From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CWUze-0006xu-4R for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:21:42 -0800 Received: from ns.theshore.net ([67.18.92.50] helo=www.theshore.net) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CWUzd-0008Pr-9J for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:21:42 -0800 Message-ID: <007f01c4d12e$05d6f1d0$0201a8c0@hawk> From: "Christopher S. Aker" References: <000901c4d0e1$e7f998d0$0201a8c0@hawk> <200411222346.36960.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> <002d01c4d0eb$9d829810$0201a8c0@hawk> <050101c4d0ee$d68041a0$2000000a@schlepptopp> Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Updated token-limiter patch, was 2.6.9-bb3 creates zombie threads in SKAS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:28:23 -0600 To: roland , Blaisorblade Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Bodo Stroesser > > > Btw, question: what about your I/O token limiter? Actively using it? Could > > > start being worked on for merge (there is at least one bug-report on it by > > > "roland" on a strange but valid test-case). > see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8560363 > > that`s probably just a minor one. > > roland >From that post: > ps: > the token limiter seems to have a little bug: > set token_refill=1 > do a "dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dat bs=1024k count=whatever" > then "sync". > for me, io isn`t limited here - io_tokens just becomes negative - nothing more. > ok - io_refill=1 is no "real world" value anyway - so not really important to be fixed - but interesting :) I see. nanosleep doesn't accept an tv_nsec value over 999999999, so there's a simple fix in this patch: http://www.theshore.net/~caker/uml/patches/token-limiter-v2.patch This patch also includes the proc-io_status patch. It's against 2.6.9, but applies to 2.4-um as well. -Chris ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel