From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sssup.it (ms01.sssup.it [193.205.80.99]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43BD7B6F07 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 06:13:35 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <4D24C2D8.80708@evidence.eu.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:13:28 +0100 From: michael MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rafael Beims Subject: Re: mpc880 linux-2.6.32 slow running processes References: <4D24B725.2020300@evidence.eu.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: LinuxPPC-Dev List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi On 01/05/2011 07:43 PM, Rafael Beims wrote: > Wow! That was fast! > I applied the patch and it worked very well. Now I can use the commands > normally. > I will be doing more tests in the next days, but it seems that my problem is > solved. > > Is this patch already mainstream in newer kernel versions? > Not yet, because I was moved to another project Michael Trimarchi > Thanks again, > Rafael Beims > rbeims@gmail.com > (41) 8873-7565 > "What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. And what I do, I > understand." > - Chinese Proverb > > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:23 PM, michael wrote: > >> Hi >> >> On 01/05/2011 07:09 PM, Rafael Beims wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> I'm working with an MPC880 board that is supposed to run linux-2.6.32. After >> some work, I could get the kernel up and running, mounting a rootfs via >> NFS. >> The problem that I'm facing now is that when I try to run any process (may >> be an ls, cat, or whatever), the response of the process is *very* slow >> (something like 10 to 20 seconds for a ls). >> Monitoring the network packets, I can see that the nfs protocol is exchanged >> just fine, but at some time it simply stops, starting again with a request >> from the board several seconds later. >> I'm thinking that the processor is running (something, I don't know what) >> for all this time before I can see requests coming from the board again. I >> pinged the board from the PC and during all this I can see the packets being >> answered. >> >> >> Can you try this patch? >> >> My question to all is, did anyone see something like this already? Besides >> that, what is the status of the linux kernel support for the 8xx platform? >> Is it being actively tested / used today? I ask this because it seems that >> all the information on the internet very aged (forum discussions from 2005 >> and below mostly). >> >> Is there something that I can do to try to narrow the cause of the problem? >> >> Anyway, any help would be truly appreciated. Please excuse me if this is not >> the right place to ask this too. >> >> Thanks and best regards, >> Rafael Beimsrbeims@gmail.com >> (41) 8873-7565 >> "What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. And what I do, I >> understand." >> - Chinese Proverb >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linuxppc-dev mailing listLinuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.orghttps://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev >> >> >>