Otherwise I don't see how a BIOS manages to let an OS disturb its RTC... > I don't have it, as I wrote, at least, the line is commented ou

Re: Recent version of Iceweasel along with fixes

2014-05-14 Thread Richard Braun
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:17:07PM +0100, Richard Braun wrote: > I intend to regularly update these packages to track the experimental > branch until the changes are merged in the official repository. Iceweasel 29.0.1 (from unstable) is available. -- Richard Braun

Re: hurd and BIOS/RTC problem

2014-05-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: Do you have HWCLOCKACCESS enabled in /etc/default/hwclock and rcS? Otherwise I don't see how a BIOS manages to let an OS disturb its RTC... I don't have it, as I wrote, at least, the line is commented out. What's the default? shoul I explicitely set it to NO? I noti

Re: [PATCH 5/7] include: add lock-less reference counting primitives

2014-05-14 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Tue, 13 May 2014 21:02:54 +0200, Justus Winter wrote: > + assert (r != UINT_MAX); How about 'assert(r != UINT_MAX || !"refcount underflowed!")'. Since assert (r != UINT_MAX) requires understanding the use of an unsigned int.

Re: [PATCH 4/7] libihash: use fast binary scaling to determine the load

2014-05-14 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Tue, 13 May 2014 21:02:53 +0200, Justus Winter wrote: > diff --git a/libihash/ihash.c b/libihash/ihash.c > index d628d75..f529a17 100644 > --- a/libihash/ihash.c > +++ b/libihash/ihash.c >if (ht->size) > { > - /* Only fill the hash table up to its maximum load factor. */ > -