2.6.17-no1 "Viva Gorditas!" (All Tuned+Fixed Up)

cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558

No-Sources Presents...
2.6.17-no1 "Viva Gorditas!"
"The best thing since sliced bread!"
Release By: cheater-conrad
(we're going to start logging this because one of these days someone other than me might get up a release too.)

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[NVIDIA-USERS]
You need nvidia 8762 with the following patch:
Gentoo (OVERLAY):
http://no.oldos.org/files/mm-nvidia-fix.tar.bz2
Other Distros (Patch):
http://no.oldos.org/files/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-8762-mm-fix.diff

PERFORMANCE? Without a doubt.
No-sources is an extremely high performing patchset, in fact, if you try it I can nearly guarantee it is the fastest kernel you will ever run to date. The secret for the performance is easy to explain, but this kernel took us some time to juice up to make it as good as it is. The key to performance first of all is the CPU scheduler, this kernel includes a staircase port to the -mm kernel, so not only do you get vanilla-staircase-like performance, you get ALL of the features -mm's scheduler carries as well. The scheduler consists of many more lines than vanilla staircase, and many of the functions are different from vanilla staircase, which in term clean it up and do a number on increasing performance (ie. this kernel has incredibly low latencies, high thoroughput, etc) Another key to performance (a major key) is the features in the -mm kernel, the -mm kernel includes radix tree changes (lockless rcu), several proc/cpu patches, several memory patches, swap prefetching, etc, and every now and then some no-sources patches will be thrown in to increase performance even further, such as mapped watermark, and the default kconfig opts patch by no-sources.

[SUSPEND2-Status]
Suspend2 is not in this kernel, but many users like it or are interested in it. This is a possible port, but it may take an extended period of time. Development on suspend2 -mm has not started yet, but I will start it soon.

[INFO]
No-sources is a -mm based patchset for the linux kernel It is enhanced
to allow staircase scheduler selection via Kconfig, it also includes
performance enhancements and tweaks as well as additional features.
Over mm-sources, no-sources also includes many important updates/fixes
that apply over the latest -mm kernel.

[RELEASE-INFO]
Much more stable than 2.6.17-no1, includes no new hardcore features.
Fixes all known problems of 2.6.17-no1 and then some. Includes some
new features, nothing hardcore (lockless pagecache, I have a patch
for 2.6.17-mm2 but won't include it due to stabilization) will be
pushed until the next -rc releases.

[FIXES]
Fixed squashfs 3.0 (port to kinit, it works this time)
Tons of warning fixes
Fix cpufreq
Fix compilation of ATI drivers
vsprintf fix
kernel timer fix

[NEW]
2.6.17-mm2
Several hot-fixes and enhancements

[SEMI-NEW]
Staircase v16
No preempt by default
Mapped watermark
Dropped vesafb-tng
re-added daconfig

FBSPLASH/VESAFB-TNG BUSINESS
FBSPLASH Works, but you need to edit the splashutils package yourself, I haven't done it.
Vesafb-tng - lets hope to see a fix soon.

[PATCHLIST
For a detailed patch description see, http://no.oldos.org/files/2.6.17-no2/Notes.txt

thoffmeyer · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:35 am Post subject:

awsome, I'll include this in the new conrad guide

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cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558

Added a hot-fix patch to revert fs-fcache patch, I think it is breaking boot for certain filesystems.
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mbar · Veteran Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 1990 Location: Poland

iiihaaa

whitesouls · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:15 am Post subject:

cheater, I'm pleased to say that this kernel is working fine on my workstation but only one thing. I'm unable to scroll my mouse.
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7seven7 · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 72

This kernel is up and running just fine.

I would like to know what is the best io scheduler for a reiserfs file system?

mbar · Veteran Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 1990 Location: Poland

...and is there any info about using "boot frontend cache"?

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Janax · Apprentice Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 162 Location: Iowa

For some reason I'm having stability problems with this kernel. I don't really have any explicit debugging information to provide, but I've had my laptop lock up 3 times since installing the new kernel (with nvidia overlay) this morning.

#1 - When trying to emerge ndiswrapper for the new kernel version after booting fine and logging into KDE, konsole froze with the first call to gcc and wouldn't be killed. When switching to the boot console on tty1, machine froze hard after typing in my password.
#2 - After rebooting and getting to the same point, received a gcc core dump when trying to restart the ndiswrapper emerge. Konsole task wouldn't be killed, and caused the machine to freeze again when trying to login to a different console.
#3 - For some reason the emerge works this time, and things appear normal. Work for about 30-40 minutes on some code for work using Kate, when all of a sudden it refuses further keyboard input. I can switch tasks around my desktop just fine, but can't close any windows whatsoever. Trying to kill tasks once again causes a hard-lock, requiring a hard powerdown (hold power button for 5 secs) to reboot.

I haven't changed any major build options around since '2.6.17-rc1-no2' - a few versions of the 'no-sources' kernel ago. I simply dump my current config into the new kernel source dir before doing a menuconfig and making sure everything I use is still set. In fact, '2.6.17-rc1-no2' is the version I'm using now to post this message (still have a grub entry for backup purposes). I know that I'm using the nicksched (instead of staircase) scheduler with the older kernel, but I'm at a loss to explain why I've been running into difficulties this morning. I do run an ~amd64 system with gcc 4.1.1. If anyone is really interested, I can post my emerge info here.

I may rebuild this new kernel and try it out again later. I'll let you know if something goes differently.

btw - many thanks to cheater1034 for providing suck a blazing-fast kernel overlay! This is the first real problem I've had with any of them!
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cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558

cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558

There is an important patch for reiserfs users, I think reiserfs won't even book on this kernel unless this is applied.

The revert FS-FCACHE patch is going to be deleted because I think this is what the problem was

Download the patch at:
http://no.oldos.org/files/2.6.17-no1/hot-fixes/
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whitesouls · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject:

Cheater, sorry because there's nothing wrong in your kernel. Its my xorg.conf i should be using the protocol IMPS/2 instead of PS/2.

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yoshi314 · l33t Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 850 Location: PL

kghhh, i can't get unionfs to build with this patchset

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cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558

Janax · Apprentice Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 162 Location: Iowa

Ah... the reiserfs hotfix should do it for me! Indeed, I do use reiserfs v3 for my root dir. I'll pull that down and give it another shot!

I HAD applied the 'no-revert-fs-fcache.patch' when I posted my problem(s), but this looks like it'll fill the bill better. I won't clutter up the thread with my emerge --info and .config unless it doesn't work again with the new patch.

Thanks so much for the quick response!
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yoshi314 · l33t Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 850 Location: PL

btw any reason why there is no vesafb-tng driver?

i tried using radeonfb driver, but my display goes out of sync, even if i don't specify any resolution via kernel boot parameters. weird. i finally settled with vesafb driver.
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RobertDavid · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:04 pm Post subject:

I have probem with squashfs

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tejecske · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:46 am Post subject:

I got this:

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