Love-sources - The "Wailing like Bob Dylan" releas

Lovechild · Last edited by Lovechild on Tue Oct 07, 2003 1:55 pm; edited 1 time in total

/me wails "All along the watchtowers"

Oh yes... I promised you I would finish -love1 and here it is:

Basically -love1pre updated to -mm4, I added the runtime selectable io scheduler patch, so now you need to add

echo cfq > /sys/block/hda/queue/io_scheduler

to /etc/conf.d/local.start

of course valid options are cfq, anticpatory, deadline and noop - you can query the current scheduler on a block device by catting the same interface.

you can set different schedulers for each block device on your system, just replace the hda bit with the device you need to change.

As usual I picked up a few minor patches on lkml to fix problems and memory leaks.

- ebuild will follow as soon as I recall where I put the damn thing, and get ssh to behave.

http://userportal.iha.dk/~01876/2.6.0-test6-love1.tar.bz2

Gandalf_Grey_ · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 151

The link isn't found.

If you want I can mirror it on my webserver, although it would just get 400 kbps (50kB/s) upstream it would help take the load off your server.

It would be a secondary mirror at best cause it is just on an AMD Tbird 1400 on a DSL line.

I could also see about mirroring it on my univeristies Unix server, I think every student gets a free amount of webspace

Hey, I gotta give back to love sources somehow :p
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Lovechild · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 1:56 pm Post subject:

doh, URL fixed - I forgot to append -love1 to the filename.

chrisyu · Apprentice Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 207 Location: China

compiled and booted!
Thanks for your great work! :lol:

Wedge_ · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:31 pm Post subject:

Oh goody, more love-sources

I'll get them installed later on.
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Gandalf_Grey_ · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 151

Installed and running, although no supermount :cry:

Oh well, love sources kick ass!
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fca · Guru Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Netherlands

Great! I will test it when I have time (running 2.6.0-test6-mm4 now).
Unfortunate that the people at namesys won't release a snapshot though. I would love to try it out on a temporary partition, but the latest snapshots won't compile, and further back I won't dare to touch it. I reported the bug, and though it should be fixed upstream, I'm not able to see the results

nepenthe · Guru Joined: 14 Jul 2002 Posts: 317 Location: Sanford, ME

Yes running 2.6.0-test6-mm4 now compiling your sources now

Wondering if DMA problem having are mm4 related...

~nep

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:57 pm Post subject:

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

downloading it now, compiling it soon after.
i will report back after a reboot.

ps. it's an honor to see my haiku as your
signature; i noticed it earlier, but kept for-
getting to mention it :wink:

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:26 pm Post subject:

Gandalf_Grey_ · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 151

Gandalf_Grey_ · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 151

hmmm, I found this one, submount, it looks basically the same as supermount but slightly different (if that made any sense) anyone tried it?
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neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

ok. compiled it, rebooted. seems to run fine.
passes the browser-window-wiggle-xmms-
no-skip test just fine. i am not sure about
those new options available by passing things
to io_scheduler; i do not know what i may
do with them; i just chose the cfg one as
you suggested.

TheCoop · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 10:33 pm Post subject:

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 10:49 pm Post subject:

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 10:56 pm Post subject:

didl · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:01 pm Post subject:

Sorry guys,

I downloaded the patch file, but a dry run on the 2.6.0-test6 source
tree gives

patching file sound/pci/cmipci.c
patching file sound/pci/intel8x0.c
patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line

Did I miss part of the file! The one I have is
717k

Thanks

Gandalf_Grey_ · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 151

let me guess you used the command

bzip2 -dc /home/ryan/Desktop/2.6.0-test6-love1.patch | patch -p1 --dry-run

I got the same error, I just unbzipped it and used.

cat /home/ryan/Desktop/2.6.0-test6-love1.patch | patch -p1 --dry-run

Of course you don't have to cat it but it never seems to work if I do otherwise (will come up asking me a bunch of questions regarding what stuff to stick where that I just don't know).
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Lovechild · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:16 pm Post subject:

didl · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:23 pm Post subject:

Thanks,

Compiling :lol:

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:34 pm Post subject:

Okay, It stopped happening here.. I dunno what I did though.

nephros · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:39 pm Post subject:

Thank you lovechild.

I have mirrored it here:
http://ajax.kfunigraz.ac.at/~gantner/stuff/2.6.0-test6-love1.patch.bz2
Feel free to add as mirror to original post. It's my universities webserver, so I guess no worries about bandwidth.
Note that I untarred and rebzip2ed it, hence the different name (misconfigured webserver corrupts .tar files on download). No need to tar a single file anyway is there

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Gandalf_Grey_ · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 151

oh, LOL, I said I could mirror it then forgot to give a link

http://vilim.no-ip.com/lovesources/2.6.0-test6-love1.tar.bz2

there we go :p
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Ian · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:35 am Post subject:

Can someone either give me a very dumbed down description of what the scheduler does/how it works, or point me to a dumbed down version?

I think I get it, but I'm not sure, and I'm just confusing myself now :p.