Re: small grammar correction in faq4.html

2009-12-05 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:56:54PM -0500, Brad Tilley wrote: > # cvs diff -uNp faq4.html > Index: faq4.html > === > RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq4.html,v > retrieving revision 1.290 > diff -N -u -p faq4.html > --- faq4.html 30 Nov 2009

Re: How to express memory ordering in OpenBSD kernel?

2009-12-05 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Roland Dreier wrote: > > Im not an expert on the ral driver, but openbsd drivers practically > > never map device registers into memory. The value of flags will be > > written to hardware later. > > Unless I'm misunderstanding the driver, the TX ring is in syste

Re: How to express memory ordering in OpenBSD kernel?

2009-12-05 Thread Roland Dreier
> Im not an expert on the ral driver, but openbsd drivers practically > never map device registers into memory. The value of flags will be > written to hardware later. Unless I'm misunderstanding the driver, the TX ring is in system memory -- in other words the device will read the descriptors

Re: How to express memory ordering in OpenBSD kernel?

2009-12-05 Thread Ted Unangst
Im not an expert on the ral driver, but openbsd drivers practically never map device registers into memory. The value of flags will be written to hardware later. On Dec 5, 2009, at 11:35 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: So I've been looking at the ral(4) driver a bit lately, and I notice in the

How to express memory ordering in OpenBSD kernel?

2009-12-05 Thread Roland Dreier
So I've been looking at the ral(4) driver a bit lately, and I notice in the function rt2661_setup_tx_desc() in sys/dev/ic/rt2661.c, that the first word of the TX descriptor is written first. This seems like a bad idea, since that word has flag bits that the driver calls BUSY and VALID in it -- by

Re: [PATCH] Fix interrupt handling in ral(4) for RT2661 under load

2009-12-05 Thread Roland Dreier
> Mind sharing your hostname.ral0 and the tools you use to trigger this > situation? I've tried hping, tcpbench, ping -f, rsync, etc to no avail. > > max ~8000 intr/s with hping > 2.5MB/s with scp hostname.ral0 is: inet 10.2.0.1 255.255.0.0 NONE \ mode 11g \ medi

Re: diff: ifconfig tun to print opener pid

2009-12-05 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Vladimir Kirillov wrote: > So, is there a way (an interface) to find out from the character > device driver which struct file is it in it's current instance? > > Or am I digging into the wrong direction? Option 2. :) The way devices work, you can't reliably tell w

small grammar correction in faq4.html

2009-12-05 Thread Brad Tilley
# cvs diff -uNp faq4.html Index: faq4.html === RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq4.html,v retrieving revision 1.290 diff -N -u -p faq4.html --- faq4.html 30 Nov 2009 03:03:02 - 1.290 +++ faq4.html 6 Dec 2009 00:55:39 - @@ -214

Re: diff: ifconfig tun to print opener pid

2009-12-05 Thread Vladimir Kirillov
Hello, Philip! On 12:48 Fri 04 Dec, Philip Guenther wrote: > > @@ -372,6 +374,7 @@ tunopen(dev_t dev, int flag, int mode, s > >s = splnet(); > >ifp->if_flags |= IFF_RUNNING; > >tun_link_state(tp); > > + tp->tun_proc = p; > > Ick, holding a pointer to a struct proc fr

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Re: Automatic package mirror discovery implementation for pkg_add(1) tool

2009-12-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009/12/05 22:22, Marc Espie wrote: > Apart from this, this is a really tough problem, because of infrastructure > issues. Basically, our mirrors are not that reliable, and the closest > one often won't have the packages you need... which is a reason why it's > mostly some user settings... For

Re: [PATCH] Fix interrupt handling in ral(4) for RT2661 under load

2009-12-05 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 08:31:07PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > The interrupt handling in ral(4) for RT2661 has a couple of problems, > which causes the interface to get stuck under heavy load with OACTIVE > set (the problems are likely especially severe on slow systems such as > my 600MHz VIA sys

Re: Automatic package mirror discovery implementation for pkg_add(1) tool

2009-12-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:47:25PM +0300, Igor Zinovik wrote: > if (-e "/var/db/pkg/ftpmirror.cache") { > open my $fh, '<', "/var/db/pkg/ftpmirror.cache" or > die("Permission denied"); > @mirrors = <$fh>; > close $fh; > print $mirrors[0]; > exit; > } ...

Automatic package mirror discovery implementation for pkg_add(1) tool

2009-12-05 Thread Igor Zinovik
Hello, tech@ readers. At work i use rpm-based linux distribution (i'm writing this not to fire up new holywar thread). It package manager is called `yum', which is something like pkg_* tools but all in one executable file. This yum thing has nice plugin (which is called `fastest_mirror') that a

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Re: How can I get my driver bug fix committed?

2009-12-05 Thread Brynet
Hi, There could be many reasons it hasn't been awknoledged, perhaps the developer is trying to find the optimal way to fix it? or maybe it effects multiple chipsets? It's also quite possible that he hasn't had a chance to review the patch yet, try reporting the bug via sendbug (..so it gets track

recent pkg_add changes

2009-12-05 Thread Marc Espie
There have been some big changes in pkg_add again. Finally, there is now a 'quirks" package that will be used to handle weird update scenarios. It amounts to a Quirks.pm module that can build a quirks object that conforms to pkg_add's interface. This can change independently: pkg_add builds the qu

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Re: Small change to rc?

2009-12-05 Thread Steffen Beyer
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:35:45 -0800 (PST), K WESTERBACK wrote: > I guess the real question I wanted clarified that the addition of the -f > was sufficient to make the script as a whole to complete or whether it > just got past that statement and then tripped on the 'touch', or other > subsequent c