Linux kernel, Linux general

High traffic with Multicore System where one cpu is used up to 100% and rest behave normal

Submitted by praveen24
on August 6, 2009 - 5:12am

Hi
I have a system that consists of 14 processoes .Under high load one processor shows 100% usage and rest show normal behaviour.Driver is NAPI compliant.So is it a driver issue or scheduler issue?. Kernel is 2.6. The output of "top" commands show that the cpu that is 100% consumed is running ksoftirqd and it is 0% idle and 100% SI.

Interrupts are evenly distributed over the system

boot on BTRFS

Submitted by bad_crow
on July 26, 2009 - 10:08am
Linux

HI everyone,

I tried to install btrfs on my root filesystem (/), this is what I did :

install debian with :
/boot (ext2) (for grub),
/ (ext3),
swap,
grub on MBR.

compile the 2.6.31-rc4 from kernel.org with btrfs support
test the new kernel by rebooting (worked fine)
install btrfs-tools from debian sid repository (0.19-2)

boot on a ubuntu 9.04 live cd

is that true??

Submitted by Anonymous
on July 25, 2009 - 8:09pm
Linux

hi. great article!

Submitted by Anonymous
on July 25, 2009 - 4:44pm
Linux

Underrun in alsa audio (wake_up() is not working in linux-2.6.25)

Submitted by chethangm
on July 24, 2009 - 11:03am
Linux

Issue:

If I play the wav file using "aplay", underrun error occurs.

I am suspecting the issue in driver or in kernel code.

I am using the following setup:

a) Application and Library:
aplay in alsa-utils-1.0.16 and alsa-lib-1.0.16.
b) Platform: imx27
c) kernel: linux-2.6.25

Hardware & Software parameters for aplay:

Ahoy there!

Submitted by Anonymous
on July 23, 2009 - 10:05pm
Linux

mtrr: type mismatch on starting X server

Submitted by kushalkoolwal
on July 23, 2009 - 7:00pm
Linux

I am using Debian Lenny with 2.6.30 kernel on my Intel Atom Poulsbo chipset computer and I get the following messages in my dmesg when I start the X server:


[ 22.760737] mtrr: type mismatch for 3ffc0000,10000 old: write-back new: write-combining
[ 22.760805] mtrr: type mismatch for 3ff80000,40000 old: write-back new: write-combining

i lingo uninstall panda antivirus...help

Submitted by Anonymous
on July 22, 2009 - 7:35pm
Linux

compile a missing module from kernel tree

Submitted by Anonymous
on July 20, 2009 - 11:23am
Linux

Hello,
could anyone save me from recompiling the whole kernel and rebooting, if I need tun.ko?

Using Vanilla kerenl for RT system

Submitted by zvivered
on July 18, 2009 - 5:29pm
Linux

I want to use a vanilla kernel on my embedded x86 machine.
I have 3 options:
1. Run Dan kegel's last script: it uses 2.6.15.4
2. Use the LFS 6.4: It uses 2.6.27.4
3. Use the last version in kernel.org: 2.6.30.1, But with what tools version ?

tree structure

Submitted by Anonymous
on July 17, 2009 - 2:43pm
Linux

can anyone explain the metadata btree structure of btrfs ??

serialport IRQ

Submitted by veeraiyan
on July 17, 2009 - 8:28am
Linux

HI

I want know can I give priority between serial ports, in case if three serial ports receive data at same interval (1 second) with different lengths of data say 64 bytes (512 bits), 16 bytes (128 bits) and 4 bytes (32 bits).
Is it required to give priority considering data is supposed to be received at same interval? Please enlighten me...

ahci command abort (linux 2.6.25.xx environment)

Submitted by talkto_stanis
on July 17, 2009 - 4:15am
Linux

Hi,

I would like to know if "Command could be aborted by ahci driver just after filling the command FIS (H2D command FIS is filled using ahci_qc_prep), how this could be reported back to upper layers gracefully".

Will highly appreciate any clue or suggestion on this.

Regards,
Stan

Kernel syncing problem unable to mount jffs2

Submitted by nrabara
on July 17, 2009 - 1:42am
Linux

I have been using Linux kernel 2.6.28 with at91sam9263 processor and arm-none-eabi-gcc toolchain
I am able to start kernel execution from the RAM.

I am passing command line partition argument [bootargs=console=ttyS0;115200 root=mtd5 mtdparts=physmap-flash.0:128K(bootstrap)ro,256k(uboot),128k(env1),128(env2),2M(Linux),-(root); rw rootfstype=jffs2]